The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-23
through
Hazel
Eyes
by
Hazel Brannon

A Community House is going to
be built in Durant some time and
definite plans are now being made
for it by members of the Business
and professional Women's Club who
are sponsoring the project.
Members of this group earnestly
solicit the support of every individual
citizen and every organization In the
community in its efforts to build a
community house in Durar1o that
will be a credit to the town and its
people.
A community house can be of great
service and pleasure to every citizen
in this community and we should
all put our shoulders to the wheA
hat the Business and Professional
Women's Club has started spinning.
The first way every citizen of this
community can aid in the community
house project is to go by the office
of the Mississippi Power & Light
Company and there select your fav-
ordte candidate for Little Miss Du-
rant and Master Durant. Each PEN
ny dropped In the bank OF your fa-
uortte candidate there counts for
him or her one vote.
Pictures of twenty-ndne attractive
youngsters are on display there. Go
by and vote for your favorite. The
winners will receive the handsome
loving cups with their names engraved
thereon and their pictures will APP
pear in this paper.
And more important, every cent
that goes into each bank win be
placed In a building fund for q
community house.
Elsewhere on this page IL a list of
the contestants and their standing
this week. Vote for your favorite
before next week ia over!
Interesting news to everyone in
Holmes county is the latest official
report on ginning in this county. The
Department of Commerce figures show
where our crop i'm 1888 dropped 10
1927 from 6s.359, the year previous,
a drop OF 27,03s bales.
That's some drop and we have all
felt the effects of At hut we can al
waya hope for better mex year.
uMa-t mould . ~n{4pt, e. 49, ~. dc xr,ten.
put that hope?
Just to be on the safe side, how
ever, we hope he will join the Plant
to Prosper contest and plan to have
a good living at home as much as
humanity possible in order that his
family will not go hungry.
News from Congressman Whit
tington indicates that construction
will probably start on the new $4,000
postoffice building within four months
time. That Is welcome news to ev-
erybody. A beautiful new Federal
building will add much to the attrac-
tiveness of Durant.
Highway patrolmen are picking up
every day a number Of people who
have not yet secured their drivers
license. This is their duty as pre-
scribed by law and they have no
choice. So IL you haven't bought
your drivers license you'd better take
heed to the warning and go procure
one immediately. And then carry
it with you at all times.
We forgot to mention it. but when
they do pick you up It means paying
twenty times what the license would
have cost you and considerable en-
barrassment as we'll.
Wa hope -poltica this summer Is
really going to be as interesting as
Fired Sullens says. II not we are
really going to be disappointed. We
have already planned for the politi-
cal circus to take the place of a
vacation.
Add to ITS a Fact: The Lexington
Advertiser, which recently celebrated
its one hundredth anniversary, was
once published in Durant. This in
teresting item was brought to our at
tention this week by one of the coun-
tvs leading citizens. 1t was way
back when Capt. John Hoskins was
edItor, in the good old days when
men settled arguments with guns,
and a mans word was his bond. Few
of US remember that far back.
Mr.. BUSINESS MAN-did you de
duct your advertising expenditures
from this years income tax? The
Revenue Act Of 1884. Section %, De-
ductions from Gross Income. reads
as follows: E~xpense-An the ordi-
mary and necessary expenses paid
o. incurred during the taxable year
in carrying on any trade or business.
If you didn't do any advertising
the chances are you didn't have to
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