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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-01-21
NOTICE TO
ESTATE

THE ESTATE In the Chancary
No. 1854 Of Court Of Noxubee
Jesse ElizaEvans. Deceased County. Miss.
Letters testamentary on said estate having been
on the 10 day Of January. 1915. granted TO the un-
dersigned by Jno. A. Tyson. chancery clerk Of
said county Of Noxubee.
All persons having claims against said estate
are required to have . probated and register
ed by said clerk within one year from this date.
A failure for one year to probate and register
any claim will bar the same.
This 10 day Of January. 1916.
JNO. D. KEILIS,
Executor Of said estate.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-01-21
NOTICE.

Sealed bids are invited on Monday. February 7th
1916. at zoo O'Clock .. m. for the furnishing and
erecting Q wooden bridge across Running Water
Creek at Calhoun old mill bridge according to
plans and specifications now on file In chancery
clerks Office Of said county. Successful bidder to
furnish bond In penalty of bid. The board re-
serving the right to reject any or all bids. BY or
der of board Of supervisors. this January 7th.s.lsiS
JOHN A. TYSON, Clerk.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-01-21
Schedule Of Trains at Macon, Miss.

SOUTHBOUND
No. ! Express Daily ....... lis a. m.
Through to Mobile
No, 3 Express Daily .....,..l 80 p. m.
Through to Mobile
No. 5 Express Daily ,...... S ,p. m.
Through to Meridian
N0RTHBOUND
No. 2 Express Daily ....... 2:9L m.
Through to st. Louis
No. 4 Express Daily ....... AIT IN.
Through to st. Louis
No. 6 Express Daily $50. 1925 a, m.
Through to Union City
w. c. MCCULLAR, Agt,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-01-21
NOTICE

Sealed bids are invited on Monday. February
7 1916, at 2 .. m. for the furnishing Of supplies for
%convicts for month Of Feb. 1915 to be deliver
cd convict overseerer a. called for at Brooksvile,
Miss. Supplies to be furnished 10 heretofore.
BY order Of Board Of Supervisors. this Jan. 9Th.
1915 yNO.A TYSON. Chancsry Clerk
sBy W. O. BARNES. Jr. DC.
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COTTON RECEIPTS LOST

Compress cotton receipts Nos. 1854 and 10. l27.
made out to Josh Spann and No, 1881 to Cornelius
Spann. have been lost and duplicates applied Tor.
All parties are warned not to buy or trade for
same. E. E. DANTZI Err
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-01-21
NOTICE

The trustees Of the Salem Consolidated school
will receive bids on Saturday. Feb. 9Th. 1915, Z
o'clock at superintendent of education's office in
Macon for painting the teachers home AZ the
above mentioned school, S, W. ADAMS, w"
{. Z. LlNDLEY,
&, GUY, Trustees
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-01-21

NSt On streets of Macon Wednesday. Jan,
1v'' 10Th, Il leather hand bag containing purse
but no money, Several papers with writing on
them were IN the purse, Finder will please leave
AT Beacon office.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-01-21

Mare Taken lin On Mrs. s.. E. GLANDS
"auiS sum-" W place two miles southeast
of Macon. a chestnut mare. about Z years old.
star in face. shod all around. II not called for
will be estrayed. ]. W. EILAND,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-01-21
Our Greatest Offer
A YEARS READING FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY
MADE o YOU
MADE FOR YOUR CHILDREN

The Progressive Farmer has q regular
department for farm boys and girls, and .
serial story for both young and old, In
fact It Is 9 paper for every member Of the
family.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
BossWs PLACE IN THE HOME.

Prof. Fransden of the University of
 Nebraska proposes to celebrate the
 COW as the protector of the home. None will dispute the importance of her mission. Milk, butter and cheese
 are big on the list of staple items in
 mans dietary and afford the basis for
 many daipties to decorate a meal, a
 banquet or a feast. Perhaps the old cow will produce enough to provide for the family while father is away fight
 ing for his country; she may lift the mortgage and send the tax gatherer away with q new light in his eyes, and all her days make glad the hearts of mother and the little ones With Rover and Fuss and Dobbin she will form a quartet of guardian angels past whose vigilance no misfortune may reach the humble home. But this isn't necessary in Nebraska, where a little honey goes with the milk that flows. and where grapes similar to those brought in by the spies of Joshua may be had. The swine and the poTl- try yard are yet to be relied upon, and bacon and eggs will piece cut the milk menu so that the fodder of the folks at home may be slightly varied. Let us give the COW all her dues, but let us not overlook some of the other important contributors to the pros
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
ChaS. E. Potter to Erect House
Plans Completed for Residence Laurel Hill Road-August Bergman Will Erect House George Street-Tsuld Room at St. Andrews Church Have Addition

