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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12
Both men we're tried and both

Both men we're tried and both
acquitted of the bribery charge,
the trial of Hobbs taking place in
Vicksburg, where it is alleged
that the first bribe money was
paid, and the trial of Bilbo taking
place in Jackson on a change OF
venue.
When Bilbo was inaugurated
governor eleven months ago it was
expected that he would appoint
Hobbs to some lucrative position.
Hobbs evidently expected some
thing of the sort, for he remained
in Jack son throughout the legis.
lative session. However, the ex.
pccted plum failed to drop in his
outstretched hands, and it became
generally known around the State
House that he was persona non
grata in the Governors office.
1t is stated that Hobbs has
written what he claims is the true
history of the alleged bribery
transaction, and that Governor
Bilbo will not appear in a very
enviable llgh ia the volume; also,
that he has made some other very
highly interesting disclosures con.
cerning political events that have
takes place in Mississippi since
the so-called "secret caucus" of
1910.
1t is certain, of course, that if
Hobbs does tell the truth, 1t is
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12
Extension Workers
Campaign in Noxubee
Tuesday, January 16.

The following are the dates fol
the county:
Team number 3, composed Of
Mr.. J. Ed Ruff and Jno. f. Nc.
Mckay will make Mashulayille at
at ten o'clock a. m. and Shuqua.
lax at 2;30 O'Clock p. m.
Team number 5, composed of
Messrs. G. A. Cobb ard L. A.
Higgin will make Cliftonville at
10 a. m. a. m. and Brooksville at
2:30 p. m.
Both teams will be accompanied
by a banker and business man
from Memphis of the Farm I'm
provement Bureau; and both teams
will be at Macon at 1880 p. m.
Miss Susie V. Powell Will ac.
company one team and Mrs. An.
nette Smyth Syndall will accom-.
pany the other.
Macon meeting will be held at
the court house.
Room for everybody and every.
body urged to be present.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12
NespectfuIIy,
EDWIN MEMORIES, Pres.
First National Bank, Meridian, Miss.

Where cotton and corn are the
main crop grown, the cultivated
fields should be equally divided
one. halt of them planted to corn
and peas or corn and velvet beans,
and the other half to cation, Grim.
son clover being planted in the
cotton middles in the fall to be
pl0wed under for corn the follow.
ing spring. Such a simple two-
year rotation gives us a legume
crop every year on every cult.
waited acre, and, with the use of
some prosphoric acid and potash
in certain sections, will mean bet.
ter lands and bigger and more
profitable crops.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
MERIDIAN, MISS.

February l6, 1916
To Whom 1t Map Concern.
The Guaranty Oil and Sulphur Com
pany has selected this bank as its deposi
tory for the funds to be collected &c
create drilling fund of SIC, ,OOO. 90, which
fund, we understand, is to be set aside by
the Company out Of the sale Of lots a,
made by them, and to be deposited in
this bank monthly.
The above drilling fund as collected il
to be deposited to the credit of W, d.
Hawkins, as Trustee, who is under sood
and solvent bond in the sum of $40. .OOO. 90
executed by the United States Fidelity
and Guaranty COMPANY, of Baltimore,
Maryland, copy of which is now on file
in this bank, for the faithful handling of
this fund; said fund to be turned over by
the Trustee to the drilling company upon
the completion of organization of said
company by the lot owners.
The drilling fund as collected in this
bank, and will only be paid to the drilling
company upon the joint signature to
check by Mr.. Hawkins, as Trustee, and
the president Of the drilling company,
upon the completion of oreaniz alton of
same.
Respectfully,
EDWIN McMORRIES, Pres,
First National Bank, Meridian, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12
S33O,OOO Taxes Paid by Sulplsu,
Concern

Lake Charles, La, Jan. 2.-Tax
payments at the city and parish
tax offices Saturday totaled more
than 100000, of which amount
s33O,OOO was represented by a
check from the UIaion Sulphur
Company in payment of it's state,
parish, school and special taxes.
In cddiiien tie company bsys 3
conservation tax 'of more than
$50, 900 yearly.
The companies mentioned above
are near the holdings of the Guar.
anty Oil and Sulphur Co., which
has been organized in Meridian
and officered by some of the most
prominent citizens of that city.
namely: G. B. Cameron, Presi.
dent; L. Ullman, Vice President;
W. d. Hawkins, Secretary.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12
FARM LOANS

