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Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-06-28
START MODELLING
ARMIES OF WHEAT
FIELD HARVESTERS
KANSAS CITY PROVES CENTRAL
POINT FROM WHERE WORKERS
WILL &c DISPATCHED TO GATH.
Err IN GOLD GRAIN OF WEST
ANO NORTHWEST

Kansas City, Mo, June Is The
mobilization of the labor army, which
moves northward from Texas to Ia.
kota every year, cutting the wheat az
it ripens is beginning here. Through
the free employment agency main
tanned by the federal department OF
agriculture, working in cooperation
with the state free employment bu-
reaus, thousands of men are SEM
every year to the localities whore
they are most needed aud warned
away from the places where there is
already an abundance of labor.
The demand began in earnest about
June IS, and to date supply and de
mand have been about normal here
and have offset each other fairly we'll
From TT Worth Tex. and Little
Rock Ark, where the federal en-
ployment bureau maintains temper.
AIRY field Offices have come reports
of about 1900 surplus men, These
men are now being directed to Okla
homa, where the wheat harvest Is
under way Hutchinson kas, has
asked for 500 and Wichita wants L.
200.
In the northwestern portion OF
Oklahoma wheat cutting began last
week Permanent employment off
ces are maintained at Oklahoma City.
Tulsa Muskogee Enid and Ardmore
and during the harvest season TEN
porary Offices will he open at Carmen,
Woodward. ALva, Guymon and Chero-
kee. Three million acres will be
harvested
In Kansas there will be approx,
mately $500 600 acres to harvest. and
a great deal of labor will be needed
in the western tWothirds of the state
State-federal employment Offices are
located here, in Kansas City, kas. at
Wichita, Hutchinson, Salina, Parsons
and Topeka Temporary offices win
be opened at Dodge City and Colby, |
and in the union station here Wages
IN Kansas fields this year will be
So a day, with board and lodging |
Last year fifty cents an hour was
paid
Compare }vely little outside help |
is needed in harvesting the Missouri |.
wheat crop of 2.764000 acres Gut |
ting starts in the western counties |
between June Is and July /
Three and half million acres.
mostly in The southern part of the |
state, have been seeded in Nebrss,
ka Principal distributing Offices of
labor are at Omaha and Lincoln and
curing the harvest season at Hasting
and Sidney.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-06-28
Really Quite Simple

Betty vas late for school several
uays IN succession, and her teacher
TOOK her tn task for It. saving. Can
soh give me good reastN for yonr
being later Ectty was quiet for a
moment. and then said, I'VE lust
Sleeps is all | know"
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-06-28
OLD VIRGINIA
The Land OF Opportunity

You do not suffer with the heat in
Old Virginia like we have been for the
past week and The nights are always
cool and comfortable
The normal temperature in Rich
mond, Va, for the hottest month in
the year is 49,, while the coolest
month in the year is So degrees.
Virginia is an ideal place to call home
and the author who wrote the song
Mid the Green Fields or Old Virgin
IL Far Away" knew what he was miss.
ing if he lived in Illinois.
Take a trip with us and see for
yourself the land of opportunity
where thousands of acres of corn is
now higher than your head. Where
drouth or crop failure was never
known. Where prosperity abounds
on every hand and where YOU can
make more money on forty acres of
land than YOU can on eighty acres in
Illinois. Mr. puryis. the general man
aEcr of the Great Eastern Land Co.
will be at the Clifton Hotel for a few
days and will be glad to tell YOU more
of this country, If YOU WI call.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
MASS MEETING
ATTRACTS CROWD.


