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The spectator., 1922-03-07
(. E. Valentine Dies of
 Pneumonia

C. E. Valentine passed away at his home in Ozark about twelve o'clock Saturday night after a brief illness from pneumonia. While his condition was alarming yet death came earlier than even his nurse had expected and every one was shocked Sunday morning when the news went out that Uncle Charley" Valentine was dead. Only few knew of his illness. :s.a
 Funeral services were held at the Nazarene church Monday at 2:30 D. m. by the pastor of that church. Rev. Van Arsdale. He was assisted by Rev. w. J. Faust of the Methodist Church and Rev. J. K. Smith of the Baptist Church. The Church was filled with friends and acquaintances who had known and loved Mir. Valentine. through the many years that he lived in Ozark. The Masons held the finale service at the grave. Mir. Valentine had not been an active member of that fraternity for number of years but on account of his long and loyal membership, he had been made an honorary member. Favorite songs of the deceased were sung by request.
 Mir. Valentines christian life was ever joyous, He seemed to have a clearness of spiritual in. sight and religious fervor and he lived in such a way that his life and words were never misunder. stood. His was the victorious life. he was often heard to say, Il am ready" and He being dead yet speaketh.,
The spectator., 1922-03-07

Army horses and mules are now being fed q new form of compressed food which is expect ed to solve the question of feed ing army animals on expeditions or in time of the war. The food is in he form of compressed brick containing the finest grade of oats. with about l3 per cent pure cane molasses for food value. Four quarts of oats are used in each brick. Tests are now under way at Forts Robin son. Sam Houston and Bliss. in the United States. at Coblenz. Germany. which is occupied by American forces, and in the Canal Zone. The government has purchased 2O.0 tons for OK psrilnsntal purposes.
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Resolutions of Respect

Whereas; It has pleased the Great Creator of the Universe to call from among us dearly be- loved and respected brother, and whereas; this Local Union feels sadly the loss of the presence and help of our brother. and whereas; we feel that in the death of H. C. McElroy we have lost a good brother, friend, neigh bor and citizen, and we pass this resolution of respect for his memory, and extend to his family our sincere sympathy and goodwill.
 Be it also resolved: that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of our Local. a copy furnished to each of the local newspapers and a copy be delivered to his family.
 Done by order of Local Union No. .21O, F. E. and c. U. If A.
 Otto Hood and w. l. Kirksey,
 Commlttep
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lAIIeu

Sunday. Feb. 26th, at the brides home. the nuptial knot was tied that made Tommie Robertson and Miss Jessie Allen lefe-l0ng companions. The above mentioned are popular young people Gin other words they are chips off the old blocks. ) The two should be complimented for the selection of thelr life long partners. Rev. Graham, of Anice. said the word that made them one, after which congratu- lations were showered upon them which continued for several days. The bride has been a lifelong resident of Mill Creek To Snship The groom moving from near Oak Bend has only been with us about IA months. He has a good home which we presume will be a very happy one in days 10 come. The bride and groom came from religious families. They them selves being professed followers of Christ. Again we congratu. late the couple.
 By a Friend.
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NUMBER 63
Report of Grandjury.

To the Honorable J ames Cochran,
 Ju ge of the l5 Judicial Dis-
 trict:
 We the grand jury empane led by you for the February 1922 term of court, for the Ozark Di-trcf beg leave to submit the folio wing report:
 In the investig ton of such violations of the law as we felt demand or attention we have examlned So vitpe ses, at a total expense ot S1s0 80
 We have eturi ed 49 true bills.
 We hay examin, d tue reports of Justices of F, acc and find them in the m an correct. There are no reports rom some of the towns hips. but we understand thera are no Justices of the peaca m them.
 Wa nave examined he Jail and found it Tn exc lent C cndition. Being We'll cared for by Sheriff Harman and hls iallor. Claude TaIiey. Nerte5mmeD u hat the jail be screened It all early date. That two IT three eusplaors be provided tor the jail. That a stove be provided Tor the jail be- fore next wilter. We lound the prisoners well pleased with the treatment they are receiving at the hands of the sheriff and jail or and a unanimous expression of the appre eiatlon of the whole some food being provided by Mrs. Harman.
 We recommend to the Honor- able County Judge that ne have toilets add layatorles with water connections install ad in the Court House In such a manner as to pest accommodate those having business With the court.
 We desire to thank all the officials connected with the court for their cooperation in the iis- charge If our d utles
 We wish to thank Sheriff Har- man and his corps ot deputies for their prompt execution of subpoenas emanatlng from this grand jury and to the bailitf. Claude lalley. for the prompt and courteous manner in which he has waited upon this body.
 We have finished all lnvestiga- tions that we t0el demand our attention and respectfully ask that you diseharge Us.
 L. L. Ford, Foreman.
 Garland Hamm, Clerk.
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To Cotton Growers

