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By Montague Glass and Jules Eckert Goodman,
have read and heard so much with Potash and Perlmutter. Conceded
by the press and the public to be the greatest farce cofnedy ever pro
duced Coming here to give you a great treat fjom laughter.
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EASTERN STAR MEETING.
ic Hall, Tuesday evening, Feb. 24th, at :
7:30 o'clock. Initiations. All mem- ^
bers are urged to attend.
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Cloe Stevens Chapter E. O. S. will
meet in regular session at the Mason
MRS. JIMMIE COLMERY, Sec'y.
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Little Ellen Saunders, the six-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. C.
Saunders, fell last Friday, while on
roller skates, and broke her right arm. j
We are gratified to learn that she is
getting along splendidly and will soon
recover.
.Slack returned home
Saturday from a three weeks visit to !
Birmingham. She was accompanied j
by her sister, Mrs. James K. Varda
nian, who will visit relatives and
friends here for several days.
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Mr. T. C. Saunders has returned
from Memphis, where he had his ton
sils removed last Tuesday. He is very
much improved and his many friends ;
hope he wiir soon be restored to his e
Mrs. J. W. Geoi'ge and Mrs. Mar
ion Saunders visited friends in Yazoo i
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usual good health.
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City the past few days.
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Miss Ruth Fox arrived yesterday 1
afternoon from St. Louis, where she
has been attending Washington Uni
versity in that city. She is welcom
ed home by her many friends.
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W rnona today on busmess and made
The Daily Commonwealth an appre
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The Woman's Club will meet Tues
day afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Mem
orial Building, The members are urg- j
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Mr. and Mrs. R. C. King spent yes- j
terday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank King
at Morrillton, Ark., and today in
Memphis.
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Mrs. F. A. Gore, of Enid, Miss., j
spent the week-end here, the guest of ;
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Todd. !
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Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Todd visited !
relatives and friends in Jackson yes- i
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Do not pay Us or Anyone Else for reinsulating
a threaded rubber Battery. ASK US WHY.
GREENWOOD BATTERY CO
217-219 West Market Street.
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STAR SHOWS \ERSA1ILITY IN
BIG DRAMA OF STORMY COASTS ;
AND SUNNY HEARTS.
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The versatility of Oliver Thomas,!
charming Selznick star, is something;
^ whkh to marvel . Pro bably no oth- ! r
actress of the screen has essayed !
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so varied an assortment ot roles as,
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characterization she displays some.
new ability wdiieh makes it compare
than favorably with its prede -1
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has Miss Thomas.
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cessor.
Never has her art been displayed to
greater advantage than in "Out Yon
der" her new Selznick picture, which
will be seen at the Greenwood Thea
tre. In the role of "Flotsam," whose
tended the lighthouse on Great
s h e painted, with
deft,
strokes, as perfect a portrait as fol
lowers of the silent drama have ever
sure
Veritably, she Lived the
witnessed,
role, carrying her audience, thrilled
and enraptured, through the long ser
ies of mishaps that befell her ere she
won love and 'happiness.
Miss Thomas has an exceptionally
stroJlg supporting cast an dthe scenic
e ff ectSj a gre at many of which show
the rugged New England coastline in
all its stern grandeur, are as beauti
^ ag j iave ever been filmed,
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Ralph Ince directed the picture and j
the story was written by Pauline !
Phelps and Marion Short.
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s know the list price o{ diffe
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you ca n't get more miles—even if you
get a discount.
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FRESH SHIPMENT.
POTTED BULBS arrived today.
I We have plenty of hyacinths. Hoff
man's Variety Store, Phone 802.
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KIMBROUGH AUTO CO.
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Fourth District,
(Special Election March 16th)
JUDGE -D. E. BEAMS,
of Greenville.
USED TOBACCO AS INCENSE
American Indians Inhaled Fumes as
They Burned the Fragrant "Weed**
to. Their God«.
