Water Valley progress., July 19, 1902, Image 1

About Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918

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*OL. XX—yo 29, TERMS $1 A YEAR
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+| Ten Great Mississippiaus. |
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The portraits of ten of Mississippi’s greatest men are to be
placed in the new capitol at Jackson.
In order to determine who are the gra itoat men, a popular vote
of the State is baing held throu »h the newspapers.
Use the attached blank for your vote. Every male Mississippian
o^er 15 years of age is entitled to vote and m'»y vote as many
times a* he secures official ballots.
Fill out the following ballot, cut out and mail to the Progress,
addressed “Hall of Fame” Vote, The Progress, Water Valley, Miss.
THE PROGRESS’ “HALL OF FAME” BALLOT.
I vote for
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(Signed).....
P. O. _.:___
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Grover Cleveland.
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Personal attacks by Democrats
up Grover Cleveland is an old
•tory. They are the same today
that they were ten or fifteen years
HO.
Then as now the Democrats who
declared him to b*? selfish, stupid,
gluttonous, arbitrary and indiffer
ent disclaimed any person rancor.
Not one of them was disappointed
in the matter of official preferment
or in questions of personal con
sideration and honor.
Taking all such At their word,
the fqct still remains that Groyer
Cleveland stood for something
and stood manfully; that be was
strong, courageous aud true; that
he never abandoned a principle;
that he was one of the greatest ot
the presidents; that he was not
afraid to da right; that during his
incumbency the presidential office
was mortgaged to no m in; that he
had high ideals and sought to at
tain them, and that never in Amer
Ioan history has there been a
president more sincere, more
trust-worthy, more patriotic, or
more capable or independent of
petty cliques and unworthy in
fluences.
It is idle to expect that euch a
character will win the approval of
•vesybody. Such,/a thing is a
manifest impossibility. If Grover
Cleveland had been easy, amiable
BETTER
THAN EVER.
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The IXL wants your
Laundry work and guar
antees satisfaction.
Same conditions as
lastyesr.
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yielding, weak and trifling the
Liityry of the United States would
have been Written differently and
not in ail respects as creditably
as it has been. He was the presi'
dent. He had pd assistant presi
dents. He did not farm out bis
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power or his patronge. He felt
bis responsibility. He may not
always have been right; he may
uot always have been prudent, but
it is the judgment of most intel*
ligent Americans that he acted
honestly, without dictation, with
out fear and without a thought
save for the good of his country
and his party.
Such a man was certain to mak e
enemies. Such a man was not
likely, to make many close per
sonal friends. It is easier to drift
with than to pull against the tide.
Circumstances and the very nature
of the man compelled him to breast
the waves most of ti.e time be was
in office. Where the time servers,
the compromisers, the good fel
lows, the demagogues and the
tricksters would have made term*,
trades and concessions he stood
like a rock for the things which
be knew to be* right anp which
time! has shown to be right.
The Democratic party, like its
Republican adversary, has many
crimes and blunders to answer
for, but it never be ashamed in
any presence of the fact that it
produced Grover Cleveland and
made him president. — Chicago
Chronicle.
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Congress adjourned last Tues
day without day. There was a big
time when the hour of adjourn
ment arrived, patriotic songs wets
>sUDg etc. Our little Zeke Candler
climbed up on a desk and gave
tbe boys a regular old-time Miss
iBStppi cornfield, fox hunting, pine
bill yell that made the rafters ring
and started a jubilation that last
ed over half an hour. Genexal
Hooker, the one-armed Confeder
ate, and Speaker Henderson, the
one-legged Federal soldier, stood
ud together and sang “Dixie.”
The old boys sure had fun—
Prentiss Plaiudealer,
Very few m^n understand wo
men well enough not to try to un
derstand them. . ■ ,
\ See Us
\ About Your SPRING DRUGS.
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) No .natter wh you waatia GkiSjP^will pay you fosee
) us ab mt it. la t'ae first place y&i will insure the highest
) quality by coining here, and qualty considered you will be
t equally sure of lowest rate.
