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^ FI«$T SECTION. SIXTEEN f*AGE3 THIS WEEK
COUNTY BOARD
MAKES FIRST REPOR1
CERTIFIED FULL QUOTA Oi
DRAFTED MEN AHEAD OF AI !.
OTHER COUNTIES—WILL TAKE
NO PAY FOR SERVICES.
The Lee county exemption board
composed of Arthur Cotter, Dr. O
L. Williamson and J. E. Stevenson
assisted by C. E. Daggett, Davis
Plummer and half ascore of other
3 young men who volunteered their ser
vices. on last Saturday certified to
the adjutant general of Arkansas the
full quota of 293 men from Lee
county. In the Arkansas Gazette ol
Sunday the announcemnt is made
that the Lee county board was the
first in the state to send in its full
report, and it was also the first
board in the state to notify the adju
tant general that the members would
decline to accept pay for their ser
vices. The war department recently
ann unced members of exemption
boards would be allowed four dollars
a day for their services. From the
time the men of military age were
called upon to register on June 5,
up to and including the present, not
one penny of expense incident to
the ardous and nerve-racking task
of selecting Lee county’s quota of
men has been charged to the gov
ernment. Some bills were necessar
ily incurred, but these were paid by
order of County Judge J. A. Plum
mer The members of the board,
assisted by Drs. W. B. Bean, E. D.
Wall, H. l). Bogart, ana a number of
others who helped to do the clerical
work, have refused from the begin
ning to accept any pay.
On Saturday afternoon, acting Upon
instructions from the adjutant gen
eral, the local board certified
twenty-two additional men as fol
lows :
Fred Lasson Merck. Little Rock.
Dempsey Willey, Marvel.
Richard Bondmen, Marianna.
Berry Peters, Aubrey.
Leo Payne, LaGrange.
Rolley Winkfield, Rondo.
Henry Branch, Brickeys.
Johnnie Mullens, Marianna.
Benjamin Fritz. Soudan.
Ezra Buford, IvaOrange.
Frank Taylor, Rondo.
Grover Brown, Haynes.
Wesley Kinchner, Soudan.
John Everett, Marianna.
Luther Kyle, Aubrey.
Abe Cook, Brickeys.
Geo. Washington Graham, Mori.
Waiter Anderson, Marianna.
Ernest King, Haynes.
Wm. E. Gillenwater, M(>ro
Henry Benton, Jr„ Council.
West Smith, Council.
In addition to the above list of
twenty-two, the names of Clifford
■Cole and Henry Askew, bqth of As
kew, were cet titled. Neither of these
men reported for physical examina
tion and in consequence they stand
in the attitude of deserters.
The following were granted ex
emptions, either permanent or tem
porary :
Nim Rodgers, Soudan; N. Frank
Lomax, Aubrey; Theo. Wm. Pulliam,
Moro; Arthur Lewis, Aubrey; Web
ster Decatur Johnston, Marianna;
John Anderson McCulloch, bexa;
Frank Minor, Moro; Hugh Jordan,
Moro.
The following men were discharged
because of physical disability:
Ben Hill, Marianna; Archie Robin
son. Moro: Chas. Robinson, Council;
Andrew Thos. Free, Haynes; Chas.
Gray. Aubrey; Willie Smith, Rondo;
Will Davis, Marianna; I. C. Morgan,
Council; Willie Frank Barnett, As
kew; Ed Miller, Marianna; Martin
Smith, Brlckeys; Paul Foster New
ell, Marianna.
So far the board has secured the
original quota of 293 men with
thirty-one who failed to report for
examination, and the additional 22
men with the two who failed to re
port, out of a total of 510 drafts.
Notices have been mailed out to
the first contingent comprising thirty
per cent of the drafted men to hold
themselves in readiness to report to
the'local board on September 5.
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A BORN COMMANDER
When Gen. Leonard Wood was a
small boy he was called up In the
grammar class.
The teacher said; “Leonard, glv0
me a sentence and we will see if
we can change it to the imperative
mood.
“The horse draws the cart,’’ said
Leonard.
