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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17
MARATHON ROUND TABLE
HOLDS LAST MEETING

The Marathon Round Table
Group held it's last meeting in the
City Hall on Thursday evening
with a good attendance. An in
teresting discussion ensued based
upon the information given IN
previous meetings. Two ques-
tons occupied the center Of inter-
est. would the enlightened pub
lie opinion i n your State and
Community be able to support eff
fectively the an informed, critical,
effective public opinion capable
of expressing itself at crusial mo
mentsi" The concensus of opin-
ion was that the greatest need. of
the citizenryii is an informed body.
These meetings for the purpose
of studying Peace have been I'M
der the auspices of the Woman's
Club with Mrs. Robert Ham and
Mrs. McCune as leaders. Mrs. W.
p. Taylor, president of the club,
is to be congratulated on carry
ing through a project Of this kind,
for it is an important step in
moulding of public opinion. The
writer Of this report is not a
Woman's Club member. Hence,
she feels safe in paying tribute
to this effort without causing en-
barrassment to the sponsors.
We shall look forward to the
next series of Round Table meet
inuS.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17
Mrs, D L. Wallace
Rites Held Sunday
FORMER RESIDENT DIES AT
j BAPTIST HOSPITAL.

Mrs. D. L. Wallace, a native OF
Mississippi, but a resident OF
Memphis for thirty-five years
died at Baptist Hospital, Mem
iphis, December IL, at 10 o'clock
after a short illness. Mrs. Wal
lace was formerly Miss Bette
Glass, eldest daughter Of Mrs
SalIie w. Glass and the late D.. 8
Glass. She was So years OF age
and had been a member of the
Methodist Church for many years
Funeral rites were held from
the Jordan Funeral Home, Kosci-
usko, with Rev. I. E. Gregory Of
ficiating, burial following Sunday
afternoon in Kosciusko Cemetery,
Pallbearers were Tom S. Love;
s. A. jackson, N. E.. Love, Charlie
Fullilove, r, J., Turner, and f. @
Oliver
She leaves her husband, d. L
Wallace, sallie W, Glass, mother;
three sisters, Mrs. Joe May, Du.
rant, Miss Ada Glass, Cleveland,
Mrs. Katie Lee Craig, Durant,
two nephews, and one niece, DR..
Nv. s1E4kNNH
Joe wallace My, Donna, Texas,
Mrs. r. S. Williams, Yazoo City.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17
F1errin Rites Held
Ait Baptist Church
WIDELY KNOWN ZAP M E r
BURIED AT SAILS.

Funeral services for A s. j,
Herrin, IS, who died at his home
at Sails late Wednesday night,
December 10, were held Thursday
at the Baptist Church in Sails
with the Rev. Robertson officiat-
ing. Interment was in the Sails
cemetery with Southern Under-
taking Association in charge.
Mi. Herrin was stricken with
paralysis and had pcja III Only
four days. He was well an &c.
tive up until the time OF hs i'll
ness. He was a member OF he
Baptist Church and was ilely
known throughout Attala county
where he was born and reared.
Surviving are his widow, ono
sister, Mrs. M. e. Mcdaniel, and
the following children: Clay Her
rim, Pickens Carl Herrin, Wood.
row Herrin, Durant Britt Herrin,
Lexington; Mrs. jeff Dickersonn
Sails Mrs. ODDS Mabry, Koscius'
ko and Mrs. Charlie Cain Sails.
Pallbearers were d. A. Robert
son, w. L. Dickerson, Q, c. Bur
reIf, J. J. Dickerson, Ezra Aldy
and c. II. Dear.
Honorary pallbearers W e r
Smith Hughes, w. f. Simpson. w
p. Morgan, E. j. Jenkins, P. 9,
Aldy and r. r. F. Cain,
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17
AND SUMMIT
T'itE m DEBATE HoNoRs

