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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-14
RANSOME-FLOWERS
BANS ANNOUNCED

MI. and Mrs. Olene Ransome of
Duck Hill announce the marriage
of their daughter, Olene, to J. l..
Flowers of Goodman.
The ceremony was performed
in Duck Hill December 81, at A.
o'clock in the home of the Meth
odist Pastor with Rev. S. B. Potts
officiating
Mr.. and Mrs. Flowers r both
graduates of Holmes Junior Col
lege. They r at home to their
friends in Goodman
Mrs. Jim Griffin from Vicks-
burg spent Sunday with her
father, celebrating his birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Povall
spent Sunday in Durant.
Mr.. P. L. Borden from jack
son was a business visitor in
Durant Monday.
Mrs. Burell from Sails visited
her daughter, Mrs. Carl Herrin
the past week.
Mr.. Ross Rhyme Jr. spent
Sunday in Durant.
Mrs. Zouella Bacon and Mr..
N. F. Guess spent Saturday in
Jackson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Barth and
sister, Miss Bryson from Tupelo
and Mr.. and Mrs. Sudduth were
Kosciusko visitors Friday mite.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G.. Guess
from Brookhaven were visiting
friends in Durant Sunday.
Mr.. Clark Stevens made a
business trip to Jackson We'd
nesday.
Mrs. Louis Longinotti and
sons, James and Malcolm, and
Mrs. Edgar Howell and daugh-
ter, Rose, motored to Jackson
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. N. Womack
visited Jackson Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Y. L. Willis,
Wickman Winborn and daugh-
ter, Dixie Lee, are visiting rela-
tives in Alabama, Tennessee and
Georgia.
Mrs. Sam Moss was a Mem
phis visitor the past week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-14

Mrs. w. T.. Brown was in
Pickens Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. w. T. Brown had
as their guest Mr.. j. d. Cramer.
Miss Velma Thorn from Men,
phis is visiting home folks.
Mr. and Mrs. T. c. Morlene, Of
Jackson, is visiting his sister,
Mrs. j. p. Durham.
Mr.. Dick Lacey from Kos
ciusko was a Durant visitor
Monday.
Mrs. s. p. Rhimes from Koscius-
ko was visiting her niece Mrs. Hill
lard Odom, the past meek.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-14

Miss Edith Rhyme from Bow
ling Green is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Geo. Crysler.
Mr.. Leon Kennedy made a
business trip to Kosciusko Fri
day.
Mrs. Erie Hanna and son,
Erie Wayne, of Marion, Ala,
spent last week with her sister,
Mrs. Audry Mitchell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Willis,
Miss Helen Dodd and Mrs.
Woods were Lexington visitors
Monday night.
Miss Peggy Alsbury is a
Starkville visitor for the week
end.
Mr.. Walter Turnbough was a
Durant visitor Thursday.
Miss Lauree Durham is spend
ing the week end in Durant.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Beall, Jr.,
and Mr.. and Mrs. John Howard
Beall, Of Lexington, spent Sum
day with Mr.. and Mrs. j. M.
Howard.
Mrs. George Povall from Lex
ington visited in the home OF
her parents, DR.. and Mrs. R.. G,
Elmore, recently.
Mr.. C. E. Long who has a po-
sition with the Interstate Com
merce Commission has returned
to his work in New Albany, NY,
Miss Mary Catherine Durham
who is attending Draughn's Bus
mess College in Jackson is Wis
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
w. S. Durham.
Mrs. Pauline Thomas shopped
in Memphis Wednesday.
Mrs. st. Clair spent Wednes-
day in Jackson.
Mrs. j. M. Howard spent
Tuesday with her daughter Car
gill at Belhaven College.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Vickers
were in Durant Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Edwards
will spend the week end in
Sturgis.
Mrs. F. D. Prewett from
Ethel attended the installation
services of the O. E. S. Of the
Durant Chapter Tuesday night,
Jan. 9Th.
Mrs. Hillard Odom has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. Waugh
in Memphis the past week.
Friends Of Mr.. Walter Odom
are glad to know he is improv-
ing.
Mrs. Rena Vickers spent the
week end with her son A. M.
Vickers in Kosciusko.
Friends of Nh Geo. Beall, ST.,
regret that he is confined to his
home.
Mrs. Pugh Winborn visited
Mrs. T. L. Suber in Kosciusko
Monday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-14

