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The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
Moscow

The tests Of town are its attractive,
ness-health, educational facilities.
people, accessibility business employ.
ment. progressness ours what |.
should be in these desirable ways?
A. s. johnson of Forrest Hill visited
his father ]. R. johnson here Tuesday,
Esquire j, ], Steger continues to bc
confined to his home with but little i'm.
provement in his condition,
We notice in publication that the
last new battleship for our navy cost
S92. 600, 600. We are spending about
seven cents on education, good roads
child welfare, postoffice, Congress and
80 cents on what war has cost US.
Mrs. c. A. Roach had as her guests
Sunday Mrs, J. A. Smith and Mrs. o.
I. Bobbitt her daughters, together
with their respective husbands.
The mountain is big only when far
away. Get next and it loses its great
ress. Troubles magnify as we can
scan them from afar.
Mrs. Susie Rook Green of OkIshoma
City, Is visiting ber parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. L. Rock.
No ones reputation is likely to suf.
fer much lasting injury as long as he
keeps bis character unspOtted.
Good stationeryIahd manners are con.
stant plsyfellows in correspondence.
The Falcon supplies attractive station.
ary.
The local M, E. Sunday School raised
about S32 for the starving people of
China and Europe.
Speaking of women having more
sense than men, did you ever notice
that when the baby gets big enough to
walk father wants to give away the
baby carriage but mother puts il mn in
the garret?
He who carries sword s'most likely
to the carrying of pistol, which 10
truly very bad thing to do.
Little drops of water
That we used to think
We're simply made for ehasers
Are now the whole blamed drink.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
Sweet Potato Growers Meet.
ing Called

The Falcon bas been asked by inter.
ested parties to state that a meeting
OF farmers will be held at the court
house Saturday, February 26, at 2-3C
p. m. for the purpose of discussing the
growing and for marketing Of sweet
potatoes in the section. Several far
mers have discussed the matter among
themselves for some time past and 1t is
at their request that this call is being
published.
Some have already decided to plant
several acres Of sweet potatoes the
coming season and are already looking
about for plants to fill their acreage.
They desire to see others interested in
the crop and for this purpose have ar
ranged the meeting referred to above.
Where growers in this county have
given fair change to sweet potatoes
they have made money from the crop,
Almost every merchant 10 this section
is being supplied with potatoes from
growers at Oakland now, and there
are none locally for the community's
own needs, There is a good demand
locally and in the worlds markets Tor
the tubers and they are selling around
$l.25 to Sl.5O per bushel now. The
crop has proven profitable in other
sections and the consumption of none
of our crops is increasing more rap
idly than of sweet potatoes,
Let those who are interested be pre-.
sent at 2:30 p. IN. February 26.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
Drainage Ditch Progress

Good progress is ubeing made in the
matter on drainage bitches in the past
week. The following interesting items
have been gathered on the subject
The petitions for establishment os
Drainage districts in Laurel creek
bottom were heard in the Countv
Court this week and both districts es-
tablished, there being few claims of
landowners to be passed By committees
and reports entered before final entry
is made of the districts, so that these
claimant can be paid for any damages
that they may sustain because of the
bitches. Laurel creek district starts
near B. c. Baskerville lands in the
fourth district and runs thru that
district and the fifth to Loossbstcbia
Drainage district and enters the lst.
ter ditch. Little Cypress district starts
near Belmont in the fifth district and
runs thru that district and enters
Loosshatchie in the sixth district Tha
two new bitches will drain tbousands
OF acres Of the county's best and mosr
fertile lands.
The directors of Loosahatchie Drain.
age District have been hanging on
claims made by land owners nasr
Somerville and rather than osy ths
damages fixed for these claimants the
directors have decided to start the ca
nal from the Jackson Ievee. nearsomer.
vile instead of starting from the head
waters OF Looshatchie near Laeoni.
and We are advised that the ee,u.l
work on this canal will begin AT AN
early date.
Actual digging was recently ptartsd
on the Cypress Creek ditch. beginning
on the south side of the N C q 9,
L. Ry. near Oakland, and the riObt
Of way has been cleared off ready for
the dredge beat for several miles down
Inc bottom. This ditch crosses the
stage road at the bottom which -
many years has been an eye.sors ~
motor transportation between somer.
nile and Memphis and runs into Shelby
county,
Much Of the work of the construction
y these four canals should be done be.
ore the end Of the present year. add.
ng many acres Of valuable lands 10
be tillAble area of the county.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
To the Fayette County Far m.
ers
WHAT ABOUT BUSINESS

