The Columbus commercial., October 31, 1915, Image 2

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COLUMRUS CO-OITRATES.
The new Chamlier of Commerce of Colum
bus ami I,o ndes County starts out full of the
kind of determined enthusiasm that means piu-ce.-s.
It's member. should not fo'nret, however,
that it will not run itself, nor can the secrctary
manajrer do all thing-. by himself. When the
Members Council, composed of thirty-six
lending citizens, thoroughly considers any en
terprise for the good of the city or county, and
decides that we ought to do it, let's every man
of us get behind it as a unit and "put it over."
Columbus can do anything she wants to,
because Columbus Co-operates.
CALLS FOR AUTO REGULATIONS.
Why don't our board of aldermen place
some restrictions on auto traffic on our thor
oughfares? At times it is dangerous to life
and limb for pedestrians to attempt to cross
Main street. Not only must they dodge around
stopped cars, which are in all parts of the
:nid, fi,nd often blocking the crossings, but
'iK.jfHost run the risk of.bointr run over by
diivors who seem to think that they alone have
."j-j&ht away. It does seem that they wouldn't
wait for a serious accident to occur before reg
uiatli'ift :is menace, but would see the need,
and prevent any such occurrence. Starkville
News.
This applies to Columbus as well
many other cities.
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CROPS SHOULD BE GRADED.
The following advice from the Birming
ham Ledger is along the line that Secretary W.
11. Carter, of the Chamber of Commerce, has
been advocating for farmers of this section:
"If food crops are to become permanent
wi.th our fanners as a business, there should be
a uniformity of product. Dealers do not want
mixed oats, mixed corn, and six kinds of hay.
"With the Farmers' Union as a basis there
can be a series of crops of one grade, from cot
ton to field peas. If a whole county, or one
valley, produces crops that grade, it is far eas
ier to find a market. If Shade's valley produ
ces black-eyed peas, it is easier to sell 1000
bushels than ten. If Blount county raises a
good grade of white corn, 'ready shelled and
sacked, so that a buyer can get 1000 or 10,000
bushels of the same quality, the market will
seek the corn. F.uycn already know the grade
of Alabama cotton; and jt i the custom to jfin
it and pack it, so that the buyer knows before
he sees it w hat it is.
"So it must be with all our crops. They
must be "of a kind;" they must be sacked or
baled, in marketable condition. Then there
will be no more doubt about the condition. Then
there will be no more doubt about the market
The great point is to have enough of some cer
tain grades to supply the market, ami to have
them packed ready for the market.
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Ladies! BUere's Your Chance
Scmsxtatiomial DSedndly-to-Wefflr &
MDLUNED2V SALE
BEGINS MONDAY HORNING, NOVEMBER 1st
ONE WEEK ONLY
All opportunity tli.it mii;t pmvc irrcsistable to the wnmnn with Iht suit or' U:, Mill
unehoen.
It's an occasion extraordinary. One that will arouse the ure.itest enthusiasm for we
(.moot recall any such opportunity ever before presented so early in the season at such
drastic reductions. Hcautiful new Fall Suits and Pattern Hats simply slaughtered. Kead
tho prices hclow jind if you haveu.t houuht your Suit or Hat come to us and see these
wonderful values we are offering FOR ONH WKKK ONLY.
THE HAPPY SOUTH OF 1915.
The South's steadfast patience during the
last year's period of trial is being dazingly re
warded. A part of the 1014 crop was marketed last
winter and spring at living prices. With fewer
products to buy this year, as a result of more
A REMINDER.
A disastrous fire at St. John's Episcopal
Institute, in Peabody, Mass., last week, result
ed in twenty children being burned to death and
the three-story building completely destroyed.
This should remind the management of schools
diversified farming, the South has a large 101 r 1 jn Columbus to have frequent fire drills and
cotton crop to sell at 12 cents, or the higher
quotations obtained by waiting.
Cotton seed is being disposed of at prices
never before heard of. F.ven the lint by-product
of ginning cotton is bringing $10 per bale
for use in 'relieving the sufferings of war vic-
keep the children ever in practice for an emer
gencyv
In the meantime we take it for granted
that the intelligent pathfinders will decide in
favor of the Mississippi route.
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OLD AGE WILL SURELY COME
What Provisions have you made against ad
vancing age?
Let me show you a Life Insurance Policy
that will protect you in your declining years
if you live, and will protect your loved ones if
you die.
JESSE P. WOODWARD
General Agent
PHONE 531. s COLUMBUS, MISS.
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Smartest Styles in exclusive FALL SUITS.
Here arc the prices for the week.
$1S.5() Suits this
week
$20.00 Suits this
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$25.00 Suits this
week
$10.00 Suits this
week
$35.00 Suit this
week
$12.50
$14.95
$18.95
$22.95
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of exquisite loveliness enter this sale. Dozens of
the smartest newest and most charming Pattern
Hats are here. You will find this display one of
unusual interest and delight. While these prices bst you should be
tempted to buy two or three.
$5.00 Pattern Hats this
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$7-50 Pattern Hats this
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$10.00 Pattern Hats this :
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SPECIAL REDUCTIONS also in Ladles' Evening Dresses, Coats, Silk and Wool
Dresses, Misses' and Children's Coats and Dresses. Take advantage ot this Sale and
supply your wants for Fall. Come early if interested as the supply won't last long at
such Reductions so early in the season.
