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The Lexington advertiser., 1915-07-16

| How seldom we stop to consider the
vital part played by the local merchant
in the development of the city He
pays taxes: he helps TO support the
churches and schools in which your
children are being taught; he helps to
keep the city lighted and its streets
clean; and in almost every instance
you will find he is the largest contribu-
tor to any project for civic betterment.
Do you want aid for some charity ?
You ask the merchant to contribute.
Is there a subscription afoot for any
purpose? The local merchant is the
first man to subscribe. Then why not
spend our money with him. 1t keeps
the money at home and encourages the
merchant TO improve his service wher-
ever he can. He will usually be able
to give you as good as you can buy out
side, and at as low price. And then,
besides, when you buy from him you
will have the consciousness of having
done that much good for your town.
Every dollar you spend with the local
merchant adds that much to the desra-
bility of yoCr city as place in which
to live. Here's to the home merchant.
Let's patronize him.
W. C. Wallis, mail carrier on Route
2, Eden, spent Saturday night in Lex
ington.
J. U. Sheehy was over fromBowling
Green Monday attending the meeting
of the county school board as member
from Beat 2.
George S. Beall, Jr., Of Durant,
spent Saturday in the city, interview
ing the voters in respect to the sheriff S
office.
Genuine Palm Beach Suits, SIS.
up. AppIebaum Bros.
J. M. Diggs, of Acona. mingled with
Lexington friends Saturday.
Miss Bette. Pitchford left Monday
for New Orleans to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
Jones, formerly of Cruger. From there
she will go to Beachton, Ca, to visit
her sister, Mrs. j. A. Slater.
N. A. Divine. F. E. Hocut, Hardy
Zeigler, of Harland's Creek, were here
Saturday.
- This country needs boosters, men
who believe in a bright future for this
country, not GROWERS and grumblers.
The time is coming in few yeras that
we will wish that we had believed in
the great poss! bilities of this section of
the country. Within the next twenty
years the South is going t. develop as
no section of our country has ever done
in that length of time. So let us pre-
pare for it, and quit growing and go
to boosting. We want a good man in
the place of every man who wants to
sell out. Houston Hummer.
Misses Maude and Cornelia Dyer left
last week for Houston, Texas, to visit
their brother, John d. Dyer.
The Lexington advertiser., 1915-07-16

Hon. r. C. McBee, of Greenwood,
spent Saturday night with Lexington
relatives.
Miss Fannie May Murtagh left Sun.
day for Memphis where, on Monday,
she joined % News-Scimitar contest
winners on trip to the Panama Expo.
sition at San Francisco, Cal.
Homer Ingold, of the United States
navy, is visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Erastus, lngold, at Franklin,
after an absence of four versa.
Miss Fannie Porter, of Gulfport, is
the priced guest of her brother, A. A.
Porter, and family.
FOR SAIE-Two sewing ma
chimes; slightly used; II will pay
YOU to call and Inspect. BaFT-GWin
Company.
DR.. and Mrs. T. r. Henderson left
Tuesday afternoon for Guatemala,
where they will spend the summer
months as sthe guests of DR.. and Mrs.
w. H. Leavell, returning home about
September !. DR.. Leavell is U. S.
Minister to Guatemala, and is making
brilliant record serving his country
in that exalted capacity. Greenwood
Commonwealth.
Irby Sheehy, of Bowling Green, at
tended to business in Lexington Friday
E. H. Nabers. of Sails, spent Satur-
day in Lexington.
Hugh Reid. of TchuIa. spent Sunday
with relatives in Lexington.
DR.. J. r. Tackett returned Sunday
to Meridian after visit to Lexington
relatives and friends.
Hon. r. C. McBee and family have
gone to the Mississippi seacoast for
visit of several weeks. 1880 Greenwood
Commonwea ealth.
The Lexington advertiser., 1915-07-16
Wheneve. Tou Need a General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as
General Tonic because II contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININR
and IRON. 1t acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Suilds mp the Whole System. so cents,
The Lexington advertiser., 1915-07-16
Are You Feeling Elt2

Do you envy the man or woman OF
untiring energy, 8 trong body and happy
disposition? All these depend upor
good health. and good health is impos.
sible when the kidneys are diseased.
Foley Kidney Pills help the kidneys
cast out poisons that cause baekache,
rheumatism, and other symptoms OF
dangerous kidney and bladder troubles.
For sale by Swinney & Stigler.
The Lexington advertiser., 1915-07-16
Home Brevities

