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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-23
POTASH IN WOOL RECOVERED
Small Washer Has Been Designed and
10 Being Tried by the Bureau
Of Chemistry.

A small wool washer made for re.
covering potash from fleeces III solu-
ton Of sufficient concentration to make
the recovery Of the potash profitable
has been designed and is being tried
out by the bureau Of chemistry Of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. 1t is said that the average
fleece contains about per cent Of pO-
fash by weight, but In the ordinary
method Of washing wool it comes out
in such dilute solution that it does not
pay to recover the salt.
About 6O0,OO0,OOO pounds Of wOOT
are secured in the United States each
year, and If only 3 per cent of potash
is recovered 1t would amount to 49,
100000 pounds Of actual potash that
would be available for use in fertiliz-
ers. Some nitrogen is also recovered
from wool along with the potash.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-23

be kept closely pastured, however.
since otherwise 1t quickly grows tall,
blooms and becomes woody. If the
field is left In sweet clover during 1923
1t can be pIOwed that fall for grain
or go into corn in 1924. e
Do Not Improve Soil.
During the past few years large
crops of small grain and of corn have
been grown, but these have not always
proved profitable, and, of course, have
not helped to improve the land. The
question OF what to do under these
circumstances is important. II cash
returns are necessary the land not put
into corn may be planted to soy beans.
This crop will require as much labor
as corn, however. Where the great
est possible economy in operation ID
to be combined with soil Improvement
the farmer will have to turn t6fsrass
or clover.
Every farmer must Judge for himself
whether to grow corn, whether to sub
stitute soy beans or some other crop,
or whether to rest the land and de.
rive little a ne income from II for one
season. TIE. above suggestion IL Of
fered by the Department Of Agricul.
ture as one way to improve the land
while resting It, and to do this with
tho miniuum Of expense and labor.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-23
STRAWBERRIES ALL SUMMER
Popular Varieties Are Progressive and
s0psFb-Rsslstant 70 Leaf-epot
pioeasea

Strawberry plants which will con-
tinue to produce strawberries until
hard frosts occur may be grown in
all Of the northern United States and
In the mid-western states. The two
leading varieties Of this type Of straw
berry, the progressive and the superb,
are notable because they are excep-
tionally resistant to leaf-spOt diseases.
Another remarkable Characteristic Of
these varieties Is that II their blooms
are killed by frost they soon flower
again. Therefore. In sections subject
to late spring frosts, which often
destroy the crop, these varieties are
particularly valuable United States
Department Of Agriculture
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-23
.HASTY CONCLUSIONS
SHOULD BE AVOIDED
All Angles Of Farm Enterprise
Should Be Considered.
u Cows Were Sold There Would B6
No Way Of Using RouUhaoe-La-
Dor Also Would BE Lost, Ad-
ding Another Burden.

prepared By the United States Departments
Of AGrieulture.)
Hasty conclusions should be avoided
In making use Of the results Of the
years cost accounts for improving the
organization Of the farm, warns the.
United States Department Of Agricul--
ture. All good farmers know that
sometimes 9 positive decrease in
profits may ensue If an enterprise be-
dropped because, taken alone. 1t has
failed to pay. Cows, for instance, may
not show a net profit, but II all thu
cows were sold there might be no
other way Of using the roughage,
which would become dead loss. La
Dor devoted night and morning to
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-23

milking and feeding cows, and
charged to them, would be entirely
lost If the cows were sold and moth
ing supplied to fill in the time. Thus
an added burden for the maintenance
of labor would have to be borne BY
the other enterprises.
The fact that the hogs or the corn
crop bring the most net money during
the season Is no reason for assuming
that all the activities Of the farm in
the future should be devoted solely to
hogs or corn. 1t may be that the keep
ing Of cows is partly responsible for
making hogs so profitable, or that the
growing Of wheat, clover, or other
crops in rotation with corn makes the
latter crop much more profitable than
1T would have been II grown alone.
Similar conditions will be met with
on all farms and, therefore, no sudden
changes should be made on the basis
of what a single years accounts may
indicate. All angles of the enterprise
should be taken into consideration.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-23
rruek eroWers Hold MeetInu.

