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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1922
Page
4
A newspaper item notes a strict policy against free copies and credit deliveries. It states no papers will be sent on credit to any party, enforcing payment-first rules and limiting distribution. The notice underscores business practices aimed at preventing unpaid distribution.
The National Fertilizer Association in Philadelphia warns against Henry Ford entering the U S fertilizer business and campaign against government leasing Muscle Shoals. The association argues Ford could hurt existing manufacturers, while proponents say leasing to Ford would boost Southern employment and wages.
The Eagle extends the time limit on its special one dollar per year paper offer, arguing the paper benefits every farmer and citizen in the county. It emphasizes readers become better educated citizens, urges posting of county conditions, and notes a new weekly column under The Office Cat talk to entertain and inform readers.
In New Orleans on January 17, Mrs. Marietta Cusimano, 23, died after a trash burner exploded in the kitchen while she poured kerosene. Her sister, Miss Louise Anselmi, in critical condition, attempted to smother the flames.
Official figures show railroads collected 332,809,963.16 in war taxes in 1920 and handed it to the government. The tax take represented about eight percent of railroad business, suggesting total 1920 collections from the public around 30.6 billion dollars.
Notice from Lafayette County Mississippi that bids will be opened at 1:00 PM on Tuesday January 7 1922 for keeping county funds and qualifying as county depository for 1922. The Board may reject all bids and bonds as required by law. Dated January 5 1922 by Clerk W M Woodward.
The piece humorously notes stylish exits and quips about Will Rogers quitting movies with the same wife, contrasts careers with marriages, and adds a distant anecdote about crookedness and a snake, ending with a playful jab at the corkscrew being out of a job.
Uncle Jawn voices vexation over endless Christmas expenses and the need to save for the next. He warns that saved pennies fund a lawyer who can break a will. The passage mocks Burbank as an honest grafter and questions a garage ad promising starting and lighting as a sign they should enter aviation if they can start and light successfully.
A collage of quips and anecdotes ranging from literary allusions to daily wisdom fills a humor column. Mentions of Longfellow Milton and Ziegfeld mingle with jokes about cars, hair, weddings, and odds and ends. A morbid postscript hints at post mortem knowledge.
A southern association session urges using negro labor on farms, improving rural homes churches and schools, training rural teachers, a rural community fair, a reform school for wayward youths, and placing industry in every rural school with trade instruction. An information bureau aids Negroes against agitators. Delegates urged from every state.
Representative Lowrey urges rapid distribution of excess Department of Agriculture seed to practical farmers. The plan allocates 900 quart cotton seed, 50 four-pound alfalfa seed, 10 two-pound cow pea, 30 two-pound Bi lo xi soy, 110 one-pound Sudan grass, and 100 two-pound velvet bean packages to each county, with a February deadline and emphasis on tracking results.
Shelby Mississippi reports the National Industrial Education Association will hold its 7th annual session January 11 and 12, 1921. A strong program covers every phase of Negroes life in rural communities and aims to improve useful life through education.
The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Lafayette County Mississippi announces sealed bids will be received until 12 oclock noon Tuesday for the construction of a 40 ft bridge described as No 204 in Peag District across lands owned by Hayes in Beat Be seer cies.
Public notices of deeds of trust foreclosures in Lafayette County Mississippi. W W Read and Elvira Read with C Wilkins are named in one deed. another lists H W Wockhart and Anna Lockhart with Garanty Bank. Sale dates set for February 13, 1922, at Oxford Court House, with land descriptions and personal property included. Also a notice inviting banks to bid as depositories per 1912 laws.
Trust deed forecloses on Lot 27 in Oxford as secured by H F Simpson and Mary Garner Simpson for Guy B Taylor. James Stone Sr trustee will sell February 13, 1922, at the Lafayette County Courthouse between 11 am and 3 pm for about 1500 dollars. Title believed good but conveyed as trustee only.
J S Douglas as Trustee under a deed of trust for The Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. Oxford Mississippi will sell at the south door of the Court House in Oxford on February 13 1922 the south half of the northwest quarter of section 15 township 8 range 3 West containing 80 acres and the personal property including a black horse mule Mack and a bay mare Glendell with increase, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by the trust deed.
E H Gamble and Nell Gamble Trust Co of Oxford Mississippi announce a cash sale of a 3 acre tract in Lafayette County Mississippi to satisfy a deed of trust. The sale will be held at the south door of the Oxford Court House on February 18 1922 within lawful hours. The property lies along the Oxford and College Hill road and includes portions formerly known as Bader Sparks and linked to a 1919 conveyance in Book 79.
Acknowledges grateful appreciation for thoughtful care received at the hospital. Signed by A. H. P. Dillard.
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