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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Mrs. Birdie F. Bruce
Passes AT TchuIa

Mrs. Birdie Fisher Bruce, Sc,
passed away at the home of her
son, j. M. Bruce, in Tchula Fri
day afternoon after nine weeks
illness.
Services were held at Harmony
church in Carroll county Sunday
afternoon with the Rev. Wade,
Kilmichael, officiating. Burial
was beside her father in the
churchyard cemetery.
Mrs. Bruce was the widow of
the late Yates Bruce who pre-
coded her in death 80 years ago.
She was a native of Carroll coun-
ty and spent all her life within
one-half mile of the Harmony
church until November when she
went to live with her son in
Tchula.
Surviving are five sons, Mr..
Bruce, of Tchula; John D, Mil
lard and Y. B., all of Acona; and
Brown Lee, of Harmony. A num-
Der of grandchildren also survive.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Hith-hiker Dies OF
Sef-lnhided Wound

John Hoffmeier, so, died of q
seif-1nflicted gunshot wound. ac-
cordlng to the report of a coron-
er's jury summoned late Friday
afternoon to the L. O. Spell home
near Lexington.
Mrs. Spell was alone in the
house where the tragedy took
place shortly after 600 pm. She
heard a loud noise which sound
ed like a fall and went to the
back where she found Mr.. Hoff-
meier slumped on the cot in Mr..
Spells office where he had been
sleeping. The rifle was at his
feet. She summoned Mr.. Spell
VINO was coming in the 'front.'
door and he Immediately notified
authorities.
Mr.. Hoffmeier, whose home
was reported to be in Indiana
had been living in the Spell
nome since May 18th when Mr..
Spell picked him up hitch-hiking
on highway 81. The man went
home with him and asked to work
on the farm to pay for his keep.
He had been doing work in the
fields until Monday of last week
when he complained of having a
stomach ache. Since that time
he had only been doing light
chores around the house.
The man was clean. well-man-
nered and orderly, according to-
Mrs. Spell, and members of the
family liked him. He had told
them his father was a German
and his mother was born in Ire
land and that he had no family
except a wife who had children
by a previous marriage. He was
a native of Freeland, Penn. His
wife is Mrs. Gertrude Mary Hoff-
meier.
The remains were shipped to a
brother-in-law, John Herlyn. at
Newark, N. j., by Southern Fu-
neral home.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Polio And The House FLY
by w. H. WEEKS
County Heulth Officer

In the face of a threatened epidemic of polio it behooves Is to
use every precauhon known to prevent the disease in our county.
The Holmes County Health Department wishes to call at
tentlon to some OF the things you should know about house flies.
Did you ever stop to think where flies come from? How about
those you saw at the breakfast table this morning? Nice flies,
weren't they? Seemed friendly, too, and willing to dine with you,
didn't they? Yes, every last one of them were Matched fresh from
some stable, pig pen, manure pile, garbage pile or open privy with
in the last ten days or two weeks.
Here is their history in a brown nutshell. Old Mrs. Fly laid
They all Matched out into tiny, wiggly, white maggots before night.
These little maggots squirmed around in the wet manure for four
or five days, got fat and grew a shell: Once in a shell, these little
naggots start to growing wings and legs and everything else that
goes to make up frst-class flies. This job is done in five days and
out comes u rising generation of flies. Their Shiny, wet bodies
make 1t easy for them to crawl to the outside of the manure pile,
where they dry their wings, take first breakfast and then make a
Decline Tor fly-line) for your kitchen and dining room.
Yes, those were the very identical. flies you saw at your break
fast table. That's their pedigree.
Now what are you going to do about it?
Flies are prize boarders. They like their meals not over fifteen
minutes apart, if they can get them that often. Flies are not dainty
eaters at that. A hungry fly can eat half its weight of food at a
single meal
Nor is that all. Their digestive apparatus is so simple that
germs pass right through their bodies unchanged. Flies fed on tuber-
culous sputum and typhoid dejecta pass live, healthy tuberculosis
germs and typhoid germs shortly afterward. Furthermore a weI-fed
fly makes specks at the rate of SO in "a hours.
But cheer up. You never saw many fly specks. Nnety[ive per
principal way flies carry germs of typhoid, dysentery, infantile diar-
cent of them are practically coorless and invisible. This is the
rhoea, tuberculosis, hook worm, and probably polio and many other
diseases to our food.
The fly is no gentleman. No one ever heard of a fly washing
his hands and face before going to the table unless it was in the
milk. but the filth he wipes off his hairy feet and legs is just poetry
compared to his specks.
The f1ys bad table manners are responsible for the death of
many Mississippi babies every year.
What are you going to do about If oil anyway?
The answer must be -obvious-Destroy all possible breeding
places for flies around your premises.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Holmes Should Be
DairYing Center
Says Pet Official
c. H. Williams Tells
Lexington Rotorions
About Milk Business

