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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24

took effect or not he does not
know.
AFTER the shooting and escape
Of the owner of the still, Mr.
Washburn went on to it and
found a barrel of mash, and a
sack of meal and chops, in addi-
tion to the stuff that was being
run"
The outfit consisted of CO.
gallon lard can about twO-thirds
full of mash, which was connect
ed at the top with three-quarter
iron pipe, extending through a
trough, containing water, which
condensed the steam as it poured
out through the pipe. On the end
of the pipe a gallon bucket was
hanging to catch the white light
ming as it came out.
Yesterday morning Sheriff
Harrison accompanied Mr.. Wash
burn to the scene, and all of the
outfit was brought to town and
put in the corridor of the jail,
where many of the curious have
inspected it during the day.
The officers believe that they
have good clue to the identity of
the guilty party, and it is believed
that arrests will be made within
the course of "a few days.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24
GOLDSBY BEATS WRIT
Fence, Bone of Contention Dies
in Warren County Jail.

R. T. Goldsby, negro, escaped
state convict and convicted as a
receiver of stolen property, died
at the Warren County jail at
Vicksburg Goldsby created a
sensation in Mississippi when he
signed statements charging he
had paid State Senator Harry K.
Murray and former Gov. TheO.
Bilbo $4,000 to secure a pardon
for him.
Murray entered denial of
GOldsby's charges, but Bilbo
claimed the action was legal prac-
tice.
Goldsby was sentenced to the
state penitentiary twice, but got
away both times, first on a sus-
pension of sentence and the sec
ond time by bribing a night watch
man. He was arrested in Chicago
the first time and the next in To
ronto, Canada.
Goldsby was to appear before
Chief Justice Sydney Smith today
for determination as to whether
he would remain in jail or be Ia
ken to the state prison farm.
Weighing more than 800 pounds
Goldsby was sufferer from
Bright's disease, which caused his
death. He was reputed to have
for years been the leader of no.
torlous gang of negro thieves.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24
HUNT HICKORY NUTS
AND PLAY MARBLES THAN
TO GROW COTTON
THIS YEAR.

There is now so much cotton in
the world that if one-half Of all
the growers could sell all their
cotton the other half would be
able to sell none at all; if each
grower could sell half his cotton
all of them would be unable to
sell the other half. You might
feel lucky this fall to get five
cents a pound for your cotton.
You may be one of those unable
to sell even half Of the crop. Why
take such a risk?
Do you know how much nine
million is? That is the amount
of cotton grown in the United
States, that will be carried over
this year-at least that much. Get
some one to count this sum and
see how long it takes. Multiply
100000 by 500 and you will
have the number of pounds of
cotton, then multiply by seven and
six-tenths, as there are 7.6O yards
Of calico in pound, and you will
get some idea of the burden that
the all-c0tton farmer is having to
carry. At 80 cents a pound
conservative estimate of the cost
of production vary from 25 to 80
cents a pound-It cost $3.50, ,OOO,-
600 to produce the 100000
bales that will be carried over
this year. That is an amount
about three times the total cost
of the Panama Canal upto June,
80, 1918, it exceeds by approx
mately $15O,0O0,00O the net pub
lie debt of the United States on
April l, 1917, when war was de-
clared on Germany; it is approx
mately half as much as the Unit
ed States owed at the close of the
civil war, and nearly 20 times
revolutionary war debts remain
ing when American independence
was won; in 1851 after the Mexi-
can war and the payment of the
Texas indemnity, the publis debt
of the United States amounted to
$68, 800, O0O-contrast this with
81, $50, 100000. The price paid by
the United States for all that vast
territory included in what was
known as the Louisiana Purchase,
an area of $4,000 square miles.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24
Trustees Notice of Sale.

