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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06
OKOLONA MISS. SEP 6 1917
Let's Keep Things Straight

The Editor of the Messenger
jumps on me with both feet, in
his last paper, because told the
truth. / said I'VE loaned Eng
land and France money to pay
their debts. | would like for
him to tell what they used it for
if not to pay their debts. He
goes right o. to show that since
the war began they have come
to owe the United States multi
piled millions of dollars. So
there is nothing wrong about
that. And then | said "rations
to feed their armies. | just
supposed any ordinary man
would know that they paid for
them without any telling. | re-
lied on the intelligence of the
readers. And then | said and
the flower of our country to fight
their battles. | supposed of
course that everybody would
know that we were going to let
them help do the Germans up.
1t would be impolite to go over
and take their war that they had
been running over three years
and turn them out on grass, be-
sides we will have work enough
for all. He wants to step in and
call it our war and says we want
to whip them for violating a
treaty so or 100-years old. We
are going over to help whip the
Germans because they sunk our
ships and drowned our people.
The thousands of young men We
are sending over there never
heard of these old treaties being
violated and nobody else but
Bro. Quinn would give a cent for
them. We tried every honorable
way to keep out, but they pullec
US in, and now they must take
the consequences.
kinder swelled up when he
was mixing me up with slackers.
With a four years record in the
war between the states and four
wounds On my body shows that
| smelt gun powder and burned
it too and poured out my blood
on the battlefield to show | was
no Stacker. Wilson give the war
a world wide standing when he
said it was democracy against
.autocracy. Those are big words
and sound good. But it simply
means those German hides have
got to be tanned before there
can be any permanent peace in
the world and Bro. Quinn and
myself may be called on yet to
help do the lob.
]. M. Haley.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06
Farm and Home Demon
stration Department
N. D. GUERRY
Miss MARY BOURDEAUX

There will be a Demonstration
Exhibit Day in Okolona, Oct. II.
The members of the Boys Pig
and Corn clubs and the Girls
Canning club will put on display
their various exhibits and prizes
will be awarded.
The following is a prize list for
the girls and women. The
prizes were contributed by the
business men, of Okolona, and
a competent Judge from the Ex-
tension Department will be asked
to come and judge the exhibits.
The articles coming under the
first head can only be put on by
the members of the Girls Can
ming Club. Those under the
head of Home Demonstration
Club can be put on by any one
who follows government instruc-
tons in her exhibit. Nothing
must be puton display that hasnot
been put up strictly according to
the government instructions that
have been given in demonstra-
tons this summer.
PRIZE LIST GIRL CANNING CLUB.
Tomatoes in tin Bottle Toilet
Water, Bell and Buchanan.
Tomatoes in glass Box Sta
tionery, Bearden's Drug Store.
Beans in tin Bottle of Toilet
Water, R. H. Lyon.
Beans in glass Year Subscrip-
to Pictorial Review, Chickasaw
Dry Goods Co.
Peaches in tin Bath Towels,
McDufie and Co.
Peaches in glass - Mahogany
clock, Droke Jewelry Co.
Apron : Crepe de chine hand
kerchief, McDuffie & Co.
Record book-10 yds- dress
bingham, Rubels store.
HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB
Beans in glass; doz fruit
jars, Paunell grocery.
Beans in TIM years subscrip-
ton to Okolona Messenger.
Okra in glass pkg coffee, T.
J. Lyles.
Squashes in glass pkg coffee,
T. j. Lyles.
Corn in glass - sack -four, Mic
hols grocery.
Corn in tin-10 yds dress ging-
hams, Okolona Supply Co.
Peaches in glass dollars
worth Of sugar, M. R. Waller.
Blackberry jams spools cot
ton, Okolona Mercantile Co.
Tomato ketchup-a doz pkg
spices ] doz pkg soap, Gass Bros.
Soup mixture sack -four, Bra
DIV Bros.
Dried corn-2 yrs SUBSCRIPTION
to Okolona Messenger.
Firelsss cooker aluminum
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06
The Turner and CULLEN
BARBER SHOP
North Sic Main Street
Jobs heretofore 25c now 25c.
CALL
NOTICE OF BOND SALE.

