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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
BILBO SETS EXAMPLE

The governor of Mississippi, Theodore G. Bilbo, is setting a good example for the farmers of tine state, and never fails to appeal to them to follow in his foot steps to produce the biggest food crop the state has ever experienced. The governor owns and operates a farm near his old home at Poplarville, in the piney woods section of the state, and spends great many of his idle days thereon. He comes back to Jackson telling marvellous tales as to what he has been dong-even to blowing, hoing, splitting rails and building fences-and really shows big corns and blisters on his hands. However, he sticks to the job. and claims to be producing crops Of corn, potatoes, peas, hay etc, that will make it necessary for him to enlarge all of his barns. Reports from all sections of the state are to the effect that every farmer is doing the same as is Governor Bilbo, and to that end have plowed up thousands of acres of cotton put corn, peas, etc, in it's place. This has not been altogether from a patriotic sense of duty, however, "Old Master having sent such cold spring that cotton has died, if it ever came up, and it was too late to replant with the expectation Of getting ahead of the boil weevil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
Syrup Manufacturer Tells of Profits Made in Pro-
 ductiOn of Cane
GOV. BILBO LEADS
 FOOD CAMPAIGN
Chief Executive Sets Good Example to Be Followed by Farmers. Recruiting of Guard Regi-
 ment Not Very Active
By E.. E.. FRANTZ

Jackson, Miss, May 19.-(Special )-Mr Quinsenberry, representative of the Southern Syrup Manufacturing company With headquarters at Montgomery. was in Jackson a few days since, and made very sensible talk to the Central Cooperative Market association. This association is composed of farmers who agree as to what they are going to try to produce and to sell Cn the co-opera- tive plan.
 Two or three years ago, MT. Quinsen- berry came to Jackson and established what is known as a "molasses factory, , but for sometime the farmers of this territory did not take to it very kindly. They had an idea they should get IS much for their molasses by the barrel or carload as they got when they peddled 1t around over the city of Jackson and sold 1t by the gallon for 50 cents. How ever, they have learned that an acre of cane or sorghum will make more money when sold at 25 or 30 cents per gallon than they can make off cotton. under boil weevil conditions, at 20 cents Der pound, and they are now contracting to plant good acreages to sorghum
 
 farmers of his home territory have been doing. and urged Those of Mississippi to fall in line. They were advised to plant frt m five to 25 acres in cane. and A great many of them are going to do so, beng confident of about $1O0 per acre for the entire-.crop. There never was such a strong demand for sorghum mo- lasses as now One of them wholesale mer- chants of Jackson told the Board of Trade few nights since that he had been 'orced to turn down orders for several carloads of sorghum syrup to be deIiv- cred at Omaha next fall. He contracted for few carloads, but was afraid he could not get any more The average Mississippi white man will not eat sorg- hum, and has never raised it except to feed his negroes and his hogs. The west has come to the conclusion it is a good feedsfuff for man, and wants all 1t can get. In the event the seasons prove fairly good this year MT. Quinsenberry will be i'll position to give these westerners all the sorghum they can eat, while Missis- s1ppi will stand by her old-time Louisiana cane syrup-considered by everybody here just as good or better than maple syrup
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

your toes in bandages to look like bun dles, who have used salves that turned . your toes raw and sore, and used plas- ters that would shift fyom their place and never get the corn, and who have dug and picked at your corns with them bleed-just quit these old and painful ways and try "Gets-It" just once. You put two or three drops on, and 1t dries at once. There's nothing to stick. You can put your shoe and stocking right on again, The pain is all gone. Then the corn dies painless, shrivel- ing death it loosens from your toe and off it comes. "Gets-It" is the biggest selling corn remedy in the world today. There's none other as good.
 "Gets-It" is sold by druggists every where 25c a bottle, or sent on receipt of price by E, Lawrence & Co.,. Chicago. III,
 Sold in Birmingham and recommended as the worlds best corn remedy by Eugene Jacobs Drug Store, Gale Drug Co. @ stores), 307 First Avenue and Pratt Station. Pratt City. Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
NEW KIND OF CHARTER

charter for the Fiscal Agency company, with domicie in Jackson, and capitalized by Natchez business men at $l5,OO0. The charter states that the purpose of the company is to obtain options on public utilities, sell and dispose of same" This was a new enterprise for Mississippi and the charter was tied up in the office of the attorney general several days. Gen. Stirling finally approved it, but changed the period of existence from 50 to one year. It is understood that the company proposes to buy up and operate every street ca line, electric light plant, etc, it can get hold Of with promise that tho cost of such service will be reduced about one-half of what the people of Mississippi are HOW paying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
COAL DEALERS ARE SHY

