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Local Happenings! Those Who Come and Go ^ Mrs. J. M. Witt has as her guest her sister, Mrs. Hopkins of Hickory. -o—o Mr. and Mrs. Wr. C. Garter are spending the' week with relatives at Ripley. -o—o Hon. George T. Mitchell was in Nashville the first of the week on business. -o—o Gilbert Cobb, of Palmetto, left Tuesday for Camp Pike, where he will go in training. -o—o Mrs. C. E. Lilly and chidlren are the guests of Mrs. Lilly’s sister, Mrs. R. M. Alford in Fulton, Ky. -o—o Drs. W. A. Toomer and Hugh An derson attended the Southern Medi cal Association in Memphis this w^ek. -o—o Dr. and Mrs. ,T. 0. Gurney spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Memphis where they attenuea me ouumnn Medical Association. -o—o Mrs.. Clarence James Potter and children of Grand View, Texas, are visiting Mrs. Potter’s mother, Mrs. L. J. Gurney, on Gloster St. -o—o Mr. W. H. Hulsey was called to Oakman, Ala., Wednesday by a mes sage announcing the serious illness of his mother, who is there visiting her son, Mr. M. E. Cox. -o—o Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Carter and children motored through to Mem phis for a week-end visit and return ing were forced to leave their car and take the train home on account of rain. -o—o The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Burton Wednesday and left with them a lovely girl baby. We wish for the fond parents a full realization of their brightest hopes in their new found joy. -o—o Hon. Robert Gambrell, who is a member of the state pension board, has returned home after spending ten days in Jackson, where the work of going over the Confederate pen sion lists of the several counties was done. Four hundred and fifty thous and dollars is distributed annually to the veterans of the state. -o—o Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Gandy leave today for Homestead, Fla., where they have purchased a home. They have already had an orange grove set out and other improvements made on the place. Mr. and Mrs. Gandy will spend their winters in Florida and return to Tupelo for the summer months. -o—-o-—— Mr. C. P. Long spoke Sunday morning at the Baptist church in Verona in behalf of the orphanages at Jackson. Mr. Long made a stirr ing appeal to the congregation to give liberally to this most worthy cause and his address met a ready response in the minds and hearts of those who heard him. Verona will send a splendid contribution. -o—o The hearts of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Clayton were made happy Thursday morning by a visit trom tne scorn, which left a fine boy at their home. The young man has already de manded a controlling interest in his father’s law firm, and the latter has not as yet mustered up courage to assert his priority. Congratulations and best wishes to the happy parents. ■-o—o Captain and Mrs. O. R. Crews, Rescue Workers, have moved to Tu pelo from Bowling Green, Ky., where they have been doing a now-sectarian work among the poor, giving out food, clothing and preaching to the non-church going class. Capt. Crews is going to do the same work here. The Captain and wife are located at 334 N. Madison steet. They ask the co-operation of all in their work here. -o—o DEATH LURKS Itf A WEAK HEART, so on first symptoms use “Renovine” and be cured. Delay and pay the awful penalty. “Renovine” is the heart’s remedy. Price $1.00 and 50c.—Adv. For Job Printing see the Journal FROM NOW ON Frank’s Pressing Club will be known as the “HE SHOP” as we will work for men and boys only. v We have the best outfit in the State to clean and press he clothes right. One of our steam pressings is worth three of the other kind. “Private” John Allen Aside from his remarkable flow of wit and humor,' the cost remarkable characteristic of the late “Private” John Allen, beloved by all true Mis sissippians, was his readiness to fight for a righteous cause. “Private” John Allen was never a sail-trimmer. His conduct was never guided by expendiency. He was always ready, at all times and on all occasions, to take the field in behalf of a friend or a cause. Nor was this due to any natural love of fight ing. He ‘simply had the courage of his convictions, and no sacrifice was too great for him to make when he believed that he was working for the best interests of the people of Mis sissippi. When'“Private” John Allen J.ook the stump in behalf of LeRoy Percy jin 1911, some people said he had , “no business butting in” when he avus I not a candidate. Probably only a few i recalled the fact that be did the same ; thing in behalf of Lamar, George 1 and Walthall Avhen those great states | men encountered opposition. It was j because of the fast that lie never 1 failed to fight for a friend that Mr. j Allen always had stubborn opposi tion in his own district. 