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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04
EMORY

Friendh and relatives enjoyed a brief
visit from Miss Evelyn Fades of Walden,
last Tuesday.
Wilson Ammous was Town from Mem
phis last week to meet his little grand
daughter, and see his brother-in-law, w.
C.. Downer. He returned to his home in
New Orleans, Friday.
Mrs. John Allen Cade of Acona as
~sistant tax assessor, was in Emory last
Tuesday looking after home exemptions.
Ellis E. Wynn has accepted a position
with the Tennessee division of the Con-
tinential Gin Company, with headquar-
ters in Memphis. Friends wish him sue
cess in his new endeavor.
Mrs. R. C. Wilson, Mrs. James Smith
wick and Roscoe W. Cox went to Acona
recently to see Mrs. Clarence Minyard
before she left for Minter City to be
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04

with her daughter. Mrs. Walter Diggs,
during Mrs. Vineyards illness.
Marion Cade and Andrew Smith with
Lee Cade went to Memphis Tuesday to
sell some cattle, and attend to other
businesh matters.
Mr.. w. c.. Downer. who was in a hos
pital in Jackson a while. is now in the
home of DR.. and Mrs. j. S. Rosamond
in West. where Mrs. Downer is helping
to nurse him back to his wanted health.
Miss Eloise Truitt, who has Joined
the crowd of working girls in Durant,
returned to her pleasant abode with
Mrs. Richard Joyce. Monday morning.
Mrs. Claude Cox, Mrs. r. c. Wilson
and Mrs. James Smithwick motored to
Greenwood Thursday afternoon to see
their cousin. Miss Minnie Bole, also
their sister and aunt, Mrs. Sudie Hoge.
who is able to be up and about her room
now.
Last Wednesday evening Joyce Hill
was hostess to a number of friends at
a "Farwell Party" for her school mates
as they will be attending different high
schools mex session. Bingo, Farmyard
and other games were enjoyed. The
hostess mother, Mrs. w. f. Hill served
ice cream and cake to the merry young
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04
lEGAlS
NOTICE OF MUNICIPAL ELECTION

Notice is hereby given that a NUM-
cipal primary election will be held on
the 9th day of June, 1914, for the pur-
pose of selecting Democratic nominees
for the elective offices of the City of
Durant, Mississippi, for the next bien-
MUM. The second primary, should one
be necessary. is set for the 18th day of
June, 1914.
All persons desiring to become can
didates for any municipal elective office
in the said City of Durant as nominees
of the Democratic Party will file their
names with the secretary of this com
mittee at least thirty days Cor on or be-
fore the 9Th day of May, 1944,) prior
to the date above fixed for said election.
The election managers to serve in the
above primary will be later.
Ordered by the City of Durant, Mis-
sissippi, Democratic Executive Commit
tee, this the II day of April, 1914.
HORACE WEIR, Chairman,
w. S. HEGGIE, Secretary.
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FOR SALE

Ny home in Durant, Miss. If interest
ed, write my son w. Z. Lecch, clio G. M.
& o. r. R.-Columbus, Miss.
36-lt
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04

a chance to do
its best job for
food value and
flavor. In order
to keep the egg
in top class
among the pro-
TEN 20 d ., IL
would be wise 10
follow t b e fol-
lowing "E g 3
Stras" in kind
ness toward your
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04

The State of Mississippi.
To Inella Collins, whose postoffice ad-
dress is unknown.
You are summoned to appear before
the Chancery Court Of the County of
Holmes in said State, on the 4th Mon
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04
Neters MhH
BY SAMMY BURTON
Home Service Director
Mississippi Power s Light Ca.
-EGcs- STsA--Ecc s -srRA~

Fresh eggs in abundance ara
coming to market, which is good
news for homemakers. Once eggs
are in the kitchen, it's up to the
cook to give a good egg a break
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04
We Need PUIpwood

