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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-02-22
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t''A hoX social will be held at
Weaver's school house in Liberty
township on Thursday evening, Feb
a. Everybody invited to attend. The
ladies are requested TO bring boxes
nlled with good things and the gen.
tlemen a good appetite and AN inclin.
alton 10 be pleasant
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-02-22

"""Miss Minerva Manchester will
RiYe an entertainment at Morris
township house Wednesday evening,
Feb 23
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-02-22

'T'The NTH number Of the Pleas
ant grange lecture course viii be Civ
en- Friday evening Feb. 70. by Mrs.
Lucia Hurst ELIAS OF the Capitol Col
lege OF Oratory aud Music
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-02-22

Entered at the Mt. Vernon, o., postof-
&c as second class mail matter.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

Mrs. George Keys left yester-
day for Grenada. to visit friends
and relatives.
The Epworth League of the
Methodist church invites all the
young people Of the church and
League to attend their entertain
ment which viii be given FRIDAY
evening, commencing at 1870
Mr.. Z. II. Legate. Y. NJ. c. A
Secretary at the University. will
hold the service at the Methodist
church next Sunday morning
Prof. FLETCHER, Of the Univer-
slty. will sing The Palms -
Everybody cordially invited to at
tend the service.
Divine services in the Episcopal
church on Sunday next. April
10th. at llamand 7.30 D. m. Il IS
Palm sunday. or the 9Th Sunday
in Lent The public is cordially
invited.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
Notice Of Sale Of Real Property.
state 70 Mississippi,
Lafayette County.

state q Mississippi,
Lafayette County.
Pursuant to the provisions OF Deed
.of Trust 70 me, executed as Trustee
By Jasper and Lucy Holmes in favor
OF Goodwin, Brown & Co, to secure
CERTAIN Indebtedness therein mem
tioued, which is recorded in Book zz,
page 3i4, IN the Chznery Clerks office
OF the County Of Lafayette and the
Stale Of Mississippi, viii at the re-
quest 4 the beneficiary In said Deed
Of Trust proceed 10 sell for cash, to
the highest bidder, within lawful
hours, Ia front OF the south door Of
"a Court House in oxford, Miss, on
tte 18th DAY Of April. 1915, the follow
ing described property, lying and be-
ing iu ghe County OF Lafayette and the
>tate q Mississippi, to- wit: The west
IL a- tae north IL VI the n0r1h- west
l-4 Section IA, Township 9, Range >
west 81 acres more or less
fle title 20 the sbove property i
belevei 70 ae good, but I viii convey
only such title a. : vested In me a.
Trustee.
Witness my signature this the sd
day Of Narch, 1915
9-a Z y. HEARD. Trustee.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
Free Lecture

President Goodnow of Johns
Hopkins University, will deliver
an address in the University
Chapel, Monday morning. April
II. at l0o'clock.
President Goodnow is one of
the most eminent men in America.
As advisor to the President of
China, be did much to make
pleasant and profitable the rela-
tons existing between the United
States and China.
There will be no admission
charged to the lecture. and the
general public is cordially invited
TO attend.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
Local anO
personal,

J. \. Gibson has accepted a
position with the Cooperative
store. having taken Mr.. G. G.
Wilson's place.
Lieut-Governor and Mrs. Lee
NJ. Russell returned from jackson
yesterday afternoon, and are once
more comfortably domiciled in
their handsome home on North
street.
Mr.. G. G. Wilson, who has
been with the Cooperative store
for several months. has accepted
a position with the Coleman Cash
store, where he will be pleased to
meet his many friends.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
Ole Miss Too Much
For Normalites.
MONDAY-FIRsr GAVE

In the first of a two game series
with Mississippi State Normal Col
Iege of Hattiesburg. Ole Miss walk
ed away with an easy victory.
score 10 &c 3. Normal College
started out like winners by scoring
one in the first inning but they
blew up in the second and fourth
and allowed Ole Miss to run across
6 scores, which sewed the game
up. Ole Miss ran her total up to
10 in the sixth and seventh by
timely hitting. and errors oy the
School Teachers.
Holmes started the game for
Mississippi. but after the Normal
ties had secured several drives of
his delivery, retired in favor Of
Kyle who held his opponents nelp-
less until the ninth when they
started a belated rally and scored
two more.
The game was embarrassing and
poorly played. The weather was
too cold to allow any sensational
plays by either side and the Nor
NAL contributed a bunch Of mis-
plays that tended to slow the game
up. The smallest crowd Of the
season witnessed the contest. The
hitting Of Bethea for Mississippi
and Anderson for the Normal were
the bright features of the game.
Batteries: Ole Miss-Homes,
Kyle. Cassibry and Anderson; Nor
mal-Sewell and Guy.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
BASE BALL ByH E. Bradley
SECOND GAME
Mississippi

