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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
ELECTRICITY IN THE HOUSE.

A writer on agricultural subjects re-
Gently predicted that a day would come
when the farmers wife on awakening
in the morning would touch button
and that breakfast would thereby be
prepared without further personal at
tention. The time seems to be here.
At the latest electrical shows the ac-
complished fact is witnessed. The
demonstration shows how a family
can go out to spend the day, to return
at 6 p. m. in time for dinner. I'm
cooked food is placed in the electric
range, and clock attached is set to
start the cooking at in the afternoon,
to be completed an hour later The
clock of itself regulates the current,
turning it off a tthe time desired, but
leaving enough heat to keep the food
warm. If the family is delayed, the
meal is still ready for the table. 1t is
/ simple and also dependable. When it
is called simple, due consideration
must be given to the ingenuity Of the
machinery employed, including the
clock, whose performance is so fa-
miliar that it's mechanism, perfected
step by step through the centuries, is
seldom given a thought.
Electric appliances for the house
hold are just getting start. Their
evolution is rapid as well as strikingly
useful and interesting. Light, heat
and power-what a broad foundation
for new utilities in the home as well
as in all forms of industry! Gener-
ated by the water power available in
all parts of the United States, cleo
tricity ought to be cheap enough to be
freely used by everybody. Congress
has direct authority in shaping the fu-
ture of water in motion. The respon-
sibility is of the first Importance to
the general welfare of every citizen.
On the farms drudgery is happily a
word going out of fashion.-Globe
Democrat
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
VALUABLE FEATURES OF GOV
ERNMENT INSURANCE.

Your government insurance is pro-
tected from the claims of creditors.
Your insurance money can not be tax
en- away from you Cor later from your
beneficiary for the payment Of your
debts or those of your beneficiary
This is a most important provision,
which insures your insurance.
Government insurance is non-asslgn-
able, which means that neither you
nor your beneficiary can lose the fruits
of your labor and sacrifice by pawn
ing your insurance.
Neither you nor your beneficiary
will ever have to pay cent of taxes
to the government on the proceeds OF
your government insurance.
You may pay your premiums by the
month without having to pay anything
extra on account of the additional ex-
pense to the government of collecting
monthly premiums. Or, if you prefer
you may pay quarterly, semi-annually!
or annually The government pays all
the expenses of running the business
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
10th YEAR
HOME ECONOMICS.

The ladies and girls Of NoXubee
county have co-operated in a wonder
ful manner with the County Agent in
putting on an exhibit Of Home Grown
Products at the court house on Friday
October 3rd., Notwithstanding the fact
that the seasons have been so very un-
favorable there has been very little to
can.
The booths arranged by the various
Community Clubs are especially at
tractive and much credit is deserved
by the various committees in charge.
The merchants, as well as the Board
of Supervisors have been very liberal
with their support, and list of the
winners will be published in next
weeks paper.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
MEXICO ILL AND WELL.

Mexico, i'll, saint would be; Mex
leo, well, is something else again.
With American troops on its soil and
the knowledge borne in upon it that
the patience of its big northern neigh
Dor has reached the breaking point
Mexico expresses its warm desire and
persistent longing to satisfy the
United States, and henceforth live in
peace and amity. Carranza may be
sure that his advances will be met
more than half way, but he will have
to put forward something more sub
stantial than fair words in evidence OF
good faith. - Richmond Times-Dis.
patch.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
STOCK SHOW IN MACON.

On or about November goth NoXu-
bee county will have the largest stock,
cattle, hog, sheep and poultry show at
Macon that the county has ever wit
messed.
Everybody in the county is urged to
get something ready to enter in this
show.
There will be a sale in connection
with this exhibit, and any one having
stock, cattle, hogs or sheep for sale
will list it with the directors, and this
live stock will be advertised extern
sively. We think this will be very
satisfactory method of disposlng OF
your surplus stock.
Everybody interested in the devel-
opmen tin the livestock of the county
are invite to unit Elm this and make 1t
the biggest thing Of tn kind ever
pulled off in the county.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
WITH Apologies TO SOLOMON.

