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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-06-10

south east quarters. W. IA 8. E.
l-4-and the north west quarter OF
the south west quarter-N. w. IA >.
| w. 1-4-Of section twenty -one--21--
| and thirty 30--acres in the western
part of the west half of the north
west quarter-W. 1-2 n. w. 1-4-of
section twenty the frac-
tional part of the south west corner
of section twenty-two---22--a the
south half of the north west quarter
/ 8. 1-2 N. W. 1-4-of section twenty
nine-29-and fitteen-l5-aeres off the
north east quarter of the north west
quarter-N. E. IA N. w. I-4-of sec
ton twenty nine--29--and the north
west quarter-N W. 1-4-and the
west half of the south west quarter
w 1-2 9. W. 1-4-of section thirty
30-and on two hundred thirty
and sixty-five hundreds-237. 65-acres
more or less. in the west half, W. 1-2
of section thirty -one, 81, described as
follows:
Beginning at point three hundred
1901 feet due east of the north west
corner of said section, thence run
ming due east twenty-three hundred
and forty l2340l feet to the middle
line of said section; thence south
thirty -nine hundred and sixty s396OI
feet TO a stake; thence west to the
center of the Aberdeen and Russell
vile road; thence in q northernly
direction along said road to the point
of beginning, except about twenty
-20--acres from said timber in the
south western part is reserved. The
wood road being right on the north
side and the cypress timber from said
two hundred thirty-seyen and sixty
FIVE one hundreds--237 65--acres is also
reserved. All being in township
twelve, II. range sixteen, Is. west.
Also the following described lands
and timber in said county, as follows
to-wit:
North half of the north east quarter.
N IL n. E. IA, and the south east
quarter of the south east quarter, s
h. Ia =. E. IA, of section four. 4, and
the west half of the north west quar-
ter, w. 1-2 n. w. IA. of section seven,
z, and the south half of the south
east quarter, s. 1-2 3. E. Ia, and
north east quarter of the south west
quarter. n. E. Ia s. w. IA, of Sec
ton eight. 8. and the west half of The
north west quarter. W. 1-2 n. w. IA
of section seventeen. II, and the
north east quarter of the north east
quarter, N. E. IA N E. IA, and the
east half of the south west quarter,
K, 1-2 g. w. IA, of section eighteen
Is, and the south east quarter of the |
south east quarter. 8 E. Ia s. E Ia.
and the west half of the north west
quarter, w. 1-2 II. w. IA, of section
twenty. 20, and the north east quarter
of the north east quarter, n. E. IA
~. E. IA. of section nineteen, 10, and
the south west quarter of the south |
west quarter, s W. IA 8. W. Ia /
of section twenty-one. 81, and the /
north half of the north west quar- |
ter, n. 1-2 n. W. Ia, and the south /
west quarter of the north west quar-. |
ter, 8. w. IA N W. IA of section /
twenty-eight. IS. and the east half of /
the south west quarter, E. IL 3. W
IA, of section twenty-nine, %. All in
twelve. u. range sixteen,
10. west of said county.
A right for stove and fire wood to
W. 8. and NJ. N. Ray is reserved in !
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Petition for Pardon.

