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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-09-26
THE FASHION SHOP

THE FASHION SHOP
Ladies' and Children's
Wearing Apparel
MURPHY'S AMBULANCE
SERVICE & FUNERAL HOME
Phone 1913 J (CaldwelD
NOBLE AND ROXY
THEATRES
"The Best in Pictures
For Your Entertainment"
WINGERT CONTRACTING
NOMfANY, Inc.
RALsToN's PHARMACY
"The Rexall Store"
LAWRENCE KING
Agricultural Lime and
Road Materials
CLARK & BARNETT
See the New Hotpoint Refrigerator.
and Electric Ranges Now on DisnI.v
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-09-26
Caldwell First Church of Christ

Ray L. Swetnam, Pastor.
$50 a. m.-Bible school.
1920 a. m.-Worship services.
GAS p. m.-Christian Endeavor.
7:30 p. m.-Worship services.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-09-26

TEXT, Isa. 6: ST. "Then said I,
Woe is me; for I am undone; be-
cause / am a man of unclean lips
Then flew one of the sera-
phim unto me, having a live coal
in his hand, which he had taken
with the tongs from off the altar:
And he laid it upon my mouth,
and said, Lo, this hath touched thy
lips; and thine iniquity is taken
away, and thy sin purged." "
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-09-26
BUFFALO MILL
WOODY'S QUALITY MEATS

A Clean Sanitary Market,
Serving Quality Products
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-09-26

Home Owned Phone 27
Foods National Brands Meats
MADGE'S SPECIALITY SHOP
Courtesy Above All
Boys, Girls and Infants Wear
THE WILLIAM HILL STORE
"Since the Turn of the Century"
CALDWELL CANVAS
PRODUCTS COMPANY
Manufacturers of
Canvas Specialties
BUFFALO MILL
Master Mix Feeds Farm Supplies
Buffalo, Ohio
Phone 43 F 3 pleasant City,
WOODY'S QUALITY MEATS
A Clean Sanitary Market,
Serving Quality Products
McVAY & SCHILLING 6
FUNERAL DIRECTORS a
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-09-26
New Harmony Baptist Church
David A. Doan, Minister.
Worship services at 2:30 p, m.

Caldwell Presbyterian Church
Sunday school at $50 a. M, J. w.
Robinson, superintendent.
There will be no worship services
this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Alfalfa Man Convicted
Drunken, Reckless
Driving Charge

John B. Crosby, of Kosciusko, was
convicted of drunken driving and
reckless driving causing personal
injuries in Justice of Peace Court
in Goodman Wednesday, Feb. Goth,
before JP Raiford McNeer. He was
fined 500 and costs and thirty days
in the county Jail on the second
count and 500 and costs for drunken
driving. He appealed the case to the
April term of Circuit Court.
The case grew out of an accident
Saturday night, Feb. 10th, when a
car, driven by Crosby, repeatedly
ran up under the rear end of a
school bus driven by Hugh Floyd, "a
bout az miles south of Goodman on
highway 81. Both vehicles were
travelling northward. The school bus
was turned completely around and
over, reports said.
Another occupant of the Crosby
car was urfrurt bat youth in the
Floyd school bus was seriously in
jured. He was carried to the Com
munity Hospital at Lexington where
he was treated and is now at his
home in Goodman.
Crosby was represented by Clar-
ence Morgan, K~osciusko, and Floyd
by S. r. King, Durant attorney.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Nozurene Church
WHY NOT BE A SOUL WINNER,

