The Democrat-Argus from Caruthersville, Missouri • 3

THE DEMOCRAT-ARGUS, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1939 Just Wanted to Know MID-CITY Nation's Leaders Gathering in New York for 29th Boy Scout Conclavo and Great World's Fair Rally Hints to Cardeniri hf Cordon Uorrlton Vttttabt Expert ftrrf Stti Sutton and wife and daughter, NeaL also James E. Johnson were in Kennett Saturday night. Matt Robinson and family of Pascola visited E. L. McLaughlin and family recently.

Mrs. J. A. Johnson, who was reported quite ill last week, is able to be up. Mrs.

John Pfeifer is on the sick list. WARDELL it Mrs. Susie Homberg of St. Louis is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Al E. Pate, near Bragg City. Born to Buster McLaughlin and wife a little daughter, June 15th, Donald Lee, who has been visiting his aunt, Mrs. Carl Johnson, returned to his home at Halls Station Sunday. (Miss Billie Walker and the Texas ILonghorns of Memphis, will be at the Presbyterian church at Bakerville June 27.

The 4hH Club is sponsoring the play and every one is invited to attend. Albert Wood', who has gone to Greenville, for his health, is reported not doing so well. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claudie Sewell died Saturday of colitis.

Funeral services were held Sunday, conducted by Grady King of Hayti, minister of the Church of Christ. Lucille Chaney spent Monday and Tuesday with Mrs. Mart Bumipus near Bragg City. Robert McLaughlin left Monday for Michigan to work. The children and grandchildren of Mrs.

A. E. Pate gathered in her home Sunday to celebrate her birthday. At the noon hour a bountiful dinner was served. Everyone had a good time and each one felt wishing their mother many more happy birthdays.

Little Paul Emerson McLaughlin, who is in a hospital at St. Louis being fitted for shoes and brace foraTcrippled linib, is expected to be home in a few days. (Malcom Privett and wife, Mary Billingsley, Lee Robinson several miles the highway runs alongside a huge field of tanks, row upon row of them, property, I believe, of the Standard Oil Company. Most of the oil refined there is produced in the state of Louisiana and it would seem gasoline ought to be cheap. The oil industry is not so conducted, however, and you pay even a little more for your gas, probably, right alongside the huge reserves, due to a city tax being imposed.

And let me tell you here" and now auto travel in southern states is highly expensive for every one of them has a tax of either six or seven cents per gallon. Add to this the federal tax of one cent and a city tax in most places of a cent or a fraction of a cent and you will find yourself paying more in taxes than the, retail price otherwise would be. And in Mississippi the state sales pax of two per cent is im posed on gasoline sales the same as on other commodities. The re sult ds that gasoline costs one from 21 to 23 cents a gallon, which really is exorbitant. Every time I stopped for gas I was a little prouder of my home state and its management of highway building and allied affairs.

On the whole the roads are much better and Missouri certainly doesn't stick the motorist Ike most of the southern states do. see Passing through an edge of the capital city we found ourselves in the heart of the late Huey Long's one-time activities and at our tourist camp just in time to gain shelter before a cloud whdehhad been hanging along behind us all afternoon caught up with us and the rain began to pour. Here we had in mind seeing the famous state capitol built during Huey Long's "reign" and noted far and wide as the most magnificent governmental structure in most of the states if not all of them. To, hit to righh Grow A. Whelm, J.

Edgar Hoover, Alfred I. Middle, left to rishh Waltor W. Head, Molt Jane lottos MltorighhOwMj. lobwt DanMCartorNard. ThMdenReoMvcK.

What pro mind to be the largitt rally of Scoutt ever held anywhere In the world will tako plaeo during Boy Scoot Day at tha New York World'i Fair on June 29. Tha txerdwt will ba combined with tha 29th Annual Meeting of tha National Council, Boy Scoutt of America, on Juna 23-29. Fint day aesiioni, Juna 28, of tha national mew tint will be at tha Waldorf. Astoria Hotel where Alfrad E. Smith, former Governor of New York State, and Dr.