1 hat is the ! inevitable fate of a strong partisan, i Hut the Tupelo statesuan never Ava ! vered, neither did he hesitate. He S was ’never Known uuua.uc ; oi’ espouse a cause because he felt ! that it would further his own politi 1 cal fortunes. | And he didn’t care for popularity. What the people might say or think was to him a matter of utter uncon cern. There was no demagogic ele ment in his mental make-up. When he believed a man or measure to be right, he would fight for that man or measure, even though the whole world stood against him. It is raie indeed that one finds in public life a man of that sort. Perhaps historians of the future will say that Mr. Allen’s chief claim to fame was his flow of wit and hu mor. In truth, he was a serious minded man. Throughout his polit ical career that remarkable gift of story-telling was a handicap, despite the fact that it earned for him a national reputation. Often he tried to restrain himself, because he want ed to impress the public with the fact that he was in deadly earnest. But his flow of humor was spontaneous and could not be curbed. Often he softened the bitterness of debate in Congress with this saving grace, and the fame he attained was enough to satisfy any man, even if it he based on humor alone, but it was not the sort of reputation he desired. He possessed many of the elements of true greatness, and in mental equip ■ ment he reached the proportions of J a statesman, but even his intimate friends would not consider him as such. They loved to be regaled with his anecdotes, to enjoy his rare abil ity as a story-teller, to hear those i “flashes of merriment that were wont ! to set the house in a roar,” This is too often true with national 1 celebrities. Even the immortal j Boothe, greatest tragedian of his j time, cherished an ambition to play comedy, and Joe Jefferson, whose ! comedy made him the idol oi a hun dred million people, frequently at tempted tragic roles. Stage history is replete with similar cases, and yet the public would accept none of these men in parts other than those they I were accustomed to playing. Wit is always a dangerous gift, ■ sometimes this also applies to humor. | But the wit of “Private” John Allen was never malicious. It was much akin to the playful pinch that a fath er gives to the che^k of a roguish boy. And his humor was always of a genial quality, always mingled with sensigility, and often with a deep un dercurrent of philosophy. But in moments when his passion was arous ed and his mind outraged by some damnable hypocrisy or specious dem agogy being perpetuated on the peo ple, his ridicule was terrific and his sarcassm cut like a two-edged sword. He wielded both these weapons with the skill of a master artist, and al with these weapons “Private” John Allen started after i an opponent with these wreapons he never left a mangled victim. The wounds were always sharp, clean, deadly and incisive. It is a consolation to the friends of this remarkable man that he was per mitted to pass mankind's allotted mark of three score and ten. They enjoyed every moment while in his company, and he in turn succeeded in getting, far more pleasure out of life than comes to the average man. He has passed from the sphere of earth ly things, but tender memories will j linger long in the minds of those who knew him.—Jackson Daily News. WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY. is her hair. If yours is streaked wdth ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use | “La Creole” Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price $1.00.—Adv. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Your druggist will refund money it PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6to 14 days. The first application gives Ease and Rest. 50c. Business Notices I WANTED—Honey, any kind, any quantity. Philips & Jackson. WANTED—Position by experienc ed stenographer. Communicate with this office. FOR RENT—Rooms for light housekeeping. Apply at No. 357 Gloster street. 21 FOR SALE—Second hand 5 pas senger Ford car, well equipped. Easy terms. Charles Betts, Tupelo, Miss. SEWING—Sewing of all kinds. Mrs. E. M. Bryson, cor. Green and Franklin streets. Stant. Phone 312L. LOST—Lavalier with small diamond in center, on Main street, Tupelo. Please return to Miss Leslie Gregory, R. F. D., Plantersville, or Tupelo Journal Office. 