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The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-11-22
COMMISSIONERS REDUCE y
LEVY FOR COMING YEAR
CONTINUED from first paSe)

last years levy being $143.7s7.39, or
$10,013.13 more than the amount to
be paid in taxes the coming year.
The present board of county
commissioners are pursuing the poll
cy of cutting expenses wherever it is
at all possible to do so consistent
with good business methods in ad-
ministering the affairs of the coun-
ty, and they are to be congratulated
upon their good work.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
ATTENTION COMMITTEE

The Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Rankin County, is called,
as per Statute, to meet at the
Court House in Brandon, on Sat
urday the 18th day Of July, inst
for preparing the ticket for the
August primary, making assess
ments, and for such other business
as may appertain to said primary
election, or as may come up for
action. 1t is important that every
member of the Committee be pres
ent. The following constitute the
Committee, tOwit:
District No. IF. NJ. Lowther, Jr.,
w. E. Laird, j. r. Taylor.
District No. pat Henry Chm'n.,
S. l.. McLaurin, w. H. Barnes.
District No. Sc. H. Sheriff., j. L.
Watts, J. w. Faulkenberry.
District fl. B. Spann, w. L.
Barrow, H. A. Patrick, Jr.
District bradley Sowell, j. b.
Barnett, j. w. Patrick.
All candidates must notify the
chairman in writing of their cand1-
dacy, on or before this meeting OF
the Committee. This applies to
State, district, county and beat can
didateS.
By order of the Committee,
Pat Henry, Chairman.
T. B. B. Spann, Sec'y.
JuIv 5-12-c
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
of education Of said county and stat

of education Of said county and state
will receive bids up until the hour
named below and at the place named
below for the carrying OF tallyhos
in the various consolidated schools
OF said county and state. These
routes will be let to the lowest and
best bidders able to furnish a solvent
bond. The trustees and county sup
erintendent reserve the right to ac-
cept or reject any and all bids.
Cross Roads Consolidated School
at Cross Roads School House, July
lis, 1923, 10 o'clock, a. m. Tallyho
Routes Numbers l, 2, 3, A, and 5.
| Antioch Consolidated School at
Antioch School House, July Is, 1928,
! 2 o'clock D. m. TallyhO Route Num-
Der /.
Cato Consolidated School, at Cato
School House, July 10, 1928, 10
o'clock a. M TallyhO Route Number
Star Consolidated School, at Star
School House, July 20, 1928, IL
O'Clock a. m. Tallyho Routes Num-
bers /, 2, 3, A, and 5.
New Prospect Consolidated School,
at New Prospect School House, July
21, 1928, o'clock p. m. Tallyho
Routes Numbers /, 2, 3, and 4.
Steens Greek Consolidated School
at Steens Creek School House, July
23, 1923, 10 o'clock a. M. Tallyho
Routes Numbers /. 2, 3, 4, 5, and q.
Clear Branch Consolidated School
at Clear Branch School House, July
"a. 1923, 10 o'clock a. M. Tallyho
Route Number J..
Pisgah Consolidated School at
Pisgah School House, July 27, 1923,
10 O'Clock a. m. Tallyho Routes
Numbers 1, 2, 3, A, 5, and 6.
Johns Consolidated School at
Johns School House, July 30, 1923,
10 O'Clock IA. M. TallyhO Route Num-
Der /.
Holly Bush Consolidated School at
! Holly Bush School House, July 81
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
NOTICE TO BIDDERS ON
TALLYHO ROUTES

Notice is hereby given that the
trustees of the Forest Hill Con-
solidated School of Rankin County,
Mississippi and the county super
intendent of education of said cOun-
ty and state will, up until ten o.
clock A. M. August 2, 1923, and
at the Forest Hill School House,
receive bids for the carrying of the
tallyho in the said Forest Hill Con-
solidated School District. The con-
tract for the carrying of this tally
no will be let to the lowest and
best bidder able to furnish solvent
bond. The said board of trustees
and county superintendent of edu-
cation reserve the right to accept
or reject any and all bids.
This route will be let according
TO specifications on file with the
board of trustees of the Forest
Hill Consolidated School and the
county superintendent of education.
III. =. BARKSDALE,
Supt. of Education of Rankin Co.
July 12-1926-c
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
ASSESSMENT NOTICE
TO THE TAXPAYERS of
DauL;r County State Of MiSSiSgiDDi

