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’ . i « • " * '* -f • ' f -Mi* • ' , N - ■ T % * THE TUPELO joi gjjop.rln^um. "BK JUST AND FEAR NOT." ' »» ri:"~'^T VOI- XXX.___TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI. FRIDAY JANUARY 16, 1903, NUMBER44 r 4. 4 ! 4 4 1 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4- 4 4-<- . D.T. FULTON, Fine Confectioneries. i ' - - < I . < > Lowney’s Fine Candies in Sealed Packages. 'I Gunther’s Fine Candies in fancy packages and baskets. < Blank’s Best Candies 3 lbs. $.100 — _ ' To get Fresh Candy it is necessary to go where Candy is made a specialty of | Our large Cand\ trade insures to our customers the best and freshest to be had. / v Our best candies 3 lbs for $1.00, formerly sold 40c. per pound. ) _French Nougat Candy 40c. lb. We have a choice line of Fancy Cakes and Crackers, fresh from the best Bakeries. I needa Ginger W afers, l ueeda Biscuit, Zuzu Ginger Snaps, Kenuey’s Oysterettes, etc. -------- I AO/4!nrr Our Cigar Business is simply immense. LCdUlIll: vUluF l/Ldlu Ten Thonsaud t0 8elect from. Ah the popu GENUINE MEERSCHAUM PIPES $2 to 18. f I . | See us about Cigars by the box. i % ' A « f> Mail Orders will receive our prompt aud careful attention. : v i r | [ D. T. FULTON, j I STREET. f TELEPHONE 66. | *■“ ^ ~ ^ ^ ^^ ^ •*- jt> A rflUT'^'^ •£. _x?v <■ - . wu i Never Before 1 Has there been so ?E Handsome a Stock of 1 ijFllllllFv g on display in Tupelo as §E Can now be seen at g PEGUES’. I M Bed Room Sets.$75 On g§ Bed, I GO 3 Rockers, 7 00 3 Chairs. 40 Dresser, $5 00 m Shades, 10 g| Iron Beds, 3 00 Wall Paper. 4 I A mammoth stock to select from. % Each article a bargain in quality and g price. This is a grand opportunity to g get good Furniture cheap. p Prompt and Courteous Attention, p TJhc furniture man. p Hank Books! Single and Double Entry Ledgers. Journals and Day Books, Cash and Invoice Books, Letter Files and 1 Every Kind of Stationery. Now is the Time to Open your Accounts. 1 1 Get New Books. A Fine Line of Them at Pound, Kincannon X Elkin, Tupelo’s Leading Druggists and Stationers. ' .'sD ' =ui-'j -L"."1 ssssezsm 11 ■ ■ •—rw Notice of Bond Sale. Notice is hereby given in pursuance of an order of the Board of Supervisors of Bee county, Miss., made and entered on record in the minutes cf said court at their December Term, 1902, that said Board will on Monday, the 2nd day of February, A.D., 1903. within legal hours at the Court house door in the town of 1 upelo, sell for cash at public outcry to the highest bidder, the following Bonds known and designated ns “The Lower Coonewah Swamp Land District Bonds” for the following amounts and due and payable as fdllows: One for $425.00 due Dec. 31,1904 One for 640.00 due Dec. 31, 1905 One for C70.00 due Dec. 31, 1906 One for 710 00 due Dec. 31. 1907 One for 755.00 due Dec. 31,1908 All bearing interest nt 6 percent, per annum from the 1st day of January. 1903, interest payable annually except that the interest for the vear 1903 shall be paid with the fnterestof 1904 on 31st day of December 1904, (as bonds have already been issued and sold for the year 1903, for full amount of taxes for said year and the taxes for that year already fully anticipated) and said Bonds shail have interest coupons attached for six per cent, interest on said bond for said years, payable on 31sfc of December of each of said years, up to and including the year of the maturity of each bond but nil interest coupons for year 1903 shall be due 31st of December 1904, ns nforesaid, and all of said bonds and cou pons will be payable out of the Swamp land tax of 25 cents per acre to be an nually levied on the lands in said above described Swainp Land District fur snid years 1904, 1905, 1906,1907 and 1908. nnd collected bv the Sheriff as is directed by Acts of 1902. The B^ard hereby reserving the right to reject any and all bids and re advertise and sell at some future time or sell same at private sHle. By order of the Board of Supervisors, this January 6th, 1903. NORBIN JONES. Clerk. (1 9-1903 3t.) -- Low Settlers Rates To The Southwest. On January 20th, Mobile and Ohio Agents from Booneville to Meridian, Miss., will sell one way settlers tickets to points In Texas, Oklahoma and Indi an Territory at very low rates. Ask Agents for full information. W.S. THOMPSON, Agent. Wanted. We would like to ask, through the colnmsof your paper, if there is any person who has used Green’s August Flower for the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, and Liver Troubles that has not been cured—and we also mean their results, such as sour stomach, fermentation of food, hibitual costive ness, nervous dyspepsia, headaches, despondent feelings, sleeplessness—in fact, any trouble