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The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-23
Executive Committee Meeting

The Lee County Democratic
Executive Committee met at II
a. m. at the court house in the
city Of Tupelo on this the 10th
day of July, 1915, the date fixed
at the last meeting and by law
for the purpose of selecting pre-
cinct officers for holding the
democratic primary election on
August 3rd. declaring candidates
who have no opposition the NOM
inees for the offices to which
they aspire, arranging the ticket,
and haSing the ticket and tally
shAt printed and such other
things as are necessary for the
holdug Of said election.
Thtmeeting was called to or
der by j.. S. Parks, chairman.
Members present:
First District t-Larkin Smith,
w. A. Raper.
Second District-J. S. Parks,
Robert Gladney, j. w. P. Bog
gan, proxy for j. w. Lackey.
Third DISTRICT. L. Austin,
]. w. P. Boggan.
Fourth District-R. L. Cobb,
Robert Burt. C. G. Rogers.
Fitch District. R. Coggin,
F. v. Temple.
A quorum being present, the
committee proceeded to transact
the {rlS Ning busipess:
Itwas moved and carried and
ordered that T. M. Milan. the
only candidate for county super
intendent of education of Lee
county, be declared the demo-
cratic nominee for said office.
The secretary of this commit
tee is Instructed to have a suffi-
cient number of tickets and tally
sheets printed for all of the pre-
cincts In the county; and precinct
officers were selected to hold said
election at the respective pre-
cincts in the county.
There being no further busi-
ness to come before the commit
tee. a motion to adjourn was
made and carried.
This 10th day of July, A. D.
1915.
]. S. PARKS. Chairman.
J. w. P. BOGGAN. Sec.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-23
Vote for William B. Wilson

To the Voters of the Northern Dis
trict of Mississippi:-l hereby announce
myself as candidate for reelection to
the office of Railroad Commissioner for
the Northern District of Mississippi. |
thank you for the splendid vote you
gave me four years ago.
In announcing my candidacy for re-
election refer you to the manner in
which have performed the duties of
the Office for the past four years. |
promised you before the last election
that if elected | would give the duties
of the office my best thought and en-
ergy. | have made an honest effort to
fulfil that promise | have availed my
self of every opportunity to inform
myself of the power and duties of a
commissioner; and in each complaint
made for action by the Commission
have diligently inquired into the merits
of the complaint by personally gong
upon the ground and becoming acquant-
ed with the facts at first hand. Every
action have taken upon every Item OF
business coming before US has been
that which | thought was right and
which justice demanded. | have no
doubt made mistakes, but if 50 it was
of he head and not of the heart.
If reelected | again promise to do
the very best my ability will permit to
properly discharge the duties OF the of
flee. I feel that with the experience of
four years in the Office has been val
liable school to qualify me for better
and more intelligent service in the fu-
ture.
My Platform: / will give each COM
plant to me or to the Commission, and
each item Of business coming before
the Commission, an honest, candid and
fair investigation upon its merits and
dispose Of it as | think honest, fair and
just.
can only refer you to my record as
evidence OF my good faith in laying
down the above platform. If you con-
slider the record worthy of endorsement
by second term | will greatly appre-
ciate it and redouble my efforts to
make you better Commissioner.
Respectfully,
w. B. WILSON.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-23
Cheering Corn Club Boys

Director C. A. Cobb, of the
boys corn club work in Missis-
sippi, recently addressed letter
to the corn club bows, and among
other things he said:
Don't get in too much of a
hurry to lay bv. If the wind
blows your corn down, you will
have to lay by on that account
unless it is still Young enough to
straighten up. But this business
of laying corn by when it is
waist high is not one that | ap-
rrove Of. Plant from one and
one-half to two bushels of peas
to the acre at the last working.
Get your bulletin down ard
begin STUDYING about selecting
your seed this fall. | want ev-
erv boy 70 select seed when the
time comes. There are a lo+ Of
interesting things to learn about
selecting seed corn. And by Sc
lection it is very easy to improve
the variety yon have. If you
keep selection up for several
years, YOU will have a much bet
ter VARIETY than you now have.
and it will become more and more
suited to your farm and to your
community. You can make your
self very useful by improving
your corn until it will be the best
for your section.
Don't forget that the Young
Mems Business Club of this city
| is preparing to entertain at least
| /, 900 boys here during the state
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-23
Our Deposits are Guaranteed
DIouenes' Tub.