John R. Mott, President of tha World'a Alliance of tha YJM.CA. are to (peak at tha luncheon and dinner teuioni respectively. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of tha Federal Bureau of Investigation, will address the mass gathering of 75,000 Scoutt scheduled for the Court of Peace at the Fair on Thursday afternoon June 29, and at tha same place Owen J.

Roberts, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is to officiate at a ceremony when 500 or mora 21-year-old Scoutt or former Scoutt accept the specific obligations of voting citizenship. Grover A. Whalen, President of the World's Fair Corporation and Fiorello H. taOuardia, Mayor of New York City, will welcome the National Council at luncheon in the Fair's Casino of Nations Just prior to the Scout Day ceremonies. Walter W.

He'd of St Louis, President of tha National Council, Boy Scoutt of America, will occupy the chair at all sessions. Both Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-President of the National Council, and Daniel Carter Beard, National Scout Commissioner, are to take part in tha sessions. Dr. James E. West, Chief Scout Executive and Editor of 'Soys' Life," will make public the Movement's annual report for 1938, showing excellent progress in all fields and a 12.4 gain in membership.

The Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York, host Council, is completing extensive plana to receive and entertain the delegates. on deaii timber gave us the erroneous impression that it was a parasitic growth and may cause timber to die. The only harmful effect may come from its tendency to smother trees on which it grows profusely, we were told. Spanish moss, in addition to aftjaBB. akaaaa, Tips la Brief YOU seed not delay planting Just because toll seems too dry to promote germination.

After form lag the trench In which seeds are to be placed, pour Into It about two gallons of water to every 10 feet Place seeds on the moist bed and cover lightly with soft. Don't be in too big a hurry to get your garden started. In planting three weeks before your neighbor yon may get crops three weeks later than be does, because the cool weather of spring can set back plants severely. Plants thus dam aged are spending their energies recovering from cold-weather shock while those planted later are beginning to mature. For bouse bouquets of.pcu!a of greatest beauty, pick petunias in the bud.

This protects the opening blossoms from damage from Insects, wind, rain and dust. When the blossoms open slowly in the qtttet coolness of the bouse, they ant as beautiful as nature can make them. Handle Heavenly Blue morning glories similarly. Pick those with long stems and some leaves, arrange in a vase set In a cool, dark place in your house. Usually they will open in 6 to 12 hours; and you will find them far more lovely than the wind-blown blossoms out-of-doors.

They will last from 3 to 10 hours, depending upon the light and temperature in your house. At summer's end, do not throw away dead tomato vin'eB. Uee them as a mulch for perennial flowers, for they are far superior to some other materials often used for mulching. Vines do not pack as leaves and straw do. Air and light can penetrate them and snow can sift through, forming an effective seal atter the first, snow.

Just as with other mulches, the vines should not be laid until after' the ground has frozen. It's smart to drive carefully! mtsevm less TAKE A LOOK! New invisible luggage compartment, completely concealed beneath windstreamed rear ensemble, yet actually 27 larger! FREE PROOF THAT DODGE SAVES GASI This free "Gasometer" teat shows yon exactly how many miles Dodge travels on an accurately measured quantity of gael VSBSBBWBBar-aaaw- kBaBaaasS SMbbbbbbbbI ipil jm nth lit in am mwxAm sfW-yyjgmwmMmnmmmmmmmBnmmamtnm 4 i I Mother Darling, you were awfully late last night I'm afraid I I'm old-fashioned, but I should lilvjh Iftjmt aialV aia MAC VW AIIUW WIICIC JTUU Sally Certainly, mummy. I dined with Oh, well, you don't know him, and we went to several places I dont suppose you've oeen and nnisnea ai a queer little club I forgot its name. But It's all right, isn't it, mummy? Mother Of course, darling. It's only that I just like to know.

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ft. S. T. CARUTHERSVILLE. MISSOURI Miss Grace Hampton of Jeffer son City spent last week here with relatives.

Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Pettigrew and children and Mrs.

