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GREENWOOD, MISS
B. M. JACKSON
Greenwood, Miss.
INTERIOR DECORATING
Painting & Paper Hanging
Canvas Decoration a Specialty
Furnished Free
Phone 504.
407 Williamson St.
general gin work
SOLICITED
Sharpening Saws a Spe
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Fifteen years with Continental and
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Five years as manage^ of Gina for
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RAILWAY SCHEDULES.
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railway.
(Northern Division.)
Destination.
40 Tutwiler, C'dale, Mem
phis, lvs
324 Grenada and I. C., lvs. 8:22 a. m.
314 Tuttviler, G'dale, V'burg,
G'ville, Helena A Mem
phis, lvs.
42 Travelers Spec., Mem.,
Tutwilerand points S.
C'dale, lvs. 2:60 p. m.
332 Grenada & I. C., lvs. 8:03 p. m.
41 Trav. Spec., Mem., V'brg. , -
T'wiler., Chastn., and C'
dale, arm.8:06 a. m.
331 Grenada & I. C., arm. 8:13 a. m.
323 Grenada & I. C. arm. 2:40 p. iff.
813 Mem. Helena, V'burg, G'
ville and Chiton, arr. 4:47 p. m.
89 Mem. Hel. Cdale. A inter.
pts. arr..10:10 p. m.
(Southern Diviaion.)
381 Tchula, Durant, Yazoo
City, Jackson and New
Orleana, lva.8:22 a. m.
6:00 p. m.
For further information apply to
J. W. DONNELL. Tck. Agt.
No.
Time.
3:40 a. m.
10:66a. m.
Southern Ry; Co. in Mis*
314 Same train, arrives....lU:35 a. m.
332 Same train, arrives...-8:30 p. m
(Greenwood Station.)
WF8T BOUND TRAINS
WEST BOUND TRAINS.
Destination. Time.
3 Winona to Greenville,, acc.
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9 Columbus to G'viiie, acc. P ' '
11 B'ham to G ville, thru. tr.
leaves .Si06 p. m.
71 G.v.-ood to Webb, ' idly ex.
Sunday, leaves. 2:86 p. m
EAST BOUND TRAINS.
12 G'ville to B'ham, thru tr.
. leave* ..9:20 a. m.
20 G'ville to Columbue, acc.
leaves — . . 1:13 p. m.
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arrives .' ' 10:86 a. m. *
Connection for Beiisonrbranch W jB
Greenwood 7:25 a. m., also lva. Grren
wood 6:05 p. m, connecting at Itta
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Sunday service—Wehb-Belzonl bch
alternate, lvng. Greenwood 4:48 p. m.
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TO PREPARE' YOUR COUNTRY
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I Greenwood's Battery of Light Artillery in the
Final Stages of Qragnization—Now Lacks
Only Thirty Men.
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The First
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The First Mississippi Infantry reg
iment now on the border will start
for home tomorrow, March 15, and
will probably reach Jackson Saturday
night. Just as soon as the regiment
has reached the Capital Captain Al
bert Metts, and Mr. Harry Hulen will
leave for that city to see how many
of the enlisted men will transfer from
the infaYitry to the Battery of Artil
lery which is being organized here.
The Battery only lacks about thirty
men, practically one hundred men be
ing signed up. It is very probable
»### that the necessary thirty men can be
_ secured from the home coming forces,
80 if there is anyone sti11 contemplat
ing joining it will be well for them to
11 see Captain Metts and put their name
I ! on an enlistment blank prior to the
trip to Jackson.'
There are some reasons which can
be advanced with candor why some
men cannot join a military organiza
t T on. There are some men who are
physically not fit for service, there
are some men who have other good
and sufficient reasons to offer and
there are some men who offer no rea
sons at all—just refuse, point blank.
I In the past when the National
Guards received no pay except when
; on duty, and militaiV organizations
I were perfected as much for the fun of
the thing as for service a man had
some reason to refuse and he could do
it without any conscientious scrapple.