Having reformed the men, and hav-
ing, so to speak, removed temptation
from their pathway, there is some
curiosity to know when the women are
going to begin reforming the women.
A man seldom becomes so deaf that
ne can not hear the rustic of wo-
mans skirts.
Opinions differ, but it is the judg-
ment of those competent to exercise it
that a small set of threes is the most
insidious hand.
= Probably the most pitiable case is
tifat of sne niaA who becomes so re-
duced in circumstances that he is
forced to accept the portfolio of as
sistant in the business conducted by
his wife.
Characterizing him in a general
way, a man is sheep in VOLTS cloth
ing.
I A good many who pretend to have
called for the purpose Of paying their
respects have come merely to confirm
their suspicious.
A single man says: "I must buy a
new oyereoat." A married man says:
Il ought to have a new overcoat."
Next to woman, lakes, mountains
flowers, rivers, tree sand grass are the
finest scenic investiture.
Humor, when it invades the field Of
natural history, is nearly ALWAYS
faulty in its conclusions. The fierce
bull is harmless in comparison to the
gentle COW with calf by her side.
A good many Of those who have
tried it contend that matching a half.
worn coat wit ha new pair of trousers
is the most difficult test.
There is, however, a considerable
minority which claims that teaching E
calf to drink out of a pail is an ever
more eXacting performance.
When a man goes back to the ole
home town after an absence extend
ing over a period of years, about hall
the people he meets ask him if he,
been away"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
A SAFE ADVERTISER.

The safest advertiser we ever knew
was D. W. Ow, of Eldorado, Kan.
says the Photographer in the Philadel-
phia Ledger. Every day for twenty
eight years Mr.. Ow carried this brief
announcement, three inches, double
column, on the third page of the Ell
dorado Republican: "D. w. Ow, deal
er in Staple and Fancy Groceries. )"
Mr.. Ow never pretended he had larg
er assortment or better goods than his
competitors. He never claimed to sell
modest sort of way, that he was a
cheaper. He merely admitted, in a
dealer in staple and fancy groceries,
and his methods were so successful
that he retired on competence sever
al years ago.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
MAJ. SCALES ENROUTE HOME.

Maj. Howard N. Scales, who has
been with the American expedition in
Russia for the pas year is enroute
home, as will be seen by the following
Letter received about two weeks ago
by Mr. Jas. A. Dinsmore:
Board H. M. S. Kalyan,
Above Arctic Zone,
Arctic Ocean.
Sunday, August oath.
My dear Mr.. Dinsmore:
While on my way home, aboard the
Kalyan, thought | would drop you a
note from the adress indicated above
1t vii lbe a long time, expect befo
1t vii lbe a long time, | expect befo
another man from Macon cd NoXubee
county make a similar trip. | am
landing at Edinburg, Scotland and
stay there few days, then go to
London for three or four days, then
to Paris for several days stay ,and
then to New York and home.
If you will look up Archangel or
the map you will find that it lies in q
longitude east Of Suez Canal. Having
passed North Cape, | will be eligible
to join Ends of the Earth" club, oper
only in membership to those who have
travelled to the ends of the earth. We
passed Shetland Islands, Scappa Flow
of the Orkneysetc. The coast of Scot.
land is very pretty from the sea
Reached port Friday morning. Nc
news. Respectfully,
H. N. SCALES, Major
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
FAITH JUSTIFIED.

