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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
AN INSIGNIA OF HONOR
tons Brought Home to
Americans.

A good many Americans are wear
ing the CroiX de Guerre Of the Frencl
government. Every man who wear
it earned it. There are others wht
are wearing the Distinguished Conduc
Medal and the Military Medal Of Grea
Britain. The Britisher does not Civ
away medals as an act of politeness
Scores Of troopers are wearing the Dis
! tinguished Service Medal Of America
the highest award America pays t
the valor and high courage of her sol
diers. 1t goes without saying tina
these medals were earned.
The man who went overseas will
all his life, have the privilege of wear
ing the ribbon that tells of his serv
ice. He comes back wearing his sery
ice stripes, the bits of cloth that tell
each bit, of six months spent in tn,
greatest hell in the worlds history
the old western front Every soldie.
honorably discharged from the service
wears upon his left sleeve two scarle
chevrons, the size and shape Of those
given for service abroad.
These are honorable badges, every
one of them. But are they any more
honorable than the Liberty Bond but
ton worn on the coat of the civilian
who stayed at home and made up the
Army of the Home 'FRONT.'" All these
badges and chevrons, these button,
and stripes, tell of honorable sacri
fee and service.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
:. y. y :. :. = K = ~. x :. y 4 4, i !.
SECRETARY GLASS ON TIE :
VICTORY LOAN. :,

:. In announcing the final details =
4 for the Victory Liberty Loan 4
4 Secretary Of the Treasury Glass =
:: said \
j. This will be the last Liberty !:
:. Loan. Although as the remaining y
+ war bills are presented further i
= borrowing must b9 done, l antici- =
4 pate that the requirements of the =
+ government, in excess Of the :
+ amount of taxes and other in =
T. come can, in view of the decreas- =
= ing scale Of expenditures, be =
i readily financed by the issue of 4
= treasury certificates from time to =
f. tine as heretofore which may be =
= ultimately refunded by the is5ue =
i OF notes CT bonds without the aid =
. u another great popular cam =
. pGicn such az has characterized =
= the Liberty Loans. :"
= q an sure thai the people Of =
= America VIII ubacrihe TO this =
< Victcry Lam in the same spirit y
= OF pa,lousn which they have =
y shown n tao past, to-tho end that &
= the notes Way be as widely dis 8
= rbuted as possible, and that our y
= banking Institutions may be left =
+" free 10 supply the credit neces- =
= scry fer the purpose Of industry >
. and commerce and the full en- :
- ployment of labor. Let the world =
i see that the patriots of America, !
= out of theig boundloss resources, :
j. and with the same enthusiasm !
= and devotion to country which >
4 they prosecuted the war to a vic. >
& torious conclusion, are deter. :
= njnod 10 flnisa the job" >
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
WAR LOAN MEDALS TO EDITORS
Every Newspaper in Eighth Distrlct
Will Receive Uncle Sans
Token

In every county in the Eighth Fed
eral Reserve District, a gvoup Of MEG
have been rersistently arI unceasinc
~ helping Uncle Sam pun over his bia
war work enterprises. These men haze
no official connection with the govern
meni nor the War Loan Organization ,
without their help the great things
that have been done in this coun.ry
and the world could not have been
achieved.
They are TIE editors and publishers
of the newspapers They are the men
whose lives are devoted to leading pub
lie thought, to telling the people tho
truth on all questionsN of public in
terest. to presenting both sides of ne
story that the people may know snd
.!ecide inteiligently.
Their work throughout the war,
ipecially in the interest of the Lib
..ty Loan drives, has been invaluable
% h. government
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
Just ARRIVED Big car Ameri-
can Garden and Field Fence.
Okolona Hardware Co.
Save and Succeed. Buy w.
). S.
NON RESIDENT NOTICE
The State Of Mississippi,
To F. Q. Woodard:-

The State Of Mississippi.
To F. Q. Woodurd;-
An attachment at the suit OF The
Campbell Iron Co. for $4,000 and
al the snit Of Electric Appliance
Company for $4,000 and at the
suit OF Gull Refining Co. Of Louisina.
for $4,000 a ainst your estate, re-
turnable before the Circuit Court; 2nd
District. Chickasaw County, at Oko-l
Iona. Mississippi, has been executed.
and is now pending in said Court.
and unless you appear before said
Court on the 4th Monday of October.
1919. end plead to aforesaid actions.
judgment in said causes will be enter-
ed. and the estate attached will be
sold. Joe c. Davis. Clerk.
By. H. B. Lacey. ID. G
pil 3 1919.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
HERE'S A NEW LOAN Poem
1t Is Proving Popular and Inspiring a
Liberty Loan Rallies.