And many Of them that sleep in
the dust Of the earth shall awake,
some to everlasting life, and some
to shame and everlasting contempt.
And they that be wise shall shine
as the brightness of the armament,
and they that turn many to right
eousness as the stars forever and
ever. Daniel IL: %.
Now mark you, these r not the
words of some brotherhood evange-
list, but they are the words of an
old statesman, who stood high in
his day. When he cried out if you
wanted to shine, be a soul winner
Every one wants to shine, and
every one can shine according to
this scripture. How wonderful il
would be if those who wanted to
shine would begin working for the
Lord Jesus Christ.
We realize with all the sin in the
land as we have it today, we surely
need to be soul winners. We are
told that after a boy or girl reaches
their 18th birthday that there is
only one out of every five thousand
that is converted, and after their
25th birthday it is more and con-
tinues to 60 up until it reaches l
out of every one hundred thousand,
My God, My God, this alone ought
to stir the heart of every child OF
God to begin to win lost souls.
And may I say that you will be
a soul winner or you will lose your
experience as a Christian. Jesus said
Follow me and I will make you a
soul winner" Again He said, "A
tree that beareth not fruit is cut
down and burned" So these is no
excuse for any one not to be a soul
winner. Why not be a soul winner
and shine for the Lord Jesus Christ?
He said, aye are the light of the
world, let your light so shine that
others may see your good works
and glorify your Father which is in
heaven"
Here is where the Church should
shine, and that is in the winning
the lost to Christ. But many do not
know much about real soul winning.
God help us that we may love as
Christ did when he looked down
upon Jerusalem and cried, 20 Jeru-
salem, Jerusalem, how would like
to have sad you but you would not"
How long has it been since you have
shed tears over a poor lost sinner?
Friend, come down to the Church
Of the Nazarene. You will find a
warm spirit, and a hearty welcome.
S. D GARRETT, Pastor.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28

Tucker Freed On
Murder Charge
In West Court
Negro Killed At
Ellis Place
Saturday q

l.. B. Tucker, Jr., white man of
West, was freed from a murder
charge Tuesday morning in connec-
ton with the killing of T. G. Gaines,
26, Negro youth, late Saturday after
noon, Feb. %, at the o. E. Ellis place
on highway 81 just north of West.
The trial was held in Judge E. M.
McLellan's court Tuesday morning
at West and Tucker, the defendant,
was represented by S. r. King. The
only witness for the state was Depu-
ty Sheriff Harvey Majors who testi-
fled that a razor, forty cents and
three keys were taken from the
body of the Negro youth who was
shot to death about six-thirty o.
clock Saturday afternoon.
Reports said that Gaines, the Ne
gro youth, wa making a lot of noise
outside the Ellis place and Tucker,
who repeatedly works for Ellis, came
out and told him he'd have to leave.
The Negro youth said he would
leave if he could get his wife who
was inside. Tucker permitted him
to enter the place to get his wife.
After they got outside he was report
ed to have hit her and she refused
to 60 with him.
Tucker is reported to have gone
out again telling the Negro to leave
and the Negro said he wouldn't
leave and cursed at him whereupon
Tucker hit him with a stick. The
Negro then came at Tucker with a
razor, according to reports, after
which Tucker shot him with a re-
volver.
Sheriff w. l.. Murtagh was called
and he and Deputy Harvey Majors
came to the Ellis place to investi-
gate and arrested Tucker on a muir
der charge. He was held in the jai.
at Lexington until his trial Tuesday
when he was released.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Earl Mdean Charged
With Murder Attempt

Earl Mclean was arrested on a
charge of attempted murder in con-
nection with the stabbing of Floyd
Howard Carr, white man, in al
alteration late Saturday afternoon
The fracas was reported to haYe
taken place at McLean's place or
highway II south outside the cor.
porate limits of Lexington. Accord.
ing to the report an ice pick was
used in the stabbing.
Carr was taken to the Community
Hospital at Lexington where his in
juries were thought to be critical
but he was dismissed from the hos
pital this week.
Mclean was released from Jail
Monday on $250.00 bond and his trial
will be held in Judge w D.. Ford's
court Monday morning, March 4th,
at ten o'clock.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Russian Ballet In
Jackson Monday