The war department has notified
President Wilson that the two soldiers
whose lives he spared, after they had
been sentenced for sleeping at their
posts, achieved distinction in the last
terrific campaign of the war. One
gave his life facing the enemy on the
Aisne. The other was wounded in the
same battle, recovered and went into
the bloody fighting of the Argonne
where he was wounded again. Re.
stored to health, he has been honor.
ably discharged from the army
Huntsville Telegram.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
MIR. SAM HEARD SERIOUSLY CUT

Mr.. Sam Heard was the victim of a
serious cutting scrape Wednesday af-
ternoon, and is at the home of Mr.Sul-
livan Garden, in front of whose place
in the Lynn Creek neighborhood, the
fight occurred.
Mr.. Glover McCuen, who yielded the
knife, is in the Jail in Macon, awaiting
the result Of Mr.. Heard's injuries.
Drs. Green and Jamison of Brooks
vile, who attended regard the wounds
as serious.
The difficulty occurred over the cut
ting Of trees out Of the public road.
Hr. Heard is overseer of a link of road
which conects the Crawford bridge and
Brooksville and Louisville road, and
when it was laid out several years ago
there was little travel over it, and
only the small timber was cut out.
Since the consolidated school was es-
tablished at Lynn Creek there has
been demand to improve the roads
leading to the school. Mr.. Heard was
in Macon Tuesday and got the opinion
of the county attorney as to the legal
jity Of the matter, and he was told to
cut all the trees that obstructed the
road, but that the timber was owned
by the property owners adjoining, and
not Of the county. The dispute arose
over the trees that were being cut on
the land of Mrs. Huckaby, an aunt of
Mr.. McCuen's.
Mr.. McCuen claims that in the fight
Mr.. Heard, who is a much older and
smaller man of the two, Knocked him
(McCuen) down with stick and was
on him, beating him, when he got out
his knife and did the cutting. He is
borne out in this statement, if the re-
port that is current is true, that Mr..
Heard has made a statement that he
does not want any prosecution made
in the case, and is wiling to shake
hands and make friends with Mr.. Ne
Cuen.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
DEATH OF Mr.. Z. T. DORROH.

After long illness Mr.. z. T. Dor
roh passed away at his home in Ma
con last Friday shortly after the noon
hour. His death had been looked for
for several days as he had been
growing weaker each day since he
suffered an attack of paralysis several
weeks ago, and has since been con-
fined to his bed.
For more than forty years Mr.. Dor
roh has been prominent figure in the
life of Macon and Noxubee county po-
litically, religiously and socially.
His father came to this county from
Laurens district, South Carolina, in
1881, and settled in the Mashulaville
.neoighborhood, where Mr.. Dorroh was
born on May 28th ,1847. He entered
the Confederate army when sixteen
years of age, and after the war was
the war was the first deputy sheriff
when the carpetbag rule was over
thrown in 1876. He was deputy un-
der Sheritfs Thomas, Walker and Ro-
gers, and was sheriff for six years and
chancery clerk Of the county twelve
years, retiring from politics in 1908.
Mr. Dorroh's health has not been
good since be suffered from a stroke
of paralysis in 1912, but he was man
of unusual energy, and lived an active
life until about year ago, when his
failing eye-sight forced him to putt
business entirely.
He leaves four children; one son
Mr.. |. L. Doroh, and three daughters
Mrs. W. W. Shannon, Mrs. J. L. Lips.
comb of Jackson and Miss Lallie Dor
ron, who has been her fathers devot.
ed and constant companion in the last
years of his life.
Mr.. Dorroh's remains were inferred
in the Odd Fellows cemetery Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
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THE LAWSON AIR LINE.

The public may well keep its eye on
a Milwaukee man named Lawson. He
is building airplanes de luxe capable
of carrying two dozen or more pas
sengers and travelling at the rate of
100 miles an hour. He has already
named his enterprise the Lawson Air
Line, and made that old phrase as
sumo new significance. 1t may be
that Mobile will some day have a
Lawson "airliner" making a regular
schedule to our landing field.-Mobile
Register.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

BY PROXY.
"Well, doctor ?"

"Well, doctor?"
"You are living under strain. You
must relax"
"But how can l do that? Do you
realize that I'm worth $20,000,000?"
Haven't you competent private
secretary
"Of course"
"Then let him pay your income tax
and quit thinking about it. t."-Birming-
ham Age Herald.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
COST OF SOBRIETY.

