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Macon beacon., 1917-04-13

A Klaus & Co. supplies. ,......"5lO a
Better Roads Co, road drag. 25 90
Off of Court, St VS. Alf Ferguson. 10 60
Same, lunacy of Cy Boyd. ....... 1S 20
W H Ewing, lumber. ............. so
Peterson Bros, overbid. .... 81
W Patty. overbid ............ 2 0S
Peterson Bros, same. .......... S27
L H Sparkman, ame............ 90
W M Hurter, same. e............. 75l
] L Peterson, overbid. LOT 90
] o Cook. work on road. ....... %
Tyson wilkins, same. ....... SS 10
Murray Rogers, ton hay. ........ 10 0O
P H Hunter. dragging road. 10 90
j K Stark, 6 shoes. .......... l 80
Nox Co Hdw Co. sundries. .. 95 SO
Klaus & Co, feed for Feb. Mar. lilo 09
Mrs Ad'e Maxey. sup of o Makey 8 90
E b Boyd. premium on insurance 6S 90
Town of Shuqualak, 29l tons gr'l 24S 90
Jim Roland, wages. ..,.......... 70 w
+ l. Aycock. salary. ............ 40 w
Chas d Ogden, dragging road. 30
Light and Water plant ....:... 66 "a
M & F bank work on road Dis 4. 1892 45
H N Donahoo, bridge and lumber 80 90
Bank of Br'ksvlle frt on gravl 1900 n
Owen Con Co. 700 tons novaculite 5O4 SO
B G Patty, dragging road. ...... 8 90
U W Mullins, same. ......... ...... s OO
W A Smith, machining road. ..... 80 90
Clerk was ordered to give notice
through the Beacon Of the county's in
tention to call in certain court house
bonds.
The matter Of the resignation Of A.
E. Smith as justice of the peace, Dis
trict 8, was continued.
J. B. Cotton was given until the
May meeting to make his regular
quarterly report.
The resignation of c. M. Scales as
game warden was received and ac-
cepted.
Clerk was ordered to advertise the
boards intention to borrow $4,000 for
general fapd and 81. 500 for District 4.
R. Brewer, Jr., reported that he had
made an emergency contract with H.
N. Donahoo to build a bridge over
Pumpkin creek for $50.
Board approved the plans Of commits |
sioners in District to work certain |
roads in said district, the construction
of which is not to exceed 81, 800. 81
Jro. w. Combs, on petition was
lowed to withdraw petition. Z |
The members of the board made r.
ports of inspection of roads and bridges
as follows: l.. Hines, days; R.
Brewer. 4 days; G G Pagan, days;
W L Thomas, 8'days; Thos. McHenry, |
s days.
S. D. Chamberlin was allowed to
withdraw application for loan.
Members of board and officers were
allowed per diem and mileage.
Macon beacon., 1917-04-13
Home Garden Sussestions for April

Continue planting vegetables through
out April. Make the second planting
of lettuce. English peas and radishes,
snap beans, lima beans, sweet corn.
satisfy, carrots, parsnips, okra, cucum-
bers, watermelons, summer squashes,
and cantaloupes will do we'll planted
this month.
The tomato, eggplant, pepper, and
celery plants are ready to set in the
garden. Set the tomatoes not closer
than 4 feet apart each way, the egg
plants and peppers 80 inches. and the
celery 6 inches.
In transplanting set all plants deep.
and press the soil firmly into place
around the roots with the hands.
Top dress the ground around early
plants with droppings from the
chicken house.
Plant everything in rows. Broad
cast sewing invites insects and dis
eases, besides making cultivation diff
ficult.
Cultivate the soil as soon as it be-
comes dry enough after each rain, U.s.
ing the horse as much as possible, and
then working out with hoe.
If hard crust forms over the seed
before they come US, loosen it lightly
with hoe.
Get all the weeds while they are
small. It is easy then.
Some early vegetables will be ready
for markt in April. Be sure to locate
a market before the time comes to
sell them.
To get rid of insect dust a mixture
of powdered arsenate Of lead and air.
Stacked lime, half and half, over the
plants. Do this while the dew is on,
or just after a rain, as the dust will
stick better. 81
II your rose garden is infested with
mildew, spray now with preparation
of potassium sulfide o.. soap / o.,
water 3 gallons. Repeat every ten days.
Leonard G. Heron, Extension Hor-
ticulturist. Agricultural College, Miss
issippi.
Macon beacon., 1917-04-13
FROM THE PEOPLE
= Macon. Miss, April II, 19l.

