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East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
Gen, W. Parker Jr, Appeals to Voters
Of Beat One.
he Voters of District No. |.

10 the voters VI blotiiel No' IL
The second primary will be held
the day. and | take this method
-, uaking n last appeal for your
support, your influence and your
vot in my race for Beat One.
In seeking this Office at the
Ian, S of the voters | feel that is
nothing but ght that | should
olive YOU my straightforward, un>
qualified promise to perform the
duties and to meet the responsible
ties connected with the office to
the very best of my capabilities.
will be prompt, accurate, careful
and painstaking in the handling of
all papers and in attending to all
business, and fearless and unfal,
te1iug in the performance of all
duties imposed upon me. In other
words | will strive constantly to
make the people of Beat One a
good constable.
AS to my qualifications and ht-
ness, | can best refer you to those
who know me so well.
will mention in this connec-
tion that as sergeant of the Coun'
ty convicts this year, have re
ceiyed training and experience that
should prove of value to me in the
higher and more responsible posi-
ton to which | now aspire.
4 | thank all who aided me in
securing such an excellent vote in
The first primary, and assure you
that | shall always feel the deep>
est appreciation for the support
YOU may accord me on Tuesday;
and if | am elected, shall do my
utmost to show my appreciation
BY courteous and effecent service
in office,
Sincerely,
GEORGE w. PARKER JR.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
"0h The Shame, The Shame /"

New York, Aug. 18th Thank
God he is dead and through with
his troubles" sobbed Mrs. Rudolph
Frank, Leo Franks mother when
Informed at her home of her sons
death.
The crime perpetrated against
Leo Frank by the Georgia mob is
well covered by these words of his
heartbroken mother. Whether he
was guilty or innocence, life had
no charm for him" he is dead
and through with his troubles "
But the crime upon the state Of
Georgia is monstrous, inexpiable.
1t is a stain that like the blood
spot on the Macbeth hand, is
damned and will never out -
And the worst of it was that
great state was dehed and defeld
with impunity. With officials
sworn to uphold the law, and arn-
ed guards at hand, not a shot was
fired, not life yielded or exacted
in Georgia's vindication! That
fact alone lays bare the claim that
"the prison officials are without
blame" as q wretched lie. oh
the shame, the shame" of Soutl.s
ern statehood and Southern meu.
-Vicksburg Herald.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
State Candidates In Run.off.
plnCerely,
GEORGE w. PARKER JR.

The following is The names OF
the candidates for State and dis
trict offices that will appear Oh the
ticket in the second primary.
Land Commissioner.
Henry G. Wood
M. A. Brown
Revenue Agent.
G. j. Moore
Stokes V. Robinson
Prison Trustee.
P. e. Mat hsws
l.. Y. Stone
On the county ticket We will
eject Eastt RI and,Western Repre' :
eutatlves, circuit clerk, chancery
clerk, sheriff, treasurer, assessor.
supervisor, jus ice OF the peace
and constable in Beats l and 3,
aud justice of the peace AMI con
stable in beat 4
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20

The Mayor of Atlanta publicly
stated that Leo Frank got just
deserts and commended the action
Of the mob. 1t seems almost In"
credible that the Mayor of any city
in the Union would make such q
statement as this, and stamp him
self as an outlaw instead of a
,onservator of the law. But this
same Mayor will be remembered
as che man who was removed the
Mayors Office several years ago
drunkardpess and creating a sensa-
ton by holding drunken orgies in
the low resorts of Atlanta red light
districts. He was aferward re
elected Mayor by the labor Union
OF Atlanta.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
The Leo Frank Case.

