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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07

Because Of sickness among the chill
dren at Bethany home the meeting or
the Bethany Sewing circle was held
yesterday afternoon with Mrs f. II.
Eann, sos Fifteenth street, instead of
in the home. Twelve members spent
the afternoon sewing for the children
and seven garments for the girls were
completed Material was ordered
purchased and after work had been
laid aside a committee served refresh
mputs
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07
G. c. Countryman GiIes Entertainmcnt

Appearing under the auspices Of the
Christian Endeavor society of the
Memorial Christian church Carl C..
Countryman gave very enjoyable en-
tertainment at the church last even
ing, presenting program of readings
and Representations, which proved
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07
4. q. ". Club With Mrs. Frank.

Members of the +. o. W. club were
guests yesterday in the home of Mrs,
~. J. Frank. 1929 Twelfth street,
spending the afternoon at work on
fancy articles and in Red Cross knit
ing, enjoying the time very much
Mrs. Frank served lunch and the
hub was invited to meet in two weeks
With Mrs Edward Behrens, 4240
Twelfth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07
Zion Ladies' Circle

Zion Lutheran Ladies circle was
entertained at the November social
session last evening In the home OF
Mrs. Roy Swanson In East Moline.
with goodly number of members at
tending. The ladies occupied them
selves with knitting and sewing and
their hostess served a lunch in the
course OF the evening. The next meet
Ing Nov. 70 will be held in the home
OF Mrs. Wallace Treichler in this city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07

All the members of the Get-Toget5-
er club were present yesterday Inc
monthly session held in the home OF
Mrs. Henry Lahih, 1926 Fith-and-a-
half avenue Red Cross sewing and
knitting occupied the attention Of the
women and they were entertained with
vocal and instrumental music, their
hostess serving refreshments at the
close OF "a delightful day. The club
will meet for the December session
with Mrs Mile Fee. 270S Fifth
avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07

highly entertaining. A large number
OF people was present to listen to the
program.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07
Always
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Maid always practical and beautiful and to be the
style of the searched for the best fabrics
guaranteed fit perfectly each
human hands podc to
the Liberty Maid" waist
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07
Starting Tomorrow and Continuing for the Balance Of
Worth 10 thIrty .liye dollars

Attractive dresses in fine wool serges
and gabardines, stunning frocks of soft
messalines, taffetas and charmeuse, med
ium and darker colorings in charming
c0mbinationS-every model exclusive
hardly any two alike. The assortment in
cludes frocis for street, morning and aft
ernoon wear, in fact frocks for any day
OCCASION unusually modish at a cut price.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07
Twenty Nine Seventy Five
(worth to forty live dollars

Every dress that comes from our appar-
Ell section has the seal Of approval for
smartness, distinction, originality and
value-the fabrics are in Serges, Gabar-
dimes, Poiret Twills, Messalines, Tatfeta,
Charmeuse, Satin and Novelty Silks
each model is exclusive and individual, and
represents the height of fashions clever
est ideas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07
L ibertyMaid' Waists, the Maximum
of Va1ue: On Sale All This Week
Never Over
S | 90

those charming "Iiher-
ty Maid waists, made
up in fabrics of fine
voiles, lawns, rice cloth
and novelty stripe ma
terials that we know
could not be duplicated
for less than a third
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07

A large quantity Of fine
French serges, contracted for
months ago, a quality that will
be hard to obtain later. 44-inch
width, black and colors.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
The Extra Session.

4 Jackson Dispatch to the
Nicksburg Herald says: Judge I.
Nv. Brame of Macon, one of the
Noxubee county's strong legisla
tive delegation, who is profound
student of all economic questions
now pending before the people OF
Mississippi, was on a visit to the
capital today. Asked as to when
he expected to be called into extra
ordinary session, Judge Brame de.
clared himself TO be as much in
the dark as anyone else, and SAID
he would like to ascertain that
point for himself. While not TAX
ing positive stand against an eX
ira session, the representative from
Noxubce indicated his doubts as
to the wisdom and practicability
of undertaking to modify the as
sessmcnt and revenue laws along
the lines indicated by the tax com
mission, adopting a horizontal as.
scssment basis of 100 cents on the
dollar throughout the state, and
then making cut in the ad valo-
rem tax levy.
Mr.. Brame did not 90 so far as
to say that such change was i'm
possible of accomplishment at a
short extraordinary session, but
indicated that he has doubts as to
the practicability of the plan, with
all due respect to the officials who
are trying to work it out.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
RESOLUTIONS.

