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VOLUME XXXIV WATER VALLEY, YALOBUSHA COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI. FRIDAY. NOV. 17, 1922 NUMBER 44
M. E. SOUTH ANNUAL
CONFERENCE ENDS
Pastors Assigned For Respec
tive Districts—Revs. L. P.
Wasson and M. E. Scott Re
turned to Water Valley.
(BY REV. E. H. CUNNINGHAM)
WATER VALLEY, Miss., Nov. 12.
—The fifty-third annual session of
the North Mississippi Conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
which has been in session at First
Methodist Church, this city, for a
week, reached adjournment after the
reading of the appointments this
evening.
All pulpits in Water Valley were
filled both morning and evening by
visiting ministers. Bishop Ainsworth
preached at 11 o'clock at the First
Methodist Church, taking as his text,
Matthew xvi-15, “Whom say ye that
I am?”
The magnitude and comprehensive
ness of the leading thought of his ser
mon we have not seen surpassed. Un
der the spell of Bishop Ainsworth’s
sermon today one can scarcely refrain
from judging it as matchless. His
handling and presentation of the sub
ject matter was an evidence of erudite
scholarship, splendid imagination,
matchless logic and forceful and im
pressive utterance, all backed by a
deep spirituality and unswerving al
legiance to Christian faith that ren
dered the good bishop’s effort su
preme.
The versatility of approach, the dif
ferent attitudes combined and focus
ed the thoughts of his hearers like
a colossal observatory turned on to
an unvarying planet, the Christ. It
clarified much confusion that often
entangles the untrained mind.
To follow Bishop Ainsworth and
, to grapple the masterful systematiza
tion of deep revealing truth led his
hearers to the very feet of the Lord,
filled their souls with the inspiring
spirit of devotion and gave them the
courage to stand unveiled before the
throne of the Almighty.
Church Is Taxed—
The First Methodist Church wr
taxed to its capacity, and none we::
away without the consciousness that
they had been brought nearer to God.
The annual love feast was directed
by Rev. D. W. Babb. Hundreds test
fied to a greater faith and determina
tion to be faithful to the end.
The bishop ordained the class of
deacons at the close of he morninr
service and the class of elders at tb
close of the evening service, after a
great sermon by Rev, E. S. Lewi
pastor of First Church, Greenville.
The conference convened in mem
orial session this afternoon with R("
James T. McCafferty, Amory, pre
siding. Many loving tributes were
paid to the memory of Rev. John
Richy of New Albany and Winona
respectively, who have died during
the year.
Three preachers have lost their
wives during the year and have the
prayers and sympathy of the confer
ence. The wives of ministers who
have gone from us during the year
are Mrs. Nash Broyles, Clarksdale;
Mrs. Wiliam V. Shearer, Noxapater;
and Mrs. A. L. Davenport, Brooks
ville.
Resolution of thanks was adopted
by unanimous vote at the church to
night, thanking the people of Water
Valley generally, the bishop, whose
administration was so highly com
mended by the cabinet yesterday, al
so Secretaries, pastor hosts, Rev. L.
P. Wasson and M. E. Scott and every
person or persons who in any way
contributed to the pleasure and pro
fit of the greatest conference session
ever held in North Mississippi.
Those who preached in Water Val
ley today filling the various pulpits
are: E. S. Lewis, F. Watkins, W.
M. McIntosh, C. M. Chapman, John
Robertson, L. II. Estes, Olin Ray, Mel
ville Johnson, Nash Broyles, L. A.
McKeon, R. I. Collins, A. J. Henry,
H. W.( Young, R. 0. Brown, James E.
Cunningham.
The following names were in at
tendance upon the conference ses
sions: Herbert Stevens, Jeff Busby,
B. G. Lowrey, Judge Tom Pegran,
all of them together with the two
bishops, Ainsworth and Beauchamp,
being entertained in the home of
Judge J. G. McGowan of this city.
Mrs. R. A. Tucker, Grenada; J. B.
Sanders, Booneville; T. E. Gregory,
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Exclusive Pictures of Amundsen in Arctic Snows
Making Ready for Air Trip to North Pole.
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a door of a little hut 80 miles from Point Barrow, in the Arctic wastes, stands the grizzled and gray
explorer, Capt. Amundsen, awaiting what seems an opportune hour during the long Polar night for the first air
plane dight over the Top of the World—to the North Pole.
^ sc e*clus'v® photographs are the first brought back of the hearty Norwegian explorer since his ship
^Maud anchored off Point Hope. Lower picture show Capt. Amundsen helping his crew unload the motors
foi his airplane To the right, Capt. Amundsen in the dooi of his hut at WauirighL Amundsen will dy au
American all-metal plaue.