With the coming of what John
Martin, of The New York Times, has
called "the finest company in Amer
lea, "the Ballet Theatre, to Jackson
for one performance, Monday,
March 4, we are again to be offered
a brilliant example of what is often
called "the greatest in Russian Bal
LETT.
Since the company and personnel
is almost one hundred percent Amer
lean, the question is sometimes ask
ed: why this insistence on the Rus
siam?
Ballet, as an art and an entertain
ment, has a long history and an
honorable one, a history which has
had its ups and down. After the
creation of the ballet "Giselle", a
hundred or more years ago, ballet,
towards the late middle of the nine
teenth century found the Wagner
and Berlioz music-dramas diverting
attention from it; and, as a conse-
quence, ballet languished.
The ballet is, of course, a combi-
nation of a number of arts, cooper
ating in the production of a single
whole; and ballet achieves true dis
tinction only when it attracts to it.
self the best artistic abilities and
talents of the day. The dancing, the
music, and the decor must be in
formed by a single spirit. Ballet be-
came, for a time, an affair of pref
tiness, banalities, waving draperies,
Intellectual music. A new spirit in
ballet was needed.
1t came out of the East.
On the classic foundation, which
came originally out of Italy and
France, Russians like Fokine in
photography, Pavlova and Min
sky as dancers, designer Benois,
composer Stravinsky, nurtured and
developed ballet to the finest flower
ing the world has ever e Such
ballets as "Petrouchka', Lies Syl-
phides", Princess Auora", are a
glorious heritage of this period. Dur
ing the earlier part of the present
century there weresporadic attem-
pts to revive American interest IN
ballet, but with the passing of the
great Anna Pavlova in 1882 little
Continued on page three)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Cain Rites Held
Sails Church

Services for Mrs. Alma Mcbride.
Cain were held Tuesday, Feb. "a.
at 3 o'clock at the Methodist Church
in Sails, by the Rev. M. L. Wright.
Mrs. Cain was born at Sails in
1893 and died Friday, February ~,
Surviving r the husband, Wal
ter E. Cain, four daughters: Maselle,
Eloise, Fay, all of Sails, and Mrs.
W H. Atkinson, Kosciusko; three
sons, John and Herbert Cain, Sails,
and Capt. James w. Cain, Victor
vile, Calf. Two sisters, Mrs. j. R.
Culpepper, Sails, and Mrs. Sofa Nc.
Bride, Sails; five brothers, Ernest
Mcbride and Jesse Mcbride, Sails;
Quitman Mcbride, Pickens; Benny
Mcbride, Goodman, and Joseph Nc
Bride, Goodman, also survive.
Pallbearers were her uncles.
Southern Undertaking Associate
ion was in charge of funeral ar
rangements.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
|SpotIess Cleaners
Sold By Tatum's

Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Tatum have
sold Spotless Cleaners and the new
management will take over Monday,
March 4th.
J. L Anthony, new manager, has
had many years experience in the
cleaning business will maintain the
same high standards set by Mr.
Tatum in the long period of time
he has been in Durant.
Mr.. Anthony said he would ap-
%preciate the continued support of all
the friends and customers of Spot
less and would maintain in every
respect every service possible. Dye
work and moth-proofing will be
specialized in by the oncern and
people of this section are invited to
try their service.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
|Durant Woman Freed
On Whiskey Charge

Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins, wife of
Sidney Watkins, reported manager
of the Circle Inn, a joint on highway
81 south Durant, was arrested on
Thursday night for possession of a
case of whiskey. The whiskey was
taken from her a by Night Mar
shals Zeb Guess and Hubert Robert
son as she sat in a Durant cafe.
She posted $105.00 bond and her
trial was held Friday in Mayor
Howell's court. She was freed by
Mayor Howell on the grounds that
the search of her car was illegal
without a search warrant. Her bail
money was refunded but she did
not get her whiskey back.
The whiskey was reported de.
stroyed by Durant police authori-
ties.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Goodman Negro Fined
For Drunken DRIVING

Calvin Thomas, Goodman negro,
plead guilty to a charge of drunken
driving in Durant Saturday after
noon in Mayors court. He was
fined 500. and costs.
The Goodman negro ran Mrs.
Shifford Rhyme down in front of
McLellan's Store, sideswiped a car
in front of Piggy Wiggly and had
a head-on collision with a car driven
by Dan Cain, of Sails, near the
Peoples Bank corner.
Fortunately Mrs. Rhyme was not
seriously injured. She was knocked
down and received a bruised hip.
About $500 damage was done to
the Cain car, according to reports.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Norwood Services
Held In Durant

