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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Clements Chevrolet Co.
Hos Unique Offer

A. B. Clements of the A. B. Gle
ments Chevrolet Co, is offering a
special plan to draftees between ages
of 81 and SO in the purchase of a
new or used car.
The company will r~e-purchase the
car with a liberal value taking into
consideration depreciation and 9th
err factors. and make a charge based
on per month usage.
This offers a plan whereby thess
customers may make purchase of q
car and at the same time know ex-
actly what they will get for their cal
in ease they are drafted. This is
something new in a financing
stated Mr.. Clements, and designed
to protect the customer against un
necessary loss if they are called fol
army service.
Mr.. Clements will be glad TO ex
plain details to anyone in the draf'
age contemplating purchase of a
new or used car. See him today i
Interested in buying an automobile
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Official Registration
By Beots Listed Here;
Two Holmes Boards

Holmes county registrars regis
tered 4,524 men between ages of
21 and So Wednesday, October 10,
in the first peacetime registration
in the history of this country for
military purposes.
Because Holmes has more than
10000 population two draft boards
have been set up in this county to
take care of the local functioning
of the draft. The boards were
appointed by the President of the
United States on recommendation
of the Governor of Mississippi.
Local Board number n at Du-
rant is composed of w. s. Heggie,
j. R. Joyce and John Edwin Steen.
This board will handle beats two and
three. 1,845 men registered in beats
2 and 8.
Local board number two at Lex
ington has as it's members G. HI.
Marlborough, j. H. Warner and Joe
Latham. 1t has charge of beats /,
4 and 5. 2,670 men registered in
these three beats.
Complete official registration fig
ures are as follows:
Beat me-: Lexington, 943; Acona,
TIA.
Total beat one LII.
Beat two: Durant, ATS; West 227;
Goodman, 1875; Junior College at
Goodman, 35; Emory, 80; Bowling
Green, rs.
Total beat two, 1893.
Beat three: Eulogy, 159; Pickens,
342; Ebenezer, 266.
Total beat three, 767.
Beat four: Thornton, 376.
Total beat four, 376.
Beat five: Tchula, 1856; Cruger,
391.
Total beat five, LIT.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Mrs. Stewart Rites
Held In Lexington
Member Prominent
lFomiIy Passes
At Hospital

Funeral services for Mrs. Sallie
Burwell Stewart, member of a fam
lily long prominent in Holmes county
affairs, were held Sunday afternoon
at four o'clock at the Espicopal
Church in Lexington, of which she
was a member. The Rev. Elnathan
Tart, Canton, Episcopal Rector, was
in charge.
Mrs. Stewart, who lacked only
thirteen days of being 70 years of
age, passed away at the Community
Hospital Saturday at LAS after a
lengthy illness.
She was born in Holmes county
and lived all her life here. Her ia
ther was the late William 3. Rurwell
who came to the Ebenezer commun-
ity in Holmes county from Virginia
many years ago. Her mother was
the late Olivia Luse Burwell, de-
scendent of a pioneer Yazoo county
family. Her family has long been
identified with the life of this sec
ton.
Surviving are one SON and two
daughters by a former marriage: A.
B. Holder, Lexington; Mrs. Boz
Bridgeforth, Pickens, and Mrs. Sam
Bertron, Houston, Texas.
Two sisters also survive They
are Mrs. w. o. Barrett and Mrs. j
A. Mcdonald, both of Lexington.
Interment followed the rites in the
Lexington cemetery with Harrell IL
charge.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Baptist Meeting
Al Oregon Is
Attended
Two Day Annual
Session Held
Lost Week

