The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-26
BLACKGUM HALL


to the golden rule, "do unto other
as you would have others do unit
You" Mr. Burnett is boosting hi
business by selling his goods at
low price.
That is the best way for boosting
any town. Sell at a low price an,
pay the farmer fair price for hi
wares. It's sure way to bring trade
If a farmer was to drive a Wagon
into some town with load Of potatoes
the merchants would hide behind THEN
counter till the farmer left town Mr.
Burnet It's building up nice trade
and is trying to keep such goods as
will suit his customers.
Just across the road from Mr. Bur
nett's store is the CASTOR & Wiggins
grist mill, recently erected but doing
a good business. Both these gentle
men are experienced mill men and
their patrons are getting satisfactory
service.
The sorghum crop is the finest ever
made in this section. | mean quality,
not quantity. Listen, last year at this
date sorghum sold at the evaporators
at $1.25 per gallon, now it is going
at 40 to so cents. The man who buys
his sorghum from j. j. Goolsby, Ben
Cole or T. A. Morris will have for
his table as fine syrup as the maple
stuff itself.
1t is rare thing now that wild
cater" is arrested when a raid is made
on a still. The reports generally read,
big still raided, 700 gallons mash, 5
gallons corn juice found, still destroy
ed but the operators not found
Whenever Sheriff Perry of Mem
ohis makes a raid he usually gets the
man as well as the still. If all the
sheriffs in the country were such as
Perry, prohibition would prohibit.
notice account of school teacher
having been killed because he had
whipped the slayer's child. The par
ent who doesn't want his child cor
rected nor punished should keep the
child at home, When ! was sending
to school my instructions to the child
rem were: "When you get whip
ping at school | will give you an
other when you get home" | never
had this to do. If any of the eight
ever got thrashed it never reached
my ears.
The big lumber mill Of Nickles &
Son, Of Caledonia, passed through all
the ups and downs OF the lumber
market and never closed down only
for repairs and getting logs on the
yard Mr.. Nickles is not only a me-
chanic, machinist and good farmer, /
but is also one of the best business
men in the country. Works his men
to dot and pays them to n minute
No man whoever had a business deal
with w. A. Nickles can say he didn't
get square deal. 1t is as easy to
do right as to do wrong.
Some one asked me recently if the .
women would know how to vote. If
they do they will know more than
some men who have voted all their
lives.
There is talk of a woman being
elected trustee Of New Salem school to
fiji the vacancy caused by the 1esigna-
ton Of Mr.. j. l., Whiteley Mr.. Whit
ley sent his son to Caledonia, hence
the resignation. 1t is also reported
that woman will be elected deacon of
a local church.
The church as a whole and its
members individually are having
their conduct more closely scrutinized
by the world than ever before. When
a churchfails in its obligations to its
members, to its self, to its pastor, to
the world and TO God, its light is being
hid under a saucer and is "A stumbling
block for the ungodly, for on every
hand you hear them say, "he or she
has done thus and so and they are
leading members Of the church and
great Sunday school workers" Il,
has been said a church or member
never loses their influence. When it
ceases to be for good it becomes
greater for evil. We may think we
are not our brothers keeper but we
are just the same.
The donky is a wonderful animal
No enterprise can go without the
donky has a voice in Il. not even the
farm wardrobe. Yes, the donkey had
his say in the "Homc-Comers" parade.
The Franklin Academy. the greatest
institution Of its kind in the South.
was drawn 10y an auto while the Lee
High school was drawn by his mule
ship. Here the committee made an
error. Franklin ought to have been
drawn by the donkey an dthe Lee High
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