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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
CalOmle Today,
Sick Tomorrow
Dose of nasty calomel makes you
sick and you lose a
DAVIS work

Colonel salivates! It's mercury.
CalomeI, acts like dynamite on a slug.
gish liver. When calomel comes into
contact with sour bile !, crashes into
it. causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel bilious. headachy, con.
stipated and all knocked out, Just 60
10 your druggist and get so cen
bottle Of Dodson's Liver Tone. which
is harmless vegetable substitute for
dangerous caIomel. Take a spoonful
and if it dosent start your liver and
straighten you up better and quicker
than nasty calomel and without maxi
ing you sick. you just 60 back and
get your money.
If you take calomel today you'll be
be sick and nauseated tomorrow; be-
sides. il may salivate you, while il you
take Dodson's Liver Tone you will
wake up feeling great, full Of ambition
and ready for work or play. It's
harmless, pleasant and safe to give to
children; they like it adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
NOTICE OF BOND SALE.

State of Mississippi,
Chickasaw County
Sealed bids will be received by thu
Board CT Supervisors of ChickasaM
County, Mississippi, at Okolona, Mis-.
sissippi, until IL o'clock noon, Mor-
day, September 10th, 1917, for FIT,
Thousand (50,00000) Dollars of Su.
pervisors District No. 3 Road Bonds
A Certified or Cashiers Check for
Sl000.0O must accompany each bid,
Bids msy be fled before the time
stated above with the Chancery Clerk
Houston. Mississippi.
The Board reserves the right tc
reject any and all bids and to proceed
at once to sell said Bonds at public
cutlery to the highest and best bidder
Witness my signature this the AL
day Of August. 1917.
w. A. WILKINSON.
.lerk Of the Board Of Supervisors.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
Honor Roll

We want to say to our fellow
citizens of Okolona that as soon
as practicable-that is after the
first draft is completed an
honor roll will be posted in the
Okolona Public Library of the
men of Okolona and vicinity,
who are in the war service OF
the country. AS the years speed
by this will become a precious
heritage.
Respectfully,
H. B. Lacey.
Pres. Library Association.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
NOTICE.

The Council Of the City Of Okolo
ma at its regular meeting OF
Friday. Sept 9Th. 1917. will
receive sealed bids e o
$8000.00 Unrest bearing warrents for
the city Of OkoIona to be dated Sept
18th. 1917. payable 100000 on tie
18th day Of September. 1918 and
100000 each year thereafter unit.
total issue is paid.
Warrants will bear interest at the
rate Of FIVE and one-hslf percent
(53f) per snnum. payable seminar.
nually.
Proceeds will be used for the pur-
pose Of resurfacing parts Of Main,
Fleming end Jefferson Streets. and
warrents will be payable out Of the
general fund Of the City.
Each bid must be accompanied BY
a certified check for $4,000 payable
to W. j. Williams. CITY Clerk. The
Council reserves the right to reject
any and all bids. R. j. West
Mayor.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
A Card
To my friends and former Gus

To my friends and former Gus.
toners:
am glad to announce to you
that | am again to locate in
Okolona and will be in a posi-
ton to serve you as in former
times. After Sept. LIST / will be
with ]. Rubel & Co., where ]
will be pleased to have you call
and give me your trade.
promise you the same, considera-
ton and treatment I accorded
you when in business for myself.
Thanking you for all past
favors and business and trusting
to merit your patronage still,
/ am, Yours truly,
Els. Elliott.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

relief and six bottles have entirely
cured me. All women who have female
trouble of any kind should try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. -
Mrs. Eta DoRIoN, Ogdensburg, Wis.
Physicians undoubtedly did their best,
battled with this case steadily and could
do no more, but often the most scientific
treatment Is surpassed by the medicinal
properties of the good old fashioned
roots and herbs contained in Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
write the Lydia Z. Pin a Medicine RsGe oe
Co.. Lynn, Mass. for special free advice
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

The banks in some localities
are arranging to advance money
on corn in standard sacks of 140
pounds each. We are not advis-
ed if our local banks will do so.
Surely they will. In fact they
must if the trade is to be held
here.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS

