Semi-Weekly Journal from McComb, Mississippi • Page 4

McC0MB SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. McCOMB. MISSISSIPPI Wednesday, March 28, 1928 bom Trainload of Automobiles for Mississippi building I NOTICE OF MVSIC EXAMIN ATION Caledonia: New school McCOLGAN under construction at Caledonia Con solidated school rapidly nearing S. COTTEN The State tsamuauu" mony, Historv, and Pedagogy for music teachers will be held at the court house in Magnolia on Saturday. April 7 1928 at 8:30 A.

M. NANNIE GILLIS. Supt. of Education. Pike County.

-m28-31 TAKE SPECIAL Sunday Dinner 75 CANT FIND HOI SE Three dinner plates were all that Mr. and Mrs. Orris Reil could find when they returned to their home in Cleo after spending the night with a neighbor half a mile away. A freak twister had carried off house, barn and furniture. Search of nearby fields revealed no evidence of the vagrants' whereabouts.

Holcomb: This town grants 25-year franchise to Mississippi Power Light Company. kJL-- -v. xw. From 11:30 A. M.

to 9: Pi popularized these well-known cars solid trainload of cars. He succeeded here. and recently their principal in doing so with despatch, and with-problem has been to get sufficient jU jve days from his arrival at To- NO EG Bree Bocks 1 Boi 1 Auto Agency Aids in Record Purchase FOR HEADACHE 10c AT ALL STORES cars to keep deliveries up with tne demand. Thic about through the re- CHOICE OP COCKTAUg FRESH LAKE SHRIMP 0R 0Y RELISH R0YsTER Mi-Comb Willys-Overland Co. Takes Part in Buying Train-load of Cars Delivered 1500 Miles in 5 Days LiLRY HEARTS AND DITT, SOTTP CREAM OF CHICKEN SOUP 1 with i 6ALAD HEAD LETTUCE WITH FISH ledo, the cars had been purchased, assorted in car loads, turned over to the railroads, and delivered in Jack-con, some 1500 miles away.

Said a representative of Robinson Bros, last night: "Not only is this a record for Quick handling of freight but this is, without doubt, the largest single shipment and the first solid irainload of automobiles ever to be consigned to one order in Mississippi. We consider the McComb dealer one of the very best in cur territory, and it was due to their co-operation that we were able to handle a shipment of such gigantic magnitude." cent cut umppei puces level said to be startling throughout the entire automobile industry, alid to the immediately popular new low-priced Willvs-Knight introduced about the same time. But the Willys distributor in Jackson. Robinson Bros. Motor was determined not to let this condition hinder operations for any length of time.

Summoning the co-operation of the McComb dealer and a few others, they sent a representative to the Toledo factory last week to arrange, if possible, for a x-, 1 ROUT TARTARe sacce The announcement of V. C. May and YVintcn Williams this morning of their participation in the purchase of a solid trainlcd of automobiles has created a great deal of interest here. Operating under the name McComb Willvs-Overland these gentlemen have been the Willys-Knight and Whippet dealers in McComb and vi-cinitv fcr the last two or three years. Progressive and enterprising, they CHOICE OF MEATS CREAMED CHICKEN Pip OR ROAST LOIN OF PORK WITH APprp i VEGETABLES Ui O'BRIEN POTATOES FRENCH CREAMED LIMA BEANS PERSONALS pf O'Hara Feted afr Mrs.

C. E. Hunt Old Friend Home After Long Trip CHOICE OF of Hazlehurst spent Hilton Cotton Sunday here. Enjoyable Bridge-Shower Given Monday livening for Fiancee of Mr. F.

A. Tycer silver Dollar Is Sent to Mail Order House Gets Back Here By the Merest Accident. spent Saturday in H. E. Prescott New Orleans.

James Harrell spent the week-end in New Orleans. Hon. E. G. Williams attended court in Magnolia Monday.