connected with the stomach or liyer? This medicine has been sold for many years in all civilized countries, and we wish to correspond with you and send you one of our books free of cost. If you never tried August Flower, try one bottle first. We hare never known of its failure. If so, some thing more serious is the matter with you. Ask your oldest druggist. G. G. Gun, Woodbury, N. J. Sava by Buying: McGt 5'e I-.xi Chill Cure is a purga tive; you rused no other. Largest bot tle for the money and la guaranteed to cure or money refunded. Ask your tt^kn°r Mc0**’s Cur* ^ In A Great State. LEE COUNTTtIIsT OF ALL Great Progress and Improvement. Big Cot ton dnd Corn Crops. EVERY BODY DOING WELL. «... - — » _ t , ■ The people of Lee County enter upon the new year in fin® shape. Upon this fact the Journal ex tends to them its warmest con gratulations. The conditions now existing are reversed from those existing when the year that has juet closed begun. Then we had the trials and troubles brought upon ns by two consecutive failures of crops and the conse quent depression and discourage ment that pressed so heavily upon us. Under the smiles.of a benign Providence we have been blessed with bounteous crops and good health for a yenr and the burthens whicn bore us down then are now removed. The prospect ahead is good aud our hearts are light aud cheerful. All hauds are eager and willing for the tasks of the new year and every body enters into it with renewed courage and confidence. We have never witness ed so complete a change as has oorae over the spirit of our people worked iu the short space of a year as marks our whole popula tion now. Distrust, discontent and business disorder v was then the rule. Now these are replaced by hope, courage and contentment. The fruits of the last year lie be fore us in rich abundance aud we _L_11. 1 1 CJUVCI IIJO UCW UUC CUUUUIHgt'U turn hopeful. The advancement in all our business affairs during the past year has been phenomenal. The toiling husbandman has reached richer reward for his wearisome labol than in any year of the, county’s history. The crops of cotton and corn have been the best ever produced in the county. It is true that in small localities this is not the case, but the tact applies to the county as a whole, j The great staple is the chief re liance of the farmer as a money crop and its price has been maintained throughout the season of marketing at a fair and re uumerative figure. The corn crop, upon which all depend as a food product has been the largest and best ever grown and large quautities of it, iu excess of the county’s needs, have been shipped abroad and marketed at fiue prices, rhe farmer has prospered to his hearts content. He has realized his hop *s, has paid the debts that accumulated against him during the two years of short crops aud frustrated his plans and goes at his present yenn* labors with vig or and bright anticipations. The soil is the source from which all prosperity springs and the farm* er is the instrument that brings from it its bounties and its bless ings to the hurnau family. The entire people of the county should be proud of its honest and intelligent class of farmers and join them in thankfulness to the great Giver of all Good for the success which has crowned their labors in 1902. It is not alone the farme.s who have succeeded in their aims and efforts during the past nota ble year. All classes haTa pros pered. The several towns and villages of this county all show marked evidences of prosperity. The merchants have done a large and remunerative business. We cannot recall a failure any where amongst this large and active class. We do not know of a single case in which any of them have been placed voluntarily or involuntarily in baukrnptcy. To thejr credit be it said that with their debtors daring the long waiting upon them for their dues they have exercised- leniency and clemency and have shown a pro er nnnreliAnainn nnrl nnnrauia. ‘ * r r — tion of the situation. But few mortgages have been foreclosed and the court dockets show no suits at law. In all tLis they have exhibited wisdom and liber ality and honorable dealing throughout a crucial period. I'he schools of the county have prospered. The teachers have done their duty aud have made rapid advancement in their work. The standard of education has been elevated and the general interest in this great promoter of the public welfare has been enlarged. The number of educa ble children has been largely increased. Take it altogether this important interest has ad vanced greatly. In all matters, Lee county has made rapid for ward' strides duiiug the Inst year. All its people have shown pluck and spirit in all their af i fairs. In entering upon