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Fitercd at Postnfike in Columbus, Miss, as second class I moil. ' ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES Snii-Weekly, one year Tiiirsdav or Sundav, one year THE COLUMBUS commercial! COTTON CLIMBS UPWARD. ceo. o. senter Editor and Manager i -pie recent report of the crop reporting Telephone .... 222; board of the United States department of agriculture showed a marked deterioration in cotton during the month of July, and natural ly had a bullish effect upon the market, prices having advanced materially since the $3 00 j report was issued. I Advances varied all the way from 53 to 1.50 . . ., .1 u. i 124 points ior me new crop inomns, aim uiu New York; market was approximately $10 a bale above i values as they stood before the bureau report was published. While the cotton crop, as a whole, has de teriorated, there has been no marked deterio ration in this immediate section, and local farmers will fherefore enjoy the double ad- Member of AMERICAN TRr.?3 ASSOCIATION New York City Dolivtrcd pother by e:irr'-r tr t Oirouch mail VARDAM 'N'S MERIDIAN SPEECH. Senator Vardanun delivered an address vantage of big prices and abundant yields. at Meridian in behalf of his candidacy for re election last Friday night, and while he was The general, deterioration in the crop re sulted from lack of moisture, and as there greeted by a large audience, the crowd hav-j have been trequent rains in this section no ing been variously estimated at from 2,500 to damage has ensued. Local farmers are t'ae 3,000 people, his speech seemed to create no ing the most prosperous season they have ex enthusiasm, as it was devoted largely to j perienced in many years, and as prosperity abuse of those who have criticised him and j for planters in this territory always means furnished no adequate defense of his own; prosperity for Columbus, her merchants can record. " I confidently expect liberal patronage during Senator Vardaman, according to newspa-jthe coming fall and winter, per accounts of his speech, endeavored to! a r p. a m show that he was not antagonistic toward' What people in other states think of our the administration because he had supported junbr genator isevinced by the following edi several bills favored by the President. Heltoria paragraphj which appeared in a recent did not, however, give what he deemed a log- ksue of thg Birmingham Age-Gerald: "The ical reason for having voted against a decla- Ninth district( with little gracej , hs at U)e ration of war when the determination of r- wWch commissioned .Vardaman. Both many to enter upon a ruthless submarine , shouM redeem themseives in coming prima. campaign demanded such action. Ilisonlyi- It . n?rtinftnttn ,aaa that ,nvn, rill7Pns excuse was that President Wilson was cleet- of the Ninth Alabama district are now doing a second term because he had kept us lhing in lheir power to encompass the om foreign entangleme nts; but . the peo-; defeat of Congressman George Huddleston, uld not foretell in the fall of 1916 what;.,, . ... r . ... . . , . a Ra (ej n ed for free from t u pie COU.u nui iu eicu . me i.m ui iiu whose tacticg m th(J House were a,mogt iden. developments the next few months would tical with th(Jse pursued by Vardaman in the bring forth. Senate Neither did the junior senator, so far as ' m p na pa a ,icdHc. u. ... cuu uwuubc, That Americans are quick to learn is explain the interview in which he said or im- evM b thb fact that th haye becQme E0 plied that the United States was stabbing fident m modern military tactics that Germany in the back. 1 nis, in our opinion, I mmbers of Qen Pershi -s forces arc here. ou.uu. wv o..., - after to serve as instructors for new units has been .brought against him, and unless he which are tQ be ized in this counl lciuicr ii, wnii.ii sinus iuiuummuic, lie is inn rr i J i tt i o i . ,, ., . i Up to a recent date Uncle Sam was compel- lu u , """ u' "13 "'- jipd to rely on British, French and Italian offi li e suei x , u lai cis eui ce, vvuti t i e i l a -i mi r kv--, norc rnr wni Lr nt true pharoetor hut it unl nothing but fustian and bombast and set hereafter be rformed b members of his av m trtt n fin (Tin rYrvrvri rn ni'A.i n?hiT hn rr.r I iuiui nut a DiiJiv juuu iuuto,. v1(iy mC j,t.u- Q grmV pie of Mississippi should keep Vardaman in' thf Srnntp. ! i Ty Cobb, one of the stars of the diamond, F,a Ti M M r5 has announced that no matter what the ulti The Commercial favors a rigid enforce-'mat,e fate of baseball may be, he will not be ment of all statutorv laws: but beliftVPS that. m the eame next year, as he has definitely j ' - j:,ij i i riL . if. . p ueeiueti iu iu war. kjVuu is a nauve Ol j Georgia, and with the innate chivalry charac- pii c ii. . wftrfi reerntlv nrmsterl hrrnnsr- thev hn.l n I Ul 4,1 11 uc UiK m UR' uui, . is not small amount'of vvhiskev in their nncleirn content to remain at home wlli1e his country seems to indicate that discrimination is being needs hhn on the field of battle- displayed. It is commonly repoited that a! Kl u r Ra limited coterie of men have been allowed to Late reports are to the effect that Fiel sell liquor for years without interference on Marshal von Hindenburg is still alive, but if the part ot local authorities, and that there is the Allies keep up the rate at which they good toumlatioti tor the report is indicated have been going during the past he and al by the fact that a recently published list of the German soldiers under his command wil holders of revenue licenses, includes the soon be "dead ones." v t hi Pi i fi Pressure is being brought to bear on the the streets otV'ar Department to have moving picture act -..