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The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-20
SOCIETY NOTES


Bayley, daughter of the Rev. A. ".
Bayley, 500 South Fifth street, to W.
A. Rhea will take place at II o'clock
Tuesday noon, December 26. The
ceremony will be performed by Mr..
Bayley, assisted by the Rev. c. c.
Grimes of the Methodist Church.
Miss Bayley received her education
in Columbia, being graduated from the
Columbia High School and attending
the University for three years. Mr..
Rhea was graduated from the College
of Agriculture of the University IN
1915, and received an A. M. degree
from Cornell University. He is now in
structor in dairying in the University
of West Virginia at Morgantown.
The wedding will be simple, only
the immediate friends and relatives of
the couple being present. Miss Louise
Babb will play the wedding march.
and Miss Helen Averitt will sing BE
cause Earnest Bayley of Clarinda,
Ia. and A. v. Bayley, Jr., of Cape
Girardeau, brothers of Miss Bayley,
will attend the wedding. Immediate
ly after the ceremony, the couple will
leave for Morgantown. No formal in
vitations have been sent out in Co
lumbia.
Invitations are being sent out an
nouncing December % as the date of
the wedding of Miss Katherine Price
to Roscoe F. Houston of Kansas City.
Mrs. E. L. Mitchell will give dance
at the Beta Theta Pi house next Tues
day night in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sidney Drew of New York City.
Mr.. and Mrs. ClarksOn Rollins OF
Grand Haven, Mich, will be the guests
of Miss Margaret Rollins for few
days during the Christmas holidays.
Ernest Mitchell will arrive tomor-
row from Watertown, Conn, where
he has been attending the Taft School
to spend the holidays with his moth
er, Mrs. E. l.. Mitchell.
The younger set of town boys will
give a dance next Monday night in
honor of Ernest Mitchell and Pierce
Niedermeyer.
Miss Jessie Cook of Jefferson City
will spend Christmas with her sister,
Mrs. Charles Digges.
The Dana Press Club will give
Christmas dance tonight. The chap
erons will be Mr.. and Mrs. John Mil
Ter and Mr.. and Mrs H. H. Kinyon.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority
held their annual Christmas tree last
night.
The out of town guests here for the
Sigma Chi dance tonight are, Miss Lo-
rena Accola of Boulder, Colo, Harold
l.. Smith and H. N. Hobart, of Law
renee, Kan.
Miss Accola and Miss Katherine
Mize will be dinner guests at the Pi
Beta Phi house tonight.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-20

Athletic Club of New York for meet
to be held there January "a. Simp-
son received his invitation week or
so ago. Although his entry has been
sent in, Simpson is not positive that
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-20
SIMPSON IN NEW YORK MEET

"BOb' viii Hurdle For fasteners In
Classic Carnival.
Bob Simpson, Missouri's track star,
has sent in his entry to the Melrose
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-20

Miss Accola and Miss Katherine
Mize will be dinner guests at the Pi
Beta Phi house tonight.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
Meeting of Club Members

The clnb members of the county held
their annual rally at the Agricultural
High School on Thursday, the twenty
fourth of August. Although there
we're a good number OF boys and girls
of each club in attendance. large per
cent of our membership were not on
hand. The distance and in many cases
lack of way to get there prevented
those who wished to 60. The members
themselves did not enjoy the day more
nor find it more profitable than did the
parents who came to hear the agents
talk and demonstrate their work.
At the morning session, Mr.. P. H.
Sanders, state agent for pig club work,
talked to the boys in very interest
ing manner along the line of pig club
work and also corn club work. He ex-
pressed himself as being very much
gratified with the results the boys were
getting, gave them definite instruc-
tions as to the method of most success
fully continuing the contest. He
found that there are boys and girls in
the club who have some of the very
best of registered hogs; and that they
h.ye been feeding and caring for them
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
Estimates of Cost of Draining
N0xubee