But now when you enlist in a military
organization you are paid by the Fed
eral government, you are doing your
* part in' furthering the plan of pre
paredness, you are helping your Coun
try to take care of herself, now and in
the future, and you are protecting
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"Do you see that mailman over
there?" asked the poet.
"Why, certainly."
"A secret understanding exists be
tween that fellow and myself."
Of what nature?"
: "He has been delivering mall at my
i door for years, and every time he
.hands me a rejected manuscript he
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[and I pretend to'believe what he pre
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urtons as yours,"- said the visitor, as
jhe sank into a big leather chair, "I
'wouldn't mind staying in it all day."
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'Isn't the furniture of a man's office
I that gets on his nerves, but the people
who mistake It for a club."
; Thereupon the visitor bethought him
i of an engagement and withdrew.
Quite Appropriate. ■
"I see where a writer calls a mod
,ern skyscraper a 'beehive.' Rather
good, eh?"
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the particular building 4b which Beet
um and Sklnnum have their offices,"
answered the melancholy man. "I was
badly atung there."
Fortunate.
Percy—I—aw—wondah why Miss
Winsome Is—aw—always out when I
call?
Jack—Oh, that girl was born under
a lucky star.
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yourself and yours now, and your pos
terity in years to come,
and A point blank refusal to consider
\ membership in a military organiza
i tion now, with the government facing
Al- j the gravest international crisis in its
j history, is nothing less than a denial
j of your love for your Country, an in
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of course, provided you are physi
cally fit and have no other binding
reason for not doing so. A single
man, able bodied and with no other
cares than his own livelihood has ab
solutely no excuse to offer why he
should not connect himself with a
military organization of some kind
and prepare himself and help prepare
his Country.
One hundred and thirty three men
are necessary to muster in the Bat
tery and that number should have
been recruited in Greenwood in three
weeks easily. There seems to be a
lack of patriotic enthusiasm in a cer
tain circle in Greenwood, which in
cludes a good number of the young
men of the city, which very probably
accounts for the required number not
having been reached before this.
Water Valley, Jackson, Laurel have
organized batteries. Indianola has
organized a company of engineers and
has a large cash deposit toward an
armory. Plans for the organization
of a Battery in Greenwood were start
ed before any of the above cities
thought of organizing,
Your Country needs you, your name
is needed on the roll of the Battery,
and you need them both! Now is the
time to join if you are going to so
see Captain Metts today.
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helps!
HARM IN "KNOCKING" TOWN
If City Government It Not What It
Should Be There Are Other Reme
dies, It Is Urged.
It Is easy to fall Into a habit of
petty criticism and detraction either of
individuals or institutions. In the one
caSe, when directed by one person
against another It Is commonly and
rightfully classed as malicious gossip
or slander. In the other cose It is
sometimes loftily designated as an exhi
bition of public spirit. Both are alike,
a shame and disgrace to the perpetra
tors, an evil that should be suppressed,
says the Indianapolis Star.
Men, naturally enterprising, who, un
der favorable circumstances, would
push the Interests of the community,
are deterred by the feeling that they
would meet with criticism and have
no encouragement, and saying to them
selves "what's the use?" remain pas
sive, leaving other cities to go forward
where theirs makes no headway or goes
back. Outside capitalists who bear
the echoes of this detraction go else
where with their factories and shops.
If a city government Is not what it
should be, there are formal and order
ly means of reforming It. If a police
force Is Inefficient, a remedy Is possi
ble without giving to the world the Im
pression that crime Is rampant and
life unsafe there by day or night. If
public service corporations do not act
squurely and fairly by the people,
there are legitimate remedies for such
conditions. If any public officer
makes mistakes, there are other ways
of reaching him than by branding him
as a rascal of the blackest dye, Men
la public office, being human, have
been known to be open to friendly re
monstrance.
But the common scold, either In pri
vate or public, never accomplishes
good.
BACKYARD GARDENING PAYS
Cleveland Ha* Tried Plan for Flvo
Years to Its Profit, and Many Other
Citle* Have Taken Up the Idea.
