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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-03-05
SHUQUALAK

| The friends of Mrs. Joe Combs will
be glad to know she is resting nicely
after her accident of last Friday after
noon. On her way home from school
in her buggy she met an automobile,
and being afraid that her horse would
become frightened she jumped from
the buggy and in doing so broke her
ankle. She was taken to Meridian to
hospital, and her ankle put in a
plaster cast. She hopes to be able to
resume her school work in short time
Misses Ruth Prince, Bernice Jones
and Mrs. E. H. Hamilton were Macon
visitors last Monday.
Miss Juanita Jinkins, who is teach
ing in Ackerman,, came home this
week on account of illness. Mrs. jim
kins and daughtr, Miss Thelma, went
after her. She is improving slowly.
Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Burgess were
Scooba visitors last Tuesday.
Miss Marie Flora was called home
from the |. |. & C. this week on ac-
count of her mothers illness.
Miss Vista Jones of the |. |. & C. is
visiting her sster, Mrs. Strong.
Miss Minnie Chairman, who is spend
ing the winter in Holt, Ala, with her
brother, Mr. Will Chairman, spent last
weekend at home.
Mrs. Dot Steel entertained act din
ner on last Sunday night in honor of
Mr.. and Mrs. f. H. Hamilton.
Miss Lovely May Chamberlain, who
has been at home for sveeral days on
account of "fu," returned to the
Cooksville- -Paulette school last Satur-
day,
On last Friday night quite a number
of our citizens went down 20 Meridian
to witness the million Dollar Doll"
Among the number were Mr.. J. u.
Prince, Miss Ethel Prince, Mr.. and
Mrs. Moseley, Miss Ruth Prince, their
guest, Mrs. Burrage, Miss Bernice
Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. P. P. Kellis, Mrs.
Evans, Mrs. Tynes, Mrs. Patterson
and Mr. Prince Hubbard.
Mrs. Burrage left for her home in
New Mexico on Saturday last.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-03-05
BROOKSVILLE

Saturday, Mrs. w. w. Gaines left
for Athens, Ga, having been called to
the bedside of her daughter, Miss An
ME Lou, who had gone from influenza
into pneumonia. Recent news from
her informs us that the crisis is past.
and all is WELL Miss Gaines is teach
ing in Athens.
Mr.. Thos. Henley and wife cameup
from Mobile Sunday to accompany a
sick uncle, Mr.. McCollum. After a
short stay, they returned to Mobile
where Mr., Henley has important bus
ness.
Mr.. Clare Mcdonald is Just back
from an extended BUSINESS trip through
Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee.
Mr.. Weaver was in town Tuesday,
looking after the interest of the tenn
perance drive.
Mr.. T. S. Gay has enjoyed visit
from his sister, Mrs. F. w. Sabin and
children of Morehead.
Mrs. Avery of Winston county is
with friends in town.
Mrs. Lem R. Long is in Kosciusko,
attending the the Woman's Missionary
conference. She is delegate from the
Brooksvlle w. M. S.
Mr.. George Gousset of Macon was
n town one day this week working up
an interest in the oil boring scheme.
Mr. Henry Gay and wife are still in
Memphis.
Mrs. Rosser is spending the week in
Shuqualak,
Quite a number of business men at
tended the melting in Macon Tuesday
looking to arrangements and plans for
boring in this county for OIL
The Baptist ladies are observing the
Week of Prayer.
The school for Home Hygiene and
Care of the Sick will begin here on
March Sth. Miss Halbert, sent out b
the Gulf Division of Red Cross will be
in charge.
A good many children have been
out of school recently on account of
having chicken pox.
About ten o'clock Wednesday night
the Noxubee County Lumber plant, To-
Gated eight miles west of town, was
burned down. There was no insurance
and the loss is about $4,000. The in
terested parties are Messrs. Abram,
Phillips and Harper.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-03-05
REGARDING YOUR INCOME TAI