1t is certainty that it won't CONCEAL
If you will open up and let in some
fresh air. Calamity is fellow who OBJ
scures the real situation with dark and
cloudy words. He is the chap who
KNOWS lot of things 1t aint so, T"
are you going to let the wrong con
clusions shape your policies or direct
your efforts?
or course, there are readjustments
problems. come of them serious too.
However, all knew they we're coming
and we have talked about them for a
long time. But just hear; There is no
good reason why we should fear the
future, Lets face these problems with
untlinching purpose to,solve them right.
Here is the proposition: Food is the
foundation of the nations strength.
Therefore, agriculture is and always
will be, the bell wether of all human
endeavor. Werecall, as memory.swings
back to other periods, resdjustments,
mad markets, spasms and reaction, 1t
was even from the American Farmer
Where came the stabilizing influence.
Ii is going to come TO US again don't
you see it?
Has it occurred to you that pound OF
cotton, or a bushel of wheat, or bush
el of potatoes, or busbel of corn will
buy more agriculture machinery today
than it would six years ago. The Am
erican farmer of today has more farm
products to sell than he ever bad be.
fore at this season of the year, And
if in reality: food is the foundation of
the nations strength. the American o
today is Veritable Giant, The farm
er is going to sell his surplus products,
he is not going to burnit. He is going
to plant bis next seasons crop because
of his economic vision. He is far to
broad minded to be a Stacker and be
will buy the things he needs in bis bus
ines now.
| believe the farmer and everybody
else is going to work harder this year
than they ever worked before, SO let's
pull together for better farmer, bet
times, prices and better roads. There
fore better Fayette County. and every
body satisfied.
Now what are you going to to? &c"
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
Publication Notice

In the County Court of Fsyette
County, Tennessee, at Somerville.
Little Cypress Greek Drainage dis
trict of Fayette County Tennessee.
Notice is hereby given to all persons,
firms and corporations, concerned as
owners, lien holders, incumbrancers,
incumbrancees, moatgagees, occupants,
or in any other way interested, whether
residents Of the State Of Tennessee. or
nonresident vf this State. of the hear
ing on the 10th day Of February 1921,
before the county court of Fayette
county, Tennessee, at the courthouse
ia SomerviIle, Tennessee of the petition
on fle in this proceeding, ! and of the
report Of the engineer Of the prelim-
mary survey, profiles and all exhibits
to said report, sfor the purpose of de-
terming whether said drainage district
and other improvements set forth in
said petition and proceedings shall be
established and taking all necessary
steps and proceedings, to establish the
same as provided by law, the lands
embrpced in said drsinageidistrict being
Nil the lands in Little Cypress Creek
Bottom on both sides of said Creek
subject to overflow from point on the
lands of A. Williamson in the 9th civil
district Of Fayette County. Tennessee
to a point on the land of p. d. Clark In
the 9Th civil district Of Fsyette County,
Tennessee, and more particular set oui
and described In the report, maps, blue
prints, drawings and prohles Of the en-
cineer, ssid petition on file herein ant
all proceedings herein being hereby re.
ferred to for further information IS Il
the purpose Of said hearing.
Itis further ordered that this notic'
be publishsd for two consecutive weeks
in the Fayette Falcon, a news paper
published in Somerville, Fsyette Coun'
ty, Tennessee.
Done by order Of the court, this 25ti
day Of January 1921. C. W. CRAwFoRr
Clerk of the County Court Of Fayette
County, Tennessee. 2-ls
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
Facts About Cotton

