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Fair Ground Graded School. Dear Editor:—Perhaps there are some who are interested and would like to hear how we are orogressing in school at Fair Ground, or Richmond, and I will let them know how we are get ting along. School began here the first of September with Prof. J. R. Hamblin as principal and the writer as first assistant, to end with an eight months term. We have had very good attendance but the last month was extra good. The school here has run down and has been for some years but there were 85 enrolled, 1 30 of which came every day of the month and 40 or more missed 1 only one day (including the 30 who came every day). | There is great interest in the^ welfare of the school and we can see a promising future to the chil dren of Richmond if they only take advantage of the opportuni ties that confront them. There is r.o doubt but that there will be some men and women sent forth from here that Richmond will be proud to own and the world will be glad to have their, assistance in spreading the tide of education. The world today in f»ollinor -fnr mpn—mpn of truth. intelligence and experience, and we hope to offer in the near fu ture boys and girls who will respond and go forth as men and women who will lend aid to the Wf ogress of the educational world. We appreciate all encourage ment that has been given us and hope in return to train the youths in this school to high and noble purposes that they may h#lp those who are striving to •oar to the top of the mountain reach their intentions; we hope to drop them as pebbles in the ocean of education who will start the waves that will spread throughout the universe and that will lift the parts that are falfen to the climax of existence. With best wishes to the Jour nal and its many readers. CLARA C. JONES. Route 2, Nettleton, Miss. » 800 Per Cent Bigger Profits for Our Farmers. Don’t forget to make a contri bution f\ ■ the Dr. Knann Me ■norial Fuad. Hand jour contri bution to some school teacher or bo Supt. E. P. Clayton. A hand somely engraved picture receipt,, which is given each contributor to the Dr. Knapp Fund, contains a saying of the great agricultural leader that every farmer and farm boy in the south ought to learn by heart, so inspiring is it. and so suggestive of the truth that we have only scratched the surface of southern agricultural possibilities:. The quotation is from Dr. Knapp’s great speech at Lexington, Ky., in which he declared: “I estimate that there is a possible 800 per cent increase in the productive power of the farm laborers in the average southern state, and I distribute the gains as follows:” 50 per cent to better drainage. 50 per cent to seed of higher vitality, thoroughbred and care fully selected. 50 per cent to the use of more economic plahs for feeding stock and the abundant use of le gumes. 150 per cent to a rotation of crops and better tillage. 200 per cent to the production of more and better mules, and farm machinery. 200 per cent to the production of more and better stock. Remember February 16, 1912, is Memorial Day for all schools in Lee county to raise funds for the monument to perpetuate the memory of so great a man as Dr. Knapp. E. P. Clayton, Supt. of Education. — Letter to Ginners. I Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 5, 1912. To the Ginners:— Your reports show there has been ginned 15,218,000 hales to night of February 1st. This • « i i _ •__ is very neavy uul many gmucio say a large part of it is cotton that has been picked some time, even as far back as October. This indicates a very much larger crop than our figures in Decem ber, and the final report will probably be 16,000,000 or over. The ginning the first half of January was so light that it lead the European spinnei* to believe the crop was not over 15,500.000 and for fear .there might be a large reduction in acreage they bought very freely for the past two weeks but reports say the demand is not so good now. —Our reports show there will be a small reduction in acreage in some sections, but there will be a large increase in the boll wee vil section which will probably offset this. With new crop months selling above ten cents the farmers claim they can make from $10 to $20 per bale and bankers that said in December they would not advance much to the planters are now willing to advance freely, and unless the /J VAAO TTA|»IT Ia^IT middle of the month the acreage for grain will be fixed and it will be too late to make a change. I am very sorry this is true for with the improved methods of farming increasing each year (there will be twenty-six govern ment experimental farms in this Shelby county) the