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The Prescott daily news., 1916-12-20
Holiday Season Plants.

Among the red berried plants the most beautiful of all are the holly trees and aucubas from Holland; shapely ardisias, brilliant fruited Christmas peppers, the old time favor ite Jerusalem cherry trees, otaheite orange, pondercsa lemon trees, with their larger fruits of dark and light yellow, and those pretty little trailing plants, the partridge berries, grown iu glass berry bowls, raised in America.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-12-20

Cell me wbat is tbts fnuumerable tbTong Singing in tbe beavcns loud angcltc scn3
 Cbcse are they wbo with swft and sbtntng feet from round about tb tbrone cd be ord of Light Cb wbo tbse tbat bastcn beneath tbe starry skV 4s if wb joyful tdfrgs bat through the woTd sball fy Cbe faitbfu ebepberds tbesc wbo greatly afeaTed OIbcn as tbey watched ther GocRs by ntgbt tbe b1a
 bost appeared.
 Nbo are tbese tbat follow tbe bills of ntsbt star tba westward burriss along tbe fields of lgbt7 Cbree from tbe cast wbo mYrh and treasure e Co lay tbem tbe feet of btm. tbctr Lord and Cbss
 King.
 Ubat babe born ts tbts tbat in manager cries2 Near on Der bed of pain bts bappy motber lies
 Ob see Cbe sbaken wttb wb and heavenly wincs Cbs Lord of all tbe eartb bts is tbe King of hing Cell me- bow may join in tbis bov feast uitb all tbe kneelins world, and of all the least fear fattbfu beart but brtns what most is meet Br;ng alone, true love alone and laY n al hta feet
The Prescott daily news., 1916-12-20
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The Yuletide Cynic.

,E Thank heaven, 1t isn't only lA the aristocrat who can have
 E family tree at Christmas! GA Be Christmas white or Christ w mas green. " It's all the same to you \ VI If Christmas finds you all serene " And doesn't make you blue. ! ye If doesn't take a magician " to transform small boy into ! @ a turkey gobbler. " When Santa Claus comes } V down the chimney he chases " many man up the spout. \
 Y It's the vanity of the sex 'y that prompts the female tur- v key to wonder how she is go-
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The Prescott daily news., 1916-12-20

Every bedroom needs some sort of receptacle to hold anything that is to be disposed of temporarily. Here are two bags conveniently open, inviting to an orderly disposition of small ar ticles. Either of them will serve the purpose of n waste basket and one of them-the bag at the bottom of the picture--is designed especially for a mans room. They are both very easy to make.
 At the top, bag, which may be of silk or cretonne, is made by gath ering a square of the goods along the hem. A brass ring is sewed to the bag (formed by the gathering) at each corner. This bag is supported by a standard made of four rods of wood fastened by screws to small circu- lar block of wood. The screws make the rods movable, so that the bag may be folded up and made to occupy q small space when not in use.
 The bag at the bottom of the pie ture is also made of a square. It is of printed Japanese cotton, lined with plain silkalene. When the two materi- a1s have been sewed together the four points of the square are turned over the smaller of two oval embroidery hoops, and the second hoop is placed over 1t. A Japanese tassel, on a silk cord, is placed at each side. The rords, caught between the hoops, form the hangers by which the bag is sus- pended from hook or from any con- venient support. Japanese prints come in designs of strong. bold colorings. and are artistic and attractive.
 Just how attractive n desk set may be whea 1t is made of heavy, delft blue paper and ornamented with wbite flowers and black foliage, may be gath cred from the picture above.
 An oblong the size of an ordinary desk blotter Is provided with two pockets extending across each end. They are fastened to it by means of black passepartout binding which ex- tends along all sides of the oblong. Two smaller oblongS are cut from the heavy blue paper, to cover an address book and two white blotters. Narrow blue satin ribbon is used for fastening the leaves of the address book to it's cover. and the two blotters to their cover. Then the covers are lettered.
 The flowers and foliage are cut from printed paper napkins and pasted down. They look exactly like stencil painting. This is convenient ana pretty set, which costs next to nothing to make.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-12-20
Some Christmas
 Celebrations

V F a northern
 child were to
 visit one of our southern states on Christmas day he would wonder if he had not in some way got his calen- dar twisted and if
The Prescott daily news., 1916-12-20
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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-07-06

