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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30

of acres ID the place. This win
give sou the real value 81 one
acre of your farm.
Example
Farmer A bought a l6O.acre
farm 10 years ago. lThe price
makes no difference. j He has
added ] pair of mules at $500. 2
colts worth $3.50. Has addition
al farm machinery worth $3.50.
built a silo worth $500. Has
added 80 head Of cattle worth
$1,000. Built a barn worth S4OO
and has money and produce
worth $3.50 more than where he
started. The land produces
about as it did when bought t.
What is this place worth?
Add together these amounts
we have $3.50 cleared in 10
years or 1915 a year; dividing
this by O6 we find the farm to
be worth $3.50 or about $50 an
acre.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30
Selling the Farm

A great many American peo-
pie want to sell their homes.
Sometimes this is wise, some
times otherwise. A home is an
investment. and, like other in
vestments should paya dividend.
If it does this it is not wise to
sell, provided that dividend is as
large, or nearly so. as its market
value will bring in interest.
But don't mistake. It is an
easy matter to convert a good
farm into a living for its owner
with a little cash on the side and
after a few years find ones self
possessed Of a rundown piece of
land with not enough money in
hand to rejuvenate the land. In
this case the farm has not only
paid no dividend but has been
run at loss. On the other
hand. IF your land is getting
better and producing better
crops as the years 90 By. you are
making a living and some inn
provements. then the farm is
paying and should not be sold
unless the price is sufficient to
bring in the Increased returns.
Then the matter of fixing a
price. A man is entitled TO a
living from his WORK, provided
ks. and this is not to he
oc0unt. Simply add
cash returns
nDrove-
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30
TRUSTEE.S SALENOTlCE

TRUSTEES SALE NOTICE
Pursuant to the provisions Of a cen.
tain Deed Of Trust executed on ID,
24ih day Of February. 1914. BY Virn
Wheeler to secure a certain indebted
aess therein mentioned to !. P Jorcs
wherin ! W as made Trustee, and whicl
Deed Of Trust is duly recorded in the
Chspcery Clerks Office at Houston
Mississippi. in book 10 at .Page 495
Of the Records Of Trust Deeds Of
Chickasa,v County, Mississippi. aad
default having been made in the pay.
ment Of said Indebtedness, ! will on
Monday, the 2rd day Of Februar,
1919, within legal houis. ia treat o
the court house door in Okolona
Miss. offer for sale and sell 10 the
highest bidder for cash. the following
described lands. situated in Chicka
saw County. Mississippi, to-wa:
South Hall Of the North Wes
Quarter Of Section Eleven Township
IL. Range 4 East.
Said sale is made to satisfy saic
Indebtedness and the cost Of executing
this trust
The lille to said property is believ.
ed to be good but ! win convey onls
such title as is vested in me as Trus
tee.
This the 9Th day Of january, 1919
J. e. johnson.
Trustee.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30

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Cold Better Than the Weak
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30
Announcement Fees:
ANNOUNCEMENTS

We are authorized to announce
the following candidates for the
Offices named. subjec.. to the
action of the Democratic party
in the primary elections in 1919,
and pursuant to the statutes
made and provided in such cases.
For Sheriff
W. A. DENDY
For Chancery Clerk
w. A. WILKINSON
For Circuit Clerk
JOE c. DAVIS
For County Prosecuting Attorney
j. E. HARRINGTON
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30

IL OF hunger
lby grow
Corn, cows. patatoes, hogs
and other things you can eat.
Plant enough to feed yourself
and your live stock. This much
viii tend to make you free.
The merchant and the banker
should take a hand. They should
tell the man seeking credit that
he can get no credit unless be
does grow foodstuf.
The day is past when the sup
ply man can urge the farmer to
grow al cotton.
The various state oFganiza
tons should get busy. Sosheuld
the agricultural bureaus.
The situation can be saved
during the next six weeks.
Let's try to get our freedom
back. Let's so arrange it that
the south can live on food grown
in the south.
Banker, merchant, farmer. big
snd little must stand tooetber
in this fight to save ourselves
from financial disaster and from
that unhappy condition Of cbron-
ic debt and loss.
We have the power Of the
equality ia the struggle of life.
Let's use it and stand equal with
toe agriculturists Of all other
sections.
The word may be naked and
not perish, but the world must
have food or perish.
The world in 1919 wants food.
Let's grow food lots Of it
this year.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30