Pursuant to the call signed by Mr..
Jas. Stone, mass meeting Of farmers
was held at the court house Monday
when large number of farmres were
present.
Mr.. Stone stated the object of the
meeting and in his introductional re-
marks stated that it was matter of
necessity that the farmers reduce, not
only the acreage of cotton, but Should
reduce the acreage in cultivation at
least one third. He gave the farmers
some good advice and if they will heed
what he said, they will profit by at
tending the mass meeting. He then in
troduced DIR. Hawthorn of Memphis, a
former Lafayette county man, who
made splendid speech and pointed
out to the farmers the necessity Of re-
duciag their cotton acreage in 1921.
Other speeches were made by farm
experts and fertilizer men. A good
number Of people were present.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
DIR. MOTLEY SAYS FAREWELL.

Before leaving Oxford, wish to exz
press publicly my regret as going an.
the deer appreciation Isfeel for all ths.
evidence of kindness on the part OF
the lovely people of this delightful
little city.
Four and half months ago | came
to Oxford almost perfect stranger
| am deeply grateful to say that,
within this brief time, / have made
many devoted friends, and | trust
have been able to dutifully perform
the task committed to my hands. The
work has been delightful, and | fee
that | have received greater benefit
for myself than / have been able to
confer upon otaers. The expressions
of appreciation on every hand fill me
humility and inexpressible gratitude,
While | have served in other pastor
ates for long term of years, | car,
truthfully say that / never left any
place feeling so tenderly and strong
ly attached to the people as | do in
leaving the generous-hearted people
of Oxford
shall enter at once upon the pas
torate of the FIRST Baptist church,
Florence, Ala. trust my good friends
in dear. old Oxford may retain me on
their "list" of friends, and often re-
member me and my work in their
prayers. My best wishes and tender
est love will remai. with them. By
their great kindness, the people of all
denominations and many outside the
churches in Oxford have bound me to
them with 'glooks of STEEL"
Sincerely,
r. L. MOTLEY.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
FARM BUREAU SAVES
FARMERS s15,O0O.O0

Agricultural College, Miss, Jan. 25.
There is one fully organized farm bu-
reau now in Mississippi which is
functioning aong the lines mapped out
and defined il its charter of incor-
porations. This is the Lafayette
county bureau, the initial unit of the
series, organized after vigorous and
jealous missionary campaign by Mr.
0. f. Turner, county agent. Organi-
zation was completed at mass meet
ing held at Oxford court house on Dec.
Is, last with men representing every
phase of activity in the county on
hand.
The Lafayette bureau is composed
of five men one from each beat as
follows: A. +. Galloway, G. III. Cannon,
Harper Mathis, j. d. Jones, and H. l..
Davis with Mr.. Mathis as president
and county agent Turner as provision
al secretary.
In letter just received from Mr..
Turner it is shown clearly just how
the Lafayette unit is going ahead, de-
spite the initial obstacles thrown in
the way. AS ne declares:
"We have. met the enemy and they
are ours! The farm bureau of Lafay-
cite is no longer dream of fiction.
1t is q real living power and growing
stronger every day.
Mir. Turner gives the following in
teresting detail as to how the Lafay-
cite Bureau has so far demonstrated
its effectiveness: Thursday, Jan. 20
was set for sale day. Seven out of
town buyers were on hand and one
spinner from Georgia. The buyers
looked at part of the cotton Thurs
day and submitted bids. Everything
seemed like it was going to work o. k.
However, Thursday night the merch-
ants and local cotton buyers got to-
gether with the out of town buyers
and came to an agreement. Friday
morning only two local buyers looked
at the cotton and it was easy to see
that they had 20 sseentiSa of buying,
Finally, however, we sold the entire
lot exactly on the New Orleans price.
AT least a thousand bales have been
on this advanced market at Oxford.
brought about by this farm bureau
sale. The cotton has netted the farm
ers fully $500 a bale more than they
would have gotten had it not been for
the sale. In other words the farm
bureau has saved the farmers of La
fayette county fully $15,000.00 in the
first two weeks of its existence. Last
week this institution put up the price
of cotton seed $500 ton and we sold
two and one half cars at this price"
A. B. WALTHALL.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
TEN NEGROES DEAD
MANY OTHERS HURT
Explosion of Tank of Casing Head
Gasoline in Memphis Yesterday
Wrecked Part of the Oil Plant
Damage of 100000.