Hon. G. H. Marlborough. of Lexing
n, candidate for district attorney
as in Greenwood Monday in the in
rest of his candidacy Greenwood
nterprise,
Judge e. S. Stigler, of Shackelford'i
Switch, spent Saturday on business il
the city. '.N
Prof. W. M. Alexander, Of Durant
circulated among the throng of voters
here Saturday in the interest of his
candidacy for county superintendent OF
education.
W. D. Killebrew, of Harlsnd's Creek.
brought in prisoner for incarceration
in the county Jail Saturday.
R. S. Wigley, of Hardscrsbble, greet.
ed friends in the city Sunday.
Miss Cornelia Dyer, one of Lexing-
toms most charming social favOrites,
was in the city Tuesday the guest of
MIR. and Mrs Howard Dyer, Green
wood Commonwealth.
Big shipments OF Genuine Palm
Beach Suits every week. Made to
Flt you at time OF purchase. APP
pIebsum Bros.
W. W. Wilburn, ex.sheriff of Holmes
county, and at present a candidate to
succeed Col. W. A. Montgomery as
penitentiary trustee, was in Yazoo
City Wednesday. Mr.. Wilburn is ma
tive of Yazoo county and the voters
could elect no better man than he as
trustee --Yazoo County News.
Mrs. NJ. M. Rayner and Misses Alice
Rayner and Sidney Povall left Monday
for sojourn at the Rayner summer
home at Gulfport.
Hon. J.D. Guyton, Prof. w. M. Alex
ander, Hon. W. G. Boyett, G. s. Beall,
Jr.. of Durant, passed through here
Monday enroute to Cruger to interview
the voters.
Hon. P. P. Lindholm spent Sunday
within Yazoo City's attractive pur-
iieus.
Mrs. F. Allen Howell and baby. of
Cleveland, arrived Friday on visit to
her parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. T. Fin
cher.
Read the bulletin In our window
for bargains In second hand
cars. Barr Gwin Co.
Two chance acquaintances from Ire
land were talking together. An so
yer name is Riley, said one Are
yez any relation to Tim. Very dish
tantly," said the other. "Oi wus me
mothers first child. an Tim was the
twelfth. social Circle.
Miss Marie Underwood returned to
Yazoo City Sunday after delightful
fisit to her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. |
}. D. McCaleb.
The Lexington advertiser., 1915-07-16

Misses Ouida and Eola Williams left
saturday for GuIfport to visit their
lister, Mrs. H. A. Cole. Their broth
,r, J. r. Williams, accompanied them
IS far as Durant.
Miss Ethel Ingold spent Sunday at
he parental home at Liberty Chapel
md attended the children's exercises
1t Bethany.
The Lexington advertiser., 1915-07-16

| and checks IooSeneSs OF the bowels.
Price 25c and SOC per bottle. Sold by
B. S. Beall.
B. S. Darnell, of Goodhope, spent
Sunday at the old home at Hebron.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Wallace, of How.
ard, were Lexington visitors Saturday.
Howard CHM has returned to his
Carroll county home, accompanied by
Sessions PovaIl
Mrs. H. Hartje and Miss Annie
Hartje went to Greenwood Sunday to
visit Mr.. and Mrs. P. S. Thomas.
DR.. M. L. Pollard, of Thornton. spent
Sunday night in Lexington.
D. S. ShackeIford, Of Ell Reno, is
visiting friends in the city.
A. Il. Weeks, CT Kerens, Texas, was
the guest Sunday Of Dr. and Mrs. J. A.
MCCarley.
We regret to learn of the death of
Mrs. A. B. Williams, of Durant, last
week. Her remains were taken to
Camden for interment.
There are two essential points
in the construction OF suit--sty-
lish quality and perfect workman
ship. You procure this combina-
tIon when you wear one Of our
Palm Beach Suits. AppIebaum
Bros.
Alice CHM, Of BIackmonton, is the
priced guest Of Lexington relatives
this week.
Miss Mildred Meek left Sunday on
visit to friends at Meridian.
Misses Edna Moore and Fannie J.
Noel attended the Buford- Pepper nup.
tials at Greenwood Monday
Mr. and Mrs. l.. &. Johnson, of AGO
ma, are entertaining little Robert Hill |
Johnson, who appeared in their house.
hold three weeks ago.
Mrs. j. H. Conn, Of Durant, was
called to Memphis last week to be with |
her son, Lamar Conn, at a hospital. |
where he had been brought from |
Clarksdale in an unconscious condition, |
from being hit with baseball it is al
eged.
c. c. Swinney and Kirby Land Swim
1ey made an auto trip to Durant Sun
lay.
The Lexington advertiser., 1915-07-16

