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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28
FUNERAL OF MRS. HARTIN.

On last Friday afternoon, the last
sad rites were held over the remains
of Mrs. j. S. Hartm which reached
Columbus Thursday night. The funer-
al which was held from her late resi-
dence on Main street was conducted
by Rev. T. H. Lipscomb concourse
of sorrowing friends assembling to at
test their sympathy for the bereaved
family and esteem for the departed
mother and wife whose tender affec-
tions were severed when the ties were
strongest.
Mrs. Hartin died in Arizona while
on a visit to her sister, Mrs. V. L.
Farmer She was in her 46th year,
a member of the First Methodist
Church, and an estimable Christian
woman. She is survived by her hus-
band, Mr.. J. S. Hartin. six children,
the eldest of whom is eighteen years
of age, besides other further removed
relatives. The following ladies acted
as flower committee, Mrs. H. G.
Chumley, Mrs. Cliff Edwards, Mrs.
j. T. Parrish, Misses Elizabeth Far
mer, Lena Russell Jemison, Angelique
Higgins. The pail beareres were Mr..
L. " Mize, Mr.. Wallace Neyman, Mr..
Claude Neyman, Mr.. H. G. Chumley,
Mrs. F. w. Norwood, Mr.. w. H. Shute,
Mr.. Robert Wilson, Mr.. w. ]. vii
banks.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28
WEDDINGS IN JUNE.

The first people to adopt the month of June
as sacred TO Hymen, the god of marriage, were
the ancient Romans who considered June the
most propitious season of the year for entering
upon matrimonial relations. The Romans held
that June weddings were likely to be happier
than alliances contracted in any other month of
the year. especially if the day chosen were that of
The full moon They also held that of all months
May was to be most avoided as in that month
newlyweds would come under the influence of
spirits adverse TO happy households. These an
Gent marriage SupersutiOns were retained by the
Christians in the Middle Ages, and even today
June is considered by many to be pre-emnently
the month of marriages. The word wedding" is
derived from the ancient Anglo-Saxon "wed" Gus
tom. The WED" consisted of gifts including
ring given by the bridegroom to the bride At
the marriage ceremonies in those times the father
Of the bride presented his son-in-law with one of
his daughters shoes as a token of the transfer
Of authority, and the bride was struck lightly on
the head with the shoe by her new spouse as a
reminder that he was henceforth her boss -"
But that was in the long ago. The men of today
Go no "bossing"
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28
DEATH OF SMITH POWELL.

There passed away in a hospital
at Rush, Texas, few days ago a
man who will be remembered by some
Of our older citizens. We refer to Mr..
Smith Powell.
When the Civil War broke out, Mr..
Powell was student at the Univer-
sity of Alabama. Being a true son
of the South, he joined the Confed-
crate Army and for four years fought
valiantly in defense of the Red Gross
Flag.
After the smoke Of battle had lifted,
Mr.. Powell married Miss Blanche
Rush, in Lowndes County, and moved
to Texas. They celebrated the fifth
eth anniversary of their marriage on
the 21st of last December.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28
AUG. 31sT WEDNESDAY


A party of Columbians composed
of Misses Eunice Lipscomb and Lucy
Carter accompanied by Messrs. Joe
Love and Herbert Pritchard spent
Thursday at the Tabernacle Camp
Grounds as the guests Of Mrs H. w.
Pritchard. They report a most en-
joyable time and count themselves
fortunate to be among those who al
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28
RESOLUTIONS
IN MEMORY OF
AMI 4. LOVE