Holmes county is in what is
destined to be one of the outstand-
ing livestock sections in the
United States" said Rotarian
c. II. Williams, of the Pet Milk
company at Kosciusko, in a
speech before the Lexington Ro-
tary club Tuesday.
Mr.. Williams said the natural
advantages were great in this
section of Mississippi and the pos
sibilities in dairying here were
enormous.
When this will come about the
speaker said he did not know, but
of one thing he was sure-that it
could be speeded up considerably
with intelligent planning by in
terested citizens and business
men.
Pointing out that everyone in
the community, farmers, business
and professional men, would be
greatly benefited with the addi-
tlonal income provided by wide
spread dairying, Mr.. Williams said
it behooved everyone in the sec
ton to become iairy-minded.
Tupelo was cited as an example
of what can be accomplished
when the business men of a COM
munity take hold and really pro-
mote their territory. He said
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennes-
see are fast becoming the dairy
section of the country and that
this situation was not true rs
yaers ago. He said the South was
definitely taking dairying away
from the north.
The speaker said the dairying
industry is founded upon people
who milk only four or five cows
and that dairying can be carried
along with raising beef cattle.
When people in the south be-
come pasture and feed-minded
enough we will begin to make
much greater progress in the
field. he predicted, and we won't
be dependent on cotton.
M. B. Brown, program chair
man, introduced the speaker.
Harry Thompson, Buenos Aires,
was a guest of Henri P. Watson;
F. F. Russell, Jackson, guest of his
son, Gordon Russell; John Hol-
guest of M. B. Brown. Ro-
tarians H. l.. Harrington, Durant,
and Henri P. Watson, Jr., Sun
flower, made up their attendance
at this meeting.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Pickens Merchant Is
Taken By Death

John Thomas Lever, IS, Pickens
merchant, died at the Baptist
hospital in Jackson Monday night
following a brief illness.
Funeral services we're held
Wednesday morning at the Pick
ems Presbyterian church of which
he was a member with the Rev.
w. F. Mansell, Vicksburg, official
ing. Interment was in the Pick
ems cemetery.
Mr.. Lever came to Pickens from
Yazoo City and had made his
home there off and on for Is or
80 years. He formerly owned
stores in Mileston and Yazoo.
He became i'll last Wednesday
evening at his home and was re-
moved to the hospital Friday.
Surviving T his wife, Mrs.
Florence Crawford Lever, one
son. Crawford Lever, Pickens. and
one daughter, Mrs. Frank Simp-
son. Flora. One grandson, Frank
Simpson, Jr., and a sister, Mrs. T.
S. Worrell, Alderman, also sur
vive.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Mrs. Nellie 5. Doty
Rites Held Monddy

Mrs. Nellie S. Doty, prominent
and beloved matron of Pickens,
passed away at the Community
hospital in Lexington Sunday.
She was "a.
Final rites were held Monday
at the Methodist church in Pick
ems with the Rev. Neblett, Shelby,
officiating, assisted by the Rev.
Curtis, Pickens pastor. She was
a lifelong member of the Metho-
dist church, joining when a young
girl at Richland where she was
born. She lived all her life in
Holmes county and most of it in
Pickens. She had been active in
community affairs UP until her
brief illness of about ten days.
A wide circle of friends mourn
the passing of this lady whom
everyone in the community claim
ed as a friend.
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. Ras M. Branch, Goodman.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Triple Funeral Held
Here For Barefoots'

