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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-29

they need in this dark hour, and
may her sons thank God for such
mother, and her dear grandchil'
dren whom she has raised and cared
for so faithfully and we'll, be just
all she would wish them to be
May each of her family so emulate
her virtues that they will meet hei
some sweet day"
mot often shall l speak your name,
For what would strangers care.
That once a sudden tempest came
And left your place so bare,
And that you passed and in your place
Stood silence with her lifted face.
Not always will the parting be,
For though l travel slow,
l, too. may claim eternity
And find the way you go;
So l will do my task and wait
The opening of the Onter Gate.
FRANK MOORE,
Dallas Texas
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-29
EverybOdy's Business.

Getting wages back TO where they
should be; getting prices back to
where they are on par with wages;
getting production around to where
it will meet the demand and bring
ing the demand up to tally with
production is not the business of
any man or set of men; it's every
body's business.
If the merchant is now forced to
sell some articles below cost, it's his
business to see that the concern he
buys from in the future gets its pro-
duet down to lower price. Every
one has to assume a part of the
burden, no matter what he has to
sell, produce or labor. We don't
believe there is man or a farm
hand in all this section who expects
to draw as high wages now as he
did when everything he eats and
wears was from three to five times
as high as it is today. So he must
accept a reduction to meet the grad
ually lowering price of necessities.
Refusing to buy isn't going to help.
for if you refuse to buy you can't
expect to sell. One depends upon
the other. If larmer lives he must
sell his produce, and if the consumer
lives he must buy it. But the far
mer can't pay the same wages with
cotton at Il cents a pound that he
could when it was around so cents
The farm hand can get the same
shirt now for dollar he paid $3.50
for a couple of seasons ago, so
where has he lost anything in the
reduction of wages? So long as
wages go hand in hand with the
price of commodities, and so long
as commodities balance up with
wages. we'll be on a solid founda-
ton pretty soon. But we've got to
keep on buying and selling, and
selling and buying-not Injuries.
but necessities-or we will strike
snag that we won't be able to get
around for years. and all of US will
be in worse shape than we ever were
baRo~o -Vo10o Sentinel
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-29

Japan has ordered all her reserves
to return home for training-all ex-
cept those in Hawaii and the Con-
tinental United States. 1t is said
this has no significance, but it
might easily be a precautionary
movement, in view of the positive
attitude Japanese diplomacy has
taken in respect to the island of
Yap.-Mobile Register.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-29

We are told that moonshiners put
concentrated I've in their whisky to
make it hot" The man who
drinks such stuff regularly, even for
a short time, will find the lining of
his stomach eaten up" and his
digestion, of course. gone. He
suffers from stomach trouble" and
goes to his physician. but the doc
tor can not restore his stomach
Elk.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-29

The friends of Maj James E.
Ware. who has been stationed in
the military service at Camp Dix,
N. J., will regret to learn of his
presence in the Walter Reed Hos
pital, Washington, d. c.. where he
has undergone an operation, not
serious. but irksome because of the
detention from military activity.
Maj. Ware has many fiiends in Aber-
deem, Monroe county and Missis-
sippi. from which town. county and
state he entered the service as a pri-
vate and has risen to military
prominence from sheer merit of his
own and not from high up military
influence behind him. His numer-
Gus friends in 'Ole Missipp" hope
that he will soon recover and be at
Camp Dix again in charge of the
First Machine Gun Battalion at
that point.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-29

The Williams Colored Singers
will entertain at the st. Paul NJ. E.
church (coloreO, Friday night,
May 18th. The press speaks high
" of this performance as a Re-
fined Entertainment" Special ar
rangements have been made for ac-
commodation of the white people
who may wish to attend.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-29
Southeastern Express Co. Begins
Operations May 1st.