Rv vi,.tun nf +ho on+hcr;+,r o,,
ferred nnon nor :, me snt tha au.roLl.y '.nda coal IN,
trnstea - +hat l snv unuelsisn sneu
tr.st 81, datad - 1nas cIlsan ~ ueeu 10 u
frons :, ons 1a'Gu = fs.Mpsl o@..44 A., lSIS'
M;,a;o aHIH s. = Onust " MIs. ~. -.
s.a.ik gu anu III u Iecora II the OF
ne - sne onance.y IlerK IL ran
Aln County, MlSsasslppl IN BOOK
No. . At page AZ, reference to
Wnicn Is nerpy made, securing an
sndeDteoness tnerein menuoned,
que ana owing unto SAID Dene1l-
clary, and default having beer
made IN the terms OF said instru-
ment and the payment OF 2 part
OF said Indebtedness, and the said
beneficiary having declared the
entire sum thereby secured imme-
ance with the terms Of said deed
on c..,.. -, "a 100,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24

ed net loss on operation of S52..
OOOsand that ratio Increased some
what during the month of Jan
uary.
In the face of this showing the
Mississippi Tax Commission is
about to fix an assessment on the
property at an increase of so per
cent hast year. w. T. Stewart
president and general manager
states that the company's total
tax bill for the past year will be
about $275, 900.
The finances of the road are
very much crippled because of it's
inability to collect from the Fed
eraf government about 100000
due for the period of operation
under government control.
The slump in the lumber industry
and high wages. are assigned as
the principal reason for the un-
satisfactory state of business. p
jackson News.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24

almost as great as! the combined
area of England, ireland, Scot
land, Wales, France, Germany,
Spain, the Netherlands, Italy and
Switzerland-Was only $15,OOO,-
600. For Alaska the United
States paid $7,000,000. It cost
the farmers of the south to pro-
duce the 100000 bales of
cotton that will be carried over
this year 81 times as much as
was paid for the Louisiana pur-
chase and Alaska, both put to-
gether. If 1,350,0OO, 900 United
States treasury or Federal Re
serve notes were placed end-to-
end, they would make belt-long
enough to reach more than half
way around the world. The total
value-U. S. census figures-of
the largest crop of cotton ever
grown in the United States-16,-
134, $3.50 bales in 1914-was $685.
900, 900 less, including the seed,
than it cost to produce the o.
100000 bales of cotton that are
beinc carried over this year. Do
you have to ask what has become
of all the money that was in circu-
latiOn last year?
While you are figuring make
am estimate of just what will be
needed to feed man and beast on
your land in 1921, and then be
sure to plant amply for that.
Don't. you think it would be
better to crack hickory nuts and
hunt rabbits all year than to plant
cotton? If it cost on an aver
age, 80 cents pound to produce
cotton in 1920, the 5000. 600
bales that will be carried over
represent loss Of $72O, ,OOO, 900.
The aggregate value of the enor-
nous crop of 1914, including the
seed, was, according to u. S. CEN
sus figures, $72O,O8O, 900; the val
ue of the 16, 13A, $50 bales of lint
cotton produced in 1914 was
$591, 10000, or not much more
than one-third of the cost of
producing the 100000 bales that
will be carried over this year.
Think Of the enormous burden
that falls upon the south. What
are you willing to do to hely out?
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24
GULF LOSING $1,000 DAILY,
REPORT SAYS
Question Now of How Long Road
Can Maintain Itself Officials
Claim

The Gulf & Ship Island Rail-
road, traversing the yellow pine
belt Of Mississippi between Jack
son and Gulfport, is losing money
at the rate of 81 500 per day, and
it is a question with the manage
nent as to how long it can main
tain itself on this basis, according
to a report just filed with the rail.
road commission.
During the closing month OF
1920 the Ship Island system show
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24

"The uncomfortable fact is
that Europe today does not know
how to use the supplies Of cotton
she already has, even at a price
level substantially lower thanrthat
still obtaining in the United
| States.
| Present indications are that
lnot more than 100000 bales of
American cotton will be required
in 1921, to supply the worlds
mills, this in the face Of the fact
that the total American crop of
1920 was nearly 13,5OO,OOO bales
making probable world carry
over on July 81 next, of between
100000 and 9,5OO,OOO bales.
Should developments confirm
these figures they will represent
almost an entire cotton crop of
itself, and will far surpass any
surplus of American cotton which
the world has ever known.
The above is taken from a bull
Ietin issued recently by the Ma
tional Association of Cotton Man
ufacturers, which is an organi-
zation of New England spinners.
Certainly no one would be more
ready to urge the South to plant
more cotton than these same spin
ners. The more cotton there is in
world, the cheaper they can buy
1t. But, here we have them ad-
mitting that the carryover may
represent almost an entire crop
OF ITSELF" without single bale
being raised in 1921.
A United States Department of
Agriculture bulletin, published by
the bureau of markets, under the
date of January 20, says: "At
the present rate Of consumption
there will be an availible supply
Of 12,457,750- bales of cotton in
the world on July 81, 1921, or
about 6,611,750 bales more than
last year.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24
Rub-My-Tism relieves Rheuma
tism, Neuralgia, Sprains.
Lands Posted.