Crystal Springs-A meeting of much
interest was held here when about Al
farmers and business men met for
the purpose OF deyising means Of en-
larging the canning factory and Of In.
stalIing in connection Herewith a
mixed feed factory and cream station.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-23
IMPROVING SOIL
AT LITTLE COST
Sweet Clover Is Admirably Adapt
ed Where Decreased Corn
Acreage Is Advisable.
CROP MAY Be SEEDED ALONE
Fair Yield Of Excellent Hay May Be
Cut II Conditions Warrant-FanmsF
Must Judge for Himself What
Crop to Grew.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Where a reduction Of corn acreage
seems advisable and the land has lime
enough, sweet clover will lend itself
admirably to soil improvement at low
cost. While the usual way Of seeding
is on winter grain or. with spring
grain, the United States Department
Of Agriculture advises that 1t may
well be seeded alone on land that Ia
now without d crop. Such land
should be narrowed as early as pos
sible and the seed narrowed in, or
where the land dries slowly the seed
may be scattered directly on the
ground as the frost is coming out.
There is no need to pillow, and SO prac-
tically the whole expense will consist
Of the cost of the seed which at pres
ent is low. Scarified seed should be
used.
Small Cost ct Seed.
The price Of white sweet clover seed
Is today considerably less than half
that Of red clover. If the seed is on
the ground early the plants will keep
ahead Of the weeds and, by September
or October, fair crop Of excellent
hay can be cut II conditions warrant
the expense of cutting. The hay will
have practically the same value as
alfalfa or red clover hay. In the
spring Of next year the new growth can
be turned under for corn If that crop
is desired, or the field can be used
for pasture.
Sweet clover Is one Of the best pas
ture plants known. If pastured heav-
lily enough 1t will keep green and
growing all through the summer when
most grass pasture dries up. 1t must
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-23

ne ca situation in COpiah county
ms grown 10 such an extent that
Snhatn Consolidated school at
TTsSsehurst has elossd rs sessions for
awo weeks,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-23
Alm,IsrIeanl.L ..alon h hoo per cent.

AueFIcan LeB loH ~ IUU FeF Cent.
CoIdEIaterTh The American Legion
membership herels now mp to 100 per
cent. as al. ex-saryIce men In Cold
water and within radius Of five miles
are mehF1r Of TIE Il ca organization.
, 1922-05-31

n HICAGO.-Miss Emily Mol, eigh-
- teens of 5122 Leavitt street, is no
undertaken. In fact, she Is proprie-
tress of a Sheridan road beauty parlor
n herself one of her own best ad-
refreshments. But she is an expert
on funerals.
In the last two days she has at
tended her own funeral twice. She's
scheduled to go through the "agony"
again today. The schedule has been
arranged through obituary notices re-
Gently published. Both funerals"
have beer highly successful except that
there has been a lack OF a corpse,
mourners, minister, flowers and every
thing else "funereal." Even her mother
has given up the task of watching her
daughter greet the mourners as they
arrive.
, 1922-05-31
Gust the Wife of Dudley Field Malone

NEW YORK.-Marriage has wrought
IN little change In the feminist views
of Doris Stevens, erstwhile suffrage
picket and now the wife Of Dudley
Field Malone, former collector OF the
port. Miss Stevens, formerly Of Omaha,
and her husband have returned from
a trip TO France and England.
AS to her name. Miss Stevens has
decided that save for occasional social
purposes she will not adopt that of
her husband. The cause Of this, she
said. is not that she is so proud Of
her maiden name or that she considers
1t a matter OF vital Importance, but
because she believes the change in
name hinders the freedom of thought
and conduct of both parties to the mar
,iage contract.
III l become Mrs. Malone" she
vent on" every political move I make
and every opinion ! express reflects to
some degree on M husband. II he
holds different views from mine. which
Is certainly his privilege, why should
he have TO suffer because OF the
similarity OF nnme? Also. IL we should
support two different political candl-
dufes. for example, my work would be
discounted with the remark. She's
, 1922-05-31

