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Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
Body OF Former D. S.
Found Near Cedar Lake

The body of Sam Walker, Of
Biloxi, former deputy sheriff,
was found on the Cedar Lake
road eight miles north of Biloxi,
by W. K. Rohn and J. Hosli.
farmers living in that section,
who were driving cows through
that Wednesday.
Walter McVey of Biloxi, was
arrested that night in connec.
tion with the death of Walker.
McVey was placed in the city
Jail at Biloxi to await a preleni-
nary hearing.
McVey protests his innocence
of the charge of numbering
Walker.
We were always good friends
he said, and | did not have a
thing in the world against him.
McVey admitted that Walker
was at his house Sunday night.
at which time the former depu-
ty sheriff is alleged to have dis.
appeared. but that he left short
ly afterward, according to Chief
Of Police Randolph, who asked
McVey few questions in regard
to the alleged crime.
Mrs. Sam Walker, wife of the
victim Of the tragedy near Cedar
Lake, declares that Walter Nc
Vey sent for her husband about
seven O'Clock Sunday night. She
states that Mrs. McVey and her
10 year-old daughter, came to
her home and said that McVey
wanted to see Sam about hoeing
potatoes.
Mrs. Walker stated that Sam
went with them and she did not
see him again until his body was
found Wednesday. II am posi-
tive" said Mrs. Walker, that
my husband was murdered.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
School Opens August 81

On Friday August 81, the Wig.
gins public schools both white
and colored will have their pre-
liminary opening for the pur'
pose of classifying and assigning
lists of books and etc. We trust
parents will promptly send their
children in the first day.
Our opening for sessions work
will be Monday September, 3. at
which time we expect to have
with US for addresses some
educators worth hearing.
Besides the addresses we will
have short program of appro-
pirate music.
All officials, patrons and
friends of the school are cordial
ly invited to be present Monday
September 3rd at 8:30a. m.
G. e. Ives. Supt.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
Houo Economics In School

Thauks TO q wide-awake board
Of trustees. the Wiggins High
School will for the first time in
its history, establish a depart
ment Of Home Economics this
session.
This is done that our girls may
learn the scientific value of foods.
their preparation and how to
serve same. Besides they need
to cut. fit and make garments
for them selves and others.
The Board has been very for
tunate in securing the services
of q thoroughly equipped teacher
for this work.
OF course to pupils Of the
school tuition will be free, but
housewives and others desiring
this valuable instruction and
training may secure same by
paying q reasonable tuition fee.
There has been no time in our
history when q knowledge of
the subjects included in this
course were SO essential as~in
this time of stress and strain,
and we confidently believe oar
people will gladly welcome the
opportunities offered them.
c. e. Ives, Supt.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
Red Cross Notes

The Red Cross has sixty-one
members at the present time
and is doing great work.
Officers are as follows:
Mrs. J. B. Dorsett. chairman.
Mrs. w. G. Batson. secretary.
Mrs. F. E. Bulge. treasurer.
Mrs. j. A. Leggett, publicity
and membership committee.
Mrs. Gunstrsam. first aid
chairman.
Mrs. W. L. Benjamin, chair
man supplies.
Mrs. j. D. Caver, chairman
entertainment.
We need you each and all,
come join US.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
Harrison Will Oppose
VarGaman

In long speech in Neshoba
County Thursday. Hon. B. P.
Harrison announced his candida.
cy against Senator James K.
Vardaman. for the United States
Senate.
Mr.. Harrison says he will
carry his message to every
nook and corner of the state,
and it il tak ken for granted that
Senator Vardaman will do the
came. so the people will be given
All opportunity during tile next
twelve months to hear both of
these gentlemen and their
claims to the office.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
Watermelons Good Pay.

r. l., Breland, a prosperous
young farmer living three miles
south of town, called at the
Enterprise office Thursday and
traded US seven fine juicy water
melons for years subscription
to the Enterprise. Mr.. Breland
tells US tf1at he has already col
lected more than $1Oo. from
half acre of melons.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25