The examinations for teacher.
license win be held as follows:
White-Houston, Thursday. Friday
and Saturday, Sept 6. 7 & 9th.
Colored-Housion. Thursday. Friday
and Saturday, Sept. 10. IA & 18th.
White kolons. Thursday. Friday
and Saturday. Sept 20. 81 & %.
CoIored Okoloua. Thursday. Friday
and Saturday,. Sept. 81. % & 20.
Examination in Algebra and Theory
and Practice Of Teaching will be held
Thursday Afternoons.
Geo. D. Riley, Supt.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

for entering it.
But the effect is bad. Some
people with less information
than the Major may think we
are really fighting for these old
world powers over old world
questions and rebel against such
loss of blood and treasure in
their behalf. And right they
would be if the quarrel were
Euporean. Wehave no business
with our nose in their affairs.
But while this is true, their
necessities must net be made an
excuse for taking away our
rights and shall not be, while red
blood flow through American
veins.
Relating to money and food =
this is purely a business propo-
sition and a good one at that.
We are giving them nothing.
What they get they pay for and
that at a remunerative price.
That we loan them money to pay
with makes the deal all the bet
ter for us. Before the war this
county owed Europe upwards
of two billion dollars. Every
year our large trade balance was
wiped out by the interest pay
ments on this debt and we had
to send them hundreds of
thousands of dollars besides.
This is changed now. Our Sc
curitias have come home; about
a third of all the gold in the
world has found it's way here;
and Europe owes US large debt.
After the war is over, Uncle
Sam will hold the purse strings
and Europe will pay the interest.
That is-the case today. How do
you like the change? For our
part we prefer that the nation
receive rather than pay interest.
Now, let us have no Stacking.
Let's go into the war with a
vim and be done with it. And
since our rights were challenged,
let's make our rights secure.
Our fathers taught the world
democracy, let's make the
world safe for democracy" for
all time. This is the one great
duty we owe in the evolution of
human affairs. r
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
Gamble
Wanted

A man who can furnish his
own horse to act as salesman
and collector for the Singer Sew
ing Machine Co. at Okolona and
Chickasaw Co. High grade COM
mission allowed.
Singer Sewing Machine Co.,
Columbus, Miss.
S. w. Clarke, Mgr.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

|, pans IKE q knife
through my back
ana side. i finally
lost all my strength
so | had to go to
bed. The doctor
advised an oper-
alton but / would
not listen to it. /
thought Of what I
had read about Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and
tried it. The first
kAA2v L.AIA
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

American troops are now in
the first line trenches in France.
Soon the lists of killed will be
coming in. This is the signal
for all enemy sympathizers to
shut up or move out, else there
will be some necktie" parties.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

The telephone will be a neces-
sity in Trucking another year.
Let's get busy and have the
system this Fall, so we can have
it in good working order next
spring.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

The corn market seems to be
demoralized. Fear not. There
will be a demand for every
busheI at a good price. If wheat
is to be worth $500 a bushel.
and it is, corn will bring around
$50. Now, don't get scared
and sell out at a low figure and
then curse the Spectator next
spring.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
No Malaria No Chills

Plantation" Chill Tonic is
guaranteed to drive away Chills
and Fever or your money refund
ed. Price SOC. adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
OKOLONA MISS. AUG 80 1917
Not Fighting Europe's Battles

