The Clarke County Tribune

Friday, January 9, 1920, Volume X, Number 34, $1.50 The Year

[All Items Submitted by Debora Reese]

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NO ROOM FOR I. W.W. ORGANIZERS, OR LIKE SOCIETIES, IN PEACEFUL TOWN OF QUITMAN

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Drastic and Earnest Resolution Adopted By Citizens in Mass Meeting to Keep Radicals Out of Quitman and Clarke Co.

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IN ONE ACCORD THE ENTIRE TOWN APPROVES

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Through Reliable Sources It is Learned that I. W. W. Organizers Are Headed This Way, Whose Plaus (sic)Are Promptly "Nipped in the Bud" A Diligent (sic) Investigation Ordered.

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    The community of Quitman is peaceful and quiet.  The laborer is well paid and satisfied.  The utmost confidence is enjoyed by employer and employee.  Those who would disturb the tranquility of our little village is not wanted here, and his ilk is given fair warning to make himself quite scarce, and notorious by his absence.  As proof of the earnestness of our citizens in this respect there is a standing reward of $60.00 offered to any person furnishing information of any one who shows by words or action that he is upholding or soliciting for the I. W. W. or any like organization, or attempts to plan secretly on this community.  The Vigilance Committee will wait upon such party and pursue such course as is deemed advisable in the premises.  All such agitators or organizers should read, ponder and inwardly digest the following:

    The citizens of Quitman, Clarke County, Mississippi, in mass meeting assembled.

    On motion, J. K. Kirkland, was selected Chairman and J. L. Adams Secretary of the meeting.

    On motion the following resolutions were unanimously adopted and all present affixed their signatures to them:

    WHEREAS, we have been reliably informed that it is the intention of agitators to come to Quitman and establish an organization among all the laborers of the town of Quitman, including cooks in private families; and

    WHEREAS, we are further advised that the people who are agitating the same are controlled by the element known as the Reds, or I. W. W; and

    WHEREAS, such an organization also breeds discontent and is inimitable to the best interest of the laboring people, as well as that of the employers; and

    WHEREAS, we believe that every person should have the right to decide whether he or she should work or not without reference to what what some one else may think or do; and

    WHEREAS, we especially desire to prevent trouble and blood-shed and loss of wages to the laboring people of this town, as well as the loss of profit by the business people;

    THEREFORE, we, the business men of the town of Quitman, Mississippi, in mass meeting  assembled, hereby call upon all good citizens of the town of Quitman to aid us in preventing the organization of any element the organization  of any element that would disturb the peaceful relationship now existing between the employees and their employer of said town, and report any person coming in our midst who speaks of acts in any manner in sympathy with the I. W. W. or like organization t the Vigilance committee of the Town and that they cause such person to change his residence forthwith, and hereby pledge ourselves individually and collectively to assist the prevention of such an organization as outlined above.

    In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names on this the (?)th day of January A. D. 1920.

    On motion the chairman appointed a vigilance committee whose duty shall be to carry out the intents and purposes of this meeting and the resolutions adopted.  The following men were appointed on said committee:

    W. H. Foster, Chairman, Dr. B. F. Hand, M. C. Allen, B. H. Donald, C. B. Wier, J. D. Fisher, Dr. H. C. Watkins, and Jno. Dabbs.

    There being no further business the meeting was adjourned subject to call of the chairman or secretary.

J. K. Kirkland, Chairman

J. L. Adams, Secretary

    NOTE: - Any citizen of the town who has not had an opportunity to sign the above resolution may do so by calling on the chairman or secretary.

(Notation - I. W. W. = Industrial Workers of the World)

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TRUSTEE SALE

    By virtue of the provisions of a deed of trust made by C. T. Cowart and Lou Cowart on the 2nd day of March A. D. 1918 to secure the payment of a certain indebtedness to R. land, which is recorded in deed of trust book No. 9 page 100, in the office of the chancery clerk of Clarke County, Mississippi, I, the undersigned named Trustee in said deed of trust will proceed to sell the following property mentioned therein, at the town of Quitman, in said county and state, within legal hours, on Saturday, the 31st day of January A. D. 1920, to the best bidder, for cash, the following described land towit:

    North East Quarter of North West Quarter and North West Quarter of North North West Quarter of Section Eight (8) Township Two (2) Range Eighteen (18) East in Clarke County, Mississippi.  I will execute deed to purchaser.