RANKIN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL
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Continued from page y
We advise parents not to let their children go home
or on other visits too Often frequent visits of this
kind interferes with their school work We encourage
right living and high moral tone at all times Each
student on entering is required to sign the following
pledge:
81 do promise on honor, that while am a student
of the Rankin County Agricultural High School, not tc
have in my possession any kind of fire playing
cards. nor to drink bring the campus or in the
school, any form of intoxicating drink and not to leave
school limits without permission from the proper
authority"
Unless students are willing to take the above
pledge in good faith, they are requested to remain
away for any refusing to keep the pledge will be
subject to dismissal from school,
EXPENSES.
Tuition will be absolutely free to boys and girls of
Rankin County, A small fee of two dollars ($200) per
month will be charged students from other countess
martrculation fee Of three dollars $500 will be
charged all Students This goes to pay for fuel lights
crayon, sweeping of school building, etc. In no case
will this be refunded the most of it is expended at
the beginning of the session A fee Of one dollar
(S100 is charged for all girls for materials used in
Domestic Science work. Those students who board in
the dornitory will be charged a breakage fee of two
dollars $780, which goes to cover breakage, ETC. 1t
nothing is charged to them this fee will be refunded
at the end of the session.
The only other expense to the pupil will be for
books board and laundry Board in the dormtory
shall be given at actual cost, which, during the last
session ranged from five to five and half dollars
per month"; The total cost Of board for the whole ses-
sion was only thiry-nine dollars and seyenty-flve
cents (S3975 per student We hope to make the cost
of board for the next session about the same as last
We do not believe it will be over six dollars (S6OO)
any month The books will cost about six dollars
(S6O0) and laundry about seven or eight dollars for
the session.
Deserving students will be given work whenever
possible, and they pay all or part Of their actual
expenses in this way. The work will be divided as
equally as possible among the pupils needing it.
Board must be paid one month in advance. On enter
ing school six dollars $4,000 must be deposited by
each boarding pupil for the first months board II at
any time pupil has to stop school, the money paid IN
advance will be refunded Parents are requested to see
that their boy girls board is paid monthly
Rooms in the dormitory are free to all Students
The rooms are furnished with bed, wash stand bowl
and pitcher dresser, table, chairs, broom, ETC. The
students will be required to furnish pillow, bed cloth
mo towels etc
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-07-06
FIRE TORNADO
GUARANTY
IL r II G e
BARNES & FOX, Agents
- 77-777'7lll''7''--7l-lll7
NOTICE.

In re Beat No. 3. Good Roads
District. Be it ordered that the
Clerk advertise for offers to sell
to Beat No. 3, One Pair Mules,
not under 5 nor over s years old,
sound and to weigh net less than
1000 pounds each, cffers to be
received until IL o'clock nonn CT
the first Monday of August 1916.
being the 7th day, the right be-
ing reserved by The Beard TO re-
ject any and all bids CT Gffels.
under Chapter 257 Laws of 1912.
j. A. Robinson, Clerk.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-07-06
STUDENT LABOR.

Student labor is of the most important features
Of our agricultural high school, One of the great pur
poses of the county agricultural high school in Misss
sippi is to teach the boys and girls Of the State the
necessity for and the dignity of honest manual labor
Therefore, in conformity with a law passed by the
recent Legislature require Of all Students both boys
and girls ten hours practical work week For part
Of this practical work local students will be given
credit for work done at home properly certified to by
parents or guardian in written statement The boys
will be required to do at least five hours of this work
on the school farm Boarding girls will be given credit
for room cleaning dining room work, class work in
Domestic Science, etc. Boys in the dormitory will be
required to work the full ten hours under the super
vision of the agriculturast. However, they will be
given credit for work in the Manual Training room,
shop work and extension work. Each boy in the
dormory, and every local boy, who does the full ten
hours under the agriculturaIis will be paid twenty
five cents per week Thus, it will be seen that every
boy in the dormitory will be credited his board
dollar per month"; if he does other work than the
work required
In addition to this required work, boys will be
given work the farm and around the buildings, for
which they will receive ten cents an hour. The
trustees have set aside fund known as the sef-hep
fund.- to be worked out by deserving students their
actual expenses while in school The work will be
divided among those needing it. equally as possible
and no student Will De allowed 10 WOfk
more than his actual expenses for that month. An
energetic boy greatly reduce his expenses by
working few hours each week. In fact we have had
some boys for the past two sessions who paid their
board in full by their labor No student will be
given this work who does not actually need 1t to help
pay expenses. Any student who persists in breaking
rules will not be given work If boy has job and
he is careless about the school regulations the work
will be taken from him and given to a deserving boy.
RELIGIOUS EXERCISES.
Chapel exercises, consisting of scripture reading
song and prayer held every morning at the begin
ming of the days work. There is a well organized
Sunday school at Johns which meets every Sunday
afternoon, with preaching twice month. The stu
dents are encouraged to attend Sunday School and
preaching services
ORGANIZATIONS.
Two literary societies have been organized These
societies agencies for great good they help the
boys and girls to become accustomed to speak before
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-07-06
RELIGIOUS EXERCISES.
ORGANIZATIONS.

