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TUPELO JOURNAL
Published Weekly.
F. L. KlNCANNON, Prop.
Friday, March 5, 1909.
Entered at the Tupelo post office as
eecond-class mail matter.
RATES OF ADVERTISING
DISPLAY advertisements at rate of
11.00 per running h «-h per month of
four weeks. Libérai discounts made on
yearly contracts.
Notice of meetings of strictly chari
table organizations will be inserted one
time free; all other notices must be paid
for.
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It is now President Taft.
The sixtieth congress expired
yesterday and so far as appropri
ations and expenditures go it
was the greatest congress in the
history of the county, having
gotten rid of more than one mil
lion dollars of Uncle Sam's cash.
Twelve senators and seventy
seven congressman were retired
with the close of the sixtieth con
gress. Among the prominent
members of the senate to retire
are Senators Teller, Foraker and
Piatt- In the house Mississippi
loses three members, William,
McLain and Hill. They are suc
ceeded by Collier, Dickson and
Sisson.
Last year's production of gold,
we are told, is placed at $427,
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first with $144,000,000, and the
United States second with $96,
000,000 nearly all from the Trans
Mississippi region. The world's
output of gold increased $16,500,
090 in 1908. An advance know
ledge of these figures would
have knocked out a multitude of
prophets in 1896.—News Scimi
tar.
Governor Noel has appointed
Judge Sydney Smith ο f
Lexington to succeed Asso
ciate Justice Fletcher whose
term expires on May 10th. Judge
Smith has served the past three
years on the circuit bench, and
has proven himself to be an able
and fearless judge. He is a
young man and full of ambition,
and will make an acceptable
member of the supreme bench.
Crum, the negro collector of
the port of Charleston, S. C.
will not press his claim for con
firmation by the senate after Mr.
Taft becomes president. He has
doubtless received a hint that he
will get no support from the
White House, and finds himself
stranded at last. Crum has been
a thorn in flesh ever since Mr.
Roosevelt first nominated him for
the position he has held and his
dropping out will be a relief tc
the country generally.
The aunouncement that the
steel makers have made an offer
t) the railroads to reduce the
price of their products if the
railroads would reduce the cost
of transportation on steel pro
ducts is a matter in which the
public generally are interested
No item save lumber goes so
much into the every day needs
of the peopleas steel, and any re
duction in the price will be of
mater ial benefit to the great body
of the people.
Application will probably be
made for a charter for a million
dollar corporation to build and
ο perate a cotton mill in Memphis
within the next few weeks. Daily
the certainty that Memphis is to
have a monster plant for the
manufactures of cotton goods be
comes more apparent, and pro
moters of the scheme declare the
time will soon be gripe for the
first meeting of stock subscribers
when the plans will be laid for
the formation of the company.
The farmer's special train run
by the Mobile and Ohio road will
be in Tupelo on Saturday the 13,
inst. at 8 o'clock in the morning.
Mr. M. V. Richards, Land and In
dustrial Agent of the road with
headquarters at Washington,
D. C. and W. L. Henderson of the
same department with headquar
ters at Mobile, will be in charge of
the train. These gentlemen will
make addresses at the court
house, and the public generally
are invited. The farmers are
given a special inyitation to be
present.
The Electric Railway.
The committee appointed at the 1
last meeting in Tupelo, composed 1
of Messrs. B. L. Clark, V. C.
Kincannon and C. E. .bYanltlin, .
to have preparations made for
survey will soon be ready to close
contract for the survey. Quite
a number of civil Engineers have J
filed bids for the work but 2 s
there are a few othere to hear
from, the committee deferred ac
tion until all bids are in when
the engineer will be selected pre
paratory to beginning work as
soon as possible. In the mean- ,
time no one need to get impa
tient because the work has not
already commenced. It takes
time to get in touch with all the
parties who want to make the
survey, and as the committee is
desirous of getting the very best
engineer possible, they necessar
ily have to have a little time,
however as all the bids will be
filed in a day or so unless some
delay is caused the engineer will
be selected in a few days.
(Later,) The Committee has
been called to meet in Pontotoc
next Monday.—Pontotoc Ad
vance.
The Kansas legislature has re
pealed the absurd provision in its
prohibitory law granting to drug
gists the right to sell whiskey ac
#·ητ·<Ήησ to their iudsrment of a
man's needs, and has decreed
that hereafter the druggist can
not sell liquor even on a physi
cian's prescription. The Kansas
prohibitory law, with its loose
provisions for the control and
sale of liquor, has been regarded
asa farce throughout the union,
and has retarded the advance of
prohibition. Advocates of local
option or high license were al
ways pointing to the failure of
the law in Kansas. Now if
Kansas does not become ' 'freak
ish" two years hence, and elect
a legislature that will repeal the
new law, we may expect a real
test of the merits of a prohibitory
law in that state.
FOR RENT—One brick store; houFe,
pood location, in town of Saltillo, L. T.