III Jul ioSuC u IdSt Wcch VT
published an article by Maj. Ell
Perkins in which he states,
England and France ought tc
think a great deal of US, when
we loan them money to pas
their debts, rations to feed their
armies and send the flower OF
our country to fight their
battles. I"
Now, we cannot believe that
the Major means to be disloyaI
to his government by engaging
in a propaganda to make
the war unpopular or to
encourage opposition to enlist
ments. Nor do we believe that
he would knowingly lead any
person into error. Yet these
are the very things that he has
lone. He evidently did not
call to mind the whole facts of
history nor the psychological
effects his words might have.
We are not fighting the bat
ties Of England and France nor
of either of them. 1t is our own
quarrel with Germany and that
too over an international ques-
ton purely between America
and Germany, a question of
treaty rights between the two, a
question involved in every war
wherein we have fired a shot
the question of Freedom. Little
did this country care how purely
European questions were settled
Or what nations were allied to-
gether, but we are not a nation
to be booted around and that is
exactly what Germany attempt
ed to do.
Years ago, when both Ger
many and the United States
we're weak nations they entered
in a solemn and signed agree
ment that should either nation
become involved in a war with a
4 third power that the warning
of the treaty would re-
spect the right Of the other to
trade with the enemy, even in
contrabrand where it was not
possible to discharge such cargo
Or carry the ship into a home
port. In this war Germany con-
;idered this treaty as only "a
scrap of paper, " and disregard
I'd it wholly by sending our
merchant ships to the bottom of
he ocean. And not only that,
)ut she sent our people down as
veil until more than two humid
ed had found death at her
ian Is. Then it was that she
old Uncle Sam to get off a
arge part of the free ocean an
'cean largely made free by the
Hood of our fathers in three
vars. Is this England's quarrel
vhen we thrashed her to make
Ter respect this very right? Is
t Frances quarrel when our
hips, over this very same ques-
ion, cleared for action and pour
d hot shot into her vessels to
orce her, too, to respect this
light, and when one of our
tatesmen very proudly informs
d her that there were millions
or defense but not one cent for
Surely the Major
vould not have this generation |
mink of retreating from the
ign ground taken by our nation
i its infancy, nor do we believe
e would have US surrender a
ingle right won by the blood of
ur sathers. He merely called
England and Frances battles
ecause they were IN the war
rst, whatever theirt motive was
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
G A 9 T Q RIA
This is the Age of Youth

You will look ten years young
er if you darken your ugly, griz-
Ely, gray hairs by using La
Creole" Hair Dressing. Price
$1.OO. adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

by keeping Mississippi Diarrhoea
Cordial handy for all stomach
complaints. Price 25c and SOC.
adv,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic y equally valuable as q
General Tonic because Il contains the
well knoRE tonic properties of QUININR
and IRON. II acts on the Liver. Drives
out Malaria, Hnfiches the Blood and
Builds up The Whole system. 50 cent?.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
10 Cure 3 Cold n One Day,

Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Quininu Il stops IRE
Cough and Headache and works Oh the Cold.
Druggists refund money II Il fails 20 cure.
=. ". ckovEs signature % each box. soc.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30
PAINS SHARP
and STABB|NG
Woman Thought She Would
Die. Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkhan's Vegetable
Compound.

Ogdensburg, VISIT suffered from
female troubles which caused piercing
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

Telephones: Residence. Ind 126:
Office: Independent %; Cumberland SO
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

Advertising rates furnished on re-
quest.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-30

W 7 QUINN, Editor and Publisher.
Sharp County record., 1917-06-08
Edwards
Nero. Go.

that their husbands will not need
to 90 to the front
Uncle Joe Rinstidt, aged 70 and
too old to enlist, insists he is not
too old to fight. While in Napoleon,
Indiana, he heard a man cursine
and abusing the United States
Uncle Joe landed a left upper cut
and put the talker out Tor several
minutes. He insists he will handle
all other defamers of the govern
ment in the same manner.
John Anderson, a bachelor re-
cmse, aged II years, was burned to
death when his home near Louis
vile, Georgia, wes destroyed by
fire, When the blaze was discover
ed the house was almost burned
d o W n, the old mans remains
being found near the door
along with an old metal box which
had contained paper money,
The training camps of the new
army must be kept free from temp
tations, says Secretary Of War Bak-
er in an appeal to the governors of
the different states, He has asked
the state executives, through their
counsels of defense, to help remove
ali unwholesome influences from
the vicinity of the camps, In his
appeal Secretary Baker says that 1t
is imperative that the men be kept
morally clean.
Emery Peck, Of Sea Side Heights,
New Jersey, has been sentenced to
stay sober for IS years and to have
the sheriff place bis picture In every
barroom in Ocean county. Peck,
who had been a drinker for many
years, was convicted Of setting fire
to a neighbors house while under
the influence of liquor, Judge Jer-
sey, who presided at the trial, gave
Peck his choice Of a sentence Of 10
years In prison, with a fine Of ST.
600, or a sentence to remain sober
for IS years, Peck, without a
moments hesitation, chose the latter
sentence,
Sharp County record., 1917-06-08
FIGURE ON IT