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Among the
Boy Scouts
The Boy'i Part in the Great Gam.
Hoys, you are the most energetic
lifinns in the world. Thoughtless
oKIer rpl ca' yu 'azy some
times, but they do not understand.
You are not a bit lazy. You are all
afire with eagerness to play a man's
part in the Great Game of Life.
You country boys may think yon
ure standing merely on the edge of
things, that you are only distant
spectators of the contest which the
strong and lucky are waging. You
are impatiently waiting for a chance
to jump in and try your mettle.
Why you are right in the heart of
things already. Those distant shouts
that you hear are just echoes of the
battle cry at your elbow. Get in the
game? At this moment it is raging
with breathless intensity all around
you. Your comrades are calling. The
strong and the lucky everywhere are
your blood brothers. Indeed, you
yourselves, are the very giants and
star playeis, the central figures in
the Great Game.
Look around, buys! There ir
hundred things for you to do; brave
and beautiful things. There are vorn
out aers lo to renewed, gooj 4.uds
to be built, trees to be planted, new
methods of cropping, and new breeds
of livestock to be introduced.
Or, if your aspirations be higher,
if you want to reach the souls of men
instead of their material comforts,
why, look around you once more!
Are there not wrongs to set right,
drab lives and dull minds to be en
lightened, tears to wipe away, causes
to plead, gospels to preach? A hun
dred things to do? Yes, a thousand,
and everyone, a man's sized job.
You cannot do them all, and you
cannot do them alone. But when your
work Is selected, you will find a mul
titude of willing hands to help. The
whole world has heard the call to
service. The greatest happiness life
finds is comradeship In unselfish de
votion to the common welfare. This
may sound "preachy," but it is the
homely, practical truth.
The ancient curse of country life
was its loneliness. The farmer plowed
alone and marketed alone. He was a
solitary individual long alter cny
men had learned to move in groups;
therefore, he suffered at their hands,
he paiii the penalty of standing alone.
Cut it is a great thing for you,
boys, that your fathers stood alone j planted and cultivated the same as
against the world. Standing alore corn and harvested by cutting the
made thorn strong, and you have in-'heads. Store them under shelter
herited their strength. You, too, arc and not over live heads deep until
strong. You can always more than! dry. Then beat out the seeds with a
hold your own in competition with
the city men on their own ground,
as your fathers who went to the cities
held their own.
But you boys on the farm no long
er stand alone. The marvelous ma
chines of the age have tied you to
the city, have tied the city man to
you. The scene has shifted as the
playground of the world enlarged.
You are no longer on the side lines,
but in the very vortex of the great
game of life. You have only to reach
out your hands and every good thing
the city holds is yours; even that
comradeship which alone has been
the lack of country life. Farmlife.
The baseball guys have gone away,
for twenty weeks or more,
And now the mole-skinned youths
have come
Amid a rah-rah roar.
They'll battle 'till the turkey's dead,
And then, they too must go
And leave behind the sporting stage
Knee-deep with ice and snow.
N. O. Daily States.
flail.
"The yield is usually 800 to 2.000
pounds per acre, varying with the
soil and season, and the market price
varies from one to five cents per
pound, according to season, crop and
demand.
"This crop is largely grown in
southern Indiana and Illinois. White
Russia is probably the best variety
for a farm crop and is sold by most
of the prominent seedsmen."
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Laughter is merely a smile set to
music.
Words of wisdom are few, but
there are many echoes.
It's easier to fall in love ,r a
river, than it is to fall out.
True domestic happiness is found
ed upon the reck of a cradle.
We feel sorry for a deaf mute
when he steps on a tack in tha dark.
It's a poor mirror that will not
enable a man to see his best friend.
A foolish woman grows old about
as gracefully as she climbs a fence.
What most marriell men would re
joice to see is a war tax on old bach
elors. Eliminate politics, religion and the
weather, and there wouldn't be much
left to talk about.
Toadstools are often mistaken for
Harvesting of Sunflower.
In reference to the harvesting of
sunflowers, a recent issue of Farn.
Life says:
"Sunflower-seed is used in Russia
for making oil. whirh ia a ehean mi In
stitute for oliveoil, and used in place! mushrooms, gust as gall is much
of meat and butter. The seed is al- mistaken for pemu8- , , '
so used for cattle and poultry food! Nearly a" nien are , doorrp1 . to
and it is better to run it through aldeath by, the .doctors- bu,t "
mill which will simply crack the! ally the do1on,J" Pstpon?d for yeaM'
j,rajns ' The real difference between a
"It requires for its most profitable Porus P,ister and a "Pon" relative
culture a rich, black bottomor even ia that jou can Pr' the ponH pUs"
muck land and the commercial pro- ter. ,00iY .
duct is mostly produced in sectiotV By thU.me the average man
where spring floods have kept low rc"c- "c c; " r 1 "
black land too wet for cultivation of thmtrs ',e'oul1 like, to " 1 of
until it is too late for a profitable
corn crop and then sunflower seed is
useJ as a substitute. It should be
at 99 per cent, less than cost
Attend hurch today.