I lTL BANANA SHORT, C0PPEE TEA For ALL the News Read The 1 Mrs. Carleton E. Hunt was hostess at a bridge-shower Monday evening, at her home in Ncrth Broadway, honoring Miss Katherine O'Hara of Memphis, who will become the bride of Mr. F. A.

Tycer of McComb the latter part of June. The Hunt home was beautiful with Easter decorations in green and pink, the lovely wild azalea being used in great masses and clusters throughout he rooms. Bridge was enjoyed by seven tables of players. Miss Kathleen Chumlev was the winner of high Everybody invited to be present at Beantown Choir rehearsal. Thursday evening March 29 at 8 o'clock.

North McComb School. It will end in a wedding. Guess who will be the bride and groom. Lots of fun and laughter. m28 Si! i if score prize, Miss Amelia Smith cut Mrs.

Hilton Cotten of Hazlehurst is here visiting Miss Dorothy Carroll. Mrs. D. A. Little and Miss Mary Little spent the week-end in Spring's Smartest Footwear from Martins Pinks and Greens for Easter and days after.

Every model we offer is distinctly individual in pattern. New Easter colors in Hosiery also await you E. H. MARTIN SHOE CO. By B.

B. Barnes U. S. Dollar rolled into our office the other day, stood at the edge of our desk, and rubbed his rugged 1 face. "Well," he said wearily, "I've certainly been a busy little fellow since I saw you last.

Gosh, but I'm glad to get back home again." "We're glad to have you back with we responded, recognizing him as an old friend whom we had not seen for some time. "Sit down and give an account of yourself." "We parted last, you remember," he began, "when I was paid to the i garage man for gasoline, and from there I made a merry trip around town. I've paid for a dollar's worth of groceries, dry goods, clothing, i shoes, hardware, drugs, meals at res-; taurants, tobacco, corn, hay, potatoes, I stove wood, coal, ice, laundry, jew-! elry, barber work, cigars, eggs, chick-I ens, turkeys and automobile repairs, "Then I went to the bank, but stayed there only a short time. After leaving the bank. I paid a dollar debt at the blacksmith shop, and to the harness maker, the painter, the car-; penter, lawyer, doctor, preacher, and butcher.

Together with some of my comrades I have gone for a wagon, farming implements, and I have been invested in horses, mules, cows and hegs. And here I am, back where I started from, to pay for newspaper subscription." "You certainly have been circulating consolation and Miss Hilda Wichman made low score. The chair occupied by Miss O'Hara was decorated in pink, and was placed at the head table. A large basket containing many beautiful gifts and decorated in pink and green, was brought in and presented to the hon-oree by Miss Beulah Youngblood, who made a most appropriate speech. Miss O'Hara responded in a few double Mrs.

E. D. Loch spent Monday in Gillsburg with her mother Mrs. Hettie Taylor Mr. and Mrs.

C. E. Hunt and Mrs. Addie Wilkinson were Gloster visitors Sunday. barrelled hpppy words of thanks for the love and thought fulness of her friends.

The mysterious packages were opened and duly admired by the assembled i guests. Little Nellie Hunt will speak a piece at North Mi Cur.b School Thursday night. March 29 at eight o'clock. Come out and hear her. It will be worth your while.

m28 A delicious salad course with tea was served. The guest list included: Miss Kath dollars Mr. and Mrs. Webb Holmes have returned to McComb after a visit in Nashville. 6 ii Mr.

and Mrs. C. E. Wilkinson and daughter Lucy were visitors to Gloster Sunday. erine O'Hara, Mrs, K.

Walton, Mrs. i William Osborne, Miss Ehvynne But- ler. Miss Hilda Wichman. of Sum- mit; Mrs. Hance Wilson, Mrs.

Louie Wilkinson. Miss Amelia Smith, Miss i Price. Miss Kathleen Chum- ley, Mrs. J. Lynn Holley.

Mrs. Maude Lee, Miss Gladys Heath, Miss Beulah Youngblood. Mrs. Clifford Rawls, Mrs. Webb J.