In some way, somehow, the impres.
sion is out among dealers in real es-
tate that in the case of sales the sell
ing price in excess of costs or market
value March /, 1913, is not to be ne.
turned as income except to the extent
of the portion of the cash payment
The following letter from the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue might
be interesting to a large number OF
your readers:
Reference is made to your letter of
December 10Th, 1919, with which you
transmitted letter from Mr. A. con-
tanning the following statement of
facts and inquiry:
"I have sold some land, receiving
therefor a small cash payment of $780,
600, from which l paid attorneys fee,
purchasers assuming a niArtgage on
the same of -$19,500, and executing
their longtime notes, which may new
er be paid. for balance aggregating
$106,380. In making income return
Is it required that the sale be treated
as a cash transaction, or am l permit
ted to make return on the proportion
of profit covered by the cash pay
ment?
"Just how this transaction should
be treated by Mr.. A. in his return of
income depends in part on whether or
not the balance of the consideration
is to be paid on the installment or de-
ferred payment plan. While his let
ter is not quite clear in this respect, it
may be inferred from his statement
that the purchasers executed their
long term notes, that the amount of
the consideration still due is not to be
paid in installments. He has received
a fairly substantial first payment, and
as the balance is, undoubtedly, well
secured, the obligations for the de-
ferred payments are to be regarded as
equivalent to cash, and the profits in
dicated by the entire transaction should
be treated as taxable income for the
year in which the initial payment was
made.
"For existing regulations covering
instalment and deferred payment sales
of real estate, you are referred to Ar
ticles 44-46 of Regulations 45."
After March 18th the chancery
clerks records are to be examined and
every taxpayer who disregards the IN
come tax law will have good and suffl-
cient reasons for regretting it.
am doing all ! can to inform the
taxpayers and keep them out OF troub,
le. If my warnings are disregarded
no one is to be blamed but themselves
As large number of real estate
sales took place in your section OF tn"
State in 1919, l trust you will see lit
to publish this letter.
Respectfully,
G.. L. MCDONALD,
Collector
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LYRIC CLUB-Mareh Sth.

Hostess anr chairman, Mrs. Richmond
Ouar+ette Selected
Misses Bass and Bobo
8 Messrs. Scott and Patty
Hungary ------------- MoszkoWSky
Misses Montgomery and McHenry
Vocal Solo, -Newsboy's Sweetheart
Master George Richmond Jr.
Ave GounOu
Miss Bass
To Spring Grleg
Miss Helene Carleton
INTERMISSION
Quartette- Selected
Mrs. Richmond Mrs. Boggess
Misses Little and Bobo
Return of the Heroes. Engetmann
Misses Bush and McHenry
Miss Bass
Serenade, voice and flute Schubert
Mr.. and Mrs. Richmond
Rhapsodie Hongroise List
Miss Bush and Mrs. McHenry
Violin and flute duet Selected
Messrs. Boyle and Richmond
Ouartette- Sweet and Low
Messrs. Campbell, Martin, Jones
and Richmond.
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Hnnse and Lot for Sale

My five-room house and lot in town
of Shuqualak for sale. Lot contain
one acre land, cabin and horse barn.
Situoted on West Main street, now oc-
cupied by Mrs. Whitfield. If interested
write Mrs. J. A. Dinsmore, Mel cod,
Miss, or L, E, Connor, Brooksvile,
Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-03-05

Mr.. Robert Weyburn and bride ar
rived in Macon this morning from Co.
lumbus, Ohio, where they were mar
ried the early part of the week. The
marriage was unsnnounced, and known
to only the immediate family, but when
Robert left last week foy Ohio, it was
thought, among his friends, that he
contemplated somc,'i'ng serious 70
c,4serer young man has ever come to
Noxubee from the North, and a host
of friends wish for him and and his
bride long life of unalloyed happi-
ness. They will make Macon their
home and are present domiciled at
Mrs. Holman's residence.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-03-05

The Tag Sale Store, M. M. Williams
proprietor, and under the management
of Mr.. L. J. Wilson, who has been with
the Imperial Cotton Oil Co., for sew
eral years, will be opened tomorrow.
with full and fresh stock. 1t viii be
smar to the Pigly Wiggly stores which
have created stir in the grocery bus
mess in the larger cities. Max says if
he cannot save you money on every
purchase he does not solicit your bus
mess Give the store a "once over"
even if you do not buy, It costs moth
ing to look. Everybody invited.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-03-05

LOST-Army overcoat, dyed black,
with a pair of lined leather gauntlets,
color, tan in pockets. Reward for re-
turn. A. e. MURPHEY,
Macon, Miss.
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Personal and Local Items