The following inspirational poem
being used to put pep into public NEE
ings these days. 1t seems to releaG
the pent-Gp energy of the audienc,
and bring it all to bear on the subjeC
in hand. It has been found effectiv
and it is suggested that it be read q
recited at ell Victory Loan mass NEE
ings:
Are we true Americans?
True blue.
Do we love the boys who wonH
We do.
Have we lost our native pepH
Not yet!
Are We for the We Try Loanf
You betl
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
No Worms n a tIeaIthv child

All children troubled with worms have an I'M
healthy color, which indicates poor blood, and as
rule there is more or less stomach disturbance
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly
for TWO or three weeks will enrich the blood, i'm
prove the digestion and act a General Strength
ening Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then
throw off or dispelthe worms, and the Child will be
il perfect health. Pleasant to take. Coo per bottle
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
RENE MRER THAT

YOU ARE PROUD of our victory
AS an American you are proud OF yoW
share Of the glory, Cheering for Vic
tory is sentiment; paying for it is
duty, just as much of duty as paying
your monthly bills.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
Lyon Attorney.
The State of Mississippi
To Robert FowIkes, Defendant

You are hereby commanded to ap-
ear before the Chancery Court Of
Second District OF Chickasaw County
in said State en- first Monday Of June
1919 to defend the suit in said court
Of Mabel FowIks wherein you are de-
fendent, this April, 30th. 1919.
w. A. Wilkinson, Clerk
By, w. j. Williams, D. c.
Lyon Attorney.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
The State of Mississippi,
To Jennie Gillian, the defendant

To Jennie Gillian, the defendant
You are hereby commanded to ap-
pear before the Chancery Court Of
the Second District Of Chickasaw
County in said State on FIRST Monday.
Of June 1919. to defend the suit in
said Court of John Gillian. wherein
you are defendant. this April. Goth
1919.
w. A. Wilkinson, Clerk,
BY, W. j. Williams, D. c.
Lyon Attorney.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08

YOUR LIBERTY LOAN SUB3CRIP.
TION IS THE MEASURE OF YOUR
PATRIOTISM PROVE UP.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
WHAT WE DID IN
THE OTHER LOANS

Following are the statistics on the
previous Liberty Loan campaigns:
First Liberty Loan.
Amount of the Loan -. $4,000. 900 600
Interest extraordinarily per cent
Quota for the 9Th Federal
Reserve District -. $4,000, 900, 900
Second Liberty Loan.
Amount of Loan ...... $4,000, 900, 900
Interest .............. per cent
Quota for the 9Th Federal
Reserve District--maXi-
mum ............... S12O, OOO, 900
Third Liberty Loan.
Amount of Loan ...... 5000, 100000
Interest .............. Al per cent
Quota for the 9Th Federal
Reserve District .$130,000.000
Fourth Liberty Loan
Amount OF Loan .. Sc ,000, 900, 900
Quota for the Sth Federal
Interest .............. Az per cent
Reserve District ..... $500, 000,OJ0
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
The Leopard Can't
Change HIS Spots
By C. M. MORRISON.