J. F. Knight spent Sunday here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs.

F. M. Dillard and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dillard and son were euests Sunday of the W.

A. Thomas family at Caruthersville. Mdmes. Roy Dillard, C. W.

Wallace, Harry Fields and W. A. Thomas were dinner guests of Mrs. L. M.

Davis Wednesday. Miss Lillian iBpwen and Lyman Dillard. students at Teachers Col lege at Cape Girardeau, spent the week end with home ioiks. Mrs. Roy Dillard and Mrs.

F. M. Dillard attended to business in Caruthersville Monday. Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Hampton of St Louis are -here this week visiting relatives. Mrs. Vird Fish of Miami, spent Friday here with her uncle, J. F. Swift.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Burlison of Hornersville, and daughter, Mrs J. L. McAuliffe and Mc- Auliffe of Flint, Mrs.

Etta Harden of Cardwell and Mrs Mattie Bates of Nashville, spent Sunday in the home of J. i. Burlison. The latter two ladies are aunts of Mr. Burlison.

Mr. and Mrs. Willard Walker spent a few days last week with relatives at Trezevant, Tenn. Mrs. J.

I. Burlison and daughter, Miss Ruth, and Mrs. W. W. Shemard and son.

Ray. went to Benton and West Frankfort Mon day to visit relatives. Billy Dean Burlison will visit relatives at Matthews during their absence. Mrs. Emma Walker is spending a few weeks at Hornbeak, with her sister, Mrs.

Katie Leathers, and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs Harry Fields went to Martin, last week to see a cousin, J. D. Walker.

Miss Patsy Jackson of Tipton-ville, is spending this week here with her uncles, Son-nie and Willard Walker. Woodrow Burlison visited relatives in Puxico Sunday. Miss Billie Jean Arnold is this week with her sis ter, Mrs. D. Mallory, at Hayti.

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold and iam-ily spent Sunday with their daughter. Mrs. Don Mallory, at Hayti.

Later in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Arnold and Billie Jean, Mrs. iDon Mallorv and daughters visited Burl Arnold in Caruthers ville. On the down grade of a kinu, steep hill, second or low gear is the best brake for Keeping a car under control and for saving brake linings and drums.

Phone 7 Gerard Calllan Good Radio and Electric Work SHOP LOCATED 223 WARD What Happening in Your Own Home? We hope Mr. Jones learned hl lesson! Under our tow rates he can well afford to be lots more care-free about lights. It's needless to risk painful injur and defective eyesight when our rates are scaled to permit you to nse plenty of lights all over the house and garage at all times. Arkansas Missouri Power Corporation Li i being a sort of "Tradition" in the South and something the "natives" are pleased to show visitors, also is an item of commerce to the people. It is gather ed by negroes and others, buried in the ground to "cure" or bleach it (emerging a rusty black in color), then washed and strung on fences or lanes to dry and cure still further.

Then it is tak- en to market in sacks, where it commands prices sufficiently high to provide a fair income for its gleaners. Its use? Well, for many years few people in southern cities ever slept on mattresses stuffed with anything but Spanish moss. It is used for upholstering furniture and other similar purposes, but we were told cotton and spring mattresses now are superseding the moss-filled kind to an extent sufficient to cut down its sale (and its price) materially. But it is one of the very interesting sights in southern Mississippi, Louisiana and all states bordering on or near the Gulf. From a distance it is more or less drab and uninteresting as to col or, but close up it is a delicate green that is very pleasing.

Its tendrils have more the appear ance of fine grass, however, than of moss as we people usually conceive of it. Approaching Baton Rouge one is impressed that this must indeed be a great oil refining center (if not oil For 6 Eircinocdono By Eta SCOn ftATSCN AN UNWASHED SPOON PAELI In 1800, a young French-man named Dagnerre began to experiment with the "Diorama." Th reflected light from a scene was made to come through an aperture and make a picture on the opposite wall. Lenses were used to strengthen the Images. Here was a camera In almost working order. Dagnerre thought that nature should take her own pictures and that light could be made to record itself.