2t. MUST SELL AT ONCE—On ac count of sickness my residence is for sale on corner of Green and Maga zine streets. For particulars write owner, Jno. R. Powell, Booneville, Miss. 30 LOST—Setter dog, male, about one year old. ' Solid white with brown markings on ears and over eyes. Liberal reward for return, or information leading to recovery. Dr. E. M. Topp. CARRIED BACK TO OLDEN DAYS IN TUPELO. The death of John M. Allen, and ! the many flattering tributes I have read in the newspapers concerning him, have carried me back to over a very long period to your town of Tu pelo, which was once my town, and a ' most delightful place of residence it was to me for a good many years. ■ Still there is a tinge of sadness in ■ connection with my thoughts of Tu pelo, for the reason that a very large number of the friends I knew there when I was in the morning of life, have joined^"the innumerable cara van.” | I have for many reasons a greater love for Tupelo than for any other place in which I have ever lived. I may say that I began real, earnest ! life there, since I carried my young bride of eighteen to the dear old town when I was but twenty-three years of age, and I was only twenty-five when I established the paper you are now conducting. I cannot realize that it has been forty-six years since I is sued the first edition of the Journal, and that I am now seventy-one years of age. In the fall of 1871, I bought the old “Spectator” newspaper from ; Arthur Handley, and immediately changed its name to the Tupelo Jour nal, which name it has borne in honor since that day. i John Allen and I were the same age, barring a difference of one month in my seniority, and 1 had known him since he was twenty-oVie , years of age. I always felt most kindly toward him, and like most newspaper men of warm impulses, I ; suppose I had his name in the Jour • nal probably oftener than I should have, as my old life-long friend Will Thomas, of Baldwyn, told me on one occasion, that while standing in the Baldwyn post office awaiting the op ening of the mail with quite a num ber of others one day, some one in the crowd seeing the Baldwyn pack age of Journals being placed in the various boxes, called out in n loud voice: “I wonder what Herndon has to say of John Allen this week.” Another big hearted resident of Tupelo in that olden day, was Ed. L. Russell, a bosom friend of John Allen’s, and a man who extracted more gladness from life than any one I have ever known. His career as a clerk in the store of F. F. Norton, one of the largest business houses of Tupelo in that day, to that of a prac ticing attorney in Verona, then as assistant counsellor of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, and finally to the pres idency of the great corporation at a salary of fifteen thousand dollars a year, was a rise phenomenal, but Ed deserved all the good things that life bestowed upon him. He also, was about the same age of John Allen, but he laid down—not life’s bur dens—but its wonderful joys a good many years ago. • The Journal was the first paper that ever mentioned John Allen as a coming congressman, and this was a good many years^before he came out as a candidate for the office. John Miller, another former citizen of Tupelo, as well as a former edi tor of the Journal, was in Washing ton last June, in attendance on the Confederate Re-union here. He has aged considerably of late, and the lines on his face have deepened (ap preciably) since the death of his wife last year. When I first knew Alice Miller she was a pupil in Thompson’s Academy, Baldwyn, Miss., aged about fifteen years, She was light of heart, warmly impulsive, and the ever beaming sunshine of life found a natural resting place in her fair young face. All Baldwyn knew her and loved her. Recently I was looking over a copy of “The Mississippi Press Associa tion,” form its organization in 1866, to May, 1884, and oT the long list who responded to roll call at Aber deen, in 1881, as near as I can reckon today, only about one fifth of them j are still living. Major Jonas of the' | .Five Inch Cypress Shm^*! 1 | I i P <PO 75 Per | | Thousand | | Others in Proportion . 