The Holmes County Baptist As
ISOLATION held its annual meeting
October 10-11 at Mount Pleasant
Church. Twenty churches we're re
presented. The next meeting will be
held the Wednesday and Thursday
after the first Sunday in October, at
the Ebenezer Baptist church.
The Reverend Judson Chastain Of
Lexington was reelected Moderator
and Ellis f. Wynn of Durant was
reelected Clerk and Treasurer.
The preacher of the Associations
Sermon is to be the pastor of the
Durant Baptist Church, with the
Reverand A. II. Miller as alternate.
The following were elected as
Chairmen of the clubs: Evangelistic
the Reverend Madison Flowers; The
Now Club, Ellison Salley; 10000
Club, P. H. Williams; B. 7. U. Supt.
Mrs. D. j. Ford; Sunday School Supt
Mrs. w. E. Grace; Representative or
State Board, the Reverend Madison
Flowers.
The following churches were rep
resented with the number of theil
delegates: Antioch, 3 delegates; Beu
lah, three; Bowling Green, three
Central, three; Cruger, two; Durant
five; Ebenezer, three; Emory, three
Goodman seven; Harland's Greek
three; Lexington, five; Mount Plea
SAINT, five; Mount Vernon, four;
Oak Grove, three; Oregon, one; Pick
ems, five; Pleasant Ridge, five; SaroI
five; Tchula four and West, four.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
$1,000. Received
By County Agent
Parity Checks
l,44l Formers To
Get First Checks;
$350.000 To Come

On Wednesday and Thursday OF
this week the County Triple A of
flee will deliver checks to 1441 far
mers, amounting to s31,030.14. These
are the first Parity checks received
by the county for 1910 of the $3.50,
900 that will be received this year.
Farmers are advised that it viii
not be necessary to call for check.
until they receive a notice from thu
county office.
More Parity checks r expected
to arrive from time to time for thu
next 80 days.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Leurd's Service Sto.
Hos Special On Cos

Gordon Lizards Shell Station
next door to the Hotel Durant is
offering a special all next week on
gasoline. Regular quality Of high
grade Shell gasoline will be sold for
Is and $40 cents per gallon. This
is the cheapest price on regular high
grade gasoline in town. Gordon in
vites the public to come by and
fill up with him.
The offer begins today and lasts
through next week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
County Librory Boord
Trustees Named

The recently elected Board Of
Trustees Of Holmes County Library
is composed Of:
Mrs. w. P. Taylor, president; MIS-
Louis Longinotti, vice-president; Mrs
Herbert Montgomery, secretary; Mrs,
G. w. Drane, treasurer; and c. H
Carruth, Mrs. C. A. Doster, Mrs,
Robert Ham. the Rev. E. S. Lewis
and Mrs. W, f. McCune who will
serve for the next two years.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Commodity Stamp Plan
TO Be Considered
Meeting Set oath At
Lexington; Open
To Public

J.. A. Gilfoy, director of Commo'
dity district distribution in Missis.
sipri, will be present at a meeting
in Lexington on Thursday night
October "a, at seven o'clock at tht
courthouse.
Mr.. Gilfoy will explain to those
present the working of the STAMP
plan for the distribution of commo'
dities in this section.
All wholesale and retail merchants
and members of the Board of Sup
e~rvisors and bankers as well as 9th
ers interested are urged to be pres
ent at this time
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Mrs. ]. 7. Crowley
Dies In Kosciusko

As we go to press, we learn of the
death of one of Attala county's most
prominent citizens, Mrs. J. T. Craw-
ley. She died Thursday morning
suddenly at her home in Kosciusko
with a heart attack. The funeral
will take place Friday morning at
1000 o'clock in Kosciusko.
She is survived by her sons, the
Hon. Dave and Jim Crawley of Kos
ciusko, both widely known in Kos
ciusko and Durant and surrounding
sections.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
1910 Births Will Be
Rechecked In Holmes

DR.. r. w. Whitfield, head of the
vital statistics department and z. E
Oswald, field representative, both Of
Jackson, were in Durant Tuesday to
confer with Mrs. Jennie Thweatt and
Mrs. R. R. Watts, registrars for
Holmes and Attala counties respec-
lively.
A discussion was held relative ia
a recheck of 1910 births in these
counties.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
West Man Attends
New Orleans Meet