After the iasco of the day be-
fore. Normal College came back in
the second game and put up a good
exhibition Of baseball against Ole
Miss. Although Mississippi won
6 to 0. Normal deserves much
credit for the snappy game she put
up against the University lads.
Mississippi's first score came in
the initial inning when Pete Allen
walked, was sacrificed TO second
and came home when McInnis
poled one for two bases over the
right field dump. Two more tai
lies were marked up in the fourth
inning as the result Of a nit by
o-slass--- s-E etls nat a.hUwsd El
Beanland 70 reach first. and two
sacrifice hits. the first of which ad-
vanced both runners a Dag, and the
second one scored both men.
Beanlanu displayed some good
oase-running when he scored from
second on the last sacrifice. In the
fifth inning a single by Bethea and
a long three Dagger by Beanland.
coupled with an infeld out allowed
Ole Miss to score two more. The
final tally came in the ninth when
Bethea singled and scored on
Beanland' S two Dagger.
Normal never had a chance to
score as only one Of their men
reached third. All four of the
Mississippi pitchers we're stingy
with their hits. Normal only getting
three during the entire nine innings.
R..L--s- ts...-
TIT-sIElE anu DGdlldnQ
base-running and hitting were fea-
lures Of the contest. Bethea got
four hits out Of FIVE times up. and
Beanland got two out Of four times
up. The entire Mississippi team
hit hard. getting 4 total Of IL hits,
several Of which we're for extra
bases.
Normal put up a good fielding
game, only two errors being mark
ed against them.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
Commencement Program Of La
fayette County Agricultural
LII EI

sunday. April Is, II, a. N.
Commencement sermon by Rev.
Lewis. pastor of the Methodist
church, Oxford, Miss.
Tuesday. April Is, :. p. N.
Program by Music Department.
Wednesday, April 10, S. p. m.
senior Class play, The Winning
of Latane.
Thursday, April 20, 1890 a. M.
Graduating exercise and Annual
Address by Rev. K. A. y. Viii
son of Batesville Miss.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
Notice.

10 Owners and Keepers of Hogs:
The ordinance Of the City of Oxford
requiring rings 10 be put in the noses
% all hogs kept within the city limits,
taking eifeet April y, 1916, win he en-
forced, and oar INSPECTION will be be-
gun ca Monday, April l.. 1916, and all
parties VINO nave not complied with
the provisions of this ordinance will
BE- prosecuted according to the terms
81 said ordinance.
R. 5 ADAMS, Mayor.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

Baseball fans Of Oxford and the
University will have the oppor-
tunity Of seeing some of the best
teams in Southern Collegiate ball
play on the University field soon.
Minsaps comes Friday for two
series and on Monday Ole Miss
ancient rival. A. & NJ. comes over
for one game here and on the fol +
lswing day BOTH teams play in Tu-
pelo.
These games will have an
pertanE bearing on the state ch
pionship in baseball and q
crowd is expected from Oxford
aeignooring towns. Other gam
. te played on the campus kiut
announced in this column later.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
Notice.

There will be an Easter Egg
Hunt on the Court House grounds
on Saturday the 22d at 3 o'clock
al tho ri seTnOOn- len cents al
mission. Cake, cream and candy
for sale. Proceeds for the Epis-
copal church.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
Notice.

To Keepers or Owners of Dogs:
The ordinance Of the CITY OF Oxford
requiring al dog 10 be kept securely
confined, WEI BE- strictly enforced on
and after april Is, 1915, and all dogs
running Al large after that date will be
killed
Z. 5. ADAMS. Mayor.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
ARE YOU BOTHERED WITH CON
STIPATION?