Two literary societies have been organized These
societies agencies for great good they help the
boys and girls to become accustomed to speak before
an audience without embarrassment and to use the
English language correctly. These societies have
charge of chapel exercises each Friday, alternating
Other organizations are the various athletic teams.
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The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
Says England Needs Repentance.

Canon Newbolt, preaching At st.
Pauls cathedral, said there was no
good Disgusting the fact that England
rs "A nation needed both repentance
and hope "1hose of Us behind the
scenes in the moral life of the nation. .
he added, "know that in many ways
things are as bad rs ever they can
be. and there are some things so bad
that they cannot be alluded to with
propriety from this pulpit"
In plea for a strong public opinion
against evil, Canon Newbolt pointed
ont that if there were no demand
there would be no supply. If youth
would set its face against immodest
post cards and other evils. the supply
would cease. Much could be done by
a few resolute men in purifying the
atmosphere. Let us" he urged. make
sin disreputable Let us make it
harder for men to do wrong than to do
right. London Times.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
cannnt Efnd Snld ers.

Eleven men Who enlisted in the Ar
kansas National Guard or who We're
members ON June 20 and were dis
charged before the guard was muster
ed in for physical disability cannot Be
located to be paid off by the adiutant
generals Office. United States treas
urer's checks for the amount due each
man, varying from 81 to SIG, we're
mailed to the men at the addresses
given at the time of their discharge
Eleven Of the letters with checks
We're returned because they could not
be delivered Those wn ocould not
be delivered Those who could not
Watson. William D. Graves. James
O. Swain. Ed l. Bailey, Hilton Rob
inson. Patrick F1annery and Charles
4. Woods of Fort Smith: Elmer Free
man eff Bebee. Charles E. Manners Of
TeXarkana, Tex, and Aubrey J. Bon
ner Of Heber Springs. The men will
be paid as soon as located
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
Confederate Home Rulina

A rule of the Board of Control OF
the State Charitable Institutions pro
viding that inmates of the Confeder-
ate Home who leave the institution
so as TO become eligible 10 draw a
Confederate pension from the state
cannot re-enter the home within
year, was upheld in an opinion given
by Attorney General Wallace Davis,
in answer to an inquiry from c. p
Newton, upeFintendent of the home
Mr.. Davis also held that the board
and the superintendent had authority
to make similar rules. In the same
opinion Mr.. Davis held that Confed-
crate veteran or his wife or widow
of q veteran. who draws a pension
from the state, can not enter the Cen
federate Home until the first day of
the year following the one in which
the pension was drawn Under this
ruling persons who drew pensions
this month cannot enter the home be-
fore January l, 49,
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
Governor Pardons.

Governor Hays pardoned Ollie NJ.
Paul OF Mississippi county. sentenced
in April. 1916. to 10 years for yelun-
tary maAslaughter
Governor Hays pardoned W. i.
Benningfeld of Lawrence county, sem
fenced in October, 1912, to 20 years
for second degree murder.
Governor Hays issued a proclama.
ton relieving X. c. Snyder of Wash
ington county of paying a fine of 500
for assault with deadly weapon.
Snyder was convicted June IS.
Governor Hays issued pardons re-
Heving George Hardy or Texarkana
of paying a fine of 500 for assault
and battery. and w B. Blaloek OF
Greene county of paying a 500 fine
fer breach of the peace.
Jesse Whitley. who two years ago
shot and killed Wesley Mum. his
rival in love affair. near Des Arc
was among four men pardoned by
Governor Hays. Whitley had served
less than two years of a 21-year sen
tence.
Pat Hicks of Clay county, sentenced
in June. 1914. to 10 years for arson
Jack Dempsey of Sebastian county
sentenced only 10 days ago to foul
years for burglary.
Fred Warren of Johnson county
sentenced in May to two years fol
forgery.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
How He Saved the Situation.

