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T.tLE MA CON 72nd Yetr MACON, MISSISSIPPI, Frtic . topUnUr, i mi No. 40. Attention! Attention!! Macon, Miss., September 22, 1021. To all Farmers, Dairymen, Merchants, Bankers, Pro-fes-i( nal Men and Ladies of Noxubee county, are respect fully and earnotly asked to be present at a mass meeting to be held in the Court House on Wednesday, September 2Mb. V:2l at 3 o'clek sharp. The purpose of the mass meeting will be to arrange the dtta'ils tc-r tie holding: of our one day fair, live stock show and auctiA sak which will be held on Wednesday, Octo ber 2fith, 1021. We desire to have a fair of such proportions that it will surpass any like show which well be held in the South. We desire to entertain east Mississippi and west Ala bama in particular, but visitors from any part of the state or t;:e Un'itod States will be welcome. We will therefore need to have a basket dinner and bar becue sjiiklt'it to feed three thousand people at least. Also we must have the very bet music which money will buy. Now lets all be present at the mass meeting and with a strong representation from each eorr,mur,'!y in the coun ty and do justice for once to the greatest county and God favored region on eartl'x Respectfully, CONTRACT LET artesian E. T. GEORGE. T. S. BOGGESS. A.-C. FAXT. BRUCE LUNBERG. E. F. HARDEN. J. C. CAYETT. R. E. V. YATfi. E. B. BOYD. Committee., BROOKSVILLE On Wednesday afternoon the re. THE PROFESSION OK SCHnOL. TEACHING School-Teaching' its a profit myitis of 'oe Wiliams, infant son of ta'S the Youths Companion, if CITY TO HAVE FLKN riFlt SI P. f'LY OK ARTESIAN WlH IN .NEAR Fl'TTRE- It will come flS pood news to cvt readers yto knew the Citv of Ma-.,n has at last been h'e !o close a cm isiac-iory rontrr.tt water supply. The contract was Jot to the Nat ;onal Water S-pf 'y Company, Ire, "'., "men nas a factory at Stuttcwt, Ark., whue they manfacture pumps, serpen? find practically all the o.piipniont tis-.'d. They have an office at Pensaroln F!a., and do a laive water supjiy '"-'no f throughout the Und Slates, and they a 'so fell' a lot el enuippment. and do some contract ins in foreign countries.- Mr. M. J. Cray, vve-'president ' of the company, caise to close the col tract with the City. They -had bid several times lief ore, thrmiph th.ii various representatives, when ith-.r companies were Lidding. Mr. Cray's coir.pa,,y recently drill, td in this state the .tollovvini: wells: One 12 inch mi for the City of Meridian. One 8 inch wtii fir the City of i.auiei wilieh is Ult le.t deep cew-U wh one ciniir,;(..:s l.r.e of 8 inch pipe find scree fr.Hr top to bottom One 8 inch vvcj fur Citv of Starke vide, J00 feet. One 10 inch w;J ;,,r ihe City of Greenwood that '.S now pumping KbO gallons per trnrmtf. One well st Clsrksdalc, equipped with a national pump tested l.'.i'li,. (00 frallons in cr.e day. One VI inch we'll at. Holly Snrir.jjs that produces twice a? much waUr as any well ever .irijietl. there. One 12 ii'cli vt'ii now tieitii: j . " "J Vr,.-.,. ,,, . . j I f , rv-H-,-. fe:'.i-.;--'-i"':t-'-';f " J split WM&MWj$?m i&v&J-it "r - fa mMm tail m m .hev. and Mrs- Owen Williams, were brought up frirn Forest, and inter. ed in Borders cemetery by the s:d ajed 1000 feet (U,p at Amory Mi- comparatively new thmjr, nor is it licw down 765 feet twice as deep yet firmly established on that basis, any ont hag ever been able to p( -;c- r crmer v sciiooimasrs were ike. itrate in mat na;.; rmii ti.rm.'.i .n ci nis urotner, wno Ciw(, while his ly to be younf? fellows who were there. parents were living here. Many; earning the money to put them! All this is me tinned to asur friends sorrow with these sad pa-' through college, arid schoolmistresses j cur "thirsty" readers that they vi'l iv-'ni?