-! l . P lit 1 , n.uuired to : 0ls inc'UQeu in me -worK or ngnt oraer.ana they should be enforced without fear or favor' and the fact that two prominent youmi men names of these men. r-'j tz K K"i B.. Automobi'ists who traverse Columbus at niuht ouuht to hi use their mufflers, as the noise made bv thn i Inan7 of lhe screen stars may soon be forced cars distuibs citizens and iobs them of needed to Set out an(i perform some useful work sleep. Many complaints regarding the noise ' ft h h h h made by automobiles at night have recently Another Liberty loan drive will soon be! reached the Commercial, and local municipal upon us, and things will again seem natural authorities ought to look into the matter. and home-like. 105 VOTERS SIGN IT. I We, the voters in Lauderdale coun ty, who have heretofore voted for Vardaman, will not vote for him again for the following reasons: 1. Beauie all pro-GermanH, and ail Socialists, and all persons who t.re uga&'t the war, ahd all persona who are against the government are r.upportinjj Senator Vardaman. 2. Becr.uae he has lost out at Washington, and has no influence except when voting with the Repub licans. 3. Because he has used his offi cial power to overthrow and destroy the Wilson administration. President Wilson said that "a little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible." Senator Vardaman was one of the "little group of willful men." . 4. Because we do not believe that Senator Vardaman is in sympathy with the American government in its great struggle against Prussian tu tocrncy for th,? preservation of ou? government and the free-lorn of the orld. 5. Because so far as we have been able to ascertain Senator Var daman has never spoken one word of sympathy for poor robbed anr' raped Belgium and brave patriotic and bleeding France. 6. Because F. D. Lander a Ger man propagandist, who published the Hattiesburg News and who left Hat- tiesburg on account of his pro-tier- tnanir-rn and opposition to the Amer ican government, went to Washing ton, in the same city with Senator Vardaman, and from that city has occupied the front page of The Is sue, Senator Vurdaman'3 campaign orgtin, with his propaganda. 7. Because a recent examination of the files of the Hattiesburg News, of which Lander was editor, uncov ers a veritable nest of pro-German ism, and yet this man Lander is still poisoning the minds of the people of the State, through Senator Varda- man's campaign organ, The Issue. 8. Because after we entered the war, Senator Vardaman flooded the State, under his" official frank, with the speech of LaFollette, a Republi can, and the arch German propa gandist of America, in order to pois on the minds of the people of the State against the Wilson adminis. tration. The literature" disseminated over the State by Senator Varda man carries a tribute to him by a great unnamed senator. Why did Senator Vardaman not let the peo pie of Mississippi know who this great senator is? Is he ashamed to let the people .now (ne "company he has been keeping in Washington? If the witness is either of his confeder ates LaFollette or Reed, then we hold that the evidence is incompe tent to go before red blooded Mis sissippians. 9. Because we feel mortified the a Senator from Mississippi find it necessary to come home and tour the State to deny the charge of disloy alty and pro-Germanism, based alto gether on bis official acts and dec larations at Washington, which were made . t a. time when the duties to his office, and his duty to the peo ple of Mississippi, required of him the highest order of American pa triotism. The public press reports him as saying at Amory that "there are men in this State who, in order to encompass my defeat, would traf fic in the virtue of their homes." We bow our heads in shame that a can diihito for.the Senate could so dis - r.1 Mississippi. 10, Because we feel and believe that the re-election of Senator Var ilr.nmn would be a condemnation of the Wihon administration, a condem 'rnt'on cf the American government, and a justification of Germany and hT bloody and, brutal warfare. Signed by Hon J. M. McReath, Judge C. W. Cochrane and more than hundred prominent citizens of Meridian and I nudTJ;il county. Lnaowment Insurance At Ordinary Life Rates The Phoenix Mutual Accelerative Endowment Policy is a combination of all that is best in life insurance. Let me explain this contract to you. JESSE P. WOODWARD General Agent Odd Fellows Building Phone 531 Columbus, Miss. I'lfiO cures by n moving the eauc. Buy War S.