Memphis, Tenn, Jan. 24-Ten ne
groes are dead approximately score
injured, some of them fatally, and
property damage estimated at $780,
900 made up the known total tonight
of an explosion of casing head" gas
oliae awaiting unloading from q tank
car to the plant of the Colyer- Reese
company in North Memphis, which let
go this morning with blast that
wrecked a part of the oil plant, level
ed block of frame dwellings and
shook the entire north end of the city.
Of the injured two are white
persons, l.. c. Scott, superintendent of
the Reese, ana L. c. Wilder, truck
superintendent. Both were badly
burned but physicians stated tonight
that they will recover.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
BILLION AND A HALF
FIVE YEAR FIRE LOSS
Electricity Blamed Chiefly by the
Underwriters.

New York, Jan. 23.-Property
worth 81, ,416, ,375, 900, the equivalent OF
283,275 new houses at $4,000 each or
more than enough to shelter the total
population Of a state as large as Con-
necticut, was destroyed by fire in the
United States in the period from 1915
to 1919, as shown by five-year anal
ysis Of 100000 adjustments made
public by the National Board of Fire
Underwriters here tonight.
Electricity, the chief cause Of fire
loss, lead with a total of $S4,O86, All
for the five years. Matches, and
smoking stood second, with $73,344,-
348, and defective chimaeys came next
with $56,650,915. Other causes, in
their order, were:
Stoves, furnaces, boilers and their
pipes, $55,133.81; lightning, $39, ,828,-
489; sparks on roofs, $29 9,271 ,585, and
petroleum and its products, $25, ,91O,-
434. Incendiarism contributed $21,-
596,965 to the damage and miscellan-
eous unknown causes completed the
total.
New York suffered the greatest
loss, the five year total being $140,-
305, ,821, or nearly 10 per cent Of the
total. Pennsylvania was second with
SIS, ,339, ,666; Illinois third, with $73,.
916, ,50S; New Jersey fourth, with $685..
679, ,526, and Massachusetts fifth, with
$53, 81, ,o87.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
Oxford, Lafayette County, Miss Thursday January 27 1921
MLENDON SENTENCED.
Accused Following Reeves Murder
Goes to Oxford Jail.

Clarksdale, Miss, Jan. 25.-The
suit brought by l.. w. Magrudef
against joe Fink ct al. is still in fed
eral court, which convened here yes
terday with Judge Edward r. Holmes
of Yazoo City presiding. The hearing
Of this case was started Wednesday
and it is not thought that it will be
closed before Wednesday. 1t is suit
fer the recovery of damages, approxi-
plately $4,000, for the alleged viola
ton of contract for 800 bales of cot
ton, which, according to the complain
ant, were contracted for on low
market and were later not delivered,
as per agreement, when the market
price advanced.
At yesterdays session of court 20
negroes were convicted and sentenced
on bottlegging charges and one white
man, E. Earnest McLe7don, was given
a sentence of 80 days in the Oxford
Jail for violation of the selective draft
law. McLendon formerly resided at
Senatobia and recently spent consid
cradle time in Memphis, where he was
accused of being connected with the
Jail delivery during the latter part OF
last year in which were implicated
Hamilton, Shaw, and Kelley, one OF
whom shot and killed Jailer Reeve
of the Shelby County Jail. Hamilton,
after the three last mentioned men
had escaped, was s.lot and killed at
Wiaona and Shaw and Kelley were re
captured Following the jail delivery
McLendon was held for investigation,
the police suspectiag him of having
been an accomplice in that he aided
in smuggling the gun with whic.,
Reeves was killed in the Jail.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27

Mr.. Edgar Grow, of Chicago, is the
guest of his father, Mr.. William Grow,
this week.
Mrs. D. |. Sultan returned recently,
from an extended visit to her son Mr..
Robert Sultan, il Walters, Okla.
Mrs. Carter and daughter, Miss
Katrina, left Tuesday for Memphis.
Miss Katrina will attend a house
party at Mr.. Paul Ramey's country
home, near Cotton Plant, before re-
turning home.
Mrs. H. Friedman entertained
quite number of iaer friends, Thurs
day, with Tea in honor of her
friend Mrs. Abe Brenner, of Memphis
who attended the silver anniversary
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Friedman.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
AND LOCAL.