,plications for $4,000 and above
per cent. for $1,000 and above at
& per cent, for $500 and above at
= cent. Terms 8 to 10 years. No
ction fee, but interest, an alb
and incidental costs to record is
mo loan in excess of so per cent
l,proved valuation of property.
in, Miss, or New Orleans in
t,n. Write G, F. Ames, Hatties-
Miss,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12

Where oats or wheat are grown
to considerable extent, a three
year rotation, consisting Of oats
and peas or soy beans, or wheat
and peas or soy beans, crimson
clover sowed on the pea or bean
stubble, to be plowed under for
com the following spring, peas or
beans to be planted in the corn,
the land going in cotton the thir /
year, is good, and will result il,
larger crops.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12

Lake Charles, La, Aug. IL
By two transactions completed
yesterday, the Gulf Refining Co.
has acquired title to a little more
than nine acres in the Edgerly
field for $137, 500.
Rudolph Krause, Happel Ave.
ry, G. P. Martin, W. H. Managan,
and J. J. Walsh, Of this city, &C,
quired five-acre tract from the
Snn Company and the Wilson.
Broach Company last March for
S25, 900. They drilled two pro.
ducers, netting the entire cost of
the land from them and sold the
tract to the Gulf Company for
800, 900.
The other purchase by the Cult
Refinery Co. was a strip 165x132O
feet, adjoining the 6-acre tract,
from William T. Burton, Amos
Gray, John L. and William T.
Henning for $37, 800.
The price paid for the five.acre
tract is the highest ever given for
Calcasien land.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12

going to be very unpleasant read.
ing for the Governor, and it re,
mains to be seen just how far he
is going with his disclosures.
That the book has been written
5 positively known, for at leas
lwo persons in Jackson have see
lroofShrets of certain chapters of
the volume.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12

Scme Satisfaction. - Miss Green
"Of course, you can't believe every.
thing you hear"
Miss Gadleigh-"Oh. no; bnt you
can repeat it. boston Transcript.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12
FOR SALE

Mosby Seed Corn at $3.50 per bushel; |;
Cooks Improved Cotton Seed at 81. so
per bushel; Spanish Peanuts.
T. w. JACKSON.
Prairie Point, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12

The right way to belong to yoursel
is to have as few possessions as posi-
BILE OF other kinds. My sens
of happiness is emphatically the scienc F.,
of doing without. Richard Whiteing.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-12
Ten Millions in Frasch Estuts

BY Associated Press.
New York, Oct. 2.-The late
Herman FraSch, who developed
the great Sulphur mines near
Lake Charles, La, amaSsed q
fortune of $40, 4S5, ,S2S, according
to the official appraisal of his es-
tate announced here today.
The appraisers estimated the
value of the Sulphur Company's
stock at Sl2, ,0O3 per share. Mr..
Frasch owned 500 shares.
S137, 500 is Poid for 9 OH Acres
Gulf Refining Co. Adds New Tract
to Louisiana Holdings.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24
LUSCIOUS OYSTERS SOON
TO BE ON THE MARKETS
Season For longing Bivalves Opens
September TRANSPORTATION
As To Prospects

Oyster commission men, packers
and tongers. are casting weather
eve toward the Chesapeake Bay to
determine, if possible, what the pros
poets are for the approaching oyster
season. Less than a week remains
before the law permits the bivalvcs
being placed on the market, but specu-
lation Is rife regarding the condition
of the beds and the marketable state
of the oysters.
AS usual reports are conflicting but
the general opinion of thoes closely
connected with the oyster situation
Is that while there is an ample sup-
ply on the rocks prices will be higher
this seasn than ever before. There is
also a report that mussels have made
their appearance on oysters in some
localities afnog the western shore of
the Bag, but as yet have not appeared
in enough quantity 10 materially in
lure the shellfish.
While there is more or less specu-
lation as to prospects yet the indica-
tions point to prolific yield and good
prices for the tongerS.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24
SOLDIER CITY IS
GROWING RAPIDLY
Record Number Of Men Are Now
Working at Camp Meade
GEN. GORGAS PAYS A VISIT
Lumber is Arriving Fast and Expecta-
ton is For Million Feet
Per Week