acre.
The Outlook for Cotton Farmers
From The Commercial Appeal
This Sunday we will let Eu-
rope, the Peace Conference and
the League Of Nations rock
along without suggestions from
from us. and take up a matter
that is vital in this territory and
.of immediate Importance.
Cotton, It's price now and its
price during the coming year
that's vital.
We are about to commit q
blunder ourselves which viii be
a crime against ourselves.
The price Of the cotton now in
sight is being steadily hammered
down.
1t is not material to state the
reasons. Always an excuse can
be found for juggling the price
of cotton.
Cotton is affected by the
storms of India, the wars Of Eu-
rope and the famine in Russia
If there is a money panic in Ber-
lin or a financial collapse in Par.
lis becauie of the bursting Of
some speculative bauble cottor
gees down.
If the sun shines bright IN the
spring of the year over the
south, cotton goes down on the
New York exchange.
The cotton grower, so far, has
never been able to protect him
self. The product of his toll is
dealt in and speculated in by
men who never saw a gin or BALI
and by other men who do no
speak his language.
The cotton grower is not indie
pendent as is the grower O.
wheat, hogs and cattle, in which
there is much speculation.
The wheat grower depends no
on wheat alone. Usually he hai
hogs or cattle or corn in addition
to wheat. Other agriculUuristi
have many marketable products
They get in money three or -four
times a year.
The cotton farmer puts his eff
forts and toll in cotton alone
! He grows it on credit. The
credit is usually up to the poin
where cost is reached. If th'
prices are low or dropping he il
often forced to sell. The mer
ceant or supply man may get lou
even. The producer Sacrifices
his profits.
The cotton man has been al
agricultural slave as deep in hi
slavery as the Russian peasan
/ for whose woes we have beer
llamenting for a generation.
The cotton farmer is under al
lautocracy as strong and as ruth
less as Kaiserism. a against whicl
the sons Of the cotton grower
lblack and white fought to tb
death on the muddy fields o
Flanders and in the gloomy for
Iests of the Argonne.
And the cotton grower coul
be free and have an equal chanc
with others.
He is not free because he is no
organized. The cotton farmer
are a disorganized, unwieldl
mass. driven back and forth b
forces that have been operating
since the single crop and credi
stem became the order Of til
following the impoverish
Of the south following tn
i War;
its hard 70 organize cottol
.rowers. They lack cohesiv
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30

Obituaries. Tributes Of Respect
etc. Except from regularly organized
bodies. signed BY officers or commit
eel will be charged for at one cent q
word for all over 100 words. cash To
accompany copy.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30
power Their
vIneiaI. Their DaI..