~V"p ~Asoe't NpAh A4s 4VAt'
Farmers Of Noxubee County:
Do you want yor taxes raised to
two or three times what they are at
present?
The supreme court of our state il
upholding the state tax commissioners.
Mr.. Tomlinson says we must do
something before July il we want our
rates in proportion to other parts of
the state. He asked me to bring it be-
fore our cooperative association. We
now number nearly one hundred.
Come and bring your neighbor. We
must hammer out some plan of pro-
cedure so we won't be overtaxed.
Do come thinking before meeting
date and tell US what we ought to do.
Mr.. A. T. Dent and Mr.. George
Richardson will address US on the best
plan to follow.
Farmers come and bring your neigh
Dor, Saturday, April 2l. Macon Court
House. Respectfully,
M. P. KIDD,
Pres. Farmers Coop. Assn.
Macon beacon., 1917-04-13
MARRIED


Lss-Psrkins
A quiet but impressive wedding wal
attended by only few relatives and
friends of the bride and groom or
March 3lst, when Miss Bessie Lee and
Mr.. r. P. Perkins were united in
matrimony at the home Of the bride g
aunt. Mrs. G. p. Waller Of Crawford,
Miss
The house was decorated in beauti-
fnl red roses from the green house,
making sweet welcome for the bride
and pleasing surroundings for the
guests. The bride was very attractive
in q coat suit Of gray with hat, ETC.,
to match ard carrying a beautiful
bouquet of brides roses.
The ceremony was performed b. the
groom's father who is a character
much loved for his long years of SER
vice and kindness in the ministry in
both Tennessee and Florida. Rev.
Mr.. Perkins made all present realize
in forceful but very kind and gentle
way, the solemnity Of the wedding
VOW.
Miss Lee is the youngest daughter
OF our we'll known and beloved Mrs.
Bette u. A. Lee. The bride is pos
sibly not so we'll known as is her
mother, but none the less loved by all
who claim her as friend, indeed, she
has won the admiration of all who
associate with her.
Since Miss Lee graduated she has
been engaged in teaching, for several
Macon beacon., 1917-04-13
Board Of Supervisors
APRIL TERN.

Board met in regular session; all
members and officers being present
After proclamation by the sheriff the
following proceedings were had:
Contract was made with D. B. Cade
ct the March meeting to bdild bridge
across Horse creek on Bykin road. R.
Brewer and W. L. Thomas were ap-
pointed committee to inspect same.
which order was enormously omitted
from the minutes. Was ordered to be
entered on the minutes of last meeting.
Thos. McHenry. member Of board
from District 2 reported that he had
made emergency contract with Jessie
M. Hill to repair bridge over Ash
creek for SIS; with Jessie N. Hill to
build q bridge over Rock Cut and to
build an extra wing wall on said
bridge for $S7; with Jessie NJ. Hill tc
repair bridge over Noxubee river for
IS. That he inspected all of said work
and found that it had been done &C.
cording to plans and specifications and
recommended that contract price be
paid for same.
W. L. Thomas, member from Dis
trict 4 reported that he had made fol-
lowing emergency contracts: With R.
C. Esves to build bridge for $26; D.
Daniel to repair bridge on Macon and
Brooksville road for $3.50; with N. L.
Cotton to repair bridge over Shuqualak
creek for $l2; with Harry Land to re-
pair bridge over Jordan creek for IS:
with NJ. c. Carter to repair bridge
over Wolf creek for $3; with J. w.
Doharty to repair bridge over Russell
creek for SIS.
G. G. Pagan reported that he had
made contract with J. w. Eiland to
move q drift at Plum creek for $50.
In matter Of bridge across slough
east Of bridge on Woodward creek.
Same was continued.
A. Klaus G Co. was awarded contract
to supply convicts for month of April
Macon beacon., 1917-04-13

