The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-22

III lHS noIHt Oh nSl ldNnNIt MI "a ~
Myers, north of Caledonia, and afte
most delightful visit Of severa
4 weeks returned to her home accom-
/ panied by her cousin. Miss Myrtle
{ young friend around Caledonia vii
, anxiOusly await her return home.
AS the fire is getting hot under the
political pot and candidates are be.
: ginning to timber up the question
hobs up, how will they electioneei
with the ladies'? OF course cigars
Red mule, and white lightning will be
out Of order so every candidate will
have to fiji his pockets with five cent
boxes of snuff, Blackgum tooth brush
es, chewing gum, chocolates, bon
bons, fancy candy and lot Of goodies
just imagine candidate pulling out
/ his snuff and brushes and saying Mrs.
Jones will you have dip? Try some
candy, have a chew Of gum, think it
over and let me know.
was enjoying a talk the other day
with a pastor of one of the big
churches in Memphis and asked him
what he thought of woman suffrage
Said he, 81 think politics is out Of
woman's line"
The other day a jury of women
were empaneled to try man for
whipping his child numerically. He
stood up and asked, Judge, am | to
be tried by that jury?" "Yes," said
the court, Judge you can dismiss the
jury, plead guilty." If each Of
those girls had had fire poker in
their hand l would have done as this
defendant.
Mr. Dudley Miller, of Mt Vernon,
sold fat hog in town Saturday for
tx cents pound. When the Dispatch
man eats piece of that pig it will
cost him fifteen to twenty-five cents
pound. Where does the farmer come
in?
Mrs. T. A. Cook was in town the
same day trying to engage a hog or
two and when seen her last she had
had no offer. This is the condition
that all who are not farmers want to
prevail. ] sent a crate Of chickens ON
the return trip from town. No de-
mand Too many chickens. 1t costs
fifteen to twenty-five cents to raise
a chicken to frying size.
A guy writing on crime says that
nearly all the killing of men and
women is done by ex-soldicrs. That
the war has made them blood-thirsty.
What about the women? They were
not in the war, but they are handy
with the gun and kill man every {
few days.
Mr. c. D. Pritchard, of Artesia,
lilled during the recent cold spell six
hogs that weighed over five hundred I,
pounds net, each. During the Civil
War Artesia was the Egypt of the {
South for corn.
Mrs. Johnnie is always after me
'or holding open the screen door let
ing in the flies. As she stood in the
loor just now ] called to her, look {
now you are letting the flies. 80, t
Pm letting them out" she said. Can
you beat it? t
Messrs. w. A. Niekels & Son have i
great piles of logs up and down the {
rood roads ready for just such wea
her as we are having. Don't matter
row bad the by-roads get they can run 4
hese logs to their mill, which shut I
Iown for only one week Christmas. \
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Darnell will in
he near future move to their planta- a
ion home near New Salem and will b
e neighbors to Blackgum Hall. Twice
thrice welcome. t
A great many of our people today a
re suffering from high blood pres,
ure. When / was a boy the doctors t
sed the lancet for the relief of a
atient with this trouble. From the d
rm the blood was taken, hut now r
hey bleed the victim in the pocket.
was talking with famous surgeon W
! Memphis last week and asked why
he bleeding process had been aban- Il
oned. He said that the medical pro
assion was like all others, it would [,
wing from one extreme to another 7
Ie said he had not quit the bleeding
nd had recently saved several patti h
hts by relieving them of n pint or d
NO Of blood. The doctor says that
he disease that is working he great Il
st injury TO the human race is high
ir pressure and the only relief to be N
lund is to bleed the head. That and
n explosion is the only remedy. W
Some French gentleman out east is "
lrever harping on a hitch rack and
rest room. From what I hear Of Z
is team it needs no hitching. The Il
-ouble is getting it to go. ! don't
now why he wants a rest room. If n
e. was ever tired he must have been
orn so. s,
Loeb's Variety Store has a rest
pom for ladies and a music box to n
ltertain them. The Piggly Wigglyl
ores have a resting place in tht in
-ont Of the store and in the Smith in
ash and Carry Store is a good rest h.
.g place. There are others in town, vi
ut the one most suitable for the
yerare man is in the Jail where there in
a man who will feed YOU when S
cure hungry, give you water when
cure dry, a good old bed when You tl