If any oem pounding or prescription or recipe filling i
‘reiiinl, w» engine serrioe u >5 entiled e'sewbere in
Uh is regi e i.
i It cuts nothing to s9e what we can do for you, and it is
| almost certain to cost you something to not see us.
i Spencer & Jennings.
Feminine Overwork.
Now and* then one bears the*
comment that women never know
when to atop and take a rest, but
persist on going on and on until
they are exhausted. The expla
nation, when one comes to think
of it, is a simple one. Women have
for innumerable generations been ,
engaged in work which does not
admit of vacations, . wM-y man'a
work does. Hence, a public opin
ion has grown up in the one
case which does not exist in the
other.
The type of woman who is lia
ble to overwork is conscientious.
If she goes away for an absolute
rest of a month or three months,
or a year, she hears a chorus of
voices denouncing her as idle, in
competent, or neglectful of duty.
This is especially the case if she
be a mother of a family. She nev*
er gets away from the care of that
family, and she is, always con
ssious of the fact that if anything
happens in her absence eke will
be condemed by a jury of her
peers for having been away when
it occurred. This sort of thing
takes all the jxsUout of a vacation
and few people have the nerve to
disregard it.
This morbid conscientiousness,^
however, is not a thing to encour
age. The thing which every hu
man being should do is to make
sure, first, that he or she has a
fair amount of the work of the
world to do, and second, to stop
i
A
Bakes More Bread!
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Bakes Whiter Bread!
Bakes Better Bread!
Than Any Other Flour Manu
factured.
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A FRESH GAR LOAD
Buy It! -:- Try It,
MACKEY.
The Flour Merchant.
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Plione, 85.
when that share is done, if a rest
is necessary. Of course, most
people who are worth anything in
life do more than their share of
work, but they should not break
themselves down in the process.
Every sensible person should find
out how far it is possible to go,
with safety to health and useful
ness, and stop there uuless life
and deitb are involved. In that
way rriore will be accomplished
for one’s self and for others than
by continual overwork out of
lOiue notion ef pride or duty
vhich is not real consientiouness
it all.— Washington Times.
Farming that Pays,
The spectacle of a farmer in
this section of the country bring
ing a wagon load of home'eured
middlings to town and selling
them for cash to his merchant is
one unfortunate rarity in Missis
sippi, Yet that is exactly the na
ture of a transaction which took
place last S^uraay between Mr.
3. A. Simntbus, of Walker’s
linage, ana the Lampion Mercan
tile Oo. That Mr. Simmons re
ceived a good price for his pro
duct goes without saying when
the current price of /neat is con
sidered. The L. M, Co., will klso
make a profit on the deal when it
comes to sell it to some other far
mer who counts on paying for it
with cotton this full. ■ •.
The incident, indeed
l3andy Simmons away up in the
front, ranks of the progressive,
live<at home farmers ol Missis
sippi. And when we add that
there still hangs in his smoke
house more middlings, and hams,
and shoulders, that his corn crib
stil contains several hundred bar*
rels of corn, to say nothing of
other feed-stoffj and the 800 gal
lons of molasses he producep last
fall-rwe have most striking dem
onstration of the fact that farming
will pay in Mississippi_Magno
j lia (Jazette.
A special from Oxford to the
Memphis Scimitar says that Mrs.
Annie Jackson, wife of Bill Jack
son, who was convicted for com
plicity In the murder of J ohn A.
and Hugh Montgomery and was
given a fife sentence at a special
term of The circuit court of La
fayette county, has been declar
ed insane and taken to Jackson.
Continued brooding over the
fate of her husband is said to be
1 the cause her sad coDdition.
Refections of a Bachelor.
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Unless sweet 16 gets married
it turns sour, just like milk,
Men are children at both ends
of their lives, women all through
theirs.
A girl who likes to wear a bath*
iog suit can always show her rea*
son for it.
It is wise woman that refuses
to know when her husband has
been taking a drink.,
The best way to get a woman
i to love you more then some other
i man is to get her to love him less
l than you.
Some parents arc so heedlees
“ about the future of teir children
' as to have red hair in the family,
’ Nothing makes a woman po bus*
I picious of what her husband is
doing away from home as it is to
have him quit finding fault at
^ I home.-—N. Y. Press,'