To the Board of Pardons and the
Governor of the State of Missis-
sippi:
Your petitioners. resident citizens
of Monroe County. Miss. respectful
ly petition that you grant pardon
unto lsom Smith. negro. formerly
of Monroe County, Miss, and show
unto you the following facts towit:
That Isom Smith plead guilty to
manslaughter in the killing OF negro
in Monroe County, Miss, and was
sentenced to a term Of seven years IN
the state peniuentiary he was SEN
fenced and began to serve his term
at the October term, 1919, of the Cir
cult Court of Monroe County. Miss;
that we believe he has been sufficient
" punished for the crime for which
he was sentenced. He has three
small children. aged respectfully 3 1,
and years; that his wife has died
and there is no one to care for these
small negro children, as there are no
other relatives. except one old, aged
and infirm grandmother and grand
father who are incapacitated to earn
their own living; that these negro
children are a charge on the eommu-
nifty; that we believe the law has
been vindicated and the negro sufd-
GENTLY punished. and that justice and
mercy demand that this negro be
discharged to care for these children
Respectfully submitted,
j. M. Young,
o. A. Bowen,
q. 8. Clopbon,
]. ID. Cooper
m27-5t and others
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To the Hon. Lee M. Russell, Gov
ernor, and the Pardon Board of the
State of Mississippi:
Your petitioners would respectfully
represent and show as follows:
That at the October term, 1920. of
the Circuit Court of Monroe County,
Mississippi. Ike Cox pleaded guilty TO
q charge of manufacturing intoxi-
eating liquors and was sentenced TO
one year in this State Penit6ntiary
That he is and has been serving said
sentence since said term of court;
that he has been sufficiently punish
ed for this. his first conviction for any
offense. That in all other respects
he is a good law abiding citizen, and
that he has q wife aud FIVE children
who are destitute and badly need his
protection and support
Wherefore, your petitioner, Ike
Cox, prays a pardon.
Respectfully submitted,
j. D. Pennington,
A. G. Kelly.
K L. Irwin.
r. L. Markham
and others.
Young & Coleman. Attys. m27-5t
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| section eighteen. Is Seven oak trees
| reserved Tor fire Wood in section
twenty, %, and only the pine and gum
timber ia the sWamps Of these lands
/ formerly owned by Mrs r. L. Brown
and children IN sections rs, 20. and ~
conveyed herein. but alltim Der in said
sections, on the bin is conveyed The
oak timber Is reserved on the south
west quarter of the south east quar-
ter. 5, v. IA s Is. IA. of section
ninetWeen, Is. Full right of ingress
and egress and roads and erecting of
mills is granted. The conveyance in
the sixteenth section is only warrant
ed specially, all the remaining is war
ranted generally.
Ii is intended by this conveyance
to include all the timber and an oil
the land that IS owned by the FIRST
party herein ia township twelve H.
range sixteen and seventeen. l6 and
II, in said County of Monroe. whether
the same is correctly and accurately
described or not. On all the timber
owned by the said first party there is
the right 10 remove same for period
of ten, TO- years from the dates of Ger
tain conveyance by the parties who
owned the same, To- ii. II Strickland
and j. L. Mcdaniel
This is 2 second Deed of Trust on
q q r
and is not to affect OF to be affected
by the first Deed of Trust IN any way.
which is still IN force and no rights
Hereunder are released or affected.
Also the following described prop
erty in said county.
Beginning at the northwest corner
of the northwest quarter of the south
west quarter Ct section twenty five
in township twelve u. range nine
Q
degrees and tWenty-slZ minutes south.
four hundred tWenUy-one and 0ue-half
,42I.l-2 feet to the right of way OF
the ST. Louis & San Francisco Rail
way Company thence running south
thirty degrees and thirtv-fOur
minutes east i've hundred and sew
enty-seYen, 577. feet thence running
east six degrees and twenuy-sIx min
uues north, two hundred and nine. POS.
feet thence running south thirty-two
degrees and thirty -four minutes east
two hundred nine. POO, feet, thence
running east SIX degrees and twenty
six minutes north five hundred and
ninety mine and One-third, 599 ID
feet the nee running north six de-
grees and tWenty-six minutes west
six hundred and forty-three and
one half. 643 p. feet, thence. run
ming west SIX degrees and twenty
six minutes south, six hundred and
forty, $40. feet To the point of be
ginning; containing IN all eleven. IL.
acres. more or less, in sections 25 and
26. township twelve. u. range nine
teen west.
Together with the entire planning
mill. boiler. engine machinery. eouiu-
msnt of said planning mill and flztnres
of every kind, located on said eleven
IL, acres tract except the saw mill
and houses. The said planer IS a 50
Berlin and the engine is made .bv rhe
eorinth Machine Company. of Cor
nth. Mississippi. loo b. p, and the
boiler Is made by NJ Zier. Of New
Indiana. and is 40 b. p.
Witness my signature this 8lst day
Of May. 1921.
JOHN F. FRIERsON. Trustee.
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Commissioners Sale,

The State of Mississippi,
County CT Monroe.
In Ohanc9ry Court. No. 6391
James William Bagwell ct al. Com
plainants. vs.. II. G. Flynt and
@. Q. Day. Respondents.
By virtue of decree of the Chan
Gerry Court of said County. rendered
in the above styled canse on the 9th
day of January. A. D.. 1921. at the
January term, A. d 1921. of said
court, /, the undersigned, duly ap
Court. will on the 4th day of July,
A. D., 1921. between the hours of
eleven O'Clock a. M. and four o'clock
%. M, sell at the west door of the
County Court House, in the City of
Aberdeen, in said Monroe County. to
the highest bidder or bidders, for
DASH, the following described real
estate, situated in the County of
Monroe in the State of Mississippi
tOwit: All the timber from ten inches
and up in diameter standing and
lying on the following strip of real
estate, towit:
east of the Aberdeen road. ON the
south side of the south half of the
north east qnarter of section 2. town
ship 16 ;range7 east. in Monroe county,
Mississippi, said to be 40 acres OF
more or less. with the right
of ingress and egress to cut. haul and
remove said timber.
1927. ''D '''' ''' . "a -
JOE It. MORGAN.
Special Commissioners
Young & COLEMAN,
j3-4t Solicitors for Oomplainants.
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Legal Nonresident Notice

