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The Neshoba Democrat., 1920-01-15
FARM WANTED

As agent for the Neshoba Land
Oompany / have had considerable
correspondence with the author
lof the following letter. publish
mis- letter as it was written. If
anyone has farm that they
eink may suit this prospect,
ease call at my office:
Henderson Tenn.
Jan. Z, 1920
eMr. G T Rand.
Philadelphia Mississippi
Dear SIR
think I wrote you in Oct. 1919
that thought / would come
down to your city in Nov. 1919.
When wrote you that letter |
had sold my farm but | had not
Made no deed. My wife sayed
/ had better go slow in selling
my farm. 80 went & told my
men would have to Back down
on my trade. these men will
still by my farm. My wife wants
me to go look at some good farm
ing land befor l sell my farm.
My age is SO years old. l have 6
living childerns and have Two
dead. There came to our house
boy on Dec. 18, 1919, 80 you see
a man with a house full of boys
& girls had better look for farm
befor he sell his farm. You see
Ihave been out in Ark. Oklaho-
ma. Texas. Out there in 1900,
1902, 1904. l was born and rails
aad here in this county. l want a
bod farm and water, Plenty
wood and close to a School where
they have from 8, to 10 months
free school. Where there not to
many mosquitoes and Black and
Read ants and smalaria fever.
Where there no cotton boil vice.
vii and Insects ON corn. Where l
can raise Pleanty Hay, say how
about alfalfa can it be grown on
your land? And also apples and
Peaches, Plumss Yon can ans
wer this letter Ii you want to or
you can let it lone just as you
Say for | may come to- your City
This year aud may be never |
cant tell yet. If that Boy Of my.
ing had not been coming to my
house I would have been down
there befor now, buthe a grand
Boy. he may be Gov. of Miss.
some day. You can't tell aud can
/. SO you see why / did not show
up. | have two Brothers theay
are younger then l and own land
If l go some where and find good
farming land & school they may
wont to go. hope you will sell
lots of farming land this year.
luck to you.
Yours Truly
J'MJ
The Neshoba Democrat., 1920-01-15
Continued next week }
HONOR ROLL FOR NOV.
Forest Dale SchooI

Forest Dale School
9Th Grade--Woodwar Luke, Ed
ma Mcneil, Lydia Luke and Pet
tus Bates flf
9Th Marshall Cook, Vesta
Cook, Bonnie Smith, Lewis Cox,
Jay Cox, Raleigh Bates, Lama
Crawford and Willie J Gipson
4th Grade-Mary George
Laura CLARK. Teacher
The Neshoba Democrat., 1920-01-15
PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS
Jan. 1920

/ SoN&A ~ 0bR~A 'toNAS - WSA@s N-'~
following Supervisors were duly
sworn into Office: J d Herring
ton, O X Saxon "A J @ Darnell, j
r Beal Jr. and w w Cox. J d
Her ington was elected President
The Following took the oath of
Office and were sworn in.
I'D Petty Ohancery Clerk.
d BF Crews, Circuit Clerk.
M o Porey, Sheriff & Tax Col
lector
FS Pugh, Tax Assessor
JK Gillis, County Attorney,
r O. PEBBLES, Supt. Education.
LIS Russell, Surveyor.
A Dees, B A Strnm and Mayatt
Townsend, Justice Of the Peace
for District No /
T B Green and M O Bates for
District No 2. J w Meeks and
w j Knight for District No 8.
| j j Ingraham, District No 4. w
R Sherrod and F Russell Dist. s
For Constable, Henry Tolbert,
District No /. w B Madison for
District No 2. w u Williamson
for District No 8. B F Flint for
District No 8.
The Board then ordered. that
no claim be filed or warrant is
sued at this sitting
The salary Of County Attorney
was fixed at $4,000 for the year
of 1920
The report Of the County Surt.
Of Education filed, approved and
salary allowed
Contract for publishing the
proceedings Of the Board and le-
gal matters let to the Neshoba
Demecrat for 1920 for $3.50
Marshall johnson declared .
pauper.
Ordered that the county bear
the expense Of the county jailor's
stove wood.
Temporary Drainage District
created 10 be known as the Ne,
shoba Drainage District. ] N
| Richardson, o r Bankston and j
d Nature appointed temporary
commissioners and L 8 Russell
was appointed temporary Engi-
neer W
Fl L Trapp appointed pauper
keeper for 1920 &
ALLOWANCES
| D B F Crews oil & postage 2 25
J F Boyd removing timber 90
J A Howell road Z 3 400
A e Harbour postage, paper Z 80
j s Ethridge roads 16 90
q n Hawkins plumbing I 40
Colbert NOVEL; brdg 8 30
Luther Hill causeway 81 90
r O PEBBLES postage II 400
r s Pugh Bond premium 1900
John HaneyA road &, 8 90
Richard Posey tax rebate IS
w r Germany roads % SO 75
Ia S Sansing roads 30 90
FL L Tfapp paupers 4l06
Insurance Premium sheriff, Cir
cult clerk & chancery clerk 839 80
Democrat Qs - as4 10S 70
EDement 27S7
Stewart & Warren lbr 075
O 8 Pearson lbr 375;
| Neshoba Lbr Co 90 OF
w w Grain repairs B Box 30
Lee Jenkins wood "a 90
Charley Marshall tree 30
The Neshoba Democrat., 1920-01-15