KaHklu SouHtys otdtS Va NAASSAcSAPPAs
You will please take notice that
the assessments of real and personal
property on the rolls for 1928 have
been changed and corrected by this
Board so as to comply with the laws
of this State, and that said revised
rolls are now open for examination,
and that any objections to any
assessments contained in said revis-
ed rolls must be made in writing
and filed with the Clerk of this
Board on or before the first Mon
day of August, 1923, at his office
in the Town Of Brandon said County
and that any or all assessments to
which no objection is then and there
made, will be made final.
This 18th day Of July, 1928.
THE BOARD OF SUPER
VISORS OF SAID COUNTY.
BY S. ID. Donnell,
Clerk Of said Board.
/, S. d. Donnell, Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors of Rankin
County, State of Mississippi, do
hereby certify that the foregoing
is true and correct transcript OF
an order of said Board of Super
svisors passed on the 18th day OF
July, 1923, as the same appears
on Page SO of Minute Book X OF
said Board, now on file in the
office of said Clerk in the Town
of Brandon, in said County.
Witness my hand and official
seal, this the IL day of July, 1928.
S. D. DONNELL,
Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors of said County
July - 49, 6-Aug. 2.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
NOTICE TO BIDDERS ON
TALLYHO ROUTES

Notice is hereby given that the
trustees of the Pearson School of
Rankin County, Mississippi and the
county superintendent of education
of said county and state will, UP
until 10 o'clock A. NJ. August 4
1923, and at the Old Pearson School
House, receive bids for the carrying
of the tallyho from the Pearson
School District to the Jackson City
Schools. The contract for the carry
ing of this tallyho will be let to
the lowest and best bidder able to
furnish solvent bond. The said
board of trustees and county super
intendent of education reserve the
right to accept any or all bids.
This route will be let according
to specifications on file with the
board of trustees of the Pearson
School District and the county sup
erintendent of education.
H. z. BARKSDALE,
Supt. of Education of Rankin Co.
July 12-19-26-c
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
NOTICE To BIDDERS

Sealed bids will be received W
to noon on the first Monday In
August, 1923, for the following
items:
Building bridge across Snake
Creek in Wilson Lane, Beat No. 4
Flooring an iron bridge across
Pelahatchie Creek, at Pelahatchie
in Beat No. 4.
All according to plans and spec1-
fications on file in the office OF
Chancery Clerk.
The right to reject any and al
bids is reserved.
S. d. DONNELL,
Clerk Board of Supervisors
July 5-12-19-c.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
CITATION NOTICE
The State of Mississippi.

To Henry Howard, New Canton
Illinois, and the Unknown Heirs
of Henry Howard alias K. ),
Howard, Deceased.
You and each of you are com
manded to appear before the Chan
Gerry Court of Rankin County, Mis-
sissippi, on the fourth Monday In
September, A. ID. 1923, to answer
and defend the petition of p. T.
Gayden, Administrator of the
alias r. S. Howard, Deceased, for an
order for sale of the real estate OF
the said decedent to pay the debts
of the said Henry Howard, alias r
5. Howard.
This the Goth day of June, A. d
1923.
S. ID. DONNELL,
Chancery Clerk
July 5-12-1
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12

1923. 10 o'clock a.. m. Tallyho
Routes Numbers / and 2. = : --''
Brandon Consolidated School at
Brandon School House, Aug. 3, 1928,
10 o'clock a. IN. Tallyho Routes
Numbers 1, 2, and 3.
These contracts will be let ac-
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
NOTICE TO TIMBER BIDDERS

Notice is hereby given that seal
ed bids will be received until noon
on the first Monday in August, 1923
for all merchantable timber on Sec
ton Is, Township 6, Range 2 in
Rankin County. Bids for cypress
shall be separate from the bids
for the other timber.
The right is reserved to reject
any and all bids.
S. D. DONNELL,
Clerk of the Board
of Supervisors.
July 12-1926-c
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids for gravel for road work in
Supervisors District No. will be
received by the Board of Supervisors
until II o'clock noon, on the first
Monday in August, 1923.
s. ID. DONNELL,
Clerk Board of Supervisors.
July 5-12-19-c.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
NOTICE To BIDDERS