An official visit from Col. l. w.
Littell. construction chief OF all the
national environments. and Maj. Len.
William C. Gorgas, former sanitation
chief of the Panama Canal Zone, VINO
is now directing the sanitation system
for the new United States army
camps. was paid to Camp Meade, at
Admiral, yesterday.
A record was also made for the num-
Der of men at work on the barracks,
the largest quantity of lumber for q
single day was received and the most
work accomplished from dawn to dusk
was done.
Last night was the lend of perfect
day" for Major Ralph F. Proctor. con-
structing quart ermsster at the camp.
Colonel Littell and Maj.-Gen. Gorgas
were pleased with the progress made
and with the general existing condi-
tious.
The visitors remained at the camp
for nearly three hours. Not a COM
plaint was made. General Gorgas
was pleased with the sanitary condi-
tins, which were started under the
direction of the late Major B Billings
lea. The visitors stated that the
Maryland environments were the best
they had yet inspected.
The great "soldier city" of Camp
Meade is growing rapidly and by Sep
TENDER s everything will be in readi-
ness to receive the first Is, O0O
drafted men from the states of Mary
land and Pennsylvania. Although
showers continued most all day yester-
day, work on the buildings was contin-
ued and not a minute was lost. The
roads are in very bad condition in some
places, but the large army trucks have
little difficulty in overcoming such OBJ
stacles.
AS the days pass the work is being
speeded up. During this week $780,
600 feet Of lumber was brought in2o
the camp, which was great increase
over last week, and from now On l.
900, 900 feet is to arrive each week.
At present there are about $500
men at work in the camp. and each
, day increased the number. Many
more could be used
The Pennsylvania Railroad is buid-
ing new track, which will penetrate
further into the camp, greatly facili-
tating the transportation of supplies.
The sewer system is confidently ex-
pected to be in working order by the
5th of September, while permanent
water supply will also be established
either at that time or shortly after.
At present the water coma s from wells
dug in many places about the camp.
Future Camp Meade will be essen
TALLY city for soldiers; in fact, the
Army men believe the fewer civilians
the better. When the town is COM
pleted the population will be about
80. 900 people, covering an area OF
Is miles-about the size of the built
up part of Baltimore city. All the
buildings will be in wood and arranged
into streets. The main roads will be
made of concrete, while those of les
ser Importance will be gravel.
The War Department yesterday
issued an order detailing a number OF
additional officers of the National
Army to Camp Meade August 81.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
TO PLAY BALL TOMORROW
Nine Of Machine Gun Company to Meet
Blueiackets Of Station Ship
Reina Mercedes

Soldiers and sailors will clash to-
morrow in a double-header baseball
game on the diamond at st. Johns
College.
The contending teams will be the
nine of the Machine Gun Company of
the First Maryland Regiment and the
team composed Of bluejackets aboard
the station ship Reina Mercedes at
the Naval Academy. Both of these
teams have previously defeated the
tossers of Company M of the First
Regiment, and the game tomorrow
should therefore develop into a close
contest.
Play will be started at 2 100 o'clock.
There will be no fixed admission to
the game but collection will be taken
for the baseball treasury of both
teams and those attending may con-
tribute whatever amount they wish.
1t is expected there will be a large
attendance as there has been very
little doing in the line of athletics here
since the United States went to war
with Germany.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24
NATIONAL FORESTS HELPING
INCREASE MEAT SUPPLY
As Emergency Measure Of Government
In War Times.