All parties holding cotton at or near Mulberry, Ark. are request ed to meet at the Farmers and Merchants Bank. Saturday even. ing March 18th to make arrange ments to get up one or two cars of cotton to send to the state pool as we can get a much better price by selling through the pool.
 P. R. Anderson
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town training causes you to look for a double meaning to what you read. When you see Sallie Smith
 coming down the road you say,
 Wonder comes Salie, l do hope
 she is comin' here, Mary, run out
 to the gate and tell her to come
 in and spend the day: Carrie.
 redd up the porch a little so she
 can get in; howdy. Sally. (Narry
 a Smack and marry a Buss) you re awful good to stop; I'm just tuck
 cred out trying to do this big
 ironing and tend to a sick babv
 and the girls have been doctor ing the chickens and haven't even
 made up the beds yet and here 1t
 IS nine o'clock; say, Sallie, what
 do you give your chickens for the
 pip. I've done every fawn thing
 ] know to do and it looks like they
 are all eoner die: Mary, run and
 get that bottle of hive medicine and let Sallie see if it's the same
 Dr. Quackem fixed up for her
 little Johnnie; l set up half the
 night with the baby and this medicine didn't do any more good than that much water. Y" And at sundown as she leaves you say,
 You sure have been lots of help today and the first time you get in q tight send one of the boys over and Pll come and help yoa out: and Pm going to send Mary over to get the pattern of that new bonnet. it's the prettiest I've seen this year; and if John has money enough left when he sells his cotton he's goin' to get me a new calico dress and l want to borrow the pattern of that dress. 1t sets better on you than anything I've ever seen you wear and mercy knows you always look dressed up - Now Truth Seek err aint no pankin he's a moon- sinner up in the mountains and he read our articles as he went to build fire under his still, and missed a lot when he'd stumble. and he didn't understand any, thing except that you wanted to stop bootlegging and gambling,
 which would ruin his business, and we advised you to go easy.
 He intended to read it again. but his kindling was wet and The Spectator makes fine kindling, being SO dry. But that reform dope is mighty unpoplae, as the sheriff found out when he got his alleged poker players in court.
 He swore he caught them with the money on the table and the cards in their hands. One of the boys swore. Il sho want gamblin', Boss, day tawt me bettah den to play pokah long time ago and l aint played none sence." The jury took the boys word in pref.
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Circuit Court Adjourned
 To Meet May 22

Circuit Court adjourned Sat urday after a session of two weeks. While it was a long ses- sion and a heavy docket the cost was not as great as usual from the fact that few witnesses es were used.
 An adjourned term will be held May P to try some suits against the Western Coal and Mining Co.
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erence to the sherlff's and the boys are still ALLEGED ,oker players. My advIce t. you is to not buck pubic opinion. its too nerve raeking. Let 'em go to- the grave Pm learning it
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but you women could not elect { sheriff with nerve enough to raiC a gambling game in the fashion. able homes of the county, where the fair sex were gambling for a cut glass bowl. This reform dope Is shore not poplar. and you'd better read this like a country woman. and get the fact fixed in your noRgin that you will get in to a peck of trouble trying to get people to quit their meanness. You go calmly about your daily tasks and raise lots of chickens and children and raise 'em right like your mother raised you. and let this untoWard generation get into their autos and ride to h. the grave, we never can get this new bible language pat
 