The life Of good man is at the
same time the most eloquent lesson OF
virtue and the most severe reproof OF
vice.
There are men and women in whose
presence we feel as if we breathed a
spiritual ozone, refreshing and invig-
Grating, like inhaling mountain air, or
enjoying bath Of sunshine; such was
the character Of our friend and bro
Their, Amzi E. Love, whom, so re-
Gently, we were called on to mourn
the passing into higher realm.
Brother Love was born in the City
of Columbus, on the Goth day of
March, A. d. 1867, and resided here
until his spirit winged its way to its
Heavenly Home, on the End day of
August, 1921.
He became a member Of Union
Lodge No. 35 /. 0. o. F. of this City
on the 23rd day of April 1900.
Being descended from those old
Scottish Convehanters, who suffered
so much at the hands of Claverhouse,
on account of their religious belief, he
retained many Of their religious char
acteristics-honesty sobriety, relia-
bility, and deep religious fervor He
was one-hundred per cent American.
He was true in all his relations with
life-true to his country, his family,
bis friends, and true to his God.
He was the best Secretary this
Lodge ever had. In this Lodge, where
his work will be so much missed, we
know we could always command his
heart and brain for the work of his /
fellow-creatures, for he cherished
those principles peculiar to Odd Eel
lowship.
He hadn't lived out his allotted
span of years, being only 81 years old,
but, if life's span is measured not /
by years, but by deeds of goodness
done in the flesh, then we feel that
the grain was "ripe and ready for the
sickle"
In retrospection, we have thought
Of his usefulness in each sphere that
life has called him and we find him
fulfilling all with manly dignity and
In his home, what more beautiful h
example of Christian life could be
brought forward. His loved ones
tnew him and trusted him, and lean
I'd on him in all things. II
AS citizen in our midst, we sum
ned up his character, when we said:
Death has claimed another of our
Useful citizens"
His passing was not unlocked for.
We like to think his death was but
aging of hands gently on the tired =,
ieart, not shifting It; just deadening ]
is vibrations of pain, as he passed
rom earth to the glories of Heaven,
With his hands filled with good deeds, ,
he keys that unlock the doors of tie
Palace Beautiful.
AS life runs on, the road grows {
strange. !
With faces new, and near the end
The milestones into head-stones
chGnge-
Meath everyone-a friend"
Union Lodge No. 35, !. 0. o. F., lo
With bowed head and revereat hands, i
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28
ways enjoy Mrs. Pritchard's gener-
Gus hospitality.

Miss Nell James, pleasantly remem-
bered among the girls of M. S. c. w.
as the basket ball star during her
four years Of college life, is enjoying
delightful visit here as the guest
Of Miss Lillian Wood.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

lays this tribute on the bier Of our de.
parted brother--Amzi r. Love. Peace
to his ashesI
J. S. JEM1sON,
j. H. BEARD,
G. L. LINCOLN,
Committee.
August 2lst. 1921.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

Speaking of music, the melody of the shuttle
md loom at the Tombigbee mill is not bad 1t will
sing into our circulating medium many a big
round dollar
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

Georgia Judge has ruled that it is lawful
for a wife to extract money from her husbands
pockets whilst he slumbers. Speaking for our
self, personally, it may be lawful but it would be
useless.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

pa" inquired College street youngster
Yesterday what is tax eXpert?" Pa reflected
for only an instant. at is a man who can get
the money together to meet them ALL" he re-
piled sadly.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

Where Noah built the Ark is now definitely
settled as at Shuruppak a city about as miles
south of Nippur, modern Fara, a ruin in Southern
Babylonia. Now are you not glad to find this
out?
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

A Judge in Atlanta has announced from the
bench that it is legal for man to whip his moth
ar-n-law. Legal, perhaps, but powerfully dan
as Hambone would say.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

New York predicts that this will be the hard
est winter she has had in fifty years Which is
another one of the million reasons we are glad
we live in Columbus.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

A courtesy beats an apology hundred to
one And it is a hundred times easier to bestow
a courtesy than to make an apology
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

Love, like liquor. may make a man act fool
ishly. but it does not prompt him to break up the
furniture nor abuse anybody.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

There is always happiness in this world for
some one. AS the summer wanes the tears of
the ice dealer bring cheers from the coal man.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

The early settlers may have started this coun-
try. but it's the folks who settle promptly the
first Of each month that keep it going
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-28

Senator Dupont says the future of war lies
in the air. Well Senator couldn't you say the same
thing about the future of peace?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23
Dorothy Dix Talks
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
First Aid to Matrimony-2.