Circle three of the Woman's
Missionary Society met in the
home of Mrs. A. B. Clements
Monday, with thirteen members
and one guest present.
The circle organized with the
following officers for the years
work; Chairman, Mrs. J. G. Mont
gomery, Vice-chairman, Mrs.J. P.
Moore, Recording Secretary, Mrs.
A. B. Clements, Treasurer, Mrs.
Mrs. A. w. Mitchell, Local Treas.
Mrs. w. Fl. Jones Octogan Chair
man, Mrs. w. L. Alternately, press
and Publicity, Mrs. Dan Comfort
Mission and Bible Study, Mrs.
Joel Gulledge, Outlook Chairman
Mrs. Fannie Owen.
After pledge cards mere signed
Mrs. Joel Gulledge gave the Bible
study on prayer
Mrs. Clements served her guests
cookies and coffee.
The next meeting will be with
Mrs. G. I'll. Carruth, Monday, Jan.
25th.
Miss Lucille Sudduth from
McAdams attended the ~installa-
ton services Of the O. E. S.
Tuesday night.
Mrs. Chris Beisel is visiting
her son, B. U. Beisel and family.
Miss Jean Perkins is visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. George Povall in
Lexington.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-14
Local and Personal
of Durant
CIRCLE NO. 1

Ten of the members OF the Meth
odist Missionary Society whose
names were drawn for Circle No. l
met in the home of Mrs. r. G.
Gilmore Monday afternoon at 3 o.
clock. The first item of business
was the election of officers which
resulted as follows: Chairman,
Mrs. r. G. Gilmore; Vice Chairman,
Mrs. G. w. Drane Secretary, Mrs.
E. S. Lewis; Treasurer, Mrs. John
Racine; Mission and Bible Study,
Mrs. Robert Moore; Octagon Cou-
pom Chairman, Mrs A. A. Porter.
After a general discussion OF
business and other activities for
the year 1887 Mrs, Gilmore served
an attractive salad plate and cot
fee. Rev. +. S. Lewis and Mrs.
Walter Odom were the two visitors
present, Mrs. Odom being the
president Of the entire society. The
Circle will meet January % with
Mrs. G. w. Drane.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-14
Monday Tuesday We'd 1920
"CAMILLE'
"NEWS OF H DAY"
"COLORFUL ISLANDS," (Traveltalk)

Camille, with Carlo and Robert Taylor as its sensational
co-starring team will make you forget that you are in a
theatre and will give you the most exciting hours OF all your
picture-going days, when Carlo and Robert Taylor live again
the love story Of the Partisan youth and the fatal beauty,
Marguerite.
The notable supporting cast includes Lionel Barrymore,
elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Henry Danielb Lenore Ulrlch
AMI Laura Hope Crews.
The Dumas story is too well remembered to require des-
cription, but the glory of Paris in the Dumas period is re-
created NTH magnificent artistry and the dramatic love of
Camille and Armand is portrayed with all the power of the
original.
Camille is a picture not to be misseT and one that will
remain vivid in your memory when others are long forgotten
Matinee Monday, 3:15 P. M.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-14
STAR THEATRE
LEXINGTON, MISS.
Thursday, Friday Saturday l4-l5-l6
"COLLECE HOLIDAY"
POPULAR SCIENCE IT
BETTY BOOP CARTOON

BETTY BOOP CARTOON
Laughter, gayety and music are mixed in liberal proper
lions in college Holiday with Jack Benny heading the
list of radio and screen comics assembled for iris latest out
standing hit.
He is aided by George Burns and Oracle Allen, Mary Boland
Martha Raye. Marsha Hunt, Lief Erickson Eleanore Whitney
Johnny Domns, Louis DaPron and others.
You will see a new dancing team in this musical film, Louis
DaPron and Olympic Bradna, who did their dancing singly in
''Three Cheers for Love-, in elaborate specialties combining
acrobatic and tap dancing.
Eleanore Whitney and Johnny Downs are also teamed in
several dance numbers.
The five song hits are Sweetheart Waltz 81 Rhyme for
Love- $50 WHAT 90 Adore YOU and "'WhoIs That Knock
ing at My Heart.
Hilarious and giddy, tuneful, gay and gorgeous, college
Holiday is the laugh hit Of the season that sets a new high
standard for comedies with music.
Matinee Thursday, S:15 r. N.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05

agents and IL Negro agents VINO work
with the women and girls enrolled in
home demonstration clubs. Authori-
ties throus - Tatica agree that
the work in tbs State is a model of
efficiency and effectiveness.
During the 25 years in which DR..
McKimmon has had charge of this
effort she has received many honors.
Only recently at Houston, Texas, she
was presented with the distinguished
service ruby, considered the highest
professional honor that can be con-
ferred on an extension worker. This
jewel was conferred by the Grand
Council of Epsilon Sigma Phi, ma
tional extension fraternity.
Dr. McKimmon is a graduate of
Peace Junior College and of State Col
lege with Masters degree from
State and an honorary Doctors degree
at Chapel Hill.
The new State Agent, Miss Ruth
Current is a native of the Mt. Vernon
com nunity in Rowan county and a
graduate of the Harr'isonaurg Teach
ers College at Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Miss Current was reared on a farm
and attended the China Grove High
School She became home agent of
Iredell County in 1927 and was made
district agent in 1890. In addition to
her duties as district agent, she has
acted as girls club specialist and di-
rector of the annual farm women's
short course for the past five years.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05
Mrs. McKimmOn Resigns
INSTRUMENTATION Job
r e tire s After Is
Years as Head of
Extension Over the
State