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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
ADDY} EVENING
k3EAIRY TALL
A @ Mory GrahoN
~ Bonner @Jzo&S
ANOTHER RAccooN TALK.

"Children," said Mother Raccoon,
81 was going to tell you Of creature
you must watch out for-an enemy
you must beware of. So listen while
Mother RaccoOn goes on with her
story"
The little raccoons listened with
their sharp eyes fixed on Mother Rae
coon.
"As I told you, it is not long now
before you must look out for your
selves in the world. You must work for
yourselves and for the little ones who
will come to you. A Daddy and a
Mother Raccoon look after their
children for a whole year-then they
must look after the new family which
comes in the spring.
"As the spring is not so far off
now, even though 1t is still winter,
I want to give you all the advice and
help l can, so you'll all live to be
fine, big raccooons and make your
mother and father and all raccoons
proud of you.
"There is one enemy you must look
out for and that is the weasel. He
Is sly fellow, dangerous fellow,
wild fellow and one to look out for.
Never make friends with him. He
does not know what friendship with
q raccoon means.
81 am sure it isn't really necessary
to tell you that. But l do want to
hot
him and never let him get the better
Of you.
I'D not be friendly with cats Ell
Their" Mother Raccoon continued. Il
don't like cats-never have and
don't suppose 1 ever will.
"Be brave, my children, be very
brave. Never let any one call you
towards, but never fight unless you
have to fight for your life or for the
lives of your little ones.
"You can do well in a fight with
the sharp claws which Nature gave
you. Yes, it is very well that you
can do.
For I won a battle and saved you,
my little ones, when you were really
little ones, and SO did your father.
All, how he fought to help me and to
save you!
Don't forget what told you about
washing your food before you eat it.
1 told you that only the other day.
Some folks think it's just habit Of
ours, that we don't really want to
be clean. There may be some rae
coons like that, but 1 can tell you one
thing-Ive yet to meet them!
Il shall miss you, my children, but
I shall have other things to take up
my mind and shall feel I'm doing
the raccoon world good if / bring mp
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
CLEARS UP AN
old MYSTERY
Pennsylvania, Believed Slain
When a Boy, Returns
Home.
MEETS HIS MOTHER
Stepfather, Made Insane Because OF
Accusations of Having Murdered
Boys, confesses to
the Crime.

Sharon, Pa.-Yielding to longing
George Burrows Keaster returned a
few days ago to the rural district of
Clarion county, just over the Mercer
county line, and in so doing cleared up
a mystery of many years standing
In the early eighties William Keas
ter farmer residing on the highway
between Know and CoIensburg, mar
ried a widow with two sons, ten and
twelve. Shortly after the marriage
the boys disappeared and a search
failed to reveal their whereabouts.
The circulation of story that Keas
ter had murdered the boys resulted in
breaking up the home. The accusation
so preyed on Ids mind that Keaster be-
came insane and was committed to q
state hospital, where he died.
Confesses Murder
On the date of his commitment he
told the warden that he had murdered
the eldest boy and had been forced to
repeat his act to prevent the youngest
from accusing him. He said that the
bodies of the boys were buried in the
garden near his home. A search of
the premises failed to reveal them.
Several days ago there appeared in
the locality of the old Keaster home
a stranger who claimed to be the elder
Of TIE boys.
The wanderlust called the boys to
the West; they crept out of bed, left
the house, boarded a freight train and
finally reached the state of Washing
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06