Smoking was a habit acquired by
European nations from the Indians
of America. In 1492 Columbus found
them using tobacco, not as ia now
done, but as an incense burned in
honor of their deity.
Tobacco smoking began as a re
ligious rite. Tobacco was used by the
Indians much as oriental nations made
use of myrrh or frankincence in their
Voyagers to
religious observances.
America after Columbus revealed dif
; ferent customs in the tobacco habit,
i jt was discovered that in certain parts
of the continent the natives Inhaled
the incense until they became exhil
arated or even intoxicated by the
fumes. This meant for them that they
derived inspiration from the good
pleasure of their deity. The honor
paid to the deity came back upon them
in exhilarating profusion.
From that step was not far to as
certain that incense offered to a god
could be employed as a medicine. It
was drawn into the mouth through a
hollow tube—a kind of pipe—and
then expelled as smoking. To the ra
tionalizing European it was left to
transmit the poor Indian's woi*ship Into
an ordinary pleasurable habit.
GIVE STIMULATION T0 GENIUS
Toxins Manufactured in Man's Own
System Powerfully Affect the
Associative Faculties.
Genius Is a question of sensitiza
tion of protoplasm—it goes back to
physical fact. And the foundation of
the greatest cathedral of beauty ever
erected by the mind of genius rests
squarely upon the flesh of a man's
body, writes Jeanette Marks in the
Yale Review. Sensitized protoplasm
I vibrates in answer to outside impres
I siens, with concentric waves of vary
! ing diameter. The stimulated, sensl
I tized protoplasm sets the associative
faculties to work, and the bigger this
; associative
faculty, the bigger the
I genius. It Is just here in the morbid
stimulation of protoplasm that tox
«ns, drugs, alcohol, enter in. Disorder
! r ^S ns supreme, chaos, noise, nervous
! ness ' near-madness, through the stim
! ulus of some toxins manufactured In
as,
Tea, coffee,
a man's own system.
c j rU g S) alcohol, seem temporarily at
least to put the mental furniture in
order, to bring harmony where there
-1 has been disorder.
' genius. Madness is not genius,
both would sometimes appear to have
the power to act as umpire for genius
where its right to go forward is in
And it would seem that
Opium is not
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question.
the purchasing power in dreams was
even greater in insanity than with
either alcohol or opium.
Cork Fabric.
Not so long ago we saw a descrip
tion in a foreign paper of a fabric
which was made from cork by a re
"cently discovered French process,
was said to be waterproof, a non-con
ductor of heat and unbreakable. By
using a special machine, thin slices of
cork are placed in chemical baths to
remove the resinous parts which
make cork more or less brittle. Upon
the removal of the resin the sheets
of cork become flexible and may be
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I In fact the sheets may be folded and
j without breaking. By combining
without breaking. By
the cork sheets with any suitable
cloth, preferably a thin and strong
cloth of good color, an excellent
waterproof material may be obtained.
According to the description given an
adhesive preparation is employed to
glue the cork to the cloth ; or if a
stronger garment is desired, the cork
sheets are placed between two layers
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Longest and Shortest Days.
The days generally known as the
longest and shortest days of the year
are the days which occur when the
sun is farthest removed from the ce
lestial equator. There are tw r o such
points in the 'ecliptic, one where it
touches the tropic of Capricorn and
the other where it touches the tropic
of Cancer. The former is known as
the summer solstice and the latter the
winter solstice to those who inhabit
the northern latitude and vice versa.
The sun attains these two points on
June 21 and December 21, which are
commonly known as the longest and
shortest days of the year.
Divers in Ancient History.
The earliest mention of diving Is
made by Homer, about 850 B. C., in
the "Iliad," when Patroclus compares
the fall of Hector's charioteer to a
diver diving for oysters ; and Thucy
dides tells of divers being used to re
move submarine barriers placed with
the object of impeding or Injuring
the Grecian fleet at the siege of Syra
cuse. These divers had no apparatus
save a stone to carry them quickly to
the bottom and to cling to for the
brief period, about two minutes, they
could stay below. This fs called nat
ural diving and Is still In use for col
lecting sponges and pearls at Ceylon
and In the Mediterranean.
