i-"
Including School Teachers, On His Payroll
WILSON, Ark., Sept. ’ 5.—What’s
Robert E. LSe Wilson'going to do wittti
bis one-man town?
It's getting to be a complex problem,
rot only here in Wilson, Mississippi
county, but for.grizzled pioneers, rail
road magnates, bankers in surrounding
towns and financiers in St. Louis, Lit
tle Rock, Memphis and Chicago who
tvonder just what Lee Wilson, now 61,
is going to do with a fast growing
town of 2000 population and which he
was—lock stock and barel.
Like some feudal land baron- of
old, this man owns everything in sight
on a vast expanse of nearly 50,0b0
acres. It’s all, his, personally. The
only thing he doesn’t own in Wilson
Is a little yellow depot and a few 'hun.
dred yards of steel rail, the "property
of the Frisco Railway. ‘
But even the Fr'sco 'system hasn’t
anything on Mr. Wilson. He open ’
his own little railroad, runs it to suit
himself, and it’s 150 miles long. They
ca;i it the Jonesboro, Lake City &
Eastern Railroad and it links up Wil
son with Jonesboro and' Siytheville,
Ark.
One V. S. Official.
But even a multi-mi-llibnaire, such
as Wilson, with all his business acu
men, can’t be expected to fill the shoes
of a mayor, the chief of police, the
banker, the hotel proprietor, thejner
chant, the preacher,- the justice of the
peace, and all the other shoes incident
to the rule, control and hustling town
like Wilson. ,
There’s only one government official
In town—the postmaster. The tax col
lector drops around once a year,, but,
it’s easy to collect taxes in Wilson.
He writes out a memoranduih for Mr.
Wilson and Mr. Wilson writes out a
check for Mr. Tax Collector—and the
ordeal is over. ■'
There are 240 residence in Wilson
and Mr. Wilson owns them all.
His property, including the town
proper, extends 27 miles in length
' cne way, eight miles in another and
then winds along with the Mississippi
River.
Here is some of the property which
HERE ARE TWO POPULAR TYPES OP HOUSES OWNED BY WILSON. HOW WOULD YOU. AlCE TO BE
. ABLE TO * RENT ONE. AT THESE. PRICES? >' '/ •
Wilson owns personally, Including the
town of Wilson and the thousands of
acres surrounding it:
Eighteen plantations that will pro
duce this year ' 6500 acres of cotton.
There are 6900 acres planted in corn,
acres. He has 1200 acres in wheat and
800 acres in alfalfa.
Thousands of acres of virgin timber.
Box Factory.
' 'A sawmill that represents an invest
ment of *250,000.
A mill that produces 800 barrels of
flour and meal daily.
A $125,000 box factory. *
A neighi-gin stand, electrically driv
en, which cost him $40,000 and has a
capacity of 90 bales daily.
A model ice plant.
The Bank of Wilson, with a capital
of $25,000 an<|l%. surplus of nearly $35,
ooo.'
A department store, where one can
buy. anything from a toothpick, to, a
flivver. , * , 5 ‘ V. v!.«
. A modern school structure Mr.. Wil
son built at a cost of $200,000.. He also
set aside 100 acres of land surrounding
the building. There is an annual de
ficit of $10,000 in the maintenance of
this school with its staff of 20 teach
ers, but a check from Mr. Wilson's sec
retary wipes out the deficit without ar
gwnent.
■ A drug store, garage and filling sta-<
tlon, a church edifice, a hotel, a cafe,
blacksmith shop and meat market.
A Community Center building.
Waterworks plant; ■ .
Electric light and powter jilant.
Wilson rents from himself. He pays
himself $45 per month for his nine
room house and' that’s- the maximum
rent paid by ai\y citizen of Wilson; The
scale of rents run from $12.50 to $87.
50 per mpnth, according to the size
home. - •
Funny thing, nobody can live in Wih
son without renting from Mr. Wilson,
and nobody can work in Wilson with
out workAg for Mr. Wilson.
Wilson isn’t very talkative with,
strangers. But he’s dynamic in action
and he doesn't employ laggards.
“Work hard and when you work and
play hard when you play," is his idea
of .life. /
Wilson, Ark., is 41 miles west of
Meniphis, 125 miles from Little Rock
and- 264 miles from St. Louis.