ern improvements will be installed in- cluding electric light and steam heat. Contractors J. c. and E. T. Naples have charge of the work.
 N. P. Beausoliel is erecting a frame veranda on his house at No. 183 Broad street. The veranda is x 20 feet.
 Chestnut Street Addition.
 The Rogers Laundry are making an addition to their present building on Chestnut street. It will be constructed of brick material while the present building which is made of wood.
 Bids Will Be Opened Friday.
 The bids are in for the ward build ing which will be erected at the state hospital south of the baseball field and facing on the Thames. They will be opened Friday. Architects Cud- worth and Thompson drew the plans.
 Will Award Contract.
 The awarding of the contract for the Adams bungalow which will be built at the head of Uncas street and Williams street will soon be made as the bids are in. ArChiteCts Cudworth and Thompson drew the plans.
 Additions at St. AnGrew's Church.
 The guild room of the St. Andrews church in GreeneYille will be renovated and additions will be made in the rear. The main room itself will be made larger and a new stage is to be built. The main addition will be IA feet by g feet and the stage 12 feet by 20 feet. Also kitchen 13 feet square is to be built. The interior of the room will be repainted and when all com Dlete it will be very attractive. Cud- worth and Thompson, the architects ere working on the plans.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
Attractive Driveways Attract Pros
 pective Purchasers.


 Many owners of farms are finding it wise to make their entrances at tractiVe. It influences the prospective purchaser as much as a clean, neat person does. In Farm and Preside, writer discusses driveways and gates He says:
 "AnOther consideration is the city buyer. My farm lane and gateway Q small farm remarked the other day, but am expecting to make it a profitable investment neVertheless.' He already had built two massive stone gate posts, setting the base of the posts in the ground. The stones were from the foundation of an old house lately moved, and required only a small amount of preparation. He showed me how he was going to line the driveway with an evergreen hedge A cement sidewalk was to be laid be- side it, and the roadway graded.
 " It is all work I can easily do in my spare time he explained, and this is why 1 am going to all the trouble In the first place 1t will make the farm attractive as long as I live here, and we shall all enjoy it. But here we are only about mile from the present city limits and some man will be looking for just such a place as this.
 He will be glad to pay extra for property which is as attractive and which has a prosp looking ap- preach. If I set shrubbery and a small hedge now, it will be well estab- lished by the time I am ready to sell and will save the purchaser several years of waiting"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
a I'D SHONT5 Cupper) q .ERaNK. HEDLETCLoWer)

Two of the most prominent men i'm the great transit strike in New HOrl7s city are pictured in the cut. Above is
 Theodore Shonts, president of the In5~ terborough Metropolitan company which operates the subway and eIevat5L ed lines and most of the surface lines5 in the cityf The lower picture is that of Frank HedIey, general manag-9 CT of the New York Railway com =4 pany, in direct charge of the surfacei lines in Manhattan borough. Oficials1 of the AmaIgamated Association off Street and Electric Railway EmplOyesA asserted that Messers Shonts and He'd F ley would receive the surprise OfH> their lives when reports were brOughtt to them of the boast of MT. Shontss and MT. HedIey that they had receiVed| z men woud remain loyal to the conn., pary. <
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
GERMAN NOTE ON LUsITANIA
 IS TO BE MADE PUBLIC Germany Has Granted Request of the United States for Publication.