the duties aud responsibilities of the ! year there is but little to regret, |tnueh to be proud of and a great deal to be confidently hoped f.ir. The year opens auspiciously for all our peoplft. Let us in tliank fnluess for the blessings under which we live put our shoulders to the wheel and labor still harder for the upbuilding of glo rious Lee county, the best country uuderour bright sun. Tupelo National Bank' This solid institution on Tuesday last held its aunual election which resulted in the re-election of all its old officers and directors except Mr. J. H. Long, who declined, and the substitution of Hon. J.M. Allen in bis stead. Mr. Long is now an old man and declined a re-election because of his age. He retains his stock in the bank and will exert bis strong influences in its behalf. This iustitution has greatly in creased its business daring the past year and enters the new year with greater facilities to extend its oper ations. It will wield them in be half of the city and county and its conduct will be marked by the same wise conservatism that has ever marked it« course. Attention .iscalled to ite card for a list of of, floors and directors. i, ■ • -.-.' - ■ - Frisco System. St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Co. KANSAS CITY, MEMPHIS AND BIRMINGHAM R. R. CO. St. Louis, Mo. Jan. 1, 1903. Mr. F. S. White is hereby ap pointed agent, Indnstrial Depart ment of this system, with head quarters at St. Louts, Mo. , W. T. Chultir, Industrial Commissioner. -*--- ■ COAL FOR CASH CASH FUR COAL In order to save tint, ex pense and momey I am sell ing coal for cashthis sea |on. —_. ... ... The Dearest Age. “At what age do you think you have loved your son most dearly f ” This question a friend asked me not long ago, and I was a little surprised to find I could not an swer it; but, making some off-hand reply, I came home to think it out. The long, weary waiting is reliev ed by preparing for the arrival of the little stranger; then from the valley of the shndow of death comes the “Thahk God” from the soul of a new mother; the thank ful prayer that floats straight heavenward, a solemn acknowled ment of a dearly bought gift. I shall never forget my Orat hoars of motherhood, a strange, uplifted feeling as I thought I beheld a vision denied to others, and when my mother placed my wee son in my arms, a delightful seuse of possession —completion — seemed fulfilled. A feeling of wild joy took possession of me, and I could not understand how the rest of the family could go quietly to bed as usual, telling me to “sleep and rest.” Rest! with such a new born treasure and bis whole future to think out. Well, they might “rest,’* but as for me, I was too near heaven and was dazzled by its glorious light. Then following the days when we were growing teuderly used to each other, slowly forging the links of the chain called eternity. The most perfect of earthly love, it asks little and gives all. Sure'y this period seemed dearest, when his very life depended on ray nourishing it. Then came those few first steps, guided by my hand, little fingers fall of mischief, thinking every thing was made to eat, thus caus ing endless anxieties for his moth er ; yet those firstF^B^jps and first words, bow dear they are! Then the first trousers, with their fine, big pockets, and the pride with which he dons them to show us he is a big boy now. Then the sacri fice of curls, which have been such a pleasant care aud pride to the mother. They are put away in a i>ox with other baby thing, to be treasured, aud per haps a stray tear may fail on their golden glory, just a memory, you know; and the budding boy is dear to me, with boyish aches aud injuries, his raids on my cake box. Then the awkward boy of twelve to seventeen, ill at ease, bashful, waking to all the mysteries of life ; he must be answered truthfully, with the wish that he may see life in its purest and most natural way devoloping his ideas, not crushiug them, leadiug, yet following him through this difficult period. This, our last and greatest opportunity to prepare him for the world, whereiu he must stand or fall ac cording to the character which we have tried to develop aud help him form. It is a sweet, anxious time for mother and child. Oh! how dear he is. Then comes love’s awakening, and marriage Mother has a wel come tor. tne bride, aud tries to be happy iu his happiness; but that queer little pain way dowu in her heart will throb and ache for the little confidences and . attentions that once were all hers. Still, it is right so; aud his success in life, his children, his wife, are dearly loved> and he is go dear to me. There will come a day when I am called to prepare for a long journey, and one that I must trav el alone; I know my boy will come to say goodbye, and for the mo ment he will seem all ages merg ed in one, and with his hand in mine I will lead to prepare the way.