State Of Mississippi
Chickasaw County
Sealed bids will be received BY Il.
Board Of Supervisors OF Chickasav
County, Mississippi, at Okolona, Mi.
sissippi, until II O'Clock noon, No
day, September 10th, 1917, for FIJI!
Thousand (50.000001 Dollars of S.
pervisors District No. 3 Road Bond.
A Certified or Cas- hiers Check for
100000 must accompany each bid
Bids may be filed before the tim,
stated above with the Chancery Clerk
Houston. Mississippi.
The Board reserves the right tc
reject any and all bids and to proceed
at once to sell said Bonds at public
outcry to the highest and best bidder
Witness my signature this the 18th
day Of August. 1917.
w. A. WILKINSON.
q ERIK Of the Board of Supervisors.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06

which brought me out of It all right, SO
am now well and do all my housework,
besides working in my garden. Several
of my neighbors,have got well by taxi
ing Lydia E. Pinkham' Vegetable Com
pound. = Mrs. VIOLA FNIcAL, Wagon
or, Okla.
Such warning symptoms as sense OF
suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, beck
aches, dread of impending evil, timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu-
larities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and dizziness should be needed
by middle-aged women. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has carried
many women safely through the crisis.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06
NOTICE.

The Council Of the City of ssOkoI,
ma at its regular meeting or
Fridsy. Sept 9Th. 1917. viii
receive sealed bids e
100000 intrest bearing warrents loI
the city Of Okolona to be dated Sept
18th. 1917. payable 100000 on TIE
18th day Of September. 1918 and
100000 each year thereafter until
total issue is paid.
Warrants will bear interst at the
rsie Of FIVE and one.half percent
$40 per snnum, payable seminar
nually.
Proceeds will be used for the pur.
pose of resurfacing parts Of Main.
Fleming end Jefferson Streets. and
warrents will be payable out Of the
general fund Of the City.
Each bid must be accompanied by
! certified check for $4,000 payable
. w. j. Williams. Civ Clerk. The
Council reserves the right to reject
my and aIl bids. R. J. West
Mayor.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06
boiler, Okolona Hdw. Co.

boiler, Okolona Hdw. Co.
Icele-s refrigerator yrs sub
scription to Okolona Messenger.
Soy bean biscuit cake plate,
Walter Smith.
Cottage cheese, most attract
lively servedz1 pkg rice pkg
coffee, V. Turner.
Largest variety from a fall
garden One dollar cash or gro
ceries, A. 7. Gregory.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06

Babies and Growing Children
need tonic to tone up the sys-
TEN and regulate the liver.
Mothers are constantly using,
wonderful success, our "Planta-
ton" Chill and Fever Tonic.
Pleasant to take contains no
Calomel. Price SOC. adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06

ia bic Compound
b e C au Sc during
Change Of Life 1
was in bed two
years and had two
operations, but all
the doctors and OPP
erations did me no
good, and | would
have been in my
grave today had It
not been for Lydia
E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Conlnound
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06
Farm Loans.

In Chickasaw, Monroe and Lee
Counties at a low rate of inter.
est. Loans made for 5 to IL
years. Good options to borrow.
ers, and good valuations on well
improved farms. Prompt service.
T. w. BAKER.
<atf Aberdeen, Miss.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06

