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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07

The Rev. and Mrs. E. S. Lewis
and Mrs. B. w. Moore were among
those attending the annual confer
ence of the Methodist Church being
held at Columbus this week.
Among those college students
home for the week end were Junior
Blanton, Johnny Dinas, Maury Hum
pheries, Robert Horace Bowie, and
Miss Ophia B%lanton, Miss. State;
Gwin Kolb, Millsaps; Joel Howell,
Ole Miss; and Miss Miriam DeLoach
and Jim Allen, HvJ.C., Mary Brown
Wilburn, M.S.C.W.
Mrs. r. E. Moore, Margaret Moore,
and Catherine Moore were Jackson
visitors Saturday.
Mr.. Thomas Hewitt spent the week
end in Jackson.
Mrs. Brooks Davis, Miss Dorothy
Davis, and Miss Mary Jane Roby
were Memphis visitors Saturday.
William Strub spent the week
end with his parents.
Miss Anne Montgomery spent
Saturday in Memphis.
Miss Catherine Calendar of Lex
ington spent the weekend with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cal
endar.
Jack Edwards Of Carthage spent
the week end with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Edwards.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
Society Clubs Personals

Mr.. James McNees of McComt
was a Durant visitor Sunday.
Miss Kate Pinson spent the week
end in Alderman.
Mrs. Harry Davis and Virginia
Davis spent the week end in Durant.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Brown visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe Jackson in
Greenville Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Ray spent
Sunday in Memphis with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. c. N. Thorne.
Mrs. Charlie Ray, Miss Maxine
Leard, and Mrs. w. S. Heggie attend
ed the Bridge Club in Jackson Mon
day.
Misses Louise Order and Louise
Counts left Sunday to attend BUSH
ness school in Memphis.
Arthur Christopher of State spent
the weekend in Durant.
Mrs. Homer Terry of Weir spent
the week end in Durant.
Mr.. and Mrs. billiard Odom, Ann
Joyce Odom, Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Odom, Herman Jr., and Robert My
ers Odom spent Sunday in Lexing-
ton and Tchula.
The Rev. and Mrs. Haynie, Ann
Gloria and Bobby Haynie spent Mon
day in Jackson.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. ID. Causey Of
Jackson spent the weekend with his
mother, Mrs. Hassie Causey. They
will leave Thursday for their new
home in Florence, Ala.
Mrs. ]. r. Cargile of Kosciusko,
is spending a few days with Mr.. and
Mrs. John Howard.
Mrs. C. w. Cresswell and Miss
Charlotte Cresswell spent Friday in
Jackson.
Miss Pauline Carter spent the
week end in West.
Miss Irene McMaster spent Sun
day in Greenwood.
Miss Edith Rhyme spent Sunday
in Durant.
Mrs. w. H. Lawshe has returned
from a visit with her mother at
Sardis.
Mrs. j. W. Rice and two children
have Joined Doctor Rice in Car
thage.
Many of the HJ.C. fans in Durant
enjoyed the Homecoming game in
Goodman Friday.
Miss Lena Mason Of Lexington
we Saturday visitor in Durant.
-Irs. w. e. Wigley and Ernestine
of West spent Saturday with Mr..
and Mrs. Deck Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Rubbish spent
the week end in Eupora.
Doctor and Mrs. Dodd Of Koscius-
ko were Durant visitors Thursday.
Master Walter Lewis, Jr. Of Gre
NADIA spent the week end with the
Rev. and Mrs. E. S. Lewis.
Frank Edwards of Jackson spent
the week end with his parents here.
Mrs. Joe York, Jr., Miss Anne
Howard and Miss Cargile Howard
were Jackson visitors Saturday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
Womon's Club Observes
47st Birthday Oct. 31st

The Durant Woman's Club cele-
brated its forty-first anniversary on
October .hfrty-first, with a patrlo-
tic par ID the home OF the presi-
dent, Mrs. M. D. Baine. The hos
tess were Mrs. Baine Mrs, "A. l..
Stevens, Miss Irene McMaster and
Mrs. Mervyn Smith.
Six tables Of contestants compel
ed in patriotic games, in the living
room and dining room that were de-
corated with flags and the patriotic
colors. "The Star Spangled Banner
and "God Bless America" was SUNG
by the entire party. Mrs. Joe YORK
gave patriotic music at the piano
while the guests were assembling
Miss Irene McMaster and MISS
Poll Rice we're in charge OF the IN
tertaining.
"A two course dinner was serveo
with red, white an blue cream ano
cake. Those present were: guests
Mrs. Edwin Steen, Mrs. Harvey VII
burn. Mrs. Ed Gulledge, Mrs. w. =
Rubush, Mrs. Frank Storm, MRS
Brooks Davis, Mrs. Heinrich Fleming
club members: Mrs. M. d. baine
Mrs. A. L. Stevens, Miss Irene Nc
Master. Miss Poly Rice, Mrs. joe
York, Miss Mamie Clark, Miss fran
ces Allen. Mrs. R. C. Gilmore, MRS
Phil Wilson, Mrs. R. L. stevens Mrs
w. P. Taylor, Mrs J. r. Joyce, MRS
Horce Weir and Mrs. Mervyn Smlth'
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
The U.D.C.'s Meet In
Home of Mrs. Kinq