This mill IS moking every sffost 70 do -
port; bat w. are Handicapped b. He
shorsass of pvlpwood. We nssd svssy
card ~ can get and ~ nsed . seA.
ouiv b surs 4 Is sound wood
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04

Pvlpwood production IS our number
~ war Job here IN the South. lst II
nsvsr b said shot the South foilsd in
H. duty 10 bod vp ON boys on the
aghting fronts.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04

bought the most war bonds. Miss John
Ada Walton's room won. (The primary,
They had a half holiday Friday after
noon and a picnic, ice cream was fur
nished by Mrs. Lille Reed. All the chill
dren report a grand time.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04
SOUTH
for
pulpMupp


With million. Of men fighting all over the
world, need for these southern packing mo-
serioIs grows ever more urgent. Our south
ern men everywhere are living up to their
fighting traditions. The supplies they need
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04
PICKENS

OF Memphis visited in the home of Dr..
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Dittman and family
and Mrs. Z. d. Pepper.
A representative crowd of Pickens
citizens attended the recital in Good
man when Mrs. Martha Tye Mckie pre-
sented her pupils, Miss Jane Wilburn
and John Howard Douglas in recital.
Among those who went were: Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Wilburn, Miss Mary Wilburn,
Mr.. Thomas Slack, Mrs. W. Hoover, Mrs.
Swayze, Mrs. Hood May, Mrs. Cliff
Hemphill, Miss Josie Burton. Mrs. }. r.
Haxwell, Mrs. Lee Crawford, Miss John
Ada Walton, Mrs. c. V. Maxwell, Mrs
Doyle Simpson, Mr.. and Mrs. Tim Thorn
Polly as. Mrs. w. L. Chambers, Wallace
and Polly Chambers, Little Johnnie Var
borough, Noneen McKie, Misses Mary
and Matte Mae Hart.
The many friends of Mrs. James Nc
Kie are sorry to Real of her serious ill
ness and hope for her a speedy recovery.
She is in the Baptist Hospital in Jack
son.
On January the Bank offered $500 to
the room in the Pickens School that
day of May, 1914, to defend the suit
No. 6661 in said Court of Tom Collins,
wherein you are defendant.
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W. 5. HEGG|E
Representative
COLUMBUS MARBLE
WORKS
NOTICE OF REGISTRATION

TO THE VOTERS OF HOLMES COUNTY:
Pursuant to an order from the Board of Supervisors Of said
county, l will be at the following precincts on the following dates
to register all qualified electors who have never registered and
those who have moved from one Precinct to another, also those
who have, or will have attained the age of 81 years before the
will also have with me my certificate book 80 that those
who are not liable for a poll tax, can sign an affidavit to that
effect and get a certificate to vote in a Primary Election.
Monday, May /, from 9 am. to IL m.-Pickens
Monday, May l, from l pm. to a p.m.-Goodman
Tuesday, May 2, from 9 am. to IL m.-Bowling
Green.
Tuesday, may 2, from l pm. to 4 p.m.-Edsville
Wednesday, May 8, from 9 am. to IL INVEST
Wednesday, May 3, from l pm. to pm.-Durant
Thursday, May 4, from 9 am. to IL m.-Emory
Thursday, May 4, from l pm. to 4 pm-Acona
Friday, May 5, from 9 am. to IL m.-Ebenezer
Friday, May 5, from l pm. to 4 p.m.-Eulogy
Saturday, May 6, from 9 am. to IL m.-Richland
Saturday, May 6, from l pm. to p.m.-Franklin
Monday, May 8, from 9 am. to IL m.-Thornton
Monday, Mays, from / pm. to 4 p.m-Tchula
Tuesday, May 9, from 9 am to IL m.-Cruger
Lexington any and all times.
MINNIE JORDAN, County Registrar.
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HOSPITAL LIST
White