8 | Roofing from $1.00 s^e to | I d*o.75 I 111 t'.Z 9 ' >!a || v bJm ill We Pay the Freight Both Phones 194 ft =f= . ft $ ■ ill $ m ft ft ft ' * M f| Tupelo - Mississippi ft lilMiSilBSiBH Aberdeen Examiner, and Ed. Thomp son, of the Aberdeen Weekly, the latter of whom was a schoolmate of mine, have both joined the great ma jority, though they were in the prime of life on that pleasant occasion, when the Association met in dear old Aberdeen—it wras my birth place— away back in the summer of 1881. And so pass we this way along, just as the myriads of the .ages pass ed before us, and as Horace beati fully expresses it in his ode to Dellius: “All, all, we drive to doom: the urn Discharges every life in turn, For every life, or soon, or late, The boat and endless exile wait.” Geo. P. Herndon. Washington, D. C., Nov. 11, 1917. - ‘ # Rolling a camera film between the hands to tighten it after exposure sometimes generates enough electri- j city to spoil it. Scientists in Europe have develop ed a process whereby illuminating gas producers can manufacture am monia by synthesis. A patent has been granted for a, stand on which a wrist watch can be hung to serve as a clock. PETITION FOR PARDON. lion. Theodore G. Bilbo, Governor of ^ Mississippi: We, W. B. Threlkeid and the un-l dersigned officers and citizens of Lee <;ounSy, the home, of said W. > B. | Threlkeid, respectfully petition your' Excellency to pardon said W. B., Threlkeid for the following reasons:' He has been in the penitentiary i about two years. He is a man 57 j years of age. He has been in ex- j ceedingly feeble health for several> years. We believe that his health j has been such for several years that his mind at times has not been nor mal. We believe this was the condi tion of his mind when the homicide was committed. The two years in the penitentiary has been an exceed ingly heavy punishment on him in view of his state of mind and body. Now our judgment is that the ends of justice have already been subserved without his remaining longer in con finement. At the time of the homi !cide W. B. Threlkeid was laboring un der great excitement and conceived that he had great provocation. We do not mean by this that he was jus tified in law, but we only mean that in our judgment jt ought to be con sidered in passing on the r :stion of a pardon. Respectfully submiti 35-5t . W. B. Threlkeid £ others. COMMISSIONER’S »LE. Mrs. Frances Hamilton s. G. W. , l a n no UrtlllCl, L l. *11. i'fUa. tuwti -xvu-« u»« 4036. ! By virtue of a decree of the Hon orable Chancery Court of Lee coun ty, State of Mississippi, rendered at the April and October Terms, A. D., 1917, thereof, ordering a sale of cer tain lands mentioned therein, John M. Witt, the undersigned, appointed Commissioner to execute said decree, will, on Saturday, December, 8th, 1917, expose at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in front of the Court House door in the Citv of Tu pelo, Lee County, Miss., within legal hours, the following described lands: All the West half of the N. W. 1-4 of Section 5, Township 9, Range 7, except 26 1-2 acres off the South end thereof. Also 6 1-2 acres described as follows: Commencing at the N. E. corner of N. E. 1-4 of Section 6, Township 9, Range 7, East, and run South 76 rods, thence West .13 rods and 11 feet more or less, thence North 76 rods, thence East 13 rods and 11 feet to point of beginning. All above land being in Lee county, State of Mississippi. Together with the ap purtenances and hereditaments thereunto appertaining. John M. Witt, Commissioner. Dated 16 day of'November, 1917. Mitchell & Clayton, Sols. 25-4t. PUBLIC SALE REGISTERED AND HIGH GRADE ; Holstein Cattle AT New Albany, Mississippi THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22d, 11 o’clock 50 head of Registered and High Grade Holsteins, consisting of Bred Heifers, Cows fresh and soon due Registered Yearling Bulls, Yearling Heifers and Calves. We will also be at ABERDEEN, MISS. Saturday, November 24th, 11 o’clock 50 head of High Grade and Registered Holesteins, consisting of Heifers, soon due with first calf and cows fresh and close by Springers. A few Registered Bulls ready for service. We will have at both places Cows that are giving 5 to 8 gallons of milk per day. Cattle on exhibition three days before sale. Whitney Point Stock Farms Co., Inc CORTLAND, N. Y. | For additional information yrite W. H. Mace, in c-harpe or A. « I L. Rogers, Cashier Bank of Commerce, New Albany, Miss., or W. L. 8 ‘ Thomason, Asst. Cashier Bank of Ppntotoc. Pontotoc, Miss., Frank B Tohncnr \T on* A bond non non m nrv A Knrdoon \ficc m I We Will Buy Turkeys From i Now Until Christmas I Get our prices, phone, write or wire Also buy peas, eggs and all kinds of poultry, in any quantity. L FRANK & CO. J. C. BRINCAT, Manager. Tupelo, Miss. Early Bought is Early Saving Is Right At Jacobson’s Shoe Store | Is right in full blast in Men’s, Ladies’ i j and Children’s Shoes of all kinds. | .Ladies Lrrays, manogany ana any omer g color. . I Is right for yourself to come right to | JACOBSON’S SHOE STORE . | N. Spring St., Opposite Court House Tupelo, Miss.