- iwere youiifr women who were mere! be assured of p'enty of pood pyre To the great surprise of all his filling in" the time until they pot water soon. The City officials have friends, Mr. Boyd Ewintr, of Clifton. ' married, or elderly women who had been a lonp time in letting this con. viile brought p. i.r;'(ie with him Mon. , no relatives on whom they could de. . tract, biif by taking their time .nd day afternoon, '.vh'en hv eturotd 1 rend for support. Ou'side the col. ir.vestifating thomughly. have sefur. Irtm a trip to Oklahoma- . leges almost no one made a de liber-: ed tnc very ixpst conti ittor , m t: ThJlaiiies ot the P. T. A. met FriJ"1 vMe " llll'.M fa wrk .day afternoon with the teachers t.nU ,T ?rePared systematically for its reorganized. The following ofTu rs ' were elected: President, iIrs- Joe , A stieacj- improvmrnt ovep '.Tie Stiles; secretary. Mrs. T. N. Touch-' conditions of those years has long 'Jne T'r.fi orga!.-iton spe n t b,'cn P"in' '" Nor:ual schools and $91.23 last year on school equp- j teachers' colleges have dor.e a great merit and fjrr.ed ' vcr to the new j f' determine the best methods treasurer $-15.75. - I of insf.-ucl ion and to spread a know I. Dr- John Stark v -f Camn Div wbs t-" of those methods among the in town a few hours Wednesday, sec. iine tf work and -at the same time have sfived the tax.pi.y j.n of fjh city several tbcusand dollars. A YOUTHFUL MURDER The most youthful nr.mlerer that has ever been in the Noxubee jail v.v. placed there Sunday night by iih. r. iff Fan-ar and Dtputy Hunter, lit teachers of the country. A horiv .,f i was released Tuesday after a tiial professional principles and practices i before Justice Cockrei1. the court k heen created, and a spirit of j entiling that he was too young :nr old fi'itn::?. . Mrs. Snyder and little son left home in Iowa"f ,v has r P in fe to it. but the (tili.culucs into which professional pride and responsibili IChool.tearhing f.'ll during the war Mrs. C- -H. Hudson is at home from a visit to her father in fireman, Georgia. lr: -r. . . ... . .. .iis--e rrai ;acKo. Jnamtsi ' J 1 Hotherow, Cn;:)l,.-.te .'acoway, Fran- their positions in great numbers,! ces Madison a..d .;ay Cray went to largely because public opinon. not j vv l .1" CA Tuesday. Misses 1 yet accustomed to the changine Elizabeth Cadei,h..d. Heien Ce.il;.1 4i. :... v.i .V ml I!.,;-.,.. ! u, '"i v ... i.i.n.-.yi Welt. Vir-1 - 1 Oil fl t Hi.. ... too. low in ni ntalii.y to appreciate to seriousness of the crime, and tbe b(s who were presort at the time of the quarrel which broughi on the kil'ini' were all tmo y.-iung to know showed that it had hardlv made its ..... 1 ,. :: -. ' . i"",l-'fullw' .-..iiiuiiig jcecure. j uung . (j,e sanctity of an oath. Sunday afternoon a crowd of lit rogrcij were "in washing" .41 Gavin or Rosette pU'ice near Ravii ors here, ab Saturday uity of paying when two hoys, I) and 10 years cl.l become eng'aged in a quarrel and the M-s. to enter colleie. the (i.ncher w.r.. !-. n frn.-ti.-r. !f 1 10 year old son of "! Lindall anil AHss what Hip .liffieiiltv and r-nnr.ihili. : n'onired tile small b'aik- Marietta, dco.n.par.ied by Mr- Jones I ty of his office demand. That 'at by car for Rou u and Dotherow. set noke, Virginia Miss Annie crutntr, woo have srtnt the suiniiur fore the war w-itn their sist"r, Mrs. Mrs. Mary Caruth-is of Oitonelle, ".s in town J.,,.ki.)K after her farming inti rests. Mr. and Mrs. p;,tt..n, who have Ikv n living at the Van (Tow lumber p.ar.t, left Tuesday f"r the Delta, whi -re they will m;:ke tlxir home. Mr. Redwo, .), v.l.n sjunt most of the siimmir with his children, is at home for the water and Mr. G T. Heard is also in town, much improv ed in he.J'h by his travels. iggy" Tuc of a barb;W knife into the heart of thf 9 year old Both fame's -lo ierrib!;,- d1-'- t.n sed over tlr.' tragedy and 'Tig; y ' accimipa.iiie.1 his youthful son to jril- and remained with him until Tucs'iay when he was tumid kn se. taught our people something. The son of Sanford Boatman verage salary ot t.ie scnool.teaer.cr Kiizab'.th is now much higher than it was be- in son.? states it is Harrbon twice as large. The natural resu't has followed. Young people are once more turning to scb ml-teaching as a life work. The normal schools are full; t.v col. logt ami urivcrsiiit .; th.it irive eoar--e in pedagogy rcfi.rt '-hat those courses .