The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-07
Prosperity Hill


What Prosperity Hill needs is to
reconvert back to peace time acti-
witty. During the war many Of her
citizens, by their ingenuity and re-
sourcefulness, helped shorten the
duration Of the war. There was
Squire Bill Of May Pop Hill, and his
Atomic Egg Bomb-Squire fed his
hens Alb Of steel dust, from his hoe
fileings, / quart Of Fruit Jar Tonic,
Hlb Gunpowder and hlb of T. N. T.
added to every hundred pounds of
lying Il mean LAYING mash, after
thirty days of this feed. his hens
started laying steel shel1ed eggs,
with a high explosive contents.
Everything went well with this ex-
pertinent, until one day when his
wife got hold of one Of these eggs,
and put it in her pan cake batter,
it exploded and scattered the batter
all over the ceiling. The Squire then
was Paul Bunyun Purcell, who dur
ing the scrap iron drive contributed
the boiler to his Saw Mill, and used
a holler Cypress log for q boiler
He too made . mistake when he
gave all Of his wifes fruit Jar rub
bers to the rubber drive. However
he soon took care Of this by boiling
Sweet Gum Sap, Stretch berries and
Pine Rosin, this made q fine SUBJ
stitute, could be used to increase the
stretch in the Sympathetic rubber.
Or we could ship all Of the hollow
logs and hollow Cypress stumps to
Japan for bath tubs, of course they
would be a little rough, but then
Macarthur wants to make the Japs
understand they are headed for a
rough peace. Then there was How
Big Partain who was experiment
ing with a cross between Homing
Pigeons and Bull Bats, teaching
them to dive bomb, while earring
one of Squire Bills Atomic Eggs. He
is now crossing Honing Pigeons
with Mourning Doves, for the UNO.,
who will send one of these Mourn
ing Pigeons to any Of the little
Countries that bristle up and want
to fight. They will carry a funeral
notice and a piece of crepe, telling
them that Death, Desolation, De-
struction and Disease are the only
winners in any war. The world has
a surplus of all four at this time.
You will remember that our friend
Purcell dumped his sawdust over a
Cocoa patch, and it came up through
30 feet of Saw dust to reach the top,
he plated it and made cloths lines,
this could be used for making pillow
lines, but it would compete with our
cotton crop, and it already has too
much competition, in Rayon, Nylon,
Stainless Steel, Spun Glass etc. The
Boil Weevil is the only true friend
thai cotton has, he sticks to it thru
good times and bad times. Another
peace time project would be to ferti-
lie May Pops with this high power
ed fertilizer and Moon shine likker.
if used properly they will reach a
weight of over 40 lbs and could be
sold for Water Melons, this might
get you in bad with the OPA. Or
we might revive the manufacture of
Squire Elderberries Elixer of Life
the ingredients Of which were used
extensively during the war by the
Val Department as power for the
Rocket Bombs. However we would
run into Governor Baileys Black
Market Tax, and would also COM
pete with some of our friends who
are already selling liquid dynamite.
Or we could manufacture capsules
with the big end painted red, the
little end green. So you would know
which end to swallow first and they
wouldn't back fire on you, like the
last one I took. Took cold capsules
and swallowed the big end instead
of the little end first and had a cold
all the year. I have been toying with
the idea of putting up a magic Cat
fish bait, have everything worked