WHEREAS, on the morning of August
18th, 1917, the membership of Noxubee
Lodge No 69 Knights of Pythias again
realized that an alarm had been soul ded
on its outer door, reminding them that
death had entered their midst and sum-
moned from the activities of this life to
the Grand Lodge above our beloved
brother and faithful member, W. F.
hickman, and -..,..
WHEREAS, in the death of Brother
Hickman we feel that we have lost a
faithful, Jealous, active and efficient
member; his family kind, loving. in
dulgent husband and father; his friends
and the community generous citizen.
If hearts susceptible of noble emotions,
whose every pulsation were the echo of
the purest feeling; if the prayers of an
afflicted and devoted family could have
saved him from the inevitable that
sooner or later awaits US all, our friend
would yet be among US, but he is gone
and his death is but another memento
of the mortality of the body and the i'm
mortality of the soul.
BE 1T RESOLVED by the Noxubee
Lodge No. 63 that we realize grief is
vestal virgin who retires in secret to
hide her woe, yet we trust that some
echo of this tribute from his Pythlan
Brothers may penetrate the halls made
desolate by his departure and bear some
consolation to the hearts of his bereaved
family and friends
RESOLVED FURTHER, that a copy of
these resolutions be sent to the family,
one placed on the minutes of our Lodge
and one handed The Macon Beacon for
publication. Also that the Charter of
the Lodge be draped in the customary
badge of mourning as mark of esteem
and respect for our departed brother.
Respectfully submitted,
c. L. HEINRICH
l. L. DoRRoH
e. F. HARDIN.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14

seems to hold 1t a PERSONAL shront
that John Sharp Williams should
be so vastly his superior in every
quality that enters into the com.
position of a statesman. Elected
as a Democrat to the Senate, Var.
daman repeatedly has done his ut
most to thwart the efforts of Dem.
Ocratic Administration. He was
notorious in that particular before
the war, but nobody supposed that
after the war came Vardaman
would bestir himselfto bring about
discomfort with the war. Yet that
is what he has done and is doing.
Every word he utters in this "au-
thOrized interview" encourages
Germany and discourages America,
in so far as Importance is given
him. Fortunately, it is his own
official station only that gives him
the slightest consequence. Certain
ly no weight attaches to him as
mere citizen.
BY and by lists of Americans
killed and wounded will burden
the columns of the newspapers,
and then the patriotic manhood of
America will be resolute to fight
the war to a finish. Then your
Vardaman will be called to account
for such aid and comfort as is Civ.
en- the enemy in this interview
that ought to bring the blush of
shame to the cheek of every manly
man in Mississippi and in every
other state.
Alexander II. Stephens once
made a speech in congress in which
he took for his subject the dema-
gogue. He placed them in two
classes the excellent and the vi
cious. In the first class were John
Hampden and Thomas Jefferson.
He might have added Abraham
Lincoln and Mr.. Stephens himself.
These men appealed to the people,
but they invoked only their nobler
emotions.
The vicious class fattered the
people. Wilkes was one. Hearst
is another. They sought to arouse
the ignoble passions of the poleta.
riat.
If Vardaman had more sense he
would take a higher place among
that meaner class of demagogues.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
Religion at Home.