Holmes. Mrs. O. M. Whit- iingtcn.

Miss Elise Page, Mrs. King Quiliman, Miss Una Holmes. Miss Mary Joyce. Miss Annie Edwards, Mrs. E.

D. Loch, Mrs. J. P. Nolan, Misses Lcttie, Lydia and Verdia Tycer.

Mrs. J. W. Tycer of Hammond, i around some," we told him. "But you don't mean to tell us that it has taken this long while to make the i circuit of this community, do "Oh, no," he replied.

"You see it was this way. Some thoughtless person sent me to a mail order house T. K. Williams, train master for the Louisiana division of the I. C.

R. has returned from Chicago. Each dollar you get can be used, not only to buy things, but also to EARN MORE DOLLARS if invested in shares of Mr. and Mrs. P.

S. Hall of Jackson were in McComb Tuesday on a hon-cmoon trip to New Orleans by away off yonder. It is just an accident that I got back at all. "Several of us made the trip together, and I never expect to see any of my fellow-travelers again. It was by the merest accident that it was I who was sent back here to pay for and Miss Margaret Alford.

i CLASSIFIED Jimmie Weathersby. the noted pie smasher will meet his match in smashing Thursday night at North McComb School. Lots of other funny characters in old fashioned costumes. m28 MISSISSIPPI POWE Cents per Word per Minimum Charge 50c RATE 2 Insertion, per Issue. LIGHT CO.

a list of names so this mail order house could send out their catalogues in an attempt to put more of my brethren out of circulation in this town and vicinity. "Now that I am back home," he continued, "I hope I will never be sent out of this community again. You are a newspaper man. I wish you would advise your readers ho-; much more good a dollar spent et home does them than one sent tj the mail order houses, and ask them to keep us here, where we are all FOR -Desirable apartment. tin-Apply Journal.

m28-31 PLANE RUNS PILOT After chasing him for twenty yards. Pilot Dallas Speer's plane ran over him. a la auto, at Gulfport last week. Sitting bruised in the dust. Pilot Speer remembered that he had left his throttle open wide when he got cut to crank his ship.

$6 PREFERRED it's SAFE and FOR RENT Two bungalows one 5- room brick, the other 6-room frame both on Delaware Ave. Apply Mc-1 Oolgan Building Loan Association. mch24tf. 3 months RABBIT FOOT? WANTED To buy one second-hand I Ford ton truck. Price must be Over 6 On Your one family, so to speak, and where the same dollar will pay a score of debts, and still remain at home." "We'll take great pleasure in doing that," we heartily agreed.

"But don't you feel that you have earned a vacation after this trying "No," replied the dollar. "As a gentleman of leisure I'm a failure. I can do nobody any good unless I am kept at work. So I ask you, as a favor to myself and to this community, to start me immediately upon another journey. But keep me among my friends, please, in this trade territory, where I am at home." We dropped his royal higness into right.

Cash proposition. J. C. Oubre, Norfield, Miss. m21-28p FOR RENT 3 unfurnished rooms suitable for light housekeeping.

213 5th Avenue. m28-31 Cut out and mail to order stock or for I MISSISSIPPI POWER LIGHT COMPf Preferred Stock Jackson, in meeting your 15 NOTICE State examination fcr mu- sic teachers in Harmony, History! AT OSYKA On State Line BIG SALE jend Pedagogy will be held bv thp Please send me free copy oi cajjg about vour $6 Preferred Stock JJ? Rtri I wish to subscribe for Stock at price oi Mt I share. Send bill to me showing Deputy Sheriff Tom Glenn, Monroe County, knows how circus ladies feel when knife throwers back them against backboards and outline their terms with swords or daggers. He, chasing moonshiners, got close enough to eight bullets to fell them pass through his clothing, but escaped without a scratch. THEY'LL MOVE HEAVEN "I'll move heaven and hell for a school book plant put THAT in vour paper," shouted Bilbo to Newspaperman F.

