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4 rvua LEGAL NOTICES 1RICE TO MOWING MA CMWEMANUFACTURERS AN! Notice is hereby given to mow hqj machine manufacturers and feelers that the City of Durant Mnaissippi, will receive and con Mfer bids at 7:30 P. M., May 17 ■Ml at the regular meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen ol laid City at the Mayor’s Office ir said Durant, for the sale to the 9ty of Durant of the following equipment. One small power driven snowing machine, not less than five horse power, with afckle blade and rotary mow The right is reserved to reject aaqr and all bids. By order of the Mayor anc Baaed of Aldermen of the City ol Durant, Mississippi. _ {SEAL) LUCILLE TRUITT, CBy Clerk. 34-2tnj Classified Ads STOP AT Leila’s Antique Shop highway 51, north, Durant. Fo: appointments nights and Sun days, call 542-J. FOR SALS—Light welgnt con Crete blocks for sale. Winoni Concrete Products Company Phone 332-J, Winona, Miss. FOR SALE — Large feather bed Mrs. R. E. Rosson, Sr., Durant Phone 167-J. 35-ltnp HELP WANTED — Reliable colored woman for householc duties. Call Hazel Brannon phone 194f after 5:30 o’clock. OPPORTUNITY You can go just as far as your ability and energy will take you in the new U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force. No artificial barriers stand in your path. Sixty-five World War II gener als started as privates. Chances for getting ahead are greater today than ever before. Income increases with each promotion. Young men, here is opportunity America's Finest Men Choose b. S. Army and U. S. Air Force Careers. POST OFFICE BUILDING Jackson, Mississippi vJ IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF HOLMES COUNTY. MISSISSIP PI No, 7967 i ESTATE OF MRS. AGNES MAL LIE LEECH, DECEASED. CITATION TO SHOW CAUSE To Harry Leech, 228 Vance Street, Memphis, Tennessee, and Woodward Leech, post office and street address unknown You ana each ot you, are here by cited to appear before the Chancery Court of Holmes Coun ty, at Lexington, Mississippi, on the fourth Monday of May, 1949, at 9:00 o’clock A. M., then and there to show cause, if any you can, as to why the real estate of Mrs. Agnes Mallie Leech, deceas ed, should not be sold for the pay ment of debts and administrative expenses in accordance with the prayer of the petition as filed herein by William Edwin Leech, et als. WITNESS the Honorable C. D. Williams, Chancellor of the Elev enth District, this the 26th day ot April, 1949. (SEAL) PARHAM H- WILLIAMS, Chancery Clerk. Lumpkin, Bacon , and Owen, Solicitors. 33-4tnp NOTICE TO CREDITORS No. 8091 Letter testamentary having been granted on the 21st day of April, 1949, by the Chan cery Court of Holmes County, Mississippi, to the undersigned upon the estate of James W. Nor ’; wood. Deceased, notice is hereby T given to all persons having claims i against said estate to present the i same to the Clerk of said Court for probate and registration ac . cording to law within six months | from this date, or they will be for ever barred. This the 21st day of April, 1949. MABEL K. NORWOOD, Exe | cutrix. 32-4tnp CHANCERY SUMMONS I THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI To Truman A. Keen, Post Of fice address, United States Army Prison, Box 0, Station F, Milwau kee 9, Wisconsin: You are hereby commanded to be and appear before the Chan cery Court of Holmes County, Mississippi, on the 4th Monday of May, 1949, to defend the suit. No. o098 in said Court, of Viola K Keen, wherein you are defendant. This the 28th day of April, 1949. ] (SEAL) PARHAM H. WILLIAMS, Chancery Clerk. 