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The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1918-06-22

w, F, Wall, Treasurer.
Rosa Belle Shelby. Secretary,
The following is the financial
statement of the Gunnison Branch
of The Riverside Chapter of The
American Red Cross,
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1918-06-22
AN IDEAL STOCK FARM FOR
SALE.

This farm is in the southern
part of the State. in Amite county.
320 acres with about 100 acres in
cultivation and the balance in vir-
gin timber. pine. oak, popular and
ash, right on the Amite River
within thee miles of the railroad.
with fine spring branch running
through the place. Another Sec
ton of land joins this and tan be
bought for fhe same price as the.
above 800 acres. at $40. 90 per acre
cash. If int crested can take you
or party down and show them over
the land any time this month
Uune.) Address. c. F. REY-
NoLDs. Malvina, Mise
Z
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1918-06-22

this the +th day of June A. D. 1913
L. L. JOEST. Tax Collector.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1918-06-22
War Pr0C|amationS
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION

THE WHITE HOUSE,
WASHINGTON, d. G.
MAY 20, 1918.

\HS WARTS of hundred million
be idustry conditions
this nation the conflict all who
either Liberty Bonds WarSavig practice
thrift all
do likewise
Government securities his the United
States
competition with the Government earnestly appeal and
child
to do this Societies The
twentygh June ends this of the volun
production unnsted
on that Day WOODROW WILSON.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1918-06-22
Nd Cross Notes.

we respectfully submit the fol
nHlng report of the branch of the
riverside Chapter of the Ameri-
an Red Cross.
RECEIPTS
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1918-06-22
FOntaine Jones

Rosedale. Miss.
ONE MILLION DOLLARS TO
LOAN
ON IMPROVED BOLIVAR
COUNTY PLANTATIONS
For FIVE to ten years at lowest
rates of intrist. Why pay 8 per
cent when | can let you have it
for less? Large loans on ten years
time especially solicited. Proper
ties inspected and all loans closed
promptlp.
Three fine plantations for sale
on easy terms.
Address FONTAINE JONES,
ROSEDALE Miss.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1918-06-22

H.. COUNTY Oemocra
l, postoiiice at Rosedale,
y, '.,.,cond-class matter.
[.,cprpTION. 81 so.
'yrrLL. EDITOR
AND LEssE.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1918-06-22

Farrar and Wall will take your
orders for cord wood to be deliver
ed this summer at a reasonable
price. Those wanting wood can
MACE their orders now. (ad.)
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1918-06-22
Prescriptions,
Stationery and Perfumes,
Big Line of Patent Medicines
Sale of Land for Taxes.