Notice is hereby given that all
lands owned by the undersigned
and also all lands owned by or
under control OF O. r. Martin, are
posted, and all trespassing, hunt
ing and fishing, is strictly forbid
den under penalty of the law.
q. E. Martin, Brandon, Miss.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24

Important business was tram
sacted at the meeting of the direc-
..ors Of the Farm Bureau Tuesday
The proceedings will be published
next week.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24

Farmers are urged to use the
Exchange Columns which the edi-
tor of the News has given. This
will be a splendid medium for ex-
change.
S. v. BURKS, County Agent.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24

will go to Mayton March 1st,
where a meeting has been called
in the interest of farmers welfare.
expect to talk on the Farm Bu-
reau, Sweet Potato Curing Houses
Hogs, and Soy Beans and Dairy
ing. The meeting will be held at
g p. M.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24
COUNTY AGENT NOTES

Z
There will be a meeting of the
Farm Bureau at the court house
in Brandon Monday morning
March 7th. Every farmer in Ran
kin County could not do better
day of work than to attend this
meeting and help put on foot the
institution that will function for
his interest. All members are es-
pecially urged to attend and bring
all their neighbors who are not
yet members.
If you expect to buy your Acid
Phosphate and cotton seed meal
comparatively, be sure to send in
your order at once. The prices on
fertilizers are still declining and
the Farm Bureau will use its best
judgement in regard to buying. l
think we will be able to buy Is per
cent Acid Phosphate delivered for
around $4,000 per ton. You will
assist in securing the lowest pos
sible price by cooperating with
your neighbor in this matter.
There will be a general mass
meeting of farmers and business
men at -Pelahatchie Saturday
March 5th, for the purpose of
starting the Farm Bureau, and
discussing the proposition made
by the American Picking Co.,With
regard to putting in a sailing tank
at Pelahatchie and also regarding
the building of sweet potato cur
ing houses. | trust that every
farmer in that section will be on
hand and give his best efforts to
this move.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-02-24

There will be a farmers meet
ing at Guide Friday February Is
tn, in the interest of Farm Bu-
feau.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-16

matter would be to make a definite
offer, and if the government will fol-
low the law as thus stated, and de-
liver title on the assumption of a
district to pay s25 per acre, there is
no reason to doubt that districts will
be formed, and the matter thus set
tied.
DR.. Newall's various different po'
s%itions, and more or less conflicting
and impractical suggestions, imply
that it is not the government purpose
to turn over the project in any such
simple way. One must infer that he
expects to sell the project for actual
cost to date. This cannot be done.
We are dealing with something
specific and the practical thing to dc
first is find out just what the gov
eminent expects to charge a district
for the project as it stands at this
time.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-16
Sa9ebrush Romance
Taking the Milk Out of the
Milk River Project.
BY c.. c. r.