College Station, Raleigh, Feb. s.
Dr. Jane S. McKimmon, in charge Of
home demonstration work in North
Carolina for the State College Agri-
cultural Extension Service for the
past rs years, today had announced
her retirement as active head of this
work to assume less exaeting duties
of an advisory nature.
Announcement of her decision was
made by Dean l. o. Schaub at a meet
ing Of the home demonstration staff.
Dean Schaub read Mrs. McKimmons
letter asking for release from the
arduous duties of State agent in
charge of home demonstration work,
and also read his reply in which he
regretfully acceded to. the request He
also announced that Miss Ruth Cur
rent, at present district agent in
charge of home agents of the SOUTH
western district, would fce promoted
to the position as State agent, and
that DR.. McKimmon thus will be
available for consultation on the vari-
Gus problems affecting extension
work. She also plans to write the re
cord of the development of home de-
monstration activities during the IS
years in which she has directed the
work. She will continue to prepare
items of interest about country wo-
men of North Carolina.
In the meantime, however; Mrs. Nc
Kimmon will leave for Winterhaven,
Florida, for a two months rest. At the
annual conference of extension work
ers held at State College in late De-
cember, she was presented with a
purse of $3.50 as a token of the love
and respect of her fellow workers.
This in part will be used in vacation
expenses.
Dr. McKimmon became State Home
Demonstration Agent in 1911 and is
the only one of five original home !
agents left in the service throughout |
the United States. A small handful of
girls began work with her in 1911 |
while today there are some $4,000 |
farm women and girls enrolled in the |
various clubs which have for their
purpose the building of a more salts
tying rural home life in the State
In addition to a corps of trained
specialists, there are 76 county home
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel

Raleigh, Feb. 5.-Nothing surprised
the liquor control advocates in the
house more than the defeat of the
motion to take the Hutchins State
wide referendum bill from the unfa-
vorable calendar. For while they hop
ed it would lie defeated, they had
been confident the motion would car
ny, since they knew that some eight
or ten members would vote to bring
the bill before the house who would
vote against the bill when it came up
for enactment. Their strategy was
based on the assumption that the
Hutchins bill would be placed on the
calendar, after which they could then
defeat it's adoption. But there was no
disappointment, of course, when the
motion to take the bill from the UNI
favorable calendar was defeated by
a vote of SO to 56-a margin of only
two votes.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05
HENDERSON, AGERS
MEET LOU|SBURG
Boys and Girls Journey To
Franklin Capital Tonight
For Tits

The Henderson high school basket
ball teams will journey to Louisburg
tonight to engage the Mills high school
boys and. girls in double header.
This will mark the first meeting OF
the schools this season, and the To-
Gals will be cunning for a victory.
Coach Ruby Temple was not the
best satisfied with the showing her
girls made against Lawrenceville Wed
nesday night and is expecting bet
ter performance tonight.
Bing Biller has been drilling his
boys at top speed, and they are
showing the results of his tutelage,
coming along fast to whip themselves
into formidable aggregation.
Both boys and girls have good re-
serve material, and substitutions can
be made without materially reducing
the effectiveness of the teams.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05
PUTTING GOAES IN
HIGH SCHOOL GYM
6 Backboards Being Erect
ed and Varsity Court
To be Widened

Henderson high school gymnasium
will be sporting new basketball goals
next Tuesday night when the teams
there take on EPSON in. doublehead-
er, Coach Bing Miller said today.
The goals were received this week
after much delay, and workmen are
busy erecting them.
The varsity court, running length
wise the gymnasium, will have swing
ing goals, and two shorter courts,
crosswise the gym, will have station
airy ones The varsity court will also
be widened by some 10 feet, accord
ing to Miller.
Cage games there have been played
with temporary goals on the varsity
court.
Henderson now has one Of the fin
ST gymnasiums in this section.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05
Wife Preservers