Washington. Aug H-The United States has asked for and received per mission from Germany to publish as a formal document the last note ln the Lusitania case, which was sub mitted by Count NOn BeTnstOrf early six months ago. The state depart ment's intention to publish the com municatiOn is believed to indicate it's acceptance
 Acting Secretary Polk declined to- day to discuss the plans of the Unit ed States in regard to the Lusitania case, or to disclose when the dOCu- ment would be given out. The cOm- municatiOn, dated February 16 last,
 deals only with the principles inVOlT-
 ed. It does not mention the amount
 of indemnity Germany is to pay or
 how or when the amount will be agreed upon. It is simply recognizes
 the legability' promises to take par tial payment of the indemnity. gives assurances for the future and de clares that reprisals such as ruthless submarine operations must not be di-
 reCted at other enemy points.
 The German government is repre- scented as feeling that having signi- fled it's willingness to make repara-
 tion, the United States must make tht next move toward securing it.
 The communication when submit ted by Count Won BernstOrff was re. garded as being tentative, and the United States refrained from accept | ing it because of the declaration by the central powers of their intention to treat as warships armed merchanr ships of the allies. During the dis cussion of this declaration, and the l negotiations over the attacks upOT | the channel steamer Sussex and other vessels carrying American Cargoes, the communication which stands as Ger | many's formal reply to the last Amer 1 ican Lusitania note been unaCted up 1 on by the state department
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10

Plans are out for figures on the res- idenCe which Charles B, Potter will erect on the Laurel Hill road. The residence will be one and a half stories high 30 feet \ 40 feet. It will have eight rooms, four upstairs and four down with closets and pantry. The bath room is to be finished off in tile. The exterior will be shingled while the interior will be finished in hard wood with electric light, steam heat and other improvements. Cudworth and Thompson drew the plans.
 Will Erect an Addition.
 William T Browne is to erect a wooden addition to his house on Cliff street. It will be a single frame, x F feet, with two dormer windows on the roof which will be papered.
 New House for George Street.
 August Bergman has set plans for the erection of a cottage on George street of one and half stories high. The house will be 21x26 and made of wood material The foundation will be constructed of concrete The interior will be finished off with hardwood and will have modern improvements.
 To Ereit a Barn.
 Hyman ZieIier will erect at No. 57 Maple street a two story high frame barn. It will be made of wood and the dimensions called for a structure 20 25 feet
 Hedge Avenue Bungalow.
 Mrs. Mary L. Peck is erecting on Hedge avenue q bungalow 28 46 1-2 feet with shinEIed roof and sides The interior trim work will be cyprus and the floors will be hard wood. All mod
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
NEW LONDON.

The Eastern Bridge & Structural Co. will do the steel work, Murray & Maher the plumbing, the Hopson & Chapin Co. rhe heating, J. O. John son of Norwich the roofing. and the Johnson Marble Co. of Boston the marble work in connection with the erection of the addition to the build ing of the Savings Bank of New Lon don on Main street. J. 4. DoIan & Co. are the builders, and the plans have been described in previous issue.
 Two-Fanily House.
 p. R. White Is building an attractive house on Coleman street for Joseph Gagney. Peter TOOlin has the stone work, Daniels & Ryan the mason work and Murray x Maher the plumbing and heating. Other sub contracts will be let soon. The plans call for a frame house, 2TX47 feet, the flats hay ing six rooms and bath, fitted up with every convenience, including furnace heat.
 House cn Ocean Avenue.
 Marquardt Bros. are building an at tractive house on Ocean avenue for Mrs. Helen B. DeGraw. The plans. call for a frame house, containing nine rooms and bath, fitted up with every
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
MAKES $418.5o ON $50 INVEST.
 MENT

Farm and Preside relates the ex- perience of a young. man who, at IT, bought a mare for $30. The writer says:
 At seventeen I was the proud pos sessOr of $30. I bought a mare (Jess), good but old. Dad fed her for the use of her as a buggy horse.
 At twenty I married. Tn a couple of years we wanted to go into business for ourselves, and Dad sold the first colt a coming four-year-old for $125.
 "The second colt, when a four-year- old. got mixed up with a cyclone, which slammed him through three barbed-wire fences. He recovered, but only brought $46 when sold
 The third was a mare colt which I gave Dad. The fourth was a mare colt also; then twins colts, which died {: another mare colt; then old Jess died. sold the two mares at five and three years old for $247.5O for the two.'
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10

a ferry crossing. Take away the sow and our banks would close and the wheels of commerce cease.
 The pig is a quiet, inoffensive Christian sort of animal, symbolic to a greater extent of the peaceful virtues for which our nation is so conspicuous, than is the rowing, piraticaI eagle. The snout converting the soil is a symbol of animal, turning to good account every thing which comes his vny, and a far better representative of the American character than the rowing, robbing eagle.
 The hog is a condenser; he is a manufacturer of homs, hash and head cheese. lard, illuminating oils, hair brushes, glue, buttons, bacon, bristles, fertilizers, fats, knife handles, whistles, soaps. souse, side-meat, saddle covers and sausage. He is a mint and the yellow corn of our country is the bull lion he changes into golden coin"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10

