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CLAYTON RAND, Editor and Publisher. Subscription $1.60 A Year.
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Official Paper for Town of Philadelphia and County of Neshoba.
Member of the Mississippi State Press Association, The National Editorial
Association and The World Press Congress.
Entered at the post office at Philadelphia. Miss., as second class mail matter
A Good Trip
Ye editor had an interesting, though rather strenous, trip last
week. Having volunteered at the invitation of the state Supt. of
-Education to make some speeches in the better schools campaign,
and being assigned to Neshoba County, we left Kipley on the “sea
coast limited’' Thursday night at 7 :85, arriving at Philadelphia at
about 1:32 A. M. After a few hours sleep we were up and ready
lor the day. Mr. R. C. Peebles is the progressive and efficient su
perintendent of education in that county. About 9A. M we hit
out for the first appointment, about 10 miles east of Philadelphia.
Reaching the place we found a fine bunch of boys and girls and a
good attendance of parents. They have there at Shady Grove a
very splendid consolidated school and a magnificient building, just
about completed. They have a hall that will accommodate when
fully supplied with desks tour to five hundred people. The school
sentiment is good and the disposition lo co-operate for the best
possible success of the school was very evident. After the speech,
making was over a splendid basket dinner was spread in the school
yard and all enjoyed it to the fullest extent.
Soon after dinner we started for the next appointnaei t ome
five or six miles away. Reaching there we found another line
crowd of boys and girls and men and women. This place, Bcthsaida
is not a consolidated school but just a big, fine community where
they have a big lot of boys aud girls and a tine school. We found
here as at Shady Grove a line school sentiment and everything mov
ing along in splendid style. Here also they have a splendid build
ing, well equipped. After indicting this crowd with more than an
hour of speech-making, we left for Philadelphia. On the way back
to town we passed through the Indian Mission, a place where the
Government maintains a school for the Choctaws.
On Saturday Mr. Peebles had his round-up or final meeting in
Philadelphia, the county seat. After being in the rural districts
for a week he comes now to the final day and a big day indeed it
was. A crowd of six to seven thousand people gathered in that his
toric town for that event. The business men had been liberal in
providing a barbecue and all business houses were closed from II
A. M. until 2 F. M , while the speech making was in progress in
the open air in the court yard, where several thousand listened t
the several speeches appropriate to the happy occasion. One old
citizen who said he had lived in that town lor fifty years, said that
was the largest crowd he had ever seen in Philadelphia.
Neshoba is a splendid county. The rural districts show the
people to be prosperous. Splendid country homes, improved farms,
very good roads, fine consolidated school buildings, good church
buildings and other evidences of intelligence and prosperity, are
seen on every hand. The farms of that county have yielded a
! l-omif.fal harvest this year. They have made from 76 to 80 per
cent of a normal cotton crop and Jots of corn, velvet beans and su
gar cane. In fact the people of that county are getting along fine,
have lots of money and conditions generally are forging ahead.
The two days were pleasantly spent and we shall feel hence
forth much interest in the people of Neshoba county.
—The Southern Sentinel.
Yesterday I traveled roads aglow with golden rod through cot
ton fields white with their silvered bolls. Yesterday I rode through
rolling planes of the Great North West rich with the season’s bar
vest. Corn was shucked and winter wheat peeped through to get
an early start on spring. Oak and elm with turning maple and
fired sumac blazed in an autumnal sun. Near me on the train two
men discussed the corn and cotton market and on passing field and
farm, men were busy. So it is, that while we toil and spin, time’s
Master Painter takes the tail of a rainbow and paints the world
with it. It sometimes seems to me, as it does to the poet, that
every field and forest is a bit of heaven.
It is imperative that the men and women of Neshoba County
should go to the polls on next Tuesday and oast their votes for the
democratic nominee for United States senator and congressman.
Some erstwhile democrats are signing the petitions of Republican
and Socialist candidates. All 100 percent democrats must support
their nominee.
This week has been designated as Clean-up Week in Philadel
phia. Let all of us work together and do our duty in this respect
so that our town may present a bright and shining appearance to
the world. A clean, wellkept town is an inspiration to its citizen?.
The moat recent issue of the Woman Voter has come to our
desk and is, replete with articles of Special interest to women.
This splendidly edited paper should attract the favorable atten
tion of every woman in the state.
What It Means
At the November election among
things to be voted on is a proposed
amendment placing the highways
of the State under the control of the
State highway commission.
This only applies to highways,
not to the county roads, these will
remain subject to the will of the
board of supervisors.
Unless Mississippi votes the pro
posed amendment this state will not
participate further In the distribu
tion of the |SO 000,000 road fund pro
vided by the federal government
each year.
