The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-04-10
Madison Dots.

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SO near by and yet SO Farr has pur
chased new sewing machine wagon
n DR.. L. G. Jones has returned from
e q tip to Water Valley.
!, Mr.. Keith from Crystal Springs re
Gently from California, was the cues,
. OF his nephew, Mr.. W. E. slackhou,
for few days.
Where is that telephone? It's good
thing wherever il may be-push it long
Dr. Sullivan. from bolivar county.
was aMadison visitor during the week,
the guest Of Mr.. T. N. Jones.
Z. Hickerson, jr., from Paducah,
KY, will remain with relatives for a
while.
Lots of Asparagus and Radishes are
being shipped to Northern markets
now.
There is not but one case of small
pox anywhere around Madison, and
that one is five miles out of town. So
pay no attention to false reports being
made about having four cases "riphtip
Madison" There is no tru tn whatever
In su:h reports. the one case is ripor-
ously auarantined.
| 1t is said that the strawberry crop of
the U. 5. exceeds 500, 600 annually. Of
this amount Madison furnishes about
I,56O tons, which sounds comparative
iy small.
Mr.. r. c. Lee has received sales from
his first shipment of straw berries, that
brought him one dollar per quart.
This doesn't sound like they were
"knotty and not fit to ship"
Messrs. W. G. Dorroh, F. L. Hoy, A. |
G. Bennett and w. l.. Stewart have re.
turned from day or two vacation in |
search of wild turkeys in Pearl River
swamp. They came back crest fallen
minus turkeys.
TransplaDting tomatoe plants from
cold frames into the field, is the ticket
most Of our citizens are voting this
week. Now, let us see who will be
the first one to have tomatoes on the
market. MIR. j. FL. Benton led the pro-
cession in this line last year.
The Madison Station Horticultural
Society is thing of the past, if the
truckers don't take more interest in it
in the future than they have in the
last few meetings. President Johns .
was on hand Thursday with one or
two other mem bers to hold the regular .
meeting, but there was no
meeting on account of not having a j..
quorum. 1t 10 shame that they don't
take any more interest in their society
than this. So much good can be de- 3
rived from such meetings, come togeth- ,
r. and exchange ideas and opinions on ;.
different ways and modes of planting, +,
etc. 1t is to be hoped that o
hey will reconsider and come together 9
,nce more. y
Mr. P. b. Bridges has been elected e
tewart of the Asylum. Mr.. Bridges c
S unquestionably fine citizen, and in Ii
performance of the duty of public n
,ffice, will be up to the mark. He will a
e missed very much from our commu- I,
lity, and his going will leave vacan- C
v in the Board of Supervisors. But =
We can be comforted in this by know Il
ny good man will be elected in his a
lace. a
On the first day of April we acknewl- -
dye to have been "taken in" by two =,
raveling beggars going around solicit =
,g aims by subscription. One was =
Id, decrepit and walked with crrtch, p
ne other was small and not SO fort 81
nate to have the use of herself Tie ii
'ay in which she heIped the lame one Il
long with the support of her arms =,
as praiseworthy and appealed to ones o.
larity. They succeeded in getting k1
ute list which we suppose they will tr
Their turn over to some Charity Hos IN
tal or Orphan Asylum. They had 1t m
ell demonstrated to them that "all e>
lie fools are not dead yet" There in
ere other practical jokes, for want ia
space will not be meotioned. re
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