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Reindeer Good Travelers.
Surprising records have been made
by Alaskan reindeer in long distance
travel, and also in speed tests, says
Carl J. Lomen In the National Geo
graphic Magazine. Indeed, for short
distances, the deer can outrun the dog
At an annual reindeer fair
or horse.
in Alaska two deer pplling a sled and
driver made five miles in 14 minutes
32 seconds, and ten miles in 27 min
utes 20 seconds.
Sales Books
Of Every Description — Any
Style, Any Sixe, Any Form.
Manifold Forms of All Kinds.
Lawrence
Printing Co.
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LITTLE GOOD IN ARGUMENT
Many Men of Note Have Set It Down
as a Useless Form of
Bickering.
Lord Fisher, not arguing, of course,
with his opponents, hut just telling
them, renewed a discussion with the
remark : "It is only fools who argue."
Something of the sort has been said
before. In Plutarch you find :
"Euripides was wont to say, silence
was in answer to a wise man ; but we j
seem to have greater occasion for it in ]
our dealings with fools and unreason- j
able persons, for men of breeding and
, „ , ... as
good sense will be satisfied with reason
and fair words."
or
Jonathan Swift wrote:
"Argument, as usually managed, is
the worst sort of conversation, as in
books it is generally the worst sort of
reading."
James Russell Lowell gave this ad
vice:
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There Is no good in argument with
the inevitable. The only argument P
available with an east wind is to put !
on your overcoat.'
In Samuel Butler's Notebook, which
holds much common sense, is an entry
to the point:
Argument is general waste of time
and trouble. It is better to present
one's own opinion, and leave it to
stick or no, as it may happen,
sound, it will probably in the end
stick, and that is the main thing."
If you are still fool enough to argue
don't let the other fellow do so. Re
warning that ' hearing both sides con- ,
uses the mind.
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AN OPEN LETTER
Feel that we would be dei'elict in
our duty and that we would not he
serving as we should, the husiness and
professional interests of Greenwood
and the Mississippi Delta, were we j
not to put before them the present j
paper situation as we see it.
10 days ago there was an unexpected
and decided advance on all bonds,flats, j
ledgers, envelopes, tags, etc. In some
instances as high as 25 per cent.
However, the advance in price is i
really a small matter when even at
the advanced prices it is impossible
to get stock in lots of instances. Atid
the worst of the whole business is
that the situation is growing worse
every day. We have had this brought
to our attention most forcibly during
the past three weeks for the reason
that we have a large number of both
large and small jobs that we are un
able to complete owing to our in-1
ability to get the material to complete
them with.
We strongly urge that you look over
your stationary supplies and see what
you are going to need within the next j
six or eight months and take the mat
ter up with your printer NOW.
Yours trujy,
LAWRENCE PRINTING CO., Inc.
Greenwood, Miss.
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KIMBROUGH AUTO CO.
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We are serving Pure Coca
VmmAj K^haa.
We have two of the best cooks
n Greenwood,
Kandy Kitchen.
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Well-kept streets is the best adver
tising any town or city can make.
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CLASSIFIED ADVS.
RATES 2c A WORD EACH INSER
TION, IN ADVANCE. NO AD. TAK
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COTTON SEED—Improved Cotton
geed for sale st le •. 5 _ 16 . Earl
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as average short cotton. Good yield,
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Price $5 per bushel. $240 per ton.See
or write Thos. Lucas, Greenwood,
FOR SALE—Fashionable
9 room
residence. 6 room house on George
street, $5250. 2 lots on Leflore Aven
ue. Corner lot on Dewey street. J.
Caplan, 306 Geoi'ge street, Phone 162.