 like we've got the old one. Now that's country talk means just what 1t reads. You know in town there IS so much euvy, ieal- ousY, prejudice and social and political ambition, every fellow trying to climb above the other fellow, that we use the language ot diplomacy-we say one thing and mean another. You remem- Der when you lived in town and SAW Sallye~ Smythe headed to- ward yolr house you would ex- clam In tragic toues, l do hope she aint cOmin here: well do be- ileve she IS. Yes, she IS, Carrye. run shut the>bed room door, the beds aint made up and the old long tongue thing will be gossip Ing all over town about 1t. do wish the old gad about hadn't come this morning l wanted to get this ironing 3one. She's just tralpsin' over town to show off that new spring hat, and look the little upstart has got on a new dress. 1 bet Ili take her down a peg or two. Marye. run out and meet her and take her into the parlor while l wash the sweat off my face and slip on my new house dtes and powder my nose. Hur- ny now, she'll be sticking her nose about the kitchen, if you don t head her off. :" Then when you get all dolled up you got a new novel Tn your hand anu languidIy oosed into the parlor and eushing. Fly exclaimed, Ohl SallVe. how glad l am you came this morning Smack. buss. I'm lonesome 1 just told Garry 1 hoped you'd come today, l so wanted to show you my new spring clothes. de- signed by Madame De Bustus of St. Louis who came over from Paris just this Spring Marye why didn't you bring Sallye out on the porch where 1t is cool? l was just studying up on the ad. dress that I'm to deliver next week at the Society for the Pre- ventlon of Graft Among Hus- band" and thinking made me so fred hat l was resting in the
 ammock, when I heard your sweet voice and l jumped up and said, there's dear Saliye. Just look at my dress. It's the latest color in foolyard silk and has this cute little crick in the back and stitch in the side that makes it look just heavenly on me. Isn't your dress beautiful, but it's such pity that these seamstresses here make such a botch of every thing. do believe, my dear, that the skirt hangs lopsided and it's a shame that the blue bow on you hat don't match the green figure in your dress. Madame De Bustem would never make such a mis take-You are not go- ing this soon are you? Just put l L A
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Call Meeting of North
 Franklin Co. Convention

The North Franklin County Convention, F. E. and c. U. of A. will meet in Special Session at Ozark March II, 1922, at 1U 8. m.
 A. A. Williams, County Sec.
 B. s. Williams. Vice Pres.
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From Woman Voter

DCoI DIOtuCt DukLOWs dtll sorry that you and the brother who answered me some time ago, have the opinion of women that you have. you both seem to have weighed them, and found them wanting. you surely must have been disappointed some time in life. The seeker of truth refer red me to the Bible. but he surely got his wires crossed for he re- ferred me to the 34 S6 verse of a chapter that only had 17 verses and the reference that applied to a woman keeping silence was written by Paul and everyone knows he was an old bachelor and a woman hater. Does any one who loves his wife or mother wish them to be dummies and slaves and not even have the privilege of a negro or an idiot. say no. if a man loves his wife. he will want her to be shoulder to shoulder with him in every thing, because if she is worthy to be his helpmate and the mother of his children. she is also worthy to vote. if by so doing she can bet ter the country any by her vote. The seeker of truth said the wo- men had the ballot for a long time and had not bettered 1t any. what is the reason? Because there are too many men like him that don't wish their womenfolk to understand anything abou, the laws or politics. He is much worse than the gambler or drunk ard because they have a reason and he has not only to keep the women in ignorance of what the men do or he maybe like the man who was jealous of his own moth er's literary fame and his anger knew no bounds when poor seamstress. whom he had pushed downstairs and crippled for life. received heavy damages, then he called them all kinds of names. But 90 be it. ever since Eve gave Adam the apple in the gar den of Eden. the men have been laying the blame for everything on the frall shoulders of the wo. men. When the men learn bet ter than to eat the apple maybe there won't be any more women deceived. While 1 know there are lots of women whose votes won't help 1 have still faith enough in my own sex to believe that more than half of them are good. and as long as the men run down the female sex it pays the better part of the mothers to fight for their daughters vel fare, and while the fight Is on here is one who will never turn back and flee as long as there IS an enemy 10 face.
 1 do hope that every true wo- man will vote in the next cleo tion. good or bad. The women in every community should or ganize 8 woman's voting club 50 they could all get together for we all know that united we stand divided we fall and 0 if we all get together We can elect the good men for office in spite of the men. because good men come m with us. That every woman will do her best is the hope of a
 Wopoap Vofor
 Now. we've played Whaley again. We forgot that you were raised in town and would likely give our remarks the wrong meaning. Ii you had been raised in the country you would have read the advice just as it was written kindly attempt to keep you out of the awful trouble we had been in the middle of. We iuat told vOu tO mt the soft medal
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Cravens.