dents in the tale of the Lost Cor
ner." There has been a little excite
ment lately, over the contest that has
been on for a few years, in which a
prize will go to the engineer who
makes water run up hill by gray
lty. This is regarded as a good
sporting proposition and strife for the
prize is keen. Some years ago five
acres was found on project land near
Glasgow that should be drained, and
this was where the contest was staged.
The contestants tore lose and damaged
an adjoining Is acres in trying to
make the water drain up hill. They
were dead game too, they tried it for
years and it is told that this season
some adventurous spirits are running
lines and taking levels to prove that
1T can be done. But it probably never
will be, for the man that owns the Is
acres is a wicked man, and says that if
any of those engineers come on his
place again, he will fill them with
bird shot. If it were not for this at
tltude on the part of the owner, the
sport might have continued until the
COWS come home, or the Democrats
got back into power, or the Millennium,
or something.
There has been one source of never
ending enjoyment lately, in bossing
gangs who are building speedways for
ditch-riders along the canals. This
branch of the game is open to great
development, for if autos are neces-
sary to the ditch riders now, airplanes
soon will be, and the system will soon
call for gates, garages, hangers, ETC.,
all along the canal. A system may be
installed that will place a Waterman
at every 100 yards or so who will sig
nal "alps well" to the official observer,
as he speeds by in his car, or sails
over in his plane.
A new vista for the future has been
opened up by the Vandalia dam and it's
large body of back water. Motor boat
ing appeals to the tired engineers, and
a a of motor boats might be ordered
with the next car of Fords. If the
budget interferes with this the set
tiers will probably donate the price
from their excess profits of the last
20 years. 1t would be right and proper
to rest these overworked minds, and
there is nothing in the constitution or
the civil service to prevent these
%sojourners with us from the same
advantages that other employees of the
government have-the President for
instance has the Mayflower; is he en-
titled to more consideration than a
project engineer? I'll say not!
But away vain thoughts! The mists
of romance and the mellow twilight OF
tradition have been dissipated by the
breezy budget system. The things thai
might have been, may not be.
Alas these are decadent days! Here
after the engineer must PRODUCE.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-16
REET FACTORIES AID uN-
EMPLOYMENT

The harvesting of sugar neets III
the Rocky Mountain region will be the
earliest in years., opening about Sep
TENDER Is.
Once again the beet-sugar industry
has demonstrated its value as a sta-
b;,;zinp influence in rural commune
ties.
As unemployment increases a1tei
general farm operations discontinue
in the fall, the sugar-beet factories
take I'M the slack by furnishing EN-
n,oyuent to thousands of men for
neriod of from three to four n
+bns relieving the unemployment sit
uation materially.
The sugar industry has been com
n,ate,v "~deflated." Prospects are
bright for record-beraking crops pei
acre. After a stormy year the farm
ers and the factories are entering
neriod of normal conditions which
should prove to the advantage OF both
As the fact becomes more general.
appreciated that wherever suga'
beets are grown, in rotation with othe'
crops. the yield of succeeding crops II
doubled, the sugar-beet industry is go
ing to develop on a more substantial
basis.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-16
COMING BACK"

There is much increased interest in
mining operations, particularly in the
production of gold. and financial as
sistance is again obtainable to an en-
larged extent compared with the al
most complete financial backing for
mining a few months ago. Men seem
ready and willing to go back to work
at wages modified to fit new condi-
tions, and this attitude is being re-
Elected in increased employment.
1t seems very probable that the
threatened oil workers strike in Cali
fornia will be amicably settled with
out interruption of work in the fields
and plants of the various companies
on the basis of a reduction of 81 a
day in wages, as negotiated by the
Shell Company with its field employees
The general tendency of food prices
is downward, with a marked stabili'
cation towards a normal basis Of man!
living necessities.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-16
FOUND IN OUR
EXCHANGES
What Big Timber Needs.

Now that the tourist Isl of 1921
is practically at an end, residents of
Big Timber have a far better idea of
what this travel means to the city.
To state the proposition briefly,
tourist travel has kept Big Timber in
ready cash during the past 70 days.
Without it business houses would have
been woefully shy on cash receipts.
Now that it is over merchants are
complaining that business is rotten.
The chamber of commerce of Spo-
kane estimates that the camp ground
bring that city a daily cash income
from the outside of $1,000. The tour
list season in that section is longer
than here, and estimating it at &C
days instead of 20 it brought that
city a total of $630,000 FOR this year
Livingston estimates its receipts
from this travel at from $1,000 tc
81 800 a day. Splitting the difference
estimates the cash receipts there tota'
1850 a day, or a grand total of $751;,
500 for 20 days.
A list taken in this city for one OF
the dullest days during the season
totaled S44S.52 in all business house:
reporting. Taking that as an average
day, tourist trade in Big Timber
brought $3.50 for 70 days, or a CRANE
total of $4,000. And every cent OF
this money came from strangers anc
was strictly cash.
Tourist travel is only in its infancy
in its experimental stage. What i
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-16
A LESSON IN SAVING