“Very good. Now change it to an
Imperttive."
“Get up!” said young Wood—Ex.
CONSIDER THE MULE
“A mule,” said Uncle Eben, “should
he a warnin’ against kickin’. Do bet
ter he does it, de more unpopular he
gets.”—Washington Star.
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T. R. Porter of Bledsoe, was a visi
tor in the city Mondey.
MEMBERSHIP OF RED
CROSS IS NOW 307
MRS. J. I. MORRIS, SECRETARY
OF LOCAL CHAPTER, MAKES
APPEAL FOR RECRUITS—IN
STRUCTIONS IN KNITTING.
(By MRS. J. I. MORRIS.)
Three hundred and seven members
up to date! Who will help to make
it 600?
Remember every membership helps
this great cause just that much more.
Of course, we all know the Red
Cross alone cannot win this war, but
it ran and does provide the best of
physicians and surgeons, nurses, med
icines, hospitals and hospital supplies
of all kinds, where our sick and
wounded soldiers can have the best
of care and attenton that it wouid
be impossible for them to have weie
it not for the American Red Cross.
It not only provides care for our
sick and wounded soldiers but it
cares for the dependent families of
the soldiers and sailors of our army
and navy. Oh. what a great blessing
and a comfort to those who are left
at home to know their loved ones
who are gone and are going to the
battlefields to do their best to help
win this war, will be nursed and well
cared for wrhen sick and wounded!
All these comforts are given them
through none other than the Red
Cross, and if you want our soldiers
to have this care and comfort, help
them to have it by becoming a mem
ber of the Red Cross.
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now a Tinva
W. S .McClintock, one bolt outing
flannel. Mscellaneous. one bolt lons
dale. Mrs. Russell Dupuy, 28 yards
outing flannel. Mrs. J .1. Morris,
tape, thread and buttons.
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KNITTING INSTRUCTIONS
Mrs. W. F. Harris instructed the
ladies on Wednesday afternoon at
the headquarters in the art of knit
ting. Through the kindness of the
Griffis-Newbern Co., who donated
eight hanks of yarn, the ladies were
enabled to begin work on our allotted
number of knitted articles. Mrs. Har
j ris will gladly instruct any of the
j ladies who are interested in this
! work, at her home any afternoon. All
interested make your appointments
with her.
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To the Editor of the Pioneer Press:
1 visited in the South not long ago.
What a contrast I found there com
pared with the mouthings of partly
educated agitators, socialists, anarch
ists and hyphenates in the north!
Those ex-Confedertes are loyal to the
core. It was good to get away from
the hotbeds of treachery in the north
and be once more in the company of
loyal Americanism, unsullied by for
eign ingrates. We are cursed by the
presence of nearly all the misfits of
Europe, who abuse the liberty we
give them. Must we always put up
with the snarling alien who snaps
at the hand that welcomes him to
America? Must we continue to im
port agitators to teach us how to
run this land with made-in-Germany
brands of socialism? Go down south,
loyal Minnesotans, and get a breath
of Americanism before you suffocate.
DISGUSTED.
Thus writes a citizen to the St.
PttUl, Minn.. Pioneer Press.
The attitude of the x.Confederates
i_ n>n« 4a nnlvoraallv f'HITPPt .
Here and there some politician in
he south agitates against the method
of conductng the war, but the ex
Confederates know that to win the
war it takes men and money and
plenty of both to fight it out. They
feel also that selective draft is dem
ocratic.
It is unfortunate however that we
have some men in the south whose
people have been in this country for
six generations and are more dis
loyal in tendencies than some of the
hyphenates of the north.
But as the grasp of the problem
becomes more intelligent, the num
ber of these will decrease.
But every native born American
and every American whose father
fought in the Mexioan War and dur
ing the War of 1812 ought to by
example encourage those who come
later to aspire to the highest Ideals
of citizenship.—Commercial Appeal.