    This the 2nd day of January A. D. 1920.

J. M. SHEPHERD, Trustee,

S. H. Terrell, Atty.

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TRUSTEE SALE

    By virture (sic) of the provisions of a Deed of Trust, made by Mrs. Elvira Smith, on the 11th day of May, 1917, to secure the payment of certain indebtedness to Threefoot Bros. & Co., and whish is recorded in Trust Deed Book No. 8, page 242, in the Chancery Clerk's office of Clarke County, Mississippi, I , the undersigned trustee, will proceed to sell the following property mentioned therein, at the court house door, in the town of Quitman, in said county, during legal hours, on the 5th day of January, A. D. 1920, at public outcry, to the highest bidder for cash to-wit:

    A fraction of One Acre of Land, more or less, situated in the Northeast portion of the South West Quarter of the South West Quarter of Section 29, Township 2, and Range 14 East, also,

    One Six Room, one Story Frame Dwelling located on the above described land being and situated in Clarke County, Mississippi.

    I will execute deed to purchaser.

    J. W. BROOKS, Trustee

    Posted 10th day of December, A. D. 1919.

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TRUSTEE SALE

    By virture (sic) of the provisions of a Deed of Trist, made by Mrs. Elvira Smith, on the 7th day of May, 1917, to secure the payment of certain indebtedness to Threefoot Bros. & Co., and which is recorded in Trust Deed Book No. 8, page 208, in the Chancery Clerk's office of Clarke County, Mississippi, I, the undersigned trustee will proceed to sell the following property mentioned therein, at the court house door, in the town of Quitman, in said county, during legal hours, on the 5th day of January, A. D. 1920, at public outcry, to the highest bidder for cash to-wit:

    The SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 and the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4, Section 8, Township 4 and Range 15, situated in Clarke County, Mississippi.

    I will execute deed to purchaser.

J. W. BROOKS, Trustee

    Posted 10th day of December, A. D. 1919.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL HAPPENINGS

    Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Seldon, of Belzoni, Miss., after a short visit with the family of Mrs. Seldon's father, J. J. Haynie, left for their home Thursday.  Mr. Seldon in manager of the extensive Powell Department Store, of Belzoni, a concern carrying an average stock of $250,000.00, and is the youngest manager of a department store in the state, he being only 25 years of age.  The store is owned by Mr. Seldon's brother-in-law, Mr. J. M. Powell.  Mr. Seldon had much to say in praise of Quitman while here, notably of the improvements made, all of which, he said, "tells of a progressive people and a prosperous community."

    FROSTPROFF CABBAGE PLANT FOR SALE: Cabbage Plants Postpaid, $2.50 per 1000.  Cabbage Plants Express Collect $2.00 per 1000.  Ask price large quantity, all varieties.

    LOST - Strayed from my place about 30 days ago one pale butheaded cow unmarked with brinttel yearling calf.  $10.00 reward for finder for returning to M. L. LOPER, Crandall, Miss.

    Grover C. Davis, of this county, who was a member of the "Rainbow Division" during the war with Germany, has been given the deputyship in the sheriff's office by Mr. Evans, Sheriff Evans saying that it was his good war record that had much to do with his giving him the position.  Young Davis is a son of Mt. Hiram Davis, one of the county's most progressive farmers.

    G. W. Morgan, Paper Hanger and interior Decorator, is now located in Quitman and is prepared to wait on customers for anything in his line.  He comes highly recommended and if you are in need of his services, he can serve you at any time.  His work is first class in every particular and will give you entire satisfaction.

    Mr. Oscar Adams, the old time-tried and tome0tested clerk at the store of Quitman's oldest merchant, J. K. Kirkland, will be missed behind the counter there, he having, upon his own volition, resigned his position effective January 1st.  It is learned that Mr. Adams will engage in farming and stock raising.