During two or three years when
westerning mining properties were
making good profits the agitators were
busy attacking them and were repre-
senting to the public that a larger por-
ton of their profits should GO into an
already high wage scale.
Present conditions Illustrate the diff
ference between efficient mine man.
agement and the labor ~agitators short
sightedness.
Mine managers knew that in good
times they must build up their re-
sources to carry them over slack times
hence profits could not all be paid
out in dividends or bonuses to work
men.
Falling off in demand for metals
finally forced many western mines to
close. 1t is costing the Anaconda Cop
per Mining Co. $4,000 a month to
stay closed down.
This is an example of why mining
men prefer to keep their properties
open until the absolute stagnation in
the industry demands that production
cease. Anaconda today is employing
approximately 5000 men. These are
mostly caretakers, watchmen, mechan-
les to supervise the machinery and
keep it from deteriorating through
idleness. While wages have been cut
away down, they are still higher than
prior to the war.
Anaconda's assets, built up during
prosperous days will tide it over the
slump, keep its properties from ruin
and give employment to thousands OF
men.
Anaconda is like the workman who
saved his earnings, both a stand
the reimbursement period.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-16
STENOGRAPHER TO BLAME

According to DR.. Newalrs state
ment at the Chamber of Commerce
rooms last Tuesday night. the trouble
with the treaty with Canada regard
ing Milk River water, is, that the
stenographer who had to do with it,
left out a line, and c%uriously enough
this line was the one which proved
how the water should be measured.
The amazing thing about DR.. New
all's statement is that he admits ne
gotiating the treaty, knowing that
Canada had no legal right to any of
the water, and yet he agreed to Civ
ing that country what would amount
to half of the water of the two rivers
as a matter of "Goodfellowship," tc
use his own words.
AS a treaty maker DR.. Newal
should rank with DIR. Wilson; both OF
the gentlemen give away the rights
of the people with a nonchalance thai
is refreshing and princely.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-16
FAKE

We again feel called upon to re-
mark that Valley county's crops will
bring countless fakes to US during the
remainder of the year. One OF the
most pestilent and damaging of these
is the stranger within our gates who
comes with some beneficient CD ad-
vertising plan.
Glasgow merchants have been hit
quite hard this season, and the ad-
vertising appropriations which should
be spent at home and on the news
papers is sadly depleted and the ad-
vertising season only fairly opened.
These men have had airplanes, pro-
grams and guide books to finance, and
thew have done so willingly and in a
public-spirited way, that is a certain
credit to them. The man who puts on
some public stunt generally has some
wav to finance it through s%o-called ad-
vertising, which is not advertising at
all, as patrons find out later to their
sorrow. In every case of this kind the
local newspaper has to suffer.
There are others who enter the fleld
with plans, for which some newspa-
pers fall, of seasonal or volume ad-
vertising, by which they take out OF
town part of the newspapers profits,
damage the ad market, and give the
advertiser very poor service IN re-
turn. The merchants are only partly
to blame for these stunts, which should
not be encouraged by reputable pa
pers. -,
All advertisers in Glasgow should
hear in mind that there are three
ready to handle their pub
licitv. and that it is their business TO
do so: that no other medium can rem
der so good service in Glasgow ter
ritorv. and also that advertising eX-
merits now conceed that the country
newspaper is the best advertising
medium on earth, a fact that was con-
pade0 during lHe wal WIiS ~ f
LEGATIONS were given credit for putting
over the Liberty loans.
Remember also that it costs money
to publish a newspaper; that your ao-
vertising patronage as Glasgow peo-
nile is one of the u of the Gias-
gov newspapers. Speaking Tor the
Courier, it is a business institution
the good will of which every Glasgo"
merchant must appreciate. 1t en-
p,ovs four men at salaries OF SZooo
ner wear and over; besides which It's
owner, and a number of other en-
~ployees. spend their money in Glas
cow. The pay roll of the Courier
amounts to about $4,000 a year, mos
of which is passed on to Glasgow peo
pie. -.
When the next advertising scheme
is presented should you not remembe
what is due the Courier?