Sixty-five thousand sacks of beans
from japan, the largest single impor
tation ever made in the United States
are being transshipped from San
Francisco to eastern markets. A train
of 29 cars, the first of four that will
carry the beans to New York, was
started over the Ogden route. The
beans, valued at moro than fl.OOO,
000, arrived in Uos Angeles recently
on the liner Kotsu Maru. They are
of all varieties. The large importa
tion la aald to be due to the war.
11 BOILING OVER
Bank President Has Praise
For “Buy-at-Home” Campaign
W. a. McClintock, president of the
McClintock Banking Company, in
commenting on the “Buy-at-Home”
campaign which was started in last
week's Courier-Index, said:
“It takes co-operation to get re
sults, and I think the Commercial
Club and the Courier-Index have the
right idea in their campaign of
Buy-at-Home.’ With the merchants
showing a proper interest, and the
kind of publicity you have started
! the campaign with, it is certain to
do a wonderful amount of good to
ward convincing the people of Mari
anna that in spending their money
with the home merchants, they will
be helping to make times better in
this city, and at the same time be
better satisfied with their purchases
in the long run. I believe that a
page devoted to sensible arguments
and practical reasons for the people
of Marianna to spend their money
at home, instead of patronizing the
mail order houses, or traveling forty
miles to Memphis and forty miles
back, to do their shopping, backed
by the merchants of this city will
be the means of keeping a good part
of the thousands of dollars now going
out of the city, at home. While the
banks cannot come under the head
of merchants, we are interested in
everything that is of benefit to them,
for their success is our success, and
we are glad to co-operate in so
worthy a cause.
“It's the merchants and other busi
ness houses in this city that are the
ones called upon first, last and all
the time whenever there is any
jjuuiey to be raised. And I don’t
believe there is another city in the
state where the merchants give more
liberally than they do right here in
Marianna. There is hardly a day
passes but what they are called
upon to contribue to something.
“It is right and proper that they
should want and expect the people 10
patronize them, especially when they
are selling just as cheap and giving
just as good, and most times better,
values than can be had from the
mail order houses or from Memphis
stores. Then, too, their willingness
to rectify any mistake, make ex
changes, and to accomnuyiate their
customers in every way possible
should be an incentive to spend the
home dollars at home.”
COULDN'T GET WIFE TO
SIGN EXEMPTION CLAIM.
Ashdown, Ang. 18.—The following
letter came to the exemption board
of Little River county. The writer,
Woody Coburn, a negro, has since
been certified as a fit subject for the
army:
“My statement to the local board,
state of Arkansas, Ashdown, Ark.—
Your horner i am in a condition i
cant have this blank filled because
me and my wife is apart under very
bad terms and i cannot get her to
sine this blank i cant help iny self
and it is all i can do is trust in the
lord 1 can say i have two children
under the age of 9 years old and a
afliced mother depending on me for
support but i have a devose depend
ing and i cannot get my wife to sine
this so that knocks it all in the head
and i am willing to send this blank
back to the board under the enflu
ence of asking the lord and the local
Board to have mersie on me and i
will Stand the Next Examination and
if i pass it will be the lords will and
i cannot help it my Mother is will
ing to sine this but she is sick in
bed and cant get to town so i feels
that i have no chance for any ex
cuse but the lord so i will trust him
and go when i am called yours truly
negro Woody Coburn Richmond, ark.
I am willing to be controlled by ev
ery law of the United States I could
: not get my wife to sine it her name
| is mary B. Coburn names of children
William H Coburn 8 years old Woody
Jim Coburn 6 years old Both boys
are with me on Mr John Ed Locke
farm.
“Woody Coburn.”
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J. W. Whitaker and family, who
reside on the Beamis plantation
have returned from an extended
overland trip to points In Mississippi
and Louisiana. They were gone two
J weeks and traveled more than 1,200
miles. _
A PROMPT DECISION.
Mrs. Will Irwin said at a Washing
ton Square tea:
“The more immodest fashions
would disappear if men would reso
lutely oppose them.
‘‘I know a woman whose dress
maker sent home the other day a
skirt that was, readly, too short al
together The woman put it on. It
was becoming enough, dear knows,
but it made her feel ashamed. She
entered the library, and her husband
looked up from his work with a dark
frown.