Washington Aug. q. In q
characteristic speecaoL the floor
of the Senate. Mississippi's
Junior Senator Jam es X. Varda.
man, took occasion Friday to pay
his respects to political opponsn,
in his home state who have been
criticising his attitude on tbs
war and conscription.
In the course of his remarks.
which were the most unrestrain'
ed to which the Upper House has
listened for some time. he said:
my attention has heen called
of late to a popular species of en-
bryonic statesmen, the spawn
and product Of the slime. covered
pools of war, the evolution from
the human microbe, which found
its origin in the trouble womb u
abnormality. there is found on
every hand these days robust
specimens Of this runty genus.
which / mention only because
such as they present q problem
with which the people must deal
men with ambition. but with
out the slightest capacity for in
dependent Thought or Intelligent
action, fit only to follow and fawn
at the feet of power. This type
of individ ual, l repeat, is one Of
the many tantalizing incidents
of war. which but adds TO the
burden that the people must
bear.
One of the little individuals, TO
which my attention has been
called, is sincu batting an ambition
to serve his conutry or rather
himself, in the halls of state. He
favors war. and is loud and lusty
in the protestations of his loyalty
TO his country. He holds that
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
Soldiers Coming In

Hattiesburg, Miss, Aug. 23-4
companies of infantry, one from
Indiana, two from Kentucky,
and one from West Virginia,
arrived by noon today and at 6
p. IN. to train loads of soldiers
reached the camp. From best
information obtainable, it ap-
pears that Camp Shelby is the
first cantonment in the South
now ready to receive troops for
training, Notwithstanding it was
one Of the last camps named.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
SEN. VARDAMAN REFERS TO His
OPPOSITION IN CHARACTERISTIC way

under certain stances it is
treason to even obey the con-
stitution in the prosecution OF
the war. He woulp suspend the
bill OF wrights, abrogate the
Sermon on the Mount repeal ]
the Golden Rule. and vest with
the commander-in.chief of the
army the power of life and death
over the people. His lip patriot
ism is preached from every
street corner, and he is known
and heard ad nauseaum by his
friends. The valance of his soul
10 made manifest upon every
stump on which he is permitted
to stand and make profert of the
shallowness of his mind and the
emptaa,e~s OF his soul, while he
fills the ears of patient wa ting,
long suffering nQpulace with his
meaningless yerbiRsrations.
This peculiar type OF Ame
can statesman. the legitimate
product Of illegltimate conditions
the pest and provieatiou of patient
patriotism, is shown up in all its
nakedness. in the light OF his own
explanation, or analysis, which
hs makes while hestitating to
enter the arena OF politics. He
declines to announce his plat.
form until it shall have been
certain how people will look up
on the declaration of war and,
by wsy Of parentLesis, let me
say, the declaration of war about
which the people we're not con-
sslted-and bow they will finally
regard thesun- American and un-
constitutional way Of raising an
army for foreign service by con-
seription.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
Those Who Are Called

Below il q list Of men In Ston
County who have been calfe
ntn the service of their country
About 25 OF the first named
Will be ordered to report her
within the next few days wher
hey will be held for = few day
before being sent to some train
ng camp.
Mccall Cleveland.
Wren Dickey.
Virg1e G. Davis.
George Wright,
Ernest Brooks,
Charlie Lewis.
John Philips,
Walter Hickman.
Ben Price,
lAoron G. Bond,
Henry McGowen.
Daniel M. Courtney.
Rllph Coleman,
Horace M. Breland,
Lee r. Johnson,
Shelvay Dunning.
Gale w. Breland,
Wo0dson Johnson,
Carv Brooks,
j. G. Fluker,
Wallace Reabold,
Vigor Mason.
Levi Easteiling,
Everett Cain,
Mallie Smith,
William Stewart,
Lamaa A. Williams,
X. G. Millner,
Peter w. Hickman,
Clarance E. Rsnot.
Charlie chatham,
Andrew Brady,
John Lovett,
Eddie G. Walker.
Lee Greene,
Dale Jones,
Basho G. Smith,
Timothy Wingfield
ara L. Farley,
Wayne Sutton,
Sandy Nicholson,
Theodore H. Thomas.
Champion Mickey.
Isom Stovall.
Simond Jones,
Free Barnet,
Ellie Merrill,
William L. Hill,
Robert Smith.
Lemon Hughes.
Jesse Stockett,
Burl Oliver.
Marvin H. Furry,
Louis G. Geiger. >
Bob Ebcrham,
Eddie Brag Dubose,
Allen Thompson,
Love Davis.
Chas. Walters,
Samuel S. Barker,
Rufus N. Ramsey.
Sam Graham,
Fred Bounds,
Willie L. Taylor.
Below are the names of those
tho failed to appear for exami
alton, and who are now desig
'ated by the government al
RATED and subject to call with
ut further notice.
John Greene,
Henderson Smith.
Hurshel /. Harris.
John Peavy,
Readus Kirksey.
Boney Smith,
Clarence OFT.
Quill Taylor,
I'oney White.
George Ransom.
Jessie Smith
Do You
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
Perry Camp Meeting Now
In Session