|
to the countries at war with Ger
many, not only ration, but what
ever else they wanted and let
them have the money to pay for
same, taking mortgage on these
countries as security. At the
beginning of hostilities Uncle
Sam" was bowed down to Europe
with a mortgage on his home to
an amount between two and
three billion dollars. He has
sold them goods enough to pay
this huge debt, bring here a
forth part of all gold of the world
and now sports around with
mortgages in his strong box on
England, France, Belgium, Italy
and Russia half the land owned
by the white people of the whole
world. For these two of the
Majors reasons England and
France ought to think just about
as much of us as the tenant far
mer thinks of the supply mer-
chant who sells him $500 flour
at $10.00a barrel and takes paper
to make him come across with
the dough in the fall. But
Uncle Sam" has treated these
countries worse even than that.
He has sold them SINE wheat
that was worth before the war,
less than a dollar a bushel for
about three dollars a bushel.
Yet the Major says England
and France ought to think a
great deal # US for treating them
thusly in face of the fact that
for more then an hundred years
this country has maintained men
in nearly every city in the world
looking for markets for our sur
plus products.
Now for the third reason, note
his words: Send the flower of
our country to fight their bat
ties. Whose battles? The bat
ties of France and England. He
names no others, makes no init
nation that we have any cause
for a quarrel, and publishes this
statement in the papers Of two
cou1. ties and has it sent to every
state in the Union and even to
every important city. He now
admits that we are at war be-
cause Germany sunk our ships
and drowned our people. 4" Just
here is where the old treaties,
which he says Nobody else but
Bro. Quinn would give a cent
for" comes in. In article % of
that old scrap of paper" Ger
many and the United States
solemnly agreed that neither ma
ton would sink the vessels of
the other under any circumstan-
ces when engaged in a war with.
a third power.
Now let's see whether or not
anybody else cares a cent for
these old treaties. England
went into the war because Ger
mkny violated the Belgium Neu-
trality treaty. And President
Wilson has but recently told the
Pope that we could not treat
with the present German gov
eminent for the very reason that
it violated these old treaties and
that no obligation undertaken
by it would be trusted by the
rest of the world. The demand
of our govnrnment is that the
German people must underwrite
any treaty signed by that power.
The word of the government of
Germany will not be taken. In
this particular, our government
has gone further than any other
nation at war with Germany.
We note the Major kinder
swelled up" because he thought
we mixed him up with slackers.
No, indeed, we had no intention
of so mixing him up. What we
did do was to take him to task
for automatically, as we believ-
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06
To Cure a Cold in One Day.

Take LAXATIVE BRoMO Quinine. 1t stops the
Cough and Headache aud works off the Cold
Druggists refund money il it fails to cure
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06
CRISIS OF
WOMAN'S LIFE
Change Safely Passed by
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Wagner, OkIa.-'1 never get tired
of praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06

Imitation is sincerest FIattey
but like counterfeit money the
imitation has not the worth of
the original. Insist on La
Creole" Hair Dressing-it's the
original. Darkens your hair in
the natural way, but contains no
dye. Price SLIGO. adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06
Card of Thanks

We wish to thank the friends
and neighbors for their kind
sympathy and help during the
brief illness and death of our
dear father and brother. also for
the beautiful floral offering.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts,
Mr.. D. Turner.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06
Disagreeable and Dangerous
Trouble

is Diarrhoea, but speedy and
certain cure is found in Missis-
sippi Diarrhoea Cordial. Price
25c and SOC. adv.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16
40, GOO NEGROES TO ATTEND
LODGE CONVENTION HERE

Approximately 40. .ooo negroes
from eve,y city in the United
States will be in St. Louis. Aug.
10 to IS, 10 attend the nineteenth
biennial session OF The Supreme
Lodge. Knights of Pythias. col
ored. u vas announced yesterday
tthe 81 Louis Convention and
Publicity Bureau.
One OF the features OF the con-
vention will be a night MsSdi
Gras parade, in which twenty y-sev-
en- bands from all pats oi the
country viii take part. a mill
tary parade. in which 10. coo ne
groes are scheduled 10 participate
will be another event. ThUe wil
be daily concerts and priG drills
al the Coliseum.
Inc Ranken tract wul be used
for the encampment, which will
be held under United States army
regulation. Maj William II i.
Butler will be in charge
A meeting OF the Supreme
Court Order OF Calaniha will be
held in connection with the other
exercises Globe Democrat.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16
RESPONSIBILITIES AND OPPOR-
TUNlTIES OF THE COLOR
Ed MINISTRY.