“ ‘I wonder,’ she said, with an em
barassed laugh, ‘ff these ultra-short
skirts will ever go out.’
“ ‘They’ll never go out with me,’
he answered in decided tones.”—
Washington Star.
FORGOT KIS MISSION
Doc McClue same into the office
yesterday, laughing like a gargoyle.
“Whence the mirth,” we insinu
ated.
"Wait till f tell you,” procrastinated
Doc. ‘‘You know old Harry.”
Yes ,we knew him. Approaching
j middle age, married but still talka
tive. That was the fellow
“Well, old Harry comes into my
office this morning and I said
“What’s on your mind?” and he said
‘Nothing much, I guess.’ So I told
him a story I heard last night and
that reminded him of one he heard
last week, and so it went. And fin
ally he said he guessed he’d have to
be toddling along toward the office.
“ ‘Well,’ says I, ‘run along then.
Family all well?’
( “ ‘Oho, that reminds me’, says Harry
' 'That’s why I called. My wife’s had
I some kind of a stroke, and I was sent
down here to tell you to go right
i over. Darn it, your stories made
me forget what I oame for." ’^—Cle
veland Plain Dealer.
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J. W. and A. P. Haley who have
b"en visiting their brother W. N. Ha
ley at Rondo, have returned to their
home at Clarksville, Texas.
DESERVING YOUNG MAN
WINS MERITED PROMOTION
Porter Wood, ror more than three
years employed at the local plant of
the Standard Oil Company of I.«ouis
iana. has been given the appoint
ment as agent if the company here
to succeed Robt. L. Foreman, who
has been ehosen as a member of the
second officers’ training camp that
will be started at Ueon Springs, Tex.,
next week. Mr. Wood began his ser
vices with the Standard Oil Com
pany here over three years ago as
a drver at a salary of $40 a month.
So well did he perform his duties
that his salary was raised several
times and -promotions were given.
He devoted his spare hours to hard
study, making up for opportunities
that were denied him w'hen he was
a boy. He completed a correspon
dence course in the educational
branches in which he was deficient.
In the meantime he saved a portion
of his earnings, and recently when
he married he was able to pay cash
for a home and its furnishings. His
close applicatiin to business, his
thrifty, frugal habits, his honesty and
straightforwardedness are now re
warded by the company in his ap
appointment to the responsible po
sition of agent in charge of the
company's large business in Gee
county.
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It will be the purpose of the Sirp
j erintendent of Schools to edit these
notes from time to time in order
that the people may be informed as
to what is going on in the public
schools.
A week or two ago an appeal was
made to the patrons to find some
books at home that were not being
used and donate them to the school.
Up to date the response to this re
quest has been “nihil.” Surely this
is an oversight on the part of Mari
anna citizens. It is hard to believe
that some additions to the library
cannot be secured in this way. Have
you not some reference work that
you are not using? A dictionary, an
1 encyclopedia, a set of Beacon Lights,
McMaster’s History, Stoddard’s Lec
tures, Dickens, Scott, etc ? If you
wish to donate such a work to the
school just drop a card to the Super,
intendent and he will send for it.
The laboratories have been thor
oughly equipped and arranged and
are ready for inspection.
We have assurance of one new
student in the senior class. He comes
form another high school.
Folders are being printed outlining
the work of the high school, and
these will be sent out to high school
students this week. Anyone wishing
a copy can get one at the printing
office next week.
FRED L. MacCHESNEY, Supt.
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A CHEMICAL CHANGE
The professor was showing a
friend round his chemical laboratory.
“What has become of Jim Flllbot
tle?" the friend asked. ‘‘Wasn’t he
studying with the class last year?”
“Ah, yes,” replied the professor.
‘‘Fillbottle, poor fellow! A fine stu
dent but absent minded In the use of
chemicals—very. That slight dis
coloration on the ceiling—notice it?”
“Yes.”
‘That’s Fillbottle.”—Tit Bits.
