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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01
Free Flower Seed
Hastings Catalogue
Tells You About Is !,

No matter whether you farm on q
large scale or only plant vegetables
or flowers in a small way, you need
Hastings 1917 Seed Catalog. It's
ready now and we have copy for
you absolutely free, il you ask for 1t,
mentioning the name Of this paper.
In addition to showing you about all
the varieties of vegetables, farm
grass, clover and flower seeds, this
catalog tells how you can get free five
splendid varieties of easily grown, yet
beautiful flowers, with which to beau
tify your home surroundings.
Good seeds Of almost every kind
are scarce this season, and you can't
afford to take chances in your seed
supply. Hastings Seeds are depend
able seeds, the kind you can always
depend ON having good luck" with.
You are going to garden or farm
this spring. Why not insure success
so far as possible by starting with
the right seed? Don't take chances
that you do not have to.
Write today for Hastings, 1917
Catalog. It's free and will both inter-
est and help you to succeed in 1917.
III. G. HASTINGS CO., Saedsmen.
Atlanta, Ga.-Advt,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01
NOTICE OF SALE BY TRUSTEE

By virtue Of the provisions of a
certain deed of trust executed BY
Green and Maggie Miller on the 10Th
day of May. 1912, to W. T. Jaegers.
10 secure the payment of an indebted.
ness therein given, and which said
deed Of trust is of record in The office
Of the Chancery Clerk of Chickasaw
County at Houston. Mississippi. in
Book 107 at page $40 OF the records
Of trust deeds. and default having
been made in the payment OF the in
debtedness therein secured, |, Geo.
Cole Jr, the trustee in said instru.
ment, at The request OF the beneficiary,
will offer for sale and will sell to the
highest and best bidder for cash. on
FRIDAY MARCH 10Th, 1917,
in front of the Court house door in
the town e OloIona, Mississippi,
within legal hours, the following des-
crihed properly;
Forty acres of land, known as the
Sourh East Quarter of the South East
Quarter of Section 3, Township II,
Rarge 5, also Il acres more or less.
bounded as follows; beginning on the
East Quarter Section line ~here the
road running from the Okolona and
TupeIo road to Lee Fords house in
tersecls the said Quarter section line,
Thence South Is yards. thence West
220 yards, more or less, thence North
48 yards, more or less, 10 said private
road, thence along the line OF said
private road to the beginning point,
lying and situated in Chickasaw
County, Mississippi
The title TO the above described
lands are supposed to be good. yet |
shall convey only such title as is vest.
ed In me as trustee.
Witness my signature this the 18th
day of February, 1917.
GEO COLE. JR.,
Trustee.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
Q a s t. RIA
TRUSTEES SALE NOTICE


q By virtue of the provisions OF GER
tain Deed of Trust executed on the
9th day Of December, 1915, by Sid.
ney Bell and Mary E. Bell to secure
an Indebtedness therein mentioned to
Mrs. A. c. Cox, wherein was made
Trustee, and which Trust Deed APP
pears Of record in the Chancery
Clerks office in Houston. Chickasaw
County, Mississippi, in Book l23 at
Page 1874 of the Record OF Trust
Deeds in said Office, | will, on Mon
day the 5th day Of March, 1917,
within legal hours, in front OF the
court house door in the city OF Oko-
Iona, Mississippi, offer for sale and
sell to the highest bidder for cash the
following described property, situated
in Chckasaw County, Miss, to-wit:
1869 acres Of land in the S. W. /
Of Sec. q, Town. Is, Range 4 east,
and described as beginning at the
North West corner Of said south west
quarter section, Of Sec. q. Town. Ii,
r. 4 E. and running south 26.665
chains thence east 40 chains. thence
north 2666S chains, thence west 4O
chains to beginning point. Also one
bay mare named Lottie u years old
and her p year old colt named Bes-
sic. Also Blk. Cow 3 years old
named Story, l brindle heller %
years old named Frances. l black
muly heller year old, and their in
crease.
Said sale will be made to satisfy
said Indebtedness and the cost Of ex.
ecuting this trust.
The title to the above property is
believed to be good, but | will convey
emily such title as is vested in me as
hustee.
This the 3Oth day Of January, 1917
W. P. KNOX.
Trustee.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01

of electric service will have the
same effect in the country home
as they have had in the city.
This service will give people
more leisure, more opportunity
to read, to keep in touch with all
that is going in the world about
them. 1t will make their living
easier and better. And if it can
do these things for all of us, it
will indeed have proved itself
the best of servants. adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01