Mrs. P. D. Ferris of Laurel has been
the guest this week of relatives in Ma
con
Mrs. W, L. Sherrod is entertaining
this afternoon in honor of Miss Dora
Evelyn Connor.
Mr.. Bob Farrar and family have
been puite i'll with the prevailing NAL
ady, but are now much better.
Mrs. J. B. Moore, on route one, was
one Of the victims of the fiu., followed
by pnuemounia, but we are glad to re-
port, is much improved
Mrs. Hector Welch of Fort Sam
Sam Houston, Texas, visiting her
mother, Mrs. Emma Richardson.
Mrs. Feb Holman has been i'll this
week and her daughters, Mrs. Spes-
sard and Miss Mary Holman, of Meri-
dian have been with her.
Miss Mary Louise Campbell, daugh-
ter of Rev. and Mrs, R. L. Campbell,
who has been quite i'll for the past
two weeks, is now improving.
Messrs. J. H. Williams and j. F.
Ames returned recently from trip to
the delta, and both have been i'll this
week with slight attack of the flu.
Mrs. j. T. Sargent returned this
week from Montgomery, Ala, where
she has been visiting her daughter,
Mrs. V. Morgan Morris for the past
month
Mr.. w. A. Hinson a former citizen
of Macon, having been manager of the
local telephone exchange here for sew
eral years, is in Macon, representing a
Development Co., with headquarters
in Fort Worth.
Mr.. Walter Patty has been i'll this
week and it was feared for a day or
two that he would develope pneumonia
His condition today is somewhat i'm
proved, and he hopes to be able to re-
turn to bushes next week
Mr.. J. H. Hubbard has been puite
i'll this week and on account of his ad-
vanced age, his condition is causing
his family much uneasiness. There is
little hope for his recovery, and all
his children are at his bedside
Mrs. Chas. Baker and son John of
Rochester, MINI, are in the county.
They are looking at land ith the inten-
tion of purchasing and returning to
this section. They have been the
guests this week of Mrs. Sue Hclberg.
Mr. James Jones Of LeFlore county
spent a few days this week with his
uncle, Mr.. Wyatt Jones, and other rel
atives. In the years to come he will
be known as one of the World War
veterans, as he volunteered when nine
teen years of age, and was with the
Rainbow division in their first fight at
Chateau Thierry and the last in the
Argonne Forest.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-03-05

DR.. and Mrs. Stewart F. Hill of
Prairie Point, Miss, have been spend
ing the past several days in Carroll
ton with relatives. Dr. Hill is suf-
fering from painful accident which
occurred when revolver was acci-
dentally discharged, the bullet strik-
ng one of his fingers, and while in
this condition he is spending the time
with relatives and friends in his for
mer home town.--Pickens Co. Item in
Columbus Dispatch.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-03-05

/. E. V. YATES. cashier. do solemny
swear that the above is a true statement OF
the financial condition of Merchants d Farm.
ers bank located at Macon. in the county OF
Noxubee, State Of Mississippi. at the close OF
business on the 28th day of February, 1920 to
the best of my knowledge and belief
Correct-Attest:
GUS MCLEOD, Directors.
N. II. HARRISON.
State of Mississippi, City Of Macon
Sworn 10 and subscribed before me BY y, V.
Yates, Cashier, this 4th day Of March. igIo.N
Notary Public.
Ny commission expires September soth, 1922
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-03-05
HON. HENRY MINOR.

One of the strong men of the pres
ent legislature is Hon. Henry Minor,
of the Senate, from our neighboring
county, Noxubee. iIe is taking high
ram in that body and VIII in any body
where ability and brains and character
count.
1t IS assuring to know that such a
strong influence in that body is
against the removal and the emascu-
lation of the |. |. & C. In a letter to
the editor of this paper, ,Mr.Minor says
that if they remove the College ut will
be over his dead body"--which gives
a sense of qualification to !he people
of this SETON of the State.
Good, Henry! Come over and We'll
open Bevo.-Columbus Dispatcn.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-03-05
STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL
CONDITION OF THE
Merchants and Farmers
Bank

Located at Macon, in the County of Noxu-
bee, State of Mississippi ,at the close OF busi-
ness FEBRUARY 2Sth. 1920. made to the
Board of Bank Examiners:
RESOURCES
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03
MASS MEETING ]. ],
CALLED FOR MONDAY
All Oitizens Of Decorah Urged to At.
tend Meeting to Discuss Dry
Rum Question