four or six little raccoons each year
and give them whole year of mother
love and schooling and training.
"And as I've given you a great deal
of advice I'll tell you a story before
we say goodnight, for it is nighttime
by my watch old Mother Nature gave
me-the watch which tells when it is
dark by the sun going to sleep and
when it is daylight by the sun wax
ing up and shining and making even
dark woods quite light!
There was once an old raccoon
who was very fond of himself. He
sat on the top of a high tree which
had no leaves, for it was a dead tree,
such as we all enjoy when it's resting
time. There he sat and dreamed away
his time and slept and did nothing
at all.
HE let everyone else wait on him
and was very lazy. He was very self
ish, too, and didn't want to go to any
trouble for anyone.
81 will fare BETTER he said, If
I take my life easily and don't go
rushing and scrambling around MAX
ing great fuss about working and
so forth. / will not work at ALL
"Well, he found he didn't have
much to eat when he didn't do any
thing himself. His raccoon friends
and relatives got tired of seeing him
rest while they worked, and did not
like 1t because he was so lazy and
selfish.
Zone by one they began to leave
him alone. He sat up on the top limb
all by himself. No one came near
him. He had to get down and get
some food after while, but even
then no one would bother about him.
He was too selfish. He made every
one around him unhappy.
81 see he said to himself, that
IN never have any friends unless I'm
friendly and share the work and the
un--so | won't sit up here any more
$50 he Joined the raccoons who
worked and played and told them of
what a mistake he made. He was
happy from that time on" ended
Mother Raccoon.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
Chicago People "Livina Like Piqs."

Chicago.-Because housing facilities
are inadequate, 100000 persons in Chi
cago "are living like pigs in the Stun
districts" according TO a statement
by the head Of the Chicago Housing
association.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
TOO MUCH COLOR.

'9our narrative it too highly col
the bulky manuscript.
I'm what way?" inquired the disap-
pointed author.
"Why," replied the editor, Gin the
very first chapter you make the old
man turn purple with rage, the villain
turn green with envy, the hero turn
white with anger, the heroine turn red
with confusion, and the coachman turn
blue with the cold."-London Tit-Bits.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06

ton. They obtained employment In
the woods, where the younger was
killed five years after his departure
from home.
Since that time the eldest brother
has wandered over the Pacific coast.
He never wrote home and never re-
ceived any word from relatives. Short
ly after his arrival in Clarion county
he located his mother, Mrs. Anna
Burrows Keaster, and happy reunion
followed.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
WOMAN, II, NOW HAS TWINS
ready the Mother of 25
Children.

San Francisco.-Friends of Mrs.
Dora McCants Of Shasta, Cal, are
congratulating her and saying she is
perhaps the most remarkable woman
in the United States. She is the
mother of 81 children, and sends suf-
ficient of her progeny to the district
school to keep it open. If it were not
for the McCsnts family there would
be no school in Shasta.
Mrs McCants is seventy-two years
old, and gave birth to twins Septem-
Der 90. Jerry McCants, her husband,
Is thirty-nine years old
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
ONWARD AND UPWARDS.

''What has become of the man
who used to rock the boat?"
He has progressed with the times.
He is not satisfied now unless he Is
mussing up the equilibrium of an
aeroplane"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
EATING or Sleeping.

A man is often like a horse,
We've heard some people say;
But surely both are happy when
It's time to hit the hay.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
Banishes Robber With Spoon.

Great Falls, Mont-With the aid
while dropping quickly behind the
bar of a soft-drink saloon George Ed
monds, the bartender, saved his en-
ployers from being robbed by a man
who entered the place from the rear
and covered Edmonds with a gun.
The silver spoon so resembled a re-
volver projected from the rear of the
bar that the highwayman turned and
fled.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
KILLS PAIN
In 5 MINUTES
Agony of rheumatism and Govt, Neu-
raIgia, Lumbago, Chest Colds and
Sore Throat Ended in Half the
Time 1t Takes Other Remedies.

Mustarine won't blister-it is always
ready for use-its grandmothers old
fashioned mustard plaster with other
up-to-date pain killers added.
The best and quickest remedy in the
world for lameness, sore muscles, stiff
neck, cramps in leg, earache, backache,
headache and toothache.
Begy's Mustarine-ask for it by name.
Is made of real, honest, yellow mus
tard-not cheap substitutes. Use it freely
to draw the pain from those sore feet
It's great for chilblains, too, and for
frosted feet. Ask for and get Mustarine
always in the yellow box.
Wa11 70 To
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
MORTGAGE LOANS

MONEY TO LEND on first mortgage
on Improved Bergen County realty, or
on building contract, In sums from
$1,000 up. No brokerage fee, premium
or fines charged. RepayabIe In month
ly instruments with reducing interest
each month. The easiest and cheapest
way to acquire a homo or pay Off a
mortgage. Write for informatIo 10
ROBT. A. siBBALO, Haekensaok,
NJ. J.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
DISADVANTAGES.