Tho tub in which Diogenes, tns
cynic, ade his home, was a greas
earthen Jar discarded from the Cypele
temple. 1t had been used for wine
or oil for the sacrifice of the temple
and was sufficiently large to allow
the philosopher c reclsring place'
The truth OF the tale has been called
into question. although 1t is said that
during the Peloponnesian war the
Athenians dwelt in just such vessels.
and that even after the death OF d.
ogenes such receptacles were used az
dwelling places by the poor.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-23
TUPELo MISS. FRIDAY July %, 1915

fair which will be held late in
October. You are invited if you
keep your records and get things
IN good shape.
lave you kept your accounts
ii good shape? Could you write
d go8G history of your crop up to
this iafe2 If you can't it will
be wise to get your records in
good shape" !"
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-23

The lawn fete given by Mrs.
Mollie Bonner for the benefit of
the Catholic church Tuesday
evening was a signal success.
The lawn was lighted with Jap
anese lanterns, and tables for
two dotted the green. Cake,
cream and candies were served.
A campaign was vigorously pros
ecuted and votes polled for the
most popular housekeeper in the
city, which resulted in Mrs.
Minnie Diilard achieving that
distinction. A special program
of victrola music was rendered.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-23
Entertainments

Mrs. j. H. Ledyard entertained
the Philathia Class of the Meth
odist church at a conversational
party on the broad porticos Of
her delightful home Friday even
ing. In her inimitable way Mrs.
Ledyard dispensed with conven-
tionalities, and the large class of
young ladies. attesting the
strength of their organization,
made merry with laughter and
song. The evenings most pleas
ant features were the several
sweet songs by Miss Hoyt Ray
mond and the delightful player
piano selections by Mr.. Ledyard.
The class was served refresh
ments in the dining hall.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-23

FOR SALE-A cash grocery busi-
ness with established patronage in
South Tupelo. Sales are cash and run
from $3.50 to 5000 per week Also will
sell my residence, which is on same lot
with store. Will sell cheap, and it will
not be necessary for purchaser to have
all the cash, as terms can be arranged.
Mrs. j. A. ID Harrington
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-23
Ruiinu Out Uncertainty.

Candidate-"Now, my friends, when
you vote, you don't want to vote for
q pig in poke; you want to vote for
me-and get the genuine article!"
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-23
Sszs>re,ss x - - =. = is'sosfs r1s.:s.
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteiess
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. 1t acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. SO cents.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-07-23


twenty-five couples enjoyed a
party with Mr.. Lawrence Gard
ner Tuesday evening at his cot
tage home on Broadway. honor
ary to Miss Peacock, of Menu
phis, guest of Misses Sisk. The
cottage and lawn were unique in
ferns and flowers, and delightful
yictrola music added to the
charm of the evening. Miss
Ola Gardner was called for and
rendered several beautiful songs
to the delight of her hearers.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-11
THE SHIP PURCHASE BILL.

Because freight-carrying ton.
mage of 5,SOO.OOO has been Withdrawn
from the ocean in six months, be-
cause thousands of car loads of Amer,
lean cotton, wheat and lumber lie
awaiting shipment in seacoast rail-
road yards, because we want new
ships to carry our new South Amer
ican trade and because private capital
will not act, the immediate passage
of the Ship Purchase Bill is urged by
its friends, says the Literary Digest.
The chief features of the bill are as
follows:
The proceeds of a bond issue of
$50, 600, 600 are to be used for pur-
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-11
The Literary Trawler
Opportunity.

a Opportunity.
They do me wrong who say come nc
more
When once | knock and fail to find
you in;
For every day / stand outside your
door,
And bid you wake, and rise to fight
and win.
Wall not for precious chances passed
away;
Weep not for golden ages on the
wane;
Each night l burn the record of the
day;
At sunrise every soul is born again.
Laugh like boy at splendors that
have sped.
To vanished joys be blind and deaf
and dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past with
its dead,
But never bind a moment yet to
come.
Though deep in mire, wiring not your
hands and weep,
l lend my arm to all who say, Il
can"
No shamefaced outcast ever sank so
deep
But yet might rise and be again
Dost thou behold thy lost youth all
aghast?
Dost reel from righteous retribu-
tons blow?
Then turn from the blotted archives
of the past
And find the future pages white as
snow.
Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from
thy spell;
Art thou a sinner? Sin may be
forgiven;
Each morning gives thee wings to fee
from hell,
Each night a star to guide thy feet
to heaven.
WALTER MALONE.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-11
VAN GENT GOES TO LAWRENCE
VIM See Both Teams Which Tigers
WIN Play Next Week.