The city of Jackson recently advertised for bids on 1900 tons of coal and met to receive them, but no bids were filed. The coal dealers do not know just what to do about offering coal, the price of that great necessity being high and cars hard to get. The state of Mississippi also wants bids on coal, several thousand tons, the present contract at about sS per ton expiring in June. Already there is talk of using wood instead of coal this winter, and no doubt thousands more cords will be burned this winter than last
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
WILL BUILD GRAVEL ROAD

There is one county in Mississippi Leake. that has no railroad connection with the outside world. Carthage, the capital of Leake, is not more than 50 miles from Jackson, to the north, and in the Pearl river valley, a very fertile region. A railroad from Jackson would open a great and rich territory. but Jackson has never been able to raise the money to do as she has frequently threatened, and build railroad. Leake has now taken the matter in her own hands, and will build a gravel road to the Madison county line 10 miles north of Jackson, putting them in close touch with both Canton and Jackson, and the Illinois Central rail- road
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
WERE TOO LIGHT WEIGHT

Eight or the 50 Jackson young men who left here two weeks ago for the officers
 training school at Little Rock Ark, have returned home, having been rejected on account of physical defects. Too light weight was the diagnosis in most of their cases, though one of them was told his loot was too flat. These boys are sons of some of Jacksons most prominent cit izens and their disappointment at not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
SHORTENS HIS SENTENCE

A few days since Arthur Muh pleaded guilty in federal court here to the en1- bezzlement of s1s000 from the Jackson State National bank and was sentenced to six years in the Atlanta prison. Since that time Judge Niles announced from the bench that he would knock off one year, giving the young man but five years. Muh belongs to an old and highly respected family here and relatives promptly made good his pecuations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
A Wonderful New Volume

 THE publishers of the Encyclopaedia Britannica announce that they have made arrangements for the issue, soon after the end of the war possible, of a new volume, containing full and authoritative history of the
 The volume will be written by scholars and experts of the high character those who for the Britannica itself, and by many of it's contributors. It will be absolutely impartial excluding all partisan feeling and prejudice. It will contain
 1. A judicial account of the real causes of the war, the progress of the struggle and the results all over the world; with maps, necessary, to show changes in boundaries.
 2. The lives of the new leaders, whether civil, military naval, in the bellgerent countries 3. The results of the outside the sphere of fighting, the progress of surgery, the preven- ton of contagious disease, the new scientific discoveries, etc
 The volume will bridge the gap between the days of peace before and after the It will be printed and bound to match the Britannica and the publishers guarantee that matter how diff cult and costly the supplementary volume may be from the editorial point of view, the price of it to all who purchase the Britannica during the present sale will not be than that of corresponding volume of the Britannica.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
Use "Gets-It, Lift
 Corn Right Off
shrivels. Loosens-and It's Gone:

Just like taking the lid off-that's how easy you can lift a corn off your toe after it has been treated with the wonderful discovery, 'Gets-It" Hunt the. wide world over and you'll find nothing so magic, simple and easy as "Gets-It." You folks who have wrapped
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
WERE TOLD TOGO HOME

being permitted to go to Europe and whip few Germans is keen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
A DOUBLE MURDER

The bodies of two fishermen. Pearl Coker and Walter Nixon, were found this week. Nixon in Pearl river and Coker in a siukhole in the woods. about 100 yards from the river. Both men had been mur- dered Nixon with bullet hole through the head. while Coker was shot through the heart. George Rhinehemer aged 23 is now in jail at Brandon charged with the crime. but stoutly maintains his in- nocense It is generally believed that he is guilty, but the evidence against him is all circumstantial and no motive can ne found. The affair is shrouded in mys- tery and the Identity of the murderer may never be known unless Rhineheimer breaks down and confesses, as it is be- lieved he will do. Meantime, the people of Jackson are not fishing and hunting up or down Pearl river, believing it safer to enlist in the army and go to Germany.
 CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
 Governor Bilbo has issued proclama- tion calling for 300 volunteers to fill the First Mississippi regiment to war strength, but it is not believed he is going to get them, enlistments have been coming slow the past several days for all branches of the service The governor and Adjutant General Scales have been holding conferences and discussing the situation with the probability of being IOrced 10 the necessity or cOnScrlpulnS the men needed. They have that author ity and in the event there are not suf ficient volunteers by the time they are wanted, the machinery of the law will be put in operation-so they state.
 TICKS GETTING SCARCE
 Dr. H. H. Chadwick, representative of the state live stock sanitary board in the enforcement of the statewide cattle dip ping law for the eradication of ticks, has just returned from a tour of inspection through some of the lower counties and reports that in Lamar county, where there has been a great deal of lawless- ness and considerable opposition to dip ping, he found only two matured ticks. A number of concrete vats, erected at the countys expense, have been dyna- mited in Lamar, six of them few nights ago. and IT others during April, but all that does Is to cause inconvenience to the farmers, as they are compelled to dip, and must drive their cattle great dis tances to reach vats until those nearby can be rebuilt. Dr. Chadwick does not doubt that Mississippi will be absolutely free of ticks by the end of the year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
Why You Should Bay fhe Britannica