R. Birdsall from a Yazoo City platform Thursday night. Whereto Editor Birdsall next morning replied. "Though we know little about the region with which you seem so familiar, we'll move 'heaven and earth' to keep you from doing that very thing." NEW SPEED RECORD Indicted, tried, found guilty and sentenced within four and one-half hours. Green Kirk, negro, will go to the gallows, Friday, April 13, for murder.

State records show no quicker trial in which death sentence was inflicted. mc jjm.ii.eus ui uur jeans to join a very few of his kind reposing there, and they jingled joyfully together as we made our way to the tax collector's office, where we paid in our share toward the upkeep of this state, this county, and this town. I wish to subscribe I0I of $io per sf1," I Stock on Easy Payment Plan. tin wr share ner montn urn County Superintendents at the coun- I ty seats on Saturday, April 7, 1928 m'28-lt WANTED Two young men by Old Line i Legal Reserve) Insurance! Company for McComb and Apply in person, office No. 2, State Theatre Building, between 2 and P.

M. Thursday. Good contract for' right man. W. R.

Smith, Agent. m28 I crued dividend per sha hi shares vour mth a I ThursdayMarch29 $98.00 and accrued diudena attached through Name of Your BanK I Early Appeal Won by Howard Group Republican Faction Headed by Negro Gets Case Forwarded to April 23 2 iNaine Street city LOST Sunday night in Eaptist Church, Sunbeam Record Book. Findor please notify Mrs. J. L.

Stan-difer, 424 Fifth St, phone 622. m28-31 1 50 Head Horses, Mares and Mules Reduced Prices FIRE FIGHTRESS In South Mississippi, where everybody fears but few are found to fight destructive forest flames. Miss Martha Ryan, Fruitland Park, is recovering from serious burns sustained when she attempted single-handed to put out a forest fire that was nearing her fences. ML on Quality Baby The Republican faction headed by Perry Howard, a negro, won a move in its fight for re-instatement Monday when its appeal to the United States Supreme Court was set earlier on the docket to be heard April 23 Chancellor Dale in court at Hat-tiesburg had restrained this group from calling Beat, County and State meetings to elect delegates for the national Republican convention, and the main argument in the plea for an early hearing was that the case should be settled in time for calling these meetings. The Sheldon faction, now the acting Republican group, brought the injunction suit, and it was granted by Chancellor Dale on the grounds of irregularity in calling of the convention under the provisions of the George Law of 1906.

FROM VIGOROUS HIGH EGG PRODUCING FLOCKS from 800 to 1400 pounds AH young mules from 4 to 7 years old. AH stock broke and ready to work. This stock sent from Wichita, Kansas, consigned to FRANK ROUSEO to be sold for the hard dollar regardless of what they cost AH stock guaranteed as represented. Terms cash. For information ring Rouseo, Newman Hotel, Kentwood, La.

FRANK ROUSEO, Auctioneer. CHICKENS S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS BARRED ROCKS Jiirr some i AH our flocks have been carefully culled and mated by poultry experts. M.

C. VV. BRIDGE CLUB ELECTS The M. C. W.

Bridge Club held its first meeting Saturday afternoon in the home of Miss Frances Jane McDowell. The following officers were elected President, Julia Day Stewart. Treasurer, Bessie Railsback. Reporter, Evelyn Beard. After an hour of bridge a delicious salad course was served to the following members: Julia Day Stewart, Eessie Railsback Myrtle Pyle, Mamie Reid McMillan Helen Faust, Louise Hart, Frances J.

McDowell and Evelyn Beard. fine flocks of pure bred emcneiu. nS I WE ARE NOW OFFERING QUALITY BABYCHnfj i very attractive prices for April and May delivery. Live delivery b-- llrtL ALL SHOE WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED Phone 888 C. BUNGARTZ 113 South Boulevard 1V1AK1UIN CUUIN1Y HATCHLKI, oiui Member International Babv Chick Assn.

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