C. e. Van Gent, coach of the Var
sity basketball team, went to Law
renee yesterday to see the basket
ball games between the University OF
Kansas and the Kansas Agricultural
College tonight and tomorrow night.
Mr.. Van Gent has never seen eth
er of these conference teams play.
The Tigers meet them next week.
The Tigers will play four games
away from home next week. They
will go to Manhattan, Kan, for two
games, Tuesday and Wednesday, then
to Lawrence for two more Friday and
Saturday. The time Thursday between
games will be spent in rest and get
ting acquainted with the Kansas
court, as the glass backstops there
confuse visiting teams.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-11
One Good Story
Art of Persuasion.

Il WISH" she said little inpatient
ly, you wouldn't ask me again to be
your wife. have thought it all over
and I'm sure I can never learn to love
you"
"Oh, that's all right" he replied. 81
don't expect you to learn to love me,
but please let me keep on trying to
persuade you. expect to go into the
real estate business and I'll need all
the practice along this line that I can
et."-Rehoboth Herald.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-11

chasing or building merchantmen for
the government. A government ship
ping board is to be created, which in
turn shall create a government cor
poration which shall operate mer-
chant vessels "in the trade between
the Atlantic, Gulf or Pacific ports of
the United States and the ports of
Central and South America and else
where to meet the requirements of
the foreign commerce of the United
States" The United States govern
ment is to hold a majority OF this cor
poration's stock The President may
lease, charter, or transfer to this cor
poration such naval auxiliaries or
War Department vessels as are suit
able for commercial use and are not
required for naval use in times of
peace. Further, the vessels to be ac-
quired by the government shall be as
far as possible suitable for use as
naval auxiliaries. 1t is provided in
an amendment that all vessels to be
acquired under this act shall while
employed solely as merchants, be in
all respects subject to the rules, reg
ulations and liabilities governing
merchant vessels, under the princi-
Piles of international law, in like man.
ner and to the same extent as mer-
chant vessels in private ownership"
under American registry. Another
amendment is intended to prevent all
American ships, of government or pri-
vate ownership, from carrying con-
traband by providing for an exami-
nation in American ports of all car
goes under the American flag des-
tined for any foreign country in time
of war.
The need for the measure is ur-
gent, in the opinion of a majority of
the Senate committee on commerce.
1t says:
1--WE stand helplessly at the water
front and let others do our business
for us to their own great gain, sub |,
ject to their own risks. They do it in
their own way as to time, place and
character of transportation and no
one will pretend they have extended
to us in all respects equal facilities
to those they have furnished their
own people.
"We need control of the situation
in several ways. Control should be
exerted over rates of transportation
in order that conditions like those ex-
listing today shall become impossible
ain the second place,( control
should be exerted as to the routes to
be followed. In the interest of Amer
ican commerce as a whole it should
not be permitted that the necessity
of European stockholders for earnings
should dictate where and when ships
must go.
at is not necessarily involved in
the proposed legislation that the gov
ernment shall remain permanently
interested in shipping. Whenever
private interests will at reasonable
rates and with proper facilities serve
American commerce in ocean trans
the government will be
more than content to have them do
So"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-11
EXPERIMENTS ON TELEPHONE
c. r. Born Working Here for Missouri
and Kansas Company.

anu nansas COmpdAys
Charles R. Born, who was graduated
from the School of Engineering Of the
University in 1911, arrived in Colum-
bia Tuesday night to carry on series
of experiments for the Missouri and
Kansas Telephone Company, which
has headquarters at Kansas City. The
experiments are studies of the prop
critics of materials used I'm aerial ca
BILE construction. They will be car
ried on in connection with the Engi-
neering Experiment Station.
Mr.. Born expects to be here several
days. He is a member Of the Dana
Press Club.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-11
A TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL.