Hundreds of letters tesfyng to the day value and practical usefulness of the Britannica.
 James Pinckard lawyer Montgomery, Alabama writes w have had my set of The Encyclopaedia Britannica for than five years and think of than did the day delivered It my most entertaining, instructive and friend In fact hold it next my affections members of family really think is the greatest book of the ages"
 From Earl Bratton Edgerton Ohio I highly pleased with the books every way also with the nstalment plan which enables me to purchase the books
 George A. Holdermess President of the Farmers Banking Trust Co.,. Taboro, C.. says: As reference book find your Encyclopaedia Britannica of immense value but my boy in high school it is simply essential"
 We could quote pages such letters from people all walks of e active busy successful and women who and use and profit from the Britannica.
 The Britannica practical library of Knowledge that every to good advantages library of facts and nforma ton for the husband in his business the wife her home the children in their school work.
 Wouldn't profit from having such wealth of knowledge and facts constantly your beck ca Wouldn't you in your earning capacity enjoy more of the comforts of M nyou Knew more and could therefore do more?
 Think it over NOW. And decide NOW
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15
Speaking of Our Finances.

In connection with our finances 1t
may be as well to contradict two cur
rent rumOrs as to the way we get
and spend money, both of which are
entirely without foundation. One ru-
NOR is to the effect that the govern
ment allowed our local r. G.. auxil-
iary 10 cents on each meal Of every
soldier fed in Ashland. This is false,
as our books will show, Another cur
rent report is that the funds Of our
local Red Cross have been used to
buy tobacco for the soldiers. This
again has no foundation in fact, and,
since money talks" our cash ac-
count, which is available to those in
terested at any time, will deny this
report most conclusively. However.
the stand of both the Red Cross and
the Y. NJ. c. A. on the tobacco ques-
tion has occasioned so much unfavor-
able comment that this column pro-
poses to devote a few words of ex-
planation to this matter next time.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15

with white canvas screens placed on
the north side of trees, also walls
of wood painted white, and find that
the reflected light from the sun
against the white surface hastens the
ripening. 1t is not necessary to have
the reflector extend to the ground,
only enough being needed to throw
the sunlight against the fruit.
On the same principle l have rip
ened tomatoes several weeks earlier
than my competitors. Semi-ripe fruit
placed upon long shelves, behind
which are placed strips of mirrors,
will ripen quickly and evenly and
need never be turned once they have
been placed. Tin or any polished
metal acts just as well as a mirror,
and in fact anything that will easily
reflect light. Thus Old Sol is made
to do double duty for me-he shines
on both sides of the fruit at once
F. E. Brimmer In Farm and Fireside.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15
The Soldiers Christmas.

Christmas in the trenches, amid the
rats and stenches. What a Christ
mas! And yet we may do something
to help make it endurable by giving
what we can, either in cash or in act
ual presents to our local Christmas
box committee, headed by Mrs. W. H.
McNair. If you are wondering just
what to contribute, look in our show
window at R. c. Headquarters for
suggestions. The boys "out there,
don't forget theml
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15
Fuel Is Scarce
In Sister Town

Medford is facing a fuel famine,
according to wood dealers in that
city. In a statement made by one
dealer his supply will last only about
two weeks, and when that is gone he
does not know where the next will
come from. There is plenty of wood
in Jackson county, the dealers say
but it is impossible to get any one
to split or haul it, as choppers who
usually get the winter supply in were
making more money in other lines of
work. Coal is also difficult to secure
in our sister town, but it is reported
that this lack will be remedied soon.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15
Fruit and Farm
Suitable Quarters Required.

suitable quarters required.
With the arrival of the fall months
special attention should be given to
the management of the farm poultry
flock, especially with regard to the
housing and health Of the fowls. AT
this season of the year when the days
are growing shorter and the nights
longer, the fowls naturally. spend
more time in their quarters than dur
ing the summer, consequently more
attention should be given to the
cleanliness of the poultry house and
the droppings should be removed
more frequently.
Since the fowls now spend more
time in the poultry house, care
should be taken to see that they are
not crowded. Frequently the crowd
ing of chickens has a decided detri-
mental effect on their health and oft
times it materializes into an epidemic
of roup or some other disease
throughout the flock. To prevent
such a condition and to add to their
comfort, the birds should be thinned
out so as to allow from three to four
square feet of floor space per bird,
depending upon the size of the fowls
and on the length of time they are
confined to the house, as influenced
by the arrival of winter. For exam
pie, house with a floor space of IA
by 20 feet provides sufficient space
for about 20 fowls of the general
purpose breed, such as the Barred
Plymouth Rocks, or about 80 fowls
of the Mediterranean or smaller
breeds, such as the Leghorns.
AS a general preventive against
disease, such as roup, etc. poultry
houses should be well ventilated but
free from drafts; that is. the backs
and sides should be tight, allowing
the ventilation to come from the
front of the building. An inspection
as to the condition of the roof may
lead to the discovery of leaks, which
If repaired in time will insure dry
house for tho fowls during the win
ter. Dryness as we'll as ventilation
is very important as influencing the
health of the fowls. It is good poll
icy at this season of the year to re-
move the dirt from houses having
earthern floors to the depth Of about
six inches and fill in with fresh
earth. Such practices as these not
only embrace good management but
add to the general health of the
fowls.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15
fastening Fruit-Ripening.

