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_ THE DURANT NEWS naa brannon publisher • •——— - _ .limi . l.. _. — ESTABLISHED IN 1878 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY blctvd at, second class matter at the Post Office at Durant * Mississippi, under the act of March 3, 1879 Subscription Ratos / Aaywhere in Holmes County—2.00 Outside Holmes County—250. y r_, ■ AV » Bf Ted Ktstiug If you follow the field triaLs, . ©o<* d t\ v tiVr» bound to see a tall. tweedy man with a ruddy face, snipping blue eyes and firm k mdlitlv Tb t will be Martin J. K Y Hogan, dean of American dog men and one of the dominant and fas cinating figures in the world of I bunting dogs. He's likely to pop up at trials anywhere, according to outdoor writer Gordon McQuarrie. One Week he may be handling his own Spaniels in the east, and the next Judging a retriever trial in Neb ■ "FARMER JIM" R F D 93 6:45-7:00 a.m. Mon.-Sat. raska, Minnesota, or Washingtor state. Known affectionately and rev erently as the "Old Man,” Hogan has brought to the United States a vast know how of the hunting breeds and a warm Irish heart that sends him all over the coun try helping inexperienced sports men organize clubs and hold field trials. He has traveled hundred? of miles at his own expense doing this sort of thing, and wherever ht goes, judging trials, organizing trials, or just giving' advice, hr makes friends. Hogan was a gamekeeper and professional trainer in England aqd Ireland, and came to the United States via Alberta, whert he operated a wheat farm for £ short while after World War I He specializes in the training and handling of retrievers and span iels, and from the HQgan kennel? at Barrington, III, have come scores of type working Laboradon end springer spaniels to bolster and improve the strains of these breeds in this country. Space hardly permits naming the great Labradors which he has trained — Nigger and Tyke and Kitty of Barrington, Glenairlie Rocket, Freehaven Jay were a few. A Hogan-trained springer, Dalshangan Pomme de Terre, gave the Middle West its first con cept of the class a springer can at tain. The Old Man respects good working dogs. He will, if need be, sacrifice beauty in a hunting dog for utility, but he holds fast to the belief that the two can be blended. He doesn’t give a whoop who wins at field trials. "They are merely schools for men and dogs." TCHULA NEWS ' 600 Club Meets With Mrs. Foose Mrs. S. J. Foose was hostess to members of the 600 club at her home Wednesday afternoon. Daf fodils and early spring flowers were used in pleasing arrange j ments in the reception rooms. Six ! Hundred was played at two tables. Substitutes playing with the re gular members were Mrs. Claude Kiern and Mrs. W. W. Woody. The hostess served chicken salad, stuffed celery-, crackers, ice 1 cream topped with fresh straw j berries and whipped cream, cof fee and fudge cake. Mrs. Earl Hill accompanied Mrs. L. L. Lip““y to Greenwood Sat urday. Edgar Sweet accompanied his mother to the Greenwood airport Tuesday where she boarded a plane for Memphis to visit her sister, Mrs. Wallis. She will visit another sister, Mrs. Myover, in Cotton Patch, Arkansas, before re turning home. Mrs. J. T. Lockhart of Aber deen was the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. E. Hays, last week. They were joined by Mrs. P. M. Smith on Friday for the trip to Pelahat chie to see Mrs. Danny Stalnaker and children. Basil Brown, State college, and John Edgar Hays, University, spent the week end with their respective parents. Presbyterians Entertain The women of the Presbyterian church were entertained by Mrs. W. W. Woody Monday afternoon with eleven members present. Mrs. W. E Hays gave the devo tional and presided over business. The reports were given and the bulletin emphasizing Steward ship was read. The hostess, assisted by Miss Liddell, served a delicious salad course and coffee. ... I 1 it’s Here..* j At A Saving! t I * THICK BUTT. HEX SHINGLES. Top Grades. | , „ roll ROOFING. All Weights, and Aluminum. J i . DOORS, All Sizes, Plain, Vz Glass 0"d Glass Pane . | | • WINDOWS, All Sizes, Plain and Check Ra.. | I . PAINTS, ENAMELS, STAINS. All Colors I 1 l CONGO WALL For Your Kitchen. Dining Room and Bath. | I • CABINET HARDWARE. I I -See Us For Your Needs. At A Saving! I I Stepp & Lott Lumber Co., Inc. | | * r A. F. LONG Manager I 1 Phone 475 1 ' I Lexington Greenwood Winona Carrollton | 1 •' j; ' ' 5 ~?tE : TBISB I w ™ J L 5/ OR »£f!*E7H J, fO«?MftN j •j ?£'5>IPTIJPE Mark S; 6:31 44; Luke 7:18-23: 19:1-10. 25D3446m°NAL READING; Matthew God's Signature Lesson for March 13, 1943 JTN A STRANGE city you may sud denly need to be identified Some ■ suspicious clerk wants to know if ■ your signature is genuine. It is a J fair challenge, for ; too many liars are i In circulation. Je I sus himself had to furnish identifi cation. No less a • person than his old I friend John the Baptizer had grown uneasy. Are you | the One we are Sid* f°»’" h6A Dt Foreman quired, "or shall we . >ok for some one else?” Jesus’ answer to John was not to discuss lha theology of the Incarnation, or anything of that sort. He just went about hia usual day’s work. In the course of that day he cured a good many sick people, and preached to sime very poor people. “Now go back.” he said, “go back and tell John what you have seen and heard.” What tnose men saw that day was what Jesus at another time called the “finger of God," the genuine divine signature. Jesna wrote no book, no let ter* even; he wrote in action, and hia acts were the handwrit ing of God. It is important to see where Jesus underscored that writing. It is true, his heal ings were what we call mira cles. But Jesus did not even mention that restare. - .What he asked John to notice waa simply this: the blind see, the lame walk; leper* are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and (as i* climax!) the poor hear good news. The signature of God. in short, is not sheer power; it is using what power one has, to help people in trouble. That was the sort of per son Jesus was. • • • Not By Bread Alone H*HE EXPRESSION, “needy peo pie,” nowadays