mite
Mrs. Percy Andrews and baby boy
Cruger.
Mrs. Willie Greene-Lexington, Ri. 1.
Mrs. H. L.. Daniel and baby boy-Lex-
ington.
Mrs. T. II. Bradley-Lexington.
Mrs. Irwin Robertson and baby boy
Belzoni, Ri. 1.
Mrs. Delbert Williams and baby boy
Mrs. c. W. Winstead-Lexington, Ri.
2.
Colored
Isaac Love-Lexington.
Della Observation-Disclosures.
Ernest Ross-Lexington, RID.
Maxine Chisolm-Lexington, Ri. 9.
Mayzell Seal-Goodman.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-04
SUPPLIES for Invasion

must be transported to them over long and
difficult supply lines often landed in
pounding surf or dropped from planes. Our
Job, here in the South. is to see that those
materials ore properly Puekosed.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-11

A subsidiary of Wards, the Humer
Manufacturing Co., at Springfield, ILL.,, IS
defying the War Labor Boards August
1913 order giving maintenance of MEM
bership to the AFL's International Ass0-
citation of Machinists. On April Nth the
War Labor Board once more directed the
company to comply, with no success to
date.
The Pullman-Standard Co. in Ham
mond, Indiana, was struck recently by
$500 CIO steel workers when the com
pany failed to sign a contract guarantee
ing a new basic wage scale. Sewell L..
Avery is one of the company directors.
To understand the government s role III
this issue, it is important to recognize that
Roosevelt waited a long time before tax
ing his action. Both he and the WLB had
been content to let Wards continue its
Undertaking, its denial Of WLB author
ity, its failure to accept a WLB ruling
until the workers walked out If the
workers had remained on the job, they
would still be working without a contract,
the presidential order would still be I'M
written. Wards have been defying one
WLB order since August 20, 1913, and a
second since January 10. Rooseyelt's
avowed Friendship" for labor, or even
his concern for the authority of his own
governmental Labor Board, was not eX-
hibited during all this time. Instead it
took b days of effective striking to do it;
it took the fact of an over-eighty-per cent
shutdown of Wards Chicago plant on the
10th day of the strike, as even admitted
by capitalist papers; it took the threat of
nationwide sympathy and support
strikes.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-11
A EMPIRE DEFIEs U. S.

As striking workers at Montgomery
Ward & Co., Chicago, at the direction of
President Sam Wolchok, returned to work
last week, hailing the Presidents order
to the company to comply with the War
Labor Board decision and recognize their
union, it was clear from other moves by
components of his industrial empire that
Sewell L. Avery, Wards president,
planned a major battle with the govern
ment on labor policy. Avery has publicly
defied the President power to enforce
a maintenance of membership clause,
which he termed illegal, and denied FDR
has the power to seize the business.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-11

luck overlook him. That hat comes down
by old Nellie's ear causin' her to make
a quick jump sideways, but Bill don't
jump with her. He lands on his belly
on a round rock, with the wind knocked
out of him, an the part of his anatomy
that the chaps don't cover exposed to
the sun and the horrorfied gaze OF the
s%choolmarm an her friend. Bill hears
a ear-splittin' screeeh an sets up in
time to see the buggy headed back to-
ward Bannack in a cloud of dust. All
of which is dang good proof" Ike con-
cluded that when a teller gets to foolin'
around with females, an usin' soap and
water, he's bound to get himself in a
he'll Of a lot of trouble"
Cecil Clark's latest book, Latigo Joe"
is replete with stories like the foregoing
Get your copy now, free with a one-year
subscription new or renewal to the
Montana Labor News. Better hurry as
the stock is almost gone.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-11
LOUSY MATRIMONY
By CECIL G. CLARK