CAPT. Jno. w. Holmes of West
and Jackson, was elected viee-presi-
dent of the Tri-State Safety Patrol
Club, at a meeting in New Orleans
Wednesday.
The meeting was held in the
Roosevelt Hotel along with a dinner
sponsored by the Police department
Of New Orleans. Those attending
the meeting from Mississippi were
Lieut.. /. w. Cooper of McComb,
Capt. j. W. Holmes of West and Capt.
i. f, Carson of Meridian.
The club meets next in Little
Rock, Ark, on November Is, with
delegations sent from Louisiana,
Mississippi and Arkansas.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Peoples Bonk Makes
improvements

The Peoples Bank of Durant has
been entirely redecorated with fresh
ly painted walls and a new linoleum
cover on the floor which adds much
to the attractiveness Of the building.
Customers of this bank r en-
joying very much the improvements.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
II True Bills Are
Found Al Grand
Jury Session
6 No Bills and 3
Cases Continued;
Jurors Listed

To the Honorable S. F. Davis,
Judge of the Fourth Circuit Court
District of Mississippi:
We your Grand Jury, empanelled
at and for the regular October 1910
Term of the Circuit Court of Hol-
mes County, Mississippi, hereby sub
init this our report of the acts and
proceedings had and done by our said
body:
We have been in session two (2)
days, a part of which time has been
taken up with the various inspections
enjoined upon US to make by Your
Honor's instructions, and during said
time have examined SO witnesses, and
from our deliberations and investiga-
tons have found 6 mo Bills, Con-
tinued 3 cases, and have found and
now return into open court IL True
Bills" which we herewith submit with
this report.
Committees from our midst found
the County Records and Books OF
County Officers in a good condition,
although our examination was limited
in it's scope. The County Jail APP
| peared to be clean and in general,
TO be in a very satisfactory condition.
| The prisoners appeared to be well
| fed and properly cared for, and pro-
lyided with adequate bedding and
cover and with clean sanitary facill-
ties.
The Committee appointed for the
purpose of inspecting the County
YARN and P~oorhouse found the same
to be in good condition; the plant
kheing clean, with adequate sanitary
Facilities, adequate supplies of gooc
food on hand, and the condition oil
the prisoners good.
The Committee appointed to in.
spect the Belmone State Farm re
ports that general conditions at The
farm are good; the prisoners well fec
and maintained, clean sanitary facili
ties, and the buildings and equipment
in ggood condition. However, the
Committee recommends that adequate
fire escapes be provided to are fol
! the prisoners on the second floor il
case of fire. The Committee further
recommends that several flood light:
be placed on the outside of the cages
especially in front; and the Commit
tee further recommends that SOM
attention be given the sergeant:
home as several places on his build
| ing need repair.
And now having reported our act
in the premises, we beg to be dis
charged, subject, however, to recall
when and if so ordered by You
Honor during this term.
Respectfully submitted,
r. L. WALLACE,
Foreman of the
Grand Jury.
ATTEST:
H. Schur, Clerk of the
Grand Jury.
4 Grand jurors were r. L. Wallace
foreman; w. v. Lundy, M. M. Grant
\ ham, w. L. Zeigler, J. A. Carpenter
Hyman Schur, S. B. Taylor, B.
;. Parkinson, Liby Toombs, J. C. Car
non, A. L. Gibson, R. l.. Ellis, G. f
:. Slocomb, Jr., C. Q. Dew, Joe Cerame
Jr., r. G. Brock, R. C. Truitt, S. r
! Swinney, E. A. Sanders and A. l.
Rrock
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Rev. Griffin To Preach
At Baptist Church

The Rev. D. w. Griffin of Clinton
will preach at the Baptist Church at
the morning and night services. The
morning preaching service will be
at 1900 am. and the night service
will begin at 7:15. The public is in
vited to attend.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
California Cote Offers
Sunday Prices

The California Cafe in Durant
makes a special offer of two dinners
for rs cents on Sunday, October 20.
This is the regular Sunday dinner
featured by the Cafe.
The delicious menu planned for
Sunday will be found on the back
| page of this paper.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Choncery Clerks
Mother Is Ill