Il. y. Cline was Wardeo contract to
repair Plum creek bridge for SIS.
Jessie M. Hill was allowed the sum
Of S57 for repair work on bridges.
W. E. Mauldin was authorized to
hire day labor to build public roads,
same being authorized under section
22 chapter 100, Acts 1908.
County repositories made reports Of
funds on hand, and Of interest paid or
same.
Committee reported that bridge over
Horse creek on Boykin road had been
built according to plans and specifca-
tions and recommends that the con-
tract price of $50 be paid for same. 1t
was found necessary to do extra work
to the amount of $3.50 on said bridge,
and recommendation was made that
that sum also be paid. ,.-.
1t was ordered that the following ac-
counts, etc., be continued: S. D.
Chamberlin, application for loan: Clar-
ence Bradshaw, communication as to
lease lend; in matter of appropriation
for Mississippi Centennial Exposition;
N. S. Beard. acct. Of SO for removing
drift; Geo. Shaver, ct al. petition for
road; G. s. Dinsmore, petition Of re-
fund Of taxes; Southern Tile Co., COM
munication; acct. Of Standard Drug
Co. for $l11.96 for dipping solution;
accents Of w. H. Ewing, $18.98 for
lumber; B. G. Patty. So for dragging
road; U. w. Mullins. $6 for same; W.
A. Smith, $3l for machining road; City
Of Macon. $SS2.95; town Of Brooksville,
$202.95, for same; town Of Shuqualak.
$3.50 for same; Geo. W. Douglass, re-
quest for road machine; acct. Of Mrs.
L. A. Haynes for $25 for damage by
changing road.
Petition from q. A. jackson to buy
certain buildings owned by county or.
dered removed from docket.
s. N. Tomlinson, assessor, was al
lowed to buy safe for his Office, same
to cost not more than $65.
Petition Of L. L. Goodwin ct al. for
opening up and laying out new road
was received and W. L. Thomas and
G. G. Pagan were appointed commit
tee to inspect and view route proposed.
In re pay certificates issued by Jas.
G. Chandler. Supt. Of Education to
City Of Macon, it was ordered that
same be approved and that clerk be
ordered to issue warrants in sum Of
s14S.
The following petitions were re.
iected: q. J. Campbell for refund nf
tsxes:T. W. Crigler for refund of
taxes on $1,000 valuation; Mrs. Jennie
B. Hill for refund Of taxes on $500; J.
r. Edwards for refund Of poll tax.
The following reports were received
and approved: s. A. Lever, for coun-
~ hsme; J. T. Mcclure a. to convict
Macon beacon., 1917-04-13
ADVANCE INFORMATION

For the unveiling of Confederate
monuments Shiloh battlefield. Corinth,
Miss, May 18th. 1917. Tickets to be
sold May 18th and 10th, with final
limit of May 18th. round trip tickets
to be sold from Macon, Miss, at rate
of 81. 80.
Macon beacon., 1917-04-13

| Oct-A nckle tea kettle-was left on puard of
HV'' an auto on streets of Macon In front Of
telegraph ONCE on Saturday afternoon, Aprii 7th
finder viii leave a. Beacon Office,
Macon beacon., 1917-04-13
JACKSON, MISS, April 8. 1917.