Never yet has An exposition b0oA
staged with such advantageous oppoE-
tunities Of drawing great number Of
people from our neighbors In the Cen
trail and South American countries.
The Mississippi Gulf Coast lies In
closer proximity to this section Of
the world than any other portion Of
the United States.
For this reason It Is reasonable b
presume that q great influx Of visit
ora from these countries viii attend
our birthday party and become bet
ter acquainted with their friends In
the domain Of Uncle Sam and be In.
troduced to the manufactured articles
OF commerce that we have to barter.
Manufacturers will no doubt real.
/ INA the splendid chance they have b
place their goods fa our show window
and build q business that 10 made %
much easier on account Of the Euro
pean war and the interference u trade
WI the countries On hat Sias e the
water.
Ths United Stotes has leAged Tor q
aAanca 70 secure q Hfm footfng a
q Central and NoGtA AnerioAA trade
nd ne o0DeFtun5N e . nfesfme b
noskina q the AoS& WIN the prog
e 0f1oFt tAero b 0vogy reason why {
lively and profitable oxohAnge q prod
ucts could be stimulated and enc0ur'
aged through the HiSsiSsippl Ce0eoA-
niAl AxDoMtio1a
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01
The Banker

Walt Mason philosophers
thusly about the banker: ITO
blow in wealth l sometimes ham
ker, on projects labelep"Get Rich
Quick" but ere | blow | see the
banker, who hits those projects
with a birck. | am an easy
mark, l know it; Colds no me ap-
pear all right, and men with bait
come up and S ow il and strong
ly urge that | shall bite. But
long ago | made some pledges; |
vowed I'd never pay the price of
iosses wooden hams or wedges,
without the bankers sane advice.
Thus I've escaped a thousand
dangers, and ills too dark for
tongue to tell; I've bafficd a
score of oily strangers who had
pink polar bear to sell. l buy
no gold mines in Nebraska, no
odds how hard the agent tries; |
buy no orchards in Alaska, be-
cause the banker put me wise.
He is my refuge and anchor,
when Pm inclined to make mis-
taks the good old Cautious village
banker who sizes up the snares
and fakes. Eek.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01
McGill Settlement News

Miss Blanche Davidson spent
Tuesday night with Miss Ethel
Refers.
Miss Ada McGill was the guest
of Mrs. N. A. McGill first of the
week.
Mr.. Bert Smith has returned
from Texas, where he had been
for some time.
Miss Ivy Marler spent Sunday
with the Misses Refers.
Miss Grace Wells, who has
been teaching school at Hosea,
returned to her home in Ecru
Sunday.
Misses Blanche and Audra
Davidson spent Sunday with
their aunt, Mrs. Allie Dallas.
Mr.. S. F. McGill made a bust
ness trip to Shannon Monday.
Miss Ethel Refers spent the
weekend with Miss Ivy Marler.
Mr.. Tom Hadley spent a part
of last week in Aberdeen the
guest of his sister, Mrs. Kelso
Messrs. Tom Belts and Will
Cummings were business visitors
in Shannon Monday.
Messrs. Edd Refers and Tom
mie Dallas attended the singing
at Mr.. Otis Sunday afternoon.
Misses Myrtle and Gladys
Dallas. who are attending
school in Buena Vista, spent the
weekend with their mother,
Mrs. A. A. Dallas.
Mr.. F. C. Henderson was in
the neighberhood Tuesday.
Mrs. Addie Hadley was the
guest OF Mrs. L. T. Eiland Sun
day.
Mrs. H. C. Henderson, who is
teaching the Tallibonelia school
spent the weekend with Mrs.
Will Cummings.
Mr.. Eldred Smith, who has
Jeen spending some time in
Texas, has returned home.
Misses Myrtle and Gladys
Dallas had as their guest while
It home Misses Irene Mitchill
md Matte Hill, OF Buena Vista.
Mr.. Oscar Hadley spent Sun
lay with his sister, Mrs. Maggie
Lowery.
Mr.. Lee Dallas, of Shannon,
was in this neighborhood Sarur-
'ay buying hogs. XXX
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01
L. & N. Conducted
Gains 49, Pounds
Capt. Parker Says Stomach
About Played Outflow Eats
Cabbage and Pork Like a Sec
ton Hand.