The principles of the Constitu-
tion of the United States, in the
main so sound and so successful in
their working, seem logically to
require the exclusion of religious
teaching from the public schools.
No ingenuity of reasoning has so
far been able to escape that result,
and most of us feel obliged, if not
ready, to accept it. But do we
we realize what it means? No peo-
pie hitherto that even pretended
to be civilized has failed to make
God the beginning and the end of
education. That is as true of the
pagan Greeks and Romans, of ia
pan and China and India, in their
sense of God, as of any Christian
nation. 'There is but one thing
needful, to possess God," said
Amiel in his journal. Assuredly
the basis OF all teaching of the
young should be those moral and
spiritual elements that lead the
mind directly to the thought of
God and are summed up in our
idea of Him.
The whole duty of man is Ito
glorify God and to enjoy Him for
ever" says the Shorter Catechism.
The motto of one of our oldest in.
stitutions of learning reads, "For
Christ and for the Church.; of an
other, in the words of the Bible,
"Not to be ministered unto, but
to minister Such views seem
out of accord with "a public school
system from which all allusion to
God is necessarily excluded.
Is it not largely for want of
some guiding principle like this
that we are so much at sea in our
education! The wiseSt admit that
we do not know what we are seek
ing, cannot agree on either aims or
methods in the vast chaos of edu-
cational possibilities. The theory
of Mary Lyon, that education
should fit any girl to be a mission.
ary, may seem ridiculously anti
quated, but it was at least tangible
and had the experience of ages be,
hind it.
We do not see any way in which
the working of our public schools
can be altered at present. But we
do wish parents, mothers especial.
ly, to appreciate what it means
and the burdens it imposes on
them. If God should be the Dasis
of all education, and if God is new
er mentioned in school, it is OBJ.
vious that He should be mentioned
at home. The church and the Sun.
day school are very well, but they
enter only at intervals into the
life of most children. Remember
that the greatest task of education
devOlves upon you. Pick the way
of performing it that suits you
best, that suits your children best.
There are many, But do not neg.
lect it altogether. 1t is more i'm.
portant than dancing, or music, or
manners, or clothes, or even by.
giene. Youths Companion.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
o, What Howl There Would
Have Been If Southern SenG-
tors Had Done ii!

Dispatches from Washington last
week told how delegation Of
Western Senators called upon the
President in an endcayor to pre-
vent the fixing of the price of this
years wheat at - or thercabouts,
and taking the view on the other
hand that the Western farmer
should get s. a bushcl or very
close thereto for his wheat,
The Manufacturers Record is not
taking exception to their action,
but it merely calls attention to the
visit of this delegation of Western
Senators TO suggest what a howl
there would have been if Southern
Senators had called on the Prcsi.
dent to demand 80 cents for cotton,
which would be about on the basis
of S3 a bushcl for wheat. The
profit in cotton at that price would
probably be relatively less than
the profit in wheat at 50. Had
any members of Congress from the
South called upon the President
and made such a demand, every
paper in the North and West next
day, with perhaps few exceptions,
would have bcrated and denounced
with scathing bitterness the de.
mand of this section for 80 cent
cotton. We would have been told
without end that this was an out
rage upon the world; that thi,
country and the Allies needed cot
ton, and that the South must b,
"loyalo and "patriotic" and Gun
selfish" and be willing to sell it
cotton at a much lower price
This section would have been un
sparingly criticised by men in pub
lie life, by congressman, Senators
by so called political economists,
and by every soul in the Nortl
and West who without knowing
one iota about the subject feels oc
casionally called upon to criticiSC
the South and dcnounce every dc
mand it makes for fair and hon
est price for its products. Indeed,
we should probably have had a
volcanic eruption from Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture Nrooman,
and he would in all probability
have poured out upon this section
the smoke and ashes with which
he tried to dclugc the South last
spring when he said that this see
tion would be compelled to starve
unless it raised its own foodStull,
because the Government would
not permit railroad cars to be used
for shipping foodstuilS from the
west to the South.
And yet man so bere(t of sense
and reason is still retained in the
United States Department of Agri
culture, and roams around the
country posing rs an authority.
One wonders sometimes how long
the nation must put up with such
incompetence.
But returning to the cotton queS
tlon, will the newspapers of the
country bear in mind that now is
a good time, whether justified or
not, to bitterly aSSail the farmers
of the West and the Senators who
represented them for demanding a
higher price than - IA buShcl for
wheatl Why shouldn't these farm,
erS in the spirit of patriotism give
the to nation the output of their
farms in wheat, even to the point
of bankruptcy! What boots it
whether they live or die, financial
ly, If the rest of the country can
get wheat at a low cost! That is
the spirit in which Southern cot
ton growers and coal men are de.
nounCed. Manufacturers Record.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
Helping the Enemy
ny SAVOYARD