NsNaclco lot Office OY LeilnN the
cotton grower all about the past
woes and damning some one in
Wall Street instead Of rousing
the cotton grower into realizing
his own power and telling him
that much Of the fault Of his
serfdom is in himself.
The cotton grower is also the
victim Of sectional prejudice
dying out, to be sure. but still
Having burning Goals that can be
famed into flames by the winds
Of passionate political oratory.
After the temporary collapse
of prices in 1914. caused by the
surprise Of the war, there was a
steady advance in prices. The
advance in cotton was the more
noted because the price of cotton
sank to q lower level in 1914
than did anything else in gener
al use. Wheat advanced, and
along with wheat up went corn
and meat.
The world accepted these ad-
vances rs a matter Of course.
Cotton advanced in line with
wheat and meal, but the change
from seven or eight cents to so
cents struck the noncotton grow
er as phenomenal, Then the
south was charged with greed.
>Then there was a demand t.
fix the price of cotton. That
demand was not based on eco
nomic reason 1T was demand
based on prejudice that the south
had no right to get such a price
as 30 cents. The amount of
money was too much for the
south to have. The south had
been poor since the war; it now
had no right to be rich.
Efforts at price fixing failed.
The artificial stimuli under
wheat and hogs remain. There
has never been any artificial
support for cotton, and now il is
being quoted at prices that are
almost the cost of production in
1918.
We have a big unsold crop on
: hand. In 1918 we planted over
81, 900, 600 acres in cotton. But
there was disaster in Texas and
Oklahoma and the yield was only
IL, 900, 900 bales. In 1914 we
plazt ted more than 100000
acres, and the yield was around
Is. 600, 900 bales. In 1915 we
planted 80, 600, 900 acres, and the
sield was only II, 161, 600 bales.
If we had had a 1914 serson in
J 1918 we would have had a stag
gering high yield.
If we plant as much cotton in
1919 as we did in 1918 and have
J a good year, we will grow a CROP
so big even in promise, that the
spectators will begin to ham
mer the prices down before the
ICED send stalks out of the
ground.
If we plant a big acreage the
: price of the 1918 crop will drop.
If we let it be known that we
7 will not plant the graveyards
; and fence corners in cotton, that
the acreage will be the 1915
figure, cotton will steady itself
at once.
If we grow a big crop this
} year we will surely get under
3 even present prices for it.
This years crop will be exper-
j sive. 1t must be grown of 81. &c
wheat, on 35-cent bacon and s.
corn.
This years crop win cost more
, to grow than last years crop.
Last years crop in cost of pro.
e duction was the greatest of any
year within the present genera
ton.
Now what is to be done?
The cotton growers canno'
e perfect hard and fast organi
cation this year, but the cottoT
t grower must sooner or later or
s ganize.
J But this year
= Cut the acreage of cotton D'
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30
Good Tires Speed
Deliveries
No car is better than its tires.

No car is better than its tires.
And time lost through tire troubles cannot
be replaced.
Good tires are the best practical guarantee
of your cars continuous and economical
service.
United States Tires are good tires-the best
tires our rs years of experience in the rubber
business have taught us to make.
You have your choice of five different
types for passenger car or light delivery use
'NObby', Chain, UscO, Plain, and the
famous Royal Cord.
There is also the 'Nobby Cord for heavy
duty vehicles, as well as the Solid Truck Tire.
Among these good tires you will find
exactly the treads best suited to 1our car and
your driving conditions.
Our nearest Sales and Service Depot dealer
will gladly point them out to you.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-01-30

m On making
g a big crop
from bank
Of hunger
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02
TAPESTRY MILLS BUSY
Improvement Extends. Also, to Plush
and Rug and Carpet Trade

tapestry and plush manufacturers
mr." especially busy. according to tho
weekly roview Of trade for the phila ,
d"Iphia district by r. G. Dun 4 Co.
lher" is also decided improvement in
IN" manufacture Of towels
Tap" manufacturers report that they
ar" not 50 busy at present. aS they have
large stock of finished goods The
rug and carpet trade is also improving
ana manufacturers of these lines arc
now in the market. buying yarns. They
haNH not bought yarns before for some
months past. owing to dulIness in this
trade.
Continuing. tho review goes on 10
say:
Manufacturers ot wompn's drcSs
materials report business more active.
The shifting trade is also doing fair
business. There is duIIncss. however.
reported among the hosiery and under
wear mills at the present time. although
there are some mills operating on full
time. knitters are looking forward to
hotter business.
The paper market continues quiet
Manufactur"rs aud iobherS report an
average amount of business being done.
but there is no marked increase in the
volume of sales. Prices are inclined to
he high.
'Shirtwaist and dress manufacturers
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02
Prospects OF Cold importation


Gently
already
in
letter. calls attention the possibility Australia
Africa when permission is granted by this
free market In discussing this subject the
';old to hui
is needed and acquisition would be
undesirable.
9Th" gold bank
times beyond what has taken times
borrowing gradually
paid of and retired and unless business the high
wartime the should decline
trade is up to the angune hopes hardly will be under wartime
reduction Of liabilities and additions the former will be
SIperhuou gold would
would do good elsewhere.
At this high level
tends hold check the public
Of
Ih" conditions
present hgh I"
but closely
stimulus speculation of
such movement have bPeu visible in
market in behalf of loans
In reply the the
understood that the cancellations of hipbudng
by lnied States of
whose stock controlled by the American
he said, well
300 ton vessels and between thirty five and forty 5000
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02
Philadelphia Markets
GRAIN AND EIOuR