STATE or MISSISSIPPI l. Joes Tax Collector of the
of Rosedale, in State and County
Town of aforesaid, will sell MONDAY, JULY
A. d. 1918, at the west door OF the
cohrt house of town highest bidders fer cash
following described lands situated III SAID
town a unpaid at that date to- wit:
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pleasurable anticipation made the de-
lightful realisation all the more en-
joyable.
Stapleton lives about ten miles
out in Maryland. coming in daily on
the electric line. He has fivs acres
Of land just at the edge Of q pretty
little village, and a comfortable,
.homeHke house surrounded by big
maple trees. Mrs. Stapleton, whom
we never had met. gave US q cordial
welcome. and Tom and Bettina soon
were on terms Of intimacy with the
three Stapleton children.
Stapleton, in q wide-brinmed straw
hat and overalls the legs Of which
were tucked into high storm shoes.
looked like a real farmer, and before
I had spent half an hour looking
over his place decided he measured
up to his looks He has half an acre
in garden and works every bit Of it
himself Fred Turner and I are
working a quarter Of an acre In
partnership, and we have thought
that we were revolutioning agricul-
ture. Nor was Stapleton's garden
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ABOUT quarter OF an acre, anu
equally well kept. He had straw
berries and red and black raspberries
and blackberriesk besides currants
and gooseberries and grapes, already
in bearing. and plum and apricot and
cherry trees, which he said would be
bearing in another year. 1t certainly
did look good to me.
could see Mary fairly turning
green with envy when Mrs. Stapleton
took US to see her chickens. They
were her independent venture. she
told US, and she had entire charge OF
them, doing all the work herself ex-
cept to clean the chicken houses. a
lob which her husband found time
to do once a week. She had hock
Of about seventy-five hens and prob
ably 200 young chickens. ranging in
age from frying size down to baby
chicks only a few days old: She had
brought OF two incubator matches IN
April, she said, and since then had
been Matching under hens. She kept
only one breed, barred Plymouth
rocks, and the uniformity added lot
to the attractiveness Of her flock.
If Mary had been envious OF the
chickens. think she was DOWNRIGHT
exhibited a flock Of young turkeys.
She had Matched eleven turkey eggs
under a hen, and ten of the turkeys
were still alive and old enough now,
she said. SO that their continuance OF
life was fairly wen assured. The
family was to eat its own turkey at
Thanksgiving and again at Christ
mas, we were told. and the rest were
to be sold Mrs. StApieton conducts her
chicken plant ON a strictly business
basis, keeping a regular set Of books
and conducting her correspondence on
printed letterheads. She BELLS eggs
and dressed chickens to regular GUS
TONERS in town and in the spring
makes speciality Of selling Matching
eggs. advertising them in the news
papers. She knows to cent what 1t
is costing her to feed her chickens
and all the eggs and chickens used on
the family table are charged up at
regular market prices. She had start
ed business several years ago with
ten thoroughbred hens and a cockerel
and SIS in cash and was increasing
the business only as it paid its way
out Of its own profits. Her books
showed, she said. that she could count
on an average profit of $3.50 a year
from each hen. She aims at a plant
with 400 laying hens. which she ex-
poets to attain in three more years.
By that time her oldest boy will be
big-enough to help her with the work.
Four hundred hens at a yearly prof
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0oU are going to get rest to-
w day from my war garden.
I've been resting from the
q garden all week, and count
Il only square deal to my readers
that they should have like chance
to recuperate.
But that doesn't mean you are not
going to hear about gardens Mine
isn't the only one. you know. In fact
mine doesn't sce-e as high, even in
my own estimation. as it did week
ago. I've had an opportunity to see a
one-man, but man-size, garden that
makes mine look like the proverbial
30 cents.
To bark back to the beginning OF
things, as these writer chaps say, I've
been on vacation for week. Owing
shortage of help at the office it looked
as II it would be all the vacation that
would come my way this summer, so
we decided. Mary and l. that we would
suspend all agricultural operations
and devote the seven days to resting.
1t always has been MaT'0 privilege
to decide where we would spend our
vacations. and this year she decided
we would spend it at home. She was
persuaded to this decision partly by
the limited time we had for vacation
ing. but mainly by the conviction that
we ought to buy war savings stamps
with any money we can spare from
actual necessities.
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il of $3.50 a hen-$1 600 a year. !
could tell by the light in Mary's eyes
that a new ambition had laid It's grip
upon her.
mice looking cows" I remarked. as
I caught sight of them in an inclosed
pasture of couple of acres. Whose
are they
mime" stapleton answered. proud
ly. They're grade Jerseys. ano mere
aren't any better ones in the county
And it developed that. in addition
to cultivating his garden. this man
milks and feeds and cares for two
cows night and morning and he
laughs at the notion that he is doing
anything out of the ordinary.
Nor is this all. We were escorted
to a pen back of the barn and were
greeted by the anticipatory gruntings
of three pigs. which. reckon. would
weigh about fifty pounds apiece he
said he had paid IS each for the pigs
when they were eight weeks old, and
that the mill feed he had to buy for
them was outrageously high. but that
when they were old enough to KILL
next winter, each Of them would rep
resent a net profit of at least $50 on
the investment. He expected them to
make a good part of their growth On
weeds and other waste materials
That's why his garden was so 1ree OF
weeds In his sweet corn at the last
cultivation and wherever. else he
could find space, Stapleton said, he
had planted soy beans. which would
be cut and fed to the pigs when the
weeds were gone.
It doesn't look as IL the Stapleton
family was in danger Of going hum
CRY, no matter how scarce and high
food may be next winter. Mrs. Sta
pleton has a canning outfit and 10
putting up both vegetables and fruit
in tin cans. Besides all the things
which are to be canned. sweet corn is
to be dried, and there will be dry
lima beans and soup beans enough
to last through the winter. and po-
tato patch which Stapleton said
should yield fifty bushels. Except for
flour and sugar and coffee, they'll be
almost Independent OF the grocer.
Mary was very silent all the way
home that evening. and more silent
still as we ate our belated dinner. In
fact, it was bedtime before she grew
laxative, and then all she said was:
Were going to sell our house next
winter and in the spring we're go
ing to the country"
THE WAR GARDENER.
(To be continued)
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remarkable for tts sixs alone. It
was the cleanest neatest, thriftiest-
looking garden I ever sew. There
wasn't a weed in sight. everything
was thoroughly cultivated and every
vegetable gave promise Of yielding
bumper crop. asked him II he kept
q man employed regularly or only
a part Of the time, and It put a severe
strain ON my naturally credulous dis
position when he answered that he
had no help at all. that he did all
the work himself except the blowing
and narrowing.
4 4
It was all a matter of experience
and practice, he told me. He said he
could cultivate twice as much garden.
do it twice as well and with half
the work he could when he went out
from town i've or six years ago.
My wonder grew as the inspection
progressed. From the vegetable gar
den he took me to his fruit garden.
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Army and Navy News