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids for Bridge Lumber will be
received by the Board of Supervisors
until II o'clock noon on the first
Monday in August, 1923.
S. d. DONNELL,
Clerk Board of Supervisors.
July 5-12-19-c.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12

cording to plans and specl1lcatlons
on file with the various boards Oh
trustees and the county superintenu-
ent of education.
III. p. BARKSDALE,
Supt. Education, Rankin County
June 2S July 5-12-c
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12

FOR SALE-Registered Advance
big type Poland China pig. Pedir
grees furnished. Write r. r. Harper
Star Miss.
July II 10 26-p.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12

LOST-Boston Bull Dog, brindle
and white, screw tail. DIR. C. B.
Hook. Jackson. Miss.
July 12-19-25-c
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12

STRAYED-From my place about
Feb. LIST, two red steers, weighing
about 600 pounds, branded T on
right hip. Notify Tom Rodgers,
Brandon, Miss.
July 12-19-p.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12

LOST OR STRAYED-Fr From my
place at Hand Hill, Jersey milch
COW, marked with under-bit and
over-bit in each ear. Notify l..
benson. Sand HILL Miss.
July 5-12-p.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12

FOR SALE-25 bushels of clay
pear. $3.50 per blu. w. b. Mayors,
Brandon, Miss
July Up.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
NOTICED

The speaking at Antioch has been
called off as that date is the annual
Clean Up" day at that church.
(Signed) CITIZENS.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12

WANTED - Clean white rags.
VIII pay cents per pound. The
Brandon News.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12

FO RSALE-One Jersey Bull, 2
and one half years old. A beauty.
One Jersey Bull, l and one half
years old. Registered.
c.. III. Rethune,
Jackson, Miss, r. f. d. No. 4.
July 12-19-p.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12

Notice is hereby given that the
trustees of the various consolidated
schools of Rankin County, Missis-
sippi and the county superintendent
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
NOTICE TO BIDDERS ON
TALLYHO ROUTES

July 8 - 19-p.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-07
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

IT is that or see their wives and children
in need of the very necessities Of life.
''Now you may want to know why they
are this way Well, they trying to pay
so much burdensome taxes. Every year the
taxes get higher and higher until apeople
lust can't make any more than taxes I'm
less they have a bank account, they are
in bad fix For a long time the farmer
has not been making but little. There IS
always something to cut his crop short and
what little he does make he can't sell for
ANYTHING All the papers are whooping up
better roads, better schools, COW dipping
and everything else to put the taxes higher
These things are we'll enough If people were
able to have them, but the most of them
are not. They want the schools cQpsoli-
dated build fine school houses and all that
! Is it right to make the fellow whouls al
ready burdened with a heavy tax too pay
10 or Is mills more to educate his~neigh-
boris children, when all the education his
children got outside of the country osehoo1
he paid for it? o,9
81 know people who have lot Qflland
they could net sell for anything and they
can't rent it because labor is short and
the taxes are still going up on 1T every, year.
People don't want to see their land given
away to pay these unjust taxes when they
have worked so hard to pay for that+land
Now these are the reasons why the5nmOOn.
shine is being made. Now, who is to blame?
Is 1t the men who driven to dot2things
they don't want to, or is it the people who
are responsible for these conditions? IL
people are not able to have all the modern
things without driving some people to COM
nit sin to pay for Them, I say, then use
the same ones that was good enough for
our fathers Instead of hunting down, the
man who makes and sells the stuff, II say
don't keep putting more burdens on him
every year. | think that is the remedy for
the moonshine. Well-to-do men din the
towns are always ready to pay a good price
for this whisky and pay cash, and theamen
who make 1t run big risk and work hard
to make It, but there is no money coming
/ in to keep his home from being sold or
given away for taxes, over which he has
no control ~,
"He just has to take what is put oh him
and 1t is being put there more every year"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-07
MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irwin S. Cobb

