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Macon beacon., 1917-05-18

Vicksburg The Warren county CO
operative creamery elected officers,
as follows: Prof. j. H. Culkin, presi'
dent; A. ]. Martin, vice president; o,
II. Schleef, manager and secretary;
Joseph Hirsh, treasurer. All maehin.
cry in the creamery has been received
and will be ready for operations with,
in the next few days.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
SHAPE COURSE, STICK TO
This Is Only Effective Policy to Pursued by Commercial Club,
 1t Is Declared.

Community building, in it's final an- alysis, resolves itself into a question: of energy directed by will. If we want q thing we can get it by shap- ing out course and sticking to it, declares the Bryan (Tex.) Eagle. Dal- lying with every proposition that comes up will never get a business club any where. Nothing will be accomplished and the club might as well disband and go home. Every member, par ticularly every director, should be live. Wide=awake and rearing to go. Every member should be not only willing but glad to contribute to any worthy move ment that means more for the town. And every man in the town should be member.
 A commercial clubs supreme ppr- pose is something else than adding q few dollars to the trade of the town and paying a secretary to keep the. minutes and the accounts. The ideal secretary is man of ideas and dyna-l mic force, who can lead his people tol the acceptance of those ideas, who can arouse interest of the directors and other members and give them something to do, unconsciously to themselves, that Is worth while for the upbuilding of the town.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
AVOlDABLE WASTE OF SEED
Former Louisiana County Agent Says Loss Is Caused by Careless
 Handling at Mills.

(Prepared by the United States Depart
 ment of Agricultural
 There Is no greater ayoidahle waste in the South than that of cotton seed rotting at gins and oil mills, according to N. C. Hudson of Alexandria, La, a former county agent. who says this waste is due to careless handling, par ticularly at the oil mills.
 He then tells how the waste may be avoided by having the cotton dry when it is ginned and by having drier at the mills to dry the seed, or by having It spread out carefully. Ordinarily this seed yields about forty gallons of oil to the ton of seed, but If the seed is allowed to rot the oil Is inferior and fit only for soap making. The oil meal is also of low grade, and this means a great waste of the good foodstuff in cotton seed-forty gallons of oil to the ton and over 1000 pounds of meal.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07

little cup cakes, those made of sponge cake mixture are best; fill with the following: Rub three cupfuls of prune pulp through q colander, add q table spoonful of gelatin dissolved in two cupfuls of boiling water, sugar to taste, dash of lemon juice and one cupful of whipped cream folded in. Set in cool place to harden and do not put into the cakes until it begins to set. Do not throw away the Wa ter in which the hambone was cooked, save it to flavor navy beans when cooking instead of water the remain der may be used to cook the cabbage for some meal, giving it q fine sea soning.
 Small bits of ham too small to be used in other ways, may be ground and mixed with various seasonings; mustard among them and used as sandwich filing, or add to white sauce or to an omelet, not even d ta- blespoonful should be wasted.
 CaulifIower With Onion Sauce.- Boil the caulitlower and place in a dish which may be put into the oven and used as a serving dish. Add one cupful of boiled onion, put through q sieve, to cupful of cream, heat and season with salt and pepper then stir in the yolk of an egg well beaten. Pour over the cauliflower, sprinkle with fourth-lneh cubes of bread Drowned in butter and serve very hot.
 Onions Stuffed With Sausage.-Par- boil good-sized onions until brown, changing the water if the vegetable is very strong. Drain and remove the centers, fill with pork sausage, round ing the top. Bake about an hour bast- ing four or five times with the drip ping in the pan. Serve without sauce if with chops or turkey.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
ACTIVE WORK FOR
 TICK ERADICATION
Now Going on in 332,251 Miles
 of Southern Territory.
During August 2o,se2 Dipping Vats Were in Commission and 4,31e,- 554 Cattle Were Being Treat
 ed Every Two Weeks.

l Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture)
 "A South entirely free from the cattle fever tick in 1921," the goal of state and federal officials, seems like 1 ly to be realized. Active work for tick eradication now is going on in 332, ,251 square miles of southern ter ritory.
 The magnitude of the anti-tick cam | paign may be judged from August re- ports received by the department of agriculture. During that month 20,- SS2 dipping vats were In commission, and 522, ,541 different herds, totaling 4,319,554 cattle, were being dipped reg ularly every two weeks. A force of 1901 federal, state and county inspec tors were actively employed in the work of getting rid of the cattle pest When the territory now being worked Is entirely freed of ticks there will remain only comparatively small quarantined territory in the entire South.
 Mississippi led with 1s7 ,33o herds and 1,373.952 cattle dipped regularly In 6,oS3 VatS. This work, it is be- lieved, shortly will clean out the tick from 45,176 square miles of territory and free the entire state from quar- antine this year. Louisiana was sec ond in number of cattle dipped and Alabama third, each dipping over 660,- GOO animals. Arkansas was a close fourth with 64S,000 animals dipped.
 Texas, where dipping recently has become active, is handling 295, ,592 cat tie, but leads all the states in area handled, with over 65,000 square miles being worked. Florida, where cattle are not so numerous, is second in area covered. with 53,111 square miles. One of the most hopeful signs is that the state legislatures of Georgia, Alissis- sippi. Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas have made dipping of cattle to erad- icate ticks compulsory.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
GOOD COWS ARE PROFITABLE
Farmers Must Learn to Grow More Feed and Use Sio to Preserve
 Corn and kafir.

fBy A. C. BAER. Department of Dairy Ing. Oklahoma A. and M. College, Stillwater.)
 The dairyman who sells off his cows on account of the high price of all farm products Is making mistake. The world will need dairy products for years after the war. The number of cows in Europe is greatly reduced. Good prices for butter, cheese and milk are assured for years to come and dairying will remain a profitable industry, even If feeds are high-priced
 Farmers of Oklahoma must learn to grow more feed for cows, and use the silo to preserve and provide for the paiatable corn and kafir plants, which are cheap and nutritious COW feeds.
 Farmers should, however, not waste high-priced feeds on poor cows. When cows do not pay for their feed during normal times it would be unwise to keep the poor COWS during this period of high prices for farm products and feeds
 Good cows are always profitable and the demand for good cows will always be greater than the supply. Good cows are worth S25 to S75 more for dairy purposes than can be real iZed for them as beef Keep all of your good cows.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07

cream, salt, butter, minced parsley, little poultry seasoning and cupful of nut meats that have been put through the meat chopper; beat with fork until light and creamy then return to the shells which after dusting with buttered crumbs are placed in the oven to brown. Serve with sprays of parsley.
 Harvard SaIad.-Diee sufficient crisp celery to fill two large cups, adding chopped radshes, six minced olives, one small cupful of chopped nut meats. two diced hard cooked eggs; blend the ingredients well, moisten with may onnaise dressing and arrange in nests of lettuce. Pour over tablespoon full of the dressing, garnish with tri- angles of beets and grated egg yolk.
 Nut and Pecan SaIad.-Soak half a pound of prunes overnight then cook until tender and the liquid is all ab- sorbed When the prunes are cold cut the flesh from the stones in length wise slices, pour over these three ta- blespoonfuls of orange juice or any canned fruit juice and set aside in d cool place. Cut up d cupful of pecan nut meat into three or four pieces each add half teaspoonful of salt, three spoonfuls of olive oil and a tablespoon ful and a half of lemon juice, pour over the prunes and nuts; mix well and add more seasoning if needed. Serve on crisp leaves of lettuce with roast of lamb.
 Cheese Canapes.-Cut slices from loaf of whole wheat bread, stamp in circles, toasting to q golden brown. butter lightly and spread with a cream cheese which has been mashed to a paste with salt, thick cream, half eupful of chopped red peppers, canned. Cover the toast with this and garnish each canape with rings cut from stuffed olives.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07