No one who travels over the
country, especially through the
South, can fail 10 be impressed
with this fact: The most COM
plete anh powerful organization
in the race is the Negro church.
No other medium that we have
can compare with the church in
strength. in appeal, breadth oi
influence, art. hnality and author
ity.
la this respect the colored
churches relatively constitute a
more powerful organization than
do the Waite churches. For
while white people are inhuenc, d
religlousIy by their churches,
they are inhuen need IN matters So
cial, industrial, financial ard po-
litlcal through other well estab-
lished mediums On the other
hand the only medium tnroug h
which many millions OF colored
people can be reached and lntiu-
enced it is the church. hen
goes without saying there rests
upon colored ministers greater
race responsibilities and oppGr'
nuties than upon any other set ol
men.
The writer has several times
sa d in this column that il the
white churches OF this country
should unite in taking a rec
christian stand on the race ques'
ton, q miraculous change would
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS TEACHERS
TO MEET AT CAIRO.

The thirty-sixth annual Sc sion
OF the Southern Illinois Teachers S
Association will convene at Cairo
on the evening OF March 2oth at
Cairo on the evening of March
29ra at tie Cairo Opera House
continuing until noon the 3lst.
On the afternoon oi the 2o.h
the county superintendt nts will
hold their annual meeting which
annual meeting which is not,
strictly speaking. part OF the 5.
|. I A. but which is always held
in connection with it preceding
the regular sessions.
The usual attendance is from
1900 to I4oo nd indications are
that there will be record attend
ance this year.
A strong program has been pre-
pared. Prominent educator from
several states are TO deliver ad-
dresses. The Imperial Quartet t
OF Chicago. viii sing at all the
sessions. Preliminary musical
programs will be given by the
Cairo schools.
Teachers are requested to get
their assignment to places to stay
previous 10 their arrival in Cairo
il possible. Those arriving Thurs
day will have the opportunity OF
visiting the Cairo schools.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16
JAMES H. MORRIS ANNOUNCES

In this issue Of The Gazette will
be found the announcement Of
James II Morris. as a cand date
fer City Treasurer for the city oil
Metropolis. Mr. Morris. is an
old citizen OF this city and county
and is thoroughly competent for
the place. He has filled many
imp )rtant positions OF honor aad
trust. having at one time filled the
important place in the First Nat
ional Bank as cashier bur when his
health failed him he resignt d TO
Get tbs fresh air.
Mr.. Morris. is to well known to
require long write up. We only
ask that his claims be given fair
con 'ideraiion
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16
SPARTA.

Mr.. Editor:
am thankful even TO Jehov-
abs God to speak through the
organ of your worthy paper.
Our S. s. opened AT the usual
hour at o:3o by our worthy Supt.
NJ. c Wrice. The supt. review
ed to the satisfaction OF all pres
ent.
At 1900 a m Rev. P. B..
French preached a spiritual SER
mon to his audience from Isaiah
4o:2o.
Services were postponed in the
afternoon on account OF the incle-
mency OF the weather.
Mrs. Febby Jordan Rowels died
in Eden last week She was the
mother OF Mrs. ane Johnson.
The funeral services were held
al the Freewill Baptist church
Monday.
Mrs. Anna Owens was called by
Telegram to Memphis, Tenn. to
attend the funeral OF her sister.
Mrs, Elizabeth Perkins arriveo
lin the city to join her husband.
They expect TO reside here ir
the future.
\ MI. Monroe Smith and Mis-.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16

be brought about; similar
statement may be made about
the colored churches. II the
colored churches OF this country
would unite in taking an intellI-
pent and unselish stand on all
questions oil vital interest to the
race there would also be brougt
about a miraculous change. The
taking of such a stand depends
entirely upon the colored MINIS
ters. 1t is first necessary that
they come to realize the respon-
sibiliti,s and opportunities that
their position gives them
OF course there are many OF
our ministers who do rerlize
these responsibilities and oPpor-
tunlties, but the majority, the
ones that reach the mass OF m'i-
lions have not progressed beyond
the standard OF ante bellum days.
They are still consuming all their
time, and using up some mental
and a great deal Of muscular e.
nerey in efforts to expound what
Paul said. The things that Paul
said are OF course important. and
it is the duty OF a minister 70
preach and teach them. but there
are things being said by men Nv
ing today and in this very country
important enough to the race to
be worthy OF some OF the time
usually devoted to Paul.
Here is a great work which
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16
NEGRO"