~ II VIII % OOUU
There once was a clerk of the hotel in
small Maine town who had unique way of
keeping diary. Each evening he wrote on
the bottom lines of the page of the register
Tor the current date brief account of the
principal daily doings in the community
usually coupled with a summary of his own
personal reactions to them. Sometimes his
phraseology was unusual but always il was
amply descriptive.
friend of mine was stopping at the hotel
having gone up to Maine on a fishing trim.
He fell into the habit of glancing through the
back pages Of the register, more from the en-
1oyment he got from the quaint language of
the entries than because he was interested
in bygone neighborhood history.
On succeeding pages of the book for a
week of the early spring of the year previous.
he found these progressive records of local
tragedy:
Tuesday: "While fishing through the ice
yesterday, Henry Whippet fell in the Saco
River up to his neck. He was drawed out and
took home"
Wednesday, "Henry Whippet is in bed
with powerful bad cold. His folks are think
ing some about calling in DOCTOR
Thursday: Henry Whippet is rapidly con-
t1nuing to get no better 1t now looks like he
is fixing to break out with the penumonia.'
Friday: Henry Whippet is sinking rapid
ly."
Saturday: cat nine o'clock this morning
our esteemed fellow-citizen, Henry J. Whip
pet, Esq, went to his Maker entirely uncalled
for"
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-07
would be subjected to political and moral
confusion, If he should accept. Sat

would be subjected to political and moral
confusion, If he should accept. ~.
The Motto of the Bayards
'There is now Senator Bayard, srepre-
sentng Delaware in the Congress. He 10
the fourth Bayard to hold that office, Il be-
lieve. There was a. Senator Bayard (the
first one) who was contemporary of .Ieffer-
son, and a Federalist. The Republican JEFF
ferson became president and offered Bayard
the position of minister to France, which he
coveted. He refused it, and in explanation
of his act wrote to his son, who became the
second Senator Bayard, I have always tried
to keep in view the motto of the Chevalier
Bayard, the founder of our name, 'Berabove
fear and above suspicion Tss
"Cartersville has produced her share, Of
men ON Fame's bead-rol worthie .te be
fyled'-General P. M. B. Young, Bill Arp,
Amos T. Alderman, General Wofford, 6John
w. Akin, w. j.. Neel, Sam P. Jones', and
many others whose names escape me iii this
hurried article; but neither Cartersvile nor
any other Georgia city or town has given the
state Drawer, finer spirit than William III.
FELTON, ~,
In this day when our young men witness
the humiliating spectacle of so-called lead
ers crowding to the affairs of expediencyowith
their hands filed with strange fire. ANXIOUS
TO crook the pregnant hinges of theoknee
that rift may follow fawning,' it is 1tot a
pad thing to write about such men as Bay.
ara, and Lucius Lamar, and Henry Turner.
and William H. Felton,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-07
MAKING MooNsH1NE WHISKY

TIME country home readers have not
heard much from those who make
the illegal whisky and it is fair to
hear both sides in a matter which stands
for risk Of life and danger of prison cells,
etc. 1t is vital subject.
This letter is from a good woman-of
good education and who writes we'll on this
subject, and who could write or talk we'll
on any subject which held vital interest to
her. She simply states, reliable facts
The people who buy this whisky are gem
orally sharp enough to cover up their tracks.
The penalties fall on the makers and Ven
ders of moonshine whisky. I do not ap-
pend the lady's name or her postoffice adj
dress, but she lives in Georgia, near very
prosperous city, of at least ten thousand
inhabitants. There would be no illegal in
toxicants made if there was not ready sale
for it and plenty of money to buy it when
delivered by the people who make it.
AS the matter appeals to me, the penal
ties are not fairly distributed and the
people who buy it should get fty-fifty
with those who make it.
The condition of Georgia is lamentable.
women and children either on the parish
or Obliged to go out to earn the bread they
eat and the clothes they wear.
my Dear Mrs. Felton, I have been know
Ing you for years through your writing
think you have more good common sense
than any woman I ever read after, and that
is why [ am writing this letter to you.
have read what you wrote about the moon
shine whisky in our country. 1t certainly
is an evil that is worth thinking about.
II have heard it talked about a great
deal and / read in every paper / pick up
where some one has been caught making
or selling it. But l have never yet heard
any one express pity for these folks or sug-
gest a remedy for it, Maybe If people could
know the circumstances that lead to that
crime there would only be pity felt for
them.
81 am farmers wife and I live in a
community where there Is a good deal of
whisky made. I am in a position to know
that some of these men are not in that
business from choice but are driven to it.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-07
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