Prohibition, it has been figured out,
will necessitate an advance of $780,
100000 in freight rates, which is equal
to the additional toll the hotel people
have levied on us for closing the bars
No wonder the disappearance of booze
is making us sober!-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

For SaIe-Ten extra choice high
grade Jersey heifers, from Is to 20
months old. All have been in pasture
with registered Jersey bull. One ex-
ira choice high grade Jersey COW, 3
years old. One choice registered Jer-
sey COW, coming a years old, and two
registered heifers, coming years old,
All three will calve in January. j. E.
Borgess..
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
You remember Voltaire's riddle?

You remember Voltaire's riddle?
what is the longest and yet the
shortest thing in the world; the swift
est and the most slow; the most divis-
ible and the most extended; the least
valued and the most regretted; with
out which nothing can be done; which
devours everything, however small,
and yet gives life and spirit to all
things, however great?"
1t has commonly been supposed that
the answer was Time" As a. mat
ter of fact, it's "The League of Ma
tons"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
SEPARATE INTERNAL REVENUE
DISTRICT FOR MISSISSIPPI.

A separate internal revenue district
has been created for Mississippi. The
office is located at Jackson, the capital
of the State. This Office will open for
business October !, 1919,
All payments of taxes, beginning
October /, 1919, are payable at the
Jackson, Miss, office, and not to the
Birmingham, Ala, office, as hereto
fore. All communications should be
addressed othe Internal Revenue Col
lector, Jackson, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

FOR RENT-Five room residence
in good repair, December 1st. Has
city lights and water, house for one
COW, horse and automobile; fair size
garden spot. N. SCALES.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

"Ma, when is your wooden we'd
ding?"
"lt was when married your father,
Bobby!"-Cartoons Magazine.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

Get your Black Medic seed now, at
the Community Store.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
Poland Chinas For Sale.

Nine registered Poland China pips
for sale. V. S. JACKSON,
Macon, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

You've got to hand it to China. She's
the only nation still officially at war
with Germany.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
HOLD

HOLD
Your Government Insurance. You
can convert it into one of these new
government policies
Ordinary (straight) Life.
20-payment Life.
30-payment Life.
20-year Endowment.
30-year Endowment.
Old Age (62) Endowment.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

| nthe matter of profiteers there
are many suspects, but we fear there
will be few convictions.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

Those good citizens who have haued
sand and gravel from my poit on the
Hardin place located below the levee
will please mail me a check at the rate
of rs cents yard. | need the money
to pay taxes, etc.
H. H. HANSEN, Macon, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

Contortionists believ ethat it is
never too late to bend,-CartoonS
Magazine.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
Residence For Sale.

A two-story, eight-room residence,
with electric lights and water works; {;
necessary outbuildings; good orchard
and garden; splendid cistern. Five
acres in lot. W. P. MINOR.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

FOR Sale-Good Mccormick mower;
ecnfeap price. R. Whitten, Cliftonville,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

Wanted-Ten tons of dark hay. Will
not accept any that is musty. j. E.
Boggess,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

HAY PRESS-All wood full circle
Hay Press, good as new. Price 500.
N. SCALES.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
What Makes the World Go Round, /,

The world move son, though you may
frown,
Or smile in fortunes cup:
For one-half's busy turning down
The cranks that will turn up.
Cartoons Magazine.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03
MOneL I to Loan.

| have some money for some clients
that | wish to loan ON good security
for one year. For particulars see me.
CHAS. RICHARDSON.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

Rooms For Rent.
All modern conveniences. Apply to
MISS EDNA BUSH.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

MOLASSES PAN-Copper, slight
" used, for sale. We. STENNIS
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

For flowers for all occasions phone
Mrs. Vivian Jackson.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-10-03

A furnished room for rent.
MRS. j. S. MAURY.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-13
c HOG TAW INDIA h is
0 Ne OF VA Rs \ | Gil
He ROES, SAYS LA Ne