AS a war emergency measure the
National Forest ranges are carrying
this summer approximately 1OO,OOO
more cattle and 100000 more sheep
than in ordinary years, according to
the grazing experts of the Forest
Service Ordinarily the National
Forests furnish pasturage for about
l 10000 cattle and horses and $780,
600 head of sheep
The number of livestock permitted
on the forests is limited in order to
prevent damage to timber growth. wa
ter supplies. and the range itself.
This year exceptional weather condi-
lions combined with the general food
situation to create an unusual emer-
gency, calling for special provisions
to take care of the stock. A severe
winter and late spring exhausted the
hay supply and forced use of the
spring ranges before they had
reached their normal state. To lessen
the losses which the estern livestock
industry faced, the National Forest
ranges were opened early. At the
same time. the number of stock per-
mitted for the present season was
raised to the maximum consistent
with safeguarding future productive
ness.
1t is fully recognized that the in
creases which have been made in the
allowances of stock on the National
Forests involve danger that the range
will be depleted through overgrazing,
but it is believed by the grazing eX-
ports of the government that the
emergency increases made can be
taken care of, at least this year,
without material sacrific of produc-
tive capacity. The condition of the
ranges is, however, being carefully
watched. Reliance is placed also on
the special efforts being made to Sc
cure the most intensive utilization
consistent with sustained productive
ness. by improved methods of hand
ling the stock. Better sailing meth
DDS and the development of new
watering places are among the means
employed for this purpose.
At the close of the grazing season a
careful examination will be made OF
the range on each forest to determine
its condition and to find out how many
cattle or sheep it will support next
season. On areas which are found to
be overgrazed, an attempt will be
made to shift the surplus stock to
range which can stand the strain bet
ter.
While the grazing officials do not
think that the increase could be car
ried indefinitely without serious dam
age to the forage, regulated grazing
has brought about steady improve
ment of the range and some areas will
probably be able to support the larger
numbers permanently.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24
NAVY PASSES 100000 MARK
Cooks, Bakers and Mess Attendants
Now Needed For Service.

The Navy has passed the 1900
mark. The 343 recruits added in the
past three days bling the total mum
Der of enlisted men in the regular
service up to 140,230
Cooks, bakers and mess attendants
are now the particular need of the
Navy. The service also requires radio
electricians. firemen, machinists
mates, a limited number of copper
smiths, few Hospital Corps men and
some apprentice seamen. Enlist
ments are no longer being accepted
for yeomen, blacksmiths, boilermakers.
shipwrights, ship filters, printers,
painters and general electricians.
A recent intensive recruiting cIm-
paign provided the Navy with a suffici-
ent number of musicia ms to put bands
of twenty-five pieces on the principal
vessels and to place nearly 500 men
in training for musicians.
Recruits for the Hospital Corps have
been coming in at the rate of about
125 a month and only few more are
needed.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24
GROUP OF SPECIALISTS
IN INFANT WELFARE
Sent TO France by American Red Cross
Special Efforts to Protect

A group of specialists in infant vel
fare has been sent TO France by the
American Red Cross. At its head is
DR. William p Lucas, professor OF
pediatrics in the University of Cali
fornia. and originator of the save
Belgian Baby" movement.
Before the war the birth rate ana
death rate in France were so nearly
equal that publicists voiced their con-
Germ over the future of the national
life. Last year, however, with the
death rate probably over 20 per 1000,
not counting deaths of men in mill
tary service, the birth rate was ofhcl-
ally estimated at only per 1000. In
New York State the birth rate is %
or "a per 1000. the death rate about
IA per 1000.
The total deaths in France in 1916
were about 100000. Births num-
bered only $4,000 The net loss in
population was 7sS,0O0, or nearly two
per cent of the whole. In Paris,
where 4S,917 babies were born in the
year ending August /, 1914, only 20
179 were born in the second year OF
the war, ending August 1916.
There is a crying need for effective
work among children" cables Major
Grayson, NJ. P. Murphy, head of the
American Red Cross Commission now
in France. He reports that there is
a great need for doctors and nurses
for work with mothers and children,
and the Infant Welfare Unit will be
prepared to give such immediate re-
lief as ii can.
With DR.. Lucas in the unit, which
was financed by Mrs. William Lowell
Putnam of Boston. are Dr. j. Morris
Slemons. of the Yale Medical School,
one of the best known of American
obstetricans; DR. Julius Parker Sedg-
wick, physiological chemist, profess
sor at the University of Minnesota;
DR.. John C. Baldwin, specialist in dis
eases of children: Dr. Claim F. Gel
ston. DR.. Lucas assistant at the
University of California; DR.. n. o.
Pearee. another specialist, and the fol-
lowing experts in sociology and child
welfare work: Mrs. J. Morris Stem
ons. Mrs William p Lucas, Miss
Elizabeth Ashe, and Miss Rosamond
Glider, daughter of the poet.
These specialists will survey the
situation end study the work already
being done by the French, and will
practice without receiving compensa-
ton from patients. The task before
the Red Cross, which will be carried
on by this and succeeding units, is
not only to cooperate with French
specialists but also to carry on a gen.
eral education campaign among the
French mothers in the interest OF bet
ter prenatal hygiene and scientific
feeding ard care of the babies. Special
efforts will be made to protect child
rem from tubercular infection. which
is particularly threatening France to-
day as a result of trench warfare.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24
DEPARTURE OF TROOPS
OF FIRST, UNCERTAIN
Col. Little Awaits Final Orders From
War Department. Boys Anxious
Tn "a