to all the praise / can give them,'
writes Mrs. Richard dip, Spencerport
N. Y. They have cured me of head
ache and nervousness and restored me
to my normal health" For sale by
All Dealers.
Hon. M. B. Grace, Capt. H. Barger,
Hon. K. A. Montgomery, Hon. T. G.
Stephenson, DR.. F. l.. Bott, Maj. l.. N.
White, C. c. Swinney, Hon. ]. H. Flu.
qua, Prof. j. r. Gulledge and ]. J.
Gilmore attended political meeting al
Tolarville Thursday night of last week,
Pof. j. K. Gulledge acting as master
of economies.
EE. Brown, of Ebenezer, j. u. Shee-
by, of Bowling Green, and Mai. ]. N.
Powers. of Franklin, last week sold to
Pickens Bros. Co. goOdly numbers of
chickens and eggs.
YoW can talk to pFaetIealIy ten
thousand Holmes county people
through The Advertiser.
Hon. A. M. Pepper went to Yazoo
City Tuesday on professional business.
c. S. Bowman, of Jenkinsville, VISA
in Monday night TO attend Masonic
lodge.
Miss Luke Rogers was absent from
her post of duty in the postoffice the
fore part of the week on account of
illness.
Miss Lizzie Connolly spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
W. S. Truitt, near McMillans'.
Doing hard work IN bent or stoop-
ing position puts stitch in the back
that is painful. If the muscles have
become strained, you can't get rid of
it without help. The great penetrating
power of BALLARD'S SNOW LINZ
MENT will appeal to you most strong
ly at such times, because it is the very
thing you need. Price 25c, Soc and
$l,OO per bottle. Sold by B. S. Beall.
The Lexington advertiser., 1915-07-16

When the baby is suffering the double
affiiction of hot weather and bowel dis
orders, the remedy needed is McGEE'S
BABY ELIXIR. 1t reduces the fe-
verish condition, corrects the stomach
and checks Iooseness of the bowels.
Price 25c and SOC per bottle. Sold by
B. S. Beall.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
PROTECTS AN INDIAN MAID
Oklahoma Judge Appoints Guardian
for Girl With a Million
Dollars.

Okmulgee, Okla.-Judge Mark L.
Bozarth has appointed E. W. Kimbley
as guardian of the person and estate
of Katie Fixico, an incompetent. She
is an Indian who owns a valuable tract
of oil lands in the north end OF the
Cushing field. Title to property worth
in the neighborhood of a million dol
lars will be affected by the ruling OF
the court.
The Midco Oil company, operating
on the land, holds a lease dated three
years ago, given through the county
court. On the day the girl became of
age she gave the lease to Harry {.
Denton on the theory that the first
lease expired with her minority. The
land was sold on the following day by
her to Walter Morton, brother OF her
former guardian, for $4,000
The girl appeared in court recently
and during her testimony it was shown
that she did not know word or Eng
iish. that she had left school at the
age of eighteen while in the third
grade, and that she knew nothing of
the value of money.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30

| the school itself. Then came the
question of the commissariat. At first
she gave up her own ration to her
ten refugees-but that was not
enough among so many. So she col
lected from her friends and relatives
in the village here a piece of bread
and there a vegetable.
When the Germans, seeing her sus-
piciously laden basket, asked her for
whom were all these provisions, she
would answer, For your wounded in
the chapel" Better still, she ap-
pointed herself cook for the German
ambulance, and in this capacity was
able to pick up all sorts of broken
victuals, so that her English were in
no danger of starving.
But English soldiers do not live by
food alone-they like their tobacco.
Now, according to the regulations of
the invaders, each inhabitant of the
place had the right to buy two sous
worth of tobacco day. She found
a way to evade this regulation and
to keep her ten in smokables. She or
ganized an army of boys, who ten or
twenty times day would purchase at
different shops the meager penny
worth
But there was always the danger
that the hiding place of the ten might
be discovered by some German. For
tunately, their dormitory communi-
Gated by trap-doors with the ground
floor of the building, and precisely
with a room on that ground floor
which gave Oh the garden. So she
procured long rope, with which she
advised her prisoners to practice a
sort Of fire-drill. She was enthusiast
tic over the results.
Just imagine" she said to her in
terviewer, that my Englishmen after
a few attempts were able, the whole
ten of them, to strap up their haver-
sacks, get ready for all eventualities,
and slide down the rope noiselessly
in less than five minutes"
But these desperate measures were
not necessary. The Germans tempo
rarily evacuated the place, and the ten
English soldiers we're able to regain
the allied lines in safety. They have
all given her their names and adj
dresses, and sworn that she must
come to England when the war is
over, where they promise her a royal
welcome. One of the grateful ten is
a nobleman, and a relative of King
George-Lord Smith is the name
given, but never mind! The girl left
the town only when the Germans
were about to re-enter it, and after the
town had been subjected to a fierce
bombardment for r ny days.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
LAST OF IOHN BROWNS AIDS
Follower of Famous Aboiitionist Lives
In kansas and Is Hale and
Robust at Eighty-Four.

