American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
LOCAL DOTS.
corn.
more corn.

Plant corn.
Plant moro corn.
Subscribe for the Citizen.
The Farmers Club of Madiso
County held its regular meeting a
Odd Fellows Hall last Monday.
Captain John w. Yeargain sue
ceeds the late s. Cochran as Crane
Reporter of the Knights Of Honor
of this State.
Corn and small grain are thu
easiest and cheapest crops to grow
and pay the largest per cent, o
profit.
1t takes an all fired big croI
of cotton to the acre, to pay fol
corn at o dollar a bushel. DOM
you forget it.
In another column mag be found
a proposal by the Farmers Club OF
Madison County which we think
worthy the. a ttention of our readers.
We ask attention Of our read
ers 10 the double column ADVERTISE
ments Of Mr.. Gwinner and Mr. Gar
rison.
Ii you are short of lal'or now,
what will you be in hoeing and
picking timei Corn is good crop
for . light force, and then it pays
like thnnder, you know.
Can q hill farmer make any
money by raising cotton at biz.
and buying corn at a dollar, and
meat at 124 cents 7
There never was a day that
corn, oats, and other feed stuffs did
not pay the producer in this coun>
ty q bigger net profit than cotton.
s,5O0, 900 bales of cotton will
always bring the South as much
money NJ 5000, 600 bales, but we
never heard of enough coru in this
county.
The Dollar store defies compe-
tition in prices, and invites iuspec-
iiOn from country and city purchas-
ers of the stock now on hand In this
mammoth establishment.
The house of Henry Gwinner is
one of the largest and most enter
prising in Canton, and at all seasons
keeps a heavy stock Of furnishing
goods and fancy notions. Mr.. Gwin-
ner does not sstiut himself Oh print
cTs ink, and therefore success Is his.
The Board of Supervisors met |
on last Monday and Tuesday and
transacted large amount of pub
lie business, as they never fail 10 do.
The official report will appear in
our next.
A man who didn't scare two
shakes of q Sleeps tail for what
the newspapers said" rode fourteen
miles through sleet and rain to get
"a copy of weekly that spoke OF
him ~ appointment citizun.
We regret to announces. the
deaths of two of our cCunty's oldest
Mrs. Nancy Minter died
1T her residence in Sharon on Sum
day last, and Squire Moore. one
of the earliest settlers OF the Cam.
den neighborbood, vas found dead
in his bed. Monday morning.
Mr.. Robert Kemp left Canton
on the 2nd inst, for New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore, where
he will purchase carefully select
I'd stock of Spring and Summer
goods for this market, hich he pro-
poses TO cell on the most reasonable
terms.
We learn from the Jackson pa
papers that the Democratic State
Committee have agreed
that the 2nd OF June, at IL O'Clock,
a. m. city Of Juckson, be the time
and place for holding State con-
rention, and the committee also re-
Saturday, May 81, as the
lay upon which the counties shall
hold their convention to appoint
delegates to the State convention.
The March number OF the Nur-
sery has been received aud is fully
up to previous numbers. The Nur- i
sery is a monthly magazine des:gn-
ed for children and is one of the
favorites in our household 1t il
by John L. Shorey, SO
Bloomfield street, Boston, a, 81 60 u
year, and il cheap enough.
We take pleasure in announ-
cing to the public that Mrs. Addie
A. Latimer is agent for Hoods Life,
the popular work published for the
benefit Of the late Gen. Hoods Ors
phane. Sample copies of this work
may he seen at Messrs Swain s.
Phillips jewelry store, aud ans one
to buy it can send orders
1y Mr.. Swain to the agent, who is
worthy lady and deserves encour
cement 10 her laudab'e undertake
ing.
DIED AT her home in Sharon
Feb. 81, Mrs. N. NJ. MINTER, aged
70 years. ID ceased was sister of
Rev, DIR. Watkins. She was a
member of the III. Il. church, and
lied in ID faith. "BIessed are the |
dead, who die in tue Lord"
Pascagoula Democrat Star: Let |
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