Chancery Clerk Parham H. Will
liams has returned from B%rookhaven
where he went to attend the bedside
of his mohter, Mrs. ]. P. Williams,
who is quite i'll.
Hope is held by his many friends
for an early recovery for her.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17

Mr.. Thomas Hewitt spent the week
end in jackson.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-08

A new and revolutionary principle
seems to have come into effect IN
this country. Under it, the employ
er is always wrong and the agitator
always right. A labor organizer can
actually wreck an industry by the
strike, sit-down, slow-up or coercive
technique used today, and the law
will protect him. An employer who
dares to express to his employees
even mild disapproval of such
methods may be hauled up before the
National Labor Relations Board and
charged with coercing defenseless
workers.
The fact that we need employers
to supply labor with jobs and OPP
portunities, is disregarded So is the
fact that invested savings OF mil
lions of citizens have been respon-
sible for giving the American work
men the best jobs, the highest wages
the best working conditions and the
finest standard of living in the world.
The surest way to injure labor Is
to cripple industry.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-08
FARM RELIEF AGAIN

Again Congressman are talking
about the agricultural problem.
Again farm relief schemes are be-
ing proposed. Again the lawmakers
are preparing to unleash the tinanc-
ial f1oodgates of the Treasury in an
effort to bring prosperity to the farm'
There is nostalgia note to all this.
For farm relief has undoubtedly been
the most persistent and long lived OF
all political issues, with the excep-
ton of the tariff. Every administra-
ton for decades has had plan TO
offer. Every general election has
seen both parties battling over dif-
ferent farm-aid planks in their plat
forms.
without criticizing the motives
underlying all these efforts, 1t is GER
tainly apparent that every one OF
them has been ineffective. None mas
realized the hopes of it's proponents.
Further, the fact that farm re.lel
plans change with every shift IN
political power, like all political &C
tivities, makes for waste, inefficiency
and lack of results.
While political farm relief mas
held the headlines, another kind OF
farm relief" has been quietly max
ing real progress. The farmer-own-
ed. farmer-controlled agricultural
marketing cooperatives haven't
dramatized themselves-but they
have done great work in staoii-
izing markets, improving production
methods, and gaining for the farm
er a fairer share of the selling price
of his goods by the simple practice
of business methods
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-08
Bonus for Trees

In 1870, when trees were few
along the streets of The Dalles,
Ore, or Dalles City as the town was
then called, the city council or
dained that whoever planted shade
tree, along the street borders Of his
property would receive a credit OF
SO cents, doubtless to be applied on
his taxes or other city assessments.
Thus today's beautifully shaded
streets of The Dalles are induces Of
the birth places of the original prop
erty owners. New Englanders plant
ed elms. Those from Missouri and
the Ohio valley favored sycamores
and black locusts. The locust trees
of The Dalles have aroused COM
ment from botanical authorities A
botanist of the United States depart
ment Of agriculture, who examined
these trees a few years ago, pro-
nounced them the finest specimens
of the species he had ever seen,
and much larger than those found
where they are native.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-08

1t was recently pointed out this is
one of the extremely few general
election years since the Civil War
in which the public hasn't had a
pretty sound idea of who the presi-
dental candidates would be. Cen
orally the country has known long in
advance who was going to be BATH
ing for the White House-the NOM
nations of Hoover, Wilson, Hughes,
Franklin Roosevelt, AL Smith, etc.,
were practically dead certainties many
months before the conventions were
called to order. Single recent ex-
ception to this rule was when dark
horses Cox and Harding opposed
each other.
The rumor always goes around
about this time that some vague and
immensely powerful political bosses
have the key to the puzzle, and will
put their candidates over with ease
and dispatch when the time comes
But if that is so, every political OBJ
server in the country has been fool
ed. Both parties are divided within
themselves to an abnormal degree.
And the ranks of both are alive with
self-starters, favorite sons and 9TH
ers who are simply itching to take
the oath of Office from Chief Justice
Hughes next year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-08
Sow's Ear Silk Purse