AoNC SOI w HdIlu III W tIldt
Tanlac. for there is no doubt
about it being the finest thing
ever sold in drug store for the,
people that have any sort of
stomach trouble or indigestion, =,
said Capt: Eugene Parkei, al
popular Louisville and Nashville,
conductor, running between Bir-
mingham and Montgomery, and
who lives at AT Sixth avenue. I
Inglenook.
Why, the way it has straight
ened me out in just a short time"
he continued, lis a mystery and
it has done for me what nothing
else ever tried would do. I,
had mighty near got to where |
| didn't need to go to the table
any more, so far as eating was
concerned, for couldn't eat any
thing after | got there. If l did
i had to pay dear for it in a little
while, for my stomach had about
played out altogether.
There was a continual sore
ness in my stomach and |
thought sometimes it must be an
abscess. My liver never was
right and there never was day
but what had to get something
from the drug store for head
ache and to settle my stomach.
| never had much life in me and
had fallen off great deal. I
was in badly run down shape
generally and hardly fit to do my
work.
About three weeks ago a
friend of mine asked me why T
didn't try this Ia lac, as he had
used it and found it to be the
very thing he needed, so | took
him up on his suggestion and
stopped at the Anderson Drug
company in Inglenook and bought
two bottles Of it, but | must say
| never looked for it to do me
any good, as so many things had
been recommended to me and +
tried them all.
We'll | am afraid some people
won't believe it, but it is fact
and can prove it. After I had
used those two bottles | weighed
and found | had autually gained
l8 pounds. 1t just Strengthened
my stomach out in no time and
since l took the first dose | have
not had to take anything for a
headache.
Il have the finest kind of an
appetite now and can eat any,
thing. The other day out on the
road our supplies run low and I
had some salt pork and cabbage
cooked up on the caboose and
ate it like a section hand and en-
joyed every mouthful of it.
That's going some for man
who had stomach trouble, but it
did not hurt me one bit.
Il notice | sleep a great deal
better now and am in just about
100 per cent in better shape
every way. l really believe
Tanlac is the best remedy in the
world and there are a lot of other
people out my way who think
the same thing"
Tanlac is sold in Okolona ex-
clusively by W. E. BEARDEN,
and in Houlka exclusively by j.
W. HOWARD, & SON. Adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01
Packing Food In Ferns.

In Germany the use Of ferns 10 COM
ing into more and more favor for
packing food which ia transported
either short or long distances. The
practice became common In England
before 1t gained equal vogue In Ger
maj and the results are said to b
excellent, especially in shipping fresh
fruit, butter, Ash and other food prod
ucts which require unusual care.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01
Appropriated Her Tea.

The most embarrassing moment Of
my life was when touring in Ireland
I stepped from our train on to the
platform at Athlone and saw boy
running along the platform with cup
Of tea and bread and butter. How
much is it?'' says It. "Sixpence." he
says.
/ was devcuring It ravenously wheA
q lady WITH two children thrust her
head out of the next compartment
Looking at me angrily end yet good
naturedly. she said: that's q meeA
Yankee trick. l ordered that 1t tie
station above % meet mo AerA"-mr
OAaAso.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01
.Mill-Capp Theatre