State of Mississippi, Monroe County.
Ohancery Court. July Term. 1921.
Georgia o. Woodwards. Complainant,
Us.
Sam Woodwards, Defendant.
To Sam Woodwards. a mon. resi-
dent of Mississippi, whose postoffice
address is unknown:
You are commanded to appear be-
fore the Chancery Court OF Monroe
County. Miss. on the 3rd Monday in
July, 1921. to defend the suit in said
court of Georgia o. Woodwards,
wherein you are defendent.
This the 4th June. 1921.
Joe t. Morgan. Chancery Clerk
Paine & Paine, Soils. for Comp'i. ito. At
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Germany has paid 200 million
dollars to the allies on account.
Trusting that the relations thus es-
tablished may continue the allies
look forward to many happy re-
turns of the day. = Kansas City
Times
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Illinois Central System Calls Attention TO Things
The Public Does Not See

The public accustomed
without which
s%R behind the scenes and realizes the magnitude and Investigation railway
The public and charge
and boeT e @ gd n
inc Steel me wooaSmh me
PRODUCING Lubricants onr9es and
transport
who's cuisines
modern locomotive 1920 including bolts all OF
highly lighting
Of
ahbrake demands of
screws
@ spee ATTENTION sene s
n n be ne Goaen wnfn ne tram unng storing batteries
The
than
tanned and be absolutely The
tn Of ranh gagged theW eakestcar rim their
The who actually the the Illinois Central
comparatively small of the than $4,000 employees
ways for living counting worker every five persons
ways ja RFe Su Rec Hny 1aHn hes the ~
States They all the produced the United
are lageus of oi.an other
The Illinois Central
When
% the great expense aan@a
whom
The railways do mot P Sl ff6Op F 6 Ha in the United s has
replaced heaT
arged STRIVING Deficiencies succeeding grad
Consruc CRITICS ndsugges are nvited
c.. H.
Preside illinois Central system
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600 cures Dengue Fever.

Another reason why we wouldn't
be successful fireman is because
it is so hard for US to dress while
clinging to a running ard.-Dal-
las News.
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Legal NONRESIDENT Notice.

In the j P Court of 3. A Dalton, of Monroe
County. Miss. 4th Supervisors District. at
Aberdeen Miss.
The First National Ba nj of Aberdeen Miss
Assignee of Claim OF NJ 4 Hicks Mo
tor Co. against the u. S. Motor
Truck Co.
VS..
The IT, s. Motor Truck Co
To the defendant in the above styled cause,
whose P. o. is unknown:
You will take notice of the above styled cause
and commanded to appear before the j. P.
Court at Aberdeen, Miss at my Office. on the
9Th day of July. 1921. to defend the suit in my
said court wherein you are defendant. This
the 9TH day OF June 1921.
b A DALTON. J. p
In the 4th Supervisors District of Monroe
County. Miss.
Paine 4 Paine. Attys for Plaintiffs. ilO-st
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Rub my TiSm cures sores.

Many of the old geographers fail
ed to pay any attention to islands
that have proved to be of the high
est importance. Washington Star.
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granted o pardon.
Respectfully submitted.
J. B. Lewis,
Sheriff of Monroe Go.
J. III. Acker.
Mayor of Aberdeen. Misc
w. J. Grady. NJ. ID.
w B. Prewitt. J. p.
Young & Coleman. Attys- m27-6t
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Non-Resident Notice.

State of Mississippi, Monroe County.
Chancery Court. July Term, 1921.
Ausie McBeth, Complaintant,
vs..
Ida G.: McBeth, Defendant.
To Ida q. McBeth. defendant in the
above styled cause and whose post
office address is No. 1868 West Belle
avenue. st. Louis, Mo:
You are command to appear before
the Chancery Court of the County of
Monroe. in said State of Mississippi.
on the 3rd Monday of July, 1921. to
defend the suit in said court of Ausie
McBeth, wherein yon are defend
ant.
This the 9th day of June. 1921.
j. It. Morgan, CLERK.
Paine g. Paine,
Soils. for Complainant. jI0'4t
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Somebody's questionnaifevcught
to ask what becomes of all the but
tons torn of in the wash-and sup
ply the answer.--Chicago News.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-06-24
ASPIRING YOUTH FLIES HIGH
But His Educational Qualifications for
the Secret Service Were Not
Revealed in Letter.