dreams-there is so much reserve in the color combination that they can afford to use some little eccentricities in style-and they do use them to the very best possible advantage. Bril- liant eolors are not left out by any means. but the majority of women pre- fer to use them in touches rather than masses. as in vestees of rich broeade or embroidery. or in corsage flower or band of brilliant ribbon. yelled with crepe. Metal laees and metallic silks and tissues compensate the de- signer who is instructed to use quiet .colors.
 ! Chiffon velvet or satin used with georgette crepe, make the stronghold of the costumer who Is occupied with evening and afternoon dresses. Very often now his task is to make one gown answer both purposes and very clever are these two-in-one creations.
 The lovely model pictured is as fine as anything that the season has pre- sented in evening gowns. It is com bination of black chiffon velvet with silver tissue and black chiffon or very thin crepe georgette. These metallic tissues are woven with light colored silks so that pale colors appear in the sheen of silver as pale blue or green or rose. In the gown pictured a slip made of silver tissue is yelled with black chiffon. The chiffon petticoat has narrow hem at the bottom with black beads, Chat look like jet but are much lighter in weighD at the head.
 Chiffon velvet makes the long, full,
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
Depjcts the aGreat Trekv

An interesting film has just been shown in London dealing with early South African history, and has been praised by General Botha. It depicts the Great Trek" of the Boer into Natal and Dingan's Land In 1886, and follows Peit Retief's adventure through with tremendous realism. Coming into collision with the native Kafirs, and with the British when the latter made Natal an English colony, The Boers pushed on beyond the Dra- kenberg mountains to found the Trans vaal and Orange Free State. You have depicted the history of my people in manner at which I can only mar vel" Botha told the producer.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
"CIeaninq Up."

Let's all appoint ourselves as con- mittee of one to help keep the town clean and healthy and let's make a good start by cleAning up our own premises, ufses the Lake Charles, Ga.) American Press. In other words, be consistent, let's all practice exactly what we preach. If every person will do this, we shall have one of the healthiest cities in the country. In no other way can this much-to-be-desired condition be obtained. By waiting for the other fellow to start first, nobody starts. and we just go along in a per functory way from day to day and year to year. Lake Charles Is already healthy and clean, but nobody will deny that the city could be made a whole lot healthier and cleaner, and the way to do it Is for everybody to clean up their own premises and keep them clean, and this applies especially to the back yards and alleys where tin cans, empty boxes, discarded this and that accumulate from time to time.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07

the skin will be easily removed Add to them one quart of hot chicken or veal stock with a slice of onion and a stalk of celery; simmer ten minutes. Press through sieve and return to the heat, add pint of sealded milk and thicken with two tablespoonfHiS each of butter and flour well mixed and cooked together. Season to taste, simmer five minutes and serve hot.
 Chestnut tuffing.-Prepare three cupfuls of chestnuts by shelling and blanching, add half teaspoonful of salt and cook until tender. This will take about fifteen minutes. Drain and mash fine with a fork add Il table spoonful of butter. pepper and three tab1espoonfuls of cream. Melt one ta- blespOOnful of butter, mix well with one cupful of dry bread, add to the chest nuts and it is ready to use.
 Nut and Olive salad.-Put cupful of shelled walnuts in saucepan, add two slices of onion, oRe-half tea spoonful of salt, one bay leaf and one blade of mace. Cover with boiling water and boil ten minutes. Throw into ice water until chilled. then drain and dry on a towel. Cut four hard cooked eggs in quarters, two dozen olives in long strips; mix the nuts and olives and marinate with French dress ing turn out on platter lined with lettuce leaves and garnished with eggs.
 Pepper Hash.-Take four red pep pers, five green ones, six onions, two heads of cabbage. all chopped fine, sprinkle with cupful of salt and let stand over night. In the morning, drain and add one cupful of sugar, one ounce each of celery seed, mustard seed and vinegar to cover well. Cover with plate, tie over clean cloth and use in ten days.
 Quick Chocolate Frosting.-Heat three tablespoontuls Of coffee, melt three tablespoonfuls of butter in the coffee, and turn while boiling hot over q cupful of powdered sugar mixed with three tablespoonfuls of cocoa. Stir and spread at once upon the cake.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07