Master John Falkner, Jr., entertain
ed number of his little friends Tues
day evening in the honor of his 9th
birthday.
Mrs. J. N. Powers received the sad
tidings Monday, of her brothers death
at Meridian.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Sivley and
Mrs. Ragland and three children, of
Memphis, We're recent guests of Mrs.
Bem Price.
Mr.. Jeff Cook was operated on at
Bramlett's hospital Sunday. He is do
ing nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Harlston, of
Charleston, and Mrs. Mackey, of
Water Valley, were guests of their
niece, Mrs. Irby, the past week.
Miss Irene Harris, of Paris, Miss,
is the guest of Mrs. Eskridge.
Mr.. and. Mrs. Hollowell, of Water
Valley, were the guests of Mr.. ard
Mrs. Walter Boyett Sunday.
Little Miss Mary Hunter has been
on the sick list.
Mrs. Jenkins, of Crenshaw, was the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Dewitt Furr,
this week.
Mesdames Morgan Mcclure, and
Heard spent Saturday in Water Val
ley, with Mrs. Charlie Harvey.
| Mr.. w. o. Beanland has returned
to his home in Waco, Texas, after an
entended visit to his mother, Mrs, Ann
Beanland
Mrs. Lille Hudson gave a dinner
party Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earnest Gerard, of
Grenada, We're recent guests of Mrs.
Garner Owens.
Mr.. Harold Beanland, of Green
wood, visited Oxford relatives, the
past week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Billie Hawkins, and
Mrs. Marvin Hawkins spent Sunday
| in Sardis, with relatives.
Mr.. Elton Frazier and wife, spent
| Sunday il Water Valley.
/ DR.. B. S. Guyton was visitor in
Water Valley Sunday.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
100000 SHORTAGE IN
BANK is ALLEGED

Jackson, Miss, Jan. 22.-An in
vestigation of the affairs of the Bank
of Pelahatchie, of Pelahatchie, Miss.
which was ordered closed by the
board of Bank Examiners about three
months ago, was begun by the Ran
kin County grand jury.
A. G. Purvis, vice-president and
cashier of the bank, disappeared sew
eral days ago and a search is being
made for him by state authorities
and private detectives in the inter-
est of a surety company which made
his bond.
Investigation of the banks books
by an auditor ias shown an appar-
ent shortage of more than 100000
according to statements made by the
auditor to the grand jury.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
formation.
R. L. MOTLEY.

lOIuldlIOu.
The Water Valley Oil Company is
at present negotiating with several
drilling concerns, and hope to soon
contract for well on their holdings.
This company has some 100000 acres
of land under lease right in the heart
of the supposed oil field, and geologi-
cal surveys have shown several
structional formations on this prop
erty. The company's holdings extend
from Is miles of Water Valley east to
and extending into Pontotoc county.
This property is from to s miles
wide and about so miles long. If
there is oil to be found any place in
this section, the Water Valleys en-
tensive holdings are sure to cover
some part of it.
During the past couple of weeks
considerable activity among slease
hounds" has been noted and several
transfers have been made. A block
of 10000 acres located near Court
land in Pamela county, were sold to an
oil company in Pittsburg, Pa.
A Mr. VIM. ]. Hickson, who claims
to have some oil leases in southeast
era Lafayette and some in Calhoun
county, is reported to have sold some
Of his leases to party from Wesi
Virginia. North Mississippi Herald
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
COAL NOW SELLING
FOR $3.50 A TON