—Jeannette Young, m Good Housekeeping. The Journal prints the above at the request of a veuerable moth er of Lee county who has given to the state eight children and twenty one grand children. She has spent her life in their service and now when “in the sere and yellow leaf’ she devotes all her energies and labors to their welfare. No ^letter or more devoted mother] ever cradled a child than she. 1 iL-j .' v: .-La:?.-JLSi&xrM Do Not Want Negroes to Fill Office. _ * \ special to New Orleans From Jackson Tells The Story. ifew Orleans, Jam 10.—A spec ial from Jackson, Mias., says: “The crusade against negro Federal office-holders is spread;ng in Mississidpi. White people have served notice ou the post master at Jacksou, Miss., that the appointment of uegro carriers on star mail routes must be discon tinued at once. A notice sen i on the Jackson postmaster followed today by a sirailer wa , - ing being given the posiof authorities in Lincoln county. “It appears that the postal • - thoritiea have employed a ne» > to deliver the mail on a ru 1 mate in Lincoln county, and it .• white people have only infori t the inspector that the uegro v». ■ > not be permitted to perform t service, but that if the inspe. takes sides with the negro, as did at Indiauola, he will he trac ed to a dose of tar and feather Things are waxing waxing wa- h in this part of the moral yineyat Teddy has stirreil up a horny ... nest by his adhesion to t: “nigger” and does not seem have sense enough to see it. '< is a veritable “rough rider” n . a valiant Nimrod ; but he is dea ing with a people who do not i tend that they will ever be f* r 1 into equality with the “uigg< Teddy had better blow off hounds and give up the chase. »’ didn’t kill a *‘bar” on his Ik. . with old Holt Collier down in t'1; bottom and he will miss his gan just the same in trying to mortit and humble the white people of th. . state. He is “shootiu’ too high.” -— i*l«etiagof flayor and Board of derraen On Tnesdav nfjht the Maym ■ Mount of Aldermen were in regu-'m ■don and disposed of business ot o > Hnoe. The report of the Mayor. Trent ind Marshal were nil filed, exam and approved. The newly elected officers witht.K' caption of Aldermen Claris and kwr-. now, who were out of town, their bond* and upon being approx xvere sworn in for tlie pfisumg term i two years. George W. Baldxxin was continued s night notice by the month at a sa'ur.x of $40 per month. The city convicts were again let to i ■ W. Robins. The Board deemed it advisable to close Park Lake for one year and n. fishing will l>e allowed in the Lake ir - til further orders from the Board. The petition asking an election for wafer-works was taken up and a i port of the probable cost of putting i the w utorwork's plant and sexx e system ns mnde by Mr. E. \V. Haw: -s w as rend to tlie Board by Mayor An ’ - son which placed the cost in the m-> - boibood of $55,000.00. At a pr*-v' meeting Weatherford & llildeOraud. . . gineers of Memphis, submitted an ■ mate, which was about $50,000.0'> . Anderson had consulted Mr. Pom >• ,?i engineer who estimated the coat tu k the sf me figure, i’he material•* to . used in the plant xvere found to be very high. Piping, one of the nriueipni iUms v a need in twelve months from abu t $17 00 to $554.50. The Board *o , • ' that a plant that would cost from ■ V to Kifty-rtve Thousand Dollars i ' , would have cost as little as $555,000. one year ago. It was found that nil the law, bonds could be issued for r more than twenty years, the iuter-,t . be paid annually, and that the . k. interest would probably be on $50.(a of bonds, $55,000.00, and it would 4 mills additional tax, making the i: "y 14 mills, in order to pay the infeiv'\; and if the plant should not pay mo - expenses, then an additional levy that purpose would have to he .m <■ and as the time approached for r.i | mentof the bonds they would ha» i • be provided for by taxation, un tion the petition for an election on r. subject was unanimously rej**cit*vl. •• Mayor and Board of Aldermen > opposed to a water und seweri ‘4. but have the idea that this is »u portune time, and that it is beUer, o wait in the hope of lower prices, font 1 - til the city is some larger. Half Fare To New Origin —— . 5* '„»••• Account of meeting of Industrial socintion, Mobile and Ohio JR. 11. Ag..- .s in Mississippi will sell tickets to \ Orleans and return at rate of nut tor the round trip on Jad. 14th a ml f r»» th, limited for return lo Ja.f, I Ask Agents for farther informs* mi iw. 8. THOMPSON, Agent. A 5:5-. --.mV.. A-\. ' '.---W- '-"--m... A