33-4tnp ATHLETES FOOT ITCH NOT HARD TO KILL. IN ONE HOUR, if not pleased, your 35c baca at any drut store. TE-OL, a 6TRONO funelclcle, con tains 90T, alcohol. IT PENETRATES Peaches MORE germs to KTTJ, the Itch. Today at Howell and Haggle Drug Store Funeral Rites Held For Miss McLean Funeral services were held Wednesday at 4 p. m. for Miss Emma Bowers McLean, long-time Lexington school teacher and a native of Lexington, who died at the hospital May 10 of coronary thrombosis. The Rev. R. G. Val entine of Hazlehurst officiated in the last rites with burial in Odd Fellows cemetery. Miss McLean, a member of the Presbyterian church, Lexington Garden club and the D. A. R., was born in 1875, the daughter of Wil liam Lampkin and Mary Bowers McLean, and was active in church work. She was graduated from Lex ington Normal school and Western college, Bowling Gf£en, Kv. “Miss Emma,” as she was af fectionately known to all of Lex ington, had been an outstanding teacher in the city school system for about fifty years and has taught the majority of the citi zens of this community. She lived up to the highest standards of her profession at all times and gave assistance quietly and mod estly to pupils who needed help in any way. She was greatly be loved by all who knew her. She leaves two sisters, Miss Mattie McLean and Miss Octavia Lansdale McLean, both of Lex ington, and several cousins. Southern Funeral home was in charge of arrangements. Services Held For Mrs. Nixon Funeral services were held Thursday for Mrs. Melissa Weeks Nixon of Biloxi, who died at a hospital in Biloxi. She was for merly from the Tolarvllle com munity. Mrs. Nixon leaves one daughter, Mrs. Fred Milts of Biloxi; three brothers, J. A. and A. W. Weeks of Possumneck, and J. E. Weeks of Clarksdale; five sisters, Mrs. J. D. Sanders, Wall; Mrs. J. S. Gil bert Miss Emma Weeks, Mrs. W. P. Roach, and Mrs. C. A. Pender, all of Kosciusko, one grandchild, and a large number of other rela tives. Born in Attaia county near Kosciusko, Mrs. Nixon attended the Primitive Baptist church. She was married in 1909 to Cass Oltenburg Nixon who preceded her in death about four years ago. Southern Funeral home was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in Tolarville cemetery with the Rev. Jack Evans of Benoit conducting services. Um The Classified* —It Payi I I ' il A. B. CLEMENTS CHEVROLET CO. Durant —Phone 219 ---- 1 .r. 1 - I Goodman Man Chosen For A.L.'Who’s-Who' Honor Given For Point Of Service James Grady Jacob, superinten dent of Goodman Consolidated school, has been certified by Na tional Departmental officials as eligible for a biography in Who’s Who in American Legion and Na tional Forty et Eight. Mr. Jacob is assistant dean of men, veterans advisor, and tea cher of history and government in summer school at Holmes Junior college. Bom in Carpen ter, he married Eva Heard Jacob, who teaches the third grade in Goodman school. He served overseas during World War I, as a member of the medical battalion, and after his discharge taught school and re ceived his B. A. degree at Missis sippi State college. He has been in the teaching profession since. Mr. Jacob has held many of fices in the American Legion among which are: Post com mander, Yazoo City, 1933; dis trict commander, district four, 1943; district commander, dis trict five, 1946; district com mander, district eight, 1948. Also: Grave registration and Memorial committee, department chairman service commission committee; chairman budget com mittee, post commander, Durant, and post service officer, Durant and Goodman. As department chairman of Graves Registration since 1936, he has supervised the collection and recording of about 60,000 veter an graves in Mississippi and has placed about 5,000 government headstones. He is a member of the Billy Young Post 158 of Goodman and Post 900 of Yazoo City, is a mem ber of the Goodman Chamber of Commerce, the Baptist church, and teaches the Young Men’s Bible class. by W. R. Sullivan. County Agent Control Garden Insects The time of year has come when it will be necessary to control the many insects that you will find present in your garden within the next few days if not already pre sent. 