He began hunting for a chem ical that would make a picture I forthright For more than two years he worked at it Then by a queer 'accident he stumbled on the secret He had eaten his noonday meal land not waiting to wash his spoon, jhe tossed it in one of his cupboards. There was a metal plate coated with iodine on the shelf and the silver spoon lay on this until the next morning. The yonng Iman opened the cupboard door at i breakfast time to get his spoon and found a clear picture of It on ithe metal plate. Immediately he began to coat more plates with Iodine of sliver and then tried other developers. At length he found that mer-icury vapor gave a quick result marked the beginning of buc-'cessful photography.

far-gone day. A unique fact is that the original four-room house occupied by the parents of- the wealthy gentleman who con structed the large home was preserved, the larger structure lit eral surrounding and and enclosing the old. Spanish moss, is one of the interesting things seen in the far south, but don't make the mistake of thinking it grows on anything but liveoaks. The latter, a species of oak allied to those we have in Missouri, are akin to the evergreens in that they maintain their green leaves the year around, a new, crop growing on in the spring but taking the place of the old in so gradual a manner that the change is scarcely noticeable. The moss, a light green in color actually but appearing gray from a little distance, covers a great deal of the timber, the pine as well as the oak, the sycamore or whatever else- may grow there.

Small strans of the moss are blown in the wind from one tree to another and wherever it comes to rest it grows even for a time on the telegraph or light wires. It gets most of its sustenance from the air, a very little from the trees themselves, and in some instances literally overrun? and covers the-trees. Its prevalence and the fact that it often is seen AMBLING AIMLESSLY Through ih South The broken terrain of the west Mississippi country continued south from Vicksburg tp Natchez and further, in fact almost all the way to Baton Rouge, though as we nearecf that city fee "map" spread out into more fertile lands where some agriculture is practiced. Taking leave of Vicksburg around ten o'clock, we stopped for lunch at Natchez and would have spent some time there seeing some of the famous southern homes and gardens but for the fact that practically all had been closed to tourists at this season. TVitalv (Vn nrViM AneiiM I JMM ij UJ 1.1 1 vT JftTrtl wiicii aumiii flowers are in their prime these places are an.

object of considerable interest, we were told, to northern tourists. Driving through beautiful woodland country approaching St. Francisville our attention wss called to a sign denoting that one of the famous old antebellum homes might be seen (for a price) and at the entrance to the estate an old darkey in top hat and linen suit was seated watching for We stopped to discuss the matter with him and Were persuaded. Turning aside through die gates we entered upon the estate, which must have been enormous back; in the old day. The road led for perhaps a quarter-mile along an avenue of huge liveoaks, draped with hanging Spanish moss (which had first been encountered in the vicinity of Natchez).

The three-story 40-room mansion was well surrounded by these huge trees, providing excellent shade on a lovely lawn. At the'left of the building was terraced garden containing sev-eral acres and dozens of varieties of shrubs and flowers. 'The gar den itself was far more interesting than the interior of the nouse, although the rooms displayed contained many beautiful objects of antique furniture, paintings and so on. The place, called Af-ton Villa, is supposed to have been modeled after a villa in France, where ancestors of the original owners came from. An ornate stairway led upward from the reception.

roorr and further inside was a winding stairway taking one to the second and third floors -which were not on exhibition, however. Marble and other I materials were presumed to have been imported and a series of four rooms eun parkas, reception hall, dining room and library rilled the front part of the house. Many bedrooms were presumed to provide accommodation for scores of guests back in the days of southern hospitality and a ball room, back of the reception hall, furn- khed tfie pleasure spot for the young beaux and belles of that I EI EL SFUCE-EYE, EAR, USE tad IBOAI Tonsils Removed Glasses Fitted Offle Bean to IS turn, mm i 4 wL, Kmet nantari mm HelMaya PHONE 185, KENNETT MISSOURI Xtlee Lecate la Saoaea BnlKlis St. Fraada Street i WW m'4. ibmoj.

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