Columbus; DeWitt Bolton, Marietta;
W. C. Footvoye were present today.
Apppoints Evangelista—
The bishop appointed new evangel
ists as will be shown by the appoint
ments. These are men experienced and
gifted, well fitted for the large tasks
awaiting them.
Pastorial appointments) of the
several districts followed.
Grenada District—
R. A. Tucker, presiding elder, Ab
beville, R. G. Lord; Ashland, R. E.
Crowson; CofTeeville, G. A. Baker;
Duck Hill, G. D. Burt; Durant, R. P.
Neblett; Ebenezer, A. J. Henry; Gre
nada, Melville Johnson; Holcomb, W.
F. Rogers; Holly Springs, W. R. Lott;
Kilmichael, J. A. Goad; Lamar, W. C.
Beasley; Lexington, J. W. Ward; Ox
ford, L. M. Lipscomb; Paris, G. W.
Russell; Pickens, J. S. Duncan; Pop
lar Creek, G. W. Robertson; Red
Banks, W. W. Bruner; Sallis, R. G.
A. Carlisle; Tie Plant, H. G. Roberts;
Vaiden and West, J. W. Raper; Wat
erford, W. R. Liming; Water Valley,
(First Church), L. P. Wasson, (Main
Sjreet Church), M. E. Scott; Winona
Station, Carroll Varner; Winona Cir
cuit, J. S. Maxey; president Grenada
College, J. R. Countiss; Professor of
Grenada College, J. E. Stephens; con
ference missionary secretary, B. P.
Jaco; assistant secretary board of
missions, R. H. Ruff.
Transfers—R. T. Hollingsworth in
the class of the first year from the
Mississippi conference. C. L. Rogers
an elder from the South Georgia con
ference. B. F. Hammond an elder
from the North Alabama conference.
W. A. Langley in the class of the first
year from the North Georgia confer
ence. R. G. Moore, a deacon from the
China conference.
Transfers Out—J. A. Poe, an elder
to the Louisville coaference.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL EOOTLEG
GING GAME BEING BROKEN UP
Chicago, Nov. 14.—Forty-four per
sons were named in a suppressed in
dictment voted against the alleged
operators of a secret whiskey roucc
between New Orleans and Chicago,
which was returned by the federal
grand jury today.
Most of those named were resi
dents of Chicago and employes of
the Illinois Central railroad. Thom
as Fadden, a former saloon keeper,
also was named in the indictment,
which was returned last month but
was held up until service had been
obtained on all the defendants.
According to E. L. Weisel, assist
ant U. S. Attorney, who obtained the
indictments, more than one hundred
cases of whiskey weekly were smug
gled into Chicago from New Orleans.
He said the whiskey had been brought
from Cuba in former submarine chas
ers, which were purchased from the
government by bootleggers.
PARDONS ARE
NOT IN ORDER
Negroes Remain on Farms;
Burden of Proof Rests With
Lieut.-Governor.
Two negroes over whom the con
troversy between Governor Russell
and Lieutenant Governor Casteel
1 arose when the latter attempted to
pardon them last Saturday when the
| chief executive was supposed to be
attending a football game in Mem
phis, are still on the farms, accord
ing to Secretary J. J. Coman of the
! state prison board.
The governor wired his instruc
tions from Horn Lake, it is under
stood, and they are being carried out
to the letter. His Excellency, though
possibly not quite within the con
fines of the state when he received
infomation that the pardons were
in process of being issued, lost no
time in crossing the border ad mak
ing plain his stand on the matter.
To cinch the matter, football game
gone to the four winds, the leading
citizen made haste to return to his
domain and to set about the preser
vation of order. The pardons were
of no account, said the chief, and
were not worth the paper on which
, they were written, as he was not out
' of the state at the time they were
issued; they were not real pardons
anyhow, written with a typewriter,
and not the official documents that
may be obtained only from the office
of the governor of Mississippi.
Just how the land lies at present
is not generally known, though it
has been intimated all is not as it
should be and the administration is
not proceeding with usual smooth
ness. It would appear that the bur
den of proof rests with the lieuten
ant governor as to the validity of his
pardons. They seemed to be per
fectly good pardons to Mr. Casteel,
drawn in proper form, signed and
attested and the great seal of the
state of Mississippi affixed.
THE RED CROSS DRIVE
There is a drive now on for en
rollment of Red Cros3 members. The
drive started November 11, Amristice
Day, and will close November 30.