secretary of the international commits tee of the Young Mems Christian AS sociation, who arrived here today o1 the Danish steamship Oscar II. iron Copenhagen. Dr. Mott left here il May for Russia and has visited thl prison camps of nearly all the coupt tries at war. r
 pr. Mott said that of the prisoners Germany has the greatest numbar approximately 1,750,OOO. Russia, witt about 1,5OO,OOO, comes next, then Aus
 tria with 100000, followed in orde, by France, Italy, Great Britain am Turkey. Russia's prisoners, he added are rapidly increasing, more than 40Oy 900 having been added to the camp since the beginning of the last Rus sian drive In six weeks, Dr. Mot added, 230,0OO passed through Kiev.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
BUILDING AND BUSINESS.
Large Increase in Real Estate Sales, But Building Not as Brisk as Last Year.

Another substantial increase is shown in the real estate sales for the current week Tn the cities of the state reported in The Commercial Record this week sales by warranty deed amounted to 44S as compared with 358 in the like week of last year, while loans on real estate totaled ST. 603,915. comparing with S1,379,394 a year ago.
 The eight new companies formed during the week have a total capital stock of S410.o00, while the 10 new companies in the first week of August in 1915 had total capitalization of
 During the current week six bank ruptcy petitions. with assets of SS,- 459 and liabilities of S26.377 have been filed in this state. This record com Dares with four petitions, having total assets of 1929 and liabilities of S11, 473 flied in the same week in 1915.
 Permits for new buildings issued this week in the cities of New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury. Stamford and New Britain, numbered 135, while tho cost of building con struction in the same cities amounted to S328.25O. In the same cities a year ago IA permits were issued for build ing construction amounting to $634,234.
 The largest contract awarded this week is for the new music school building in New Haven. which will cost S16O.O0O. Other new work con- tracted for during the current week includes residences in New Haven, Hartford. Bridgeport and Waterbury, convent addition in Derby public garage in Hartford, block of stores in Waterbury. and alterations to club house in New Haven which will cost s1OOOO
 Listed among the new projects of t57e week are Masonic Temple, brick apartment houses and residence work in Hartford. hollow tile garage in Nor walk. fi-eproof sChoolhOuse in New Britain. residences and several frame two three and eiX-far1iIy houses in Bridgeport business blocks and a four-family apartment building in New Haven, and a large amount of paving work in Greenwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
CONCERNING CERTAIN DOMESTIC
 AFFAIRS.

In passing through a remote hill district noted for it's run-d down farms. what was our delight to come upon a house that was nicely painted, with a beautifullykep lawn all about it, SIoping back to the barn. Who can prophecy what an influence for good this brave example of refinement may have upon the entire neighborhood in the years 10 come! UnquestionabIy it will awaken in many breasts a desire to go home and do likewise, and achievement is the offspring of desire
 The minute some folks see other folksT coming they jump up and say, On now we've got to have a time sweating and hurrying in the kitchen to get dinner for them, Isn't it aw- full? Not a thing in the house fit to put on the tablet" That's the straight road to lot of trouble. But if you just go right ahead and place before your guests a good, plain, simple meal, one you can get without much extra work, you will have a far better time and they will be much better satisfied if they are sensible folks, as most folks are.
 The ideal home is a place to live in. A place where the children love to come and bring their friends The ideal home knows not how to spell the word divorce" That word is not in the ideal homes dictionary. In the ideal home each is for all and all for each Loyalty is it's watchword. In such a home there are no sacrificed mothers, no neglected fathers, no ublv ducklings of children. Each member assumes his rightful share of all bur dens Cheerfully, deeming this service a privilege. The whole family is ready to Tend a hand" A great phi losOpher once said: Every creature is happy when he or she is using fully his or her powers;" ard in the ideal home this idea becomes a fact. or the home is far from being up to the mark.-Farrn Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10

and using about 10 pounds clean seed to the acre, writes G. A. Borlesch of Missouri in Farm and Home. l SOW it with a hand seeder. So as not to lose a crop I blow wheat or oats ground as soon as the crop is off, blowing it 10 to 12 inches deep. then level 1t with a harrow and dTa g and if any grass or weeds come up I cultivate the ground and kill them. make the seed bed loose on top by har- rowing just before sowing. Alfalfa will grow on any land that will grow good red clover.
 l have sown one way and cross sown the other way using five pounds each time and got @ good stand. After the seed was sown I double narrowed and never have failed to get a good stand. l generally have a good pasture in the fall and if weeds come up I harrow or pull them out. My young crops never have failed to stand the winter.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10