In the semi-finals on the cam.
pus at Holmes Junior College,
Friday, December II, Holmes rep
resentatives met debating teams
from Clark College, while Sum
NIT and Popularville engaged
AS a result Of the afternoon de
dates, Holmse won both affirma.
tive and negative decisions over
clark By
Summit won both affirmative and
negative by a 81 decision. In
the finals Friday night, SUBMITS
negative won a 81 decision over
Holmes affirmative, while Holmes
ogative won a 81 decision over
SUBMITS affirmative, thus giving
championship honors to both
schools. The exact thing happen
ed in the debating activities last
year between the same two insti.
buttons. This will give a debat.
ing championship trophy to each
school and eight points toward
the final cup for all activities.
The debaters for Holmes Junior
College were: Affirmative, j. nj
Putnam and A. L. Brewer; mega
tive, Harold Basden and j. d
Sulser. The team was coached by
Miss Jessie Van Osdell. The
coach of the Summit teams was
Miss Ernestine Tommy.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17
j. o. RITTER RETIRES
AFTER SO YEARS SERVICE

j. 0. Ritter, railway mail clerk
on the Aberdeen line of the Hi
nois Central, was retired this
month after thirty-three years OF
service with the Illinois Central.
Mr.. Ritter was employed in the
capacity of railway clerk. He
was widely known throughout the
Illinois Central system, and has
a great number of friends who
will be interested to learn of his
retirement.
Mr.. Ritter was replaced by G.
N. Barnett, Memphis, who will
bring his family to Durant to re-
side in the spring.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
TO BE JUDGED DEC. 18

An ou--of-tows committee OF
judge will judge the Christmas
decoration contest sponsored IN
Durant by the women's federated
clubs on tomorrow, December IL.
beginning at $50 o'clock.
Several score entries have been
made in the annual contest and
uusual interest manifested this
year. Prizes will be given for
best indoor and outdoor decora-
tons in business houses and pri-
vate homes.
Names of the winners will APP
pear in next weeks NEWS.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17

Mr.. and Mrs. John l.. Mason
spent Sunday with Mrs. Mason's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. San
ders.
Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm Holmes
had as their guest last week, their
mother, Mrs. Mungo Of Winona;
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Bicker LETT
Sunday afternoon for Winona'
where they will make their nome
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17
BOY SCOUT DRIVE
WEDNESDAY SUCCESSFUL

a group of business men went
out Wednesday to solicit funds
necessary for maintaining the Boy
Scout organizations during 1887.
They received a cordial and gener-
Gus response from those who were
seen. Others will be seen, or
they may make thc:f voluntary
subscription to any member of the
Scout Committee. The names of
the donors, with thanks for their
contributions will be published
next week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17

There does exist an American
spirit. 1t is a spirit of indomin-
able hope, based upon confident
belief in the future of America,
1t is a spirit Of tolerance amid
conflicting opinions and propos-
ais. 1t is a spirit Of human kind
ess and friendship. So long as
these qualities can be identified
as Enthusiastically American
we shall manage to keep houS-
and get on.-New York Times.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17
Press Association
Meets January -9
NussIssIPPI PRAss TO MEET
IN MERIDIAN

The Winter Business Meeting
Of the Mississippi Press Associa-
ton has been set for Friday and
Saturday, January SO, with head
quarters in the Lamar Hotel,
Meridian, Mississippi. Jas. II.
Sleeves Of the Meridian Star will
be host to Mississippi's Fourth
Estate and other citizens of Meri-
dian are cooperating with him in
Offering visiting editors one of the
most interesting entertainment
programs in the history Of the as
socission.
The theme Of the Winter Bust
ness Meeting will be, "How to
Get More National Advertising
Tor AiiSissippi Newspapers" and
several speakers will appear on
the, program representing nation
al adsefti1ing agencies, each
bringing new ideas ana sugees-
tiOns pertaining to the theme Oh
tie gathering.
Lester Williams Of the Tyler
town Times, President Of the Mis-
sissippi Press Association believes
hat this Mill be- IF the mnet
important meetings Of Mississippi
printers and publishers in many
years and states that the COM
plete program will be ready for
release around December 10.
The gathering will be climaxed
with an Alabama : Mississippi
Press Banquet on Saturday night
to which Governor Hugh White
and Governor Bib Graves OF Ala
bama, as well as members OF the
Mississippi and Alabama Press
Associations have been invited,
r. G.. Bozeman, President Of the
Alabama Press Association feels
sure that a large group of Alaba-
ma editors will avail themselves
Of this opportunity to break bread
with Mississippi editors.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17
KNOCK
KNOCK
BY Hazel Brannon

There's nothing more thrilling
to the heart than young voices
raised in song to the creator OF
US all. Especially is this true at
Christmas time when our hearts
are softehcd and we are least self
ish. The BeIhaven Choir girls
aroused the Christmas spirit in
many hearts that heretofore had
been unthihking Of the true mean:
3g Of Christmas.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17