1op of Alfred
 fs burned last tween l2 and -g his truck es and burn Toying about Hes of cotton |p. z bales be- |nsou, l to Kit Alfred Aiston. e is unknown.
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Dave underneath. The puncher knew
that if he had room Miller would
hammer his face to a pulp. He drew
himself dose to the barrel body, arms
and legs wound tight like hoops.
Miller gave a yell of pain.
"Lemme loose!" shrieked the man
on top. MY Gawd, you're KILN
mew
Dave had not the least idea what
was disturbing Miller's peace of mind,
but whatever it was moved to his adj
vantage. He clamped tighter, work
ing his heels into another secure posi-
ton. The big man beloved with
pain.
Miller was torn bowling from the
arms and legs that bound him and
Dave found himself jerked roughly
to his feet. The big rawboned fore
man was glazing at him above his
large hook nose.
Continued in Our Neyt Issue.)
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When Mixed with Sulphur ! Il
Brings Back Its Beautiful
Lustre at Once.

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Don't stay gray! Look young
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0Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
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THE AMERICAS TIMEs-REcoRDER.

Scarcely slackening speed, he swept
the pinto round the clump of mes
quite and was off for home.
Dave was halfway back before he
was sure that the thud Of Whisky
Bills hoofs was almost at his heels.
He called on the cowpony for last
squirt The plucky little horse an
swered the call, gathered itself for
the home stretch, for a moment held
its advantage
Then he knew that the bay was
running side by side with Chiquito.
The two horses raced down the
stretch together, Whisky Bill half a
length in the lead and gaining al
every stride. Daylight showed be
tween them when they crossed the
line. Chiquito had been outrun by q
speedier horse.
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face of malignant triumph. His SELF
control snapped, and in an instant
the whole course of his life was de-
fleeted from the path it would other
wise have taken. With flip he
tossed the tin cup so that the hot
coffee soused the crook.
"Goddelmightyr' screamed Doble,
learing to his feet. He reached for
his forty-ive, just as Sanders closed
with him. -sA Mszg -
Miller with surprising agility for a
fat man, got to his feet and launched
himself at the puncher. Dave flung
the smaller of his opponents back
against Steve, who was sitting tailor
fashion beside him. The gunman
tottered and fell over Russell, who
lost no time in pinning his hands to
the ground while Hart deity re-
moved the revolver from his pocket.
Swinging round to face Miller,
Dave saw at once that the big man
had chosen not to draw his gun. In
spite of his fat the gambler was a
rough-and-tumbler fighter of parts.
The extra weight had come in recent
years, but underneath it lay roped
muscles and heavy bones.
Instantly Dave plunged at him.
They went down locked together.
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CHAPTER III.


