The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-10-29
HOULKA LOCAL NEWS

The farmers over the country are
putting in wheat and oats for the
big dOings next year. Mr.. o. NJ
Harrill has half dozen plows going,
along with discs. section harrows
and seeders. He is planting wheat
oats and clover. rotating and diver
styling according TO the best author
tiles Of the government service.
/ The extra good yield Of wheat last
summer was an enthusiastic tempt
er TO do it again. He is also digging
/ this week, 1000 hills Of sweet pota-
toes, and putting them up in bushel
boxes made for storing in cellars.
This method beats the banking way
for if Une rots it does not effect the
whole pile, but just that bushel
This patch will make over 200
bushels, many of the potatoes
weighing four and five pounds each
Things Of this kind we want the
/ farmers to tell us so we can print
it. Tell how yoNdo this and that
on the farm and give us your ideas
on potatoes, wheat, corn and cotton
and other worthy living at home
products. We want to cooperate
with you to help all we can. That's
our business-our ambition to HELP
our neighbor-our great desire to
see people get together for good
and to make progress along the
happy road Of life. If we could see
what you are doing in the farming
/ business we could write it for the
paper, but as that is impossible, we
depend on you to help get up the
doings Of the town and country.
This paper does not class one man
above the other-it strives to HELP
YOU if YOU will let us. Wen 60
over half way to help-someumes
all the way. Consider our way Of
getting news of the people and help
us get out a better way.
Mr.. Earl Hamilton comes up
every Tuesday to take expression
LESSONS under Miss Janet Walker
Earl did not 90 to school this year,
staying at home tc help his father
make a big crop of grown in Missis-
sippi, live at home. He is ambitious
wants a thorough education in
the best universities and is deter
mined to make good. We sincerely
sanction his great desire and com
mend him for his ambition We
know you will get it, Earl GO TO
IT and WIN.
Miss Janet Walker, one of the
best expression teachers in the
south and a reader without super
iors anywhere, comes up from
Houston every Tuesday to teach
her class and then goes back to her
lively mother Grandma Janet
every Wednesday, We have always
wondered why Miss Janet does not
work under the Lyceum Bureaus
going from city to city giving her
thrilling readings and powerful pre-
sentation of all that is rhythm in
the human voice, in cOnvulsing
mimicry and classy acting" In
| Atlanta, Ga, she made a popular
success training talent for the stage
and giving plays of wonderful scope.
Gee, we wish all America could
know her worth as a reader of the
finest and funniest in regular old
United States as it is happily slung.
Mr. Ernest Harris of Red Land
and a well deserving, hard working
young man. friendly and smiling
paid our HappydOm Den a very
pleasant call last Sunday.
To Mr.. j. Ray Hamilton, senior
) student at the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, we sincerely
: thank him for sending US weekly
the College Reflector" the official
organ of the student body Besides
his duties as one of the officers and
his daily work on the football field