"A vegetable garden for every home,"
Is the new slogan in Ontario, and It
is a slogun worth while. The provin
cial government has launched a sys
tematic campaign for backyard agri
culture, and It proposes to show every | (©'
houneholder how he may, by domestic
farming, combat the increasing cost of
living and the growing scarcity of food
suys the develand Plain Dealer. | (Q
0ne of the alras of the ° Dtarl ° 8 0V '
eminent Is, of course, so to Increase
the available food supply at home as
to enable the contribution of still more
to the hard-pressed motherland. But
the plan must be broader In Its results
Backyard gardening pays. Cleveland
has tried it, these five years past, to
its profit, and scores of other cities
have taken up the Idea. The earth is
the source of wealth. The man who
cultivates a plot of ground contributes
to the welfare of all mankind.
The new Cunadlan movement owes
Its orlglu to the stress of war. It is
the kind of movement which perpetu
ates itself. The man, the woman or 1 (ËJ
the child who once knows the delight (j§
of growing things Is always the hetter
for It, and so Is hla community. This
country can follow with profit the ex- (©
ample in intensive cultivation which,®
Ontario U to furnish.
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VALUE OF LIQUORS INCREASED
BY WAR.
Washington, March 14—(By Union
Associated Press)—Although Wash
ington is a hotbed of prohibition and
suffrage talk, the ynti-prohibtionists
have managed to get to the attention
of the administration supporters the
facts showing that war has added to
the value of U. S. liquors and that the
"made in America" goods are reach
ing their proper place in the trade.
More domestic goods are being sold
today than in many months. When
people found that it was impossible
to get the imported wines, liquors,
beers, etc., they soon got wise to the j
trade that waa supplying domestic
goods as imported goods—with the re
sult that today th edemand for home
made goods is away and above the
average. Despite the progress pro
hibition is making, the liquor interests
say that the business shows great
signs of largely increasing during
the spring.
ELEVATOR MEN HOPEFUL OF
GRAIN PROBLEM.
Des Moines, la., March 14— (By Un- j
on Associated Press)—Representa
tives of the Neola Elevator Company
of Chicago, coming from all parts of
Iowa and Illinois met here today in
annual convention. The grain situa
tion i» the most important matter for
discussion during the convention. The
delegates say that tl« situation is
dealing nicely and if the public la
patient grain removals will soon be
normal.
QUALITY FIRST
Try us and be
CONVINCED
The best of everything to
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ALICE CAFE
WANTED.
2 or 3 small sets of Books to keep
where my entire time will not be tak
en up. I have a diploma from one of
the best commercial colleges in the
South, and know I can do the work
in a thorough manner.
T. M. BILLINGSLEY.
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The Rocky Road to Dublin
would hold no terrors for the 1917
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Motocycle
With Pouierolus Motor
F° r on 'be roughest, rattiest roods the Patented
(Jradle spring Frame swings into action at any
speed, smoothes out the bumps and absorbs all
' «hooka and vibration. Thus the life of the machine
is prolonged and the wear on the tires reduced. '
.M Powarplut Is the strongest, fastest, most powerful motor
*7* « "*• won every endurance contest of any importance,
establishing many world's road end track records. It is oleansst
-forking parts are enclosed. It ie quiet. Its cost of upkeep *
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ether 1917 Inditm world, beaten - the Light Twin,
Suit, Car, Electrically Equipped Bicycle, and other».
W. M. PETEET, Agent
Greenwood, Miss.
T. F. STEELE, Prea.
The Delta Insurance & Realty Agency
218 W. Market St
Fire, Tornado, Accident, Health, Life, Plate Glass, Employ
ers Liability, Steam Boiler, Burglary and
Automobile Insurance. .
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO WRITING OP
COTTON COVERS.
We represent twenty-four of the Leadng Fire Companies of
the world. Would be glad to quote you rates on any and aH
classes of Insurance.
SHELBY S. STEELE, Vice-Pro* A Mgr.
Phone 167
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Notity office promptly when you tail
to get your paper.

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