Capt. Thomas E. Halls of the Uni
ted States secret service receives
many applications for positions in the
department. Here is one of the choic-
est and it came from Missouri:
Dear sir l am righting you this
letter in the regards of Job Wood
like to have a Job as united States
Detective often thought that | Wood
like to have a Job like that so /
thought Wood right to you and see
What Good be done About 1t If you
can give me Job will do good hon
est work will guarantee that VIII
do square business ! Wood like for
you all to help Me out about it VIII
help the force out in eny way can
will close hoping to hear from you
please right and let Me Know What
YOU think about it and tell me What
the terms and Salary is."-Indianap-
oils News.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-06-24
All Run Down
NowFeeIs 7; Fine
Eaf0nic Ended
His Troubles

"Eatonic is the only thing I have
found to stop my heartburn and
think it has been great help in
nervous SPELLS" writes G. G. Johnson.
An upset stomach may cause lots
of suffering all over the body. Eatonic
helps in such cases by removing the
cause of the misery, because it takes
up and carries out the excess acid
and gases and keeps the digestive or
gans in natural working order. A
tablet after meals is all you need. Big
box costs only trif1e with druggists
guarantee.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-06-24

habitants of WestmOreland county, held
at Hanna's Town, on May 16, 1775, for
taking into consideration the very
alarming situation of the country occa-
stoned by the dispute with Great Brit
ain. resolved unanimously, that the
parliament of Great Britain by sew
eral late acts has declared the inhabit-
ants of Massachusetts Bay to be in re-
bellion; and the ministry, by endeav-
or1ng to enforce said acts, has at
tempted to reduce the said inhabitants
to more wretched state of slavery
than eyer before existed in any coun-
try; not content with thus violating
their constitutional and chartered priv
ileges, they would strip them of their
rights of humanity, exposing their
lives to the wanton-and unpunishable
sport of a licentious soldiery and de-
priving them of the very means of SUBJ
Sistence.
Resolved, unanimously, That there
is no reason TO doubt but the same
system of tyranny and oppression will,
should it meet with success in Massa-
chusetts, be extended to other parts
of America; it is therefore become the
indispensable duty of every American,
of every man who has any love for
his country, or any bowels for poster
ity, by every means which God has
put in his power, to resist and oppose
the execution of it that for us we will
be ready to oppose it with our lives
and fortunes. And the better to en-
able us to accomplish it we will i'm
med;ately form ourselves into a mill
tary body to consist of companies, to
be made up out of the several town.
ships under the following association,
which is declared to be the Association
of Westmoreland County"
And, finally, there is the famous So
called "Mecklenburg Declaration of In
dependence" adopted at Charlotte,
Mecklenburg county, North Carolina,
May 20, IT'S, of which the first three
resolutions are as follows:
"Resolved, That whatsoever directly
or indirectly, abetted or in any way,
10TH VI bllC
chartered and dangerous invasion of
our rights, as claimed by Great Brit
ain, is an enemy to this country, to
America and to the inherent and in
alienable rights of man.
Resolved, That we, the citizens of
Mecklenburg county, do hereby dis
solve the political bonds which have
connected us to the mother country,
and hereby absolve ourselves from all
allegiance to the British crown. and
ALLURE all political connection, contact
or association with that nation, who
has wantonly trampled on our rights
and inhumanly shed the blood Of Amer
lean patriots at Lexington.
"Resolved. That we do hereby de-
clare ourselves a free and independ-
ent people, and of right ought to be
sovereign and self-governing asso-
citation, under the control of no power
other than that of our God and the
general government of the congress /;
to the maintenance of which independ-
ence we solemnly pledge to each other
our mutual cooperation, our lives, our
fortunes, and our most sacred honor"
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-06-24