By CECIL G. CLARK
They tell me cleanliness is next to
Goodness" Bitterroot Ikewas telling a
bunch of the boys in Shorty's saloon one
night. 'but in a town like Bannack
where there's only about three bathtubs
for three or four hundred people, and
the creek is froze over from November
to April, I say that cleanliness is dang
near impossiblel Besides, this tryin' to
be so dang clean can get a man into a
hell of a lot of trouble. Did any Of you
fellows ever hear what happened to
Dirty Bill Brown the one and only
time in his life when he got bit by this
cleanliness bug?"
Several in the bunch had heard the
story but it was always worth listening
to again, because nobody could tell it
quite as well as Bitterroot. 1t was some
few minutes before Bitterroot could
continue the story, for he had slowed
about three-fourths Of a ten cent cut
Of horseshoes in his spacious mouth, and
vas trying vainly to get the tobacco
located in the various corners where 1t
would not interfere with his articulation.
Finally, getting the chew adjusted to his
satisfaction and looking like a squirrel
with @ mouthful of nuts. Ike continued:
1T all started when a new school
marin came here about ten years ago.
Her name was Elizabeth Jones, and she
had just about reached the stage in life
where it was goin' to be touch and go
whether she corraled a nan or stayed
an old maid. 1t was plain right from
the first that school teachin' was a side
line, an that her real business was man
huntin.' There was plenty of male mate
rial around Bannack in them days an
the town settled back to watch with in
terest who, among the dozen or more
calf-eyed admirers, the schoolmarm was
goin' to select. And then as if to prove
what some teller said about love bein'
Montana labor news., 1944-05-11

pack horse, loaded with a camp outfit.
was any Of you fellers ever lousy?'
Bitterroot interrupted his story by askin',
IF you have been you'll know why Dirty
Bill decided to camp the first day about
five miles above town an get shed of a
few gray-back friends that he found he
had with him. Now gettin' rid Of lice is
no picnic, an the only way to do a good
Job of it, is to commence by boilin' all
your clothes, an I meal all of EN-. Well
Bill bein' no tenderfoot at %delousin,
havin' done it a couple of times a year
most of his life, stripped to the skin, an
put all his clothes to boil in a five gallon
can he had brought along.
Things was goin' fine for Bill, he was
settin' on a rock sunnin' himself an
waitin' for his buds to get boiled, when
that thing these poet gents calls fate
takes a hand, an shoots Bills chances Of
matrimony an cleanliness sky-high.
Bills settin' there dozin' when he
hears a rattle of wheels. an looks up to
see a buggy with two females in the seat
bearin' down on him. Bill can't tell yet
who the women are, but its a cinch
they'll stop, cause in them days every
body knew everybody else, an always
stops to do a little gossipin'. Well, right
away Bill realizes he's in a tight spot.
There amt a bush or a tree in sight big
enough to hide a chipmunk, an the rig
is gettin' closer all the time-so close
by now that Bill can tell one of the fe-
males is the schoolmarm. A dozen wild
ideas gets into Bills head all at once,
an then just as he's about to take off
across the prairie like a locoed jack
rabbit, he sees a pair Of chaps an a old
jumper, an right away gets an inspira-
ton. 1t don't take Bill but about two
seconds to buckle on the chaps, get into
the jumper, an before you could say
scat he's settin' on old Nellie's back an
ridin' forth to meet his lady-love.
LAS Bill zones up to the buggy, he
jerks his hat an makes a bow to the
ladies-an' right there is where hard
Montana labor news., 1944-05-11