The federal government appropri
ates for each state a sum of money
(or expenditure on the State high
ways, provided the state appropri
ate* •* equal amount, but to receive
this government aid It is necessary
that the state have some authorised
body with which to do business.
The government does not care to
deal with 82 different boards of su
pervisors when It can do the same
amount of business with State high
way commission, nor will it contin
ue to do so.
The proposed amendment does
not attempt to take from the board
of supervisors Jurisdiction over
roads, ferries and bridges, but ex
pressly says that such Jurisdiction
shall be invested ki the board of su
pervisors and farther says that the
legislature may designate certain
state highways and place them un
der the supervtson of the state high
way department- Under the federal
regulation relative to such state
highway department, it Is recom
mended that these state roads com
stst of not more thaa'tevea percent
of the roads of each county leaving
the boards of supervisor* In absolute
Control of 88 percent of the roads la (
the county. If the legislature so
prescribe* the state highway com-1
A million men
have turned to
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mission may have Jurisdiction over
only seven percent of the roads of
the county, which shall be known
as state highways and which shall
be built and maintained by the
State funds under the supervision
of the State Highway Commission.
Several of the states of the South
have already passed the necessary
amendment and are receiving gov
ernment aid.—Clarion ledger.
MISS IDA M. GREEN, M. A.
' of California.
* Miss Green will speak at the
M. E. Church, Thursday, Ndv. 2,
7:30 P. M.
Her subject will be, “Uncle
Sam at Home and Abroad”.
Everyone invited.
NOTICE
This Is to call the attention of the
committee and the citizens of Ntsho
ba County to the fact that ray name
become on the petition of the Repub
lican Candidate for IJ. 8. Senate
through mistake. lam supporting
the nominee. lam a Democrat.
G, Q. Howell. 1 c
NOTICE •
We invite the women of Phila.
to vieit our store on Thursday,
Nov. 2, to see the sample coats
suits and dresses that will be
shown by our salemen. We ’ex
pect to have a complete show
ing of latest styles. Henderson,
Mol pus Merc. Cos. 1 c i
Keep in mind the fact
that a Photograph
makes an acceptable
holiday gift.
Cenie Powell
NOTICE OP BOND SALE
Sealed bids will be received until
12 o’clock M Nov 6,1922, same being
the Ist Monday of said month, by the
Board of Supervisors of Neshoba
county, Mississippi, for S4OOO 00 of
Bloomo Consolidated School District
Bonds of said county The bonds
will not be sold at less than par and
will bear interest at the rate of 6 per
cent per annum, payable senil .'annu
ally. Both principal and interest
will be payable at the office of the
County Treasurer in Philadelphia,
Mississippi, the county seat of Nesho
ba county The bonds are dated
July Ist, 1922, interest payable semi
annually on the Ist day of January
and Ist day of July The bonds are
payable In twenty years as provided
by law.
Each bid must be accompanied by
a certified check payable to J. D. Pet
tey, clerk of the Board of Supervis
ors for 6 per cent of the bid. This
check is to insure good faith on the
part of the bidder, and will be for
feited by the bidder if he fails to ac
cept the bonds and deliver the money
to the County Treasurer The right
Is reserved to reject any and all bids
This done by order of the Board
Oct. 2nd, 1922 J D Pettey, Clerk,
of the Hoard of Supervisors of Ne
shoba county Mississippi. By M M.
Pettey, DO > 1138
Big Sale
As we have decided to
change our line, will sell
entire stock of*..
Dry Goods, Shoes
and Groceries
AT COST AND BELOW,
If you want BARGAINS see
us. Also Horse, Wagon and
Harness.
A. J. Patterson
Store on Square by Bank
of Philadelphia.
I
TO i
Philadelphia
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ONE SOLID WEEK,
Commencing
MONDAY, NOV. 6TH
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on earth. Every lady and gentleman with this corporation is ai
actor or actress of ability as actors, and not as windjammers, a
not one of our stage people double in orchestra or band.
Our Orchestra is under the direction of Miss Gladys Adatm
late of the Shuberts Symphony Orchestra, consisting of six ret
musicians, playing all the latest and up to the-miuute selection!
Hear it once and you will want to hear it again.
Our plays argali the latest releases, and royalty bills, an
not the old hashed up bills under assumed names.
See our opening play, “When Dreams Come True,” and yo
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Remember The Opening
NOV. 6TH
Homes and Land For Sale
1 8 Room House and 2 Acres Land
8 2 Room Houses and Land
1 Barn and 2 Acres Land .
4 Blocks Land 1 Acre Each
1 Block Land 1-2 Acre
These will be sold on easy monthly payments
to responsible men.
L. S. Russell
At my old office, Philadelphia, Miss,