The Southeastern Express Co
will open for business with office al
the NJ. & o. depot, Aberdeen, May
1st.
This express company will oper.
ate over the Southern and Mobile
& Ohio railroads and associated
lines with connections to practically
any point from which express may
be received or sent.
Mr.. S. P. Mcmillan will be in
charge of the business at the Aber-
deem point.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-29

Normally is a word made popu-
lar by President Harding. 1t is. in
style and everybody is using it. 1t
will soon he an oyer-worked word,
especially if the president and his
crowd do not bring US back to that
much desired state. The word will
help to immortalize him if he ac-
complishes this task to which he
has set himself
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-29
Obituaries. Tributes and
Cards of Thanks.

Obituaries and cards of thanks will be accep
ed and published in The Weekly. at charge oil
one cent word for each word contained. Trib-
utes of RESPECT and resolutions eminsting from
lodges. churches similar organizations. q
barge of one cent word viii be made and COL
cected. Count the words in your copy and re
NIT one cent for each word counted as the cost
of each publication.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-29

A naval holiday may be all right.
but they had better not turn all
the gobs loose in one port. Ar
kansas Gazette.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-04
DON'T BE FRIGHTENED BY THE A. B. & A.
JUNKING TOMMYROT

great good people in Fitzgerald and other sections of
this great South Georgia land worried right the posi-
memorandum book-II ERE IS NO SUCH POSSIBILITY.
The A. B. A. railroad not going to be unked spite of wage
scales, rail rates, or hell or high
No who knows the would be fool
the value OF the road this section dispute the that
absolutely necessary this section that the sup
the road The alleged union official who sot off his mouth
enough No union with authority speak subject
has been authorized question the right the
no good union man oondones such suggestion.
The A. b. x A. the Jugular the business body
section OF Georgia 70 would bleed
death And in that lies the that the A. b. A.
will not be "unked,"
est for spewng blue fog OF depression They will
advantage OF this habaned tommyrot swing their
Pity them folks thank God that you aren't like Them
The A. b. & A. railroad is going to unked 1t is true
that the road has lost heaps OF it, since
last fall Do you know other business of the South
unked just because OF few months bad the
common OF people who seriously consider the silly
ton that the A. B. A. railroad may be unked because of
Mr. Buggs statements the and to show
the professional and the business making money
1t takes no financial genius to predict that the road will be making
money when Junk the
A. B. & A.? Ridiculous! RIDICULOUSu
The bad business of previous administrations
the A. b. A. to which the present has fallen
may be handicap the road and difficult than if
should be to produce balance the right ledger
month But has done before under the
and it will do again
This editorial not intended argue way the other as
10 proposed That able
The railway labor board be trusted decision
Will have all the facts from the employees and from
We believe that justice will be done.
But regardless of whatever they
half double them, the A. b. A. railroad to continue o
operate and this section develop into the FL
Dorado is aed to become The who otherwise is do
ing an unwaraned damage to Fitzgerald and the other along
the line.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-04
Not a Bite of
Breakfast Until
You Drink Water
Says glass of hot water and
phosphate prevents illness !,
and keeps US fit.

just as coal when it burns, leaves
behind incombustible ashes, so the
food and drink taken day after day
leaves in the alimentary canal indi-
gestible material, which if not COM
pletely eliminated from the system
each day, becomes food for the mill
lions of bacteria which infest the
bowels From this mass of leftover
waste, toxins, and ptomainelike poi
sons are formed and sucked into the
blood
Men and women who can't get feel
ing right must begin to take inside
tbs Before breakfast each morn
ing drink a gldes Of hot water, with
teaspoonful Of limestone phosphate
in it to wash d 1T of he/bowels the
previous days pdisons>and toxins, and
to keep the entire a1imentary cana
clean, pure and fresh.
Those who are subject to sicl
headache, colds, biliousness, consti
patton, othess who wake up with bat
taste, foul breath, backache, rheu
matte stiffness, or have sour, gassy
stomach after meals, are urged to ge
quarter pound of limestone phos
phate from the drug store, and begin
practicing internal sanitation. Thi
will cost very little, but is sufficien
to make anyone an enthusiast OF
the subject 80 Adv.)
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-04
THE OLD FRACTIONAL JEALOUSY AT BOTTOM