The Camp Meeting began at
Perry last night and will con.
tinue until Sept, 3rd.
The leading preachers will be
G. s. Harmon and c. G. Crossley.
New tents have been built and
gronnda greatly improved.
Meals and beds will be pro.
vlded for alta reasonable rate.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
1878 For Dog Taxes

The readers of the Enterprise
will perhaps be interested to
know that the School fund of
Stone County for year 1915 was
increased $373 by the tax col
lected On dogs.
1t is quite likely that twice
that amount will be collected for
the year 1917.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
Died

The thirteen-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Jones
died at the home of her sister,
whom she was visiting on Big
Level. on last Sun day morning.
The little girl had been sick
less than a week.
The body was buried at the
Big Level Church Cemetery at
5 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Rev.
J. E. Glenn conducted the funer-.
al services
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25

WANTED "A good second hand
enc horse wagon, must be cheap
fOt cas- b, prefer same without
bed. Inquire of E. e. Bryan,
Fruitland, Park, Miss.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
Doings OF The Board
OF Supervisors

Supervisors met in regular sesS
ion on the 9th day OF August, and
after transacting the regular
routine business, took up the
work of equalizlng the land and
personal rolls and will complete
that work today.
Following is synopsis Of the
proceedings Of the Board.
Fl. V. Perkins, M. J. E. Oneal
J. S. Rouse and J. c.. Davis
were paid $1,000 each, being
their salary for July.
July report of G. H. Bass,
county superintendent was
adopted and his salary of 500
was allowed.
The Standard Drug Company
of Meridian was awarded con.
tract to furnish dip pping vat
chemicals to the amount of $167.
VI. Smith, a county convict
was allowed 90 days on his 90
day sentence on account of meri-
borloQS conduct.
The sale Of court house and
Jail bonds in April to Sidney
spltzer & Company was ordered
feclnded on account of said Sid
ney Splitter & Company not
being able to handle said bonds.
The said bonds was then offered
for sale when j. G.. Mayer & Co.,
OF Cincinatti, purchased same as
8 per cent bonds, giving 500.
premium. Said bond issue was
for $780, and to be paid off at
rate of $4,000 per year, begin.
ming five years from date.
County Assessor, O. E. Bat
son made his report to the Board
with delivery af the personal and
land roll. His report was to the
effect that the whole assessment
was below the real values and
asked the Board to consider the
whole roll, as his list of property
assessed less than it's real value.
The loan warrant, for $3.50
advel tised for at July meeting
was sold to the Bank ofWiggins.
Arrangements was made with
the County depository, (Bank of
Wiggins) to cash all warrants on
general and road and bridge
funds without discount.
The Standard Construction
Company was paid $l,44O on
their contract
Poll tax refund of $500 each
was made to S. E. FURRY and
w. A. McAlpin. account of dou-
BILE assessment.
Robert Whittle and Hamp
Herring were placed on pauper
list and allowed 81 90 per month
each. All other paupers were cut
to 400 per month.
The Clerk was ordered to ad,
vertlse for courthouse furniture
and Jail cells
Mem bers, E. r. Smith and A.
w. Bond reported favora bly, on
change in public roads near r.
Il. and S E Davis.
In the matter of equalizing
the land roll, the Board agreed
to assess stump lands at $l.OO to
$1,000 per acre, being governed
as to location and character of
same.
The tim bered land was gone
over carefully by memb bers of the
Board and raised in many instan
ces to ten times the number of
feet reported to the Assessor by
the owners and in many cases
timber was added to land that
was assessed as cut-over land.
Cattle were assessed at $1,000
per head. Sheep at $500 and
hogs 400 Horses were assessed
so IS to average SOS. 90 and mules
$500. Oxen were rated at $36 90
each.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-08-25
Notice TO Teachers Of Stonl
County