The state has been divided into dis
tricts and each city and town has been
appointed a number of members to be
enrolled according to the size of the
place. Water Valley has been pro
portioned at two hundred members.
Miss Jessie Wagndr, chairman of the
Water Valley district, is working
hard to fill the city’s quota of two
hundred but she can’t do it alone. It
is up to every patriotic, philanthropic
citizen to come forward and register.
FOUR LIVES LOST
IN FIRE AT AMORY
“T. P. A.” Hotel at That Place
Destroyed Early Monday
Morning.
AMORY, Miss., Nov. 13.—Four
persons were burned to death in a fire
which destroyed the “T. P. A.” Hotel
here early today.
The dead: C. F. Atheide, Evans
ville, Ind.; T. J. Marshall, Memphis;
Jack Bolden, address unknown, and
C. W. Pruett, a railroad news agent.
T. H. Murray, Myrtle, Miss., was
seriously injured when he jumped
from a second story window.
Atheide was a member of a hard
ware lumber firm with headquarters
at Evansville. Marshall was a trav
eling representative for a publishing
! company.
The fire is believed to have been
caused by the explosion of an oil
stove at the foot of a stairway. The
bodies of all killed have been recover
ed.
Marshall formerly was a resident of
j Caledonia, Miss. Pruett’s home was
in (Kansas City, Mo.
ROBINSON—WALKER
Miss Bettie Lou Walker, the at
tractive daughter of Judge and Mrs.
Will Walker, and Mr. Elmer Robin
son, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Robin
son of this city, were married Satur
day afternoon at 4 o’clock, Judge C.
L. Chadwick performing the marriage
ceremony at his residence in this
city.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson will begin
housekeeping at once at their rural
home a few miles west of Water Val
ley.
NOTICE OF LIVE STOCK SHIP
MENT
There -will be a co-operative ship
ment of hogs and cattle Friday, Dec.
1st. from Water Valley.
This will be the last shipment we
will make this year.
We will ship chickens Wednesday,
Nov. 22.
H. L. COLEMAN,
Mgr. Farm Bureau.
MISSION AT ST. PATRICK
CHURCH, NOVEMBER 19
The Rev. Father Connolly, a Paul
ist Father from New York City will
give a Mission at St. Patrick Church,
starting at 7 o’clock p. m., Nov. 19,
Sunday night, and ending the follow
ing Sunday night. There will be a
Question Box—everybody invited all
the week to come and hear this Mis
sion Priest. He will explain anything
you wish to know of the Catholic
i Faith.
HOUSTON WELL
PRODUCES OIL
Quite a little stir was created by
announcement, first of the week,
that a showing of oil has been dis
covered in the Houston well and more
interest than ever before ig now be
ing manfested in the oil project here.
Operations had been suspended for
several days on account of not hav
ing sufficient water. Last Saturday
evening, the driller, Mr. Danner, de
tected the smell of gas around the
well He unplugged the hole and
held a lighted match over it and the
gas ignited and burned for some
time. The next day he bailed cut
the well and got a good showing of
oil. The well has been bailed three
timeg and each time a good showing
of oil secured. Numbers of people
from West Point, Meridian, Water
V alley and other places have visited
the well, and a number of men who
are experienced in the oil business
have expressed themselves as being
certain that there is a real and gQT\
uine showing of oil in the Houston
well. The driller, Mr. Danner, says
that there is a showing of genuine
oil but not in paying quantity and
that it may be necessary to drill two
or three hundred feet before a pay
mjentity is secured, but that he
is confident that oil will be secured
here in paying quantity.
There is now a supply of water
and drilling will be continued a'
rapidly as possible and developments
will be eagerly watched.—Houston
Times-Post.
HOUSTON IS ALL EXCITED
OVER PROSPECTS OF OIL
Most of the folks around Houston
seem to be very much excited right
now over prospects of oil caused by
a distinct showing of oil recently in
the well that is being drilled near
that city. Mr. Danner, th« driller,
has been laboring for several months
in an effort to drill the well deep
enough for a test. He has worked
under extreme handicaps all along
and it would be extremely gratifying
to his personal friends were he to
succeed in discovering that stream
of liquid gold that many people are
now confident is beneath the soil of
this section of the state. In addi
tion, the discovery of oil in paying
quantities would probably make some
people we know in Calhoun County
cut a few monkey-shines and in gen
eral conduct themselves in a most
undignified manner.—Calhoun City
Monitor-Herald.