‘‘BRINGING UP FATHER ON
BROADWAY," VICTORIA WED
NESDAY, MATINEE AND NIGHT
"Bringing- up Father On Broadway”
is coming to Victoria on next Wednes
day matinee and night. This new musi
cal comedy is said to be the best ever
evolved around the Characters of
George McManus in his famous car
toons of the same title. “Father” as
usual is the dominating figures and
participates in a number of stirring
and side-splitting ladvantqres which
takes him, Maggie, his termangent
wife, the irrepressible Dinty Mo«?re and
other of the beloved characters: to va
rious parts of the worl. The production
calls for a large cast and a number
of unusual features, surprises innova
tions and novelties are promised. Tic
kets will go on sale Tuesday morning
At Elvington’s.
fiended, walks toward him without her
crutches. One by one and tlwo by two
the awe-struck crowds kneels and
pra£s. The scene brings to a climax
the theme of the play, which is the
power of the spiritual over the mater
ial—the victory that comes from ser
vice for mankind.
“The Fool” was the biggest hit of
last season in New Tork. It was writ
ten by the popular dramatist Chan
nlng Pollock and will be presented by
the Selwyns at the Victoria Theatre
tomorrow matinee and night. Tickets
go on sale this morning at Elving
ton’s.
“WHAT A WIFE LEARNED”
- Only a mind capable of superlative
creation is able to meet the demands of
the motion picture public of today;
for the problem is not only "What
Do Men Want?” or “What Do Women
Want?” but “What Does The World
Want?” Thomas H. Ince has achieved
John Bowers an#, Marduerxte Jel&Mcrfcte
VWL.a£ a Wife Learned,"-'
Opening Today at The Hoyal
. v. .■ %*M ' "'-v ■
“THE FOOL” VICTORIA TOMORROW
MATINEE AND NIGHT
One scene in “The Fool" It is said,
has remarkable dramatic effect on
every audience. The heroetaoisfETA
This is the bis: mob scene- at the end
O fthe third act. The hero, a young min
ieter whose liberal tendencies have
forced him from a fashionable New
York pulpit into the thick of a con
flict between capital and labor, stands
with his back to the wall, faelnsr men
for whom he has fought. Some of them
accuse him of being a- spy and a fakir
and worse. Ho has his. stalwart suppor
ts, but what finally calms the crowd
and turns riot into reverence is the
seeming miracle that occurs when a
crippled girl, whom the “fool” has be
The Serial They’re AU Talking:
Abont .
RUTH ROLAND
In Her Greatest Trlnmph
“HAUNTED VALLEY”
And n Big: Educational Comedy
“HOT WATER”
And Another One Yet
“THE LIMIT”
Oh, This Is a Great BUI
a solution *to all three of these ques
tions In his latest production “What
A Wife Learned” a picture glorifying
the Ideal of marriage. The picture will
he shown at the Royal theatre opening
today.
There has been wld® discussion of
late whethler the productions in which
the '• "vamp”’ has the .leading role is
still popular with men, and if those
in which, the "cave man” is starred is
preferred - by women. The dramas of
the past have proven that productions
of-.this type achieve only temporary
^The pictures' that endure the' test
of time are the great human dramas
of love and the home like "What A
Wife LearnCd” which has an appeal
for all classes. In. co-operation with
Bradley King, a brilliant ^youn woman,,
whd has leaped from a successful ma
gazine writer to, fame, as a screen
dramatist, Thomas H. Ince has pro»
dueed (^picture that will live in the
hearts V=I the American people.
"What A Wife Learned” is a drama
of American life today-r-a story em
bodying the priihal instincts of man
.aftd his mate that go back to the, be
ginning of the race in the Ga~rden of
Eden. Civilization and equal rights for
woman has failed to reconcile man to;
her independence. To him/her true
sphere is the cradle—-not S' career. /
WILLIAM DUNCAN COMING
Aa /entire railroad turned .picture
Oftphny for the filming of "The Steel;
Trail,” new Universal chapter play
starring .William Duncan and Edith
Johnson, which comes to the Bijou
theatre Tuesday. The company from
Universal City filmed their construc
tion scenes on the new Minaret and
Western Bailway, in the high Sierras,
where the new roadway' is being ex
tended into the pioneer gountry, past
the historic town of Millerton, founded
long before Fremont plazed the trail
into the West.
The new story, a stirring tale of rail
road construction, is replete with
spectacular thrills. Duncan and Miss
Johnson figure in hair-breadth es*
capes from an automobile, hurled over
a cliff, a landslide, forest fire, wild
dash down a grade in a runaway
freight car, dynamite blast and other
exciting situations. ^
To these are coupled spectacular
feats of engineering. The actual swing
ing of a gigantic steel bridge across
a raging torrent; building of steel
trestles to bridge yawning chasms in
the high mountains, and other re
markable features of one of the great
est, engineering tasks in the history of
Western railroading mark the swift
action of the play. .
Order Went Unheeded
The Japanese government forbade
American warships to cross Tokio bay's
fortified lines, dire though the need of
thousands on shore. . Japanese destroy
| ers'crossed these lines but not to re-I
lieve general distress. They did it to
i iget the body of an imperial prince
j who had been killed. They dlsregard
[ ed even stretcher cases among others.