The lynching OF Leo Frank Is
the most outrageous defiance of
society in the United States in
many years. The whole record of
this case, involving this man, is a
blot Oh the name of Georgia.
We pass no opinion on the guilt
or innocence of Frank on the
charge of murd,ring Mary Pagan,
but we do not know that his trial
was conducted in an atmosphere
of prejudice, where even>handed
Justice was impossible. Realizing
this, the outgoing governor COM
muted the sentence from death TO
life imprisonment.
Even if Frank were guilty, life
Imprisonment is no minor penalty.
Shorthly after being s n to t! 9
Georgia penltentialy, Frank vas
attacked and nearly killed by u
fellow prisoner suffering from the
fanatical hysteria which possessed
the state,
That it should have been poSSl-
ble for mob to enter the very
doors of the state prison, take
forth Their victim and execute
their will, shows grave lax.ty on
the part of the officials, it nothing
worse.
The lynching was II cold blood>
ed. premedilated mnrder. There
can be no excuse of heat OF pas,
sion. 1t has been. several years
since Mary Phagon was killed;
months since the trial of Frank,
and weeks since his sentence was
commuted. .-News-Scimitar.
Ladies who appreciate pretty
new STYLES in all Millinery goods
should visit the Ladies', Cash Ba-
zaar and see the new Fall 6oods
they are receiving.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
TO THE VOTERS of BEAT ONE

am still in the for Justice of the Peace OF District
No. i ahd take this method of asking for your favorable
consideration of my candidacy
If selected by you OF your two magistrates, |
shall do all in my power to perform well the duties with
which am entrusted. Insofar my ability extends, will
deal justice with hand between all parties appearing
in the court which preside will carefully avoid the
slightest discrimination between rich and poor high and
ow black and white. will play favores but will do
justice at all times as see it.
wish to here express my deepest gratitude for the vote
accorded in the first primary and to thank each
cry of you in advance for your kind consideration of my
claims next Tuesday. .-a- ..--.-------
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
Very respectfully,
To the Voters of the Eastern ID stIic
of Oktlbbsha.
K. P. HARTNESS

, To the Voters of the Eastern ID StIic
of Oktlbbeha.
/ desire to take this method OF
expressing my sincere thanks for
the vote accorded me in the first
primary, and the support of my
friends in my race for Represen-
tatlve.
The second primary, to be held
Tuesday, will bring the race to a
close, and | wish to urge my
friends to render me every assjs-
tance possible, and | assure each
and every voter in the district that
| shall always be deepy apprecia~
tive of all you may see tit to do in
my behalf.
am a young man, ambitions
and anxious to succeed, My cleo
ton will mean much to me in the
future, and if selected to this post
of honor and trust | will do my
best to represent this District
faithfully and well.
With kindest feelings toward
all, and with gratitude for those
who see fit to accord me their
support, l am.
Very Sir c'rely,
} S'.PH 5. RICE.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20

Friends: | desire lnat each Of you
accept my thank, with much apprecia-
tion for every vote you saved for me In
the County Sponsors Contests, or as
sisted me in getting in any way. | es-
pecially thank those who paid fJr the
Times to help ne get votes.
When | lost in the contest, learned
what it means to be disappointed.
which is gain. Iappreciate my friend,
and rejoice with those that rejoice.
With best wishes for every one,
remain,
Yours truly,
MAMIE BUTTS.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
Indignation Meeting of Citizens

On Friday night large delega>
ton of citizens Of Starkviile met
in the Courthouse for the purpose
of exprcS. ing tie disapproval of
community of the libelous reports
that have gone the rounds of the
Northern press with reference to
the public hanging which took
place here on the 9th inst. Three
or four hundred representative
citizens were present.
The meeting was called to order
by Rev. w. A. Jordan, and Mr..
j. j. Gill was elected as chairman,
and DR.. Z. w. McKell was made
secretary.
A number of the reports were
read from New York and Chicago
papers, and from the Literary Dig
est. They contained gross misre>
presentations of facts and distort-
ed accounts of the happenings con-
nected with the hangings, casting
reflections upon our county and
community.
A general discussion followed in
which talks were made by Mr.. Bob
Bridges, Judge I. b. Carroll,
Sheriff l.. ii. NickeIs, Col. Z. j.
Wood, Hon. W. W. Magruder,
aud the Revs. w A. Jordan and
f. q. Brow. All denounced h ,
publications as false and libelcus,
and censured in unmeasured degree
the repo. terS who sent in the re.
ports. Mr.. Bridges expressed his
belief that the articles were written
here, and declared that the man or
men who wrote them are unworthy
of citizenship in this community,
Along the same line, Judge Car
roll stated that in his opinion the
writer of such reports is amenable
to the criminal law, and that
thorough investigation will be
made by the courts.
Mr.. Magruder read a reply that
he had written to the editor of the
Literary Digest, which gave Il
true account Of the hanging, and
defend the community from the
vicious and underhaud attack made
by the Northern press.
Coairman Gill appoin ed a com.
mitlee of five, with Mr.. Magruder
as chairman, for the purpose OF
preparing this reply us the excres-
sion of the myetns and Submitting
it to tae Literary Digest on behalf
of tue community.
Considerable interest was mani
tested, and plans were laid for res
ruttlng the false reports and Civ
ing the true facts to the church
papers, the daily press, and all
other periodicals over the South,
and to such publications III the
North as may be deemed worthy
of consideration and fair enough
to give the truth to their readers.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
She Knew,