Wiping your enamel stove with
q soapy cloth is all that is neees-
sary to keep it cleaning unless
you have allowed it to become
permanently stained through
neglect.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05
LEGISLATIVE CHATTER

of liquor, in case the bill had passed
and the "wets" had won in a State
wide referendum, it would have stood
a much better chance of getting a
favorable report from the committee
and then of having passed the House.
1t was evident from the first, how
ever, that the real purpose and intent
of the Hutchins-Clarkson bill was to
call a Statewide referendum. which,
regardless of whichs side won, would
dry UP the II counties which now
have liquor stores and throw the en-
tire State back into the dry column
under the burlington Act. For as Re
preventative Victor S. Bryant pointed
out during the debate, that if the Hut
-Clarkson Iaill should have been
enacted and if the. "wets" should have
won in the referendum it proposed,
the law would nave outlawed the sale
OF beer and wine as we'll as liquor,
since it carried no machinery and no
provision for permitting the creation
of any such machinery. So if the
Statewide referendum had been call
ed and the State had voted wet, the
result would have been to close the
liquor stores in the present II coun-
ties and to prohibit the sale of any,
thing stronger than near beer" until
after the General Assembly met in
1889 to set UP a machinery act 1t
was a bill under which the drys
would have won, regardless of how
the people vcted-the type of bill
which the "drys" said was demo
cratic"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05

One of the SUI prises in the debate
on the motion to put the Hutchins
bill on the favorable calendar was
the speech by Representative r. E..
Sentelle of Brunswick county, a Bap-
list minister, former county super
1ptendent of schools, as well as a law
yer and farmer, in which he came out
flat-footedly for liquor control sys-
TEN as opposed to prohibition. as
sailed the "drys' for changing their
position since 1885, when they fought
any move in favor of a Statewide re-
rerendum as well as any form of Ii
quor control, and maintained that he
MAD become convinced that the drys
ana all those who were still contend
ing for the retention of prohibition
were merely kidding themselves. He
declared that while he stood with the
bone drys in 1885 against any change
In the liquor laws, he had become
convinced in the past two years that
there was no such thing as prohibi-
ton and that some form of LIQUOR con-
troll was better than wide-open boot
logging such as prevail in most of the
counties which do not have LIQUOR
stores, Representative Sentelle voted
to take the Hutchins bill from the I'M
favorable calendar, hut made it clear
that he would vote against the bill
if and when it got before the House.
The "bone drys'' made a serious
mistake when they let Associate JUS
tice Herriott Clarkson write the Hut
chins bill and make it SO dry that
every time any one tried to read the
bill he had to sneeze. If the Hutchins-
Clarl1son bill had contained some sort
Of machinery for the setting up of
some tyne of liquor stores for the sale
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05
WALLACE TO VISIT
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

Chapel Hill, Feb. 5-Secretary of
Agriculture Henry Wallace, originator
Of the AAA, will deliver the annual
series of We'll Lectures on Citizenship
at the University of North Carolina
April /, and 3, it was announced to-
day by Dean D. D. Carroll of the
School of Commerce, chairman of the
We'll Lecture committee.
The series was permanently estab-
lished by the families of Sol and
Henry We'll, of Goldsboro in 1915.
Speakers have been presented annual
ly with the exception Of the 1892
series
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05

THANK. YOU! The favor
able comments from all Sec
tions of our territory as to
our recently announced Rate
Reduction have been most
gratifying.
We are glad that our Gus
toners appreciate the fact
that NOW CHEAP ELEC-
TRICKY rs C ZAP Err
STILL!
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05

Lanny Alderman will represent the
University of North Carolina in the
heavyweight division when the Tar
Heels clash with ~ c. States fine
boxing team at Chapel Hill Saturday
night in the Tin Can. Alderman is a
senior and is competing for the third
time this season. He lost close deci-
sions in both the Maryland and Vir-
ginia contests. Alderman was unde-
feated during his sophomore year but
cid not go out for boxing last season.
Sir Arthur Keith, famed English
scientist, born u years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05

The reason that no mention was
made in the liquor control bill which
passed the House Wednesday of anv
revenue split or of any State tax
on the sale of liquor, was to keep it
from being a revenue measure, so it
could be passed on all three readings
the same day. Most of the liquor con-
troll strategists thought it best to ELI
inmate all revenue features so the
Elll could be put through he House be-
fore Gale K. Burgess, chief firemen
for he United Dry Forces, could get
his blow-torch bearers together and
apply the heat to the House members.
Their strategy seems to have worked
well.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05

1870-John Mitchell, president Of
the United Mine Workers of America
noted labor leader, born at Braid
wood, III. Died Sept. 9, 1919
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05

1887-(50 years ago. U. S. interstate
Commerce Commission established
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05