blind and in the case deaf an dumb as
well, Miss Jones up an picks Dirty Bill
Brown.
IF any of you fellers remember Bill
Brown, you know that the handle Dirty
fit him like the upper an lower jaws of
a coyote trap. Bill admitted that the
last time he took a bath, was when he
fell in gr%asshopper creek when he was
fishin' five years before. He had figured
out a scheme tho, to make himself pre-
sentable if you didn't get too close to
him. When the first cool weather came
in the fall Bill would put on IN extra
shirt over the one he had worn all sum
mer-an' then as the weather got colder
he would keep addin' shirts, until by
spring he looked like one Of them Egyp-
tian mummies from the waist up; then
he would start sheddin' shirts as the
weather got warmer but it never got
warm enough for him to get down to the
last shirt. Some place along the road
Bill had lost a couple of front teeth, an
the ones he had left looked like they
belonged to a horse. Most of the time
Bill cut his own hair which was a re
lief to the barber no doubt. About the
only nice habit Bill had was chewin'
tobacco, which he done real elegant
never havin' to spit because he swallered
the juice. But in spite of the buck teeth,
dirty shirts, and smell, which vas like a
dead fight in August, Dirty Bill was
plainly the gent who had the inside
track with the schoolmarm.
well the courtship had gone on for
about a month, when n day Bill sur
prised the citizens of Bannack by gettin'
a haircut in the barber shop. In some
way Miss Jones must have put over the
idea that a little soap and water wasn't
goin' to hurt Bills chances any, for a
few days later Bill announced that he
was goin' to take a little trip up to Elk
horn Springs, to boil out as he put it,
an do a little fishin'.' We watched him
pull out the next mornin' ridin' an old
grey mare he called Nellie, an leadin' a
Montana labor news., 1944-05-11
.VESUVIUS AND
OTHER VOLCANOES

The eruption of Vesuvius in 70 A. D.
is the earliest and n of the most dis
astrous Of any which we have any def
mite knowledge, in fact did not even
know of it until we discovered buried
city of Pompei more than a century after
its destruction. Vesuvius has been a
noted landmark as far back as written
history goes, more or less active since
70 A. D. with minor eruptions in 1852,
1851, 1872 and now the recent once Of
March q, 1914, and the most spectacu-
lar because several hamlets have already
been destroyed by flowing lava while
others are threatened.
Other Volcanoes
The most devastating volcanic eruption
in this generation occurred at Martin
ique on May ?, 1902, in the West Indies
when st. Pierre with 10000 inhabitants
was utterly destroyed by the eruption of
Mt. Pelee with only two escaping death.
It was the most violent volcanic eXplo-
sion witnessed by man. It is reputed to
have caused a tidal wave so immense as
to circle the earth three times before
subsiding and the explosion was loud
enough to be heard $50 miles away but
places inside Of a radius Of a hundred
miles failed to hear it at all, the pitch
being above the range of the human ear.
At the time Of the 1902 explosion, Mt.
PeIee had an elevation of 4,3OO feet and
has since built itself up to nearly 5000
feet from different %eruptions.
Birth Of a Volcano
Between February y and 20 earth
quakes became increasingly more fire.
quent in the Mexican state Of Michoa-
can until as many as 800 were counted
on the last day when smoke issued from
a small hole as a farmer was blowing
the ground over it and in three hours it
had increased in depth to 30 feet and
that night an explosion enlarged the
hole which had now turned into a full
fledged live volcano growing in a weeks
time to a hill $50 feet high and LOO
feet across. At first it issued but smoke
and ashes winding up with real flowing
lava and turned the farm into a tourist
sightseeing spot as the first modern vol
cano seen by human eyes started from
the grass-roots up.
In the early part of this century a new
volcanic island appeared in the Aleutian
group which is not uncommon in diff
ferent parts of the world but to see a
volcano start and grow foot by foot is
to say the least, unusual.
There are thousands Of dead oraters
and %slumbering volcanoes all over the
world, Butte hill being one of them
The most noted live crater is in the
Hawaiian islands and a bigger one il
the Valley-of-a- Thousand -Smokes ir
Alaska but they are small in comparison
to the deal one represented in the Flat
head lake in Montana which was a pre-
historic volcano before it blew up even
tually forming the lake with an area o.
100 square miles, yet this crater appears
small compared to a dead crater on the
moon rs miles in diameter.
r. E. ANDERSON.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-11

CHICAGO Representative Of
the Big Six CLIO unions in Chicago
agreed on a ward and precinct political
setup aimed to mobilize every CIO work.
ers at the polls in November for victory.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-11

Through errors of omission and COM
mission, nglo-American democracy
once effectively aided in the collapse Of
European democracy. We must now
atone for all this by deliberately and
painfully aiding the restoration Of gen
uine democracy and resisting all totali-
tartan tyrannies throughout this war
SCARED continent.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-11
G.. o. P. KEYNOTER
FOE OF UNIONS