-i-c increa T..g'ly al-tend'-d. Teachers who are in active eirnlovment are alive to the rising 1 standards in education. Th"y begin to nnd'rstand that sibjul.t aching CHILD WELFARE UNIT OF NOXUBEE is a science, with princip'es and practices that have been verified and Mesdarnes Strong and Harkiiw of V c 1"!"'m,,, lm'y ?ve 1 Macon w.re Sr. tc-.v.t Thursday- j ,he Rur?m"r courses m pe.lrgogy .r,.( . ! al! over the country. Fight thohs. ' -""l'"iy reeeivea .1 .,nfi f them wevp nt Columbia Fr - em .city where four or five teachers used to take courses of profession al study in the summer, ninety-five ine liicowmg young people from took them this vear. our town have gone to school: j The first sl(ip in makinfr teaching Blanche McK-in, Ivey Combs, to Fell a dignified and highly regarded pro. Haven. Lovdie Tyson, Lilla Jenkins' fession instead of en ill-paid and I ..I T. II . . . m . - r. i.uia ecu to y.. . .,- ; Kuth and .often temporary occupation has hern car load of automobile this we-dt. SHUQUALAK Kthel Trinae Lillian Nurm to Blue Moun.tain; Evans to Judson: taken. A reviving breeze is blowing through our schoolrooms. Ambitious Beorge MiJvin and William Clynes to ! competent teachers are respond. Auburn; Jr-e and Ky Dethany to the University of Mississippi; I.ucian Me Neese to Clinton Mrs. Walter Hubbard entertained the Methodist Missionary society Monday night, having the men pres ent. It was enjoyed by all. Miss M;;ry N.-wion who has been visiting h: r pa.ei,!s returned to St T ..:,. 1... . ;:. V,' M, iV,, , . . J the guard iiime iiu'inuii eiui'r:ii'i,eu the subwav. the -12 dub. Thursday. j ..ifove 0n," says the. policeman. Mrs- A. M. Tym-R who has bienj yflon't walk on the grass," reads 'jtiile ill is reported to be improving, the sign in the park. Dr. At.dwrn of Fern Springs was! , "Grapejuce" says the bartender, in town Tuesday. Life. ing wiin enthusiasm to, the rising de. ir.and for a preparation and a quality of work in keeping' with the new standard of remuneration. The pub. lie, on its part must not fall hack in. to the old habit of skimping in the eiluuifioli of the children. This is a Free Country PICTURE SHOWS 7:i)0 p- n. V bite Shows (Vntrr Point .- Sl-pt. 2fi:h. Mashulaville Sept -th ,'ackson r- Sept 30th. I -.iij.. :it.. i..t eiiui'iiviuv , .11 Colored Schools Mashulaville - -S-pt 27th. Zion Hill Oct- 3rd. Cooksvil'e Oct. C'.h. Baldwin Oct- Uth. Eenion '- Oct. 13th. School Examisations (Co')- Mashulaville - Sept. 28th. Zion Hill ..Sept- 2nh. Cedar Grove - Sl'pt. 30th, Hickory Grove Oct 3rd. C ...ksville. Oct- 4th. Mobday and Saturday Typhoid Vac. cine at Macon. Tuesday Typhoid Vaccine Brooksville MORAL HENS A young married woman who mov ed into the country considered the keeping f bens a pleasant and pro fitable 'undertaking. As he grc-v more absorbed in the pursuit l.er cn. thusiasm increased. During one of her animated tV-'-scriptions of her success, a friend in. qu i red : "Are your hens good laMi? hens?" "Oh, yes," she r plied, in a de lighted tone; "they htiv.-n't laid a bad egg yet!" London Tit-Bits. NEW ARRIVALS DAILY Keeps Our Displays Of FALL'S SMARTEST WEAR Always Interesting En:h day -anyew variations of the mode arriving adding further inte:.t to the already imposing assemblage cf new things. Our shoves at present are at their best and we are anxbus . to have -you view them even if it is only to knov7wl',at the. new styles are. May we see you soon? THE STORE FOR. QUALITY. AXD LOW PRICES , . ' Macon, Miss. THE UNIVERSAL CAR NEW PRICES (F. O. ;. I)ETR(HT) Chasis - - - - $295 Runabout - 325 Touring Car - - 355 Truck Chasis - - 445 Coupe - - 595 Sedan - - - 660 These are the lowest prices of Ford cars in the history of the Ford Motor Company. , Orders are coming in fast, so place yours promptly to insure early delivery. BROOKSVILLE MOtORvCO. UKOOkSVILLE, :-: MISSISSIPPI