"Pahi Then take tuberculosis: ev
eryone knows that the real remedy i:
to pay sufficient wages and have in.
sanitary workmen's dwelling knocked
down. But no one will do it, although
the working class is the most useful
we have as well as the worst reward
ed. Instead, workmen are recon-
mended not to spit Admirable, isn't
it?-Doctor in Eugene Prieux's
Damaged Goods"
Can this bitter speech be applied
in any way to local conditions? Yes
and no. When one looks at the pow
erty, suffering, and sickness in Co.
lumbia this winter he is appalled, at
the annual amount of it for so small
a city. And of the particular evils
tuberculosis looms up large. There
is an excessive amount OF 1t in Boone
County.
Concerning this disease it is most
certain the community cannot be
charged with recommending the suf-
ferers not to spit. An active fight is
constantly being waged against it
and much good is being done, but the
measures are necessarily incomplete.
Columbia, however, is freed from that
part of the foregoing quotations.
But there is one thing which Co
lumbia is partly responsible for and
which she can do much TO prevent in
the future. tuberculosis is most raw
aging among the poor of the laboring
class, and much of this poverty is due
directly to the fact that men have
been induced to bring their families
here in the prospect of manufactur-
ing work. They have not been given
enough to keep them busy or provide
food. They have had to resort to any
kind of work with the result that the
whole of the day-labor field is over
crowded and all suffer from it. Plen-
ty of facts furnished by the Charity
Organization have been published in
the Missourian recently to substan-
tiate this.
1t becomes, then, duty for this
community to take care of these peo-
pie, and the tuberculosis hospital
which the visiting nurse urges is
real way to meet it. Look at it in this
way. Much money is being spent
now in supporting the nurse and TAX
ing care of her cases, but these efforts
are made inefficient to a large de-
gree because the sick persons are
widely separated and cannot be
watched closely enough. They live
in insanitary surroundings and their
people do not know how. to care for
them properly and often do not care
The police power in treating antago-
nistic victims of the disease cannot
be enforced because there is no place !
in which to take care of them.
A hospital would change all this.
The patients could be brought togeth-
er in hygienic surroundings where
they could all be cared for in the best
manner and the danger to others re-
moved. The money used for this
work would then accomplish what it
was meant to. Il
Once built, such a hospital would
be heartily supported 1t is the initial
cost that makes us balk. Let's get
that cost out of the way and have a
hncnifo1 IN ol,r orod;f
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-11
Alexanders Pupils to Give Recital.

A recital will be given by the pupils
of Kelley L. Alexander at his studio
in the Thilo building Thursday night
at Sis o'clock. Those who will take
part in the recital are: sopranos. Ethel
Lail, Genevieve Seeley and vineta
Fowler; contralto, Lily Bencini;
tenors, Mark Morrison and Jess v.
Bell; bass, Emmett fowler.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-11
Elected Law Bulletin Editors.

Julius C. Shapiro and Lawrence
Hyde were elected student editors Of
the law bulletin. The law bulletin is
issued quarterly to members of the
profession all over the country.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-11
To Buy Cattle For M. q. Herd.

H. o. Allison, associate professor Of
animal husbandry, will leave Saturday
for Sedalia and other Central Missouri
towns to buy cattle for the show herd
OF the College of Agriculture.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-11
G. w. Reayis to Build.

G. W. Reavis, of the agricultural ex-
tension department, has purchased a
lot on Bouchelle avenue. He will build
home soon.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-21
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP WILL STOP SHAKE-DOWN
BY UTILITIES, SAYS LABOR MAN

other means of improving transpOr-
tation, organization is necessary.
"The high wages now paid street
car men would have come years ago
under public ownership.
when the city owns the phone,
gas and electric light systems, there
will be an end to the spy systems,
spoilers and raw tactics now employ
ed by the Chicago Telephone Co.,
the Commonwealth Edison Co. and
the Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co.
The word to union men is: Elect
your delegates and get ready to start
this ball rolling"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-21
BITS OF NEWS