Here's a tribe in Africa, this
article says, where the women have
to speak a different language from
their husbands"
"That's all right when they ask
their husbands for money, but how
about it when their husbands want
to tell them to hold their tongues?"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
The Big Audience.

Haven't you time to go home and
make a few speeches?"
yes" replied Senator Sorghum.
"What I'm in doubt about is whether
I'll have time to listen to all the
speeches they're getting ready to make
to me-"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
considerateness Considered.

"Have l not been considerable
wife?' she asked, reproachfully.
"Considerate ~ he exclaimed bitterly.
'In what way?"
HAS there ever been night when
you were out late that / haven't left
the light burning for you?"
And you call that being considerate?
You have-but who pays the bills?"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-06
Painful Topic.

I'm afraid Miss Sereleaf did Lot en-
JOY the party"
'Indeed?"
'An old friend of hers was among
the guests, lady who has three grown
children. She kept referring to the
girls together"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-01-03

to be as large as burning warehouse.
Accordingly, Tarseno took a fifty.foot
length of water-proofed cable, rugged
a large bulb on the end, with all its
parts carefully water-proofed, and
wired against attack. The other end
OF the cable was attached to q storage
battery in his gasoline launch. A. ten.
pound sinker of cast lead insured the
going straight down of the bulb.
Now Tarseno, cruising up and down
the Pacific coast, goes out on calm
night and sinks his electric light into
the deep. He drops down baited
hooks on the same length of line, and
when the amazed fish of the deep come
up to investigate they find dangling
around numerous tempting baits-soft-
shell crabs, bits Of clam, hunks of salt
fish and other edibles. They take a
choice and rise to go to markets of
which they never dreamed. Fishing
In the still depths of the Pacific or adj
jacent bays has charms for the ingen-
i0us fisherman--also profits. He claims
fish feed more at night than by day
and by looking down over the box of
his boat, through glass-bottom wa.
terscope, he sees the fish about his
lamp, and puts on bats,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-01-03
CIemeneeau's Little Joke.

In a little village Of La Vandee,
France, there lived young doctor who
frequently drove into the nearest city,
At the gates of this city was the Gus
tomary customs officer who imposed
the lawful duty upon all edibles enter.
ing the French town. This doctor,
wishing to take some poultry with him
and wishing to be honest and at the
same time not to pay duty, drove into
the city one day In little cart with q
pretty girl on either side of him. At
the gate the guard asked: "Have you
nothing to declare, doctor" Nothing
but two chickens and a rooster" he re-
piled. The customs officer laughingly
allowed him to pass.
Not long ago this same evader of
customs passed through the gate and
an old retired customs officer said to
him: "Ah, doctor, / am glad to see
you back and to know that the rooster
has returned tiger" and Clemenceau
laughed at the memory Of his SNUG.
Cling.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-01-03
Dead LANGUAGES Alive.

Greek and Latin seem unconscious,
after all. that they were among the
slain in the great war. Some of the
prominent high schools Of the country,
such as Scott high school of Toledo,
and the Germantown high school of
Philadelphia, report heavy increase
In the enrolment for Latin. The
board OF education In Cincinnati has
established a six-year classical high
school, in Walnut Hills, with provi.
sion for nearly a thousand students,
in which the curriculum will be based
on what innovators may regard as a
hopelessly archaic combination-class-
les, mathematics. history, and the
sciences. Thoroughness In fundamen-
tails is the ideal.-From the Review.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-01-03
USES LIGHT TO LURE FISH
italians Method May Not Be Exactly
sportsmantike, but 1t Does
Surely Get Results.