about a wife and child in Philadelphia.
"Claypoole with 215 p~risoners) was
placed on board the ship Symmetry
and was exchanged on reaching Amer
lea. He sought out Mrs. Ashbura.
who was so favorably impressed with
him, that they We're married. May
s, 1888. Five daughters were born
to them, one, Clarissa, married a VIII
son. and succeeded asrr mother in the
Flag making business.
"The original number and street of
the Flag house was 50 Mulberry
street but Mulberry was changed to
Arch. The numbers began at the
Delaware river, alternating on north
and south side of the street. In
1855 the present system of number
ing in all cities originated In Phil
adelphia, giving 100 TO ZACH block
Cor square, in local parlance of that
city,, the Flag house becoming 239.
The writer lived below the old house
a short time before the new system
of numbering was adopted, when
Mrs. Mund then kept a tobacco store
In it, and refused large sums of
money for parts of the house as
relics"
Then follows civilian J.. Canby's
statement:
st is not tradition, 1t is report from
the lips of the principal p%articipator
In the transaction directly told, not
to one or two, but to a dozen or more
living witnesses. of whom l am one,
though but a little boy when l heard
1t. l was eleven years old when Mrs
Ross died in our house, and we'll re-
member her telling the story. 1 have
the narrative from the oldest of my
aunts, reduced in writing in 1857.
This aunt, Mrs. Clarissa Wilson, sue
ceeded to the business of making flags
which had been exclusively held by
Mrs. Ross, and she continued to
make flags for the navy yard and the
%arsenals FOR many years until. being
conscientious on the subject of war,
she gave up the government business,
but continued the mercantile business
until 1857. Washington was a fire.
quent visitor at my grandmother's
house, before receiving command of
shirt ruflles and did many other
things for him. He knew her skill
with the needle. Colonel Ross, with
Robert Morris and Central Wash
lngton, called upon Mrs. Ross and
told her they were a COMMITTEES OF
congress and wanted her to make the
Flag from a drawing, a rough one,
which upon her suggestion was. re-
drawn by General Washington,
chiefly because the stars We're six
cornered, and not five cornered. !
fix the date to be during Washing
toms visit to congress from New York
when he came to confer upon the af-
fairs of the army, the Flag being, no
doubt, one of these affairs"
, 1922-05-31

Mr.. Alrich died in the veal 1917.
AS l could not lift the forms alone,
and everybody was gone to war;"
says Mrs. Alrich, 81 was obliged to
close business.
"The statement was made in the
National Tribune, Washington. ID. O..
that the story of Betsy Ross and the
flag is a myth / want to get the
REPUTATION of Mr.. Alrich before the
public. l shall send a copy to every
historical society in the United States.
The Kansas d. A. II. state convention
tool 1t up and Endorsed it and placed
1t in their records"
Mr.. Alrich, in the Civil war, was
a member of Company B, Bakers Cali
fornia regiment (Seventy-first Penn
sylvania infantry. Mrs. Alrich Is
senior vice president of the Notional
Woman's Relief Corps. Aiaric G. Al
rich. their son. is past division com
mander, Sons of Veterans of Kansas.
Mrs. Alrich has printed a pamphlet
with the title, History, Not Myth
which contains her husbands "refuta-
ton mentioned in the foregoing.
Mrs. Alrich's pamphlet begins thus /:
; 'The statement recently made that
the story of Betsy Ross and the Flag
is a Myth aroused a feeling that 1
would not be loyal to the memory of
my late husband, Levi l.. Alrich of
Bakers California regiment (Seveaty-
first PENNSYLVANIA infantry. who en-
listed May, 1861. and took part in
Is battles in IS months. unless pub
LEFTY was given to his response to the
same remark several years ago.
Born and reared in Philadelphia,
Pa, he improved the opportunities
of research. ia the State Historical
society; the records of the Friends
meetings; also of the Holland Society
of New York; the latter in the de-
scent from Jacob and Peter Alrich,
Dutch governors of Delaware, under
Peter ~Stuyvesant of New York.
"In 1868, when frequenting places
of information, he met William j.
Candy, who had the only genealogical
tree of the Candy family in America !;
beginning with Thomas Candy, who
came from Thorn, England, in 1885.
which has on it all of his 16 children
and their descendants down to
1868. One Susan Candy. married a
Peter Alrich, who was the p%aternai
grandfather of Levi l.. Alrich, while
Susan was the maternal grandmother
of William j. Candy.
"This tree is tangible evidence that
William ]. Candy is not a myth and
, 1922-05-31
Texas to Send Two Blantons to House?

EORT WORTH, TEX.-Texas has
the unusual spectacle of sister
and brother running for congress.
Moreover. the brother asserts his en-
emies are trying to hurt his sisters
chances for election the sister says
her enemies are trying TO keep her
brother down. The woman is Miss
Annie Webb Blanton of Denton. The
man is Congressman Thomas L. Blan-
ton of Abilene.
Miss Blanton at present Is state SUI
p~eriItendent of instruction in Texas.
and she is given credit for having
made good. She is the first woman 80
hold the office.
She aspires to succeed the late Luz
clan w. Parrish, congressman, who
was candidate for the United States
senate and was fatally injured in
an automobile accident while cam
paignlng.
In her speeches Miss Blanfon bfls
vigorously defended her brothers sem
sational career In congress. For her.
self, she declares that she VIII make
the soldiers bonus her greatest object
If elected.
IF you do not want the ex-service
men t get this bonus. then do not
vote for me- she advises her audi
ences.s
She has one opponent In the race,
, 1922-05-31
TALES 81
@He -!
IL 9 CITES g III
Chance Wakes Corsetmakes Of Writer