I hereby ask that all teachers
now teaching in Stone county
and who expect to teach in Stone
County that they meet at my Of
flee on Sept. l, at 9 o'clock for
purpose of organizing an associa-
tion, receiving the necessary
blanks and contracts.
l expect every teacher to
attend.
Cordially.
G. H. Bass, Supt
P. s. -Colored teachers are re-
Quested to come in the afternoon.
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known. If we are to cope success
fully with this mighty power then
our armed forces also must be sup
ported by an efficient industrial sys-
tenn, and all branches of industry
must be co-ordinated and the inter
ests Of each subordinated to the
common good Of all.
Industrial Preparedness.
Since the beginning of the Eur
opean war the far-sighted business
men Of the nation had foreseen what
the President in his proclamation
says is evident to every thinking
man. Accordingly the National In
dustrial Conservation Movement was
organized in 1915 by the National
Association Of Manufacturers for
the purpose Of promoting Industrial
preparedness, and when the United
States entered the war this move
ment was vitalized and intensified by
the exigencies Of the occasion.
The advocates OF industrial pre-
paredness, like the advocates of mill
tary preparedness, found that the
first requisite to success was an in
telligent publicity campaign to edu-
cate the people along Industrial lines
and create a more wholesome pub
lie sentiment. Furthermore they
found that our deplorable Industrial
condition was due in large measure
to a prolonged period Of legislative
hysteria, unrestrained agitation, ex-
pensive Investigations and unreason-
able regulations; which had restrict
ed business activity. prevented in
dustrial efficiency and produced ma
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No One Class Can Win War; But All
Must Cooperate Is Message Brought
City By Manufacturers Representative
Stirring Appeal For Industrial Preparedness and The Ending Sense
less Agitation Is Made Before Local Rotary Club"To Burn
Barn Is No Way To Get Rid Of The Rats