TIME MAN who whipped the Hun
knows the Hun better than any
ono else in the world That man
is Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch COM
mander Of all the allied armies in
Europe, and who repeats that the
leopard cannot change its spots.
we must stay on the Rhine" says
Foch. 1--WE must doublelock the door"
The man who says this is the allied
general who was given the well-nigh
uper-human task of stopping the
Huns when they were beating back
tie allies one little year ago.
Remember" says he, those TO-
100000 Of Germans will always be a
menace to us. They are an enviou3
and warlike people Their character
istics are not changed Fifty years
hence they will be what they are to-
day. DO not trust the appearances Of
the moment"
Those Of US who have been telling
ourselves that "the war is over" and
that maybe the Germans will settle
down pretty soon and go about their
business in a peaceful manner" will
do well to ponder rather deeply what
Marshal Foch says.
His utterances on the very eve 4
the final action on the peace treaties
indicate. the dread, the utter distrust
of the Huns that is felt by their
neighbors.
The next time, says General Foch,
;''remember that Germany will MAKE
no mistake. They will freak through
into northern France ard seize the
;channel ports as a base of operations
against England They failed the last
time because they did not believe Eng
;land would come in and when they
found she was coming in it was too
late TO change their plans"
You think" he added, "the Ger
mans will have no arms for another
attack! IIo! Ho! How do you know?
BY the time you had found out that
they had them it would be too late"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08

Thrift is stored up happiness.
Save with w. S. S.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
Peter Shutter Farm Wagons.
0kolona Hardware Co.

''The w. S. S. Idea" Sensible
Spending and Sensible Saving.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08

pill q 1918.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14
TODAY'S Bat OF VERSE
The SINGING TREE.

THE SINGING TREE.
There is stately tree that stands
Amidst the sIoping pasture lands
Where dewIapped cattle stray and browse;
When day unfolds night expands
There music through its boughs.
When up the northern skies are rolled
The pale auroras fold on fold,
Like banners lmned with strange device
1t chants the sagas of the cold,
The crystal lyrics of the ice.
When swallows come soaring wing.
And tanagers and bluebirds bring
Omens of violet and rose
1t filings the flute of the spring
Down every wandering wind that blows.
When softer slip the shrunken streams
And sultriy the bee balm CLEANS,
And no harsh voice the twilight mars,
1t breathes the summers popped dreams
Unto the leaning, listening stars.
And when along each woodland lane
There is the driven drift OF rain,
And fall Of frosted leaves and sere,
1t sounds the autumns plaintive strain,
The requiem of the fading year
Through all the shifting long
Now sad sweet now low strong,
1t lifts its ceaseless melody;
1t the very soul of Song,
And so / love the Singing Tree!
Clinton Scotland
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.


Davenport Times: President VIII
lson has to let the league of nations
take care of itself for a while just
now. The fight demanded by labor
on wartime profiteers is a bigger
thing. from the American viewpoint,
than anything else now engaging the
presidents attention
| Mt. Vernon Hawkeye: The Wilson
administration. which sure started
something with the enactment of the
Adamson law, little bit of legisla.
ton which may be stated to have
been paramount to sowing TO the
wind and reaping the whirlwind, is
in 10 the neck this time. 1t cannot
pass the buck of increased wages to
the dear public as handily as here
tofore
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: Both
political parties ought TO declare an
armistice and postpone the next
national campaign until after the
peace treaty and the food problem
are disposed OF.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: What every
one might as well recognize now as
any other time is that this Is no time
for four-fushing. The politician who
seeks to make capital out OF one
situation or another cannot four
flush. Industries cannot four-fiush.
Capital cannot four-fiush. and neither
can labor. This is the time for the
of hard. common sense.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: There is
approximately 100000 people in
this country and little over 2,OOO,-
600 of these are engaged in the
transportation business These fell
lows have successfully held up the
government twice within the last
three years and now their represen-
tatives are in Washington with
third demand. This is likely to be
the time the pitcher viii be broken.
Vinton Eagle: We take it that
capitalists will not again soon go
heavily into street railway invest
ments. Money wants to invest in
stuff that can make faces at the pub.
lie and tilt its nose.
Rock Rapids Review: What must
he shade of the old fashioned hired
nan who worked for $25 a month
md his kaaP think Of the up-to-the- |
minute individual who demands
1850 day, with board and lodging? !
Winterset News: Don't gamble in |
and. but If you need a farm buy IL |
Confidently. There is no investment |
hat is so solid and SO sure of an |
dvance. The corn land, real corn
and like our own, is an gone. There |
S no more of 1t on this globe.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN.