only remembered the pen name of OIL
ney and SO my efforts were in yain.'
After delivering his address Norris
left at once to catch a train. After he
had gone a shy little woman who gave
her name as Mrs. Gene O. wierk ep-
preached the hostess.
where has Mr.. Norris. gone7 I
would like to tell him tEal / am the
writer of Blue Pearls" the woman
said. "The rejection of the manu-
script. which l considered the best of
anything / had done. was the death
knell to my hopes of authorship"
The crowd gathered around and lis
tened as Mrs. Wierk unfolded her tale
of girlhood hopes and disillusionment.
when the manuscript Of Blue
Pearls came back / figured 1 was a
failure ms a novelist and had better
go to work and learn some business.
l never wrote another story" she
said. II learned the trade of corset
making. Eventually l married."
Norris was notified of the discovery
of GLADYS Ethel Oiney" and wired
that he would return to Oakland to
take Mrs. Wierk In hand in hopes
of reawakening the spark of genius
that may be dormant but never dies
Mrs. Wierk takes the affair with
quiet resignation and continues to con-
duct her corset shop.
, 1922-05-31

just the wife of Dudley Field Malone
1.-THE best example Of this that l
have ever seen was at the time Of the
picketIng In Washington. A number
of women who would willingly have
died for the we're unable to take
their place in the picket line because
to do so would involve publicity. which
might easily mean the dismissal Of
their husbands from the public offices
which they held"
Miss Stevens says she would not
be surprised to see the return of q
matriarchy some day. At present 1t
requires a super-woman to be able
both to build up a home and to main
tain a public career.
, 1922-05-31

State Senator Quinn Williams of Deca-
tur, who is conducting an active cam
paign.
Miss Blanton said she would not run
for congress IL the widow of Parrish
sought the honor. So, when Mrs. Par
IRISH announced she would run, Miss
Blanton promptly withdrew her name.
After a few days Mrs. Parrish decided
not to enter the contest, so the state
school superintendent brew her bon
set into tile ring to stay.
Miss Blanton's grear-grandfather
fought in the Texas wal for independ=
ence. Her mothers father. w. q.
Webb, was a general In the Mexican
war; her own ff,tiier Fought In the
confederate army.
Miss Blanton is a graduate of the
University of Texas and has studied
at the University Of Chicago.
, 1922-05-31

from his Quaker training not inclined
to perpetrate a lie on the public, when
he in 1870 prepared a paper on the
Flag which he read before the Penn
sylvania Historical society, also told
the story, not from tradition, but as
told by Mrs. Ross to Mr.. Candy"
hen follows the REPUTATION. among
the papers OF Mr.. Alrich, as he used 1t
on previous occasions. 1t contains the
following:
"A myth exists only in the imag-
ination. Is Betsy Ross a myth? Did
such a person live, and did she make
the first Stars and Stripes which we
now reverently speak of as old
Glory?
ut is recorded that some time be-
tween May % and June z, 1777,
Commander in Chief George Wash
ington, accompanied by the committee,
Robert Morris and Col. George Ross
Ga relative of Betsy called on her,
and there after consultation, in
structed her to make the Flag. The
American congress resolved, on Sat
urday, June IA, 1777. that the Flag
of the United States be 13 stripes
alternate red and white. that the
union be 10 stars, white on a blue
field, representing a new constella-
tion.' This was substantially the
design agreed upon by the commit
tee and made by Betsy Ross.
but who was Betsy Ross? Her
maiden name was Griscom. Elisabeth
Griscom, porn in 1852, of Quaker par
ents, Samuel and Rehecca Griscom.
Samuel was a descendant of Andrew
Griscom. who brought the first cargo
of bricks from England. Of which this
famous house was built. Elisabeth
married John Ross. an Episcopalian,
and for this awful misdemeanor she
was expelled from the Friends soci
ETY., and becoming an Episcopalian,
with her husband, worshiped IN the
Old Christ Church, only a short dis
lance from her home. and where the
pew she occupied (No. 12) is still
marked to designate 1t as hers. as is
also her grave in Mount Moriah Gem
etery. beside her husband, Claypoole.
General Washington also worshiped in
the same church, and his pew is also
marked. and both are shown today.
1.-TWO children were born to John
and Betsy Ross. one Zillah dying in
infancy. The other was named
Eliza. Ross died when a young man,
his widow being at the time of the
episode twenty-five years of age. Ross
an upholsterer, his widow con
timing the business. was so occupied
! when the committee called upon her.
Widow Ross married Joseph Ash
burn, who was devoted to the cause of
the young republic, and a cap
tured by the British and died in Mill
prison at Portsmouth, England. Dur
ing his Imprisonment he told a fellow
prisoner. John Claypoole. his story
, 1922-05-31
It's Only Emily's Love That's Dead