Someone said that God made
Christmas so that man might keep
his balance and save his soul
that he wanted man to have one
day in the year In which to re
pent all his thoughtlessness, self
ishness and meaness; SO that he
would not be heartless the whole
year round. Every heart, il
seems, on Christmas Day aspires
to be good and II Is only this de.
sire that enables man to keep his
balance in q topsy turvey world
How sad that we don't have more
Christmases!
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17
Farmers Find Home
Market Best Outlet


Mississippi farmers now profit
ing from the 66 per cent increase
IN cattle and q per cent increase
In hogs recorded in the 1885 CEN
sus. are finding that home mar
gets are the best outlet, and that
Tor livestock products is an al
most unlimited field for develop
ment, writes J. c. Holton, COM
missioner of agriculture, !
Citing the numerous importa-
tons Of high quality breeding
stock and the series Of livestock
fairs and exhibitions as evidence
Of continued interest in livestock
development, the Commissioner
views the question of markets as
of fundamental Importance.
SIN 1885 Mississippi livestock
had a farm value OF. $49, 013,O00.
Cash sales therefrom amounted to
q little more than Is million dol
lars, and livestock products CON.
sumed, on the farms where pro,
duced were valued at almost Is
million dollars more, so that the
gross income from an investment
on less than so million dollars
was $50,842,0 QO.
"The strikig fact is that home
use accounts for half the total
value Of livestock production,
and that this outlet could be very
greatly increased. Once we were
dependent upon favorable wealth
or and, except by curing, a sup
was unsafe. Now we have numer-
GUS commercial curing plants for
pork and the beginning of a
Statewide system of public cold
storage plants. Meat is canned
to the total of millions Of cans
annually, and mechanical refrig-
orators in homes are greatly IN
~creasing the period over which
fresh meat may be safely kept.
In some States meat clubs are or
ganized among small groups by
means Of which farmer-members
slaughter in rotation and a fresh
meat supply is provided for all
the members about once a week.
GA plantation variation CT a
farm meat club has been success
fully operated by Capt. Tom -lb-
son, planter and publiciss OF
Clarksdale, who writes: On the
plantation on which / make my
livelihood we have not bought
any meat for even plantation use
in several years (once in a while
might be a exception). About
three times every two weeks an
animal is killed late in the eve
ming, and at day-break the next
morning is divided out among the
tenants. If there is more than they
can consume it is put in cold stor-
age for next helping. The latter
has been a little inconvenient but
now we are going to have a cold
storage. We have had hard sled
ding to get it but we have it IN
sight
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17

America leads the world in life
insurance outstanding both in
total volume and in per capita
holdings. That's another reason
why America is the envy of all
nations even though there has
been a depression. No other peo-
Vie have done so much to create
financial buffers to care for trou-
bles that may come in the future.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17
Big Crowds Attend
Durant Trade Days
CASH PRIZES TO BE GIVEN
AGAIN SATURDAY AND
DECEMBER IS.
LAST SATURDAYS WINNERS
LISTED. ''

A large crowd was present q
urday, December IL in Dprant to
take part in the Trade Day OPP
portunities offered them by Du-
rant. merchants. Even larger
crowds are expected to be present
this Saturday and next Wednes-
day when prizes will again be
given.
Prizes last Saturay were given
to Mrs. j. W, Morris, Howard,
who, received $500; Mrs. D, N,
Barranco, Dhrsnt, who received
5000; Hal Rhyme, Dprant, $500;
Walter Bassey, Sails, 5000 Billy
Elmore. Dprant $500 10
!, 1t is understood thai. cash
prizes this Saturday. will be divid-
ed up into smaller prizes and
more Of them be awarded Thus
more people will share the bens-
fits.
The merchants and business
men are cooperating to make this
event possible and it will be to
the advantage Of Holmes county
citizens to take this opportunity
TO do their Christmas shopping in
Durant.
Ask your merchants for details.
Do your shopping with the mer-
chants cooperating in this event.
They are:
jim. Howard
Durant Variety Store
City Drug Store
Durhan's Cash Grocery
sPigelx MigglH
! Hngle Plumbing 4 Efec. Shop
, Durant Dry Goods Co.
I The Style Shop
Ray Bros. Grocery
Walter Durham
Spotless Dry Cleaners
Howell & Heggie
ID. v. Pound
Durant Motor Co.
A. B. Clements
Dodd's Feed Store
Lyon & Company
Wiley H. Browne
City Market
w. II. Irby
Robert f. Irby
Hays Pan-Am Service Station
Alsbury's Bakery and Grocery
V. L. Willis
Sinclair Service Station
Odom's Sinclair Service Station
Loreco Service Station
Hotel Durant Service Station
A. III. Brown.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17

Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Crum spent
the weekend in New Orleans,
the guests Of Captain and Mrs.
Conrad Schmidt. Mr. Crum at
tended the fall ceremonial of the
Shriners.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17

We wonder if the time will ever
come when we aren't hollering
Tor a balanced budget? And has
there ever been a surplusf What
is a SURPLUS anyway That
must have been before our day.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17

George vi, we see, has set
about building q reputation for
himself as the business man
king. z According To one scribe
he put in $50 minutes on his
birthday. Imagine having to work
two and one-half hours on ones
birthday And there are th6bs-
ands who would welcome The op-
portunity to work eight, ten or
twelve hours q day at wages much
less than 4 kinsass
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17

Cash prizes help wonderfully in
getting the Christmas budget bal
anced. And five lucky people
last Saturday won cash prizes in
Durant that will help them bal
ance their budgets. This Satur-
day and next Wednesday more
prizes are going to be given. And
we understand they are going to
divide the money up and give
more $500 and $1,000 prizes.
That way more people will share
in the prizes. Better be here Sat
urday. Three o'clock is the hour.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17

1uud VIuAc o you 10 go
through the attic and bring out
all the old toys which your chill
dren ITO longer use. The Recrea-
ton division, WPA, Miss Martha
Field directing, and the Boy
Scouts are cooperating in collect
ing and redecorating these toys
for children in needy families.
It's a bad old world, you know,
if Santa doesn't come to see you.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1936-12-17

Uncle Sam cGn help keep the
dogs Of war from barking in
Europe By keeping the purse
strings tight.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-03
EDITOR CITED
UPON CHARGE
OF CONTEMPT
Supreme Court Brings Action
Against Western Progress
sive, Helena Newspaper

HELENA, March 27.-The Mon
tana supreme court today cited the
Western Progressive, a weekly
newspaper published in Helena,
and its editor, John w. Nelson, to
show cause April /, why they
should not be punished for con-
tempt.
The contempt proceedings, filed
by Attorney General Raymond T.
Nagle at the direction of the court
grew out of an article in the West
ern Progressive on March 13
headed, "Four Supreme Court
Judges Uphold Banks Fraud"
The article was based on the
courts decision in the case of Julia
Doyle, plaintiff, against the Union
Bank & Trust Co. of Helena.
Lower Court Reversed
The Lewis and Clark county dis
trict court awarded Mrs. Doyle
damages of $1,093 as recovery On
depreciation in value of a bond she
purchased from the bank in No
vember, 1929. The supreme court
reversed the finding and ruled that
no evidence was presented in the
record as to the actual value of
the bond at the time of the sale.
Associate Justice Ralph j. An
derson wrote the majority opinion,
which was concurred in by Asso-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-03
FARMERS FACE
PLANTING TLNE
WITHOUT SEED
Situation Is the S; me in
Montana as in Nc tn
Dakota

BISMARCK, March 81. Unless
federal regulations arc 1anged,
10000 farmers in Mort, Dakota
may be unable to plant p this
year, a check of federal a. state
agencies revealed today.
The federal resettle .ent adj
ministration is now prov ling for
emergency relief to 1900 farm
families, and the maximum num-
Der of these to be selected for re-
Mobilization will not be r ere than
1000 under present regulations,
Iver Acker, resettlement official,
disclosed.
The number now cared for by re-
settlement administration also in
cludes approximately 500 farm
laborers who will not need seed,
leaving 10000 farmers who will be
without seed aid.
Under regulations OF, ( e reset
Element agency, farmerG Eot COM
ing under the standard rehabilita-
tion program cannot receive seed
from that source.
Present farm credit administra-
ton regulations provide no farmer
receiving aid from any other fed
eral agency or able to obtain
credit, can be helped by that
agency.
Robert Cummins, head of the
federal emergency council for
North Dakota, said the problem Of
providing seed for the estimated
10000 farmers had been presented
to Washington officials of both the
farm credit and resettlement adj
ministrations.
ct believe a plan will be worked
out between the two federal
agencies to provide for those TO-
600 farmers not now eligible for
loans," he said.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-03