On Friday, October 25th, 1910, a
full attendance of the members of
the Durant Daughters Chapter U. D.
C. met in the spacious country home
of Mrs. Elna King for their an.
nual dinner. They were met at the
front gate by the hostess who gave
all a cordial greeting and glad smile
We were served a most delectable
luncheon plate of fried chicken, sal
ad, stuffed eggs, cakes with coffee
and tea. Mrs. King was assisted in
serving by Mrs. Curtis Howard, Mrs.
John Racine and Misses Melba Tuck
er and Maxine Cathey.
We were as happy as our hostess
to meet again her honored guests,
Mrs. Dana Montgomery of Carolina
and her daughter, Mrs. Dude Mobiles
of Miss. State, also Rev. and Mrs.
E. S. Lewis.
The following members of the
Children of the Confederacy also
pleased us with their presence, Misses
Rosemary Howell, Peggy Knott, Ann
Howard, Dorothy DAVIS n Ann
Montgomery.
Corsages of red roses were pre-
sented during the dinner hour to the
president, Mrs. Ruby Cooper, and
hostess, Mrs Elna King, with express
sions of love and appreciation from
the chapter by Miss Pearl Mcgee and
Mrs. B. w. Moore. Their thanks
to the chapter rang with sincerity
and love.
A short business session was pre-
sided over by the President; after
which, we all reluctantly bade our
hostess goodbye with the assurance
we would meet at the same place
next year.
The November meeting with be
with Mrs. Florence Valeers.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
Halloween Party Given
For Epworth League

Misses Beatrice Roby, Catherine
Moore, and Caroline Hays were 0 .
tesses to a three-course banquet fof
the Epworth League in the loVeiy
home of Mrs. Lamar Hays.
The Halloween motif was carriea
out in the living room and lnlng
room. The table vas 3asl with
a lace table cloth ana 2 eent piece
of white chyrsthaa.rra on 2 Mirror
surrounded by artistically arranged
black and orange strips of crepe pap
or. The black and orange candle
labra thanked the c~enterpiece. Inc
place cards were gay pumpkins m
the guests were given Halloween
favors.
Those present at the loyely al
fair were: Marjory Norwood, Bea-
trice Roby, Peggy Knott, Jane Her
rington, Bobby Haynie, Mary Louise
Cresswell, Irene Wefborn, Emma
Katherine White, Barbara Jean An
gle. Catherine Moore, Dorothy King,
Rueben jenkins, Roy Williams, David
Comfort. Robert Paul Odom, Jim Dye
Odom, Mrs. Henry Comfort n the
Rev. and Mrs. E. S. Lewis.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
VesetabIe Laxative
Makes Happy Friends

Here's a laxative that usually acts
thoroughly as harsher ones but is a
gentle beysnader for ~intestines when
used this way: A quarter to a
Tablespoonful Of spicy, aromatic
BLACK-DRAUGHT on your tongue
tonight; a drink Of water. There's
usually time for q good nights
rest. with q gentle, thorough action
next morning relieving constipa-
TONS headaches, biliousness, sour
stomach, bad breath.
BLACK DRAUGHT is a splendid
combination Of vegetable ingredi-
ents, chief Of which is an "intesti-
nal tonic-laxative" that helps I'M
part tone to lazy bowel muscles.
It's economical. rs to 40 doses: 26c-
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
Non Resident Notice
TO HARVEY EDWARDS,

TO HARVEY EDWARDS,
Whose Place of Residence
and Post Office Address are
Unknown:
You are hereby commanded to APP
pear before the Chancery Court of
Holmes County, Mississippi, at a
Term of said Court to be held on the
End Monday of January, 1941, at the
Court House in the City of Licking
ton, Mississippi, on the first day of
said Term, then and there to plead,
answer or demur to the Bill of Com
plant of Lille Edwards, in Cause
No. 61S4, to which you are defend
ant.
Given under my hand and seal of
said Court and issued this October
10, 1910.
(SEAL) Parham H. Williams,
Chancery Clerk, Holmes
County, Mississippi.
S. r. King, Solicitor.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
L. A. Clements Proud
Parents of Girl