Program for week beginning
Monday night, March 9Th and
endingss Saturday night, March
10th:
MONDAY NIGHT
Home"
Triangle in 5 acts
Featuring Bessie Barrascale
TUESDAY NIGHT
Rolling Stones"
Paramount in 5 acts
Featuring Moore and Courtot
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
"The Moral Fabric"
Triangle in 5 acts
Featuring Frank Mills
THURSDAY NIGHT
Honorable Friend"
Paramount in 5 acts
Featuring Sessue Hagakawa
FRIDAY NIGHT
Vampires"
Mutual, 9th episode, 8 acts
''The Best of Enemies"
Triangle Comedy in 2 acts
Featuring Weber and Fields"
SATURDAY NIGHT
''The Girl From Frisco"
4th installment 2 acts
my Valet"
Triangle Comedy in 2 acts
Featuring Raymond Hitchcock
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01
Electricity = EverybOdy's Servant


on the wall; when each man car
ried his own street light will
him; when messages were CARR
edEby men on horse or afoot
when the quickest and most lux
urious form of travel was tn
stage coach, and when nearly
all work was done by hand.
Within the last few years
new servant has appeared to &c
all this work and much more moi
mentioned above. The name OF
this servant is electricity II
lights our houses with bright
clean light; our streets are lined
with lamp posts which make
them as safe at night as in the
day time. If we want to talk
to some one a hundred miles a.
way we use the telephone or the
telegraph. Street cars, interur-
bans, even railroad trains, pull
ed by electricity, carry US fur
ther in an hour than the stage
could have done in a day., And
mark, there is sec rcely a task
which can not be done by cleo
tricity, not only in the business
and manufacturing world, but
in the city and country home as
we'll.
A few years ago electricity
was the servant of the few who
lived in cities. This was be-
cause electric generating machin-
cry was not in the present i'm
proved state, and because it was,
and still is for that matter, very
expensive to transmit electric
current long distances. In other
words, the people who live close
together in a comparatively small
area of the city can all be sup
piled with current from one cen
trail station at a reasonable cost,
whereas it is enormously eXpen-
sive to extend transmission lines
five or ten miles into the country
in order to serve perhaps fifteen
or twenty customers in an area
as large as that covered by the
city. And yet the services Of
electricity are needed as much,
if not more, on the farm, in the
country home, church, school
house and store ds in the city,
1t is this need, and the practi-
cal difficulties in the way of sup
plying it, which turned mans
inventive genius toward a solu-
ton of the problem. And the
solution, as in the case Of most
great problems, was in itself
rather simple, not the building
of new and complicated machin-
cry to drive current further at a
lower cost, but the application
of known principles of general
ing and handling electric current
to the development of small gen
Grating plants of a size suitable
for supplying electricity on the
farm and in the church or store,
and at a cost easily within the
reach of every progressive farm
err. Years of experimental work
by some of our best engineers
have produced plants of this type
which are thoroughly depend
able.
Now the result of this is that
electricity is at last the really
universal servant. In the coun-
try home, church, school, COM
munity house, store, club and
camp, as we'll as in the city,
electric lamps pour out their FLOOD
of pure light from handsome
modern fixtures. The day of the
coal oil lamp is over. Not only
the farm house itself but every
part of all the other buildings or
the place is lighted safely anC
conveniently.
And light is only a part of the
service that electricity is ready
to render. In the home the vac
uum sweeper. the electric iron
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-03-01

> GaiHine That Does Not Affect The Heat
-, iuse OF its tonic and laxative effect, Lana
.rire and does not cause nervousness Dor
..iGo ~ head Remember the full nanie ano
- az ,,s- signature 81 " GROVE. 25c.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-05
BALTIMORE PRODUCE.