WHEAr--Receipta ss, 32t bushels Prices
were unchanged Quotations. car lots in
export elevator government standard ,rlspec-
ION, standard prires--No. I red winter
" 80 No l. northern spring s2.2a: No l.
hari winter, S2a9 No /. red winter, gar
iiCkN. 81 81 No. I. red smutty. 81 3s: No. .
red winter. $3.50, 80 =. northern srring
S23d, No 2 hard winter. $3.50: 30 . red
WINTER. garliCly, s23i, No. =. rad smuttS,
" 33; No 3. red winter 81 81. 80 g. north
"rn snrinG. f2a2 No. g. hard winter s2.3
No; 3. red winter. garIiCky. 81 30 40 2.
rcd smuttE, f2.21. No. A. red 81 30 No. I,
GhriickN, SEES. No I. smuttN SI21. 40 I.
sarIlckN. smu,,y, SO: No. :, red. 81 IS;
No. >, RRrliCky, SmuttN. sra
CORN-RrcelptS gS46 bushels The mar
ksi ruled firm and slightly higher under light
offerings. hut trade was quiet. We quote
yellow in car lots for local trade as to
quality and location, at Sl.75n so rer
OATS Receipts, %, OO8 bushels rhe mar.
ket ruled firm with offerings tEhl and de-
inand moderate. Quotations: car lots as to
loCation---NO, . white, SIi2 a So: s'anda rd
Whte SlHSl,gC: No = white SOT sofa 9
No. white, 1Siq d 70i2C.
FLOtR-Rereips, 700 bbls and 2. IOi $50
lbs in sacks The market vas uui-t and
largely nominal Quotations: To arrive. per
lpH lbs. in lA0.b lute sacks -- Winter
trhight. western. &iI.H0m ~ -, .uearby
- - !; L.: % T T. 30. korsas strelGh' 81 20 a
short patent. slsSOaia 90: do patent, ,i3
a 2 80; do first clear. Sli a 1 -
. RYE Flour sold SLOWLY At former rates,
We quote e. s9.2h d 10 35 per bbl. in sacks,
to quality
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02
GOSSIP OF THE STREET
SUGGESTS BRANDEIS
LEAD RAILS OUT OF TROUBLE
Recalls Statement Of Economist Nou Jmist That Proper
Management oud Sore Million Day--Cossp OF Street

As RAILROADS seemed be the main subject conversation in the
financial district yesterday. banker remarks said
na 1T his recollection served him properly did many years
congressional
III inns hsts control
than 81 100000 day could be sav
1T little late he added.
TINS TO If h"
could how tn"
without losing about half million dollars would
Another banker remarked
ms as He
diced that he would Of
ne added until the last American demobizcd
advocates admitted
hat at of
operation not practicable likely long time
evident speech
President Samuel ea of the Pennsylvania Railroad before the Cham
published in yesterdays EVENING PUBLIC Several those "
and did not opinions until they
noted Mr. lt"a
was strongly in of the regional operation under private
supervision than bor" the period II" remarked that he
" with him that had expressed himself
along tn" same lines But Ii" said there another point which Mr. R"a
be
railroads. that the establish government
This he said but effect
II would the establishment Of which, with
the changing political would spell failure
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

BI'TTER-rhe market was again lc lover
under light demand and weaker outside
sdvices. We quote: Solid pa Cked rrehm"rN'
extras, G0c: higher scoring goods, 6l a csc
tn" latter for jOhhiug sales: extra trsls,
80. hrsts ~ n jSr 81, ouds ~ 1Gc: sweet
creamery. choice 10 fau,N, q" q 6ir; do. far
TO good jSn6lC; fancy brands OF prints
iohbinR al ~ a go, fair to good. 20 a 6'r.
EGGS-'rhe market further advanced 800
per cas- under lIGhr offerings and a good
demand The quotations were: Free eases.
nearby frsts. sI3 H5 per crate. current re-
"eirts. sl3 6i; western extra frsts. sly y"
frsts. sl3.6i: fancy selected eggs loooinH
~ ~ a 53C per dozen
IHEESE-pemand vas fairly active ana
the arket ruled firm under light oferinSs.
We quote: New .YOrk aud Wisconsin, who'll
milk. 'rurrent make. ~ a 32'2"; New nork
and Wisconsin. whole-milk. fancy held. ~
39c' specials higher. New York ana rs
"onsin. whole milk, fair to good. "h@ 3'''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

state business continues active. Cloak
and suit manufacturers have had n
satisfactory spring season.
Wallpaper manufacturers. iobbers
and dealers report an increase In this
line Of business There are u number
of large contracts being taken and u is
believed that the business will continue
nrtive during tho spring and summfr
seasons. There is little change in
prices and collections remain good.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