Mr.. and Mrs. Louis A. Clements,
of M~onticelly, are the proud parents
of a baby girl, born Sunday morn
ing, at the Brookhaven Hospital,
whom they have named Kay Lois Gle
ments.
Mrs. Clements is tie former Kath-
leen McIlwain who taught here for
several years in the Durant schools.
Mr.. Clements is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. B. Clements.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
Mrs. Drone Hostess
To Bridge Club

Mrs. G.. w. Drane was hostess to
the Tuesday Bridge Club at her home
last week.
High score was won by Mrs. Char
lie Lance and dainty refreshments
were served to the club members and
one guest, Mrs. R. B. Jnkins.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
Mrs. Winborn Entertoins
Her Bridge Club

Mrs. Wickham Winborn was hos
tess to her bridge club at her home
recently. Lovely Halloween decora-
tions predominated in the rooms in
which the guests were entertained.
Mrs. Charlie Lance was winner of
high score prize.
Delicious refreshments in the Hal
loween motif were served to a guest,
Mrs. Bill Tucker, and club members.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
Duront Players High
At Jackson Party

Miss Maxine Leard and Mrs. Gnar
lie Lance. partners. and Mrs. Lau'
raene Wilkes and Mrs. Ivy K'nn.e,,
If Kosciusko, partners, were nign
score prize winners at the Jackson
Bridge Club at the Edwards Hote
Monday night. ~.
Other players going from Duran'
we're Mrs. E. B. Guess and MRS
w. S. Heggie.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
statesmen WANTED

Established Rawleigh Route just be-
coming available. Business well es-
tablished. Previous Dealer quitting
because he expects to get into the
Army. Exceptional opportunity for
right man. Write at once Rawleigh's
Dept. MSK-54-204, Memphis, Tenn.
IL, 10, IA, Is
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
G D
A D V E TfSI NJ G

LOST-Reward for party finding
light horn trimmed glasses h at
were lost On the Goodman football
field, Friday night, Oct. 25th. MRS.
c. j. CAMPBELL, Highway Dept,
Pickens, Mississippi. 1t
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07

Mr.. Vinson from Holly Spring
was visiting friends last week n
and was entertained with an infor-
NAL party at Kygers Roof Garden.
Those attending were Mrs. Hodges,
Mr.. Guwin, Miss Mcbride and Mr..
Pulliam.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-18
A NEW FIELD FOR
SAVINGS BANKS
IWall Street JournaI)

Announcement that the savings banks
of New York state will seek legislation
enabling them to make personal loans,
such as many of the commercial banks
now extend. calls attention to the fact
that savings deposits reached Il new high
level at the end of 1899. presumably add
ing to the difficulty the savings banks
share with all custodians of thrift accu-
mutations in employing these funds safe
ly and profitably to their owners. The
experience of the institutions which have
vigorously extended their personal loan
business in recent years is that losses are
easily held to almost negligible proper
tions and that the typical small borrow
er usually a salaried employe, is a good
risk.
1t would seem to be perfectly natural
for savings banks, the deposltors IN
which are mainly persons OF modest but
dependable earning power, to engage IN
small personal loans to the same general
class of individuals. If their experience
is to duplicate that of the commercial
banks in the same field, as it doubtless
will, they will have found employment
for a portion of their funds as safe as
and more remunerative than any other
open to them.
1t is not unlikely that entrance OF the
savings banks into the small loan field,
meaning the availability of some perhaps
considerable part of their five and hall
billions of deposits for such employment,
would tend to lower the interest rate on
loans of this description. The cost of
handling small loans apart from the loss
factor is of course comparatively high
and will act as brake on interest rate
reduction. If and to the extent that the
interest rate declines, its course would
appear likely to Influence the borrowing
rate on installment purchase contracts
Either or both tendencies would work to
maintain the volume Of consumer de-
mand.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-18
GAME CONSERVATION;
pOCKETBO0K CONSERVATION