1t is approximately twelve miles
from the Strawberry river bridge,
north of Evening Shade, to Cave
City.
In road district six miles wide
there would be 9840 acres of land
per mile included in the district.
If it should cost $4,000 a mile
to build the road $4,000 would be
required to do the work,
A little work in arithmetic will
show that, on an average, a tax of
a little more than fifty cents per
acre on the land in the district will
build the road.
When the federal and state aid is
used, a tax of twenty-five cents per
acre would build the road.
Assuming that the bonds issued
would run for twenty years, a little
more work in arithmetic will show
that a total tax of "a little more
than one cent per acre per year, on
an average, will build the road.
AS a business proposition, how
does that hit you?
The man who would lose his
land" because of a tax of that size
is we'll on the road to losing his
land and everything else he owns,
we should think.
Think it over Figure on it
yourself, Don't kick any more un-
til you figure awhile.
Sharp County record., 1917-06-08
GENERAL news
TOLD IN FEW LINES
Happenings In All Parts Of
The Country Boiled Down,
To Brief Lines.

A dance in Kansas City, Missouri,
was broken up recently when re-
cruitine officers invaded the place
Every man on the floor signed up,
breaking up the dance.
When Mrs, Margaret Nauehton,
of Chicago, Illinois, told Judge
Thompson that her husband, David
A. Nauehton, had spent more than
$1,000 for liquor in two years, the
judge granted her divorce,
Enlistments from Kiln, Mississippi,
have taken so many men away
from a large sawmill that negro
women are being used as mill hands,
The Kiln commissary store is run
entirely by a force of white women.
After sleeping 90 consecutive
hours, Joseph Ely, 81 years old, of
Paducah, Kentucky, Is dead He
had suffered from measles, followed
by a state Of coma from which
physicians were unable to arouse
him.
A patriotic freak Of the storm OF
Mattoon, Illinois, was the carrying
of a ilaepole from the home of G. M
Metcaf a distance of four blocks to
the premises Of Raymond Coon
where the staff was planted In the
soft earth with the Stars and Stripes
still flying
Slackers In Kansas City, Missouri
ere trying a new method for beat
ine the selective draft law passed
by Congress, During recent weeks
scores of newly married couples
have eornbed orphan asylums II
their search for babies to adopt
t'oster.mothers have then boastec
Sharp County record., 1917-06-08

abandoned by the authorities they
are getting away absolutely, which
is a natural result, and they are
surely and certainly becoming i'm
passable, and at times unnavigable.
The work of the overseers on the
public roads BEATS NOTHING
ALL TO DEATH, and, with the
lesson before them, if the taxpayers
submit another year to an arrange
ment such as exists this year, then
we mistake their temper.
Sharp County record., 1917-06-08
NORTH ARKANSAS NEWS PARAGRAPHS

inG by Presiding Elder WiIford of
BateSville.
JnO. L. Bledsoe of Calico Rock,
candidate for delegate to the con-
stitutional convention from lizard
county, announces through the
Melbourne Times that he is opposed
to any radical changes in the pres
ent constitution.
The Diaz correspondent of the
Newport Independent says: we
note that quite a number of young
men are getting married to avoid
the cOnscription law We believe
we would rather face a rifle than
a rolling pin any time"
The Tuckerman correspondent of
the Newport Independent says: If
the present outlook continues favor
able, Bird township will raise a
bumper crop. Probably never in
the history of this section has such
a diversity of food crops been plant
ed."
The contract for building road
% miles long, running from Walnut
Ridge to Cache river, through O'Kean,
was let last week to Newman Greg
ory, of I kama. The road will
be rock and culverts of concrete
and iron bridges. Work will begin
at once.
While John Barker of Frisbee,
Lawrence county, was plowiDg in
his field on one of the recent windy
days a dead tree fell across the
mule he was plowing, killing the
animal instantly, and Mr., Barker's
escape from death was very mar
row. The mule was worth $175.
d. Roddy, a negro porter running
on the White river road from Joplin,
Mo-, to Newport, whose home is at
Batesville, was arrested last week
on the charge of violating the bone
dry law, The neero's grip was
found to contain IL pints of whiskey.
He plead guilty and was fined $500
and costs.
Sam Hodge of Melbourne became
mentally unbalanced last week and
was lodged in Jail until arrange
ments could be made to convey
him to the state hospital. Prior to
being placed in Jail Mr.. Hodge gave
the sheriff the dodge, and after a
search of several hours he was dis
covered in the branches of a large
tree near town
The Arnold Grocery Co. Of Mel.
bourne has the following advertise
ment in the Times of that town.
People remind us every day of what
they used to pay for things. II you
can think Of anything in this world
that is as cheap as II used to be
except working mans WAGES come
in and tell uS, trade fifty cents and
take a cigar on us"
This item comes from Newport
The scarcity of farm loborers in
this section Is more marked now
tnan ever before at this season.
County Farm Demonstration Geo.
II. Banks says that the condition is
causing considerable inconvenience
Ia the White river valley, aud offers
to place in good paying positions all
laborers who will communicate with
him at once"
Sharp County record., 1917-06-08