A few years ago I made a discovery
that may be of some use to other
truck farmers and small fruit grow
ers. 1t 50 happened that canvas
tent was pitched on the north side Of
one of my peach trees during the
time that they were ripening. I was
much surprised to see that the fruit
on this side of the tree ripened as
quickly as on the south side, al
though trees nearby in the same row
ripened their fruit much slower on
the north than south side.
Since then l have experimental
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15
Urgent Need for Action.

At the recent meeting in Washing
ton of 100 livestock raisers and
dairymen, brought together by Secre-
tary of Agriculture Houston and
Food Administrator Hoover to act as
a national committee on the livestock
industry. special attention was given
to methods for bringing about a
quick and material increase in the
production of meat and milk in the
United States. The urgent need of
greater supplies Of meat during the
war has been generally realized. 1t
is not so well understood that larger
numbers of all kinds of livestock on
American farms are requisite for the
period following the war, because
the European countries will be forced
to continue to import large part of
their meat supplies long after peace
is restored. A large export trade in
grade Mares cows, ewes and sows Is
expected rs only by such means can
Europe restore her commercial flocks
to their former food-producing ca
pacity. Even without an export trade
in meats or livestock the home de-
mand will bo sufficient to insure
profitable prices for livestock prod
ucts. This fact was strongly in evil
dence before the war, but its signifl-
canoe has been obscured by the un-
usual prices of the last two years.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15
Home

The best place on earth. Now is
your time to buy home. Put your
savings into home and have some
thing that every family should strive
to own. With the price of lumber
and other building supplies climbing,
the value Of the home investment
which can be made today is very
much enhenced. Good homes all
ready to- move into, at much less
than what you could possibly build
for, if you owned the land. Good
reasons for selling.
Seven-room well-built house. good
condition, large plot Of ground, good
location, close in, $2,700.
Five-room house, hard finished,
near high school, $500.
House and lot in Mob Hill addition,
$500.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15
LEGAL NOTICES.

SUMMONS.-Suit in Equity for Dr.
yorce.
In the Circuit Court In and for
Jackson County, State Of Oregon.
Thomas Wesley Mann, plaintiff,
vs.. Helen Arfort Mann, defendant.
To Helen Arfort Mann, the above
named defendant:
In the name Of the State Of Ore
gon: You are hereby summoned
and required to appear and answer
the Complaint Of the plaintiff on
file with the Clerk of said Court
within six weeks from the date of
the first publication of this Sum-
mons, and If you fail to appear and
plead in said cause within said
time the plaintiff will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded in
said Complaint, to-wit: That the
bonds of matrimony now existing
between you and the plaintiff be
dissolved.
By order of the Hon. F. M. Cal
kins, Judge of said Court. made and
dated on the 23rd day of October,
1917, this Summons is served on
you by the publication thereof for
six successive weeks in the Ashland
Tidings, a newspaper printed and
published at Ashland, said county,
and by said order you are required
to answer within six weeks.
Date of first publication, October
25th. 1917.
Time for answer expires Deem
her 9Th, 1917.
E. D. BRIGGS.
Attorney for Plaintiff, Ashland,
Oregon. 45-6t-Thurs.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15

When Kaiser Bill left hundreds Of
millions of German property over
here where our government could
seize it, 1t never occurred to him that
our folks would care about such a
little thing as sinking lot of our
ships
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15
u RedCrOSS
II T. Activities
A "Y" Job Near Home.

The Y. NJ. c. A. is cooperating
with the U. Of o. to provide free uni
versity extension courses for our boys
at Fort Stevens. 1t is planned to
make the courses at the fort approx
mate those on the campus as closely
as possible.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-11-15

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT of Ad-
ministratrix and to present claims.
In County Court, Jackson County,
Oregon.
Estate of Claud Frederic Duty, de-
ceased.
The undersigned has been duly
appointed and qualified as Admin
istratrix of said estate. Any one
having a claim against said estate
is required to present the same,
duly verified, at the Billings Of
flee. Ashland, Oregon, within six
months from the first publication
hereof, which is Nov. 1, 1917.
MAUD DUTY,
47-5t-Thur. Administrative.