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■ ————————^ ——^—I——————————— ' « Big Two Weeks Cut Price Sale [ At C. G. Walton’s Big Dry Goods Store Every man, woman and child in and around Tupelo are invited to attend this Big Sale. We are proud of our Spring stock and consider it more 3 complete and by far the most up-to=date line of merchandise we have ever handled. Qur house is full of nice, clean goods, and by just treatment 1 I and low prices we expect to gain and hold our patronage. So, during this Cut Price Sale come and get what you want at less money than you I can buy the same goods elsewhere. • I Following Are Some of the Good Things We Offer You I -—■— Bargains in Low Cut Shoes It is true that we are proud of our nice showing of Dry Goods, but must say that in our showing Low Cut Shoes we are doubly proud. We feel we are now in a position to please the most fastidious taste in this superb line of high class footwear. These goods were bought direct from the factory at a saving of about one-third, and we intend that you shall profit by the transaction as well as our selves. A nice Soft Vici Oxford in black only, $1.25 qual ity, our price.$110 Oxfords worth 1.50, at.—$1.25 The ones that sell ordirarily for 1.75, at.$1.39 The $2.00 line for $1.79; the $2.50 line at $1:95; the $3.00 line at $2.49; and the 3,50line for $2.95. In this showing of shoes you will find Patent Leathers, Vici, Patent Colt, and all the latest things in Tan, Russian Calf. In fact we defy competition on this line of Low Cut Shoes. Shirts 19 dozen Men’s Shirts, worth 65c, at.—48c 22 “ “ “ “ 75c, at.63c 16 “ “ $1 Shirts at.89c 5 “ “ 1.25 Shirts at.$1.00 \ ___ Specials J. aud P, Coat’s Thread, all you want. 4£c Have received another shipment of Domestic, ro seconds or damaged goods, but clean, full 56 inch Hope Domestic, per yard.7£c Pepperell’s 10-4 bleached sheeting per yd.. 23c The best Brass Pins, per paper -.3c A nice good quality Pearl Button at per dozen 3c or 2 dozen for.5c Mourning Pins, per card.lc Dress Goods Big lot of Panamas, Sicialians are offered at a cut price. • A lot of 36 inch wide Silk, worth $1.25 per yard, sale price.79c Lot of China Silk, worth 50c per yard, at 37c Big lot A. F. C. Gingham, worth 15c yard at 121c This goods comes in a variety of dainty checks and stripes that will be sure to please you. 12|c quality Gingham at.10c 10c quality Gingham at.8c Yard wide Bleach Domestic at.5c Hats We have just received a big lot of Hats which we offer at special bargains. We carry the Thor oughbred Hats. We also have a job lot of hats that we bought in closing out sale^that we will sell at any old price. Shoes About 53 pairs Men’s Coarse every day Shoes, worth $1.75 at./.$1.29 Men’s Satin Calf Shoes, worth $2.00, at-$1.49 Men’s Vici Courtly Brand Shoes, worth $3,at$2.19 36 pairs Dr. John Wilson Gibb’s Electricura $6.00 Shoes, price branded on bottom of every shoe, bought in closing out sale, reduced to.$3.49 17 pairs Ladies’ Coarse Shoes,worth $1.50 at—83c Ladies’ Shoes, big lot worth $1-75, at.$1.39 St Louis made $2.25 Shoe sale price.$1.79 1 lot Ladies’ Shoes, worth $2.50 at.$1,89 Ladies’ Shoes worth $3.00 at.$2.49 Ladies’ $3.50 Shoes sole price.$2.98 26 pairs Old Ladies’ Comforts, samples, sizes 4 to 5 only, worth $2.00 per pair, to close at--$1.49 2 dozen Old Ladies’ Fleece Lined Sample Shoes, to close out at.93c A big lot of Ladies’ and Children’s low cut Shoes, just received, at very low prices. White Goods We have on sale the biggest line of White Goods we have shown and at lowest prices. Plain White Lawn, 40 inches wide, very sheer, worth 20c at..-12ic Big lot mercerized White Goods, worth 35c yard at...19c Big lot White Linen Dress Goods, worth 50c yard at.30c i White and colored Linen nicely suited for Skirts, or whole Suits. This goods is well worth 50c, we sell it per yard.-.-.30c We also have a line of fine wool dress goods at prices that will settle the question if you need the goods. 1 INUMBERS OF OTHER THINGS WHICH SPACE WILL NOT ALLOW I Remember, I appreciate your patronage and am prepared to give you more goods for the same money than any house in Tupelo 1 | [c. G. WALTON net cash store TUPELO) j ®$®®®®$®®®®®®®.£®®®®®®®® ••• I “NOW OR NEVER” I m _ • ® Now is the time to out Fertilizers. ® ® Read our / 2 | Customers’ Testimonials • ® In this. These testimonials show that ® when you use our Fertilizers you ® get value received for your money £; 0 many times when harvest comes. 0 0 Our brands are absolutely the best 0 ® that are made. They eau’t be sur- ® passed when it comes to results. ® ® .