The drainage district now has 36, 0OC
acres; of these about $4,000 will re-
main after the survey.
wish to submit this calculation fol
your consideration, and / believe that
it is the very maximum cost, and that
when the work is done the cost and
the tax will be far less than the calcu-
lation here made. But in going into
any matter we should look at it with
the possible maximum cost before US.
make my calculations on ditch 81
ieet wide at the top, 40 feet wide at
the bottom, 9 feet deep, and the dirt
piles 10 feet from the edge of the
ditch, making levy on each side
feet high.
Now that will give q ditch 72 feet
wide at the top and 40 feet wide at the
bottom and 13 feet deep. This is
large average and you will readily see
that the ditch required will not reach
this average. But we must make
ditch big enough or we have wasted
our money. Now the dug part of this
ditch will be the same as if it was
a3 wards deep and 16 yards wide, or AZ
ar yards for each running yard
~-e are i7eo yards in : mile, Nj
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

Will Robbins stated on an enterprise
of this magnitude we could expect a
bid of cents yard including clearing
the right of way. In that way we find
one yard. that is running yard, will
cost 81 SS. one mile $4,000; length of
ditch including laterals Qaterals 8
miles,, 35 miles; cost of ditch averag-
ing 80 feet at top, 40 at bottom, 16
feet deep. SITS, 900; benefited drainage
area, Is, 900 acres; cost of ditch per
acre benefited, $500; allowing s12, 500
for the other expenses, cost per acre.
$3.50; the interest will each year be 45
cents, at the end of the time the in
terest will be little less than cents.
If we make an assessment of so cents
an acre for years and rs cents an
acre for fifteen years, it will pay prin-
cipal end interest. If we have 80 year
bonds this will be greatly reduced but
run for a longer time. In this way
we can reclaim 25, 900 acres Of the very
finest type of soil. and if our lands en-
hance as they have done in other dis
tricts the land will be worth from $50
to $3.50 an acre.
l have tried to figure the very maxi
mum. / believe that when the work is
complete we will find that it can be
paid for in 20 years at cost of 60
cents an acre. CHARLES STRONG,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
Observation-Disclosures Observation-Disclosures

at small cost but showing remark
able gains.
The year has not been very favorable
to the corn club boys, hut they too
show that they are raising better corn
than their fathers on the same kind of
land. The boys who have stuck to the
contest this year are the ones who will
be worth while in the future; iu makes
one good to see boy enthusiastic
over what he has been able to do in
spite of the adverse seasons.
Miss Saidee Holiday of the A. & M.
and Mrs. Annette Tyndall. county
home economics agent, presented the
work for the tomato club girls. A
very interesting demonstration in the
actual canning of tomatoes was given
by these ladies'. Mrs. Tyndall ought
not to have airy trouble in enrolling at
least hundred girls in this club next
year. She is expecting the girls who
have been faithful this year to be the
leaders in the work next season; and
some of them have not only been faith
ful but have gotten very satisfactory
yields.
Now, | am going to announce the
closing day of the contests as the l4th
Of October. This will be Saturday,
when almost every boy in the county
can come to Macon. The teachers of
the county will be here to greet the
boys ard girls who are in the clubs,
and to show them that they are inter-
ested in them. Some of the boys and
girls have possibly not been able to
make very good showing with their
pig or their corn patch or their toma-
toes; but l want to urge every one of
you to be sure to come and make your
report on closing day. Every one can
not be winner, every year some for
different causes for which they are not
responsible will make almost a COM
plete failure. That does not make any
difference; make your report and show
that you have been trying. The state
agents are especially anxious that all
members make some kind of a report.
/ will be writing you in a few days
about this exhibit day-it is exhibit
day because every boy and girl is
asked 70 bring h!s pig, or some Of h!;
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
The Chautauqua Folks
The Opening Day Attractions
ELLSWORTH PLUMSTEAD

A little girl described this man
as the fellow who is lots of
folks" 1t was so apt that it is
used here to introduce Mr.. Plum
stead as a man capable vf delin-
eating character. When he
leaves the platform one feels
that he has been in the presence
of a group of people all different,
but each perfectly represented
by the many-sided genius of
Plumstead. He is from Detroit,
Mich. and has been on the plat
form for many years always in
demand and always satisfactory.
In the afternoon he gives some
humorous sketches of people
we have either met or read
about, such as the boy and the
buckwheat cakes" "The Eng
lish Dude" and 'the fellow and
the girl who compels her sweet
heart to wait while she puts up
her hair" At night his pro-
gram is given in costume when
he tells about Uncle Ezra singing
bass in the church choir. He
gives a thrilling representation
of J. T. Trowbridge THE Vaga-
bond," or describes the worn
out actor on Broadway and his
observations on his triumphs in
the past. His sketches of the
silly boy are humorous in the
extreme. In fact, Mr.. Plum
stead can't help being funny.
He looks on the bright side of
life, and leaves his audience in a
happy mood. In addition to this
gift, he is an artist in his por-
trayal of human eccentricities,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