Baltimore, Nd, Aug. Alive POULTRY
Prices per pound unless otherwise stated.
Chicken. spring, pounds. By boat, 5sa2s; do,
N to pounds By express. z; do, IL to II
pounds, 2a7; do, pound and under, Is; young
White Leghorns. 3; old hens. heavy, 2a2; do,
snail to medium, q; old roosters. l2al3; ducks
old, MusooTy nd monGel. %; do. White
Pekins, Haz; do, puddle old. 15al6; do,
spring. ~ pounds and over. nan; do, smaller.
poor, l6als; pigeons. old. per pair, %; do
young, per pair, %.
EGGsMarket steady. loss Oh, Maryland.
Pennsylvania and nearby. q; Eastern Shore,
Maryland and Virginia, j; Western (Ohio), e
West Virginia, 81 Southern North Cardinal,
%; Western, fresh, count cases. 311sa55; candled
prints, hpound, extra, OaAl; frsts. Sa,e; do
pound. extra, 4oa4l; do. hrsts. ssa3s; nearby
creamery, 3Ta3s; hrsts, 36aT; dairy prints,
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, extra, )
aa; hrsts, 32a53; store-packed. hrsts. 3.
WHITE POTATOES-Eastem Shore. Nd,
primes. per barrel. 2OOa25; Eastern Shore. Va,
per barrel. 2ooa250 Rappahannook, No. ], pei
barrel. 2Ooa22s; do, No. D. per barrel. lOoa
Is nearby, No. l. per bushel box. 5sso; sweets.
new yellow, per barrel, sooas0.
VEGETABLES AND GREEN FRUIrs-Ap
pies. Early Harvest, fancy. per barrel, 2ooa2 50
do. small. per barrel. looal.25; do, per "
barrel basket, I0oa12s; beans, by boat. pr
basket. +os75; native, green. fancy. per bushel,
T5arO; do. wax, per bushei. T5aloo; bets
Norfolk. per bunch. lalh; native, Per bunch,
1a15s; blackbenies, Southern, per quart, nsl2
Eastern Shore. Nd. per quart, sail; cabbage,
native. per 100. L5oa3.oo; cantaloupes, Potomac,
ger crate. LCoa20; Eastern Shore, per crate
Looal.5o; York River, per barrel. l.5sal.75; Anne
Arundel Gems. per basket. 6oa75; corn. Kappa.
hannock. per dozen 5al0; Eastern Shore, Nd
per dozen, ssl2; Baltimore County. per dozen,
l5aD; cucumbes. native. per basket, Rab
Maryland, and Virginia, Per barrel. 5oa75; cur
The Washington herald., 1917-08-05

rants. Maryland and Virginia, per quart, loal1
eggplants, Norfolk, per crate. I'5a20o; huckle-
berries, Southern, per quart, l2aH; Maryland
and Virginia, per quart. l0al2; kale, native, per
bushel box, l5a25; lettuce. New York, per box,
5ca1.o; native, per bushel boz, Sa50; lima
beans. per hamper, 175a20o; onions, Te1as-Ber'
muda, per crate, 1.l0el.25; Eastern Shore, Nd.
and Virginia, yellow. per basket. 75aloo; do,
do. per barred. 25oa275; do, white, per barrel.
2ooa2o; peaches. Southern. per crate. 2oOa
go; Maryland and Virginia, per basket. toa6o
do, per box, soaso; do, per carrier. 75al ooi
peppers. native, per basket, 4oa5o; plums. per
quart, S; rhubarb, nearby, per 100 punches. Soa
LOO; squash, native. per basket. loal5; tomatoes
Potomac, fancy, per carrier, 5oaf0; do, choice,
per carrier, 4oa5o; do, ordinary, per carrier, 3a
30; Rappahannock. per crate. 4oa6o; native, PEI
S-basket, 35a5o; vatermelons, Florida and Geor
gs. per 100. lo.ooaSo0o.
FRESH FISH, CLANS AND CRABS-But.
terhsh, per barrel, 1o.ooa120o; carp, per pound.
SAT; crocus. per barrel, 5.0oa6.oo; founders. per
pound, 5a6; gray trout, large. per barrel, s.0oa
100; salmon trout, per pound. sal0; rock, boil
ing. per pound. lss9; medium, per pound, Da
2; pan. per pound, 20a22; white perch. large.
per pound. l2al5; medium. per pound, sas; yel
low perch, large. per pound. l2al5; medium, PEI
pound, 6aS; mackerel, per pound, l5als; tailors
large, per pound. l2al5; medium, Gas; catfish.
per, pound, 4a6; green pike. native. per pound,
l5aIs; eeis, medium to large, per pound. 6al0
CLANS as to size. per 100. 75aso; hard crabs, az
to condition, per barrel, 200ai00; soft crabs a,
to size Der Dozen Za75
The Washington herald., 1917-08-05
WASHINGTON PRODUCE.

