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Library of Congress1903

Image 1 of Okolona messenger (Okolona, Miss.), March 11, 1903

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Library of Congress1909

Image 6 of Okolona messenger (Okolona, Miss.), January 6, 1909

fJACiKTTES raoG NOT GOOD BAIT Why Bailey Failed to Catch the Baea Good Fmraitiire Our Sale 1VOS 1ET0HG 7n t He went to be f but not to sleep The fact that h little girl was at tending her first 6 Ml grownup priy ff made him wake OvrW 1 ful and tnou8nt ful for It was nam ior uiui lu reconcile himself to the Idea of bis baby Elsie turning Into a young wom an Twelve oclock He wished that she were asleep in the small crib beside his bed where he had rocked her night after night during the first six years of her happy little life But of course he could not make her a baby again Half past 12 If she could only have stayed a j schoolgirl a few years longer that would have been a comfort and she might have done It Just as well as not j It was really only a matter of the j length of her skirts They had been j suddenly lowered In the spring from her shoe tops to within an Inch or so of the floor and Elsie had gayly an nounced that she was grown up

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of Okolona messenger (Okolona, Miss.), March 18, 1903

THE DUTY OP A NEWSPAPER Unfavorable criticisms of news papers are frequently made on the ground that they misrepresent things That is true They Ire qnently do But the newspaper which is trying faithfully to give the reading public the news makes remarkably few mistakes when it is considered how many state ments it is called upon to make in eachissue Those who are in the habit of charging inaccuracy in newspapers should remember two things First the average news paper makes certainly not less than ten thousand statements a year If none of these were er roneous or slightly misleading it would be astounding And sec ondly it is customary for one mis take in a newspaper to provoke more criticism than the nine thousand ninehundred and nine tynine correct statements And this very fact is much in the newspapers favor If the mis takes were so common they would not excite so much comment The record for accuracy and truth as held by a standard newspaper of good repute and enjoying a wide circulation among aa intelligent clientalle would put to blush any stump speaker platform lecturer or magazine lecturer in the land We once knew of a

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Library of Congress1921

Image 5 of The North Mississippi herald (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.), May 13, 1921

CHARLESTON GETS BANKERS NEXT TIME D D Davis of Brookhaven President Geo B Power Jackson Secretary VICKSBURG Miss May 11 Charleston will get the 34th annual convention ofMhe Mississippi Bsyik ers Association in 1922 provided the members of the executive com mitte are satisfied the hotel accom modations there will be sufficient for the needs of the members who will at tend TTie officers elected today and in stalled who will serve throughout the yea are as follows W D Davis Brookhaven presi dent E P Peacock Clarksdale vice president George B Power Jackson secretary A L Jagoe Okolona treasurer H C Herring Moss Point chairman executive committee Members executive committee whose terms expire in 1924 R A Ball Greenwood R B Clark Tupe lo A B Furloy Brookhaven Other members are T W McCoy Vicksburg exofficio A D Simpson Meridian George R Rea Bay St Louis John P Bennet Yazoo City W A Boone Pontotoc A L Rogers New Albany the president vice president treasurer texofficio mem bers Group vicepresidents Group 1 C B Farrish Charleston group 2 Lee Cox Ripley group 3 W A Montgomery Edwards group 4 E G Bond Collins The convention adopted a resolu tion

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