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1 I Tiifl xewspafes raras To tbo sheet of paper which you see on your tables served to you so regularly and studied by you with so much ease the four quarters of the globe colitributo all the treasures 01 tneir intelligence isone mn valuable to mankind discovered by some scholar in the farthest ends of tho earth Ten to one but you will see it first announ ced in ft parigtuph of your newspaper Is there any abuse in your laws it is the newspaper press that drags it trday Is there any invention that will augment your comforts or sharpen your industry it is in the newspaper that it becomes familiar to you nil The newspaper is the chronicle of civilization the common reservoir into which every 6treatn pours its living wa ters and at which every man may come ta drink It is the newspaper that gives to liberty its practical life its constant ob servation its perpetual vigilance its unre axing activity Tho newspaper is a dai ly and a sleepless watchman that reports to you every danger which menaces the institutions of your country and its inter ests at home and abroad The newspaper informs
PAGE TWO COMING Optometrist Lexington City Drag Store Monday Tuesday Wednesday May 7th 8th 9th Hare Your Eyes Examined lilawn Fitted Lenee Chang CONSULTATION FREE Aom Office Greenwood Miaaleaipi Three Days Only JTreeLgisg TWO MONTHS NONSKID AG E PAYMENT PLAN Use the easy par eh a ae plan to boy General while prices are lowest and yea get the benefit of DualGrip Nonskid when you need it most friii on the General tet now means two months perfect nonskid mileage practically frtel At this season good rob ber shows nest to no wear When summer comes your tires will still be almost new all paid for and ready to roll for a year or two Under the fanaons GTAC payment plan Generals top qaality tire is as easy to buy as ordigargmimp No More Dowd Less In The End Igenehai j TtE I goes atom way to mabtfriundt SUPERIOR SERVICE STATION Lexington Mississippi The only store in Lexington with this famous payment plan Odorless Dry Cleaners clean clothes with no odor Phone 125 HOME BREVITIES t 4 Mr and Mrs Jessie Stigler and li I tie daughter Elisabeth made the mot trip from Greenwood Sunday with M and Mrs R
Lexington Advertiser The Advertiser Pub Co Publishers Entered at the Postoffice at Lexington Hiss as Mail Matter of the Second Class SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year200 Six Months Three Months jr Single Copies each B A POVALL___Managing Editor TOM SHEPHERD _Editori MRS R M OWIN Society Editor t Announcements For CongressThird District JOE P McCAIN of Cleveland A COUNTRY CODIFIED By Clayton Rand Codes increase to cover the country bold experiments in the program of National Recovery Among all complicated codes of busindsa conduct none is as im portant as those that govern the press Should publishers and printers codes fail of their purpose editorial columns that have such a penterat ing effect on public opinion would reflect this failure and undermine the recovery program It is for that reason that the whole structure of the New Deal depends so much upon the cooperation of the printers and publishers Their patriotic response to the Presidents program is essential to National Recovery REGULATION NOT PROHIBITION As the date for Mississippians to ex press themselves on prohibition nears many newspapers politicians dry lead ers and others are trying to befuddle the peoples minds Instead of recogniz ing a fact that we have never
Negro 4H Rally Held In Tchula Saturday About 1500 4H Club boys and girls their leaders sponsors advisors and parents attended the annual Negro 4H Rally Day Saturday which featured a parade in downtown Tchula led by the Belzoni Band and a beautiful 4H float decorated in the traditional green and white and a splendid program at the Tchula Attendance Center Saturday marked the first time the 4H Rally Day had been held any place in Holmes County other than Lexington Barbara Ann Luckett presi dent of the Junior 4H Coun cil Senior Section and Wal ter Hums vice president both of Tchula served as mis tress and master of cere monies at the program which was held before a packed house at the Tchula Attend ance Center 4H Club boys and girls participating in the parade and rally wore their uniforms and 4H caps The devotional featured an original playlet on Creation which was written and per formed bv students of the Tchumla School with Pauline Banks at the piano As the crowd assembled in the large auditorium the guest band from McNair High School in Belzoni led by Bandmaster Lonnie Haynes gave a program of appro priate music