Washington, September Gle
is "A Senator in Congress, assuming
to speak for a great State and an
admirable people, and therefore !
quote:
"Respect for your great place, and
let the devil
Be sometimes honor'd for his burn
ing throne!'
The Senate of the United States
never yet made a man great; but
certain men have made the Senate
Of the United States great. BE
cause he is n Senator, it does not
necessarily follow that James X
Nardaman is u wise or a great
man. Yet what he says pr0vOkes
notice solely for the reason that he
is a Senator.
In a remarkable "authorized in
tcryicw" Mr.. Nardaman tells the
country that this war we are now
engaged in is for profit, He as
Scrts that American newspapers
have been subsidized, that they
have given the people too much
misinlormation and not enough
truth. In his opinion those cor
rupt newspapers made the war.
If Nardaman is right in his absurd
charges, then Thomas Jefferson
was wrong when he advocated a
free press.
If the freedom of the press in
the L. s. has resulted in depraved
press, such as Nardaman says it
has, which has thrown this c0un.
try into II bloody war, it follows
that our people are not fit for self.
government. If he believes what
he says, then his contempt Ior the
American people must be pretty
nearly rs profound as the contempt
u patriotic American citizen has
for him. If the war was produced
by the agencies he sites and for
the purposes he asserts, then it is
Il wicked war, and certainly Var
daman looks on it as a wicked
war.
The war being wicked, of course
that accounts for Nardaman's do.
ing all in his little miget to make
it failure. Every word of his
''intelviewN is designed to make
the war unpopular. If it is a war
for money we deserve to be licked,
and no unpIejudiced man can read
his statement without arriving at
the inevitable conclusion that Var.
daman hopes we will be licked.
He is not levying war against the
United States, but he is adhering
to the enemy, giving him aid and
comfort, and that is treason ac.
cording to a definition of the Con.
stitution of the United States.
How could Nardaman possibly
help Germany more than by telling
the American people that the war
was made by subsidized press
and is waged for the profit that
may accrue to certain interests
from it.
I'll tell you what is the matter
with Nardaman. 1t is envy, what
the late Tom Reed called "good,
old-fashioned, home.Spun envy"
1t is the most malignant of the
passions, the most corroding of the
emotions. Ask any newspaper
man in this town Nardaman's rea.
sons for his conduct, and quick as
a flash comes the reply, "Why,
John Sharp was on the other side. y
At first the thing was a joke, but
now it comes a matter of course
and is little needed. o, the bitter.
ness that must have been his when
Nardaman realized that, senatorial.
ly speaking, he is to his colleague
''aS mud to marble, or as a cat to
a royal Bengal tiger
That is what is the matter with
Mr., Nardaman, and all that is the
matter with him. He can't help
Il IIir r.nniAr. L. nnlnnrnl IL :.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14

Dairy products at the price they are
bringing, cows that will bring in from
81 to $40 per month in cream, not to
speak of the increase; the many herds
Of beef cattle and hogs, and cotton at
% cents per pound, will soon put this
country on the map to stay. We can't
be headed.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
Gard of Thanks.

We wish to thank, through the Bea.
con, all our friends. and especially Mr..
Ernest Hagin and the Honorable Board
of Supervisors for the financial aid and
real kindness rendered us during the
long illness and sad bereavement caused
by the death of our husbar d. son and
brother. MRS ADpIE MAXEY,
j. b. MAXEY AND FAMILY.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14

Diam For Ealp-one Upright Piano, al.
IioHV wv So'S most new. Will sell cheau
for cash, Apply to MRS. ]. p. HUNTER,
aagsi'st Macon, Mise.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

In the Chancery Court Of Noxubee County Mis-
sissipp o'un's "'s-
5aek.on' Jss ssaaf5 pssss:sS Of G; F |No. 1884,
Letters testamentary on said estate having bee,
sne .n gay OF September 1917 granted to the
said County of Noxubee, S'efA VI
a. Al persons having CLAIMS against said estate
are required to have same probated and reGistsrss
oy ssld Clerk within one year from this date.
any claim will bar the same ~''N 'es'o'er
Ia's 'th DAY Of September. 1917.
M. Z. JACKSON.
Executrtx Of Sad Estate.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