Triple funeral services were
held in Lexington last Thursday
afternoon for Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Lamar Barefoot and their 4-year-
old son, Lewis, Jr., of Greenwood,
who died as the result of injuries
received in an automobile acct
dent on highway 49-E Tuesday
night, July IL. The Rev. c. j.
Olander, Greenwood, former
Tchula pastor, officiated.
The Barefoot family were three
Of four persons claimed by death
in this auto-truck collision which
injured four others. The fourth
death was that of Patricia Coffey.
a, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gil
bert W. Coffey, of Yazoo City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barefoot and Pa
tricia died almost Immediately
after being admitted to the hos
pital in Greenwood and Lewis
Barefoot died shortly afterward.
The Barefoot family of three
was buried in a common grave
here with Southern Funeral home
in charge of arrangements.
Other persons injured in this
accident, all reported to be max
ing fair progress toward recovery,
were: Gilbert w. Coffey, 81, va
zoo City; Mrs. Gertrude Coffey,
"a, and their daughter, Gilda Faye
Coffey, all of Yazoo City; and
Bobby Barefoot, 3. son of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Barefoot.
Tom Cozzins. coIored, Cruger,
received a fractured leg while
walking along the highway at the
time of the accident.
c. L. Griffith, driver of a Delta
Motor Line truck, which figured
in the accident, was only slightly
injured, according to reports.
The accident occurred about
7:l5 in a binding rainstorm when
the truck, travelling south, and
the Barefoot car, enroute north,
collided. The party of eight was
enroute from Yazoo City to Green
wood where the Coffeys had lived
until moving to Yazoo City in
December.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Southern Farmers
Must Shift Farm Plans
Says Bank 0ffiGaI.
Lexington Agricultural
Development Assn.
Hears Fred j. Hurst

Fred ]. Hurst, educational dir
ector, Federal Land bank, New
Orleans, La, told members of the
Lexington Agricultural Develop
ment association Monday might
that our Southern farmers who
fail to make proper shifts in their
farm plans at a very early date
when the Marshall Aid program
to Europe stops will find themsel-
YES without a market.
Mr.. Hurst stated practically all
export cotton and other items in
the foreign markets were being
paid for with American money.
He feels that within the very near
future the cotton farmer will have
to get along On the market of Am
erican consumption which is abous
90 per cent of the total crop.
Mr.. Hurst, in his travels for
the Bank in Alabama, Mississip-
pi and Louisiana, gathering data
as to successful farm operations
IN this area, stated that Holmes
county people who adopt a farm
program of timber, pasture, cattle,
especially dairy cattle, will be able
to make money in spite Of the.
European situation.
Members of the local associa-
ton made statements regarding
their operations bearing out the
conclusions of Mr.. Hunt.
Lutte Ellison reported less thars
40 per cent of the livestock handl-
ed through his barn were grown
in Holmes county. f,
). E. Henry said that more than
~ per cent of the milk and dairy
products used here were shipped
in. A. L. Jenkins believed that
about that same amount of poul-
try products were shipped in.
John Holditch, director of the
Association, stated after adjourn
ment that if we could only supplv-
this local market we would in
crease our county income by over
one million dollars. 4
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Harvey Firm Lowest
Bider On Durant
Community Hospital
Contract Won't Be
Let Until Federal,
Stote, Approval

l.. A. Harvey Construction Co.
has been designated as low bidder
on the Durant Community hospi-
tai. The contarct has not yet
been formally let by the Holmes
County Board of Supervisors and
won't be until the bid has been
approved by the u. S. Public
Health service and the State
Commission on Hospital Care,
Federal and state cooperating
agencies.
The Harvey firm, now engaged
an building the County Health
Center building at Lexington,
submitted a bid of $135, 1000 for
general construction.
The formal contract will not be
made by the supervisors until
probably some time in August.
SUBJ Contracts
Low bidders on other phases
of construction ana equipping of
the Durant hospital have also
been designated but are also
awaiting Federal and state APP
proval before being let officially
by the supervisors. These are:
Electrical work, Ramsey-Thur-
mond company, Lexington, $14,-
1880; Air conditioning, Bob
Kremser, Clarksdale, 20;
plumbing and heating, Industrial
Plumbing and Heating Co., b.
nita, 32,348.00; kitchen equip
ment, Westbrook Mfg. Co., jack
son, 6,745.00; surgical equipment,
American Sterilizing Co., Atlanta,
4,353.00.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Ramsey hurmond Co
Displays Dishwasher