Hart came up to his friend grin
ming, well, you old horn-toad, we
got no kick comm, Chiquito run a
mighty pretty race. Only trouble
was his laigs wasn't long enough"
The owner of the pony nodded, a
lump in his throat He was not
thinking about his thirty-live dollars,
but about the futile race into which
he had allowed his little beauty to be
trapped. Dave would not be twenty
one till coming grass, and it still hurt
his boyish pride to think that his
favorite had been beaten.
The voice of George Doble cut in,
openly and Extensively jubilant. IN
tell you now that broomtail never
had a chance to beat Whisky Bill"
"Yore boss can run, sch" admitted
Dave.
HE didn't have to take the kinks
out of his legs to beat that plug"
You get our money" said Hart
quietly. Amt that enough without
rubin it in?"
The usual give-and-take of gay
repartee was missing at supper that
night. What hurt was that they had
been tricked, led likt lambs to the
killing. None of them doubted now
that the pack-horse of the gamblers
was ringer" These men had
deliberately crossed the path of the
trail outfit in order to take from
the yaqueros their money.
The punchers were sulky. Instead
of fair race they had been UP
against an open-and-shut proposition,
as Russell had phrased it. The jeers
of Doble did not improve their tenn
pers.
They say ones born every MN
ute, AID. Dawged if | don't believe
it." he sneered.
Audibly Hart murmured his senti-
nents aloud ''I'm liable to tel
these birds what / think of 'enl,
Steve, If they don't spend quite sorne
time layin' off'n us"
Don't tell it out loud. We might
hear you," advised Doble insolently.
'In regards to that, I'd sure worry
if you did,"
Dave was at that moment return
ing to his place with cup of hot
coffee. By some pefverse trick of
fate his glance fell on Doble's sinister
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q Wnlfl, Doys!
Inside of three minutes he had
placed hundred dollars. The terms
of the race were arranged and the
money put in the hands of the fore
man.
An hour later Buck Byington drew
Sariers aside.
Dave, you're chuckEe-haided
rabbit. If ever seen tinhorn sports
them two is such. They're collectin'
a livin' off'n suckers. Didn't you
sabe that come-on stuff? Their pack
horse is ringer. Both of 'em are
crooked as dogs hind laig."
"Maybeso," admitted the young
man. But Chiquito never went back
on me yet. These fellows may be
overplayin' their hand, don't you
Ireckon?"
mot chanel. That tumblebug
Miller is one fshy proposition, and
his sidekick Doble-say, he's the
kind of bird that shoots you in the
stomach while he's shakin' hands
with you. Me, | aim to button up
my pocket when them guys are
around"
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THE STANDARD
A STORE FULL OF BARGAINS
FOR MONDAY AND TUES

A STORE FULL OF BARGAINS
FOR MONDAY AND TUES
DAY.
At $4.95. Congoleum Rugs ;size
6x9 feet; over twenty patterns,
value $500.
At 69c. Boys Heavy Wooden
Pants; regular sizes well made;
regularly $1.oO.
At SC. Mems seconds" launder-
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they will wear as good as
''firsts" Each ...........-...--.....5
At $1.19. Mems Heavy Shirts;
made of black Sateen; all sizes,
extra quality; actual value ....$2.0t
At CSC. Choice of big lot of Mems
Extra Heavy Cotton Sweaters;
all sizes.
At Toe. The best lot of Heavy
Sheeting and Sea Island in
Americus; full yard wide.
AT 49c. The last of the sale of
~, 81, 90 and 109-Inch Sheet
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made at an average of half.
At lie. Good weight Canton
Flannel; full width, good
nap; regularly 15c.
At Ice. Remnants of wide Sheet
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At 95c. Special lot of MILDLY
Blouses; all sizes, of good MILDLY
twill.
At $1.35. The famous Victoria
Bleached Sheets; large size for
double beds and extra fine quail
ity; formerly sits.
At $f.68. Best antiseptic Cotton
Diaper Cloth, "a inches wide.
At $1.00. Over two hundred house
dresses and kimonos; values up
to $500.
At loo. Over two thousand yards
fast colored Apron and Dress
Bingham; full width
At .65c. Genuine Opaque Window
Shades; complete with all the
fixtures necessary.
At $1.49. Extra quality Black
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At $1.49. Beautiful. Crepe de
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At 38e. Boys Extra Heavy Hose;
triple knee, heels and toes; sizes
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AT 25c. Choice of our stock of
plain and figured Crepes; for
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Standard Dry Goods Co.
Forsyth ST. Next Bank of Commercs
AMERICUS, GA.
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THOMAS STARTS SHIPPING
CREAM TO TALLAHASSEE

BROWNSVILLE, Jan. 80. - The
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reductions on suits, overcoats
and trousers