BIGGEST BUSINESS IN
THE WHOLE WORLD
United State* Pottal Service Ha* An.
nual Turnover of $3,000,000,000.
TOPEKA, Kans., Nov. 10.—T h e
United States postal service is the
biggest business in the world, Post
master-General Work said in address
ing the general conference of Kansas
Postal Employes, held preceding a
meeting of the Kansas Postmasters’
Association, here today.
“The Postoflicc Department spends
six hundred million dollars a year,”
Mr. Work added. “It has an annual
turnover of three billion dollars- It
pays into the treasury four hundred
eighty-five million dollars a year, and
it is practically self-supporting. Dur
ing the year over twelve billion letters
are handled. Six and one half mil
lion families are served every day by
the rural mail carriers. The carriers
before sunset every day travel one
million one hunderd seventy thousand
miles. The postoffice Department
every year uses enough twine to en
circle the earth 32 times. It has five
hunderd thousand depositors in postal
savings—more than any banking in
stitution in the country.
“The department is the biggest ex
press company in the world. It han
dles two billion five hundred million
packages each year.
NOTICE
To Whom it May Concern
This is notice that I have turned
my business affairs over to my wife, j
Mattie Austin, to manage during my
absence. She will pay all bills of
account and collect all accounts due
me.
Not broke nor in debt nor boll wee
vil scared. I expect to live and do
business here many years yet to
[come. WILL AUSTIN.
FLIMINATE POLITICS
FROM STATE SCHOOLS
Voters Seek Changes in Educa
tive Appointive Powers.
JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 12.—In
dorsement by the League of Women
Voters of the proposition of the De
partment of Education to "take the
university and college out of politics”
brings all the women’s organizations
in line on the suggestion, others hav
ing previously acted, as well as the
State Teachers’ Association, which
is about eighty per cent women.
With this backing there is scarcely
a doubt that some measure will be
proposed and adopted in the next Leg
islature changing the present plan of
appointment of the trustees. The de
partment of education frankly admits
that it has formulated no definite
plan at present, but will later have
some suggestons.
Under the present law the board
of trustees of university and colleges
is named by the governor. It is true
such appointments are to be con
firmed by the Senate. This board
elects the heads of the university and
colleges and practically controls the
management of the same. Manifestly
it is impossible under such a plan to
keep politics out of the management
of the institutions.
If the governor i3 to be deprived of
the appointment of the trustee board
the question arises how shall same be
appointed.
One suggestion is that the Legisla
ture elect the trustees in joint session.
Another s that the department of
education should have a voice in the
selection of these trustees, though
this does not come from the depart
ment itself.
In the case of the state board of
health the State Medical Association
is allowed to designate several mem
bers of the board and the governor
appoints the men so designated. It
is asked why should not the state
association have a similar voice in
the selection of the trustee board.
OF LOCAL INTEREST
GG6 cures LaGrippe.
Mr. Jack Rowe is on the sick list
Rub-My-Tism for Rheumatism.
Mr. J. W. Smith is on the sick list.
Mrs. Dan McMinn is on the sick
list.
Mr. T. K. Berry spent Monday in
Charleston.
Master Riddie Ray is on the sick
list this week.
Mr. D. S. Ray spent Sunday in
Taylor with friends.
Mr. Tom Brown is the visitor of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Porter.
Mr. and Mrs. Buel Mills went to
Charleston Saturday afternoon.
Prof, and Mrs. Guy D. Dean spe t
Wednesday afternoon in Oxford.
•Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Thorne, of
Memphis, spent Tuerday in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Teas of Mem
phis are the guests of relatives in the
city.
Miss Lula Thorne, of Memphis is
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. H.
Thorne.
Mrs. L. D. Berry and two children
of New Orleans are Water Valley
visitors this week.
.LOST—White Persian cat. I f
found return to Mrs. C. C. \ aughn
and receive reward.
Mr. and Mrs. John Black of Mem
phis, spent the week end in the city
with relatives and friends.
A Christmas Suggestion—a pleas
ing portrait. A gift that money can
not buy but for you to give it is tho
very thing. Bo it now—get them
early.
TO TRADE—A fine full-blood Jer
sey heifer calf for a yearling st
to butcher. This is a fine Jersey heif
er and will make a prize cow. Ca 1
at this office.
Mrs. Henry Blackstone is improv
ing rapidly after her operation at the
Lucy Brinkley Hospital. She is ex
pected home the early part of next
week.
Customers are floocking by the
hundreds to Oscar J. Davis’ store
where they secure valuable alumi
num ware free with their purchases.
Read Mr. Davis’ big advertisement in
this issue.