"How trifing girls are nowadays! ex :
claimed grandma, very much yexed at
her granddaughter who had turned
things topsy-tIrvS looking for a needle.
Il don't believe you know what needles
are for"
'.Needles! Why, grandma, needles
are used to make the graphophone
play"
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
Ostriek Boas.

See the beautiful line of the
now style Ostrich Boas in solid
black, solid white,,' mixed ard
natural with silk tasseled ends,
inst received and now on display
az The Ladies' Cash Bazaar,
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20

The Clay County fair at West
Point opens Sept. 9Th. This the
secoud fair that Clay has held and
lhsy are going to make it the best
county Fair in the state.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
Notice TO Nom Resident Defendants.

State OF Mississippi to Homer losk-
ms. Harriet Cox, Carlo, II and Vlnie
Bell, and ID. j E. Hoskins. Cauo, III.
You are commanded to appear bef' r;
the Chancery Court Of the County OF
Oktibbeh:, in al State, on the Second
Monday OF September, 4 ID. 1919, to
defend the suit in said Court of Bose
Hoskins, wherin you are Defendant.
Tnis 18th dai of August A. D. 1915.
Z. y. MCfGwAIN, Clerk.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20

FIGURING Mills are being erected
IN all parts of the state and ma
cAlnery is being ordered and pre-
perations made for other mills to
ns put in operation in time for
vat years crop Of wheat.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20

From the way tile armies in
Entope are preparing for Winter,
they are not expecting the war to
end soon,
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
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East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20
FIRST MILE OF
ROCK ROAD BUILT
Work on Beat One System of
Highways Progressing
Heavy Grading Being Done

Work on the construction OF Beat
Ones system of rock roads is being
pushed forward rapidly. Heavy grad
ing is being done ON the Adaton road.
Several of the stcepest hills in the coun-
ty are on this road, and are all being
graded down to easy grades. The sharp
curves just out of the corporation line
are being Strengthened. In one place
this will necessitatc a cut more than
sixteen feet in depth, while several em-
bankments will be thrown up across
hollows to height OF six feet or more
This work will all be completed by the
first of September, and the Macadam
will then be applicd.s
Work is also in progress on the Osborn
road, and several large fills have already
been thrown mp.
On the Longview road, the grading il
nearing completion, and one mile of
rock has been Laid, he ginning at the ia
tersectiOn of the WhiLchcld and 10 yer
Greensboro road and extending one
mite towards town. This Is the lirst milo
Of ocA road to be comp cted in the
county, and marks the beginning of our
system of roads.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20

The second prim ,ry occurs Tues
day. 1t will hardly bring out as
large vote as the first primary
did, although these are several inn
portant State offices to choose be,
sides nearly all the county Offices.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20

The very latest New Fall Hats
at the The Ladies Cash Bazlar.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20

The recent rain has started the
fall gardeners. Everybody has
been busy sowing turntps this
week.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20

The Ladies Cash Bazaar is re.
ceiving new Fall Millinery Goods.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1915-08-20

Miss Bonnie Bell Gdnus, of
Senatob;a, is visiting her uncle,
Prof. IL. &. Morris.
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1915-07-23
Where Labor Condition, are Right.