Up III Washington people trying stink about
The American Farm Bureau federation and Directing the
federal departments of agriculture
They have right object they This free country
But from Ben Hill county at least will
objections successful in leading rulings that
close cooperation between
mers as organized in the farm bureau.
We hold no brief for the American Farm federation
against any other farm organization the Grange
iatons in America The farm bureau organization
fnay not be better not be good the Others We
know his editorial is not puposed deal in theory
eraes; 1t is concerned with facts And the hand
would suggest that the federal and departments
officially authorize county and other agricultural
TO accept the place secretary of the farm
a secretary of its
In Ben Hill county the bureau federation is accomplishing
more valuable work than other farm organization
mas ever mad 1t serving not only members OF the
councils but all the farmers that
ever served them The cooperation the
is making possible for the county agent who secretary do
rected with the organization.
Already he has been able open sweet potatoes
syrup corn hay velvet beans and other products farmers
at ne could not have opened had he
Had he represented the
support OF its members he could have markets
mas opened Farm bureau organizations fourteen
close ouc with the Ben Till
with It, All this work infancy,
scratched None OF the markets have been
several thousand dollars worth business the local
mas done is just taste OF the business
ing through the trade arteries of the
directly the farmer without first flowing through the touous
artificial channels it customarily does
We do suggest shouId
favor the farm bureau where the Farmers Union
locals that actually unconing In believe that
any two national farmers organizations should try establish
the same community But the principal which
the ben hill county farm bureau and
ing good and producing good results Not has
had to object
county agent, Mr. {. T. Owens,
capacity and directing farm bureau affairs small likelihood
that any farmer member or non-member will have
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-04


lie League room where the guests
wee nntertained was beautifully dec
red hearts, ribbon streamers
in red and white, and red and white
iaponicas, Narcissi and ferns The
Valentine idea was carried out in
every detail
The business session was called to
order by the President, Mr., R. Raine,
and after the regular order of business
was disposed of the committees for
the month was appointed as follows:
Visiting committee, Mrs. Burr
Stokoe. Mrs. A. D. GRIPPE, Mrs. John
Justice, Mrs Ray Frey.
Introduction committee: Mrs. F. R.
Justice, and Mrs. E N. Davis. Sew
eral matters of Importance were
brought before the meeting to be dis
cussed at the next regular board
meeting.
Meeting adjourned to meet the
first Thursday night in March
After an hour spent in social way
delicious refreshments were served,
consisting of cake, sandwiches, red
and white heart cookies, salad and hot
tea.
About fourty-five guests were pres
ent.
Epworth Class meets at 1000 o.
clock every Sunday morning. at the
corner of Lee and Magnolia Streets
and is always ready to welcome new
members.
Class Reporter
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-04
SOMETHING ABOUT COTTON
YOU MAY NOT KNOW

About 90 of the worlds supply is grown in
America
Cotton Indigenous all tropical countries
Sea Islands, off the Atlantic of
arr the finest coons in the world
The boil weev has Sea Island cotton
industry.
The boil weev first appeared States at at Browns
VILE Texas, in 1892.
single pound OF cotton has been spun into single thread
than 900 miles in length
The Visible Supply of supply on any
given date two entirely different things
Manufacture of goods very foundation British
wealth.
The average price of middng leading cotton mar
kets in the South Saturday was 14O3 cents
The statistical for cotton from August 3st
LIS Census Bureau 100000 bales gnned to Ian 10th
The ginning report will be published March 10th
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-04
EPWORTH CLASS ENTER
TANNED AT CHURCH

The members and few friends OF
the Epworth Class of the First M. +
Church were delightfully."- entertained
at church Thursday night by COM
mittee consisting of Mr.. and Mrs. J
s. Burke, Mr. and Mrs c. A. New
conner, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Kim
ball, Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Downing, Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Grippe, and Mrs. E. n
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-04
Mass Meeting Adopts
Strong Resolution

The Chamber of Commerce of Fitz-
gerald, Ga, Passes Resolutions Rel
alive to the Retention of the A. B.
& A. Railway AS the Important
Factor in the Development of The
Section Which 1t Serves.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-19
PUZZLES
g RIDDLES