1t Is with tremendous seriousness OF
mind that the roolde officers do things.
They We're preparing to leave for the
Mexican border and as the rookie
corporal marched his men UP to the
truck he felt bafIled. He could recall
no order in the Infantry Drill Regu-
lations for getting eight men aboard
Il big gray truck in Il military way.
They We're already in squad forma-
ton. 50 he eogitated that he couldn't
very we'll order them to Fall IN as
they were already all in; then Oh see
ond Thought he imagined that Fall in"
WAS Just the word, if he Only marched
them up te the truck and said If then
There would be nothing for them To
do but fail into the truck. As they
reached the truck came the order from
the rookie corporal. Fall in = Being.
as they thought. already completely
fallen in. the men were nanniHssed as
TO how 10 fall in any further Il didn't
occur TO them TO tumble into the truck.
and being up against the wheels and
thinking the corporal really meant
Halt" they all came To standstiIl.
The rookie ''noncom" scratched his
head and thought Then he said: "Oh.
hell All aboard !"
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
BRITISH. LOSSES ON
SONME ARE 307,I69
CASUALTIES ON ALL 'FRONT.'
FOR MONTH OF SEPTEMBER
WERE 11o,54e.
THEY AVERAGE A.f27 PER DAY
French and English Press Dispatches
Say That Considering the Character
of the Fighting, Losses Have
Been Small

London.-British losses in Septem-
Der were at the rate of more than s.
500 day. The casualties on all
fronts reported in this month were
Officers 5.439, men ia, 10.
Heavy as were the British losses in
September, they were lighter than
those of August, which were 127,945,
a daily average of 4,127 In July, the
first month of the Somme offensive,
the losses We're about half those OF
August or September, notwithstand=
ing the fact that in July the British
stormed the first line German de
lenses. The casualties in that month
were 59.675, SO that the total for the
three months of the Semme drive is
307,f69
French and English press dispatches
report that, considering the charac-
ter of the fighting, the 1ossess of the
allies on the Somme are low. German
reports dwell on the large losses with
which it is said the allies are meet
ing, which are declared to be out of
all proportion to the ground gained.
The Overseas News Agency estimates
that the combined French and Brit
ish losses III the Somme battle up TO
September Is amounted to about $780,.
GOO.
SINCE January q the British gov
eminent has issued no figures of to-
tai losses. Up to that time the daily
average of losses from the beginning
of the war was slightly more than
]. 600.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
photoaraphs ERUPTION on Sun.

Astronomer EVershed at Svinagar,
Kashmfr, has photographed an erHp-
tive prominence of exceptional aIti-
tude on the disk of the sun. The pho
tographs We're obtained at intervals
from near the beginning of the out
burst until the final fragments had
risen to a height of little more than
n semidiameter from the suns limb.
The velocity away from the sun was
100 kilometers per second and faint
extensions could be traced at IS min
utes from the limb, representing a
height of close upon half million
miles. Astronomers say this would
appear to be the highest prominence
which has yet been recorded as ap-
pearing on the surface of the sun.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
WHY IS TABLECLOTH SACRED?
Its Natural Function Is to Get Dirty,
but Woe to the Man Who Gets
Spot on 1t.