FBI Head Hits Misinformation And Suppression Of News Misinformation and suppression of news are deadly enemies of a free people J Edgari Hoover said in a special tribute to American newspapers on the occasion of National Newspaper Week October 1420 Integrity in journalism as in law enforcement cannot be a matter of percentages It must be com plete and impregnable cordingly thp newspapers role in keeping the public in formed becomes increasingly significant Integrity in journalism r m law enforcement cannot be a matter of percentages It must bp complete and impreg nable As guardians of Ameri can liberty the press and t e police are charged with a i rd trust Operations whch j closely affect the lives of millions of nenplp must be exemolarv and above re proach In addition to its innate re sponsibilities 1he press is mrrallv obligated to promote hp fim heanno of justice and tee pertefm4on of law and nrdnr In deed much of the nrorpq pr profession V is v_iedp m rising its standards mf3ional status is di dl 1butablp to tP sup port of editors and publishers u0 pconize tho need for ffivp law enforcement On oodcn to be sure the nene
THE SENTINEL j W BUCHANAN Manager Proprietor GHENADA MISSISSIPPI he gets dhere shust der SAME I 41 Old jEsop wrote a fable vonce Aboudt a boastful hare tVho say Vhen dhere vas racing You can always find me dhere TJnd how a tortoise raced mithlra Und stopped lices lecdle game XJndsay Eef I dond been so shpry I gets dhere shust der samo I jot vas der cases eferyvhero In bolidics und trade By bersbiration off der brow Vas how soocksess vas made ji man somedime may shdrike Id rtoh Und get renown und fame Budt dot bersbiration feller too He gets dhero shust dor same Der girl dot makes good beeskits Und can vash und iron dings Maybe dond bo so lofely As dot girl mit dimondt rings Budt vheu a wife vas vanted Who vas it dots to blame Eef dot girl midout her shewels Should get dhere shust der samo Der man dot leafes heos beesnis Und hangs roundt bucket shops To make ten dollars oudt off von Vhen grain und oil shtoek drops May go avay from dhere somedime Mooch boorer as ho came Der mills of God grind shlowly Budtdhey gets dhere shust der samel
the has of is Mr THE TRYING POSITION OF THE RUSSIAN AMEASSADOR COUNT CASSINI IS ADMIRED New Head cf Bureau cf Manufactures Seek Services of Congressmen Trained Newspaper Men Gymnastics Condemned ASHI NGTON Nothing but ad miration is pressed for Count Cassini the Rus sian ambassador during these last days of his stay Washington d i p 1 o mats had a role than he w ex v r V 1 i n for Few have ever n 1 more trying A to fill With public senti ment which iu clearly on o eludes that of officialdom the side of the Japanese the count has been able by his own genial personali ty to retain the respect and affection of all grades in official and diplomatic The blunders the misfortunes have circles that and the iucompetency marked the Russian conduct of the war in the east on land and sea have almost made the Muscovite name a re proach in this city had to meet all the disgust disappoint ment and ridicule that his home gov ernment have inspired As the deau of the diplomatic corps his position has been doubly trying The embarrassment that his nation s misfortunes have