Thief snatched pay satcheI from
Miss Beatrice Goldberg, cashier Per-
feet Coat Front Co., 500 S. Peoria
Got $3.50 and valuable papers.
C. s. Funk, Oak Park, former pres
ident of Rumely Co., taken suddenly
i'll at South Bend, Ind.
Jealous girl wrote police saying
girl auto bandits who have terrOrized
West Side could be found with their
sweethearts at rooming house. Po-
lice arrested three girls and three
boys at AL Washington blvd.
City Treasurer SeTgeI stopped flu
ture pay of country judges sitting in
municipal court.
Rumor says Bishop J. P. Carroll,
Helena, Mont, may be chosen bishop
of Chicago to fill vacancy caused by
death of Archbishop Quigley.
R. J. SeigeI, manager at Wilson
beach, saved life of Miss Minninen,
823 Wilson av., who was carried be-
yOnd life ropes.
Queen hotel, 6O3 s. Wabash av.,
was in morals court today, charged
with being an designation house.
Chas. David fined 500 and sentenced
to 80 days in jail
Record for arrests of speeders was
broken by Motor Policemen PoIlach
and ShTam, who arrested 10 violat-
ors. Each drew fines from IS to $25
and costs,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-21

Penny-a-cal service, 5O-cenC gas
and two-cent car rides will come in
Chicago.
when the people are ready to or
ganize and go to bat with the cor
pOratiOns, the people can get these
properties and by public ownership
and operation fix rates and service
on a cost basis.
''The big shake-dOwn game of the
public utility corporations can be
stopped only one way. Organize
Get the people of Chicago into a pow
erfUl, city-wide organization with a
single aim: Public ownership of pub
lie utilities.
Lower rates, better service and a
square deal for organized labor
that's what Wen get with public own
ership"
These are the points Morton L.
Johnson of the Chicago Federation
of Labor public ownership committee
wants to get before the labor men
now.
TITS only a week from tomorrow
that the public ownership convention
of the federation is to meet, he said.
Every local union which has not
elected it's delegates should see to it
the coming week that men are pick
ed to go to the federation convention |
Aug. 29.
more than 100000 Chicago men
and women are represented in the |
delegates so far elected by local |
unions. Let every union secretary
make this a special matter the com
ing week.
with a strong public ownership
league in the field the people of Chi
cagO would now be in possession of /
the Automatic phone system. The
bankers and LaSaIle street men are
able to keep it because they are or
ganized and the people are not.
'In 1918, three short years from
,o-- +E,o ofRry nil borro ~, CrFiov, %
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-02-12
RIDrcULE WILL NOT WORK

Some days ago a committee from
the Legislature visited the State
pertentiaries and eonvie, farms 70
md II they could. some o. the rsas-
ons Why tie penitentiary system has
beea losing proposition in past
years
u don't take them long to dnd
that The system o. book keeping was
80 crude that nobody could teE where
10 ind profits or losses This com
mi,tec turned attention 70 snail
items and they found mismanass-
meat IN the matter OF purchasing.
Cheap brogan shoes were bought at
-{2.25 a pair that would last c con
Wet two to SIX weeks
A large percentage OF the con
sicss are ldle the greater part Of the
time because there Is nothing Tor
them to DO. MoIasaes made on the
farms Is sold to the iobbers at 20
cents a gallon and the management
pays forty cents for an article no
better.
They found where an old run
down hack had been shipped from a
farm 10 Huntsville 10 be repaired. It
was shipped back along with a bill
Of S1l7 and the superintendent ad-
mitied that he could have bought a
new one as good for SIS
These are Just few OF the items
the committee reported. Their re-
port got next to an ex-auditor at
Mckinney who had heretofore enjoy
ed the puolie crib along with other
rings,ers and he seeks to put away
these findings with ridicule, but his
trick will fail to work. The people
have a set Of new fellows at Austin
now and the old political machine
has gone 10 dry docks. The Mckinney
man may SCOT all he pleases and
point ont the good points in the big
department. such as buying farms,
manufacturing molasses and ginning
cotton. but he can't laugh away a
charge Of s117 for repairing an old
wagon that originally would cost
1880.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-02-12

Representative Reeves consist
emit pro. who voted against Ill. ~
guson ia the champion Of Gov Fer
quson's land tenant 5ill ia the leg
stature. while members VINO sup
ported Ferguson are fighting 70 de-
.oat the tenant bill.
Tho Reeves bin would violate a
rental contract for more .na1 D bird
and fourth. Opponents IF he bill
say 4 would violate the constitution.
The Williams bill, they contend
would protect tenants and pass a
constitutional test. This bill provides
that IN case Of charge Of more than
the third and fourth the lien on the
crop for rents would be forfeited.