A new General Electric portable
dishwasher which requires no in
~stallation is now on display at
Ramsey Thurmond company. Ac-
cording to Mr.. w. "A. Ramsey, pre-
sident of the company, the dish
washer is ready to operate after
attaching the water hose to q hot
water faucet, placing the drain
hose in a sink, and plugging the
cord into any electrical outlet.
"The easy installation and low
price of this unit will now per-
NIT many homemakers to enjoy
the advantage of mechanical dish
washers where permanent install
lations r not feasible" Mr..
Ramsey said.
The new model is round and is
finished in white enamel. 1t is
mounted on rubber casters for
easy movement from one location
to another in the kitchen. The
dishwasher is top-opening for con-
venience in loading; stainless
steel racks hold an average service
for six.
An impeller circulates water
evenly against all dish surfaces
with a powerful washing action.
The complete dishwashing opera
ton involves washing in a deter
gent solution and two rinses in
complete changes of hot water,
Mr.. Ramsey explained. Dishes
can be left in the unit to dry by
evaporation. The length of the
rinse and wash periods can be
regulated by the housewife.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Holmes Deputy Game
Warden Arrested
On Shooting Charge
Thcd Dickerson Is
Charged In Wounding
Of Negro Youth

Thad Dickerson, Holmes coun-
ty deputy game warden of the
state of Mississippi, was arrested
Saturday night on a charge of
shooting with intent to kill in con-
nection with the shooting of Tom
ME Lee Teddy" Dodson, Is year
old Negro boy, who was shot in
the right arm.
The alteration took place on
Wednesday afternoon, July 18th,
on highway II in the Owens
Wells vicinity.
According to reports the Negro
youth, who has lived on the Joe
Taylor place near owens Wells
since he was about eight years
old, was walking along the high
way when Dickerson allegedly
drove up in a pickup truck and
stopped and asked the Negro to
accompany him to Kosciusko. The
Negro said he could not go and
Dickerson allegedly got out of
the truck and tried to persuade
him to go. The Negro boy be-
came afraid and broke and ran
whereupon the man was said to
have fired two shots striking Dod-
son in the ARM.
A hearing for Dickerson has
been set for Monday morning,
August LIST, at ten o'clock in Judge
W. D. Ford's JP court.
He was released on arrest un-
der $4,000 bond.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Revival Meeting Slated
For Ebenezer Charge

Hebron-July 31-August 5, the
Rev. o. M. Brantley preaching.
Ebenezer-August 7-12, the
Rev. T. A. Filgo preaching.
Liberty Chapel-August 2l-26,
the pastor preaching.
Coxburg-August 28-September
2, the Rev. Wilson Ray preaching.
We will have our regular norm
ing services at Hebron and after
noon service at Liberty Chapel
on Sunday, July "a. No services
will be held at Liberty Chapel on
July 81.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21

S. E. Henry, of Henry Ice and
Coal company, stated at the
LADA meeting Monday night of
this week that we need a brand
new breed of dairy cows in
Holmes county. He said that all
the cows now being MIXED had
to be cared for through Saturday
and Sunday and that what we
really needed to get our farmers
to milk cows, was a new breed
that would dry up Friday night
and come back into production
Monday morning.
i. E. Johnson, living on the
left of the road to Durant, said
that he had lived a long time tc
find a year Of weather conditions
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Gum Grove Methodist
Revival PIunned

A two weeks revival meeting
will be held at the Gum Grove
Methodist church at Coxburg be-
ginning Monday night, July 25,
conducted by the Rev.F L. Sharp,
of Collinsville.
Services will be held evenings
only at 7:30. There will be a
morning dedication service on
Sunday, July "a at 1890 after
which dinner on the ground will
be held. Everyone is invited.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Evening Of Music At
Presbyterian Church
On July 3 lst 7:30

An evening of music at the
Hammond electric organ will be
featured at the Lexington Pres
byterian church on Sunday, July
31st, at 7:30 pm, with Miss Edith
Mcdaniel as organist and Mrs.
Sam Hutton, Tchula, soloist. The
public is given a cordial invita-
ton.
The program is being sponsored
by the Adult Bible class of the
church and was to have been
on July oath before the date had
to be changed.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21

which exactly suited him. He is
milking fifteen cows and they
are making all of their eating
requirements in the pasture and
he is not buying any feed. He
said that as fast as a cow would
bite off the grass a rain would
come and the grass would be
back. Many farmers at meetings
held by Mr. Holditch said they
did not have time 10 get into
dairying for killing grass. MI.
Holditch thinks there is some
thing funny up the creek when
one man says the current weather
is ideal for his business and an
other says it rains so much he
can't get out of the grass.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Mayor PovoII's Court
Disposes Of Cases