Chancellor G 7, HumphrieS grant
ed divorces to thirteen couples in
chancery court at Newport last
week.
One thousand people attended
flag raising at Tupelo one day last
week. A number of patriotic ad-
dresses were made.
j. w. Ragan, for several years a
merchant at Imboden, last week
left with his family for California,
where they will reside.
There was a sugar famine at
! Mountain Home for several days
last week, not a pound of sugar be-
ing on sale at any store in town.
The large farm residence OF D. W.
Fender of Holmes, Randolph coun-
ty, was destroyed by fire one morn
! ing last week. The loss was about
$4,000.
While repairing the roof of his
!, residence a few days ago Z. M,
Barksdale of Anderson, lizard coun-
ty, fell from the roof TO the ground,
| breaking his collar bone.
Ex Gov. Geo, W. Donaghey of
Little Rock delivered an address at
Batesville last week urging citizens
to subscribe to the bond issue of
the government to support the war
Paul Judkins, 6-year-Old boy at
! Walnut Ridge, was taken i'll sudden
ly one night last week and was a
corpse in two or three hours. Ply
! sicians said a blood clot developed
on the lads brain
The colored people of Batesville
held a mass meeting last week and
pledged themselves to support the
government in the present war.
The meeting was addressed by sew
eral white citizens.
Mize Bros. of Lynn last week pur-
chased the stock Of goods belonging
to the late S. A. D. Jones at Smith
vile for 83 1-2 cents on the dollar.
The new firm will continue the busi-
oess at Smithville.
Citizens of Batesvile have
petitioned Gov. Broueh to appoint
Rev. M. W. Lockhardt, of the Epis-
copal church at Batesville, as chap
lain of the Third Regiment of Ark
ansns National Guards,
FIR, Long of Black Rock last
week sheared his large herd Of
sheep. The sheep averaged nine
pounds of wool per head, and with
the price of 40 cents a pound the
clip was worth $500 a head,
Major Alfred Jobljn, for many
years a resident of Batesville and
well known as cotton buyer, died
at Kansas City, No., last week, at
the ale of 70 years Major Joblin
was born on the Isle of Wight,
The Frisco depot at Ravenden
was destroyed by fire one night
last week, Several box cars on a
siding were also destroyed. The
fre is thought to have been started
from the explosion of lamp in the
depot
A revival meeting in the Metho-
dist church at Melbourne closed last
week, after fifty conversions had
been reported, Rev, j, W, Black,
the pastor, was assisted in the meet
Sharp County record., 1917-06-08

Rufe Comstock, just across the
Missouri line, is the proud owner
of five fine jassacks. That's a
quorum. Rufe is almost If not al
together fixed to start another fac
ton of the Republican party
Mammoth Spring Sun.
This fellow Comstock is certainly
drawing heavily On John Halls be-
loved party, and one can hardly
blame John for being cross about
it.
%
Bill Careill planted cotton last
week in gloves, overcoat and over
shoes, Viola News.
If Bill had put his cotton in the
ground, like other folks do, he
might have had more business at
the Gin next fall.
o
We say it again; If your SUBJ
scription is paid, 90 ahead and cuss
this paper to your hearts content.
If your subscription Is unpaid, hold
your wrath as tight as you are
gripping your dollar.
o
Just at this time everybody can
make good money attending to
their own affairs. But that would
be devilish hard on some folks.
o.
The high cost of living Is not
coming down. And, having blus-
tered, the wind has laid up in dear
old congress,