Miss,
FOR SALE—Residence Lot on Con
gress Heights Boulevard. Fronts on
paved street, and the paving tax is
paid in full. Balance of Block is occu
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P ied Wlth residences. Splendid Un
Apply to J. L. Gillespie, Com
monwealth Office.
old, left horn broken off, split in
right ear and smooth crop off left ear,
, wk b nub tail, and has calf about two
weeks old. Strayed or stolen from the
Gee place near Valley Hill on Sunday
FOR SALE—Two 3-gallon cows.
First check for $100.00 will get either.
Address F. E. Brown, Box 164, or
Phone 226 ,Winona, Miss.
Strayed or Stolen.
One Jet Black Cow, about 6 years
night, February 1st.
Information leading to her recovery
will be rew T arded.
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Valley Hill, Miss.
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ONE-HALF MILLION DOLLARS
TO LOAN ON IMPROVED
* FARMS AND CITY PROPERTY
IN LEFLORE AND ADJOIN
ING COUNTIES—LOANS RUN
FOR 10 YEARS. WITH SMALL
PAYMENTS ANNUALLY. NO
EXPENSE; NO Delays; Best Rates
J. L. Bishop, Lawyer,
Office Kimbrough Bldg., East of
Court House Square.
PHONE No.984-W
tURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION.
U. S. Civil Service Examination is
nnounced to be held in Greenwood,
darch 13th, to fill the position of ru
a) carrier at Morgan City, Miss., and
acancies that may later occur on ru
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^flore County. Apply to Secretary
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STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE
Greenwood Building & Loan Association
Domiciled in the City of Greenwood, of the County of Leflore, of the State
of Mississippi, at the close of business, on the thirty-first day of De
cember, 1919, rendered in compliance with the requirements
of Chapter 167. Laws of 19L2.
ASSETS.
Loans on Montgages .
Loans on Shares of the Association
$67,345.76
1,070.00
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Total Loans in Force
$68,415.76
2,028.15
Cash on Deposit with Bank of Commerce
Cash on hand
From Series F
$ 119.99
Profit and Loss
1.50
118.49
Total
$70.562.40
LIABILITIES.
Dues .
Profits on account of :
Interest .
Fines .
All other sources
$54,523.62
$13,559.55
222.33
663.21
Gross Profits
Less Expenses, Taxes and Insurance 7,906.31
$14,445.09
Net Profits
6.538.78
9,500.00
Bills Payable
Total Liabilities
.$70,562.40
Statement, showing the Receipts and Disbursements, made by said Building
and Loan Association, during the year, beginning with the first
day of January, 1919.
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand, January 1st, 1919,
Dues .
Interest .
Fines .
Fees and Pass Books .
Loans Repaid
By Matured Shares ...
Otherwise .
$ 6,182.12
25,937.00
5,815.62
139.20
9.44
$3,700.00
4,534.73
8,234.73
Bills Payable
Other items .
16,500.00
46.08
Total Receipts
$62,864.19
DISBURSEMENTS.
Loans (Paid Borrowers):
On Mortgages ...
Expenses :
Salaries .
Books, Stationery, etc .
Taxes .
Insurance .
Interest on Borrowed Money
Other Items of Expense _
$32,915.61 $32,915.61
$
713.31
28.00
210.00
16.00
94.49
83.90
1,145.70
Withdrawals of Stock .
Retirement of Series Number F ...
Bills Payable Repaid .
Cash on Hand December 31st, 1919,
1,175.33
18,599.40
7,000.00
2,028.15
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Total Disbursements
$62,864.19
State of Mississippi, Leflore County, City of Greenwood.
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority, E. L. Moun
ger, who, after having been duly sworn deposes and states on oath the
following :
1. That he is the Secretary of the Building and Loan Associaion, for
which the foregoing statements are made;
2. That he has carefully compared the said statements with the rec
ords of said Building and Loan Association, and
3. That said statements are in all things true, correct and complete.
E. L. Mounger.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 13th day of February,
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ARTHAR BRUCE .Notary Public.
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