!. Behead a sly animal and
have an animal that once was used
to draw carts.
2. If a cent and a half is a cent
and a half, what is a cent and a
quarter?
3. What has a head but no hair?
4. Behead that which hunters
do and have a noise made by a
certain night bird.
5. What is the difference be
tween a buffalo nickel and an
Indian head penny?
Answers to these are found in
another part of this weeks Junior.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-19
Turkey Loves
Much Liberty

The turkey is so far from being
foolish that we have not in the
poultry-yard a more impassioned
lover Of liberty. In their native
country turkeys wander through
the great woods from morning to
night in untiring search of insects
and fat larvae, fruit and seeds OF
all kinds, aCOrns and nuts espec-
iaily, of which they are fond. Thus
the stay-at-home habits of the poul.
try-yard do not suit them at all.
They must have the open air of the
fields and the exercise of long
walks. Moors, woods, hills abound
ing in grasshoppers, are their fay-
orite haunts. Their timid nature
makes them very doCile. A child
armed with a long switch is enough
to lead the flock to the fields, how
ever numerous it may be. Then,
step by step, today in one direction.
tomorrow in another, the flock ex-
plOres the stubble and CLEANS grain
fallen from the ear, traverses the
grassy meadows where the crickets
leap, and penetrates the woods
where is found abundant pasturage
of chestnuts, beechnuts and acorns
From "Our Humble Helpers by
j. II. Fabre.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-19
The Thanksgiving Dinner

Scene: Living room at du SIX.
Dick Woods enters and throws
himself into big chair at back of
stage. He stretches sleepily.
Time: Day before Thanksgiving.
DICK: Ho-ho-hum, but am
tired
This chair feels mighty good to me
The house s as quiet as tomb;
Wonder where - the folks - can
(Enter Sandman, a boy dressed
as old man with big burlap sack on
his back. Walks across the stage,
chantlng)
Foggy brain and heavy head,
Eyelids feel like Jumps of lead;
Drifting, drifting off to sleep
Now you're wrapped in slumbers
deep.
exit Sandman. Greenish light
comes over the room. Groaning
heard outside.)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-19

to help him. Between them they
managed, after a hard struggle, to
get Billy in the crate. but as they
were trying TO fasten the lid on he
burst out of il, jumped out of the
car door, ran as hard as he could
and soon was safe from pursuit
and alone in the streets of Paris.
With a natural instinct to hide
from the men who wanted to put
him in that close, uncomfortable
box, he turned into the alleyways
and dark, narrow streets and for a
long time ran on without meeting
anyone. But this sort of thing was
not very much to Billy's liking.
He. wanted to see all the excite
ment that there was, so by-and-by,
he turned into on eof the broad.
brilliantly lighted streets, where he
trotted along sedately. minding his
own business and looking around
him curiously at the gayly dressed
throngs. A great many people
turned around to look after him
and laugh. he trotted along so sol
EMMY.
Copyright by the Saalfield Pub
fishing Co, Akron, %
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-19
lS@ILlyWEII.@KERC CS|';
1>/ FRANCES TREGO MONTGOMERY 80


! pots and pin-wheels filled the air,
| splitting and spluttering, popping
about from one end of the car to
the other, bouncing first off the
man and then off the goat. No
| place was safe. The side Of the
box was soon burst open by the
force OF the explosions. and the
fireworks came tumbling out at
greater speed than ever.
Both Billy and the express agent
were hit until they were bruised
and burned and sore all over. Billy
had great deal of hair singed off
and the express agents face was
as black as a coal miners. The
smoke became so thick that they
could scarcely see, and it smarted
and blinded their eyes until the eX-
press agent thought to open the
side doors when the rapidly rush
ing wind swept in and carried
away most of the smoke.
Luckily the car did not catch
fire, though some of the goods that
were being expressed, did, The
agent had a pail of drinking water
in the car and as soon as the fire
works were nearly burned out he
ran around from one place to an
other using his water sparingly
and beating out the fire wherever
he could.
Billy, too. seemed to know that
burning things were dangerous, for
when bundle of rugs began to
shoulder, he jumped on them with
his feet until the fire was beaten
out. The express agent saw him
at this and he at once forgot his
anger at the goat. Billy went scam
pering around after that, stamping
out fire wherever he could find a
coal. After all danger was past
and the express man tidied up his
car, he sat down putting and
looked at Billy.
We'll, Mr., Goat" said he, we've
had busy time of it and | guess
we'd better be friends. Don't you
tell on me and | won't tell on you.
| don't want to let anyone know
that | was smoking pipe any
how. It's against the rules of the |
company"
"Baah," said Billy, and that's all |
the talk they had about it. After
that they had no further trouble |
except the the express agent tried |
to coax Billy back into his crate,
but had to give it up as a bad job.
1t was night when te train bear
ing Billy Mischief drew into Paris.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-19