Seventy-five thousand dollars is lot
of money, regardless of whose budget
you're considering.
To the farmers of Imperial Valley,
$4,000 is perhaps more money than II
would be to, say some eastern indus
trialist whose nearest approach to the
soil is through the soles OF his shoes.
So it is of considerable interest to I'M
perial Valley that ducks cost Imperial
Valley farmers $4,000 or more this sea
son. Wild ducks The kind we've all
been conserving for quite few years.
Now it appears we're going to have to
quit conserving the ducks quite so thor
oughly, and start conserving the farm
er's pocketbook a bit more.
Flocks of ducks, finding refuge by day
on government reserves in the area OF
Salton Sea, at night invade agricultural
fields, gobbling up seeds and tiny plants
alike, pudding wet earth until it is as
hard as baked adobe, and playing havoc
with the farmers hopes for crop. Many
fields have been ravaged by the preda-
tory birds. Many more will yet be ravag-
ed unless some means is found to prevent
their costly invasions.
Where the answer lies, game conserva-
tionists, sportsmen and farmers Will
have to decide-but for the sake of the
farmers pocketbook, they had better de-
eide pretty soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-18
ADJUSTING RELIEF COSTS
-evada State JournaD

Representative Tolan Of California
proposes as a means of adjusting the
costs of migrant relief that states ike
his own. which care for large number
of wanderers, be recompensed by the
government on a pro rata basis Tor all
non-residents who apply for and receive
aid. He would charge this up to the
states whence they came, to be taken out
of their allotments of federal money Tor
relief.
The feeling is growing throughout the
country that states like California and
Texas, which have experienced the orunC
of the dust bowl migration, should
receive greater measure OF federal aiu
for treating problem which is not state
but national If the state to which wan
derer migrates is assessed an addltlonal
burden. it follows that the home state or
the migrant is relieved of correspond
ing responsibility, and there should be no
objection to allotting the same aid TO
him abroad that would be given hlm at
home.
The Tolan plan is but one of many
that have been offered from time TO tlme
to make the relief burden falrer, 10 help
states like California which has during
the last few years contributed mucn OF
its own wealth to care for unfortunate
visitors who have little claim on 1t but
have been Hospitality treated neverthe-
less. Since the federal part of the re-
lief funds an come from the same source
it would merely be matter OF book
keeping to allot to the hardest pressed
states the most money-based not on
haphazard estimates or political consid-
Grafton but on an actual count OF noses.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-18
Famous Sayings

A new interest in efficient finan-
cial management among many mu-
inequalities was manifested during
1899, according to the Public Ad-
ministration Clearing house.
Many finance officers, the Clear
ing house reported, were exhibit
ing an encouraging professional
spirit toward their jobs and were
attending schools and training
courses in an effort to make them
selves more useful to the commu-
nifty. Any public official whose du-
ties involve the handling OF public
funds has a serious responsibility
toward his community. Financial
jobs are not posts for mere politi-
clans. They demand training, ac-
cuacy, honesty.
II is cheering to learn that public
servants are taking their duties SER
iously. With trained people available
for promotions to more important
positions, local governments should
make every effort not TO dissipate
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-18
MEMBER
1T COULD HAPPEN AGAIN
UNDER THE CITYS SETUP

With more than twelve thousand dol
lars missing from Ell Centre city water
department funds since last July, it
took drunken husbands liquor-fogged
complaints to tell Ell Centre city Off
cials that something was wrong.
Why?
There are some departments of the
city government that could operate for
an entire year on less than $4,000. There
are many business houses in the city that
would consider $4,000 a respectable
earning for any l2-month period.
There is not the slightest hint that
any city official or employe other than
Mrs. Lillian Richards Little had any
thing to do with disappearance of that
money. There is no reason to believe
that any other person might be techni-
cally guilty in the case. One, City Clerk
Roy Johnstone, did his best at least
year ago to obtain authorization from
the city council for a bookkeeping and
office system that would prevent just
such an occurrence.
Yet it is difficult to understand in
the light of what is now known how
$4,000 a month could disappear from one
city department without being missed.
1t did disappear, and it was not miss
ed. SO much is known. Inc answer 10
"why?" lies somewhere in the bookkeep-
ing and auditing system. The shortages
would have been caught at the annual
audit, true-but are We to have system
that gives thief eleven months to fill
his pocketbook and one month to es-
cape?
The last grand jury, which was spur
red on by the theft of paltry few hun
drad dollars from lmDerial Irrigation
District accounts to a lengthy investiga-
tion of district bookkeeping and auditing
systems, seems to have missed bet when
it passed up the bookkeeping and audit
ing system in Ell Centres water depart
ment.
And the city will have missed a bet,
too, if it does not hurry to profit by the
lesson it should have learned. Locking
the barn after the horse is gone may be
futile sometimes, but this time it may
keep another horse from being stolen.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-18
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