—- • ® Made by • 1 Tennessee Valley Fertilizer S | Company • Florence, Alabama • •e »••••••••••••••••••••••• Preparing the Family Meals * is a pleasure if we have atten ted to the grocery end of the matter. Pure, fresh, palata ble staples and table delica cies always at your command here at anything but affright ing prices. For your good and our own we ask a fair share of your patronage. Phone 214. Main Street Tupelo, miss. \ f * ■■ _____mmrnmmmmtmmm ——————— Journal Office—Good Printing I HINTS ON ROAD WORK. (Continued from page 4,) The persistent and powerful enemies of earth roads are water and narrow tires, and the con stant effort of the men in charge of the roads should be to guard against their destructive effects and remedy all damage as quick ly as possible. The simple im plements which have been found to be of greatest assistance in this work are the plow, the drag scraper, the wheel scraper, the road grader, and the split log drag. With a sandy soil and a sub soil of clay, or clay and gravel, deep plowing so as to raise and mix the clay with the surface soil and sand will prove benefi cial. The combination forms a sand-clav road at a trifling ex pense. On the other hand, if the road be entirely of sand a mistake will be made if it is plow ed unless clay can be added. Such plowing would merely deep en the sand, and at the same time break up the small amount of hard surface material which may have formed. If the sub soil is clay and the surface scant in sand or gravel, plowing should not be resorted to, as it would result in a clay surface rather than one of sand or gravel. A road foreman must know not on ly what to plow and what not to plow, but how and when to plow. If the road is of the kind which according to the above in structions should be plowed ov er its whole width, the best method is to run the first furrow in the middle of the road and work out to the sides, thus form ing a crown. Results from such plowing are greatest in the spring or early summer. In ditches a plow can be used to good advantage, but should be followed by a scraper or grader. To make wide, deep ditches nothing better than the ordinary drag scraper has yet been devis ed. For hauls under 100 feet, or in making “fills” it is espec ially serviceable, It is a mistake, however, to attempt to handle long haul material with this scraper, as the wheel scraper is better adapted to such work. For hauls of more than 800 feet, a wagon should be used. The machine most generally used in road work is the grader, p or road machine. This machine ► is especially useful in smoothing and clowning the road and in opening ditches. A ciay subsoil under a thin coating of soil should not be disturbed with a grader. It is also a m'stake to 1 use a grader indiscriminately and 1 to pull material from ditches upon a sand-clay road. Not in frequently turf, soil and silt from ditch bottoms are piled in j the middle of the road in a ridge, making mudholes a certainity. ! It is important in using a grader to avoid building up the road too much at one time. A road grad-1 ually built up by frequent use of i the grader will last better than; if completed at one operation. I The foreman frequently thinks J his road must be high in the first instance. He piles up material j from ten inches to a foot in depth j only to learn, with the arrival of the first rain, that he has fur nished the material for as many inches of mud. All material should be brought up in small layers, each layer well puddled and firmly packed by roller or traffic before the nextjis added. A common mistake is to crown too high with the road machine on a narrow road. The split log drag should be used to fill in ruts and smooth the road when not too badly washed. The drag possesses great merit and is so simple in construction and operation that every farmer should have one. A specirl article will be publish ed later telling how to make and use tne drag. -0 A Testimonial to the Kindergarten. Iiy Maud K. Lilly. Having watched with interest the growth of the Kindergarten movement in Tupelo, I am much gratified to learn that so able an exponent of tnis form of teaching as Miss Lily Johnson has assumed control, and I trust that her articles on this subject in the Tupelo Journal will be widely read. It is with the object of stating the benefits of kindergarten from a pupil’s standpoint that the writer submits the following gratuitous and entirely unso licited testimony: Twenty-five years ago I entered kin dergarten and the memories of this, my first experience in school life, are as clear today as if some master hand had swept back the curtains of those many winters and summers that intervene be tween the Then and Now. Today I am teaching my little boys the selfsame games and songs that as a child I learn ed to play and sing. “Child’s Garden!”—is it not a beau tiful term? So full of significance and suggestion. What a debt the whole world to Troebel and his followers! But I am writing of personal experience and will relate a little incident of early kin dergarten life and how it helped me later. Among our many lessons that was part flay was clay modeling. First came the simple-forms and gradually the more complicated, a panel of roses being my crowning achievement. How proudly I carried it home to a still prouder mother! Was it not perfect? Were the roses not wonderful? Later, when the study of botany came to claim mv attention, how I was reminded of my clay roses! They seemed to come to life, and with surprise I remembered the component parts in the petal and leaf studies as I had learned them years before. All through school life 1 found use for the motion songs and drills, and many a happy hour I have spent teach ing them to some smaller nnpils (thus escaping some of the tedium of class work, which good fortune, I fear, was a secret joy to me in those days.) Later, when assuming charge of a class in music it was necessary to train the pupils in singing and acting in or der that the customary “school con certs” might be given. Again the kin dergarten