time to find anything, however,
and chased him from one end of
the car to the other. At last the
man stopped in front of the big box
that he had taken on at the last
station, and waited for Billy to
jump for him. When Billy jumped
he sprang aside and let the goat
plunge head first into the side Of
the box, breaking open one Of the
boards. and hurting his head con
siderably.
By this time the man was at the
other end of the car and laughing
Billy ran after him again, but this
time he knew the mans ways
When he started to dodge back
from the end of the car, Billy also
turned like flash and was right
after him. This time he got him
and gave him bump that sent
the man sprawling headlong on the
floor. AS the man went down, his
arm gave jerk and his lighted
pipe went through the hole that
Billy had butted in the big box.
The man was just scrambling to
his feet when a big, blue ball of
fire shot out of the side of the box
and scooted along his back. Billy
had wheeled to give the man an
other dose of his medicine, but just
then a ball of red fire hit him
in the side adm he, too, tried to
hunt a corner. The box was full Of
fireworks that was being shipped
for a lawn fete, and far the next !
few minutes there WITS the most ex- |
citing time that ever happened /
inside of an express car going at
full speed.
PART II.
As Billy and the express agent /
jumped about the car, skyrockets ,
and Roman candles, whistling
bombs and silver fountains, flower
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-19

-ss> l.
At the next stop Billy's train
made, however, the express agent,
while he was taking on the parcels,
slammed a heavy box on top of the
crate. Billy heard the timbers
crack and felt the box giving end
wise a trifle. For q moment he
was afraid that the heavy box
would break down his crate and
squeeze him flat underneath it, but
as soon as the train had started
again the messenger moved the box
into the far end of the car and
Billy was delighted to find that at
last the boards on one side OF his
prison were loosened. The messen-
ger had laid aside his glowing pipe
at this stop, but now he took it
up again, although smoking was
against the rules. and came over to
tease Billy. He had no more than
thrust his hand through when Billy
lurched his body sideways as hard
as he could against the boards, and
out he tumbled.
He was on his feet as quick as a
cat and made jump at the man.
The express agent lodged him and
ran to the far end of the car, hunt
ing wildly for something with
which to strike the angry goat.
Billy was up to him before he had
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-19
With a Silver Flute

| wish | had a silver flute.
I'd go down to the dell,
Beside the brook, beside the rock,
Where all the echoes dwell.
And there I'd play a lovely tune,
'Twould be so very sweet
That all the little woodland folk
Would gather round my feet
The rabbits and the squirrels
would come
To hear my music fine,
And burly humble bees would sit
All nicely in line,
And pretty little birds would perch
Nearby, politely mute,
To hear me play in tones SO gay
Upon my silver flute.
Christian Science Monitor.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-19
Bang! Bangi

Rastus had been given now @uo
for his birthday. He was trying it
out in the presence of his Iatuer
who was reading his paper
Stop dat noise wild dat gum" or
dered his father impatiently.
'Taint nah fault answered
Rastus. Abs pullin' de triggah
easy as All kin"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-19
A HIDDEN BIRD

The Turk eyed the sailor hard
Did you allow the prisoner to es,
cape without attempting to stop
him? No. said the COB 'Blertin
and 4 ran after him Hiddea in
this sentence are two words form
ing the name of a certain thing
popular on Thanksgiving Day,
Answer: Turkey gobler.