ICOIIIIlutu fIOH FdBt OHtJ
Warren himself spent most of his time
in political maneuvers to keep from
having to come out publicly on issue
that might not be politically safe: price
rollbacks and subsidies. repeal of the
Smith Connally act, the soldier vote, in
ternational relations, even the complete
destruction Of fascism in the war. He
made many speeches championing states
rights and attacking federal government
planning in war and peace.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-11

JACKSON, Miss. - FP) = Disguised
with the silk hat policy of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, small farmers
here, including the president of the
county farm bureau, joined the trek into
the National Farmers Union.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-10-14
Negro Farmers
Win Blue Ribbons

Participating in their first dairy
cattle show in Halifax county, N.
c., recently, Negro farmers won IL
blue ribbons, according to reports
received by the u. S. Department of
Agriculture
From the herd of underfed cattle
which they purchased in drough
area of Mississippi last year, the
farmers exhibited SIS head of well
groomed milk cows. Negro County
Agent D. j. knight says that it is
hard to believe that these are the
same animals.
A check is being made Of sew
eral North Carolina counties to
determine the need for dairy cat
tie among colored farmers. 1t is be-
lieved that hundreds of farmers in
the state without source of home
milk supply will purchase cows
or heifer calves this fall. Last year
nearly 1000 North Carolina colored
farmers purchased milk cows.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-10-14
.Hazlehurst Boy
Heads Tougaloo
Freshman Class

With Dean Fraser acting as tenn
porary chairman, the freshman
class of Tougaloo college was or
ganized, October 3, the following
officers being elected:
President, Walter Washington,
Hazlehurst; Vice President, Willie
Brown, Jackson; Secretary, Thelma
Faucette, Albuquerque, N. M; AS
sistant Secretary, Carolyn Carter,
Canton; Treasurer, Thelma Cooley,
Hollendane; Business Manager, Ar
thur Keeling, Jackson; Sponsor,
Dean Fraser, Tougaloo College.
Upon accepting the presidency of
his class, Mr.. Washington said,
Freshmen, we have embarked up
on ag reat adventure. The eyes of
the upper classmen of Tougaloo
College are conferred on us. The
sincere hopes and the good wishes
of our mothers and fathers back
home go with us. We will accept
nothing but complete success"
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-10-14
Visitors At
G. NJ. & |.
College

On last week, the faculty and
students of C. M & l. College, To-
Gated a short distance north of
Jackson, had the pleasure of a visit
from their president, Prof. o. b
Cobbins, who was accompanied by
Rev. j. j. Peterson and Mrs. Me
Coy of Gary, Ind.
During the assembly, very inter
sting remarks were made by both
Rev. Peterson and Prof. Cobbins
the latter expressing the hope that
within a short time there would be
gas and electricity at the school
Mrs. Mccoy sang a beautiful solo
which was greatly enjoyed.
On Tuesday, the students of this
school are expecting visit from
the seniors of Lanier high school
and freshmen class of Aaugallo Col
lege.
The news is reported by students
of the 9th and 10th grade. Rev D.
c. Lee is principal.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-10-14
Pontotoc News
Mrs. Mildred Bates, Reporter

Rev. w. M. Bankhead, wife, Mrs.
Doris Bankhead and little son.
Frank. returned Saturday from
Pickens, after few days visit in
the home of Mrs. Bankhead's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs Howard.
Mrs. Ruby Kate Brown is spend
ing the week in Memphis with her
sister who is i'll.
The Sunset Four Quartet of
Houston, Miss, rendered a program
at Mcdonald M E. church Sunday
night which was enjoyed by a large
crowd
Miss Susie Howard who has
been visiting in the home of her
sister, Mrs. Doris Bankhead and
family will leave Wednesday of
this week for he~ hnraa n Pickens.
. The many frienus of Pvt. Har-
rell of the army are giving him a
hardy welcome home on his fur
Tough.