Salina, Kan Luke f. Parsons, who
has resided OIL q farm near Salina for
fifty years, has the distinction of be-
ing the last of tlNe survivors of all the
men directly Associated with John
Brown and his IA nous border warfare,
just preceding tl\e war between the
states.
Parsons left MS home in Massa-
chusetts in 1856 ,C\ aid the Free Soil
ers in the KanSt \s-Missouri border
warfare, following Brown through the
series of skirmishts which eliminated
in the famous battie of Osawatomie.
He was then selet kd as one OF the
ten picked men wlcN were to accom-
pany Brown on his aid through Vir-
ginia; but, owing % the delay Of
nearly a year in onl|leting the plans
for his adventure, he left the eXpedi-
ton at Cleveland, O., thus missing the
Harper's Ferry disa itler by a few
weeks.
Parsons health at eli shty-four years
OF age, is robust, and We is still able
to do as much work ais the average
man. 1t was not until recent years
that he permitted hims elf to talk of
the John Brown affair and his con-
nection with it. Now IN OF his com
patriots are dead, anC hg is the lasr
link connecting this III gic page in
American history with he present.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
HIDES 10 FROM FOE
French Girl Keeps Soldiers From
German Clutches.
BY Dint of All Sorts of Courageous
Ruses She Feeds and ConceaIs Eng
lishmen While Teutons
Occupy Place.

Paris.-The invaders would not
have been so charitably disposed to a
French girl had they known that for
three weeks by dint of all sorts of
courageous ruses she had been feed
ing, concealing, and keeping from
their clutches ten English soldiers.
She was servant in a girls board
ing school. When the war broke out
the pupils all returned tt their homes,
and she was left alone, for her only
companion was an old deaf and par
TALLY paralyzed woman. When the
Germans entered the town they went
through the girls school from attic
to basement, collecting all the linen
bedding they could lay their hands
on. For some reason or other they
did not install their wounded in the
main building, but in the chapter an
mex.
These wounded the girl tended with
the utmost devotion, in the first place,
because she is tender-hearted, and in
the second, because she had every rea-
son to desire to stand we'll with the
invaders. For her conscience was
quite clear. She knew that down in
the grotto at the end of the school
gardens she haG concealed ten Tom
miles, who had come, hungry, foot
sore and worn out just one hour be-
fore the Germans.
They will be here in a moment"
the English officer had said, not wish
ing to put the girl in danger.
Never mind she said, I'll hide
you somewhere, and afterwards we
shall see." So she took them to the
grotto. But the quarters were mar
row. damp and intensely uncomfort-
able. Her heart bled for her pro-
teges. Then she had an idea, the
very daring of which was to insure it's
success. She installed her ten Tom
mics in the unoccupied top floor of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30

wrote his article. It was better than
the magazine had expected, and an
other followed and finally Pagan wrote
book on the railroad situation
Became Suddenly Famous.
Then when the book came out and
everyone who knew anything about
rallroading had read It, the railroad
authorities under whom Pagan had
toiled for twenty-odd years suddenly
discovered him. The president of his
own railroad concern sent for him.
Then another railroad president
looked him up and received Pagan as
an authority and an adviser. Pagan
had suddenly become the most famous
signalman in America, and Theodore
Roosevelt, then president of the
United States, sent for him to confer
with him also, and listened to him
as eagerly as had the railroad pres1-
dents as he told, simply and pictur-
esquely, his ideas for improved rail-
road operation.
Other men had studied the same
problems before, but they had been
financiers or college professors who
contemplated railroad economies from
a quiet study. Or at best they had
been practical railroad men who had
had but short apprenticeship On the
rails. But Fagan-Fagan the eagle
eyed and the gaunt-faced-had spent
% years in his watch tower and had
watched the tracks and switches for
almost generation. He knew the
language of the telegraph keys and
the spirit of the rails and the hearts
of the locomotive engineers, and he
was able to speak with authority.
But what then? Of course Mr.. Fa-
gan was at once promoted? He must
have been traffic manager, general
manager, superintendent or an officer
of the company, with salary ten Or a
hundred times what he was earning
before. But that is the romantic
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
AMOUNTED TO SAME THING
Reading This Aneedote, One Feels
That MIR. Choate Could on Occa-
sions Be Mildly Sarcastic.