large fund Of wit and humor all
combine to give him the power
to carry his hearers to lofty
heights Of thought without los
ing at any time their interest
and attention. AS an orator and
lecturer his services have been
in demand all over this
country. AS a clergyman
he has been pastor of tho
largest church in his conferences.
In Hitting the Funny Bone" he
presents in humorous way the
brighter side of life through .
study of types of humanity
picked from every walk Of life.
1t is a message Of strength
clothed in a rich coating of rare
humor. 1t is filed with forcsf,d
truths lit ty flashes of wit, aH1
inspiration to better living aHs
better thinking. DR.. Cornwall
is a man well worth knowing.
Don't let him leave town witt.
out getting acquainted with ysu.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
Information Wanted.

Editor of The Beacon
While living in Cleveland, Ohio, some
years ago, my son, while coming home
from school one day, saw an old Irish wo.
man looking down the slot OF cable car.
He asked If he could help her, thinking
that probably she had lost something.
She answered that it was information she
was after.
Now |, also, would like some informa.
tion.
Yesterday was notified teat had to
send all my men and teams to the road, or
else had the alternative of paying $40 fer
four mules and four hands. In the spring
had to send all the mule and hands to
the cross roads. pay now almost double
taxes for good roads, so why should |
have to work them the same as had to
before the extra taxes. One cross road
the county works and the other side the
farmers have to work. Why is it that
one side does not work either road, and
the other side both roads.
. | ana S5iady and Go moi care about wo4
men holding Office or voting, but if | did
think | would try to put one in that
would have some consideration for anoth-
er woman. have large dairy-milk
fifty cows. Mr.. johnson has but one hand
that he could milk with-the other was
badly hurt some years ago, and besides is
in poor health. There is only my daugh-
ter and myself beside. What time could
we Get through, if at all, milking fifty
cows, feeding fortysix calves, separating
all that milk and feeding mules and horses.
| wish that some of those gentlemen who
are responsible for taking every hand off
the place would come and try it. Noxu-
bee county is advocating that farmers 90
in the dairy business-for my part would
not advise any one to 60 in the dairy bus
mess, knowing that every hand can be
taken, when the commissioners, or who
ever has the attending to the roads, say
so, or to be told that $40 must be paid,
which had to do or have about 80 tons
of hay in the field for a week, besides
having to do all the rest Of the work our
selves. Labor is scarce at this time of
year and with all my teams on the road
could not work in hay and that is about
all the crop there is to pay the taxes in
the fall. Why could not these roads have
been worked before, and not wait until
people are filling their silas, making hay
and getting in their crops.
have owned land in Noxubee county
for thirty years, and have lived here for
eighteen years and expect to end my
days here, but think that the gentlemen
who set in town and order every hand
and team on the road from the dairy farm
Of fifty cows, will have to make other
arrangement before dairying is success
in Noxubee county. II only part of
the hands and part Of the teams were
takea at time it would not be so bad.
Now am like the old Irish woman,
would like some information as to why
the labor question is so badly arranged
and why the labor question is so badly
arranged and why we have to do so much
work on the road.
(MRS.) NJ. A. JOHNSON.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
FROM THE PEOPLE
Anent the Grand Jury Report