save. The amount of food served in hotels, restaurants, and in homes, has been considerably lessened and with out any feeling of dissatisfaction for the men of the family realize that their complaints will hinder the good work.
 In countless ways skim milk may be used in place of whole milk, sav- ing just half the expense in milk. All the valuable food materials are left in milk with the exception of fat. A teasDoonful of fat saved from the meat platter or broiling pan will when multiplied many times in the course of a week, make fat enough to enrich many dishes.
 Maryland Chowder. - Use equal parts of canned corn and tomatoes, if the quantities vary it is still all right. If the tomatoes are thick add little water, tablespoonful of minced onion or little cold boiled onion. Pare and slice thin then par boil three potatoes Add these to the ehowder and simmer unl.l tender Lastly add pinch of soda, a cupful pf hot milk. a tablespoonful of butter and thicken with q tablespoonful of eornstarch which has been rubbed smooth in little milk. Serve very aot with crisp saltines.
 Grapefruit Salad.-Take good sized grapefruit one head of crisp en. dive, which has been shredded very fine. Take out the pulp of a grape, fruit saving all the juice. Put all in to q salad bowl with the endiye and dress with two tablespoonfuls of oil two teaspoonfuls of sugar, half-tea. spoonful of salt and few dashes of red pepper. Toss and mix we'll add ing more seasoning if needed. X dash of vinegar may be needed if the grape fruit is very sweet.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07

in this way, so don't allow the straw to become damaged, and plan to use the shocked corn.
 The following rations are suggested for wintering breeding COWS:
 Ration Straw. 10 pounds; silage, 20 pounds; cottonseed meal. 1h pounds.
 Ration 2-Straw, 20 pounds; cot tonseed cake or oil cake. pounds.
 Ration 3-Straw, 10 pounds {; shocked corn, 10 pounds; eottonseed meal, 1 pound.
 Cattle bought in the fall and kept over winter in this way might cost less than would have to be paid for them in the spring and the farmer would have more manure to put on his crops.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07

1 city is provided by new shapes and new ways of developing hats and their trimmings, and "age cannot wither or custom-stale" the charm of these rich stuifs. Hats made of them suggest the splendor that is dear to women.
 In the group of hats pictured here, the turban at the left is made of black satin brocaded with gold. It is be- coming shape with two pompons of fur daringly placed at the sides. A binding of black velvet about the edge is immensely becoming as finish about the face.
 At the right small shape with dropping brim has round crown of black panne velvet and q brim of sill yer lace. About the brim edge there is narrow brocaded ribbon, in bril- liant colors under the silver lace and the same ribbon appear again below the collar of seal fur at the base of the crown. Here 1t is placed over the lace. At the right side, small bow of the brocaded ribbon supports two ends finished with bit of fur and silver.
 The hat of gold lace at the cens IT is called the "bustle" hat. It Is entirely of gold lace and gold net, the latter puffed on to wide bandeau at the back. The brim is edged with fur. A favorite trimming for hats of this kind is narrow blue grosgrain ribbon threaded through the gold lace about ,I.. 4 n brilliant flowers-posed somewhere on the brim.
 For the matron smart turban shapes
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07

Are we down-hearted?" Not so that it can be noticed in any of our habiliments. Our evening gowns join in chorus of emphatic denial. Out of difference to the seriousness of the business in hand just now, the even- ing gown is often made in dark color but 1t continues to be brilliant just the same. This limitation in color and the feeling for conservative styles, ap- pears to have stimulated the minds of designers to the general benefit of all sorts of clothes. They turn loose the imagination. for instance, when only black and white are to interpret their
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
RUIN PIGS AT WEAVING TIME
Animals Should Have Access to Corn and Other Grain-Skim Milk or
 Buttermilk Is Good.

More pigs are ruined at weaning time than Ut any other stage of their existence. They should have access to corn and other grain when they are with their mother, so that they will know how to eat and will not miss the milk.
 Skim milk or buttermilk is desir- able feed for pigs at weaning time. The milk should be fed in the same condition tt all times-either sweet or sour-otherwise the digestive sys- tenn will be impaired.
 Usually the pigs are large and thrifty enough to Wean at the age of six to eight weeks. They should have access to green forage. such as alfalfa, rape,
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
 Cleans School Erasers.