Memphis, Tenn, Jan. 22-Warm
weather in Memphis combined with a
plentiful supply of coal is forcing
down the price of coal in Memphis.
Some of the independents have
slashed the price until they are SO
ton under the price made by asso-
citation members.
HI. Blumenfeld announced Saturday
that he is selling Kentucky lump for
$500 and Kentucky egg for $3.50.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
MRS. SALLIE ANN NELSON
PASSES TO HER REWARD,
Had Lived in Lafayette County, on
Yoccana River For Many Years.
Died Monday Morning.

At the ripe old age of 83 years, Mrs.
Sallie Ann Nelson died at her home
on Yoccana River, near Cantwell
bridge, at ten o'clock Monday morn
ing, Jan. "a, 1921. She was perhaps
one of the oldest settlers of this coun-
ty, and had lived at the place where
sae died for more than IS vars.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
CARD OF THANKS.

To Our Friends.
'Tis kindly thoughtfulness, that makes
Life's burdens seem SO slight;
A friendly touch, perhaps smile,
Oft helps to win the fight.
1t may be but word of cheer,
Possibly a flower,
A book or a basket of fruit,
Brig;at'ning some dark hour.
It's not 50 much the things you've Civ
en-,
The word, the touch, the smile,
But the kindly thought Of us friends,
7 That's helped us all the while.
LEMUELLA ALMOND.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
OFF TO ST. LOUIS.

Mr.. B. B. Russell, of the Oxford
Live Stock Co., left Tuesday for st.
Louis, accompanying three cars OF
cattle and one car of hogs.
The shipment of cattle consisted OF
81 fat steers. The car of hogs was
mixed, but only few small ones were
in the car.
The cattle had been fed 100 days
and the average cost per day was $25.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
BLOODY CLUES
FOUND IN YARD
OF MOODY PRICE

ilCW uCVclOpiiclC VI ilOCC III tiiC AANli
for clue that might lead to the iden
! tity and capture Of the two unidenti
fled men, who last Friday morning
between the hours of and 2 O'Clock
entered the home Of Judge Moody
Price and hacked him to death with
an ak, insofar as the authorities would
make public, was the finding yester-
day afternoon of additional blood
stains, this time on the outside Of the
Price home. A close search revealed
blood marks on the front yard hy-
drant, while across the street south
of the Price home several pieces OF
wall paper were picked up on which
there were blood stains. These are to
be preserved for finger print photos.
There have been no additional ar
rests made since Rosa Walls, the ne
gro woman w.lo lives only about a
block away from the Price home and
into whose house Bob Grants blood
hounds trailed, and Ed McElroy, mu-
latto negro, said by the police to be
one of the most notorious crooks in
this section, were placed in the county
Jail night before last. Whether these
two nave made any statement that
might connect them in any way with
the crime has not been divulged by the
authorities, some of whom are doubt
full that the two negros had anything
to do with the murder.
The finding of bloodstains yester-
day has AIDED to the theory advanced
by some that the murder was deliber-
ately planned and executed by those
who apparently had no fear of detec-
ton Immediately following the COM
mission of the brutal crime. 1t is ar
gued that if the bloodstains on the
front yard hydrant came of the hands
of one of the murderers in an Effort
to make use of the water for wash
ing his hands it was an act of cool
ness that is almost unparalleled among
criminals. The hydrant is only few
steps from the front steps and direct
ly in the glare of large street light,
which is said to have been burning
throughout the night of the murder.
Another theory is advanced that the
blood may have gotten on the hy-
drant when the servants were clean
ing the blood from the floor of the
room where the crime was committed,
the servants making use of the hy-
dnnt to secure the water necessary
in their work and that clothes they
might have used brushed against the
hydrant, leaving the stains; that the
stains are to plain to have been over
looked on the morning of the murder
when tae whole ground was carefully
gone over, and that the stains must
have gotten there since the murder,
being discovered only yesterday, near
" week after the crime. The find
ing of the bloodstained wallpaper on
the street so long after the murder
was committed is also adding to the
mystery, which, from all that can be
said appears to be no nearer actual
solution today than on the morning
when the foul murder was committed.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
REMEMBER THE ORPHANS