WESSON, Saltillo, Miss.
Hon. Jacob McGavock Dickin
son, who is mentioned as a pro·
)able successor to Gen. Luke E.
bright as secretary of war under
raft, is a native of Columbus,
Miss., having been born there in
;he early fifties, and having re
named there until he was sixteen
vhen his parents moved to Nash
ville, Tenn. Judfte Dickinson ,
vas a lad in knicker-bockers ι
vhen the Civil war came on, but ι
:he spirit of daring which has
îharacterizsd his career as a
lawyer and a politician, was ap
parent even in early youth, and
prompted him to join the local
militia, which was maintained in
order to prevent invasion by
federal troops. This organiza
tion was under command of Gen.
Ruggles, a graduate of West
Point, and a stickler for military
discipline, and the general often
declared that he never had a
more efficient soldier under his
command than "Little Mac,"
which was the sobriquet by which
Judge Dickinson was known in
those days. That Judge Dickin
snn has npvw fnrcrnt.tfin the daVS
of his youth, when, patrolling
breastworks or laying concealed
in trenches, he guarded the city
of his nativity from invasion by
the enemy, is evinced by the fact
that he is a member of the
Columbus camp of Confederate
veterans, and pays his dues
regularly.
Cost of Maintaining « President.
President,s salary $100,000
Clerk hire 69,920
Contingent fund 25,000
President's traveling expenses . 25.000
Maintenance White House, horses,
FOR SALE—One brick livery stable
i block from union station, 85 feet
front on Spring st.
Fuel
Care of greenhouses
Repair of greenhouses...
Printing
Lighting White grojnds
vehicles, etc ...
White House grounds
35,000
4,00'J
6,000
9,000
3,000
2,000
. 510
Total
_ $279,430
Apply to
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MEN
SHOWING THE CONDITION OF THE
Farmers Bank & Trust Co.,
TUPELO, MISS.
AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS FEB. 10, 1909
RESOURCES.
Bills receivable $100,980.77
Furniture and Fixtures and
Real Estate 9,815.64
Over dftson cotton
and Secured 43,627.75
Sight Exchange. . 19,845.47
Cash in Vault 10,147.15 73,620.37
$184,416.78
- LIABILITIES
Capital paid in $ 50,000.00
Surplus 3,500.00
Undivided profits 1,146.71
Bills Payable 20,000 00
a Deposits 109,770.07
Total ..$184,416.78
I, D. E. Turner, Cashier of the Farmers Bank & Trust Co., Tupelo- I
Mississippi, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, full and ex
act statement of the assets and liabilities of said bank on the day and it
date named therein, as shown by the books of same.
D. E. TURNER Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, a Notary Public in and for the
county of Lee, Mississippi, this the 23rd day of Feb., 1909.
G. M. CRANE, Notary Public.
Examined and found correct. E. J. SMITH, Auditor.
This 24th day of February, 1909.
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STATEMENT
SHOWING THE CONDITION OF THE
BANK OF SHANNON
SHANNON, MISS.
AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS FEB· 10, 1909.
RESOURCES /
Loans and Discounts on personal en
dorsements, real estate or collateral
securities $12,903 21
Overdrafts 147.26
Banking House, Furniture
and Fixtures, Expense 3,835.86
Due from other Banks 9,450.47 ν
Cash on Hand 1,913 53
Total $28,250.33
LIABILITIES
Capital paid in $10,000.00
Undivided Profits, less Ex
pense and Taxes 1,217.35
Individual Deposits subject
to Check 15.565.56
Time Certificates of Deposit 1,467.42
Total $28,250 33
I, M. M. Miller, Cashier Bank of Shannon, of Shannon. Miss., do
hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, full and exact statement
of the Assets and.Liabilities of said Bank on the day and date named
therein, as shown by the books of same. M. M. MILLER, Cashier
Sworn to and subscribed before me, a Notary PuMic in and for the
county of Lee, Mississippi, this 23rd day of Feb., 1909.
Ε. B. NEELY, Notary Public.
Examined and found correct E. J. SMITH, Auditor.
This 24th day of February, 1909.
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Negro Must Become More Ef
ficient or Give Way to Im
migration.
The ramifications are infinite,
unending. And the doctrine is
true whatever the color of the
man. The ignorant negro in the
South is one of the greatest eco
nomic burdens with which any
people has ever had to contend.
From travel and observation in
ten Southern States I have al
most worked it out as a principle
of political economy, that other
things being equal. States and
communities are prospering in
proportion to their white popu
lation· I do not know what we
are going to do with the negro.
I do know that we must either
frame a scheme of education and
training that will keep him from
dragging down the whole level
of life injjthe South, that will
make him more efficient
a prosperity-maker and not
a poverty-breeder, or else he
will get out of the South and
give way to the white immigrant.
No acre of land will long own as
its master the man or the race
who mistreats it, and makes it
unfruitful. We must either
have the negro trained, or we
must not have him at all. Un
trained, he is a burden on us all.