The question Of what to do about
fixing Dry Run has been agitated for
some time past, and recently the
question has been brought very fore
IDLY to the front, and action ON the
matter has been called for. This is a
matter that should interest every
body in our city. Maps and plats
and pictures of the creek and soma
nearby property has been made, By
Engineer Coffeen showing the food
ed area. The question of doing some
thing to remedy the situation has
been under discussion by the city
council for some time past. Just what
procedure to take has not been de-
termined, and 1t is up to the citizens
to have say on the matter. and all
are urgently requested to attend this
mass meeting. which will be held in
the large court room at the court
house on next Monday evening
March 8. at 1880 o'clock.
Respectfully.
r. BUCKNELL. Mayor,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03
The Doctor Says:

Drink water and get typhoid.
Drink milk and get tuberculosis.
Drink whiskey and get the jim
jams.
Drink coffee and got nervous pros
'tration.
Eat soup and get Brights disease.
Eat meat and get apoplexy.
Eat oysters and get toxinamia.
Eat vegetables and weaken the
system.
Eat desert and take to paresis.
Smoke cigarettes and die early.
Smoke cigars and get catarrh.
To bs entirely healthy one must
cat nothing. drink nothing, smoke
nothing, and don't breathe until the
|air has been thoroughly stereaised.
But that which Is most essential
OF all resolve to so'n the 'Dsn't
Worry club for 1870. '
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03
~ y FARMERS STRIKE?
Come n y Win Unite and
Limit o11stien.

Half of the la, Aers who replied
TO . recent Questionnsire Of the pos
ONCE department, conAemplate eithel
leaving their farms or reducing pro
dusEion. They rightly complain .o
the high prices they have to pay fol
everything, Of their long hours q.
compared with the short day and
high wages Of factory mechanics.
Some people think the farmers are
going to unite and limit food pro
duction. Never yet, though, have
the farmers acted as unit on any
thing. Multitudes of them will cor.
tinue as in the past, to limit theil
production by failure to adopt CO
operative measures, but not many
will go in for radical mass action
OF course as prices of food products
fall, there will he some curtailment
as there always has been in the past
But it will not be after the strike
plan, Of forcing concessions from ths
rest Of the people.
The farmers have real grievances
and the country must remedy them
Meanwhile the farmers boys who
give up their chance to become indie
pendent farm owners, sell their birth
right for mess Of pottage. The
man who quits ten hour job or
the soil, for eight hour work in an
unventilated factory, makes no ply
sical gain. While the farmer may
work much more than ten hours in
summer. yet there are three or four
easier months OF the winter period
that help balance up his hours some
what.
The farm laborer who quits for
city life also makes q foolish choice.
In these days Of farm loans. any am
bilious and industrious man can be-
come an Independent farm owner.
~ FOR the abusepf middlemen's pro
-, the farmers can largly break
them by cooperative marketing.
There are many signs among the
faSmers Of Iowa that they viii have
gone far to remove this tax in the
next Ave years.
t. Z.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03


It was . boss mason. 20 the tale II
told BY Z Mashalltown man Of 1
Marshalltown man, who advanced
the proposition that liquor must
come back or production be badly
crippled. why" says he. Il went
,pyer whete two bricklayers were sit.
ting and told them I had a Job for
sem; might last two or three days
maybe . week. One Of them pulled q
wsd out Of his pocket and he says
why work when rye all that money
and nothing to spend It for says he
"a days work keeps me week. I've
plenty Of money and can't buy a
drink with It. ndthins but food and
clothes and lodgin,' why work. that
is What he said to me-"
We've got to bring back the
drink. = went on the boss. as the
story was. told the editor. "we'vs
but to bring back the booze and the
place to sell It and those fellows
would be broke right and ready tc
lay brick. This prohibition ID shoot
ing production all to-"
The allegations and, argument o.
the boss mason who wanted mer
Fbadiv and eou'da't 81 them are siv-
~ Tor what thsv'rt WORTH Brit " Z
&0xI
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03
OIL LAND LEASING BILL.
Was Signed BY President Wilson
Last Week.