ganizing training schools for nurses
in some of the Army hospitals and
camps The object Of these camps is
to train young women OF at least
high school education in these mill
tary hospitals as they train them in
civil institutions by giving them prac-
teal work In the wards and theoreti-
cal training in the schoo1rooms. Stu
dents will do there, as they do in the
civilian training schools. the major
part Of the manual labor Of the
nursing. and thereby will release SO
many more trained nurses for the
more dimcult phases Of military nurs-
ing.
To perfect them in the entire course,
1t will be necessary to transfer them
for a part Of their three years course
to some affiliated civilian hospital.
They will do this only in case they
can be spared from Army work, for
they are regarded as cadets and mid
shipmen, ready to be called upon as
partially trained If no better are
available.
The head of the schools is Miss A.
W. Goodrich, who has selected her adj
ministrative corps, as follows: Miss
city; Miss Helen Scott Hay and Miss
Ellen Stewart, formerly superinten-
dent of Clarkson Memorial Hospital,
Omaha, Neb.
It is understood that the first of
these training camps will be opened
ers will follow at Walter Reed Hos
pital, Washington, and others that
may be selected, the number depend
ing upon the degree Of success of the
early camps. The plan is to open
each training school with class Of
twenty-five student nurses and adding
to the number in precisely the same
way that civilian hospitals take in
new increments.
While primarily these schools are
intended to supplement the Army.
Nurse Corps, there is principle be-
hind it which Is not SO we'll under
stood. "The drain upon the nurse
body has been great, and the need Of
nurses after the war will be greater
than ever on account of the vastness
Of the field for reconstruction work. :"
Miss Goodrich explains. That work
is not limited to the rehabilitation of
men disabled in the war. 1t extends
the war, will break down through
the strain of the war hardships. and
to the unborn who will suffer without
the care and enlightenment that the
well trained nurse can give better in
some cases than even the family doc
tor. The high school standard Of edu-
cation is set to meet the requirements
of the state so that the graduates Of
those schools may be admitted to
practice as graduate nurses" :
1t may be added that in England
and France many women volunteered
to nurse In the Army hospitals. They
have served faithfully, but have made
little progress in the way to becom-
ing full-fledged nurses, and when
peace comes they will have gained
little in a professional way toward a
calling that will be useful to others
and a means OF livelihood~to them
selves.
IT HE office of the surgeon general
Il Of the Army is giving publicity to
denial Of the auitegeneral report that
dental students in the Dental Reserve
Corps may enter the service in some
Of the camps and cantonments for the
purpose of obtaining experience in
the military practice Of their profess
sion. and to qualify themselves for
commisafona KhAn IL hecnmea noRRihlA
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She did consent. however. to . few
nearby and inexpensive trips. and one
OF them WAS to the suburban homo OF
Jack Stapleton. who works in the
office with me and who has invited
us repeatedly to visit him. I don't
know just why we never had gone.
I reckon it was because. before I
became war gardener was in such a
rut Of life that I couldn't summon mp
the necessary energy.
When Stapleton learned was go
ing on vacation he renewed the invi-
tation and said he would arrange to
get away from the Office any day I
would come. AS already had said
that we had no definite vacation plans
I didn't see any way to escape, SO
said we would come Wednesday.
honestly felt that had been trapped
and was little resentfuL The lack Of
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IN testimony given before the
Senate committee on military
affairs has brought out the
-o fact that the one known
method Of protecting the incoming
recruits from measles and other COM
municable diseases resulting in pneu-
monia and meningitis. which caused
SO many deaths in camps last win
ter. Is the establishment Of detention
and inspection camps for the re-
cruits- By a system Of segregating
the new men from the main camp for
few weeks, the medical officers by
careful inspection are able to keep
those who are infected from contact