Mass-meeting at Baptist Church
next Sabbath at Z P. M. All denomi-
nations will participate, and funds will
be raised for the starving children of
Europe.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27
MEMPHIS MARKETS.

Butter-Elgin creamery, per pound
40 q 80; country butter, IL @ 25c
Cheese creamery prints
(Jobbing Prices to Retail Traie.)
per pound, 20 a 27c.
Eggs-Per dozen, fresh, Sc a 62c;
storage AZ q SIC.
Poultry-Alive( per pound, hens,
25 a soc; roosters, IA q lSc; chick
ems, 20 90 35c, according to size;
ducks, 32c; geese, 25c; turkeys, 38 q
45c; dressed, two to five cents higher
than alive.
Rabbits-$100 a $1.75.
GRAIN AND FEEDSTUFFS.
(Memphis merchants Exchange quo
tations; Less than carloads.)
Oats-White, No. 2, Gle; mixed, No
2, 60c, sacked, per bushel.
Corn-White, No. 2, sec; mixed No
2, Soc, sacked, per buslel.
Hay-Timothy, choice, $4,000; No.
$4,000; No. 2, $34.00 per ton.
Alfalfa-Choice, $37.O0; No. 1
1900; No. 2, $4,000 per ton.
Chops-Per ton, $500.
Shorts-Per ton, $37.00.
Braa-Per ton, $4,000.
HIDES, ETC.
Tallow-No. 1, 8; No. 2, &c.
Beeswax-28 a. 30c.
Ginseng-$10.00 a 1900.
Golden Seal-$4.50 q Ats.
Wool-Clean, unwashed, 20 a 22c;
bury, unwashed, 10 a 12c; tub wash
ed, 80 a 35c; bury, washed, Is a Zoe
Hides-No. /: Green, Z @ &c; part
ly cured, 6 a &c; green, salted, q
&c; dry salted, II a 12c; dry flint
13 a Ia; No. 2 grades, lie less, ane
damaged and culls, half prices. Sheep.
skins, 10 q soc; shearlings, q 25c
goatskins, rs a 35c; No. / horse $500
a 400; No. 2 horse, $500 a $500
CLUES and ponies $1.O0 and $1.50.
PROVISIONS.
Salt Side Meats-Dry salt clears
2012 a 211ac; dry salt ribs, 211a q
22c.
Breakfast Bacon-42 a 47c.
Hams-26 a 3Oc.
Lard-Pure leaf, tierce basis, 18 q
zoe. compound lard, tierce basis, 13 q
15c.
Flour-Per bbl., $1,000 a 1850.
Meal-Per cwt., sacked, $2.25 q
ESQ,
VEGETABLES.
Oclions-$2.00 a 800 per cwt,
Potatoes Irish, $500 "a ESQ pc
cwt; sweet, $1.40 a 1.s0 per bushel
Cabbage Per crate, $1.25 a zoo
ans-Navy, 5 q &c; Lima, 8 a
14c.
Peas California blackeye, z a Sc
COTTONSEED PRODUCTS.
merchants Exchange Quotations +. {
b. Mills, Memphis. Cor
rected to o'clock p. m.
Yesterday
CHade Oil Basis prime, 6 a 61
Hulls-Per ton, $500 a $50.
cottonseed Meal Seven per cen
$28.OO q $3.50.
A hair switch in show windo'
attracts lot Of attention, but neve
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-01-27

81 A hair switch in show window
attracts q lot Of attention, but never
from woman who needs it.