JACKSON, MISS, April 9. 1917.
To the People Of Mississippi:
The people of every town in Mississ.
ippi together with the farmers living
adjacent should hold a meeting and
formulate definite plans for provision.
ing the community during the next
twelve months.
Indications are now that the CON-
munity that fails to raise this season
what it consumes Is going to actually
suffer. P. P. GARNER,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
A. & M. College, Miss, April 10,
1917.
DEAR EDIToR:-As you know
we are facing the most serious
food situation since the civil war.
1t is important that the farmers
in the territory covered by your
paper grow enough food for them
selves; for those in the community
who are in other lines of work,
and have a surplus to help feed
the army,
The Agricultural College, Ex.
pertinent Stations, and Extension
Department are putting forth the
mightlest efforts in their history
to influence the farmers to protect
themselves and the state, but we
need your help.
We are preparing a series of
"Food Special" articles which we
shall send to your paper for the
next few weeks. They will be
short and to the point. Will you
kindly give them as mnch prom.
inence as you think they are
worth.
Thanking you for your past lib.
eral cooperation, / am,
Sincerely yours,
81. o. PATE,
In Charge Information Service.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-11-22
WALLS HANG FROM THE ROOF
Electric Station at ChrlstobaI, Panama
Canal Zone, Has Sides Suspended
From the Eaves.

The roof of an electric station
building recently erected at Cristo-
bal, in the Panama Canal Zone, is
supported by central columns, and
the side walls bear no weight, but
are suspended from the caves. Says
Engineering and Contracting:
"Tn order to assure the electric
charging station at the Cristobal ter
minal Of the Panama canal against
settlement, it was constructed with
continuous REINFORCED concrete
beam which extends the length of
the building on the center columns
and from which the sidewalks are
literally suspended by means of can
6lever beams set at intervals of ten
feet. The walls are only four inches
thick. The wall on the sea side is
made fast to the paving by means of
anchor bolts. The weight of
the building is carried on a row of
uiumns extending along the longi-
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-11-22
OLDER MEN TO GET CHANCE
EnIistments In Army and Navy Have
Shortened Supply of Younger
Workers In Country.

The man of forty-fve, it seems, is
through the war, going to have an
other chance. Enlistments in the
army and navy have shortened the
supply of young men available for
industrial work and when the draft
becomes operative the shortage will
be further accentuated, says the In
dianapolis News. So industry is be-
ginning to look to the cold men" of
forty-fve, or so, whom efficiency"
has recently barred from employ
ment. The Pennsylvania railroad,
which for years has favored the
young man, announced a few days
ago that the bar against men more
than forty-fve was down and that
they would until the end Of the war
be welcomed as applicants for en-
ployment. Other corporations have
taken similar steps and the prospect
is that many more will be obliged
to do so, Men of forty-fve, if in
good physical condition, feel and
usually have a reasonable basis for
their attitude, that they are just
little bit filter than they ever were
in their lives before. To be barred
from any employment merely on ac-
count Of having arrived at the prime
of life has unquestionably struck
them as an unjustly discriminatory
proceeding. The attitude of some
employers was all the more difficult
to understand because tests made
showed that men of middle life were
equally if not more capable than
youngsters in any ordinary task set
before acknowledgements News.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-11-22
BEARS ATE SOLDIERS PIES
Mascots Made Raid on company's
Dessert and Right of Way Was
Not Disputed by Guards.

Pies, big deep ones, made from ap-
Piles, were on the noon mess menu Of
E Company, Forty-frst infantry, the
other day, says the st. Paul Pioneer,
but members of the company whose
tastes run to after-dinner sweets had
to patronize the candy stands at Fort
Smelling to pacify their appetites
for dessert.
1t all happened because two
"teeny, weeny" bears, unlike those
in the cred Riding Hood" fable,
who craved porridge only, discovered
that apple pies make fairly good
luncheons even for bears.
A delivery man from local
bakery had just deposited SO luscious
pies on table outside the company
kitchen, when two baby bears, which
Carlos Avery, state game and fish
commissioner, lent the regiment for
mascots, escaped from their box cage
and started to roam beyond its pre-
cincts in search of food, fun and
frolic.
Two rockies on kitchen police
started to bring in the pies when the
young bruins had convinced them
selves that pastry is edible. The rock
les didn't dispute the right of way OF
wait to set up prior rights of their
comrades. They fled down the street,
leaving the bears in undisturbed pos
session.
Those pies which they bad not
consumed were mauled and wrecked
beyond redemption.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-11-22
HAD NOT HEARD OF THE WAR
Colorado Sheep Rancher Not Aware Of
World Conflict Until Arrested for
Failure to Register.