Friends of Mrs. w. M. Norwood
and daughter, Mrs. A. S. Tatum,
sympathize with them in the death
of their son and and brother, James
w. Norwood, who passed away at
the Veterans Hospital in Johnson
City, Tenn, Sunday after an extend
ed illness.
He was So years old and a veteran
of the first World War His was the
first death of the children in the
immediate family of Mrs. Norwood.
Funeral services were held at
Mrs. Tatum's home in Durant Tues
day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Inter-
ment was at Eupora with Oliver
Funeral Home, Winona, in charge.
Mr.. Norwood's wife preceded him
in death fourteen years ago. Three
daughters survive: Mrs. Jeff Keeb-
Ter, Tyler, Texas; Mrs. c. M. Neil
son, Springfield, Ohio; Miss Jean
Norwood, Meridian; two grandchil-
dren, Ann and Jerry Nelson,
Springfield.
Other surviving relatives are the
mother and sister, Mrs. Tatum, and
the following sisters and brothers:
Mrs. c. Wood, Utica; Mrs. Frank
Lackey, Meridian; F. w. Norwood,
Columbus; G.. G. Norwood, Cleve-
land; E. T. Norwood, Portland, Ore
gon. All of the above were here
for the rites except the brother
from Portland.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
DoIIohite Presents
Bottle Flag To
American Legion

Gene Dollahite of Durant, recently
discharged from Hath Field Artil-
lery, 3lst, Dixie Division) after 80
months overseas in the Pacific, pre-
scented to Preston Hudson Post No
10, American Legion, Durant, the
Battle Flag used by his battalion
The Flag was formally accepted by
S. r. King, Commander of the local
Legion Post and the flag now file.
on the Legion Flag Pole in the City
Park.
The Hath Field Artillery Unit
was the only unit from Holme.
county having a company of mer
from Holmes county.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Junior College Tourney Schedule Complete;
Holmes Decatur Girls Play First Game
Bulldogs and Pearl
River PIoy $50
Opening Night

The 1916 Jr. College Tournament
Will get under way tonight at 1850
VINE the Holmes girls meet Decatur
in the opening game.
Holmes Boys will engage the Pearl,
River five to close the opening,
round.
Ellisville and Raymond girls win
open the second round playing al
$3.50 A. M. Friday morning while
Wesson and Raymond boys ara
matched for play at 1890 A. M.
closing the morning session.
Friday afternoon games include:
Scooba and Pearl River girls play
ing time 2:30 P. M. and Perkinston
and Decatur meeting in boys play
an hour later.
Friday night games should be
tops" with Ellisville No. / boys
coded team meeting Summit, while
the No. l coded girls team will be
Wesson Wolverines and they win
open the final first round play start.
ing time 7:30 P. M. against Perkin.
ston. The Ellisville- Summit game
will follow the girls game and win
terminate the quarter-finals.
Semi-finals in girls will be played
$50 and 1890 A.. M. on Saturday
while the boys semi-finals will ba
played loo and 200 P. M. Finals in
both divisions r schedule for play
Saturday night 7:30 and $3.50 P. M.
Sheriff Knight, and Frank Nc
Tendon will referee all tournament
games. William Cathey was named
timer-scorer.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Wiltshire Gets
Army Discharge

Fort Douglas, Utah, 10 Feb. 1916.
Cpl Luther H. Wiltshire, son Of
Jake p. Wiltshire, Durant, Miss,
and husband of Dorothy Kenner
Wiltshire, Wichita, Kansas, has been
discharged from the Army at the
Fort Douglas Separation Center.
Cpl. Wiltshire who served SO
months in the Army in the Amer
lean Theater is authorized to wear
the American Theater ribbon, Good
Conduct Medal and Victory ribbon.
Prior to entering the Army Dec.
%, 1912, Wiltshire was employed as
a mechanic at Mobile, Ala.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Edner Lee Witt
Now At Home

Miss Edner Lee Witt arrived
home last Thursday, February 81,
after receiving her discharge at Mill
ington on Feb. 20. She landed in
San Francisco, Calf, February 18th
aboard the hospital ship, Neither
lands.
During her IL months spent over
seas she was stationed at the Naval
Air Station at Honolulu where she
served as SK2/c.
Miss Witt entered the WAVES ir
December, l943, giving her a total
of 26 months in the service. E. H
Witt, Jr., a brother is stationed ir
California with the Marine Corps.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Kosciusko Men Fined
For Drunkenness

O. v. Williamson and two sons,
o. w. and Kenneth, of Kosciusko,
were arrested Sunday afternoon on
a charge of public drunkenness in
Durant. They stayed in Jail until
about five o'clock when they paid
fines of ten dollars each.
According to reports when the
men came out of a Durant cafe and
got into their car one of them step
ped on the starter accidentally and
it shot back all the way across the
street without anyone under the
wheel. Fortunately no one was in
jured.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Mcdaniel Services
Held Al Goodman