A good de ii of face-saving was done
by several house members on the vote
TO take up the Hutchins sill for a
Statewide referendum, with the re-
suit that good many voted to put
the Hutchins bill on the calendar. Sc
cretly hoping that the motion would
fail. These were the members more or
less pledged to vote for a Statewide
referendum. although personally in
favor of local option liquor control
bill. They knew that if the motion to
consider the Hutchins bill should fail,
that it would be impossible to bring
up another Statewide referendum bill
In this session, and that the only
other alternative would be a county
option liquor stores bill With the
Hutchins bill definitely beaten, they
could then vote for a county option
bill and still keep their records
straight with the drys back in their
home counties. This accounts for the
tact that the county option liquor con-
trol hill finally passed the house by
a vote of CT to 43.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05

Some Of. the wet-drinking, dry-vot-
ing members of the House feel more
relieved today than since they arriv-
ed here, now tina the House has at
last passed a local option, State-and-
county liquor control law For at least
a dozen of those who voted to take
up the Hutchins-Clarkson bill were in
cold sweat while the vote was in
progress for fear it would get to the
floor, despite the fact that they voted
for 1T. For while their votes were with
the "drys' their hearts were with the
"wets."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-05

Here's William Doc) Newton, for
mer head football coach at Davidson
College, who has accepted the foot
ball coaching job at N. C. State Col
lege, succeeding Hunk Anderson, talk
ing to President Frank Graham, left,
and Dean J w. HARRISON, of N C.
State, right. The picture was snapped
yesterday as the men talked in Dean
Harrelson's office.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-13
SEARCH is MADE
FOR 'FORTUNE'OF
CHARITY PATIENT
Former Circus Star Dies
Her Jewels Hunted

CHICAGO, Oct. 10 (C.TP.S).
Authorities in the public admin
istrators office are conducting a
search for a hidden fortune be-
lieved to have been accumulated
by Mrs. NelliS Cook Pearl, IL,
former beautiful circus bareback
rider, vaudeville dancer, and later
Americas first woman booking
agent who aided many of today'S
stage and screen favorites to sue
cess.
Born In Emporium, Pa, Mrs.
Pearl, at the age of Is, married
c. C. Pearl, minstrel man and
clog dancer with a circus, and
started on the colorful career that
took her into vaudeville and, as
her age piled up, into the booking
agency business.
GOT STARS JOBS
She is said to have obtained
places for Sophie Tucker, Elsie
Janis, Lewis Stone and many
others. Among her friends were
such as Hughie Jennings, former
manager of the Detroit baseball
team. Her husband died many
years ago and is buried in Buff
falo, N. Y.
Mrs. Pearl died Of pneumonia
September 80 at the county hos
pital. Authorities believed she
was a typical old lady charity
ratient until residents Of the Lor-
rain Hotel here where she spent
her declining years told of the
lavish display of diamonds and
pearls she used to wear. This
started the authorities on a search
for the Jewels, but so far they
have not been found. Residents
of the hotel estimated the jewelry
was worth thousands Of dollars.
FIND OIL STOCKS
In many trunks, packed with
souvenirs of the theater, the pub
lie administrator found stock in
oil wells amounting to $4,000
face value. So far they have been
unable to place any value upon it
but residents quoted Mrs. Pearl as
saying recently that the stock,
once worthless, had recently be-
come valuable again, and showed
dividend checks to prove it.
Since Mrs. Paris death, Mrs.
Celone Stewart Of Milwaukee,
Wis, has come forward with a
claim upon the estate, saying she
was an adopted daughter. The
public administrator is seeking
relatives in the East.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-13
Giant Tank Begins
Tow of 1871 Miles

JERSEY CITY, Oct. ia 460,-
00O-pound steel tank, said to be
the largest and heaviest piece Of
freight ever moved. bobbed into
New York Bay at the Claremont
Terminal of the Lehigh Valley
railroad at the start Of a 1911
mile tow to Whiting, Ind.
Too bulky and too heavy for
either a flat car or a barge, the
tank was sealed up, and set afloat
with a Moran towing tug waiting
to pick it up. The manufacturers
Of the tank, M. w. Kellog Com
pany, had to dredge several spots
in the Erie Canal to get the ten
foot six-inch depth displaced by
the tank.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-13

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-Bruce
Barton, candidate for United
States Representative from the
Seventeenth Congressional Dis
trict, has opened campaign head
quarters and announced that his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-13
Clinic for Speech Cure

Lisping, stammering, suffering,
nervous impediments and Difficult
ties attributable to abnormal con-
dition of the mouth, throat or
nasal passages will be treated, it
was announced today.