work came to the front and an awkward, self-concious little band were transformed into earnest, joyful children who performed the parts as signed them with ease and utter un conscious grace. In days of motherhood my own little ones have proved to me that, as Troe bel says, “We must launch the child from its birth into the free and all-sided use of its powers,” And while the busy mother may not find time to do this, the kinderffarten is here to open the way, and comes with motion songs, sense-training and all the many aids to self-development to solve the problem. Kindergarten training also brings the heart of a child near to Mother Nature and reveals the wondrous mysteries that are hidden from many of us, whereas they should be a part ot our birthright. Hamilton Mabie says: “Childhood is defrauded of half its inheritance when no one svrings wide before it the door into the fairyland of Nature; a land in which the most beautiful dreams are lifce visions of the distant Alps, cloud like, apparently evanescent, yet eter nally true. How many children live all their childhood in the yery heart of this realm and are never so much as told to look about them. The sublime mira cle play is yearly performed in their sight and they only hear it said that it is hot or cold—that the day is fair or dark.” How well I remember the opening song of our kindergarten, “Good Morn ing, Merry Sunshine.” With this cheerful salutatory began our day. One of the many finger songs was entitled, “Thumbkin Says, Til Dance.’ ” Each of the fingers had a name and all the way through they danced. The little finger was “Pinkey.” This finger work helped me to control my fingers in the days following when piano practice loomed iike a bugaboo on the horizon of life. Another little song called our attention io the moon. The first verse began: “O, mother, how pretty the moon looks tonight! She was never so cunning before Her two little horns are so sharp and so bright: I hope they won’t grow any more.’ Was not this a novel method of in teresting the tiny ones in the crescent moon? And how the imagination was appealed to all through the verses. MwwwwwwBfwwwnff^wnMifwwwHimmnimiw^ 11 Food for Thought | 3; The latest arrival at our store is a car of 3! If Infallible Flour f 3: It is not made like most Hours. 3: It calls for the expert selection of the choicest wheat ^ 3; It demands the inspection of competent millers. 3: It receives the attention that makes a perfect Hour 3 3: and is as its name would imply INFALLIBLE. | MILAH & CO. | | SELLING AGENTS. | j 3: We are still selling “BEST" Hams Z: at 12 cents per pound. But singing was not all; there was mat and basket weaving for busy fin gers; there was braiding and bead work, the study of color and forms, the cul tivation of the senses—and who shall say that when the writer afterward studied sketching and painting, this early teaching did not aid? Also, being “nimble fingered,” helps in the more prosaic tas^s of adult life; in womankind the art of needlework, for instance. In mankind the manual labor of which all men should know something,however well-employed their brains may be between-times. On the moral effect in character building of this early kindergarten teaching I shall not touch; Miss John son has ably portrayed it in her articles, and whereas the kindergarten can do wonders, stijl much depends on the child’s home environments, and unless there be such as to supplement the work of teachers in any branch, some what of the intended good is, perforce, lost. Here, then, parents'is your les son: “Come, let us live with our child ren.” Let us second the efforts of those to whom their training is entrus ted. Let us look well to our own ways and doings that there may be nothing of reproach divined when the clear eyes of our little ones gaze up into our faces. Something else that the kindergarten does for our children is to find employ ment for them in those odd moments when by mischief driven they would, if left alone, be mutilating or tearing T---*-—-. down instead of creating and upbuild building. To be sure, there is play, for which they are ever ready, but ' even then the children tire of the purpose lessness of play, for sooner or later they notice that there is nothing to re ward their tremendous activity. Then it is that your little girl pleads for the scissors, your little boy the hammer. “Mamma, let me help,” but the wist ful request is denied, for you can do it better alone and yon are too busy to show them; and so, is sown the first seed of mistrust of its own ability in the child, and the waste energy, undi rected. runsto fretfulness and mischief To take in charge these little ones, guide, direct and lead them ever on is the mission of the “Child’s Garden’’ workers, and it is a mission in truth! How thankful should we be that this grand opportunity is at our very doors and how ready and eager should we bo to take advantage of it! Important Notice. The Tennessee Valley Fertilizer Co of Florence Ala., is prepared to ship better fertilizer and more of it than any other Compare, in this section. The hundred of testimonials of the r customers, a few of which are publish ed in this issue, show that their goods give the best results. Now is the time to negotiate for your fertilizer, and you would do well to bny then go< ds.