sissippi oON''' Nais-
The Estate Of Mrs Florence D..
Sparkman Holiday. Deceased No 4o65.
Letters Of administration on said estate having
Deen on the sth day Of September 1917, granted to
the undersigned by John A. Tyson, Chancery
Clerk of said County of Noxubee. 0A""'e's
All persons having claims against s.;d o,...,
are required to have same probated and rec;stsrsS
py SAID Clerk within one year from this date.
Iaiiure ior one year to probate and register
This l4th day of September. 1917.
R. L. HoLLADAY,
Administrator Of Said Esta+o
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-05-03
BRAZn WILL DECIDE WAR
QUESTION MAY 8
Action Must Come From Con-
gress, Government Decides
Course Will Not be Altered il
No More Attacks are Made,

Rio Janiero, April 2S.-The de-
cision as to whether Brazil will
follow up her breach of relations
with Germany by a declaration
Of war will be made by the Bra
lillian congress when it convenes
May 3. The administration has
decided that it has fulfilled it's
duty in decreeing a diplomatic
rupture and that further action
lies in the province of the con-
gress. This decision, it is stated,
in high official quarters will not
be altered except in the case of a
fresh attack on Brazilian inter-
ests by Germany.
Congress win be asked to de-
clare that a state Of war has been
created by the act Of Germany,
If this action is taken it will be
followed by the seizure Of GER
man ships in Brazilian ports, OPP
ening these ports to the warships
of the allies, and other measures
of military nature.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-05-03
Guardian s Notice.

Notice is hereby given, That the
undersigned was appointed guar
dian Of the person and estate Of
Robert Davis, of unsound mind,
on the 18th day of March, 1917,
by the Probate Court Of Bates
County, Missouri.
All persons having claims
against said estate are required
to exhibit them for allowance be-
fore said probate court within
one year from the date Of this
publication, or they shall be for
ever barred.
This 18th day Of April, 1917.
LEONARD DAVIS,
26-4t Guardian.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-05-03
FOOD CONTROL BILLS UP
The Administration Measures In
troduced in Both Houses Of
Congress.

Washington, April 30.-The
administration s food control leg.
islation was introduced today in
both houses of Congress.
In the House, Chairman Lever
of the agriculture committee Of
fered a bill to give the Agricul-
ture Department direct supervis.
ion of food production and distri-
button. The program was put be-
fore the Senate in resolution by
Senator Gore, chairman Of the
Senate committee.
The measures proposed do not
cover price fixing or control of
grain entering into the manufac-
ture of liquors. Both these sub
jects will be dealt with in meas.
ures to be drawn later.
Twenty-Five million dollars is
asked for the Agriculture Depart
ment's use in administering the
program. The legislation calls
for an immediate survey Of the
country's food resources and con-
fers power upon the department
to prevent speculation and price
manipulation. 1t would provide
for equitable distribution and
would suspend the law prohibit
ing the mixing of flour. It would
establish and enforce standards
for agricultural products and for
fertilizers.
Under the measure asked the
Secretary of Agriculture could,
if the government thought it nee
essary, license or operate any
business of manufacture, storage
or distribution of food, food ma
terials or seeds. he could compel
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-05-03

BY virtue and authority of a special
execution issued from the office Of the
Clerk Of the Circuit Court OF Bates
County, Mo-, returnabIe at the May
Term, 1917, OF said Court and to me al
rected, in favor OF The State OF Mis-
souri, ex rel y. H. Stone ex officio col
lectOr of revenue for Bates County,
State of Missouri, and against Payton
Weithers, I have levied \ upon and
seized all the right, title. interest and
claim of the said Payton Weithers Of.
in and to the following described real
estate, to-wit:
The east half Of the east part of
lots four az, and six (6) in Section
three (3) township thirty-nine (39),
Range thirty-two, (S2).
All lying and being in the said
County and State Of Missouri and I
will. on Monday, the 18th day Of May,
A. D., 1917, between the hours Of nine
o'clock in the forenoon and five
o'clock in the afternoon of that day,
at the east Court House door, in the
City Of Butler, County of Bates afore-
said, sell the same, or so much there
of as may be required. at Public Ven
due to the highest bidder for cash in
hand, to satisfy said execution and
costs.
20 It W,BAKE Err, =
Sheriff of Bates County, Mo.