(Abstraet of an address de-
liVered by s. A. Clark, of Mis-
souri,, special representative of
the National Industrial Conser-
walton movement, before the
Fargo Rotary club, Wednesday,
At the beginning Of the war this
country confronted a condition OF in
dustrial unpreparedness as we'll as
military unpreparedness. Really
ing this fact and the further fact that
military preparedness is absolutely
dependent upon industrial prepared
ness, President Woodrow Wilson in
his proclamation issued April 18th,
said:
1T Is evident to every thinking
man that our industries, on the
farms, in the shipyards, in the mines,
in the factories. must be made more
prolific and more efficient than ever,
and that they must be more econ
omicaliy managed and better adapt
ed to the particular requirements OF
our task than they have been, and
what want to say is that the men
and the women who devote their
thought and their energy to these
things will be serving the country
and conducting the fight for peace
and freedom just as truly and just
as effectively as the men on the bat
tlefield or in the trenches"
IL Is generally conceded that the
great military strength of the Ger
man empire Is due largely to the
fact that its armed forces are sup
ported by the most efficient indus
trial system the world has ever
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nor in the Justice and purity Of its
administration, so MUCH as in the
elevation and redemption OF in
diyidual character among its people.
In this truth alone is TO be found
the solution to all of the Derplexing
problems OF the age. There Is the
unsolved problem of the man and
the dolIar-which rules the world
The problem OF capital and labor
how shall they be tremendously adj
justed? The problem of monopoly
how shall we give organized wealth.
the right TO use its power without
enslaving the masses? The prob
lem OF the colored man-how shall
we develop and make a citizen Of
him without encroacl1ing upon the
rights. privileges and sentiments OF
the cultured people OF the south2
The problem Of prohibition-how
shall we stop the manufacture. sale
and use OF Intoxicating liquors with
out doing violence to invested capt.
tai or infringing upon the rights Of
the individual? The problem of the
social evil-how shall we remove this
cancer from the heart of christen
dom and establish a healthy social
condition? Finally, there Is the prob
lem OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. shall We
develop the average man physically.
socially, mentally and morally so that
he shall be able to meet all the de
mands Of this complex age and ripen
soul for eternity?
Personally I am deeply interested
In all of these great problems, and 1
trust that you are; and after a care
full consideration of the situation |
have arrived at the conclusion that
what we need first worst and most
of all for the solution OF all the prob
lens Of our time. is more men and
more women OF character.
We want more men OF character in
the factory and in the workshop,
that the laboring glasses may not so
easily be converted into bowling
mobs and violence reign where arbit-
ration should rule. We want more
men ofAcharacter in the business
houses, that the public trust may not
be destroyed, confidence lost, the
credit system ruined and our nation
al credit weakened We want more
men of character in the legislative
halls, that the voice of the people,
and not the demagogue, may be
heard and their wills executed, lest
the great cords that bind our re-
public together shall decay through
the corruption of politics, the union
be dissolved and the stars and
stripes trailed in the dust of a dis
graced soil. We want more men OF
character in the pew and i'm the pull
pit, that the spirit of the living God
may find expression i'm the modern
church, lest 1t become the cloak OF
hypocrisy, the school OF infidelity and
the power OF Christ be lost to the
world.
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be said Of the manufacturing indus
tries, which clothe and furnish our
armies and navies with munitions
and the implements OF war. And the
same may be said OF the railways,
which distribute the products of the
various sections of our country and
mobilize our great resources along
the Atlantic coast. The whole truth
Is that there must be a conservation
and a cooperation Of all branches
OF industry and of all the sources of
production and distribution; and the
men on the farm. In the store. in the
mine, I'm the factory and on the rail-
ways, of our country must be mar
shaded into one great industrial
army to support efficiently and eff
fectively that other great army that
shall carry the nag OF freedom and
liberty to millions OF struggling peo-
Piles beyond the sea.
But at this time when the god OF
war is supreme, when the dove OF
peace has flown from the face Of the
earth, IL is well for us to remember
that the true glory Of q nation Is in
the living temple of loyal. indus
trious and upright people. The busy
click of machinery, the merry ring
OF the anvil the lowing Of peaceful
herds and the song q the harvest
home, are sweeter music than the
peans of departed glory or the songs
OF triumph in war. The vine-clad
cottage Of the hillside. the cabin of
the woodsman and the rural home of
the farmer are the true citadels of
our country. There is a dignity in
honest toll that belongs not to the
display Of wealth nor the luxury Of
fashion. The man who drives his
pillow, or swings his axe in the forest,
or with cunning fingers plies the
tools OF his craft, is as truly a SER
want Of his country as the statesman
in the senate or the. soldier in battle.
My fellow citizens, IN this hour OF
national peril, / appeal for manhood,
not laws. plead for restoration
of individual honor-that sentiment
OF self-respect which is born of self
control. 1t is the higher and un-
written law which is more binding on
the conscience of men than the legal
requirements of the state. it is of a
distinctly religious character. it's
essence being the obligation to fol-
low right and truth for themselves,
and not so simply because of any hui
man penalties for their infraction. 1t
regards the spirit rather than the
letter OF the law; and establishes an
individual measures himself and his
fellow man.
Manhood Needed.
The crying need of the hour is
manhood-not agitation, not investi-
cation, not legislation, but MEN
men Of character, men of courage,
high minded men! Men who can
truthfully say, THE place / occupy
needs no reforming!" Men who are
ready and willing to begin the ref
ormation OF the world in their own
lives. Men who dare to do right, not
because the law says they must, but
because it is right! a
The truth for us to remember at
all times and especially in these
times, is the truth that the hope OF
a nation is not in it's forms OF gov
eminent, nor in the multiplicity and
stringency OF its laws, nor in the
wisdom and equity of its executive,
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chamberIain's Cough Remedy.

This is not only one OF the best
and most efficient medicines for
coughs, colds and Group. but is also
pleasant and safe to take. which is
important when medicine must be
given to children. Many mothers
have given it their unqualified en-
dorsement.-Advt.