other man as his successor. These
stories are only temporarily true,
so to speak; all schedules subject to
change without notice.
Trick is to let the adherentS OF
a given candidate spread the crown
prince story without denying 1t, for
a while; then to shut it off and let
someone else have turn. First,
McNutt was publicized as the fair
haired boy. Then Ickes blew that
one up, and now Hull is getting the
play. Week after next it is as likely
as not to be someone else.
Point to remember is that until
FDR names his choice publicly, he
can always change his mind--and
probably will. Advantage of the
stunt is that it gives each man a
chance to send up trial balloon
and see how the public reacts TO it
Beyond that, it means nothing.
NEW DEAL STEAMS
UP FOR HULL PROGRAM
Some of the most powered
politics of recent years is going
to be seen in connection with the
administrations drive to get the
Hull reciprocal trade agreement
law extended this winter.
Hull's suddenly -blossoming presi
dental boom stands or falls on thu
outcome of this fight; Hull is ace
with both Roosevelt and Farley.
Latest report is that AAA mel
in the farm belt are working nobl,
to develop a "grass roots reaction
in favor of the program.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-18

WASHINGTON.-L for chal-
lenging discussion of the farm prob
lem when Senator Vandenberg
speaks at the Lincoln's birthday
rally in st. Paul February 10.
Few people realize it, but Van
denberg on his voting record could
run like a house afire in the farm
belt In the 73rd Congress he voted
for a cost-of- production farm bill
and for the Frazier-Lemke farm
bankruptcy bill.
In the 74th, he voted for the
Connolly export bounty" and ex-
port debenture plans. and propos-
ed an amendment to the latter pro-
yiding for an embargo on imports
of all farm products affected by the
the export debenture.
In the 18th Congress he supported
the McAdoo amendment to the ever
normal granary bill, which would
have set UP farm surplus corpor-
alton to store and dispose Of farm
surpluses and would have directed
the secretary of agriculture to de-
termine an annual cost of produc-
ton price for farm products.
on the farm angle, Vandenberg's S
Lincoln's birthday speech will serve
notice on the east that he is solidly
in the farmers corner.
RELIGION is OUT
FOR HALF U. S. CHILDREN
Approximately half of the chill
dren in America receive no formal
religious education whatever; ap-
proximately a third of all American
children are beyond the reach OF
libraries; families of about one
fourth of American children go1
public relief of one kind or another
during the past decade :. These
are highlights from reports which
will be presented at the White
House Conference on Children II
Democracy, which meets Januar,
1920.
DEPARTMENT
OF MIND D-CHANGING
Keep few grains of salt hand!
.. for the day-to-day stories tellint
, how FDR favorS this, that or tn
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-18
Among
Our Yesterdays

Miss Billie Kemp was the favorite
queen of the Boyce Aten post OF
American Legion on Jan. ID.
Not this Jan. Is, however, but
20 years ago. Miss Kemp won the
honor by popular vote with these
runners-up: Pauline Rebenhauseh'
Katherine Porak, Edith Green, no
selle Strange, Hazel Brumley, Aliie
Dundas :. :.
On the same day:
Rex Beach's 1.-The Girl From
Outside" was playing at the Palace
theater-members of the Holdzkom
most of the American Legion met
at Imperial and Donald stevenson
and Jay Tyler were named TO LOOK
into the matter of building Leg
ion hall-Ferdinand Bonn, q Ger
man actor, offered to go to London
made up as the former German
kaiser and face trial.
Not so much for the sake OF
Wilhelm as for German honor"
he declared.
From Washington came the
startling command of not to wear
a long coat in an airplane!
Rules for pilots and passengers
were released through the Army
with this far-sighted comment:
Some of the precautions Will
seem as humorous in that time 10
come when flying is as common
as automobiling as the fears con-
cerning motor cars 20 years ago
seems now =.
Loose clothing may be become
entangled in the controls
1T is advisable to carry good
pair of cutting pliers where pilot
or passenger may reach them IN
Riding on steps, wings or tails
are forbidden :.
IF you see another machine, get
out of its way :. :"
The present Oil drilling in the
valleys northend wasn't by any
means the first. For 20 years ago
the files carried this notation:
Eight rigs will be drilling fol
oil in Imperial county between the
/ Signal mountain district and the
Harper we'll district within the next
. month and the oil boom may ther
be said to be on"
And in the ads were:
: A sorrowful looking gentleman
r complained of biliousnes and rec.
r commended pills 49,. DOCTOR
= warned against tobacco that "sap'
the vim, vitality, vigor and am
ition of the slave :" and a pic
v ture of new farm machine wa
: proclaimed as the first of the nev
V Fordson Wheel-less power mower
ever shown on the west coast. :.