Marlboro County, South Carolina,
claims the distinction Of averagingspro-
duction of more cotton to the acre than
any other county in the United States.
Ellis County, Texas, in total number
of bales produced is tho banner cotton
growing county of the United States.
The per acre yield, average for the
United States, has varied from l45
pounds of lint in 1871 to 224 pounds in
1914. The 10 year average is 1872 pounds,
Egyptian yield of cotton averages 800
pounds, about to the acre. Cotton pro
duction in Egypt is limited to irrigate
acres along the Nile.
The area under. cotton in India, about
25, 900, ,00G acres covers such wide
climatic range that at many seasons of
the year planting and picking are going
on in different parts of the country al
the same time.
Cotton is grown in Asia as far mol tn
as the latitude of Chicago.
There is now enough cotton in the
world, unspun, to last nearly two ears.
The Civil War was fought in the cot
ton fields of the South, destroying,
temporarily. the means of supply. The
recent World uWar was fought in the
great factory districts of the world.
There is now more cotton in the stocks
OF any one of half dozen cotton mark
ets in the South than was produced in
all of the United States a hundred
years ago.
More than three bales of cotton, a,-,
eraging 500 pounds in weight, have
been grown on a single acre in South.
Carolina.
The estimated number of working cot
ton spindles in the United States is
aoout 35, 900, 900 of which l5, 600, 900 are
in cotton growing states.
The largest cotton crop ever planted
in the United States was 81. .45S. 900 acres
in 1918. which yielded l4,156, 4s6 bales,
500 pounds equivalents, of lint.
Americas greatest crop of cotton
Is, 1874, $3.50 bales was grown on SO, S32,
600 acres.
The knowledge of cotton growing
wild in islands of the West Indies il as
cid as the history of their discovery-by
the Spsinisrds in 1882.
Arkwright, Hargreaves and Cromp-
ton, are the great names connected
with invention of cotton spinring
machinery. They were Englishmen.
Eli Whitney. aii American, invented
the saw-gin. The original patent was
Mar. IL, 1894.
On account of the labor involved in
separating thelint from the seed by hand
cotton was of unknown commercial i'm
portsnce prior to the invention Of
Wnitney's gin. ACREAGE REDUCTION
COMMITTEES.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
Garden Notes

By request of one Of our Subscribers
we are giving herewith the number Of
years garden seed are good for planting,
the first figure'in each case being the
average number Of years Of their life,
the second figure the extreme age they
are known to germinate;
Bean 8 to 8 years; beet, to 10; cab
bage, s to 10; carrot, to 10; celery 8
to 10; corn, 2 to 4; cucumber. to 10;
egg plant, to 10; lettuce, 5 to 8; wat
er melon, to 10; musk melon, 5 to 10;
okrs, 5 to 10; onion 2 to z ; parsnip,
to 4; peas, 8 to s; pepper, 4 to z;
pumpkin, 4 to 8; radish, to 10; sage,
TO Z, satisfy, to 8; spinach, B to q;
squash, 6 to 10; tomato, to 8; turnip,
to 10: mustard, 5 to 10, Any seed
less than the age Of the first figure
given are safe to plant if they have
been carefully kept in dry place. After
that age there is doubt up to last age
given when they are worthless,
Those who got their gardens planted
during the pretty weather OF two weeks
ago were fortunate, for vegetables
planted then are up and growing, now
ii they escape further cold spells and
freezes, will have big lead over those
planted row aud later.
The writer just happened TO see
friend buying package of Champion
Of England peas few days ago for his
early planting. This variety is wrinkl-
ed pea-Iook at the dried pea-and If
planted early while the ground is cold
the seed will surely rot and never ger
inmate. Nothing equals the Alaska
peas for first planting. The peas are
small blue smooth peas, very hardy.
will stand freezes before coming up and
after coming up, will bear good crop
early, and are the best for first plant
ing, Don't plant the wrinkled peas
until ground is warm.
For SALE-Triumpb Irish potatoes
for seed. Home raised fall crop.
They produce far better than northern
grown seed. w. 7. Loggins. 2-25
We are ordering our first shipment
of cabbage plants shipped from Yonge's
Island, South Carolina, so as to be on
sale at The Falcon Office the last Sat-
urday in February. We will try to
have a regular supply received fresh
every few days then for several weeks.
We are buying the very best plants we
can get. Free from plant lice that have
infested 30 many gardens, free frcm
root rot and free from the wilt that
killed 50 many cabbage last year. They
come from the Oldest grower on Yonges
Island, one we tried for years an6ife und
to be entirely reliable. No better
plants grow. Gail at The Falcon Of
free. 2-25
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
MIR, J. A. White Says IF You Have An
Automobile, Keep Rat-Snap".