The good luck Of Pulasko Tarseno
of Rodondo, catching many kinds OF
fish. whether the tide was coming in
or not, or whether it was the waxing
or waning moon, is now ascribed to
his development of the bonfire which
huIlhead catchers of down eastern
communities know so well, a Hermosa
Reach. Cal, correspondent writes to
tbe New York World. Tarseno paused
ON the banks Of Cattaraus~~ creek,
near Buffalo, when he arrived In
America, and after ten years came to
California, and now he is fisherman
Of the Pacific ocean, and his specially
is night fishing.
On Cattaraugus creek the fishermen
built large bonfires and the catfish
would come up to the glow, and, see
Ing the bats, take them, hook and all.
Accordingly, when Tarseno began to
fish here, he wanted to fish by fire.
light, but fire on the shore Of the
Poetic, to be worth while, would have
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-01-03

Halliday, mistaken, master of his own
nerves, proceeded on his way. Tn.
convincing? Improbable? | think
SO myself. But, remember, I told you
this was story from real life.
1t was full week after this that
John was walking home again, had
almost reached his own street, when
there was a connection of fire appara-
tus and a crowd running toward
where the whole front of an apart
ment house on the cross street was
belching smoke and curious blaCk-red
flame.
John followed the crowd, A swirl
OF wind blew the smoke away from
the main entrance and John saw the
name "Selkirk." Something leaped
up into his throat. Then at a win
dow only a few floors up, John
caught glimpse Of a face of the girl
10 whom, ten years ago, he had given
all that strong man can give-the
whole of his heart.
There were ladders, Of course,
many OF them, but there were many,
many windows; the tiremen were do
ing yeomen service, battling frantic
ally and skillfully to save life-but
there were so very many lives to
save. There were ropes and Gordon
Of police.
Through these John Halliday tore
and beat his way; into the burning
building he struggled, leaving his
coat in the hands of d OBTAINING fire.
man. Past the useless, motionless ele-
vafors, through the binding, sitting
black smoke to the slippery stone
stairs; up and up and up and up,
gasping, tearing short intakes Of air
out Of the solid smoke with whistling
lungs; guessing with an architects
shrewd guess at the right door and
hurting himself against 1t until 1t
ripped from the hinges, John Halli-
day staggered across the room to
where film of belated daylight, shin
Ing wanly through the smudge.
showed the window to be.
She was there; choking, gasping,
her tawny eyes filled with such hor-
ror as only the eyes Of such as she
can know, the pigments making ghast'
fy caricature Of her white face.
1t was a bad building, built In the
bad days of jerry construction, Its
Wanted freproofing a grisly joke. 1t
was going under them. The floor Of
the room was burning through. In
matter of seconds the end would
come.
"Junel June, dearl 1t Is I. John.
I have come to be with you June. at
the end. You won't have to face 1t,
girl, alone"
And as he took her in his arms
there was a great awful rending
sound-clouds of burning brands
rushed roaring out Of the white holes
where the windows had been, and out
in the street the heartsick multitude
sobbed in the presence Of a holocaust.
How could any one know what Inn
pulse took John Halliday to his wife's
side there in the valley Of the shadow
Again must answer. This is a story
of life. And knew the man.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-01-03
SOME BEST WISHES"

1 hope you learn the value of money" said one
vellwisher.
hope you may forget the value of money"
sald another, "Money is a handy thing to have,
= you don't have to count it; but no one can get
Iusl run spending it if he has to consider the
sOse sefmade millionaires never enjoy their
~sa'1h' because they had TO become mechanical
+"sgators In order to get It; or else they had to
ss,eiop psychology that caused a broken heart
very time they kissed dollar good-by Their
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-01-03
oyster Shell Roads,

Two great oyster reefs In the Gulf
Of Mexico, one at Sabine, Tex, the
other at the mouth Of the Atchafalaya
river on Point au Fer, La, are to be
used for surfacing good roads. The
reefs are valued at $65,OO0,OOO. A
Galveston man has been awarded a
contract to remove 100000 cubic feet
Of shells from the Point au Fer reef
for use on the roads In that section
Of Louisiana.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-01-03

surely proved to be. | feel better and
stronger in every way since taking it,
and the annoying symptoms have disap-
peared. MRS. NJ. Golden, 925 Ma
poleon St., Fremont, Ohio.
Such annoying symptoms as heat
flashes, nervousness, backache, head
ache, irritability and "the blues, may
be speedily overcome and the system
restored to normal conditions by this
famous root and herb remedy Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
If any complications present them.
selves write the Pinkham Medicine Co.,
Lynn, Mass, for suggestions how to
overcome them. The result of forty
years experience is at your service and
your letter held in strict confidence.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-01-03
aRoot of All Evil.D

my best wish" said disciple of Tolstoy ais
that you will see the poverty of riches and the
riches of being poor. The love of money is the
root Of all evil. There is no happiness except in
freedom. Ownership and the struggle for owner
ship both mean slavery. Nearly all people are
miserable, either because they have money or be
cause they want it"