Funeral services were held Sun.
day afternoon at $50 from the
Goodman Baptist Church for Billy
Mcdaniel, son of Mr. and Mrs. w
7. Mcdaniel of Goodman, who pass
ed away Saturday evening, Feb. %,
at 8 o'clock at the home. The Rev.
Madison Flowers, pastor, was in
charge of services and Southern
Undertakes were in charge of the
funeral arrangements.
Surviving are the parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. r. Mcdaniel and one
brother, Roy Mcdaniel, and grand
mother, Mrs. Mitchell, all of Good
NAV
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Red Cross Drive
Begins In Duranf

The Red Cross begins its drive
this week and listed below are the,
workers in Durant, who will solicit
their respective streets:
Mrs. Brooks Davis, Mrs. c. A.
Watkins, Mrs. Dan Comfort, Mrs.
Miles Ray, Mrs. Worrell, Mrs. Leon
Engleman.
If you fail to be contacted please.
see the person who is in charge of
your street. Let's finish the job thix
week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Bob Henry Gets
Service Discharge

Bob Henry CM2ic arrived home
Sunday from Millington, Tenn.
where he was discharged Saturday
Feb. %. He returned in January
from % months service in the
Pacific with the l17th Sea Bee Bn-
on Oahu, Siapan, and Marcus Is
lands. Young Bob will be associated
with his father in business until
September when he will re-enter
Advertising Art School at Nashville,
Tenn, to continue his studies in
Co nmercial Art.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28

For meritorious service during the
period 6 December 1914 to 81 JAN
uary 1916, Tech Sergeant Lewis
performed his duties as Wire Chief,
Harbor Defenses of the Columbia
in a superior manner. Due to Tech.
Sergeant Lewis technical know
ledge and complete disregard for
long hours and personal inconveni-
ences, the wire communications of
the Harbor Defenses of the Column
bian were maintained at a very
high standard of efficiency"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Former Durunt Boy
Wins Commentator

Tech. Sergeant James c. Lewis,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. L. F. Lewis,
formerly of Durant, was recently
awarded the Army Commentator
Medal and ribbon by 1t. Col. Walter
w. Abbey, Commanding Officer of
the Harbor Defenses of the Column
bia. Tech. Sgt. Lewis is wire chief
with the Signal Corps at Fort Stew
ems, Oregon.
The citation reads as follows:
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
Colored Man Found
Guilty Of Liquor

Rucker Bass, eolored, who oper-
ates a place in the Durant Alley,
was raided by Durant law-enforce-
ment officers Saturday, Feb. 10th,
and a small amount of liquor found
He was fined $500. and costs in
Mayors court that afternoon.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28

Earl Hanna, of Marion, Alabama,
will be a Durant and Lexington
visitor this weekend. He and his
mother, who have been visiting
here this week will return to their
home Sunday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Sunday School at 10 am.
Morning Service at IL am.
Evening Service at Z pm.
The sacrament of the Lords Sup
per will be observed during the
morning service, and the series Of
studies on Old Testament characters
will be continued at the evening
hour.
All members are urged to attend
these services, and visitors are cor
daily invited to worship with U.S.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-28
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES
az z

One man testified under oath in a
Justice of the Peace court in Holmes
county recently that he had bought
whiskey from a certain bootlegging
establishment in Holmes county and
they had guaranteed him to get
through the county without any
trouble" for I'VE pay off all the
officers"
The name Of the persons involved
in this are withheld for the obvious
reason that the writer does not wish
to be responsible for the death or
for any bodily harm that might
come to the person who made the
statement
At any rate the testimony was
made under oath and before court
and law-enforcement officials who
are not paid off" by anyone. He
was obviously telling the truth
when he said he had been told he
could 60 through Holmes county
without any trouble with his whis-
key.
Whether the bootlegger wds tell
ing the truth about the Holmes
county officers being "poid off" or
not we could not soy.
We do know that conoluons in
Holmes county are as bad as any
county in the state and steadily
growing worse. The lawless element
is taking over the county and ap-
parently will have complete charge
before long. If our county law en-
forcement officials aren't being paid
off they are getting a lot of unfair
public criticism.