There probably are forty-hve million workers
in the United States. They are asked to pay an
nual interest on twenty billion dollars in order
to give two million of their number preferred
status among the workers of the country and
special advantages enjoyed by no other class.
Is this proposition defensible? Is it square
deal for the rest Of the American peopleg A
few men voicing the workers to benefited pre-
dict dire things if this is not done But direr
things would happen if such monstrous eco
homie heresy were tried.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14
PATENT PIRATES.

7, AT the coming meeting of the American
fChemlcal society measures will be sought to
curb the activities of patent pirates.' By
this name IS meant those patentees who seek by
means of certain blanket patents not so much
protection of devices of their own for practical
use In production but rather to prevent the use
by others of inventions that are designed for
such use In the pre-war days one of the prin-
clpal means by which Germany controlled the
chemical markets in this country was the blank
ct patent. Our patent Office was less we'll equip
ped to deal with intricate questions of patent
rights in this department. of industry than in
others and German patentees found it easy to
block from utility many of the inventions per
fected by American chemists under plea of in
fringement of patented processes. To remove
such restrictions and prevent the putting of
similar ones as barrier against full develop
inent OF our chemical inventive progress is the
end sought by the American Chemical society.
"a plan proposed by DR.. BARNARD c.. Hesse is
winning much approval. DR.. Hesse proposes
that each inventor be made to pay an annual
renewal fee, the amount of which shall be deter
mined on the basis Of the practical utility to
which his invention is being put This would
collect from the patentee small annual fee on
a used patent, but much larger and in some
cases, prohibitive fee from a patentee who
was using his ri ghts simply as a barrier to
other inventions desi gned to better working
efficiency in industry What the chemists are
seeking to do probably will be found desirable
by other industries where the patent office has
been used unwilling agent for furtherino
monopolies.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14
DIARRHOEA
Quickly Cured by
WAkEFIELD'S
Blackberry Balsam

Wakefeld's Blackberry Balsam has
been the surest and safest remedy for
Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cholera Infan-
tum and Cholera Morbus for ~ years.
While it is quick and positive in its
action, it is unlike other remedies in
that it is harmless and does not con-
stipate. It simply checks the trouble
and puts the stomach and bowels in
their natural regular condition. OF
the millions of bottles that have been
sold, never has q case been reported
to the manufacturer where cure
was not effected when directions were
followed, even after other remedies
had failed. Every home should have
bottle or more on hand ready for sud-
den attacks. F'ul, size bottle, 4Oc
everywhere.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14

and fighting high prices in America
as resolutely and as ruthlessly as It
fought any reluctance on the part of
the coal miners. ironmasters, ship
pers. railway magnates or individual
"slackers" Of every sort to help this
nation win its war. But 1t has never
yet done anything for the consuming
public except increase It's taxes and
increase the overhead charges Of the
packing industry. The lawyers profit.
the politicians and cover" the
demagogues get splendid mouth.
full but the public pays.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14

The report on meats and provisions held III
storage in the United States is as follows:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14
Grow Your Hal,
FREE RECIPE

After being almost totalIv ~.
business man grew hair-anda New Y@
pIn M growth at age Of s6Inow ha
y .n ssnd the genuine recipe free sh
come d.ndru r or wS Sain n who wishes s's
testing boz Of the prepSrsti nnF Growth. d,
q mailed with recipe Il Won . Mofaiks. Vi
s sasan xnr az sqi; Station +, New Yo,JIoAs
SoAuAas AOSAAAO u sold By husu aE
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14

In Colorado, retail prices have risen since
January first, this year, as high as one hundred
and twelve per cent, according to comparative
price lists submitted to Governor Shoup by the
Colorado state department of labor. The com
pilaton shows that since the first of the year
prices of potatoes have increased one hundred
and twelve per cent, round steak and coffee
twenty-five per cent. and onions fifty per cent.
Fuel and clothing also show substantial in
crease
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14
Suing the Packers.

suing the Packers.
Philadelphia Public Ledger: Law
suits against the packers should be
classed among the most extravagant
OF Indoor sports" The packers do
not take their punishment lying
down. They fight back That means
that all concerned must hire the
best lawyers In the business, and
lawyers need money to meet the h.
Q. Of ]. as well as anybody. 1t may
serve as a temporary camouflage for
government cowardice in baking at
boldly seizing the bull by the horne,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14

Opportunities for investment in foreign Sc
cunties seem greater than the securities prom
Use OF prompt payment.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14
WITHOUT COMMENT.