British East Africa has a labor
problem II is different from the la
Dor problem that prevails in most
places. The trouble there Is not to
rind Jobs for the unemployed. but how
20 find unemployed for the Jobs.
The cause of this unique condition
has been made clear in a recent re-
port of the Labor Commission of the
Colony. The Colony has in its area
OF lS9,S3S square miles population
OF 100000 negroes and only g.
200 whites Many OF the latter are
biz land owners, who need black la
Dor 10 work their immense holdings.
One Of these. Lord Deamere. owner
OF 100000 acres, told the Commins-
sion that the trouble was with large
reseryations-or reserves. as they
are locally called on which the ne
groes are allowed to live and work
for themselves. They are able 10
make as good living on these lands
as they care for. and probably a bet
Ter living than they could make BY
working for the whites. So Lord
Delamere said. 'If the policy was to
be continued that every native was to
be landholder of a sufficient area
OK which to establish himself, then
the question of obtaining a salts
factory labor supply would never be
settlat. He considered the soundest
pdtcy would be to curtail the re-
'Serves. And, although ii might take
few years before the effect on the
labor supply was apparent, the re-
suits would be permanent" Other
landowners were more outspoken,
and urged that the natives be forced
TO come out of the reserves and slave
for the whites. 1t is not probable
that such a recommendation will be
needed. Some one should tell these
whites that the solution of their prob
lem lies in making use of as much of
their land as they can work and let
Ting go of the rest of 1t.
The conditions which make the ne
groes of British East Agrica indie
pendent could be established else
where. Not by setting aside arbitrary
reservations, but by forcing holders
of valuable land to either use it them
selves or let others do so. II is for
this purpose that the Single Tax on |
land values is being urged and labor |
ers who wish to see the labor prob |
Nem settled right can do nothing more |
effective than to join in this move
ment.
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1915-07-23

explained that when they were
around the camp she intended let
ting them wear the trousers, like
overalls, without the skirts.
Bright wallpaper cretonnes, also
Oriental black-and-white patters are
used for these dresses, with collars
and cuffs of white Swiss or organdy.
In the less expensive models, linen
and chambray are substituted. II is
really surprising how charming the
effect is in these materials, with a
touch of white in the collar and cuffs.
Calico Follows the Craze of Cretonne.
In many instances. calico takes the
place of the cretonnes. which have
been so extremely favored for outing
apparel The very oldest of the old
time patterns are revived. The quaint
Inquired reds our great-great-grand-
mothers wore, the bright daffodil
yellows, the crisp blues are all there,
as light in weight and as cool as ever.
These qualities in the calico are an
advantage over the cretonnes. In
fact. some of the prettiest of the Gre
tonne patterns have been duplicated
in the calico that the effect may be
gained without the weight.
One of the old-time reds Is made
up in MILDLY style, with parasol to
match; and there is an old blue
crinoline frock with waist gathered
below yoke. skirt full and white
white crochet ball-buttons for trim
ming.
Simple as these dresses sound, they
are not what you would call mex
pensiye. unless. perchance. you make
them yourself. They are few and far
between, exclusive in the true sense
of the word. At the pretentious
homes up the Hudson. at the Casino
at Newport-these are the places
where the calicoes are found.
The Fad of Wollen Stockings
Knitting socks for soldiers" has
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1915-07-23
BLAMES SOCIAL EVIL
on ALL SOCIETY.
Everybody Particeps Crimminis, Says
Speaker AT Purity Congress-Mal-
adjusted Social Order to Blame.