Private John Allen-or maybe it
was John Sharp Williams-used to
tell story about a mountaineer in
the Tennessee Cumberlands who
thought that the Civil war was still
going, 40 years after Appomattox.
A Colorado sheep rancher matches
it, goes it one better, relates the Bos-
ton Transcript. Arrested for fail
ure to register for the draft, he ex-
cused himself by explaining that he
didn't know there was any war. He
had never heard Of Liege and Ma
muir, of the Marine OF Ypres, of the
Lusitania or the Sussex. Incredible
but for the fact that the man was a
sheep herder His occupation fur
nishes him with an alibi, if not with
a ticket of exemption, for the sheep
herders on the lonely sagebrush des-
erts of the West of all known beings
are the loneliest.
Out with his flocks for six months
or year at time alone under the
stars with his dog and his sheep, re-
lieved at long intervals by another
herder as completely cut off from
civilization as himself, the sheepman
is the antithesis of the city dweller,
getting his news hot from the wire
that leads to the ends of the earth.
Not even the tender on a hghtship,
spending his life at sea upon boat
that never changes its anchorage,
is so completely isolated from his fell
lows as the sheep herder.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-11-22

serve for public inspection objects
illustrating the British share in the
war. The exhibits will comprise ex-
anples of the arms and other war
materials used by the British naval
and military forces, trophies cap
tured from the enemy, souvenirs
found on battlefelds, inventions con-
nected with munition making at
home, the literature and art of the
war (including regimental maya
zines and trench drawings, maps,
the music of the war, placards issued
by the government in connection
with the recruiting, economy and
loan campaigns, medals and decora-
tons, fag-day souvenirs and auto
graph letters of some of those who
have taken distinguished parts in the
war.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-11-22
COMPARES TOMMY AND PoILU
Writer Asserts That Alongside That Of
French, English Face Looks Stupid
-Latter's Body Angular.

At the Care de Lyon poilus are
taking trains for the South. This is
our first real sight of them in their
tired glory. They look weary and
dusty and strong; every face has
character, no face looks empty, or as
if its thought were being done by
others. Their laughter is not vulgar
or thick. Alongside their faces the
English face looks stupid, the Eng
fish body angular and neat. They
are loaded with queer burdens, bread
and bottles bulge their pockets; their
blue-gray is prettier than khaki,
their round helmets are becoming.
Our Tommies, even to our own
eyes, seem uniformed, but hardly
two out of all this crowd are dressed
alike. The French soldier luxuri-
ates in extremes; he can go to his
death in white gloves and dandyism
he can glory in unshavenness and
patches. The words Gin extremis"
seem dear to the French soldier;
and con amore he passes from one
extreme to the other. One of them
stands gazing up at the board which
gives the hours of starting and the
destinations of the trains. His tired
face is charming, and has look that
l cannot describe-lost, as it were, to
all surroundings; a Welshman or
Highlander, but no Englishman,
could look like that.-John Gals
worthy, in Atlantic Magazine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-11-22
BADGE SHOWS SONS IN ARMY
Former Congressman Proud of En-
blem Bearing Four Bright Stars,
Indicating His Contribution.