ouotations given below are for large lots ot
gnod marketable goods only. Joboers' prices
are higher. Lower grades nay be sold for less.
Fancy goods command higher prices.
EeGs-steady; nearby. y: Southern, Z.
cHEEsE-New York Stats factory. new,
ssz.
BUTTER-Ean print, q; Esin tub. q; pro
sss %; store packed. il.
PoULTRY-LiTs hens. per ID. %: ROSTERS.
per Ia, IS; turkeys, per h., Da2; spring chick
sus. pr h. 5a27; ducks. per h., i3ao; geese,
Der b.. ha3; keats, young, each 40a55.
DRESSED PoULTRY-Hens. choice. per b.,
2a2s; spring chickens. Ea3o per b; turkeys,
pa h, 9a25; roostsrs. per Ib., Halls; geese.
per b., I5al5.
LIVE sToCK-sheep, per h., Sal; lambs,
spring, Il; calves, per b., T3; medium, Ilar2
per D.; common, per h., sal0
sEEDS-Red clover, u-75al2 80 per bu-; alsks
cbor u-Ga2O per bu-; crimson clover, lo.T5a
IL per b.; timothy, 5s5aI-0 per bu.; ri
TOP l5.Ooals.oO per bu.; bluegrass, 2s5a3lo per
6l; orchard grass. 500 oer bu. white clover,
80 per b.; Alfalfa clover. Hals per h.; COW
peas. 3-5a3i5.
GRAIN-Wheat. milling. old, per b., asa
49, nsv, per bu-, 20a2I5; corn. per bu
2as2o; oats, white, per bu, 81; mixed, per
bu, 20.
FRUITS-Applss, new. per bbl, s.soas. %;
pr box, 3al-50; California oranges, 350a3T5;
lemons. s.Ool7.Oo; pines, S5a4oo; cherries,
BASKET. 45a75; peaches, lT5a20 crate; water
melons, Gao each; cantaloupes. Southern, sa
IS; Western, 2OO15.5O crate; blackberries. ss
III at.
GREEN GOODS-Potatoes, new, aOoaIp per
boli No. 2, L5Oa25 bbl; string beans. per
hols 25Oa3.6O; Peppers, per basket, 5a75; okra,
Per crate, 75al.50; radiShes, per 100, l50a2oo;
eucunoers. Der basket, Sa5O: eggplant, I.0a
zoo crzts; new cabbage, per bbl., 25a75; beets
Per bunch. 2a3; lettnos, L5oa20 per basket;
esler5, Per doz., s0a75; celery. per crate, 3.aa
500; romaine lettuce. 9a75: squash, 36a5o per
Gste; tomatoes, 5osloO czate: spring onions,
lSa1o0 Per loo bunches; onions Texas Ooa
ID srats; green peas, 30oa60O per bbl spG
ach, .l-oal.0 per bbL; kale. 50aso per bb.
com, per doz-, lOa5
The Washington herald., 1917-08-05
BROWNLOW CONFERS
ON LABOR TROUBLES
Commissioner Seeks to Avert
Threatened Car Strike.

District Commissioner Louis p.
Brownlow yesterday started a move
ment to avert further labor troubles
on the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company lines He called upon
the officers of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation, which directed the recent
strike and sought information as to
whether, they were behind the latest
effort to organise the employees.
Secretary Garthe Calderhead said
that the local union had nothing to
do with fermenting trouble among the
employees and was not encoura ging
any efforts to bring about a walk
out
No statement was issued by the
company, and the District Commits
sioners offered no information as to
the result of their investigation. Rep
resentatives of the Commissioners saw
q number of the employees and ques-
toned them relative to hours of labor
and general conditions on the lines.