with those who are susceptible to
the contagion; and thus the latter
escape and the disease is checked
within bounds.
The practice of the Navy at the
Great Lakes. the Pelham and other
training camps and the result Of the
whose divisional commander took the
responsibility Of ordering and main
tanning them. prove beyond question
that they are protection to the en-
listed men against the much-dreaded
respiratory diseases. and that the
eral of the Army that they be es-
tablished is worthy of adoption It
appears, however, that, despite his
recommendation, the War Depart
ment has failed to give the matter
favorable consideration. the subject
in some way.
The facilities for the care of the
sick at the cantonments have been
improved: hospitals are completed and
heated, medical officers are familiar
with their duties, nurses and at
tendants are available, but unless
something in the way of prevention is
done-and nothing better than these
detention camps is known-it is feared
that the experiences OF last TALL and
winter will be repeated IN the preva-
lence of these diseases. and that the
death rate from pneumonia will again
creep UP the scale.
~ EN-. PEYTON C. MARCH. chief Of
VI staff. at his first war talk to the
press. briefly told the situation re-
su}ting from the last four drives of
that the channel ports were the
sources of most immediate danger
strategically. although the fall of
Paris, which Is not expected, would be
a blow from the point of sentiment
which would effect the morale as well
as the military situation. The Ger
mans, by the extension OF their line
to the arc of circle, are giving the
allies sixty-eight more miles Of front
to defend, and this Is one reason why
more men are needed on the front.
For this purpose the United States
must Increase the number of men
abroad to the limit of the transport
capacity. He says that the 100000
now over there include combatants
and non-combatants.
Possibly the most interesting state
ment of the morning 10 his intention
with the approval of Secretary OF
War Baker. to lift as far as The can
with prudence the veil of censorship
since 1.-The American people are en-
titled to the Information, because II
10 their war"
THE War Department. through thu
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general has sent notices to the deans
Of the leading schools Of dentistry
that such reports are erroneous and
asking them to so inform all stu
dents. Graduating dentists now in the
Dental Reserve Corps are being CALL
ed into the service as they are re-
qufred.
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United States with combatant or nom
combatant forces, and to promptly rid
the service Of all men who are found,
after thorough trial and examination,
physically, mentally or morally incap.
able of performing the duties of .
soldier.
The War Department has issued in.
structions under a general order mo.
45) for the procedure to be observed
in connection with the transfer Of
men to these development battalions;
and calls special attention to the re.
sponsibility placed upon the officers
ON duty with them. The battalions
already instituted are showing excel.
lent results in the number of men re.
stored to active duty as a result Of
their efforts. The complete report Of
the officers responsible for these re-
suits is expected soon. and it will BE-
OF value in solving the problem Of
how to deal with men of this class
who have been taken into the serv.
ice.
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THE War Department, through the
surgeon generals once, 10 or
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camp is Lieut. Col. Richard Parks.
Engineer Corps, U. S. A.. and the fol-
adjutant, Maj. A. e. Harris: quarter
master, Maj. Sterling: ordnance Of
fcer, Maj. Allen; training camp activ-
tiles. Maj. flanagan: surgeon. Maj.
Brewer; ponoon school, Maj. Won
Doestin; gas defense, Capt Rotens:
head Of training school, Maj. Pick;
head Of railroads, Maj. Smethurst;
highways. Capt Carol: water supply.
Maj. Mcmillan; commanding I'd Regf-
ment, Lieut.. Col. Wilkes, U. s. A;
Sd Regiment, Maj. Ganahl q. s. A;
4th Regiment (sappers). Maj. Book,
U. 8. A.. and colored brigade. MAJ.
Gillette. u. s. A.
Health conditions in the camp are
excellent, and it is said that the.
discipline is mp to high standard.
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Health conditions in the camp are
excellent, and it is said that the