And ye shall halIow the fiftieth year,
and proclaim liberty throughout all the
land unto all the inhabitants thereof-Le-
piticus 25:1O. He hath sent me (ChriSt)
to heal the broken-heareG to preach de-
Iiperance to the captipes, and recovering of
sight to the blind, to set at liberty them
that are bruised-Luke 4:18. Stand fast
therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ
hath made us free, and be not entangled
again With the yoke of bondage. Because
the creature also shall be delivered from
the bondage of corruption into the glorious
liberty of the children of GOd.-Gdld-
tidns ST. and Romans 1921.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-07
a Curse to Georgia

Fa dozen or so lines on "Georgia's De-
structive Agriculture" written by Mr.. H.
G. Hastings in the current number of the
"City Builder" were duly digested by the
public, they would be worth to this common
wealth millions and billions of dollars, be-
sides immeasurable human happiness. In the
course of an extensive and careful analysis of
the troubles Of the state and suggestion of
remedies, he says:
Georgia has been and Is now cursed with
a tenant system SUCH as other state stag
gers under. Two-thirds of our farms are ten
ant operated, largely without any real super
vision For fifty years there has been sys-
tenn of forced cotton production, forced by
the sources of cerdit in the local trading
towns who would not permit the tenant, Ell
Their white or black, to produce anything but
cotton. Under this forced system the natural
soil fertility has been exhausted to degree
that the result of the years labor by the ten
ant could go no further than balancing his
store account in good years and leave him
in debt in anything but good years. Under
such conditions there was absolutely no
chance to get ahead, no incentive to special
effort ambition, where 1t existed, was stifled.
Nor was this effect on the human element all.
With the steady cropping of the single crop,
cotton, year after year there was renewal
of soil fertility in Natures way. The plant
food or natural fertility was gradually sold
off In the crop or allowed to wash away from
the rolling lands during the winter rains. If
Georgia soils had been deliberately planned 1t
would have been hard to have worked out a
plan that would have done the job more eff
fectively."
In the light of such facts 1t is easy to see
why farms are abandoned, why rural popula-
ton drifts cityward, why districts once highly
wome ngrow desperately tired and men heart
sick and discouraged at the task of trying to
make life out of far mtenant's existence
We do not profess to be competent to judge
OF this 9ond1t1on OF affairs In all Its bearings,
nor to say how it best can be altered But
the first step toward a constructive change is
should know and ponder the facts. Thence
will come awakening and understanding, from
which helpful action will naturally follow.
At present the facts, evidently, are not
known, certainly are not discerned, by great
number of citizens. When their significance
their perilous significance is realized, we
shall have the beginning of a free, a pros
porous, a forward going Georgia.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-07
QUlPS AND QUIDDlTIES

The farmer decided to give special atten
ton to the development of his poultry ward.
and undertook the work carefully and sys-
tematically. His servant, who had been with
MIN number of years, was instructed, among
other things, to write on each egg the date
IL was laid and the breed of the hen. After a
month the man resigned.
can't understand" declared the farmer
why you should want to leave"
I've had enough" replied the man. 1--WE
done the nastiest jobs an never kicked But
draw the line at being secretary to a bunch
O. hens"
Bluebelles parents both played golf assid-
uously and her dad was always asserting that
the girl ought to cut out some of her frivol-
ity and take up the more serious things of
life, golf preferred. So after a great deal of
effort, he got her out on the links one day.
They came home in due time Bluebelle
blooming, dad looking disgruntIed Mother
was much interested in learning about the
game
did Buebelle go all the way around?"
she asked.
"She did, grunted father.
"And what stick did the dear girl employ
thu m0st?"
Her lipstfck, as usual"
Little Bill skipped off to school the other
day before his mother had chance to wash
his face The teacher sent him to the base
ment to scrub up, but the janitor had failed
to leave a towel within reach. Bill went up
to the schoolroom, however, with the lower
part Of his face reasonably clean, the upper
part streaked and grimy.
why, Willie" the teacher said, chow does
it happen that the lower part of your face is
nice and clean, while the rest OF it is so
dirty?"
Well" said Bill, they wasn't no towel
reach"