Just how this first aid to matri-
mony is to be conducted has not been
made public. Undoubtedly, its ques-
tionnaire will be searching, and all
who enroll at it will have to tell their
age, their past history. the amount
and source of their incomes, the kind
of disposition they have, and what are
their general matrimonial qualifica-
tions.
This should enable those who are
seeking for life partners to make
much more intelligent selections, than
are possible to those who get their
husbands and wives out of the matri-
monial grab bag, so to speak.
The thing that does more than any
thing else to make marriage a failure
is the discovery, after you get home
and settle down to real life, that you
bought a pig in a poke, as it were,
and that the man or woman to whom
you have tied yourself for life isn't
any more the individual you thought
you were marrying than if he or she
was some entire stranger whom you
had never set eyes on before.
Thus it very often happens that a
girl is so misled by the rich presents
and the money that a man lavishes on
her during the days of colfftshfp that
she thinks she is marrying a million
that he has scarcely a shoestring of
salary; or a man marries a girl under
the full belief that he is acquiring
blue ribbon cook, who dotes on a gas
range, to ascertain to his despair that
her mother made the angel food, and
that he is doomed to go thru life the
victim of dyspepsia brought on by his
wife's biscuit.
OF course, all these little mistakes
would be obviated by man and wo-
man being able to look over each
others record. They would have each
others number to begin with, without
having to correct a false guess when
it was too late
Each of US cherishes in our fancy
our ideal of the kind of a wife or hus-
band we would like to have. Every
man knows every characteristic of his
dream woman. Every woman knows
every taste and little quirk of thought
of the hero of her imaginings; but we
seldom marry those with whom we
would be two souls with but a single
thought, two hearts that beat as one"
because we do not know how to find
them.
The matrimonial center would find
them for us. We would only have to
look over their list of eligibles to dis
cover the man or woman who agreed
with us on everything from politics to
pie. and then tie up with him or her
for life.
Propinquity Is Z the great match
maker. Perhaps all that you've got
to do is to bring men and women to-
gether, and nature will do the rest.
but any way you look at it, the idea
people can meet each other in the
right way, is a good one. 1t should do
much not only to promote marriage,
but to stop divorce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE

Today in skool I was eating gum
drops out of bag. and 1 had ate 4
without Miss Kitty seeing me and 1t
was getting kind of monotoniss eat
ing jest one at q. time, me thinking, I
wonder If I could eat at once with
out her seeing me.
WITCH I tried it to see, putting s
gum drops in my mouth all together.
making a pritty big size of bump on
the outside of my face on account OF
being exter~big gum drops. me think
ing, Gosh. If she sees this bump she'll
suspect rite away
WITCH Jest then wat did she do but
see it, me quick thinking. G, III hurry
up and take the hole bag up to her
and give her the rest of them, for a
present and she'll think that's wat I
brawt them for and she'll think she
made a mistake about seeing me eat
ing.
And 1 quick got up and took the
bag up to Miss Kittys desk with the
gum drops still in my mouth feel
ing bigger insted of smaller, and put
the bag on Miss Kitty's desk saying.
Hers a present 1 brawt you, Miss
Kitty.
Being fearse hard thing to say on
account of my teeth sticking to the
8 gum drops, and Miss Kitty looked
at me fearse as enything. saying, Watts
that you're saying?
WITCH I tried to say it agen wishing
I was eating 3 easy things like 8
choclits insted of gum drops. and
Miss Kitty sed, Have you got the
humps?
No mann. I sed wishing I had. and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23
JUST FOLKS
DISAPPOINTMENT.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST


Hold set his heart on a certain plan,
But as often occurs to every man,
The fates decreed 1t was not to De.
Now had this happened to you or me,
No doubt we'd have grumbled most dis
mally,
But this was all that we heard him say
When out of his grasp flew the cream
away:
"wen. of hopes I've lost, that is jsst one
more,
I've had disappointments like this before
Used to it? Rather. rte learned the
way
Life handles us all from day to day.
Why, when L was new at the game
thought
I ought to win every fight 1 fought
And de claim every pleasure my fancy
sought;
But now when hopes I've cherished come
tumbiing down,
/ waste no time on a sigh or frown,
l know how to act when a dream is Ger
Disappointed? Well. I've been that be-
fore.
I'm an old, old hand at the game
know every trick which the fates can
play,
And when plans don't work as I'd hoped
they would.
I skrug my shoulders and just saw wood,
For it's all for the best when it's under
stood.
Now / say, II 1t isn't my time to smile,
All right, old man, L can wait awhile,
You're wrong If you think you can make
me sore,
I've known disappointment like this be-
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23

upon which he wishes to build. or
who has saved enough to- pay one
fourth or one-third on piece of
property, the building and loan as
ISOLATION lends the necessary capital,
which the borrower pays off in regu-
lar monthly payments.
The would-be home builder who
lacks even the one-fourth or one
third property interest required.
would do well to join one of these as
sociations and begin the accumula-
ton as a savings investor until he
can obtain a loan. A fair rate of in
terest is paid on savings accounts.
There are 5000 of these building
and loan associations in the United
States, which are doing a real service
to the people as well as making a
great deal of money. 1t is estimated
that the mortgages held by them now
aggregate in excess of $500, 900, 900:
their total membership is about
100000 persons, and approximately
200, 900 home purchase loans, totaling
$500, 100000 were made by them last
year. All of the associations are I'M
der the strict supervision of the
banking departments of the states
and are regularly examined the same
as other savings institutions. Phila-
delphia probably owes it's designation
as the City of Homes to the great
multiplicity of its savings and loan
associations, which are looked upon
as the real hope Of the Own Your
Own-Home movement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23