Harry Lee Maynard, former mem
Der of congress from the Norfolk,
Va, district, was greeted by a friend,
who inquired the significance of a
neat little badge he was wearing.
The badge was in the form of a red
shield with four blue stars.
That's new idea," explained Mr..
Maynard. ga friend gave me that in
New York, and it will probably be-
come popular idea. You see, I
have four sons in the service. One
is a surgeon in the regular army,
now somewhere in France another
is a captain in the regular army, in
the coast artillery at Sparta, Wis;
another was graduated at the first
Fort Myer training camp and made
a captain, and the fourth is mem
Der of the naval reserves. My fifth
son is at military school in Viz
glnla, and L am a member Of the
Home Defense league.
"The idea of the badge is to indi-
cate that l have four sons in the
service. Any parent who has sons
serving his country has the right to
wear such a badge, the blue stars
indicating the number of sons who
are in the service"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-11-22
is POVERTY-STRlCKEN ARMY
Even Serbian Prince Has No Motor
Car and officers Are Forced to
Ride in Box Cars.

There is no upholstered car at the
Serbian front for the use of cor
respondent. Even King Peter had
no car for a time. Prince Alexan-
der had a car, but at the moment his
staff had none, and so his car was
used for staff errands, says Herbert
Corey, in the Saturday Evening
Post. Voivode Mischitch, the genius
Of the Macedonian campaign, rode
in tin Lizzie. Serbian officers be-
low the rank Of general rode in box
cars on the single-track railroad that
leads to Monastir, unless they knew
a military surgeon well enough to
beg a ride to the front in an ambu-
lance.
All this is not to be wondered at,
for the Serbs are the poor relations
of the allies. In land where it is so
very hard to get the barest necessi-
ties for living and fighting, the dis
tant kinsfolk can hardly expect lux
uries. Correspondents travel just as
colonies do when they visit the Serbs.
Box cars became familiar to us.
"You must have a tent" I had
been told at the Serbian headquar-
tiers.
So I got tent which was so small
that was forced to back into it, like
prairie dog. Ny head made dome
in the roof when I sat at work on
the typewriter.
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Bank Charter Notice No. ii.Ol5
Treasury Department, Office of
Comptroller of the Currency

Treasury Department., Office of
Comptroller of the Currency
Washington, d. c., June %, 1917
WHEREAS, by satisfactory evidence
w presented to the undersigned, it
has been made to appear that
The Solebury National Bank of New Hope
in the Borough of New Hope, in the
County of Bucks and State of Penn
sylvania, has complied with all the
provisions of LEGISLATURES of the United
States, required to be complied with
before an association shall be author
lied to commence the business of
Banking;
Now therefore I, John Shelton Will
Jams, Comptroller of the Currency, do
hereby certify that 1.-THE Soleburv Ma
tional Bank of New Hope lin the Bor-
ough of New Hope, in the County of
Bucks, and State of Pennsylvania, is
authorized to commence the business
of Banking as provided in Section Fiji
ty one hundred and sixty nine of the
Revised Statutes of the United States.
In testimony whereof witness my
hand and Seal of office this twenty
second day of June, 1917.
JOHN SHELTON WILLIAMS,
Comptroller of the Currency.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-11-22
NEW GERM KILLER.

DR.. Erwin Baumann, Koenigs-
berg (Prussia) surgeon, is using
large quantities of analine dyeing
materials for curative purposes and
has successfully treated over 400 pa
tients with this novel medicament.
AS a germ killer and arrester of
noxious growths these materials are
found to be far superior to any anti
septic substances so far known; they
are quickly distributed, do not coagu-
late albumen and, in the quantities
used, are absolutely nonpoisonous.
They can thus be used in very COM
pact form, and their prompt destruc-
ton of all bacteria rapidly stops sup
puration, heals wounded tissues, and
causes a lowering of temperature.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-11-22
BRITAIN PLANS WAR MUSEUM
jects Illustrative of the Coun-
try's Share in Conflict.

Sanction has been given by the
war cabinet to a scheme put forward
by Sir A. Mond, NJ. P, the first COM
missioner of works, of establishing a
national war museum, and commit
tee has been appointed to carry out
the project, says the London Times.
The first commissioner of works will
act as the chairman of this body.
The object is to collect and pre-