Editor Beacon:
Having seen in last week s
Beacon the report of the Grand
Jury, and that the foreman of
said Grand Jury saw fit to take a
fling at us three citizens of this
neighborhood, for certain cIiti.
cisms that we made as to the
hasty adjournment of said body
at the last term of court. Which
criticisms were just and well
founded; for the reason that we
knew of some very material wit.
nesses as to the cattle stealing in
our neighborhood had never been
summoned before the Grand Jury.
And list of names was handed
to all of the Grand Jurors by Mil.
ton Love and another list was
handed to another member of the
body by W. A. Williams on Tues,
day a. m. and some of these par
ties were never before the Grand
Jury until it was reconvened -.
And we hold for this reason the
Grand Jury ought to have been
criticized and recalled. And as
for the statement that we, failed
to give the same information on
the first day of the Grand Jury's
session as we did after it was re.
called. Our oaths specified that
we would give true answers to all
questions propounded to us, and
we did so in all particulars and as
for the statement that the three
citizens Of this neighborhood
failed at either session of the
last Grand Jury to answer all
questions propounded to them
and withheld any information
that was sought by said Grand
Jury, as a matter of hearsay, the
statement we say is unjust, un-
fair, unwarranted and absolutely
untrue in its entirety, and the
County Attorney and the Fore
man of the Grand Jury know it to
be so. We observed our oaths to
the letter of the law in all particu,
lars and another reason all three
Of us asked fer the recall OF the
Grand Jury was that we had come
into possession of some more in,
formation as to the cattle stealing
in our neighborhood which infor-
nation we didn't have on Monday
or Tuesday a. m.
Our consciences are clear in this
matter and we are willing to be
judged by our fellowmen and by
our God as to the rectitude Of our
conduct in this matter. And we
do think that the filings and the
innuendoes that the Foreman of
the Grand Jury threw at us, was,
to say the least, uncalled for and
entirely without precedent as far
as I know in Noxubee county,
where two of us were born and
raised and the other has resided
for more than twenty eight years.
This is the first time our charact-
ers for truthfulness has ever been
called into question.
This is written 50 that the peo-
pie of the county may know that
we did our whole duty as we saw
it and we resent the slur cast on
us and our good names by the
Foreman of the Grand Jury and
we want the blame, if there is any
for the hasty adjournment and re.
call of the Grand Jury to be
placed just where it rightfully be-
longs, tor we are sure that we are
blameless.
w. A. WILLIAMS,
(Signed) M. O'BYRNE,
Nr ID
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
THE MYSTERIOUS MILBURNS
Magicians

Gustav Milburn is a magician
and his charming wife is his
capable assistant. Together
they make an attractive couple,
who delight their children and
entertain their parents. Among
his magical novelties are tricks
which puzzle the mind and cheer
the heart. What he says is oft
en- quite as interesting as what
he does. DeXterity, suggestion,
mystery and humor make up a
program with an irresistible
fascination. Slate writing, turn
ing water into wine, and wine
into water, the escape from the
Russian convict chain, a phe-
nomenal use of billiard balls,
and other tricks which nobody
explains comprise program
with breathless interest from
start to finish. Mrs. MiIburn is
a charming lady and adds inter
est to the entertainment. If
you wish to enjoy magician
who has taken up magic with
intelligent earnestn IS and who
ranks among the best, don't fail
to see MilbQrn, magician and
entertainer.
DIR. JOHN G. CORNWELL
Chautauqua Director
There is a good old saying
that a man is known by the
company he keeps and if our
readers judge the chautauqua
on that basis AID measure it by
the ch2utauqua director who is
to be with US for the entire
three days, it will be given a
very high mark. DR.. Cornwell
is known as tie preacher Of
health, happiness and efficiency
and is splendidly equipped in
every way to successfully carry
out his mission of bettering
body, mind and soul. Well edu.
Gated, holder Of five university
degrees, big in body and brain.
a strong personality, an elo-
quent and impressive delivery, a
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

corn, or some specimens of canned
tomatoes-but you will be told exactly
what to bring in the letter you will re-
ceive from me.
JOHN G. CHAND' Err,
County Superintendent.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
Second Primary for Supreme
Judgs
Mysterious

From the Washington Star
On, Gasoline. On, Gasoline!
How oft you toy with fate!
Sometimes you plug along serene,
Sometimes you conhagrate.
We know not, when you hit the rssa
What's going to befall,
Too violently you explode,
Or don't explode at all.
We watch you with weary frown
And breathe an anxious sigh,
Your price goes up; your price GO
down,
We know not how or why,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-02-18