ciate Justices S. v. Stewart, John
A. Matthews and c. F. Morris.
Chief Justice w. B. Sands dis
scented.
Exhibit A" in the contempt
proceedings showed the article in
the newspaper concerning the de-
cision began:
Bankers who practice fraud
upon their old clients and custom
ers cannot be reached for damages
when the fraud is discovered
So ruled four justices of Montana's
supreme court this past week =
Cited as Conclusion
The supreme courts order to the
attorney general directing him to
file the suit said "the article did
not purport to quote any part ot
the opinion, but stated the writer's
own conclusions as to the purport
thereof"
The high court first obtained
from the attorney general an
opinion in which he expressed be-
lief that the article was contempt
uous and warranted court action.
ordered the filing of proceedings,
then issued the citation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-03
HEATED DEBATE OVER NATIONAL
issue ENDS IN FAVORABLE VOTE
Elmer A. Benson endorsed for Governor; H. Y. VIII
Hams Messed Out by Lindsten for Lieutenant
Governor by Close Vote

ST. PAUL Minn.-The Minnesota Farmer-I4abor Party
in it's convention held in ST. Paul. March 278 passed the
decisive resolution which lays the basis for National
eTabor party to appear the national ballot in 1886 The
resolution, which hotly debated finally passed by
vote of 368h for and 250h against
Leader of the op osition to the resolution former
Mayor William Mah0 ey of ST. Paul. who has been openly
campaigning for Rool welt His position sharply cha
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-03
MORTGAGE HAD
BEEN PAID IN FULL
Cashier of Defunct Bank,
Would Take Last Piece of
Callahan Property by Bla-
zen Fraud
Hidden Hand at Work

After the Union Central Life In
guranCe Company of Cincinatti
had cancelled Hurschel Callahan's
land contracts, and leased the farm
to Art Blase and others, old
GOnies Of Carl Bull, and put them
in possession of the same during
the absence of the Callahan family,
BY entering upon the premises and
breaking the lock to farm house
without any process of law what
sO-ever, and after Fletcher Gala
han had returned to Redstone to
find the place occupied by their
Old neighbors, and had gone back
to the bedside of his sick father,
at Sunnyside, Washington who
could not return to the farm at
RedStOne Immediately, because of
both HurSchePs and anon" Gala
hans illness, and evidently think
ing that the Galatians were not
going to return to their farm and
had given up, Carl Bull employed
Marion & FOor, lawyers at Wolf
Point, to fOreclose on the original
Callahan homestead, down on the
reservation, which Hurschel had
taken when he come to Sheridan
county in 1916, and thus take the
last piece Of property away from
his old neighbor.
While the picking was in prog
TESS there was no reason why Carl
should not do his bit and get his
snare, leven though the mortgage
se toreclOsed had been paid in
!uil, Il the papers had not beer
'seturned nor the mortgage re.
ssssed on the records. Such q
aang as the foreclosing of a paid
luggage is matter that did moi
S SosIeF Carl Bull, the erstwhilt
-V Sa and thereby hangs another
s s.y interesting tale of the fina'
T.T VHS at the plundering of the
humans a., in which it seems thai
NAT SSL5 Bull is and has been the
i ,oo0 hand, the guiding brains
sOs 9 start to finish. This was tn,
c NIS. lstrOke to make sure tina t th.
~ ~5'ansns stayed in Washington,
!. would not in the future return
nm montana to annoy or disturb.
T laE BULL
Oh "a April s, 1918, Hurscbel Cal
5oS~a taen farming his Homestead
Rs5a.toa the reservation south O;
a. sv' gave Carl Bull a note il
a ~. Sam Of $3.50, bearing interes
sonnrs rate Of IL per cent per
4 P.5,. payable at the State Banl
sasS;oS1s ne Of which Bull was tn,
Osurs,,.. The note was the regula
ag 81 iavOrite document provid
66ersi' =. interest on interest, and
case Of afts oo.c fee and cost il
aned h., i T collection. 1t wa
Rs Dy Hurschel Callahan onIy
ace d no'e wa was given for the bal
CaIsbusue Bull for horses which
lie s0 oa mad bought from him 4
d ssa 5 oug OF 1917, when Gala.
horses q t eight head Of small
one ts =. 1Vr which he paid S5O0 fo
'tAer s tsa,to Of mares; 1926 for an
each, f sean Of mares; and s27t
NS75 for ' ~ teams Of geldings, o
teams. Th sne eight horses or fou
tc Inc horses averaged abOu
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