-vings Stamps! MICKIE SAYS tCCkB-a TO MEfcR-Bt THi SU8-SCR4BER.. VMHO FCR. HIS PfVPta EACH NE Mi. a DUE . AT THS FOOU-ltN OF TRO OtH- fH' STECnO-ON SUB'6CUftER, v 1 m 11 1 1 ooDODDoaDoooDOwaor a CLASSIFIED O1 ADVERTISEMENTS d a ooaoooaD0Oooaoo CLASSIFIED AD VEKTISING RATEi; One cent a word per .issue. No advertisement taken for lens than 2G cents the first time. ru WANTED From 8 to 15 acia land near Columbus. Cash proposi tion. Apply in writing to X., care of this office. j ft fJi FOR "ALE Thoroughbred Jersey bull; weihi about 1,100 pounds; 4 years old. Also four milch iowj zi, five yearling heifers. Telephone 680. A. J. Fuqua. 8-8-lmo FOR SALE-,Three desirable rooms . for l.ght housekeeping in lovely home. All modern conven iences. Phone 695, or call at 419 North 9th Street. FOR SALE OR LEASE One of the best prairie places in Noxubee county, Miss. 1100 acre3. For tcrmr address Mrs. S. M. Walker, Co lumbus, Miss. -am WANTED A good outdoor posi tion by young married man, in Class 4. Would consider an indoor Job. Apply to S care this office. ra FOR RENT Large family resi dence on North Third avenue and Tenth street. Apply to J. Burt Wil- bourne. py FOR SALE Buick-Six, with ne cover. 1917 model; good shape. W take Ford as part pay. Address J. M. Wells, Star Route. Ha FOR . RENT Storehouse. 410 Main Street. Now occupied by Cox and Son. Possession iriven SeDt. 1st. H. F. Simrull. 7-7-tf. 5 FOR RENT. Three furnMic rooms for housekeeping. Convenient to town. Price reasonable., Apply at 402 Seventh street, south. 7121-2t. , Pa MEHLIN PIANO Cicassian Wal nut, upright, rebuilt piano. Beauti fully designed with handsome carv ings. This piano cost new $750.00. First check for $200.00 gets it. Cash or credit. - L. E. Lide. ros FOR SALE CHEAP Or would consider trade on Columbus prop erty small well improved farm in Pickens county, having 8-room bun galow; 2 barns; 600 rods hog wire. Plenty of water. Telephone 543. R. Scofield. Fa FOR SALE Have quite a number of delta plantations for sale cheap. Price and term can be arranged. In, fine state of cultivation, and will nroduce bale of cotton to acre. Lo cated in heart of Mississippi delta. see w. r. Stribling. p;s FO S.VLK IIwiImo:) Super-Six. In pin. ( t condition. , I.ni-aiu. I. K. LUle. WANTED Thoroughly competent bookkeeper and office man desires it on. Capable of managing o" fice. Only wth large business or corporation. Address ''Office Man," care the Commercial. n FOR RENT Six room house with kitchen. All improvements. Corner 2nd avenue and 0th street North. Possession September 1st. Apply to J. M. Street. Phone 145. mi FOR RENT The B. B. Mustin resident e, 521 6th street Cth ave. S. AH convenience.'.. PoesMon given September 1st. See Gid D. Harris. p.j WANTED- A few more milk and butter customer. Morning de livery. Your orders appeciated. Thone S93. I. V. Dotherow. s (:". N FOR RENT One 8-room house and one 5-room house onj block fiom car line. Both clore in. All convenience:.. Al:;o room for light housekeeping. See u quick. Fore rrvn and Roberson. FOR SALE 6 "acres of land at ':!: ' tsrm'nal of the Highland street car line. Weil adj isv-j 1 for an rrtbard and vineyrrd. Would make' a fine poultry farm, A rare op- j inity for any one wanting aj rmnll place of this kind. C. F. Sher-, rod. 8-4-1 iik 1 tes 1 FOR SALE A small 5-acre tract of land located a half mMe Eat City Water W.frks..GonvViient . to live on to work from the city. C. F. Sherrod. 8-4-1 m. iv . 7 'f M 1 nsj ll z I 1 FOR SALE Evprythi"g or my leased farm, one mile north o! court house, at junction of New Aberdeen and Waveiiy roads, cor.filing of growing crops of corn, sorghum, cow peas, peanuts and sweet pota toes; also oats in loft; nice young cow; all purpose nnr?, bucy and harness, wagon and harness; plows.! 0 implements and household furniture. CtrcnniFtances compel my return to Kentucky and I am determined to sell at your price if I can't get mine. J. M. TANNER, 3t R. F. D. No. E. 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MilUapt Law School offering extraordinary advantages. perior faculty, law libraries accessible to all. 27th te$ion befina September 18,1918. For catalogue and other Information address. J. REESE LIN, Sec'y, Jackson, Miss. and Su- To AN Consumers of Gas NOTICE CHANGE OF RATES. On and after May 1, 1918,; the following rates will be effective: First Next Next Next Next 2,000 1,000 1,000 feet feet feet 1,000 feet 1,000 feet $1.60 1.60 1.45 1.40 1.35 per thousand per thousand per thousand per thousand per thousand All over 5,000 feet (3) 1.30 per thousand All bills must be paid by the 10th of the month following service rendered. Minimum Charge $1.00. The above change in rates will equalize the cost to all consumers alike. The rate on the first 1,000 feet remaining the same as the previous rate. With the efficiency of Modern Gas Appliances against the cost of other fuels Gas will prove a great saving to our consum ers.' COOK WITH CAS AND SAVE. COLUMBUS RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER CO. 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