yield per acre will gradually increase. With the splendid season in the ground in Texas and Oklahoma, and the boll weevil knocked out by the army worms eating the foliage off last August and Sep tember, leaving them in a weak ened condition to withstand such a cold winter (the worst in many A State to be De sired, But how can you expect it When with baking you are tired ? Why not Solve the Problem Now While those tired feelings lurk— It’s Easy, when you once know how, Let the Let the Baker Do the Work ! TUPELO BAKING CO. s * i HUNT’S CURE | i Guaranteed Cure For All SKIN DISEASE Sold by Pound-Kincannon-Elkin Co. St. Clair Drug Co. A. B. Richards Med. Co., Sherman. Texas. years), we can easily lose a mil lion half east of Mississippi and make it from their west. While the consumption may go to 14, 000,000, although leading author ities say only 13,500,000, yet it would not all be used this season but part would go to replenish depleted stocks from the last two short crops. Last October, when I found the crop was so large, I urged you to advise your farmers to market as much as possible of their cotton before the world found it out and the market went down over a cent a pound and had the government esti mate been as accurate as usual would have been much lower. Then the had weather set in about the 15th of December and until the middle of January very little cotton was picked or ginned and the roads got so bad the farmers could not move if they wanted too. I urge you now to advise your farmers to sell their cotton as fast as possible before the final census report is issued and the actual acreage becomes known. Holding cotton after this is a losing proposition as it loses in weight and if not stored in a good warehouse will country! damage. It will take at least 25 1 per cent reduction in acreage to 1 bring the next crop down to the: consumption, with the large sur-; plus carried over, and I don’t see a chance for more than 5 prr cent unless we get a heavy de cline soon. I find that in place of the India and Egyptian crops being short a million to a million and * half, as some claim, they . • t- . i i i* » _ are only snort auuui nau 10 three-quarters of a million bales compared to last year but com pared to 1908 they are a little larger. , J. A. Taylor, Pres., , National Ginners Ass’n. l ' The Youth In Politics. Professor Blsckie was in favor of a higher age limit for parliamentary candidates than is at present enforced. “I remain decidedly of opinion," he writes, “that no man ought to open his month on the hustings or at public dinners till he is at least 30 years of age. Young men are absolutely lnca able of political wisdom; it is the fruit of time and cannot be extemporised from the young ebullience of the brain like'a brilliant lyric poem or a dashing novel." \ _ COST SALE! I am going out of the Dry Goods business in Tupelo, therefore I am going to sell this entire * stock of goods AT COST I ; This sale will begin at once and last until this stock is disposed of. Therefore if you J want your Dry Goods and Shoes cheap come \ to see me, for this sale will go exactly as ad vertised. We mean to sell 0 : =AT COST^= Thanking you for your liberal patronage in the past, 1 remain your friend, ^ J. N. MULLINS, * TUPELO, MISS. } NO GOODS CHARGED. ——y—^ I i ■ ■■ i l rXRECORD BREAKErT^I i $ 50,000.00 of Life Insurance Sold In \ Tupelo Since January 1st. J § THE UNION CENTRAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. J | LEADS THEM ALL— -| ak Why ? Because they give you more insurance for less money * !jn J 2* than any other company. Instead of investing in stocks and £ bonds they loan their money on farm lands, and policy holders. \ \ . $3000,000.00 loaned on farm lands in Mississippi. Let me save \ I x you big money on your life insurance. J ) I Do Not Overlook Our Boll Weevil Spe cial ^ . I VAN C.1 CAVETT, 1 g Superintendent of Agents North Mississippi. X I vwvv/i/yvvvv*MWV.vvv.v^vv,^v/A,/^v S Private Boarding Beginning Feb. 1st, I will i take boarders at the follow ing rates: By the day...$1.00 By the Month: Nice furnished room. $16.00 Table board (month). $14.00 The best the market af fords, well cooked and plen ty to eat. _ MRS. GEO. R. BROWN '. GUNTOWN Fundamental Error. W® suffer, 'In teaching, from the means being exalted and the end ton 1 gotten. . v ■ : | COHON SEED FOR SALE ! |' J Fifteen Hundred Bushels Simpkin Pure Q Cotton seed for sale, beed bought from ^ originator last season. Great care used O J at Gin to keep them pure. Y % AVERAGE 3-4 BALE TO ACRE S 5 THIS YEAR $ A X Only seed to beat boll weevil* q $ Price 75c a Bushel, F. 0. B. Shannon, Miss. Q I J. M. CLARK | ! Read the Journal Regular t