You know how, sometimes, a word,
very common word, and one that you
have used innumerable times in one
way or another, will, of a sudden, en-
tirely escape your mind Thus it was
with Mr.. Choate on one occasion dur
ing his ambassadorship to the Court
of st. James. He told about it at a
dinner he attended in London.
He said that he went into a book
shop in the Strand a few days before
to purchase g. copy of Dante's I'm
ferno." 1t was his intention to present
the book to young friend who par
ticularly wanted to read it. Much to
Mr.. Choate's chagrin, the instant he
stepped in the store the word ''Infers
no" entirely escaped his mind
He told the salesman that he would
be back in a minute, and he walked
away down to Whitehall trying to
think of the last half of the book he
wanted. Of course it was Dante's
something" but Dante's ''what?"-
that was the question.
Finally he gave up trying to recall
the full title and went back to the
shop. The clerk asked him what he
sought. He made a bold stab. Il
want a copy of Dante's HE'LL" he re-
piled.
The clerk darted back to the rear OF
the store By and by he returned with
empty hands II am very sorry" he
said, "but we haven't got He'll by Mr..
Dante, but we've got Twenty Years
in South Africa by Cecil Rhodes, if
that would do"
And feeling" concludes Mr.. Choate,
that that was practically the same
thing, took the book"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30

discipline of the railroad employees. a
lack of cooperation between the men
who worked with their hands and the
men who didn't. So Pagan went on
studying in his little tower and he de.
termined to contribute, in some small
degree at least, to the solution of the
problem of railroad accidents.
One day a conductor of a freight
train sauntered into the signal tower
and in an offhand way asked Pagan
for train order. While Pagan worked
the telegraph keys with his bony,
weatherbeaten hands and waited for
the return clicks that would be an or
der from the train dispatcher, the con-
ductor signed the blank
Pagan picked up the blank and
looked at 1t.
Where is your engineman's sigma.
ture?' he asked, handing back the slip.
you know there is rule that these
orders must be signed by the conduc-
tor and the engineman Of the train
The conductor explained that the
ruling that called for the two sigma
lures was dead letter.
DEAD letter or not" said Pagan,
neTved by the knowledge that he was
doing his little share in preventing
useless accidents, Il will not give the
order till have your engineman's sig
nature. Not so long ago that trick
killed three trainmen, wrecked two
engines and cost the company some
thing like fifty thousand dollars" He
recalled the particular accident to
which he alluded. you must go back
for your engineman's signature"
"You mean to say that 1 will have to
walk half mile and lose half an hour
in order to get that signature?
snapped the conductor. "You are the
first signalman who ever picked me
up in this way"
"But / do demand it," said Pagan
firmly, land I'll fight to get it." In
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30

this way and others Pagan established
his reputation as an unusual sort of
signalman and with the railroad en-
ployees he gained little popularity by
his new reputation. Soon they began
to ask about him. who is this man
Fagan?' they would say. And before
long they learned few facts of his
hardworking life.
Fagan's Varied Career.
Fagan-James o. Fagan-was born
and humbly bred in Scotland, where
he went to school, and, through nat
ural craving, studied all he could learn
about electricity. His first job was as
an apprentice on board a cable-laying
hulk that sailed first to Portugal and
then to the Canary islands and South
America. Then he turned up in South
Africa, where he did some fight
ing, and in 1881 he drifted to New
England, where he got job as teleg-
rapher for the Boston & Lowell rail-
road. Five years later he became
signalman at the - station at West
Cambridge, and there he had been
ever since, earning two dollars and
a half day, in return for which
he managed the switches, took and re-
ceived Geographic orders and commu-
nications and watched the rails.
About six years ago, several years
after he had made up his mind to
study the question of preventable &C
cidents and after he had done a great
deal of thinking, he climbed down
from his tower for day off. He went
to Boston and made straight tracks
for the editorial office of one of the
biggest, most conservative of monthly
magazines.
Pagan hadn't dressed up for the &C.
casion, and he looked gaunt and a
trifle unkempt when he asked to see
the editor. But he managed to get an
interview. A half hour later he left
the office of the magazine with the
order for an article dealing with the
problem of accidents on the railroads
of America and suggestions for their
prevention.
Pagan went back to his tower and
continued to watch trains and operate
telegraph keys and throw the switches
as conscientiously as ever, but at
night when his duties were over ne
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
$40 for KiIlina Robin.

Hackensssk, n. J.--For shooting a
robin Rocco vaeoroa was hued $40
and costs.