discipline is mp to high standard.
SURGEON GENERAL BREASTED,
q. s. N, as the representative Of
the Navy, was an especially honored
guest all the second week Of June at
Chicago during the annual meeting
Of the American Medical Association,
when the leading physicians and sur
geons in the country met The at
tentions he received were a direct
tribute to the accomplishment of the
Navy.
The Northwestern University. of
which institution he was the guest,
conferred upon him the degree Of
doctor of science, and he was the
speaker Of the day at the commence
ment exercises Of the institution. He
visited the Great Lakes Naval Train
ing School, with the 5000 young
men being fitted for service. and
there reviewed this body in parade
before 10000 civilians, who took that
opportunity to inspect the greatest
naval training camp in the world
At the convention of the assecia-
ton the narration by the surgeon
general OF what he could tell of the
Nays part in the war was taken
almost as a revelation by his hear
ers, who, misled by lack of the spec
terly failed to realize the great work
done by the Navy in its busfness-lik .
way thus far in the war.
The association paid to Surgeon
General BREASTED the compliment of a
vote so large that it almost made
it was recognized that with his OBJ
legations to the Navy Department he
could give little attention to the
duties of the office.
On this trip Medical Inspector Stitt
accompanied the surgeon general,
the more purely scientific side of
Navy medical department methods. 1t
was realized that these officers con-
veyed through the medium of uni
versity and association to the people
Of the west and middle west new
ideas of the value of the Navy as a
defense to the nation.
X X
M ANY Army units in which men
Gv4 are under preparation for for
-eign service, by reason Of improper
inspection and examination on the
part of officers charged with selection
of entrants to the Army, contain men
who are physically or mentally unit
for active duty. With view to re-
lieving the divisions. replacement
and other organisations SO cucumber.
ed, the War Department has author
ICED the organization OF development
battalions at each OF the brigade
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$4,000 more temporarily at his dis
cretion.
The forcible letters of Admiral BEN
SON and Chief Of the Bureau of Navi-
cation L c. Palmer. recently pub
lished on the subject of this increase,
give rise to the question why it was
not more fully taken up before the
House committee when Admiral
Palmer was before that body to ex-
plain the needs of the Navy. An ex-
animation Of the records shows that
Admiral Palmer stated to the COM
mittee the specific need of a great IN
crease in the personnel, his Language
being:
MY figures are: For vessels in COM
mission. $4,000; vessels authorized,
1888: for transports and other yes
sells, $4,000; shore stations, 6.223; cas-
ualties, etc, 10,1S7, or a total increase
of 179.16S, besides 1900 for trade
schools and 10000 for aviation. That
worded was 10000 plus $4,000 for
trade schools, plus 10000 for aviation,
plus $4,000 for apprentice seamen.
The $4,000 increase was a request for
a permanent increase, not for this
temporary increase"
Thus 1t is obvious that the recon-.
mendation. of the bureau of naviga-
ton for the permanent increase OF
the Navy is not the result of a spas
modic attempt to create q naval per-
sonnet to meet an emergency of the
war, but it is the result of careful
study of, the needs of the Navy by the
expert who, acting under the chief Of
naval operations and the Secretary of
the Navy. has had the best opportu-
nifty to study the needs of the Navy
as to personnel, the officer who was in
direct charge of personnel questions
during the critical months after the
declaration of war when the sudden
increase of the Navy found it so short
OF personnel.
The present advantage of the per-
maaent increase Is that under the
law which fixes the number of officers
in the naval establishment at a GER
tain ratio to the number of enlisted
men in it, the number of officers Of
high rank will be increased SO as to
fill the commands that should be
given only to officers of high grade.
The advantage of the amendment in
perspective is that it will. provide
trained personnel for the feet THAI
must be maintained during the years
Immediately succeeding the war and
enable the department now to plan
In a scientific way for that future or
ganization.