why" demanded the Occasional
Grumbler, in the tone of one who not
only did not expect, but would not
tolerate, an answer. should a clean
tablecloth be the most sacred thing
about fairly average family house
hold? A clean tablecloth is not lare5
or penates. either or both. It's just a
rag that has managed TO get through
the laundry in good shape. 1t can go
through again in just as good shape
or just about rs good, and, fer that
matter. if the worst came to the worst
Gas your wife generally Expects It TOP
1t could be replaced without disturbing
the quotation ON international ex-
change.
But a woman never thinks about
that. To her clean tablecloth is
thing TO be Worshiped. not thing TO
be eaten off of. aud it never occurs
TO her that no magic can bless it with
semipaternal cleanliness. It's got to
get dirty sometime-why not now?
Nothing TO it, If you overflow the
gravy from the meat platter which
through no fault of yours-has been
filled too full. or If you happen 10 dec
crate the immaculate SpIendor of the
cloth with Il nice red polka dot of cram
berry juice, you're in bad for the rest
of the day, and maybe longer.
"0f course, when such things hap
pen, the tabIecloth is only serving the
purpose for which il is put there, but
that's no excuse You ought to be
more carefuit This comes across the
table in no uncertain tones. But it
isn't in the nature of news, because
you've heard it plenty often before.
Il say it is the business of Il clean
tablecloth to get dirty and get washed,
and get dirty and get washed, and get
dirty and get washed But what ! say
doesn't make any difference. get in
so bad every time u new tabtecioth is
sprung at our house that in my love for
the comfort OF dirty ones | an beeem-
ing sIevenIy in my habits. So what |
say is this: Either you ought to be
afffuent enough 10 have a clean table
cloth every meal, or two or three times
II meal If necessary or desirable. or
you ought to be humble enough to be
content to eat off of an oileloth=cov-
cred table that can be sWabbed off,
without damage or distress of tenn
per. '-Indianapolis News.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
MAKING River Report.

w E. Mcknight of the Arkansas
+ ilread Commission, secretary Of tho
Ouachita River Development AssocIa-
ton, received notice from Maj. H. =.
fiske. III charge OF the United States
engineers office at Nicksburg. Miss.
that he will complete his report on
the Cedar G1ades site on the Ouaehi-
Ia river fer the proposed nitrate plant
about November Is Major Fiske in
spected the site September Il.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
Hold British Officers.

New York.-Mai. Arthur S. Hum
phreys and Lieut.. Hugh Leviek, Jr..
British army officers detained at Ellis
Island under an order from Washing
ton to hold soldiers of belligerent
countries attempting 10 enter the
special board Of inquiry and a report
Of the evidence was sent to Washing.
ton.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05

Briefs by the state ard Caldwell 4
Drake probably will be ated with the
Reard Of Arbitration in the state cap
itoI CONTRACT controversy about Oeto-
Der L transcript of the testimony.
completed last week, will be furnish
ca the board by Sherman Atkinson.
notary public
The Board of Arbitration is not ex-
pected to decide the case before Janu.
airy 1
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05

Of the value Of bull is The character
of his offspring. and this IS the safest
and SureSt guide Many aged bulls
With good records and splendid of
spring are sold ut bargain prices to
avoid inbreeding. and afford an excel
lent opportunity 10 the man who
wishes Il good bull ut moderate cost
Strength and virility must go with
good ancestry 10 make good sire
the grade sire should have no place
in the dairy herd.
Select Cows on Their Records.
Cows may he selected according to
type aud apparently by men who are
good judges. hut the only safe and sure
basis for selection is The annual milk
record.
The keeping Of milk records in all
parts of the country and in all classes
and kinds of herds hay shown:
1. That some herds make large an
nual profits while others make none.
, That In the best herds there are
usually some Improbable cows, and
very many such in the poorer herds.
3 That without records the owners
of the herds could not tell with any de-
gree of accuracy which COWS were pay
ing protftahly and which were net.
That many dairymen would have
made Il greater yearly profit had they
sent their herd to the butcher at the
beginning of the year, thus saving half
their feed and labor expenses and get
ting all the profit from their best cows.
A fact worth noting is that several
worlds record cows of different breeds.
now worth thousands of dollars each,
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
Close Island Deal Soon.

Copenhagen IS believed that
the QUESTION of the sale of the Danish
West Indies to the United States will
be settled without general election
ON The basis Of The government bill.
Which now has passed all stages and
been sent to joint committee Of
both houses of Parliament. It is APP
parent that everybody in the Rigs,
dag Is tired of the question.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05

a Man af 1 a+tere

Nearly everybody has some distln-
gushing designation that permits him
to attach series of letters to his
name"
"Yes," replied Farmer Corntossel. Il
must say l approve @. it. | never got
any regular degree, but it's heap OF
satisfaction to me tc see r. f. D. on
the mail sent to my address"
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-05
q n00 .Gaip=in Votes

The support given by Arkansas ne
sroes to any political party will have
little effect on the general election Of
November :. according to records OF
poll tax receipts issued These show
that the total negro vote will be less
than 20 per cent Of lie total in the
state numbered 224.977 and negroes
90, 705.