suggests people who haven’t enough to eat or wear. Jesus helped such persons; but he 'knew well that men’s needs go be •yond well-cared-for bodies. There was the poor man from the grave yard, for example,—he was happy enough. He didn’t want clothes, and he was strong enough to steal all the food he could eat. All he wanted, In fact, was to be let alone. But Jesus knew that what he need ed above all was a sane mjnd, a Miss. Norman Hostess j Miss Loraine Norman was host- j ess to the Virgie Hines circle in the home of Mrs. W. E. Marshall. j Mrs. D. A Moss presided over the j business session and gave the! aims. The treasurer reported, $110.08 on hand and $8 from the mite box. The devotional was given by Miss Estelle Jones. The hostess served canapes, candy, and iced drinks. Mrs. ^enry Mc Gee. Jr., will be the hostess next week. W. M. U. Meets The W. M. U. met In the Bap tist church with twelve members present. Mrs. James Love led in prayer The Bible study in Judges was given by Rev. S. B. Harring ton. After the business session Mrs. Mary Sheppard gave the closing prayer. Mrs. Myron Warner of Noxa pater spent the week end with I her husband. - I helping •u.iD^your home town " ' • Ji* * ... //'£SA HELPS BUILD MISSISSIPPI Your home town—the place where you live and work and rear your chil dren is the most important place in the world to you. Whatever affects vour home town, either directly or indirectly, affects you and vour family Mississippi Power & Light Company through its current expansion and im Pif°Vin,ient ProRriim » • 8<hx1 citizen of your home town. It is helping build the 402 cities, towns and communities it serves in Western Mississippi, through 1Mjricultural and industrial development program. This program is closely tied in with Mississippi’s official plan to "Balance Agriculture With Industry. This coordinated program will mean more business for "your home town,’' larger payrolls, better schools and hospitals, more parks and en'ertjin.ueni and ail those things which make for happier and healthier living. Helping build your home town also helps build Mississippi, for prosperous people and com munittes make a progressive state. fl Mississippi Power & Light Cooipany HELPING BUILD MISSISSIPPI FOR GVE.^ A QUARTER-CENTURY , \ mind no longer run over and Tramp led by a regiment of devils. When Jesus got through with him he was clothed, but that was not the best part of it. He was in hi* right mind. So God's signature is not only written in a sound body, it is in the sound mind. Again, at Jer icho when Jesus invited himself to dinner with that pint-sized tycoon, Zacchaeus, Jesus did not go just for the meal. He went because he knew that Zacchaeus needed some thing. We do know that after dinner Zacchaeus was a changed man. He was going to give back every dishonrst penny, with Interest; and since he could not locate every one he had cheated, he was going to give away half of his holdings for the benefit of the poor. i What Jericho needed was a new administration, an honest one: they needed slum clearance; and Zac chaeus was going to give it to them. But first of all Zacchaeus had need ed a new heart—and Jesus gave him that. Again it was the gen uine signature of God. • • • We Too KLXi AROUND us is a troubled world. Some men, seeing it. Infer there is no God. Others con clude that if there is one, he must be bad or weak. The truth is that the signature of God is not to be found in the evil and the confusion of the world. It is to be seen wher ever freedom is standing against slavery, wherever truth is pushing back Ignorance, where diseased bod ies are being healed, where sanity replaces madness. More people would believe in God if they could see more | * of the handwriting of God. Do you want to help? We cannot always do things as limply as Jesus did. Curing the diseased is not for us a simple mat ter of saying. Be well. A Christian woman, distressed by what she had learned of the plight of the insane In her backward state, was asking the head of the state hospital (him self a church officer), “What can we Christians do?” “Get behind the legislature,” he said. .(Copyright by the International Coun cil of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) A trustee election was held at Tchula school Saturday afternoon to elect a trustee to succeed Dr. J. J. Kazar whose term of office expired on March 4. Frank Eakin of Thornton was elected. Picture Show Party Given 87 Children Mrs. Carl Moses was hostess to eighty-seven boys and girls from 6 to 12 years of age, Monday after noon at a matinee in honor of the eighth birthday of her son, Jerry' Head Moses. Four short subjects I were shown on tthe screen. Pink nd green decorations were used Each child was presented a gaily wrapped gift of candy with a bal loon or other toy favor. The host ess. assisted by Mrs. H. B Jones a nd Mrs. Richard Byrd, served birthday cake and iced drinks The honoree received many lovely presents. ILAWRENCE-GREENWOOD I DmIo, Tables, Chairs, Files, Safes Always In Stock I DELTA DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, GREENWOOD, MISS. The coolie is strong and works for little. For a few bowls of rice he may tote a hundred pound load 25 miles in an eight-hour day. But the man on the right accomplishes more. His train may carry 1,200 tons of freight many times as far in the same time —and not at a jog, either. Every Illinois Central worker accomplishes thousands of times more than the sturdiest coolie — and with less effort. The railroader works with a wealth of modern equip ment— locomotives, tracks, stations, shops— 1700,000,000 worth of transportation property. If you divide up a day’s work done by the Illinois Central among its 40,000 workers, you find that each of them accounts for moving 96 passengers and 1,324 tons of freight one mile. Illinois Central people earn more because, with good tools, they produce more. Backed by this combina tion of good men and good machines (bought with the savings of thousands of investors), the Illinois Central will continue to serve hfid America and to tarn your continued friendship and patronage. W. A. Johnston Prtiidtnt