The hens in the laying contest at Stcrrs laid total of SIT eggs in the fortieth week. This is a gain of 195 oyer the previous weeks production and 800 better than for the correspond ing week last year. These gains are believed to be at least partly due to ! the fact that the hens for the past ten days have had nicer render garden grown Swiss Chard a s a supplementary green food.
 4 Pennsylvania pen of White Leg | horns owned by OakCrest Farms of Sou U-hamDtOn was first for the week with a yield of 57 eggs. 4. B. Halls nen of the same breed from Walling- ford, Conn. were a close second with 5G eggs. Albert T. Lenzen's White Plymouth Rocks of North AttlebOro,
 Mass were third with 5. Mrs. RoIlin $. WOOdruff's White LeghOrns from
 New Haven. Conn. and Merrythought
 Farms White Wyandottes from Co.,
 lumbia, Conn. tied with 4 eggs each
 and Francis F. LinCOln's pen of White Leghorns from Mt. Carmel. Conn were
 in fifth place with g eggs.
 It is, of course, interesting to note the best pens in the several classes and
 it is no small distinction to a breeder
 10 own the leading pen. On the other hand average yields perhaps tell the truest story of what may be reasonably expected from the several breeds. The subjoined table shows the number of birds in each class and their average individual egg yield at the close of the fortieth week of the contest:
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
THE ANcoNAs ARE WINNERS.

From the January, 1915, report of the Missouri Egg-Laying Contest, Noun tain Grove, Mo, certified to by c. T. Patterson, in charge of the experiment tai and extension work. we note that 100 pounds of feed produced 300 eggs when fed to Anconas; 26S when fed to Leghorns; 251, Wyandottes; 230, Crphingtons: 225, Campines; 2O3 Minorcas; POI, Rhode Island Reds; 1SS, Plymouth Rocks; 179, Langshans Furthermore, when all the eggs were weighed it showed that the Anconas laid the largest eggs of all the breeds tested. And the Anconas laid the largest per cent. of eggs during De- cenaber, January, February March April and May, when prices are the highest both for market and hatching The above report is from the sum- mary for the year, and gives averages not particular performances, of certain birds or pens.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
WHEN TO CUT FORAGE CROPS.

Farmers should harvest their forage crops at proper stage of maturity if best results are desired. Several fac tors must be taken into account. Ac- cOrding to Earle W. Gage, who writes on this subject in Farm and Home, the yield per acre, the proper curing of the fodder, and the feeding value of the cured material. all are essentials too often overlooked.
 The mixed crop, oats and peas. will improve in composition as it grows older and should be allowed to stand as long as the pea vines remain fairly erect In this stage of maturity the fesh-fOrming and fat-fOrming consti- uents in the fodder obtained will be very nearly the correct one for a we'll balanced ration for most animals.
 Field corn. miIlet, sorghum and kaf1r corn will decrease very rapidly in pro- tein content while heading out. The percentage of crude fiber also de- Creas scs. Both of these changes are due to the rapid accumulation of starch and sugars in the plant juices at that time, while there is an increase in the much desired nitrogen free extract. In order to obtain a fodder having as narrow a ratio of fesh-fOrming to fat forming elements as possible, the crop should be cut at as early a stage as it can be well cured.'
 For roughagc to be fed in connection with highly nitTOgenOuS foods, it may well be allowed to grow until seeds are formed. After that period, the stalks rapidly become woody and the propOr- tiCn of waste is greatly increased while the feeding value is decreased With cowpeas there is very slight diff ference in the feeding value at any stage.
 In determining the period best to cut these crops, wholesOmeness dfgesti- bility, and other factors must be taken into account whereas t1l pChpmiCa' composition has little to do with the