'Ihe Mexican Bean Beetle — In the larva stage is a small yellow ish, hairy looking insect that usu ally sticks to the underside of bean leaves. They eat the green part of the leaf and just leave the leaf shredded in a mosquito bar "Rom where I *itM -fy Joe Marsh Remember How WE Talked? It went like this at the Hoop er’s the other night. Hap’s eighteen-year-old daughter is talking about “a real gone gay —solid—out of this world, bat “Hsu what kind at la——a to that?” Hap barks. "Can't she apeak Dnglish?" “I'll translate it for you," Ha Hooper says, “in the language of the twenties, when you were about twenty years old. She simply means this fellow is the ‘cat's whiskers.' Remember how we used to talk sometimes?’’ Hap went back to reading his newspaper. From where I sit. it’s easy to criticise the other person when we don’t take a good loag look at ourselves. Sure, there’ll al* waya be some differences. I’m fond of a temperate glass of beer and maybe you would pra ter ginger ale—but let’s just Un and let live. Because when we go out of our way to find things to find fault with in others, chances are they can find a tew in us, too. James Allgood Riles Held At Pickens James Levi Allgood, 69, of Pick ens, died at the home of his son. Booster Allgood, in Pickens, April 18 after an iilness of several years. Services were held at Pickens Presbyterian church with burial in Goodman. The Rev. Spiva L. McCullouclh was in charge of last rites assisted by the Rev. George Curtis and the Rev. Dr. L. B. Golden. A member of Providence Bap tist church, Mr. Allgood leaves one other son, Lester G. Allgood of Brandon; a brother, C. A. All good of Ethel, one sister, Mrs. Hil lary Pilgrim, Moorhead, and two nephews. Southern Funeral home was in charge of arrangements. Patients At The Hospital Stewart Terry, Lexington Charlie Pettus, Lexington Charles Ethridge, Durant Mrs. Earl McLean, Lexington Mrs. Eugene Herrman and baby girl, Lexington appearance. This insect should be controlled by dusting with derris dust, marlate or cryolite. If you use cryolite use 1 part of cryolite to 2 parts flour. Do not use lime. In dusting for the Mexican bean beetle be sure that you dust from the underside up so that you may • get the dust directly on the insect. Blister Beetle — Gray or black or yellow striped, H to % inches long resembling a large lightning bug. They feed in colonies and attack most vegetables, particul i arly tomatoes and egg plants. These insects can be controlled very easily by dusting or spraying with DDT, Marlate or Sabadilla dust. If spraying with DDT use 1 cup of 50 per cent DDT to 3 gallons of water. Tomato Hornworm — It is a large green caterpillar 3 to 4 in ches long with white stripes on the side. They eat tomato leaves and tomatoes. Handpick the worms and dust with marlate or undiluted cryolite. Tomato Fruit Worm — Green or brown caterpillar one half to one an done half inches long, feeds on the tomato fruit in all stages of growth. Dust or spray with mar late, DDT, or cryolite. n - Allen Melton, Durant James Bowie, West Mrs. Carl Hanson, Goodman Mrs. D. C. O’Briant, West Mrs. G. W. Wynn, Pickens Mrs. Lester, Lexington Mrs. R. J. Raper, Gwin —.— ■ j Mrs. Vernon King, Lexington Colored Baby Griffin, Lexington j Lula Brown, Lexington ; j Evalena Warren, Lexington * ~ ’ James Vandiver, Tchula Inez Carter, Lexington May Special CHERRY FESTIVAL ICE CREAM It's Delicious LuVel Full Of Juicy Halved Red, Black, And Green Mint Flavored Cherries. Take Some Home Today And Listen To Tfie Whole Family Rave, "The Best Ice Cream I've Ever Eaten." A Full 16 Ounce Pint Only 25c Summer Suits w \ % We have the most complete line of summer clothing in this section of the state. We have the finest kind of Wool Tro- j pical Suits in ail the new colors and style. We also have a large selection of Rayon Suits in the famous mirror-test line of Rayon Suits that have the highest type tailoring. Also the new Rayon and Cotton Cord Suits. See our lines before you buy. Priced from $24.75 fo $44.75. See us for your Summer Clothing. Summer Pants priced from.$4.95 to $10.50 Straw Hats from.$2.50 to $10.00 Sport Shirts from.$1.98 to $ 5.95 Sport Shoes from.$7.50 to $15.50 Hickok Belts from.$1.50 to $ 2.50 Durant Dry Goods Co. Quality Men's Wear Durant, Miss.