Franklin *. Lane. secretary Of the
interior, said the other day:
The distinguished service record of
the Indian was probably not below
that of amy other people engaged in
the war He bears his honors modest.
IT, which prevents definite information
regarding many cases of individual
yalor. From instances cited in a par
tial list it is doubtful if a more bril-
liant one stands to the credit OF any
soldier than the achievement of Pvt.
Joseph Oklakonabi. a full.blood Choc
taw, who received the croiX de guerre
under an order Of Marshal Pctaiu, "a
translation Of which follows:
Under a violent barragc dashed
to the attack to the enemy position
covering about 90 yards through
barred wire entaClemeuts. lie rushed
on machine.gun nests, capturing III
prisoners. lie stormed q strongly held
position containing moro Than fifty
machine guns and a number Of trench
mortars. Turned the captured guns
on the enemy and held the position for
-four days IN spite of "a constant bar
rage of large rroiectiles and Of gas
shells Crossed mo mans land many
times to get Attenuation concerning the
enemy ana to assist his wounded COM
raids
Pvt. Joseph OklaEonabi lives near
Garviu in the eastern part of the
state and it is said is a very unasuum
ing sort OF a young man.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-13
A N { RI CA n POLITICIANS
DON TAKE WORLDWIDE
VIEW. SAYS BR|T|SHER

London, Dec. 12.-Private enterprises
will never rectify the present financial
situation throughout the world, accord
ing to Baron Swaythling, who has just
returned from the United States.
In an interview printed in the Daily
Mail today he says he believes an in
ternational agreement by the govern
ments concerned alone can remove the
deadlock. lie favors the suspension of
international payments among the al
lies and any neutrals who desire to en-.
ter into the agreement for "reproduc-
tive" imports OF machinery and raw
materials. The suspension, he says,
might be for three years and of course
under government guarantees.
Politicians in the United States
scarcely grasp anything outside their
own country" he says. "They take
neither politically nor commercially a
worldwide view worthy of their great
country. And the trades unions, too,
are parochiat and think more of max.
ing a point in party politics than of
tho real welfare of their own country
and the world
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-13
MANS ENTRA|LS
EATEN BY WOLVES

The well known story of the poor
Spartan boy who held in his arms a
wild wolf. even while il was gnawing
savagely at his ntestines. pictures to
the Imagination but feebly the eXcru.
ciating agony that men ana women
suffer as the result of acid stomach.
This terrible condition of body is insid-
ious. 1t starts with a little symptom
that does not seem at all important
nothing more noticeable than a little
belching after eating and the discomfort
caused by the pressure of gas upon the
heart. But these apparently harmless
little symptoms if neglected result in
habitual billiousness due to constipation
and chronic Indigestion. The patient al.
lows horrible accumulations OF undigest.
ed food to clog up the system. Then
follows bad breath offensive cOmpleXiou
covered with pimples, erupuons
blotchcs and roughness. The next
stage in this dangerous condition
known as acid stomach brings with It
unspeakable mental depression. des
pondency, moodiness, crying spells
brooding over wrongs Then follow
in rapid succession. stage after stage
of this terrible malady until the agony
Of intestinal pain becomes so great
that it is like wild wolves gnawing at
the entrails.
Countless thousands Of people could
be saved from the terrible results Of
acid stomach by taking Pepsinol at
the very first symptom OF indigestion
pCbSinCl * "A 1irpStiVa tnuip and llNa.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-13
FLOODS IN sol rilEASTERN
STATES RIGCEDENG AFTER
DAMAGES IP IN MILLIONS

'''''
T." 'io2'S In "la"'ili'.' ''oorEa an"
Missls3ippi thar started early in thn
week generally v,aro r,ceding toiny.
lint rivcrs rai cr,,tIv affected during
III. first two or throe dav- were out
Of banks ana causing haayy propertv
loss This was uart;cularIy t,ue or1uud
AToutgomo,v where the swollen Ala.
bamo had almost nar9lvzed the city's
industries without doip, Great damage
10 tho Alabama canltal Itself.
Trloode Of tbe nast vasl, have co,-.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-13


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