Yesterday a man approached En-
ily's home. He stepped to the door
Emily answered the summons of his
knock.
"Howdo." said the man. 'Tm Mr..
Goetz.' / came to attend your sis
ter Emily's funeral. Too bad. Isn't
itf"
That's awfully nice of yon." she
smiled. "only-you see I'm Emily"
mfr. Goetz" almost collapsed. He
was invited to rest until he regained
his composure. While wondering II
he should report the case to Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle, Emily answered
four other knocks at the door. "Mr.
Goetz" heard her say:
mo, thanks. We don't need IN
monuments"
"The corpse requested that no pic
ture be taken"
"Oh, my, yes. we have a cemetery
lot"
PAY for an obituary notice7 Not
while I'm alive"
Then Emily explained what 1t was
all about. She asserted q Tilted srlt-
or had sought revenge by prlLtIn-
obituary notices for Emily after he
learned her love for him was dead.
Ming Eley, attorney for Emiiy's
father, Is chasing the suitor.
, 1922-05-31

and Joneses to vie with the less recent
Deweys and Teddy Roosevelts.
One service man OF the American
Legion has. however, started the nam
ing of babies after the national com
mander of the Legion of the year In
which h child was born. The first
on record is young Hanford Morris.
Atlanta, Ca, born a few days after
Hanford Mac;sider. Mason City, Ia,
was elected national commander of
the Legion. His father, Albert II.
Morris, is a member of Atlanta post
No. ! of the Legion.
Recently an ex-soldier of Chicago
went into court and asked to be al
lowed to drop his middle name. which
was unpronouncable, he declared. The
court gave permission and the service
man, an enthusiastic Legionnaire,
chose the name of Legion to accom-
pany him through life.
, 1922-05-31

aiong who Is the mother of % children.
10 peat Mrs. Caranek's 81.
A child had come to Mrs. Caranelks
house each year for 81 years when
America entered the World war.
Which of the 81 was dearest to her
she herself could not tell, but when the
two eldest boys, Joseph and Louis.
vent away to war the large Caranek
family was cast into shadow. "What
else should l do?" Mrs. Caranek ques
toned. They are Americans and
their country needs them. II 1t Is a
duty TO raise children, 1t Is right to
make them love their country" But
when Joseph and Louis came home-
Joseph served overseas with the Rain
bow division and fought in four big
battles. while Louis fought In and
round Camp Beauregard-the little
grocery store could scarce contain the
Joyful celebration.
Mrs. Caranek came to America when
she was fifteen years old, leaving her
native village of P~etravlce in Czecho-
slovakia. She Is f~orty-seven years old
now n her husband Is hfty-eight
The youngest child is six years old and
the Oldest t~wenty-eight. Mrs. Caranek
has been to but one motion-picture
show In her life and she left before
that one was over. She works from
hye in the morning until ten at night
In her grocery. And she hasn't a gray
hair and has never been sick but once
and enjoys life.
, 1922-05-31

OAKLAND, CALF.-Charles Norris,
- editor and writer and husband of
Kathleen Norris, the novelist. spoke
recently before the Oakland Literary
club. when l was working for a
certain publisher fifteen years ago."
Norris said, there came into my
hands a story entitled Blue Pearls
contributed by a young woman under
the pen name of Gladys Ethel Olney.
"As soon as l read the story I
knew 1t was the work of a genius. De-
lighted beyond words with my find.
| o 1t to the other members of the
staff. who were just as enthusiastic.
"Then somebody Numbered. The
manuscript vas mixed up with some
others and was sent back to the au-
thor with the fatal blue rejection slip.
/ moved heaven and earth to locate
the author of Blue Pearls But /
, 1922-05-31
consIder Astarv lilac an lnsuIt.

The idea, conceived by the w. @. T..
o. Of putting star flags in windows of
homes where no liquor is consumed. is
protested by an American Legion post
In San Francisco, composed entirely
of newspaper men. The Legion men
claim that the liquor star flag is an
atroc.ous plagiarism of the service
flag of war days, and that 1t is an in
suit to all former service men.