According to Col. Charles A. Little,
of Hagerstown, no word has been re-
ceived from the War Department as
10 when the First Regiment will en-
train for the South. With the excep-
tion of Companies d and H, the other
men will remain in their armory I'M
til the call comes.
Company d, headed by Capt. Harry
Archer, is still guarding the filtration
plant at Lake Montebello. Company
Fl is at Admission, Ala under General
Gather. The other companies are
merely holding regular drillsand keep
ing themselves in readiness to move
when the War Department so directs.
Here in Annapolis, the home sta
tion of Company M. and the Ma
chine Gun Company the boys are
being put through q rigid routine
which calls for q total of 8 hours
drill daily. All hands are anxious for
the word to move.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24
PERSONAL MENTION.
Those Who Come And Those Who Go
Our Floating Population.

Our Floating reputation.
Mrs. Robb Combs left yesterday
for her home in Kansas City. Mrs.
Combs was called home by the illness
of her mother.
Miss Kate Randall is visiting her
brother, Mr.. Blanchard Randall, Cations
vile, Baltimore county.
j. Wesley Amos, formerly of this
vicinity, now of Trenton, NJ j., is
spending a few days visiting relatives
and friends here and at nearby places.
Mrs. Snyder, wife of DR.. Charles
Snyder, and infant daughter, who has
been visiting the family Of her broth
er, Mayor James F. Strange, has re-
turned home, accompanied by her sis
ter. Miss Effie Strange.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin C. Harding,
and little daughter. Avis. of Whining
ton, Del, have returned home after a
very pleasant visit to Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter w. Hurlock, Eastport.
Col. William A. Hoynes, Deem of
the Notre Dame University of Law,
Notre Dame, Ind, is in Annapolis,
visiting his brother, at the Colonel's
beautiful farm on the Severn. En-
route to Annapolis Col. Hoynes visit
ed Chicago where he was the guest of
his brother for a few days. After
leaving Annapolis the Col. will go to
Washington where he will be the
guest of pr. Burns, President of Holy
Cross College, at Brookland, ID. c.
Col. Hoynes is very popular in Annsp-
oils where he was greeted today by
many friends.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24
Sues Telephone Company For
Financial Loss to Profession

DR.. Mortelle +. Morrill,. of CIs,
burpie, this county, yesterday lhrouCb
his attorney. ]. Newell Graham ga
suit in the Court of Common pIses
Baltimore, against the Chesapeake ana
Potomac Telephone Company. askirg
IS, 900 damages for financial losses 81
legged TO have been caused betwss,
October, 1916, and August. 1917 he
negligence on the part Of the com.
pany or its agents. The plaintiff "a
serts in his declaration that during tbo
period mentioned telephone calls n,
professional services were not trans.
mitted to him, which caused him n
suffer financial loss.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24
SHORT PASTURE HITS TWO WAYS.

College Park, Aug. 23.-Cows that
come fresh in the spring give a good
flow of milk during that season when
pasture is abundant. When pastures
become short, the flow of milk will de-
crease unless the pasture is supple
mented with silage, soiling crops or
grain mixture II the milk flow is per-
mitted TO decrease during the season
of short pastures, the high production
of the first few months. cannot be re-
coxered when pasture becomes abund-
ant in the fall.
This means that the yearly produc-
ton of milk IS several hundred pounds
less than 1t should be owing TO the
fact that the cows were short of feed
for a few weeks during the hot, dry
season.
Where silage or soiling crops are
not available the following grain mix
lures are recommended:
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24

There are always weevil in an old
granary, and before the crop is placed
IN such, or removed from one bin to
another, the Carbon Bisulphide method
Of fumigation should be used 10 rid the
bin OF these pests.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-24
DIED

sMITH-on August %, at her parents
residence, Isl Fourth St, Eastport,
ELEANOR c.. age years. beloved
infant daughter of James a. and
Carrie Hoff Smith
Funeral Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock, from the late residence.
Interment in st. Mary's Cemetery.
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