temples WIN Nt' INI' lla'N "H HI'' N''
once struck HIM repeating
Never
In this moment sh. uo longer had amy
doubts Sh. lowed him mHdl} with Hh
Intensity that uhutrutod everything elise
Aud now lll thl. must be- strangIrd. I".
% her -trang" srl-lomcd morality such .
love was unthnkahIc The only man .
who had known how to take her TO f,c .
through her acting. to reach out roughly /
brutan,. uk, a master this man hr- /
longrd TO another woman was barred /
60 hrt forever
What have done Why vh, should /
h' punished this way%'
suddenly she sctzcd CHAIR, and drag
EuE a. 20 the side window, fnt down.
hrr chin iu her hands. starng through
the Eht-s ut the sheer blankets OF brick
onl, % few feet away. 1t was hcEnn'uE
10 hr dusk she tclt herself caught rhr
yielded cycrythlug Tho thought ol pain
w1s ga ubhurrcnt TO her nature she had
always rushed $50 tonrlully from the con
mct of sunuug. that now when she
/ was caught without escape. cr,NihluE
|crumhed In this ahic.l moment H h'r
/ body yielded to the pcradinE process "i
/ the dusk. she turned back over the 'n.
tangled prosrcss of her NE, convinced
that she was paying fcnriully I'm r"-
.triDuion Tor sclnshurss and wickodnc-s
Life which uHrs uut of th" past IN
lla naked proportions only when We
dumbIy seek "a reason for tine calamity
that o,,rwhclms us. came thus 'o her as
"a conviction what had happcn4i must
hr nrr punishment
She -nw her progress rs though she
were LOOKING down at great revolving
The sun., 1916-12-17

Mrs. c. Linn Sellers Young Kitch. reserve.
winners. Bltches-First. Mrs. Frank r.
H EIssssrs F ,nr Red Clover; Miss +. O.
Easiish To- spaniels tBiack and Tan).
winners. Bitehes-First. Grsenacre Ken
nels' Champion Ariadne: Thomas r. Wal
Ises,s Rocky Top Aston More Popped. re-
English Toy Spaniels (Oranre and Whitley.
Winners. Bitchrs-FIrst. Greenacre Ken
ne's. Greenacr- judy. Mrs. Edwin Keeling
Rocky Top Myids- reserve.
English Toy span,eis (Tri-Coior).
Winners, Doss-Fl-st. Mrs. Edwin Keel
ins's Marmion: Grcenacrc Kennels Cham
Winners. Pitches--First Grecnac-s Ken
nsls' Champion wharfedple Moonlight.
Enslish Toy ~spanieis tRcd RUBY.
Winners. ~Dogs-First. Greenacre Ken
W.: .MesliN's Tango Bobby. reserve.
winners. Bitchcs-First Gre.nacre Ken.
nels' Greenacre wetona; Mrs. Joseph HiS.
sins's RUBY. reserve.
J~spanesc Spaniels.
Winners. pcgs-ri-st. Grecnacre Ken.
nels Champion omiJi. Ethel May Ways
Nippon. reserve.
nell. M'" raji; E n,ioS'; Nay Ways G'' cio Clio Gam ssn,
reserve.
Winners. DoEs-First. Mrs. N. @. snow'e
Chuh Chang OF Alderbourne: Mrs. II. @.
sno VS. HauS OF Glebslands. reserve.
Winners. Bitches-First. Arden Kennels
Pins. Pong OF Arden: Mrs. NJ. q. SHOWS
Glenlyon Sing, reserve.
Toy Poodles.
winners. Doss-F!rst. Marie A. snows
Buddy Boy.
Winners. Bitches-First. Mr.. and Mrs. A.
3, Ssrmishssi, MIS-. Cinderella o the
serve.
Yorkshire Terrier.
Winners. D~ogs-First, Ruth X. Mac.
Brides Bobbie; John r. Bassetts Ben
Myny. Jr.. reserve.
Maltese Terriers.
winners, DoGs--First. Mrs. II. 8. Hender-
sons Studebaker snow King: Mrs. NJ. II.
Aenderson's Studebaker Victor, reserve.
winners. Bitches-Flrst. Mrs. J. q. Ross
mans Putsee Girl: Miss Anna Leary's Folly
Girl. reserve.
Toy Black and Ten Teeriers.
winners. Dogs and Bltches-Firs,. james
H. Keys Sunny Jim.
(irl60ns tBrussels).
Winners, D~ogs-First. Mrs. c. II. Clapp's
shoreham Brookviile Binks: Mrs. John
Newton's Champion Rocky Top Patzic. re-
serve.
Winners. Bi,ches-Firs,. Mrs. Edward n.
Loomiss copthorne Joan: Mrs. c. II.
Chaps Shoreham Bright Eyes. reserve.
chihuahua.
Winners. Dogs and B!tches-First Mrs.
John McLean's Marta: Mrs. John McLean's
Crhtobel, reserve.