With the electrically driven machine
 recently developed by manufacturing concern in the east erasers are clean ed right In the sehoolroom or in the corridor. No need to throw them into q basket and take them outside or in- to the basement. A small girl can op- crate the device and get the erasers thoroughly clean, says The Electrical Experimenter. Turning the switch sets rapidly revolving brush in mo- ton. This loosens the dust ard the suction developed by the motor ex-
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07

fortify the heart of its wearer and those who look upon her.
 For the benefit of those who like silver or gold laces and brocades of satin with silver or gold, these hats for mid-winter are shown. Their pop ularity testifies to an immense number of admirers.
 Whenever a season brings silver or gold laces. or handsome and rich bro- cades into favor, it is sure to bring fur also and small, brilliant flowers. They seem always to keep one another cor : pany-rieh and brilliant birds of Il feather that will flock together. Nov
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
HOME R A|
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SOLVING PROBLEM OF PLAY
American Cities Are Beginning to Meet the Needs of People for
 Outdoor Recreation.

American cities are beginning to solve the problem of play. It is only in the last few years that the United States has become country predoml- nantly urban instead of rural in US population, and this urban population has had a hard time getting the out door air and exercise it needs, writes Frederic J. Haskin. The solution of the problem seems to lie in the muni- cipal playground and athletic field, which has come to be a feature of the parks of almost every progressive city in the last few years. The fed eral census bureau has just complet- ed an investigation of the parks and playgrounds of every city in the Unit ed States, which contains some inter- eSting facts.
 For the purposes of this work, the census bureau takes account of all cities of 30,000 inhabitants or more. There are 213 such cities in the United States-a measure of the rapidity with which the balance of population is moving from the country to the city. try-dwelling man needs any outdoor recreation facilities; he has only to step across his threshold to be in an out-ofdoors that affords the sports for which games are only substitute. Much attention has been given to the problem of furnishing country dwell lerS with intellectual and artistic re- creation, in an attempt to keep them from moving to the city in too great numbers; but there has so far been little attention paid to E Foviding them with outdoor sports within average means after they arrive in the city. But the movement is under way, and It is growing steadily.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
STUDY OF SILOS IN WINTER
Problem May Be Solved By Visiting Other Farmers and Go Over
 Many Little Details.

The winter is the time to study out the silo problem. Visit some farmers who have one. See if their cattle like silage. See how the cattle look that are eating it. If in doubt whether you should have one. determine the matter in this way: The proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof"
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
Nu. Nef ~eeQ.
CleVerness of Chinese.

It is acknowledged that the Chinese are very skillful in making confection- cry and possess the reputation of hay ing many secrets. They are able to empty an orange of it's pulp entirely, then fill it up with fruit jelly without one being able to find the smallest cut in the rind or even tiny hole. Indeed, they even empty an egg in this manner and fill it with sort of almond nougat without one being able to find the slightest break or incision in the shell.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
oulJa Board.

The so-called ouija board has no more intelligence thnn any other piece of wood and it's movement or action in the supposed answering of ques- tions Is controlled or imparted to 1t either consciously or unconsciously, Innocently or fraudulently, voluntarily pr involuntarily, by the operator. It Is practically the same thing under new name as the planchette board, which had such great run in the sarly days of the spiritualism craze. Exchange
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
IMPORTANCE OF CORN CROP
Shown by Comparison With That of Two Other Great Staples, Wheat
 and Cotton.

The importance of the corn crop in this country is shown by comparing the amount produced with that of our other great staples, wheat and cotton. We will produce probably three bill lion bushels of corn this year, as against six hundred million of wheat and some less than twelve million bales of cotton.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
ESSENTIALS OF CLEAN MILK
Sanitary Milk of Highest Standard Produced by Proper Milking, Cool
 ing and Sterilization.

The essentials of clean milking pro duction are proper milking, cooling and sterilizing This of course as sumes that the stables and dairy are clean and the cows and employees are free from disease. Adherence to these three essentials by simple methods will produce sanitary milk of the highest standard.
The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07
.He KT[TEN
 GBLNE f&2zz{ $

The average woman little under stands the extent to which she holds the happiness, the health, and the character of those for whom she cooks, in the hollow of her hand. Dyspepsia which turns all the colors of life's rainbow to the blackness of despair, never comes through the fendishness of those who hate us. IL is q blight upon our lives which is brought to us by those who serve our breakfasts, dinners and suppers.-Isabel Thurs by.