E js i i W iiM V illlll V m OR Pg 4 M w JT L i J r i V o V I cHmerican Women as Newspaper Writers By Katherine Thomas Newspapers Cannot Get On Without WomenMentally and Physically an Eiausting Occu pationThe Society Reporter Must Be a Listening Machine Excels as an Interviewer Copyright ty Joseph U Bowles Katherine E Thomas is one of the best known women writers for newspa pers at Washington Her book on Of ficial Etiquette at the Nations Capital is regarded as a standard She has also written a novel on Washington society ntitled Not All the Kings Horses Womans place on the newspapers today is due to the law of demand and supply She has not crowded man out It is distinctively a posi tion into which she has neither forced her way nor sought in ever so limited a degree to oust man from that do main in which since the invention of the art of printing he had held exclu tive right With the evolution of successive stages of progress the necessity of womans work on the press became so Apparent that the cry went forth throughout the land
v Sentinel u v 1 i i T 1 VOLUME LV GRENADA MISSISSIPPI FRIIjV MAY 7 1909 g NUMBER 43 S3 m 4 Sj l i Da tBS v4y YOU WANT STYLISH WEARING APPAREL AT A REASONABLE PRICE GO TO V J5J c sdfj lwy p I DUNCANCO u 7r dfi c f Dry Goods Shoes Clothing A w fe 3057 K V5 p IsISlili PlINilNl 7 r vAA BOND ISSUES CARRIED Vote Light but tne Bonds Pre vail by a Vote of Nearly Five to OneCity Coun cil Takes Action Grenada had her bond election last Saturday May 1 as advert ised Every proposition for bonds carried and tlie progressive eement of the town are fe licitating over the result Tne vote was nearly five to on in favor of the bonds 12500 in bonds for enlarge ing the white public school building 5000 for certain improvements at the water and light plant and loouo for laying more sewerage lines The vote was larger than is usually polled in Grenada at special elections Tne Mayor and Aldermen met Monday night and took the necessary steps to wards selling the bonds The board of trustees of the city schools were
mi pim i The Official Journal OF TU CTTT OF BAT BT LOUIS Subscription 180 Per Annum JEWELRY WATCHES DIAMONDS SILVERWARE CUT GLASS CLOCKS Ours is a complete jewelry store No line of goods more reliable is carried by jewelers anywhere We buy direct from the worlds best manufacturers and sell on smaller margins than others making two sav ings for you that amount to considerable Whatever is worth having in a jewelry store is to be found here Watches Arc our specialty and we can supply anything you want C O Johnson BAY BT LOUIS MISS THE NEWS FROM WAVELAND TOWN Miss Loretta R Doerr is spending the week with her cousins Misses Vir ginia and Marguerite Bourgeois Miss Doerr is one of this summers graduates of the Now Orleans High School Mr Charles Platz has leased the Mo rere cottage for the fall months and will come over Friday with his family and his brother Constant Platz who is convalescing from a lecent illness Mrs John Morere and daughter Miss Bertha have returned to New Orleans after spending the summer at ther cozy cottage in the Terrace Miss Fredda Kcppel has returned to her home in New Orleans
ivaxvVsvvvwci Cake It takes fresh eggs and nice Flour to make nice cake along with other ingredients Have your fresh eggs laid by your own hens if not why not Feed your hens Como Hen Feed ang you will have eggs to sell 100 pound sack for 225 Freight paid on 300 pounds or more 5atsv S icksoTv KUss For the Parlor the Bed Room the Dining Room the Kitchen Attractive assortment for the Holiday Trade Everything in the Furniture line Our prices are right We want Rankin County Trade HENRY HESLEP Manager XLXUaLT1 THEO SWEENY Jacksons Leading PHOTOGRAPHER AH Styles Photo Work from the Cheapest that is Good to tne Best Made JACKSON MISS 415 East Capital Street t 9 rsv 9 240 EAST i C SMITHS Visible Typewriter Headquarters for Office Furnitnre i OFFICE SUPPLY and BOOK CO CAPITOL Street Jackson Miss Printers Stationers Litho graphers Blank Book Makers General Offce Out fitters __ DRAUGHONS PRACTICAL Business Bookkeeping Shorthand Telegraphy etc ML Colleges For Catalogue JflQ ORAUGHON Address either place Biggest and Best JACKSON MISS Nashville Tenn Memphis Tenn Muskogee l T Columbia S C THE BIG 30 s nmuawnB DALLAS TEX Paducah Ky Atlanta Ga El Paso