You viii have grateful relief from
the first dose of Po- Do-Lax. 1t is a
compound laxative for it does not onlg
empties the bowels but stimulates the
bile and other secretions. Ii attacks
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

$500 cash and 80 cents per
vraaE nave So. n s.. ss.-.-..---
Machine. See J. H. Morris for
prices. Southeast croner square,
phones, office $50, residence As. pot
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

Your Indigestion and Sour
Stomache can be relieved by Ken
del's Black Pills.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

Did you ever try kendel's Anti
septic for yor itching and blind
Pilesi Ii is a sure cure.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

FOR SALE CHEAP Inter
national Hay Baler, | Deering
Mower and Rake, also set OF
good wagon harness. Don't
wait, come at once if you want
a bargain.
22tf. A. b. CULLEN.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
Worlds Record Smashed.

Miss Alene Harmon whose given below
has SMASHED THE WORLDS SHORTHAND for NO ONE
was EVER known make BEFORE POSSIBLE for
ANY ONE to do this with ANY OTHER system shorthand
This certify that studied HARRISONIAN SHORTHAND-AT
HARRIS BUSINESS UNGvERsITY-oNLY THREE WEEKS lam INV
doing SECRETARY the MISSISSIPPI
RAILROAD COMMISSION the LEAST trouble
in WRITING shorthand, IN
MISS ALLENE HARMON
1t affords GREAT PLEASURE testify EFFc
ENCY Of Miss Aen Harmon MY employ
MISSISSIPPI RAILROAD COMMISSION for TWO
years, ALWAYS rendered SPLENDID service
James Galceran, Secty
Mississippi Railroad Commission
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

constipation at its source and you get
permanent relief Po-Do-Lax win
give va regular stool and only o.
casionslly will you need it. An ext
lent liver medicine. SOC. at Druggis,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

FOR SALE Sweet potato slips
for April delivery. Nancy Hall
and Yellow Yam. Phone SOL.
21-tf Nj. GOTTEN.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

lICE-We want your business.
Deliveries made at all hours.
Telephone 1877.
o2-4t OXFORD Ice & BoTTLING Co.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

ICE-We want your business.
Deliveries made at all hours.
Telephone 1917.
Pat OXFORD Ice & BoTTLING Co.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

A GOOD MILK COW for sale.
Young and fresh in milk. A
nice heifer calf. Cow grade Jersey.
22tf. Apply at this office.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

Next Saturday, April 10. the
Cooperative Store will sell l..
pounds of graduated sugar for
Sl.00 with each "A pound sack of
-four, any grade.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

See the style 1l5-1 rotary Singer
Machine, it's a peach. }. IL.
Morris, sells it. Southeast corner
square, phones, office $50, resi-
dence As. sOtf.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

FOR SALE-Nice sugar Cured
Country Hams. Phone 36l.
3I-tf NJ. GOTTEN.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

SEE W. B. Mcmahon. ST.,
ABOUT Policy in The Penn
Mutua. Life Insurance Company.
Is-3mo
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

Before taking out a Life lnsur-
ance Policy see w. b. Mcmahon,
ST.. Do it NOW. ls-3mo
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

Buy Singer Oil from J. H.:
Morris. it IS the best, guaranteed
not TO gum. Southeast corner
square. Pones, Office 2SO. resi-
dence AZ 20tf
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

COTTAGE FOR RENT Rooms
and bath. $40 per month. APP
ply to Robert Torrey. l9t.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13
Ole Miss l o o 2 . o DOL 6
Normal o o o o o o 600 o

Batteries-Hieks. Dawson, Dunn,
Mckay and Anderson: Cassibry.
Applewhite and Guy.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

lICE-We want your business
Deliveries made at all hours
Telephone 1871.
22-4t OXFORD lee < BoTTLING Co,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-04-13

FOR SALE-king Cotton Seed,
at 81 90 per bushel. Phone SOL.
21-tf NJ GOTTEN.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-11-23