A feature of the exhibit of Arthur
D. Little, Inc, at the National Elk
position of Chemical Industries in
1921, was silk purse actually made
out of sow's ear. The ear was
made into glue, softened with wa
ter, brought almost to the point Of
precipitation with acetone, Their
forced through warm containeI
into a spinneret and through this
into hardening solution of formal
dehyde and acetone in V-tube. Il
was picked out of the V-tube, reeled
dried, treated to 40 per cent glyc'
erin bath in which it was also dyed
then reeled and dried again, wover
and sewed up.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-08
Here's Latest Best Way
To Train Your Children

A plan for making child behave
correctly has been evolved by the
Cornell university's nursery school,.
The principles were developed
from a years record of the actions
Of children at the. home economics
nursery school. They were photo
graphed in the act of refusing. or
agreeing, to see eye to eye with
their elders. Every childish trick
gesture and facial expression was
recorded in picture and sound.
After months of study, instructors
decided parents should:
/. Watch and wait before helping
or directing the child he may do it
himself, or "tip off, the parent on
the reason why rot.
2. Ignore questionable or unde.
sirable behavior Meanwhile direct
the child to what is wanted.
8. Share with him socially, that
is, put yourself for moment on
his level This pleases the child and
is an incentive for him to behave
better.
4. Give him help as needed but
otherwise leave him alone. At this
point, such an attitude by the adult
stimulates independent performance
by the child.
5. Give increasing help, such as
introducing more specific directions,
one step after another At this stage
the increasing help reinforces the
child's own efforts.
6. Give decreasing help, withdraw
ing aid little by little, permitting the
child to realize he is doing the de-
sired act independently and that his
effort is recognized.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-08
EVERY HOME is BUILT
AROUND Its windows
Windows DE- err,ine Wall Space

WlHuOWS iIS SrEt1He ali 0pdCc
Second, tie arrangement of your
rooms, the arrangement of your fur
niture, is all done around the win
dows. Available wall space is largely
determined Ly windows. On the out
side the arcl. c"tural harmony is
largely determined by the placing or
grouping Of windows.
Thus ycu zee how important win
dows are just~from appearance alone.
But appearance, important as 1t is, is
only half of the story.
Here are some of the other things
that a good window should do:
Keep cold air out. Keep warm ali
in. Keep cool air in. Keep hot air out
Keep insects out. Keep dirt and dust
out. Work freely under all conditions
without rafting. Provide ventilation
when open. Be watertight WHEEL
closed. Let light in. Give clear vision
out Add beauty to your home. Har
monize with your style of archite,
ture.
No other architectural feature in
house must perform SO many fun
tions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-08

The brightest scholar among third
year law students al the University
of Minnesota is 22-year-old stu
dent who cannot see. John Nelson
of Sank Rapids, Mimi, is virtually
blind, but in scholastic accomplish
ments he has topped his classmates.
Nelson must read either in Bra;lle
or listen to the law read him by
his friend, fraternity brother and
roommate, Sigvald Oyen of Monte
Video, Mimi The university's law
school has Dat volumes of legal
BraiIle--whch equals about rs regu-
ar textbooks. Nelson puts all his
lecture notes in Braille and keeps
plenty of material for study.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-08
About the Name Lueretia

Lucretia IS one OF the numerous
slight names (of which Lucy is
best known) which we get from the
Latin, says Florence A. Cowles in
the Cleveland Plain Dealer. II
means "bringer of light" a beauti.
full meaning indeed. Probably il
sprang from Lucifer, the Latin name
for the morning star. By misin-
depreciation in Christian theology,
Lucifer was regarded as the name
of Satan before his fall, which ex-
plains the common phrase las proud
as Lucifer."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-08

1omics shows average prices received
oy American farmers below the
amounts received by farmers in
1887. The year 1899 revealed sub
,tantial decreases and losses to farm
srs in many items, towit, hogs, sheep,
wool, clover seed, timothy seed, cot
ON seed, wheat, corn, oats. barley,
We, buckwheat, potatoes, fiaxseed,
lpples, hay, butter, eggs. Certainly,
.hese facts indicate that the "experi-
ment" has not been a success.