them noticed the passing of time TIL
suddenly Winifred gave a start
"BiIly," she cried. Look. the suns
going down, and we're twenty miles
from homei If 1 don't get there IN
time for dinner mother will nearly dlsi
She'll think all sorts of things! on
what will we dog
Billy grinned.
t,H see IL / can do something to this
"oh, never mind the kiss" cried
Winifred please try to fix 1t! we
must get home!"
But Billy was obdurate-
ssTherer' she said at last. There's
your kiss-and now, please please LIN
that awful machinei
For answer Billy put his foot on the
self-starter. There was mum anu d
roar, and the motor burst into NE.
Winifred looked at him in blank
amazement- 80. a.,
There was nothing wrong with the
car" said Billy guiltily. DICK was
lying to you. He pretended that As
had broken down.
'.But-but why did you
Billy bent over the wheel
well, to tell you the truth. WIN,
he said IT was afraid that II l ies
this chance go I'd never get up the
snervel to tell you again. So WELL
/ must plead guilty to deception"
BILLY vantine, 1 think you're a nor,
rid. deceitfut darling dear! cried
Winifred. Billy laughed exultantly.
'sThose last two words saved my
ufe,n he cried. Hold on to the seat
Pm going to hit sixty all the way
1Copyright. 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)'
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
THE WILLING MAN.


Every minutes of every day this old
world has its eyes open for the man
who wants to work.
Willingness takes as high a place
in the marketplace-of action as innate
ability. For you have to have willing
ness before you are able to assert your
ability.
The willing man is always at q pre-
! MUM. And one reason for this is that
| he appreciates his shortcomings as
we'll as recognizing his merits. But
he is willing to pool them all in order
that he may secure an even and sound
development.
The willing man likes to work up
| in front. You see, he doesn't mind at
all whether or not that place is far
from the clock. And he would just
as soon get his hands soiled as not.
It's getting the thing donesV-or out
that takes his interest and heart.
And SO he keeps climbing all the
| time-and there are those WHO cannot
understand his luck
All great men and women have been
those who were willing to wait-will-
ing to work unknown and unheralded
for years and years.
Willingness is one of the big back
grounds to success.
Just the moment that you are will
| ing to pay the price for the thing you
want, Just that minute you begin to
appreciate the value of what you get.
The child is willing to be guided by
the father and mother. whose wisdom
| it recognizes. Thus it grows into ma
turity, when it is able to guide its own
affairs.
Temper your mind and heart with
the spirit of willingness and thus be-
come forearmed against much that.
soon or later, would otherwise find
you unprepared to fight your way for
ward with full courage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23

Q. Who was Mother Shipton ?-F. L. G.
A. Mother Shipton was reputed Eng
lish prophecies who lived dur during the time
anonymously. Mother shipton is prob
apy wbst IS the Iarsest snake in the
world? Are there any tame snakes Of this
a. The python is considered the largest
snake in the world. 1t is found in the
East Indies and in the Philippine Islands.
Specimens so feet long have been seen: All
selves sci easily ' to captivity and tanning.
Q. Please describe the Jewish flag and
tell when it originated FL, W. c..
horizontal stripes. The two outside stripes
and center stripe are white, the remaining
two stripes blue In the he, center Of the flag nS
the flag is not known. but it dates from
the eleventh or twelfth century,;
9; Is it proper to year silk hat with
A. A high hat is not worn with Tux
edo. 1t is correct to wear a derby, a soft
Q. If man files on a homestead and
oil In commercial quantities is developed
in the vicinity, how does this fact effect
a The general land office says that II
you filed the claim and obtained the patent
on the land before the passing of the o Oil
you are, according to section 20 of said act,
entitled to the oil and gas found on, the
passing of the Oil Land Leasing act, the
mineral rights are reserved to the govern
ment, and you cannot obtain them.
Q. How much is q Chinese tael in Amer
lean money? M B. f.
A. The Chinese tael is not a coin. but
merely a slug of silver, and Its value
varies in different parts of China The
haikwan tael. or customs tael of China is
fixed by treaty at 27-S0 grams With silver
at GO cents troy ounce, this -tael is worth
72.9 cents.
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