deed seem 10 slumber In the soft bed of long
enjoyed peace and security. But let war come
against the land and no man need doubt that that
spirit VIII spring up instantly awake.
We can rghtfully be grateful that 1t has fallen
TO our happy lot to live In this most wonderful
of all ages and to be citizens of this most won.
derfnl Of all the nations
Let your hearts swell with Just pride as you
contemplate your country. so august, so splendid.
so renowned In the earth.
Look upon your flag as 1t streams Its bright
folds yonder above your heads with proud and
happy eyes. Remember how honorable Is its
story. and forget not how many thousands Of
brave and good men died that 1t might wave yon-
der the ensign Of free people
Tell to your children the story of their fore
bears. Of those men and women who, amid the
wilderness and forests thar stood where now
stand mighty cities and stretch cultivated FARMS
erected with hardships and endurance and most
heroic faith and valor, the noble edifce Of our
republican liberties
Speak to them of Bunker Hill and Valley Forge
and Saratoga and Yorktown. and of the great
Decaration-that most famous Charter Of HUI.
man Freedom.
Tell them TO thank God for their fathers and
mothers hardhood and courage. for the wars
they fought, for the victories they won
Tell them to salute their flag with high and
proud hearts.
Tell them to thank God this Thanksgiving day
that they are Americans.
And then do you soberly. gratefully proudly
thank God yourself that you are an American.
oh. dear and mighty motherland. what better
gift or more to be desired could God give than to
be born and to die, strong Daughter of Liberty,
between thy shining feet!-From the Chicago
American.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-11-23

And So We trnly believe you do feel.
We all hear 1t repeated that patriotism is II
thing Of the past that our people have become
coinmercialiZed; that the masses have no deep
rooted loyalty TO the country; that our rich men
put dollars above the obligations of their citizen
ship; that our poor foil care little for the ideals
Of free government; that we Americans are de.
cadent In the virtues and valor which marked
our fathers.
That Is not true.
If there be any power In the world which plots
war against us Americans and promises itself vic
tory over us on the assumption of our decadence
In lnyaty, that power will find how terrible was
It's mistake when our country calls her sons TO
battle In her defense
We have, IL Is true. In capacity as col
lective people, left undone things that should
have been done and done things which should
have been left undone and there is more truth
thhn there should be In much that is jeeringly
said by those who hate us.
We acknowledge that much of our politics Of
fends common deeency.
We see. here and there, painful evidence Of cor
runtion among lawmakers and even among the
judges who should know only justice and in
tegrity.
We see rich men who do betray their country
and foul their hands and soil their souls with
most Infamous dealings and most shameful
profits.
We see Americans who do put the dollar above
every consideration Of right and duty, above the
claims of our common humanity
But while these things are true 1t is true also
that the heart and conscience of the American
people take them as n nation, are sound and
sane and wholesome
The blood Of our fathers still runs In the veins
of their sons The spirit of the nation may in
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-11-23

In the pursuit Of villa and his bandits through
the arid regions Of northern Mexico the United
States troops trayersed region whose only yege-
tation Is the barbed and forbiddng cactus. To
any but cowboy or a trained painsman Of the
Southwest, Inhabitants themselves Of the cactus
belt" this plant seemingly has no more value than
the veriest weed but II may well be that 1t may
prove of great value to the troops In the absence
of water, fodder even food for human beings
In the punitive expedition there are many COW
punchers Of the cactus belt" serving as scouts,
and In the cowboy and the Indian OF the South
west the owy cactus has It's greatest admirer, for
they know what game struggle for life this plant
has TO make against an unlaved desert soil. Even
their ponies and cattle and the poor beasts of the
desert know Of these uses of the cactus for water
and fodder says the New York Herald.
There are some thousand varieties of this mon-
strous vegetable family, not counting the 800 va
rieties of the agaye, century plant-lncorrectly
included by many-in northern Mexico The va.
rieties of the yucca palm and all other forms of
vegetation known to the arid region have the same
faculty of sucking up from the soil every drop Of
the all too little moisture In II and storing 1t up In
their tough and leathery leaves and roots.
OF the many varieties perhaps the most remark.
able Is fhnt member of The family known to those
schooed in desert craft as the water barren This
plant Is shaped somewhat like beer keg and is
about the same size. Through all the years of Its
growth 1t has been sopping up what moisture the
famlshed earth contained and retaining It, II is the
sole reliance Of desert dweers In time of drought.
and the troops, far from water holes and with WI.
ter scarce, may yet be obliged to drink from II
The water barrel' Is tapped by slicing of the
top with a sword or machete and pounding the
pulp until the water contained In 1t wells up into
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-11-23