So the American ships crossed the for
tifle'd lines anyway, did mucl} work and
tooff off several hundred foreign ref
ugees. .
Premiers Baldwin and Poincare of
England and _ France have met and
agreed? it is announced, on a policy en
aWing_their countries .to work in har
mony again. Their relations have been
strained for some time. • Unfortunately
few believe, they can co-operate long.
Their interests conflict.
The number of sets of twins born
hove during August has established a
record—26 pairs. March whs the low
est previous month, with only two sets
of twins. •
No Corns
The simplest way to end a corn
is Blue-jay. Stops the pain in
stantly. Then the corn loosens
and comes out. Made in clear
'• liquid and in thin plasters. - The
action is the same.
At your druggist
Coming to Hie Bijou
WILLIAM
DUNCAN
In’His Greatest'Serial—His
' Big New Universal
Triumph'
“THe Steel Trail”
It’s Here. Next Tuesday ,
Victoria, Tomorrow
Matinee 3:30
Night 8:30
Sept, 29
THE MESSRS. SE1WTN PRESENT
AUGUSTUS THOMAS
' author of
"THE WITCHING HOUFU
SaicL'IT IS A JKJBLE PLAY'
Prices, 76c to 92.50 (Pins Tax). Matinee. 60c to 91.60
Seats Now on Sale at Elvlngton’s
about a husband .who laughed at her hopes.T About a trlend who
promised her fulfillment of am If! t ion!
tfk:
HUSBANDS WOULD DO WELL TO KEEP AWAT SROM THIS!.
(dfwnai'3{.&u!iL
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ve Ca Motte
MHtonSiUs
Johnfiou/ers


; . ( : ' ;
(One of the Snappiest Lines of
Mens and Young Mens
Jn Jhe City,
made up of the latest styles
of pin stripes, overplaids and solid f ‘
colors, two, three and four-button %
sacks at prices that anyone can
afford—:
$21.50 -
TO .
$34.50
miiiiiumiii
During this sale, Friday, Saturday
and Monday, we will give with any
suit selling for $15.00 and over, f
one gold plated ■, j .
GILLETTE SAFETY,
RAZOR FREE
ONE BACK OF MEN’S SUITS
In pin stripes, blue and brown mixtures;
suits made to sell for $18.00; three pieces,
good winter weights, during this sale for
only—
ONE RACK OF MEN’S THREE
PIECE SUITS ;
Gathered from our large stock of clothing,
suits that sold up to $32.50, put 6n one
rack and all to go at one price, only—
MONROE, JR. CLOTHING
For boys, suits with two pairs of pants and
belt to match, workmanship as good as
can be put in boys’ suits. Nifty styles.
We. recently added stout models to our
stock and oversize boys can now be fitted
as well as regulars. These suits are priced
from—
ONE LOT OF BOYS’ SUITS
That.formerly sold up to $8.95, all put to
gether and to go at the one price, While
they last— ■'
$10.85
$7.75™ $21.50
Good School Shits
$4.98
IT WILL PAY YOU
to Look Over Our Stock ok* -•
And Make Your Selection Now
A small deposit Will reserve any suit or
overcoat until wanted
ONE LOT OF BOYS’ SUITS
With two pairs of pants, picked from our •
large stock of boys’ clothing; the very suit* '
you want for school, thrown together to
sell at the one price of— k t
Men’s blue chambray v^ork shirts, a value, JQp
for (jrily ......
Friday, Saturday and, Monday, 6 Arrow Q I f|A
collars for ..■ ... w I «UU
One table heavily-laden with fine dress shirts, val
, ued up to $1.£Q, for AQa
only ..■■■■....■■■....... UJb
One lot of silk socks, a regular 50c, value, for 3
foaryS,.3. P.ai.r.8 .... $ I j00
One lot of meh’s blue overalls, while they QQa
last for only ‘,...... »•*.
The largest stock of men’s work and dress pants
triced .c“y-. .... Sl.48 ° 85,95
One lot of ftien’s cotton socks for
only,...............
10c
Men’s handkerchiefs,, limit 6 to a customer, . Q.
each ....-..... VU
MEN'S NECKWEAR ' ,
Boys who are going away to. school cannot have
too many. ties. We have a 4E. to (I A Q
lairge selection from. fcilv W I »HO
MEN’S SWEATERS •
98c•• $5,95
A large stock to select from,
priced..>..
For your fall and winter underwear. It will pay
.you to see Eflrd’s for savings.
BOYS’* SWEATERS
Slipover and. coat styles, wool' and wool mixed.
. Priced 1?,:, QOa to £4 A Q
from.. VwinO
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