The following cases were dis
posed of recently in Mayor Allie
S. Povall's court:
Dock Robinson, running red
light, fined $500; Robert Bacon,
and Louis Evans, stealing gas out
of w. w. Jenkins truck. fined
$20.25 each and ten days in jail;
Willie Mason, speeding, fined
$500; John Wilson, drunken driv-
ing, fined $114.50.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Formers Meeting At
Coxburg On Fridcy

There will be a farmers meet
ing at the Coxburg school on Fri
day night, July 22nd, at 800 pm.
Pertinent farm problems will be
discussed and also the program Of
the Lexington Agricultural De-
velopment association.
All farmers in the Ccxburg
community are urged to attend
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
KENNY C L PASSES

Kenny Wlgley, 5-Months-o ld
son of Mrs. Ruby Wigley, Cox
burg, died at his home there Sat-
urday night.
Services were held Sunday at
300 pm. with interment in the
Coxburg cemetery with Southern
in charge.
The Rev. w. c. Wigley offici-
ated.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21

Hayes I. Parish has assumed
his duties as assistant county
agent of Holmes county. Mr..
Parish came here from Horn Lake
where he taught veterans. His
home is in Noxapater.
Mrs. Parish and their daughter,
Barbara Kay, joined him in Lex
ington last week and they are To-
Gated in the w. H. Fincher apart
ment on the Pickens highway
near the Country club.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
Cum Grove Cemetery

Citizens and residents of Cox
burg r urged to come to the
Gum Grove Church cemetery for
the annual cleaning to be held on
Saturday, July %, beginning at
$40 am.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21
OREGON Cemetery Cleaning

The annual cleaning of Oregon
cemetery will be held on Thurs
day, July %, and all those inter
ested are urged to be on hard.
If you can't come send someone
A basket lunch will be served {;
noon.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-07-21

Billy Charles Thomas, Grenada,
is a guest Of Kit CHM, son of Mr..
and Mrs. M. X. CHM, this week.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-12

in violation of the truce, in Jeru- salem or elsewhere, against forces of Trans-Jordan or Iraq."
 Israel charged before the secur- iy council that Britain is using her might to enforce military and political moves. The council was asked to investigate British troop and naval movements. Israel aS- serted RAF planes violated the Palestine frontier. British arms were said to have gone to Egypt, Iraq and Trans-Jordan-Arab all les of Britain and foes of the Jews.
 Radio reports from the great north China industrial city of Tientsin said the garrison of 60,O00 national troops had rejected a communist demand for surrender. Chinese officials in Nanking, also imminently threatened by the communists, already have written the city off as lost.
 Reports from Shanghai said peace pressure is Ountin 2 throughout China and is being ap- piled to President Chiang Kai- Shek, rather than to the victori- Ous communists.
 The U. N. security council, after receiving the Jews complaint against Britain, heard an Ameri-
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-12

can attack on Holland for her political action" in Indonesia. The U. s. demanded a timetable for elections and for the Dutch surrender of sovereignty to a pro jected United States of Indonesia. The U. s. accused Russia of Ob- structing a peaceful settlement by stirring up Indonesian cOmmun- istS.
 Another Berlin airlift plane crashed killing three American fiji CTS. Since the Russians blockaded the city last year 26 Americans and seven British fliers have been killed on the run.
 American authorities in Ger many arrested again a former state department employee, Herb r John Burgman, who was accused of making wartime broadcasts for the Nazis. Burgman was a Berlin embassy clerk 20 years.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-12
Wednesday. January II. l949

The British cabinet was called into session today to study the Palestine crisis which the foreign office terms a grave threat to peace in the Middle East.
 The British foreign office said Israel repeatedly has violated United Nations truce orders. The statement said the present crisis is the result of Jewish aggression. The Jews were accused of still oc- cupying a Lebanese area. The Bri- tish said "the possibility cannot be excluded of further Jewish attacks
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-12
MT. and Mrs. Frank Jones.

merly of Nome are now enrolled in the Colorado State College of Education.
 MT. Jones, formerly a teacher at the Nome School states he is look ing forward to returning to Alaska when he has finished with his col lege work.