Washington, d. C.-Presiden,
Wilson signed the oil land leasing
bill. which opens up for develop
ment millions of acres OF land in the
west.
The total area thrown open for
lease under the bill is estimated by
the geological survey at more than
100000 acres, while proven coal
lands under government withdraw
total approximately $4,000, ,0Oe
acres. with 39,000.OOO acres still to
be classified. Phosphate lands are
estimated at 100000 acres, with
sodium and other mineral deposits
equally as extensive.
California with 1,1S9,20O acres of
withdrawn oil and gas lands and
Wyoming with 1,161,629 acres, lea d
the other states in the extent and
richness OF their oil deposits.
The naval reserve oil lands in Cali
fornia and Wyoming are not made
available for public leasing under
the bill unless the president shall so
prescribe.
In withdrawn coal lands North
Dakota leads the other twelve states
with more than 1900 900 acres.
Secretary Lane today ordered the
opening to homestead entry OF more
than 100000 acres of land, a por-
tion of which is adapted to cultiya-
tion, In western Oregon, formerly
embraces in the Oregon and Cali
fornia railroad grant.
Settlers residing ON the tract
since Dec. 1, 1918, and honorabiy
discharged soldiers and sailors. and
marines will be given preference
rights in the fling Of applications,
the former being permitted to Ale
between April IL and. May 8 and the
latter between May 10 and July 8.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03

Young Thsodore Roosevelt made !
rood move In the New York Aanesa-
biy. when he brought in . bill per-
hitting corporations to elect employ
- a. directors. It II . measurs ex-
pressing thoss broad sentiments OF
hhI6snity that save his father bis
lnarvellous hold ON the popular heart.
II This would seem . good practical
way for any corporation TO 80 to
work. II II wishes to promote unitv
ana enthusiasm among 'its work
people. A lot ofgrouches would dis
appeAr. II workers had rspresentati-
.yes IN board osdirecfors, who could
- ~ diMeultiaa lRalneep ne4 ha4
- !; s. !: a ! sss's sss;'s'' 9
--res \ ~ yssaf t,ps !. ~
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03
MEREDITH SAYS
WE'RE ALL BOOBS
Secretary Of Agrfculture Lambasts
xno Public in Formal Debut in
Speech at Chicago.
EVERY ONE HAS BECOME
SILLY SPENDTHRIFT
Meredith Breaks Into Limelight and
Newspapers by His Criticism -
General Public in Relation
to Living Costs.

greetings to the whole Boob fam
ily--of Chicago, of Illinois, of the
United States. Not only are you a
boob, q nincompoop, as it were, OF
pursst ray serene-you are sucker
of such pristine purity as to render
the proverbial hick OF Barnum's day
q Solcmonic genius.
With these fow well chosen words
Edwin 7. Meredith. of Iowa, newly
APPOINTED secretary of !. agriculture,
begs to make his formal debut.
Both in interviews and in speech
delivered before the Chicago Associa-
tiOn of Commerce he enunciated his
views, which in symposium are: -,
"Hf Cost is development Of an
abnormal state OF mind. Food today
should be as cheap as 1t was six
years ago, II not cheaper. More food
per capita is being produced here
than ever before. We've become a
nation of silly spendthrifts, and the
result is we are being trimmed right
and left by everybody and anybody,
We are the superfools Of the world
ssThe newspapers prepare the
American for, his trimming. They
kesp reptins about the high cost and
the htsher cost Of living. The result
is that an American. when asked
some preposterous price for an
article merely sighs resignedly and
pays It with the observation:
"Well, everything's gone up,
What's the user"
prices are hundreds per cent high
er in many instances than they
should be. But that isn't my field.
That's up to the department Of jus
tice. There is only one way out Of
the present situation, 4 suppose. and
that is to educate the Individual.
Each person must constitute himself
a soldier OF one to combat Hi Cost. Z"
In adverting to the worship of the
golden calf, America, 1t seems. has
revived and revised the command
ments and is now guided by:
Thou shall not make unto thee
any wisdom precepts.
Thou shall not stint. but shall beg
and borrow. get into debt. and make
no effort to get out.
Six days shalt thou labor >and do
all thy work, but thou shalt lay
aside nothing for a rainy day.
Thou shalt covet thy neighbor's
wife's sealskin, thy neighbor's classy
apartment, his new twin six, and h!a
man servant, and shalt hook thyseli
and thy earning capacity to emulate
him.
Thou shalt not commit economy.
Honor the 1ass music and the lob
ster palaces that thy days may be
q long penuyy paurerism, and desti-
tuition. Ad. lib. ~
Mr.. Meredith cited figures to show
that within the last thirty years the
production OF grain ON farms has In
creased from 266 bushels per capita
to 406; that since 1880 production
has increased as per cent per acre;
cotton, from 36M lbs. per capita