Producers are rushing shipments to markets
in fear of reduction of prices in the near future
Large quantities of supplies are being taker
out of cold storage warehouses and offered FOL
sale.
/ The monthly exports of leather have more
than doubled since May. During June leather
valued at $3G000,00O was exported, compared
with So ,s62, 3s2 in May. During January, Feb
iruary, March, and April, 1919, the exports OF
leather totaled $52,5S7 .443, compared with 49,
! S67,6 GIL for the final months of 1918. This is
an increase of $50, us, S32.
Predictions of decided drop in shoe prices
are made by leather dealers and shoe manufac-
turers who testified at the grand jury investiga-
ton of the high cost of living conducted in Bos-
ton. One firm, it was brought out, has millions
of dollars worth of sole leather on hand.
At the first sale of army canned goods in
Chicago sixty thousand cans of corn and peas
were disposed of at huge saving over the cur
rent retail price.
The prevailing retail price for sugar was
twelve and thirteen cents pound in majority
or Chicago stores after the federal food admin
istration officials had declared that twelve cents
was a fair price. A few days ago sugar sold
In Chicago as high as sixteen cents pound.
Potatoes have dropped one dollar per hun
dred pounds in Chicago retail markets and
there is corresponding drop in nearly all
other vegetables.
The price of peaches has tumbled now that
are being received from southern
Illinois, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and
California.
Ice dealers at Melrose, Mass, have reduced
their prices to consumers ten cents a week
The United States bureauof markets has sub
mitted to the district attorneys office at Chi
cago report showing that the amount of meats
and dairy. products in cold storage in Chicago
and the entire country August / was largely
in excess of the amount ON hand at the CORE
spending date last year
In Chicago a government report shows the
Following amounts of dairy products in storage
Butter (pounds) ...........s1. 42a11s 17,7ssso4
FerpS
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14

1t is announced that German workmen will
be employed to help in rebuilding France. What
went by the sword shall come back by the ham
mer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14

A London clergyman predicts that the world
will come to an end this year. That would be
one way of settling the multifarious problems
that vexing the world.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14
WHAT IT WOULD MEAN.

Herbert T.. Hoover Is discouraged. European
diplomacy makes him tired, depressed heart
sick, and his one idea is to get back to private
life. There is too much intrigue, subterfugc,
duplicity, machiavelian maneuvering and pull
ing at cross purposes in Europe, and it is 4,
hopeless task to get conflicting interests to
work together for the common good.
Yet into this mass of double-dealing, ioEbe1y
and back-stairs politics America is asked to
plunge up to her neck, or above it. The propo-
sition is that we shall not only mix in old world
Vaccinations but put own vital domestic
and continental interests into the pool to be bat
tied over by the craftiest diplomatists willy,
greedy chancelleres can find. Nations deep in
troubles, near to bankruptcy, would naturally
combine to circumvent and overreach the rich,
frank, open-dealing, unsophisticated republic
Our sshirt-sleeves diplomacy would secure us
about as much consideration as the president
got for his fourteen points, which was too little
to be discovered.
The former kaiser has finished cutting down
his five thousandth tree. Now if this wood
could only be shipped into Belgium and north
ern France to help keep the people in the war
devastated regions warm this coming winter, it
would SAVIOR something of poetic justice.
"A London clergyman pTedlcCS IHdC tHe WOIIu
will come to end this year. That would be
one way of settling the multifarious problems
that are vexing the world.
1t is announced that German workmen will
be employed to help in rebuilding France What
went by the sword shall come back by the ham
mer.
Opportunities for investment in foreign Sc
cuntles seem greater than the securities prom
Use OF prompt payment.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-14

It is not the reading of many books which
is necessary to make man wise and good,
but the well reading of few, could he be
sure to have the best.-Richard Baxter.