Better a million acres of untilled
land tern a million pcresof mis
tilled land.
Let U3 remember, then, that
our econonric law knows no
color line. Whits or black, the
man whose efficiency ;s above
par is a help; white or black, the
man whose efficiency is below
par is a hindrance.— From an ad
dress by Clarence H. Poe, editor
of the Piogressive Farmer and
the Southern Farm Gazette, be
fore the Southern Commercial
Congress, Washington, D. C.
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Marrying a woman for her
munny is vera mutch like setting
a rat-trap, and baiting it with
yure own finger.
It is highly important, when a
man makes up his minde tew be
kum a raskall, that he shud ex
amine hisself klosly, and see if
he ain,t bettter konstructed for
a phool.
largy in this way: If a man is
right he kan't be too radical; if
he is rong he kan't be too con
servatiff.
I beleave in the uni versai sal
vashun of men, but I want to
pick the men.
I beleave in sugar coated pills.
1 also beleave that virtue and
wisdum kan be smuggled into a
man's soul bi a good-natured pro
verb, better and deeper than tew
be mortised into it with a worm
wood mallet and chizell.
The pure don't grow old enny
more than a mountain spring dus·
Rize early; work hard and late,
live on what yu kan't sell, giv
nothing awa; and if yu don't die
ritch—and go to the devil—yu
ma sue me for damages.
Marrin for love ma be a little
risky, but it is so honest that God
kan't help but smile on it.
I think I had rather have a
noze seven inches and a half
long (in the clear,) than tew be
the handsomest man in our coun
try, forjin the furst case i should
tvork hard to shorten mi nose bi
some other good qualitys, while
in the other case i should never
be told by my looking glass
that i was a phool.
Awl happiness is conservatiff;
2 thirds ov the pleasv rs in sliding
iown hill consists in drawing the
fled back. I don't serpose thare1
THE
OF NEW YORK
RECORD OF SIXTY-SIX YEARS
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The remarkable results attained by the Mutual Life Insurance Co. since it began business
in 1843 cannot be approximated by any other company.
It has paid policy-holders since organization Over S36 Million Dollars
It now holds in trust for policy-holders Over 539 Million Dollars
The excess of benefits to policy-holders amount to Over 124 1-2 Million Dollars
That is to say, in 6G years of its existence, The Mutual Life has paid to policy-holders
and their beneficiaries, and still holds in trust for them, nearly 125 MILLION DOLLARS in
excess of all it has received from them.
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Its total payments to policy-holders exceeds those of any other company by nearly 175
Million Dollars.
Mutual Life Dividends
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The Mutual Life has appropriated for dividends, payable in 1909, 11 MILLION, 92
THOUSAND, 282 DOLLARS and 38 CENTS, which exceeds by over TWO MILLION DOL
LARS the highest amount ever before appropriated for dividends in a sing'e year by any
company.
I Return to Its Policyholders
The Mutual Life's increase in payments to policy-holders in 19C8 'exceeded the SUM 3
TOTAL payments of the entire amount paid to policy-holders in 1907 by 146 out of 150 com
panies doing business in the United States.
Increase in New Business
L·
The increase in new business written in 1908 exceeded the combined new business se
cured in 1907 by all but eight companies doing business in the United States, including In
dustrial Companies.
BROOKS MARMON, Agt
TUPELO, MiSS.
Cumb. Phones Nos. 102 and 229 Rooms 7 and 3 Peoples Bank Building
would be enny fun in sliding
down a hill thirty-four miles long.
Awl ov us komplain ov the
shortness of life, yet we all
waste more time than we see.
That some peoples are fond ov
bragging about their ancestors,
and their great descent, when in
in fack their grate descent iz just
what's the matter ov them.
We are told "that an honest
man is the noblest workov God's
—but the demand for the work
has been so limited that I have
thought a large share ov the fust
edishon must still be in the au
thor's hands.
I never bet enny stamps on the
man who iz always telling what
he would have did if he had been
thare; I hav noticed that this
kind never git thare.
Success in life is verry apt tew
make us forget the time when
we wasn't mutch. It is jist so
with the frog on the jump» —
Josh Billings.
Attention Veterans
The members of the Jao. M. Stone
Camp, Confederate Veterans are hereby ;
called to meet at the court house in j
Tupelo, Saturday the 13. inst. -at 10,
o'clock a. m., for the j. urpjse of select- j
ing delegates to the annual reunion at I
Memphis, and the payment of annual
dues. [
W. A. Dozier, Commander
Own Your Own Home!
Having mad î arrangements for carrying îoans, I am in a position to
make this proposition to all parties who want to build on their vacant
lots:
If you own your lot I will build such a house as can be agreed on
between us and carrv two-thirds of the amount for twelve months. If
the notes are not paid at maturity they can be renewed by the pay
ment of the interest. Call on me and we will talk the matter over.
JOE L. ANGLE, Tupe/p