    ATTENTION, Gardeners and Truckers.  For fine headed cabbage in early spring set now our famous frost proof plants, Early Jersey, Charleston, Wakefield, Succession, Flat Dutch.  Prices express 1000, $2.00, 2000, $3.50, 5000, #7.50.  Prepaid mail 300, $1.00, 500, $1.50, 1000, $2.50.  - Parker Farms, Moultrie, Ga.

    J. W. Gandy, of Columbus, Marion County, Miss., is thinking of removing his general merchandise business to Quitman, saying in his letter to a friend here that "he had formed a favorable impression of Quitman as a business center through the dispatches in the Mobile Register and Time-Picayune telling of the town's rapid growth."

    A "weather vane" which can be pretty well relied upon as to the prosperity in and around Quitman is the fact that the Ford automobile agent here, Jno. S. Dabbs, is delivering to customers two carloads a month and is behind eighty five cars in filling orders.

    SHIP US YOUR DOGWOOD - We are offering a high price for Dogwood, in shipments of seven cords and up.  We pay the freight.  Write for price and specifications, stating your load point.                                                                    PRICE & NORRIS - Hattiesburg, Miss., Box 666

    Rev. J. E. Byrd, of Mount Olive, State Sunday School Secretary, and Miss Brown will be here the first Sunday in February and will spend a week with Quitman Baptist Church to teach training work for the Sunday School.

    Dr. W. J. McNair, Local Registrar, of Quitman Precinct, reports that within the past year of 1919 there were 120 births and 36 deaths recorded.  It will be noticed that the births exceed the death rate by over 3 to 1.

    Mrs. Estelle, wife of Maj. Estelle, of Crandall, he being an attache of accounting department of the Long-Bell hardwood mill at that place, was in town shopping Tuesday of this week, accompanied by Mrs. J. S. McGee.

    Inquiries are coming daily from people abroad inquiring as to chances for opening here in the various lines of business, they having read in the papers of the rapid strides Quitman is making as a business center.

    $25.00 Weekly.  Men-Women.  Advertise.  Start Candy Factory at home small room, anywhere.  We tell how and furnish everything.  Specialty Candymaking House, 5 South 18th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

    Miss Margie Morris, who is one of the senior students at the L. L. & C. at Columbus, Miss., after spending holidays with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Morris, has returned to her duties at school.

    In absence of Col. Jno. W. McNeal, Mrs. S. C. Ray is issuing marriages license and transcribing other business connected with the Circuit Clerk's office.

    666 has proven it will cure Malaria, Childs (sic) and Fevers, Bilious Fever Colds and LaGrippe.

    Mr. J. A. Carmichael, a prominent merchant and planter of Brewer, spent a couple of days this week in Meridian and Quitman.  he also gave The Tribune two subscription renewals.

    Mrs. B. P. Evans, after several months residence in Jackson, has returned and will make her home in Quitman.  Her many friends delight to learn of this decision.

    For polite, urbane clerks, commend us to those employed in the stores of Quitman, this making it a pleasure for customers to have dealings at just any of the stores.

    The new sheriff, Mr. Jas. G. Evans, takes hold of the duties with a grace and familiarity which always characterized his work as an officer.

    Rub-My-Tism is a powerful antiseptic; it kills the poison caused form infected cuts, cures old sores, tetter, etc.

    Prof. Foster, the retired chancery clerk, his many friends will be pleased to learn, will continue to make Quitman his home.

    Little Jack Haynie has been in bed all the week, occasioned by a severe cold, but is some better at this writing.

    H. B. Cole, the hustling land agent of the Long-bell Company, spent several days in Jackson this week on business for his company.

    666 quickly relieves Colds and LaGrippe, Constipation, Billiousness, Loss of Appetite and Headaches.

    The Board of Supervisors were in session a couple of days this week, and this body disposed of much important business.

    All the new officials have taken their respective places, and business as usual is being transacted at the court house.

    Mrs. Alex Terral and children left this week to join Mr. Terral at Hickory, he being located there for sometime.

    Mrs. Fatherree, of Pachuta, is visting her mother and sister, Mrs. Beard and Mrs. Hill Arrington.

    J. B. Quinnelly, formerly of near Shubuta, has moved to Quitman, and will make this his home.

    Mr. Lawrence Morris has returned to Oxford to resume his studies at the University.

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