THE SOUTHERN HERALD FRIDAY MAY211915 ASKOiJMEMEm THE SOUTHERN HERALD is authorized to announce the following as candidates for the offices named subject to the action of the Democratic party FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY 6th DI8T D C BRAMLETTE Jr R E BENNETT for sheriff J B LUSK M A WALL C A PORTER D M BUTLER A J CAUSEY H P MOSLEY JOE K HARVEY C B DRUMMONDS FOR REPRESENTATIVE P C WEBB J F CASSELS D J WALL Jr W G MoLAIN Jr FOR CHANCERY CLERK G It CAUSEY C D TURNIPSEED FOR COUNTY TREASURER H G GORDON R J STEWART GEO A McGEHEE C L HAZLEWOOD J J STRINGFIELD EOR COUNTY ASSESSOR R D MOORE CHA8 M WEBB JOR SUPERVISOR 1st DISTRICT D E QUIN e C STOKES J W TERRELL J S REYNOLDS 0T 2ND DISTRICT LOUIS F NEYLAND OF 4TH DIST R E WILLIAMS FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 1st D HOMER KNIGHT A k CARROLL FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF E1U SMILEY B WHHTINGTON LUCIUS T BURRIS F H BUTLER I N POLEY STEELE FOR CIRCUIT CLERK E G NELSON FOR CONSTADLE 1st DISTRICT CHARLIE WHJTTINGTON jpmm m pardon To Governor Earl Brewer Jackson Miss We the undersigned
THE SOUTHERN HERALD FRIDAY JUNE 51915 AWOnCEMEYTS THE SOUTHERN HERALD i8 authorized to announce the following as candidates for the offices named subject to the action of the Democratic party FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY 6th DIST D C BRAMLETTE Jr R E BENNETT FOR SHERIFF J B LUSK M A WALL 0 A PORTER D M BUTLER A J CAUSEY H P M OS LEY JOE K HARVEY O E DRUMMONDS FOR REPRESENTATIVE P 0 WEBB J F CA88ELS D J WALL Jr W G McLAIN Jr FOR CHANCERY CLERK G M CAUSEY C I TURNIPSEED FOR COUNTY TREASURER H G GORDON R J SIEWARI GEO A McGEHEE C L EIAZLEWOOD J J STRINGFIELD EOB COUNTY ASSESSOR R D MOORE OHAS M WEBB How To Hel a To The man who has the welfare of his town at heart should remember that levelheaded practial busi ness men comply in a code of words which are called to mind by the following crumb dropped by Hor ace Greely in an address delivered in an ambitious western town Orderer your goods from New York Buy of peddlers as often as pos sible Gd to some other place to get your job printing done
EDITORIAL PAGE JloLei County HERALD JACK SHEARER JREDITOR Entered at the Postoffice at Lexington Mississippi as Second Class Mail under the Act of Congress of March 3 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in advance in Holmes and adjoining counties par year 300 six months 175 elsewhere per year 330 six months 200 Publiahed every Thursday by the Holmes County Publishing Co Inc 201 Tchula Street Lexington Mississippi EDITORIAL COMMENT NATIONAL PRESS WEEK IS OBSERVED OCT 915 This week October 915 is National Newspaper Week Millions of words will be written by hundreds of editors throughout the nation on the topic of the role their publications play as Heri tage of Truth Frontier of Freedom which has been declared the theme of the week Unfortunately there will be considerably fewer words written con cerning the other side of the coin the shortcomings and inadequacies which are evident in the newspaper profession There will be little said about the serious responsibilities which newspapers often fail to realize Perhaps the most important task of any newspaper is to objectively report the events which transpire in the area which it serves Objectivity however is sometimes quite difficult to obtain Even when the editor of a
Weekly Publisher Outlines Problems lie printed from The Publishers Auxiliary By Mel Hodell One of the most enjoyable aspects of my life is making money This is part and parcel of being in the newspaper busi ness as far as Im concerned Its fine and dandy of course to contribute every thing to your community and the public up to your eye brows free of charge in a continuing burst of mighty causes But after the day is over and you go home there is a matter of finding your off spring wellshod with a hair cut and a full satisfied sto mach And seeing as how the news paper business is a private enterurise there really is en joyment in making abuck on ce in a while I believe my greatest frus tration comes from the situa tion involving the split per sonalities who deal with a smaller newspaper when it comes to money On the one hand we often are wrooed with the most en thusiastic passion possible when it comes to printing news promotion advertising assorted whatnots about e ery thing and everybody in the newrs columns free of charge On the other hand we too often
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