IF | knew about RAT-SNAP last
winter. would have saved s12O. My
car was in the garage for q few weeks
during bad weather. when I went to
take il out found that rats had eaten
great holes in two new tires. Got them
later with RAT-SNAP. Three sizes.
25c, SOC, sl.50. Sold and guaranteed
BY G. W. Locke, Rhes Drug Co. and
w, S. Shinault,
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
Program for Teachers Meeting
Saturday February l9,

l. How to Create and Maintain
School Interest. by Prof. ]. A. Bobbitt,
2, The Successful Teaching of Eng
lish Grammar in the Grades, by Miss
Fannie Joe Latta,
3. What Constitutes Good Order in
a Classroom and Why? by Mrs. W. T,
Poore.
4. A Discussion on the Possibilities
and advantages of the Consolidation of
Rural Schools, Led by 7. d. Durbin.
5. Teacher, by Supt. Summers.
6. Round Table Discussions on School
Betterment. Led by Julia Taylor.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
Notice

To whom it may concern if the hun
ters do not stay out of my field. | will
be forced to have them arrested. My
place has been posted for year yet
hunters break my wire fence down
climbing over. their dogs run my sheep
and | have had mule shot.
N, M. GIBSON, adv.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
All Virus Permit Holders
To Serve Another Year

DR.. NJ. Jacob, state veterinarian. has
Just anr ounced that it has Gbeen deter
mined by a ruling of the commissioner
of agriculture and himself that all Vir-
Us Permits issued on and between Feb
ruary 10, 1916 and February 10. 1921
be extended for period of twelve
months from date uuless otherwise or
dered.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18
Card Of Thanks

We wish to express our sincers ap-
probation to our friends and neighbors
for their kindness and sympathy during
the illness and death of our dear vile
and mother. J. A. CARTER AND FAM
mY,
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-18

A scsld, burn. or severe cut hesIs
slowly II neglected. The family TIA,
keeps bottle Of BALLARD'S SNOW
LlNlhENT on hand. is always pre.
pared for such accidents. Sold by Price
Drug Co. "A.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-03-04
PREFERS TO REMAIN IN ocALA

To the Editor Banner:
The Rev. D. w. West, the efficient
pastor of the Mt. Moriah Baptist
church has received a call to become
oastor of the White Rock Baptist
church, Lynchburg, Va. He IS prayer
fully considering the matter, as ne
feels that he should be divinely di-
rected He has virtually given up the
idea Of going to New England to be-
come a pastor in the state Of Con-
nec-ticut at present.
He has grown quite devoted to the
people of Florida, and especially those
whom he is now serving. He seems
to be willing to suffer with the people
of Mt, Moriah church, rather than to
enjoy the Injuries of much larger
charge as is the Lynchburg church.
We are now engaged in q series OF
meetings for the salvation Of souls.
The pastor, members, and friends OF
Ocala are asked TO come over to Mt
Moriah and help us fight against sin
and darkness in the defence Of the
cause of Jesus. A MEMBER.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-03-04
A NOTABLE OCCASION

DR.. w NJ Richardson was the re-
cipient of handsome easy chair last
Sunday morning, w1icn the members
presented him in honor of his nine
tieth birthday.
Rev. w. E. Crago made the presen-
tation speech, touching on the beauty
Of a Christian life and the real service
Of the Master.
The good doctor responded from a
heart overflowing with gratefuIness
not alone for the gift but for the true
spirit of love and fellowship which
prompted it.
DR.. Richardson and his estiinable
wife recently celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary at which time
they were the recipients of many
hearty congratulations and tokens Of
esteem from their many friends, both
here and elsewhere.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-03-04
LATEST ENTERPRISE

The Triangle Poultry Farm is Ma
rion County's latest enterprise. ]. ID.
McCaskill. of Ocala, has purchased
sixteen acres OF land at the fork of
the Dunnellon and Shady Grove roads,
about a mile beyond the city, where
he will have a model poultry estab-
lishment. Mr.. McCaskill expects to
have at least 5000 chickens on the
farm, all of them pure blooded White
Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds eli-
gible for registration. The farm will
specialize in eggs, and Mr. McCaskil
expects to ship several thousand a
day to various parts Of the state. The
work of fencing and cross-fencing the
place is under way and the foundation
foA modern eight-room bungalow
has been laid. Other buildings will
include small grocery and feed store,
q garage, incubator house, and a feed
house. All Of the buildings will have
electric lights.
There will be sixteen chicken runs
Of little less than half acre each;
two breeding runs of an eighth of an
acre each; fruit orchard of one and
a half acre; vegetable garden of
three quarters of an acre: and field
OF six and quarter acres in the rear
OF the place for the purpose of rails
ing feed-stuff. The farm gets its
name from the fact that the farm is
triangular in shape. The fruit Or
chard viii be near the bungalow and
viii include citrus trees. figs, peach
es. Japanese persimmons, and six
arbors Of Scuppernong grapes, palms
and flowers. especially roses, will be
planted about the bungalow.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-03-04