San Francisco Dispatch, July 81.
For ages it has been established
custom to place Mary Magdalene in
the dock where the social evil was
on trial." said the Rev. John F,
Still, of Louisville. KY, to the In
ternational Purity Congress here to-
day. "but today we are beginning to
demand that she shall stand in the
dock no longer alone"
Although the evil is ancient, il was
being met, he said. with a new indig-
nation, new indictment. and a new
faith. Tomorrow. when the new day
is here, the dawn of which even now
embraces the horizon, we shall place
not alone Mary Magdalene, not alone
the male prostitute in the docket
no. We shall put on trial with them
as particeps criminins to the Magda-
lene's downfall-the judge, the jury,
the state, the school. industry, the
church, society. And the purpose
thereof shall be. not to condemn, but
to redeem.
I'VE must sit once more at the
feet of the Master of Men. He would
say to us as he said to the men on
that vice commission of Jerusalem:
Let her alone-Look to yourselves.
You are particeps eriminis.
1.-TWO thousand years ago He wrote
that Indictment in the sand, but the
Eternal preserved it, and today we
discover 1t chiseled in the granite of
our modern life.
The social evil is not a thing in
itself. II is but link in the chain,
forged in the fire of social mal-ad-
justment. 1t is but a part of the out
of-plumbness of our entire social or
der. Any attempt at adjustment
which does not embody a program
that reaches down to the very mud
stills of society must necessarily fail.
Men and women hold up their
hands in horror at the vast number
who plunge into the depts of prosti-
tuition annually: | say to you we
ought to marvel that there is so few!
II grant that modern dress or
rather undress. the dance hall. the
wine room and the joy ride facilitate
the plunge into the abyss. But say
to you that we are merely playing at
social reform when we agitate and
legislate against these, while we per-
init a social order which places a
premium on prostitution by forcing
practically every working girl to live
on the very brink OF the abyss, to go
unchallenged. l."
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1915-07-23
No. Six-Sixty-Six

This 10 prescription prepared especially
Tor MALARIA or CHILls 4 FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case. and
u taken then as tonic the Fever will not
return. II acts on the liver better than
Galomel and docs not eripe or sicken. 2sc
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1915-07-23
spies About.
Richmond Journal.

Richmond Journal.
There IS an increasing and unpleas-
ant suspicion that we have in this so
Tar peaceful country an elaborate sys-
TEN OF spying ana ireachery. The gov
eminent seized the wireless telegraph
station at Sayyille. evidently having
strong reason to believe that il had
been used to send secret messages
and un-neutral information TO Ger
many. disguised as harmless CONNER
cial or personal business. Three at
tempts have been mace TO destroy
one OF our dreadnoughts. now in
course of completion. Mr. Gompers,
head OF the American Federation of
Labor is authority for the direct
statement that secret agents have in
stigated strikes in factories engaged
in producing arms and ammunition.
Plots 10 secure fraudulent and forg
ed passports for foreigners going
abroad 10 join the Austrian and Ger
man service have been detected and
some of those involved have been
put on trial We have. further. the
case of the persons who undertook
10 manufacture false evidence that
The Lusitania was sent out armed
All this tends to rouse throughout
the country feeling of uneasy re-
sentiment As we have pointed out
heretofore. it is to the interest of all
foreign born or descended citizens in
tent on loyal observance of our laws
10 be active and foremost in the work
of detecting every spy or secret agent
of any foreign power who may be at
tempting to work among US, or to do !
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1915-07-23
Russian Aviator Turns Shrewd Trick

Petrograd Dispatch, July 81.
How two Russian ayiators made
their way through the German lines
disguised as peasant women Is told
in a dispatch from the Niemen front.
The two aviators had gone up to
reconnoitre a distant section of the
German lines. After scouting for sew
eral hours their engine failed and
they were compelled to descend be-
hind the German trenches in a small
Lithuanian village. The peasant WON
en- helped them TO destroy their aero
plane and gave them blouses, skirts
and handkerchiefs. Thes they put
on and carrying market baskets, they
trayersed the German lines for long
distance among the German-speakipg
peasants.
Reaching the Niemen. they dotted
their skirts and dived into the river.
This was observed, and the Germans.
realizing that they had been tricked,
started firing on them. However. they
safely reached the Russian bank and
rejoined their comrades. half-clad In
dripping blouses and kerehiefs.
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1915-07-23
The Hotel Register.
Exchange.

Exchange.
Some years ago was elerking in a
hotel in Western Kansas. On one of
the late trains we received our usual
quota of travelling men. and the first
one to register was an old fellow who
had been travelling for many years.
As he was writing his name on the
register. a bed-bug started to hot
foot" it across the page. The old
fellow raised his pen from the page
and said Gentlemen. have been
travelling for number of years.
have stopped at great many hotels
in which | have found bed-bugs. but
this is the first time | have had them
come to look to see what room | was
assigned to-"