the saucer thus formed. The pulp itself is pure
and the water stored In 1t is likewise pure and re-
freshing.
Not all the water-bearng cacti are as gracious to
famishing man, however as the water barrel" for
most OF them have protected themselves against
the maraudings of those who would drink and live
by imparting bitter taste to the water they con.
taln The "peyote" especially, which abounds in
the plains and deserts of Arizona, has trick Of
discouragtng depredations upon It, for Its plump
and juicy pulp secretes bitter and poisonous
juice.
In the last dozen years scientists have Interested
themselves In the study Of the cactus for its poss
bities as food. fodder and economic by.products
Dr. Leon L. Landone foremost In the study of this
desert plant several years ago conducted extensive
experiments In Los Angeles to ascertain the value
Oh the tnorniess cactus as an article OF food for
human oeihgs. In an effort to prove his conten-
tion that 1t contains food properties sufficient to
enable man 10 work Is hours day. he and his
two secretaries for two weeks lived on daily diet
OF the leaves and fruit of the cactus the former
being served green or fried and the latter either
raw or cooked. While the cactus squad" sur.
yived the experience and professor to have en-.
toyed their novel diet II Is a fact that the cactus
never has attained the popularity of flet mgnon
In the whole vegetable kingdom probably there
Is not another plant family having SO many dlf
ferentiations OF form us the ,act For 1t is DOS
sible to find among them Species that crawl and
creep like vines. other than stapd erect In single
nnbendng stalk, like green living monument of
the DESERT still others that are rooted to the spo
with their highest growth close to the ground and
bearing almost no resemblance to usual form, Of
vegetation, and others, again. that branch out in
thick unblooming branches.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-11-23

He reflected that across the Atlantic millions
of human beings were AT that very moment en-
gagged In the dreadful task of killing other human
beings with every invention which ingenuity and
skill could bring forth from the laboratories Of
science and the workshops Of industry.
In other lands at that very moment tens OF
thousands upon tens of thousands of helpless
lfok-feeble, nged men and women, mothers with
babes clinging eonyulsively to their breasts, little
children sobbing In terror, a vast army of the IN
noeent and the angulshed-were enduring the
tremites of exposure. Of hunger, and Of despair
rs they fed from their wasted farmsteads and
burning villages. escaping from the pitiess cruelty
of savage men only 10 lie down TO suffer and die
under the pltess skies Of God In the winter and
the bitter storms.
At that very moment most dreadful war hid
half the world In the blackness of its darkness
and from that horrid cloud raned destruction
upon unhappy Europe-upon her ancient capitals.
upon her pleasant cities. upon her villages her
fields her temples, her treasures of art. upon all
the accumuIatous of thousand years Of genius,
of learning. of industry. of skin and of patient
advancement Of the happiness and the civilization
of the race OF man.
So he that considered all this wickedness that
was being done under the sun, this drunken dance
of death and hell above the fetd eorpses and the
mnltitudlnous graves, this awful nightmare Of In
describabe woe and wrath said In the bitterness
of his heart that no God ruled over such maniac
world and there was no thanksgiving due to the
Oliver Of Gifts that were not good but everyone
altogether evil.
And when the man had made an end of his
thinking, he went and stood in window and
looked out upon the evening. because It was fair
TO see
He saw in vision Mt thnt instant the vnstness
of the republic and the multitude Of the good and
happy folk who live under the shelter Of Its
strength He reflected how brief time had thus
magnfed the works OF our pioneer fathers and
our pioneer mothers, those brave and simple men
and women whose names should never be men
tfoned with anything but profound gratitude
And TO this American glad with great pride
In the deeds of his people and the story Of his
country and grateful to the Goodness which has
guided and sheltered his fathers and his folk,
lifted up his eyes to the night to the quiet stars
to the broodlng immenslty above, and said In his
heart:
.sThank God that am American!"
And, citizens. that Is the one outstanding,
splendid fact for which each one of us should
soberly and most gratefully thank God on Thanks
giving day this year.
The finest thing you possess or ever can pos
sess Is Just your American citizenship. 1t Is
neither necessary nor becoming, on this day or
on any other day, to cheaper this birthright VI
ours by brag or spreadeagle defamation.
! But 1t is highly becoming on this Thanksgiving
day to feel n deep gratitude and q manly pride
In this heritage
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-11-23
The Partial Teacher.

Have you got nice teacheri'
asked Uncle Ed.
"No," said Belle. "She amt NICE
why, Belief" said her mother. "I'm
ashamed Of you; your teacher is nice"
shes mean t me-" declared Belle
running her words together. "She let
George Brown dust her desk and twas
my turn"