Saturday morning at an early hour
it was discovered that prisoners in
the Marion county jail had sawed the
bars to the cells in which they had
been confined, and with the assistance
OF rope made of the coverings to
their beds had made their getaway.
Upon investigation it was found that
the escaped prisoners were all white
men, A. j. Sims of Tennessee, C. E.
Lowell of Ohio and Ralph Holton OF
Chicago, who had been brought to
Ocala about month ago charged with
being implicated in the various rob-
berries occurring recently in this sec
tion, and bound over to the next term
OF the circuit court.
The sheriff and his deputies were at
once notified but as the prisoners had
not been seen by anyone and not hav-
ing the least idea in which direction
they had headed Sheriff Thomas be-
gan wiring and using the long dis
tance phone in an effort to have the
men apprehended. notifying all Off
GERS in the nearby towns to be on the
lookout for them. All of Saturday
passed, however. without any report
as to their whereabouts, but Sunday
afternoon a messages was received
from Campville. in Alachua county.
that in an attempt to arrest the men
A. J. Sims had been killed and one OF
the others had been wounded, but that
the latter with his companion had
made his escape
1t seems that as Mr.. George DyaI
driving dn his Ford roadster Sunday
afternoon had seen three men walking
down the Seaboard track, and Mr..
Dyal having been informed of the es-
cape of the prisoners from the Jail
in this city, decided that he would stop
them and take them back to Gaines
vile for identifications The men
walked quietly along for some distance
until the party was approaching a lit
tie schrub and without any word or
sign all three made break to get
away. Mr. Dyal fired at the fleeing
men and Sims fell at the first shot,
and another one staggered when the
second shot was fired, but the pair
kept up their pace and made good
their getaway Sims lived only a few
minutes after he was shot.
Every effort is being made to re-
capture the escaped prisoners. and 1t
is thought that it will be only mat
ter of short time before they are
apprehended and back in jail with
precautions taken to make their stay
there a certainty until wiIIed other
wise by the authorities.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-03-04
TWENTY THOUSAND NEGROES
OUT or EMPLOYMENT
IN CHICAGO

"A late issue of the Chicago Tribune
{Rep.) says that delegation of un-
employed negroes were selected to go
to the city hall and present to Mayor
Thompson the problem of 10000 job
less Chicago negroes.
The delegation was headed by R.
e. Parker, editor of the Chicago Ad-
vocate, weekly paper published in
the interest of the Negro At the
meeting Parker declared Mayor
Thompson had not carried out his
campaign pledges.
"The mayor has simply turned his
back on the black manthat is, the
poor, laboring Negro-and we are go
ing to demand an answer to situa-
ton that threatens starvation to thou
sands of colored citizens he said,
.sThe mayor can't see anything or
anybody with a black face unless he
is dressed up. But three dressed up
colored citizens in $4,000 jobs are not
going to be able to control the votes
of Thousands Of poor Negroes starv-
ing"
"The Second ward is rotten with
graft Parker continued. The Re-
publican organization has its head
quarters over the Entertainers cafe,
which was ordered closed for a year
BY Judge Lands for violation of the
prohibition laws.
"The present crusade against gam
bling is only a blind. Games of chance
Of all kinds are going on in the same
old way with the usual 40 per cent
rakeoff for police protection.
Parker advised his hearers to vote
against the $S.0o0,O0O bond issue
Louis B. Anderson, tcol.) alderman
from the Second ward, and the
mayors spokesman in the city coun-
ell, strongly defended the mayor
against Parker's charges.
"That man Parker declared Aid.
Anderson, is trouble maker among
his own people. Unfortunately at
present there are thousands of Neg
roes from the south in Chicago They
do not know him and he has a follow
ing in a way
Anderson said there is no truth in
the charge Mayor Thompson had dis
|criminated against Negro laborers in
city employment that whites and col
|ored had been let out alike where it
was necessary to cut working, forces.
"As to his charges that graft flour
ishes in the Second ward, that is ri
Giculous,'' Anderson said. IF he has
the proof ewhy doesn't he take it to
the g--and jury? There is no use to
worry the mayor with it. The grand
jury is investigating crime conditions
in Chicago now, and I'm sure would
be glad to get evidence such as Park
er SAYS he has