Truth forever on the scahold
Wrong forver on the tirone
Yet tnat scaffold swsys the future
And behind the dim unKrown
Stsnceth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above his own.
Did you ever think about the
foolish expresis ons to which all
we OF the South are given1 No
wonder people laugh at US; We
laugh at each other. on the sly.
For instance, there is the word
"darky." Did you ever think
hoe silly it is1 Dark. a dark man
or woman. evidently What it means
and which geatls- disposed ton
que has soitened into "darky. I"
Possibly it.-originaied with a
child that might have been a child
in love with its black nanny, in
the far away days. But there is
no such word The dictionary
calls II slang" ard pronounees
il a colloquialism. 1t is just a
trihe mole silly than the term
"eolored. > applied to the Negro
race. To speak OF full-gIown
man as "darky, " or as a "col-
ored' man is making mush and
nonsense OF good word. and oil a
good and friendly race.
Darky should be used only in
the romance of poetry, and that
seldom the word lends itself mote
essilv to the softer measures oi
poesy than does the word Negro.
OF course "colored' would b
assured IN that sense
The word Negro is good word
and no opprobrium attaches to it
1t is the name OF a race. ano
like any other race, should be
os spitalized. This is not only fail
il i, plain good sense and accord
ing to the law oil good language
The best OF the race, the edu
Gated and progressive. ask this
and this only. And it is certain
that it will benefit the race all a.
round when the one good strong
name is applied to it, without thu
Ifoolishesness OF darby" and col
ored man. Both are absurd silly
rot.-Miss Will Allen Drumgool'
Nashville Banner
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16
NOTICE
DIR. ]. r. Thomas.

A. the Executive Board and
Ministers and Deacons Union
cannot meet with the and b aptis'
church in March, who will take
the Board. The meeting vii
hold two days. Thursday ane
Friday before the ard Sunday
Let me hear from yeu.
The above named church is a
Centralia. Ill.
]. B. McCRARy.
Moderat or
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16

for the benefit Of the club at the
home of Mrs. Ce'esti Sui zer on
9th ST. Saturday night, A plea :
ant time is reported
Thr 25 cent rally that he b
was to have Sunday n'eht was
postponed on the account CT the
weather
We had one new joiner th S
week in the person OF Mrs. Addie
Adams, and We extend to her a
hearty welcome. and best wishes
Next meeting at Mrs. Amanda
Barnard S
Reporter.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16
Sparta III
March. IL. 1917.

J. B MeCrsry;
Metropolis. III
Dear Sir and Bro. Enclosed
find z o. Money Order for SIS.
SO which | collected from the fol-
lowing men and they said please
discontinue their paper:
J. M. Me,e ers 81 so
B. + Lince 2 90
J, d. AIlen 200
The other people promised to
pay me and | shall collect 10 few
days.
Yours Tor the cause.
J. Taylor.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16
DIED FULL OF YEARS.

Mrs Sophia Cobb Of Chicago.
formerly of this city died at her
late home last week. and was
brought here Tor bur'ah Tne
funeral was attended at the St.
Paul A. M. E church by the
pastor, Rev. /. S. Stone, Sunday
in the afternoon. The Ruth ind
Tabernacle had charge of the
body.
Her daughter. Mrs. H. Bell
Nuell and son Robert accompan-
the remains here to their last
resting place.
The Gazette extends sympathy
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16
SILVER LEAF
Metropolis. H..
Mar. IL, 1917.

At the home OF Mrs q. +
Masterson, Silver Leaf Club was
entertained by Mesdames Master
son and Cora jenkins. Sherbert
and Nabiscos being one OF the inn
oortant features OF the afternoon
An an entertainment was given
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16

it was thought he was improving.
He leaves ai'e. step-ddugh-
ter and several grandchildren n and
other relatives and liiend. to
mourn their loss Full patticu-
lars next week.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-16

must begin with the inte .lig ent
and progressive ministers The
work OF max n this powerful or
ganization not only the ins tiu-
ment for promoting our SIR 'ual
welfare, but our welfare as men
and citizens. New York Age.