20; iigAt lights. s1s.739 lo,aa; packing <ows.
slH. 26d 70 20: pigs slIMlS.2;.
Arfl.E-Receipts 1900 head and 100
calves. Uneven. mostly steady; spots strong
on butcher stock. Heavy beef steers, 81 ] 30
Wls.I5 light beef steers. IO25Q :. 30; ;
butcher cows and heifers. So 500 ~. - can
ners and cutters. $5m q. 80 veal calves 81 80
a ~, 80: stoCkers aud feeder steers IS. 50T
l5.i6.
sHEEP-Receipts 5000 head Fat lambs
2Jc higher; sheep steady. Lambs, 81 pounds
or less. s16 75 a 10. "a: 81 pounds or more.
sl8.25aIs 1919; Culls and common Sli - n
Ii: ewes. medium to choice. sll "a II 30:
breeding ewes. So 50Ell1
Pittsburgh. Nav, =. - HOGS Receipts.
1900 head. SteadN. IIeavies and heavy
workers.. $50. 10 4. 2o.s'; light workers., $40. @5
SIIEEP AND LAMBS. go Receipts 1000
head STEADY. Top sheep. sl3 so; ton lambs,
/. CALVES - Receipts. 80 head Higher.
Top. sl8.
st. Louis. Mo-. May 2.--ElOGS--Receipts.
1000 head: 2Oc to 40 higher Lights SO 81
d.O.3S: pigs SlS@la.2G butchers, $4,000
20 30; heavy. 500 81 a 2O.G5.
CATTI.E-Receipts, 800 head. steady.
Native steers. 81 .H0q $3.50, hcifers. $50
q 10; cows, sl050d $50 stocNers aud
feeders. S1O41S calves. $1I5n u.
SHEEP-Receipts 500 head Steady.
Lambs, s2Od 90 25; ewes. &l3Hl+.5o
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02
POULTRY

IIVE--Trade was Uuiet aud the marie r
was without important change. The quo
tations ranged as follows: Fowls wa
express 4OU 80. spring chickens. broiders
moi LeEhorns weighing l'9 "a = lbs: apiegr'
~ a SOC, white IoghOrns, brOilerS. ~ "a "'"'
81 tasgy young ROSTERS. - a 2Sc; old roosters
- a 800. f.."kS. p"klu. - a 3GC: do. lndlan
Runner ,Sm 'OC: EcpSe. - a 21C: pigeons
old rer palr 55d Gor. do. young per pair
A. d SOC
DRESSED was w'd LEANED up Hni h'n
The following Wer' the quotations: rows
rresh-killed. dry. picked. in hoNes-Nelghus
: lbs and over apiece. 3s"; weighing ia "a
lbs. 30. weighing = his. 3hd 3Ic; smaller
sizes 80d 3ic; fresh killed. in bbis.' fanr>'
dry picked. weighing : lbs. and over apisCe'
3sr; weighing va mig lbs. apiece, we
smaller sizes. 3o"3tc; old roosiers DIR,
a 4Gr. sulabs rpr dozen. white. weighing
11al2 lbs. per dozen, $s.75@0,3 20: d.. 10
weighing anlU lbs ner dozen, s''hu ~
:: do, do Ihs per dozen. s5n 80, do, do,
Weighing GTG'a lbs per dozen 50 q = .n
dark 81. 5On"; small and No >. lhC 81
Weighing q to G'g lbs. per dozen. s3m3'O
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02
Satisfactory Understanding on Steel Prices Expected

There belief the fnanral district that
II
ii will during
sterilization
think
tho appearance a
ent TO
to
Railroads Hines. which wiing
the could
This would