SCHOOL POPULATION
SHOWS AN INCREASE
CENSUS FOR 1917 GIVES WHITES
2.629, BLACKS 10,802 IN COUNTY
—LAST YEAR'S TOTAL WHITES
AND BLACKS WAS 12,.199.
According to the reports on file in
the office of the county superin
tendent of education of Lee county,
there are 2,639 white and 10,802
negro boys and girls in Lee county
of school age, an aggregate of 13,
431. Last year's school census show
ed a total of 12,399 school children
in the county, making a net gain of
1,032 for 1917 over 1916.
The figures for the special school
districts in the county for 1917 are
as follows:
White Colored
Marianna_ 534 1,181
Moro. 353 1,231
Aubrey_ 119 1,451
Rondo_ 115 722
Oak Forest. 100 630
Jeffersonville_ 110 265
CH11._. 110 250
Big Creek_ 55 125
Haynes_ 125 260
The total number of children of
school age in Marianna this year is
1,715, against 1,651 for 1916, an in
crease of 64.
The 1917 census in the Moro
special district shows an increase cf
62; Aubrey an Increase of 48; Rondo
an increase of 40; Oak Forrest an in
crease of 17; Jeffersonville an In
crease of 26: GUI an Increase of 13;
Hig ('reek an increase of 73. The
Haynes special district was formed
out of old common districts one and
thirty-nine, and the census figures
for last year are not available.
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EXPRESS REGRETS OVER
DEATH OF ROBT. B. WILLIS
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The Courier-Index is in receipt of
the following expression of regrets
from Capt. H. Robert W. Herwig,
adjutant of the 6th infantry, at Fort
Roots, over the recent tragic death of
Robert Buehler Willis who was drown
ed in the St. Francis river twa week»
ago. Willis had successfully stood
the examination for admission to the
second officers’ training camp and an
nouncement of his selection came the
day following his death. The commun*
'icationfrom Capt. Herwig follows:
“The Command:ng Officer directs
me to express for him his deep re
grets of the death of Robert Buehler
Willis, who was drowned last Wed
nesday, as recorded by your Friday
edition.
“He also desires to express his sin
cere sympathy to the family and
friends of the dtceasd.’
SPLENDID SPECIMEN FOR
JOSH BILLINGS’ COLLECTION
A recent letter received by Circuit
Clerk Guy Apple proves conclusively
that Uncle Sam has in his employ
some experts in decyphering hiero
glyphics, and also that Josh Bil*
ings was a four-flusher as a deformed
speller. The letter bore the follow*
! ing address on the envelope;
“To the Clerk of the Surcuit Court
at Marandal, Ark.”
Just how the mail clerk unbridled
his imagination and discovered that
“Marandale” meant Marianna is not
Irnnu’n hut the contents of the let
ter revealed the fact that Martann*
was the right destination for th*
| epistollc monstrosity. Omitttng th*
postoffice and signature the letter
' reads as follows:
“To the Clerk of the Serket Court,
or Judge sir l write you to Ask that
you would Please sir tell Me the
Price of your Marregest Sutify cat*
if it Ant yout Custom to Fill out and
Return the Helen whlnd slnt In to
you one cupple Mr Tom Jack son
and Miss Leaner Boose Who Was
Married by Me W'e look far the
r. turn of the Licien and thav never
oome so Please sur writ Me the
price and We W'ill sind and git them
and fill them out and Mail back to
your Truly
“Married them In Sant Francies
Co.”
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Oregon and California Railroad Co.
Grant Lands. Legal fight over land
at last ended. Title revested la
! United States. Land, by Act of Con
gress, ordered to be opened under
I homestead laws for settlement and
, sale. Two million three hundred
I thousand acres. Containing some of
best timber and agricultural lands
left in United States. Large copy
i righted map showing land by town
! ships and sections, laws covering
same and description of soil, climate,
rainfall elevation, temperature, etc.,
postpaid one dollar. Grant Lands Lo
cating Co., Portland, Oregon. Nov. 10
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J. L. Ferguson, a well known" plant
er residing in the west end of the
county, was business visitor in th*
city Monday.
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