The Mecklenburg convention was
pose was to pronounce the annulment
of all laws and commissions in conse-
quence of the kings address OF Feb
ruary declaring the colonies in state
of rebellion and to make provision
for a temporary form of government
until Instructions FROM the provincial
congress regulating the Jurisprudence
of the province shall provide other
wise, or the legislative body of Great
Britain resigns it's unjust and arbl-
trary pretensions with respect to
America" In this expectation an
elaborate set of resolutions had been
prepared.
Discussion of these resolutions was
interrupted by the arrival of cour-
Ter with the news of Lexington. The
convention reassembled in a fury Of
patriotism. 1t seethed and debated
until we'll into the morning of May 70,
when the quoted paragraphs were
adopted as a preliminary to the regu-
lar business of the convention. 1t
must be admitted that the Mecklen-
burgers did a good job. They organ
| lied a provisional central government.
They sequestered all public and coun-
| ty taxes and all quit rents to the crown
and declared traitors all persons who
should accept new commissions from
the crown or exercise old commissions.
And they formed nine military COM
panies for action-when the time
should come.
Curlously enough, this Mecklenburg
Declaration did not become generally
known till 1919, forty-four years later,
and then through publication in the
Raleigh Register. Its publication
caused an enormous stir, and began a
controversy that may be said to be
vet going on, inasmuch as some his
torians still refuse to accept the genu-
ineness of the document. In 1919 JEFF
ferson and John Adams were both old
and testy. Adams said in so many
words, that Jefferson evidently had
pIagiariZed. jefferson angrily retort-
ed that in his belief the document was
spurious.
The controversy over the genuine
ness of the Mecklenburg Declaration
Immediately became fast and furious.
North Carolina finally took hand in
it, and in 1881 its legislature ap-
pointed a committee Of investigation.
This committee reported that the doc
ument was genuine. Accordingly, May
Goth was made a state holiday, which
Is celebrated as the Anniversary of
the Signing of the Mecklenburg Dec
! laratiOn" In 1898 in Charlotte, was
dedicated a monument in commence
ration of the signing of the Mecklen-
! burg Declaration.
The historians have been busy all
these years, and little by little the
case Of the Mecklenburgers has been
built,u until now it is generally ac-
cepted.
The contract of government signed
in 1920 in the cabin of the MayflOwer
in Massachusetts Bay may be said in
sense to be the first Declaration of
Independence, out of which grew the
Declaration Of Independence Of 1770
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-06-24

colonies are and OF right
ought to be, free and Independent
states" was introduced in congress
June Z, 1776; that it was adopted July
2, and that the document itself was
not made public until July 5, and was
not signed by the members of congress
until August 9. 1t was on July 4,
1916, that the vote on the Declare
ton itself was taken, and the docu-
1nent ordered authenticated and
printed" So the Fourth of July it is
and ever shall be.
Nevertheless, there are other Dec
larations and some of them come
pretty near being Declarations of In
dependence, except that they were not
adopted by congress. The truth is
that independence was in the air for
some time before July 4, 1776. The
leaders preferred to say that they were
petitioners in arms" even after Lex
ington and Concord and Bunker Hill,
and many of them doubtless had no
determination for independence. But
the people in many localities were ripe
for independence. So it is not to be
wondered that some of them made
declarations
One of the earliest of these Dec
larations was that of the people of
Mendon, Mass, March 1, 1913. 1t
speaks for itself, and here it is:
THAT all men have naturally an
equal right to life, liberty and prop
erty.
''That all just and lawful govern
ment must originate in the free con-
sent of the people.
"That the good, happiness and safety
of the people is the great end of civil
government.
THAT a principle of self preserva-
ton, being duly planted by the God of
Nature in every human breast, it is
necessary, not only to the well-being
of the individual, but also to the order
of the universe, as attraction and CO.
heSion are to the preservation of ma
terial bodies and the order of the
natural world.
"That voluntary remuneration of
any power or privileges included in
or necessarily connected with princi-
pie of self preservation is manifestly
acting counter to the will of the great
Author of Nature, the Supreme Legis-
lator, that right to liberty and prop
erty is absolutely inalienable.
THAT the claim of the parliament of
Great Britain to the power of legiSla-
ton for the colonies in all cases what
SOever is abhorrent to the spirit and
genius of the British Constitution, to
the letter of our charter and to the
most obvious principles of reason and
to the essential natural rights given
us by God Almighty; and, finally,
"That the introduction of standing
armies in free country in time of
peace, without the consent Of the peo-
pie, is violation of their rights as
free men,"
Then there is the Declaration Of the
people of Hanna's Town, May 16, 1775.
On that day the men of that portion
of the colony of Pennsylvania lying
west of Laurel Mountain and en-
braced In the present limits of the
county of Westmoreland, then, and for
long afterwards claimed by Virginia
TO be within the limits Of Augusta
county, in the Old Dominion, assem-
bIed at Hanna's Town, then the seat
of Justice, to take counsel on the situa-
zion. The first two paragraphs of
the document adopted are as follows:
~At a general meeting of the In