The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-11-24

JAWS fund.
j.. l.. POWER,
Mississippi Member of the jefferson
Davis Monument Association.
The want Of a bureau or department
Of industrial statistics in Mississippi is
now being keenly felt by officials and
private citizens who are being flooded
with circulars and personal letters from
Census Director Merriam and his work
ing staff. Here is a specimen:
"Will you kindly forward for use of the
Census Office the latest publication of your
State giving the total number of acres of
cultivated lands by counties or other sub
divisions, and the assessed valuation thereof,
together with the acreage of each of the
several crops"
The best response we can make is to
suggest to the farmers of Mississippi
that these and many other questions
will be asked by the census
tors next year, and to commence keep
ing figures 81 that correct information
cah ne promptly furnished.
One of the members of the jackson
city council is a colored man. Smith
Robertson. He is highly respected on
the board, and us a citizen. He ex-
presses himself in q modest but often
forceful way, in all matters coming be-
fore the council. About a year ago.
when the Ladies' Cemetery Association
petitioned to have the colored people
removed from the old cemetery, which
is very much crowded, to the new GEM
etery specially provided for the colored
people, the subject, after being gener-
ally discussed, elected this observation
from Councilman Robertson: II don't
see any sense in all this racket. The
colored and whites in the cemetery get
along much better than those outside
OF it. just let them rest in peace"
Information Wanted Of u Lost Boy.
Jerry Cronin left his home in Mem
phis on the LIST of August, and his
parents have not been able to hear any-
thing of him since. He is II years old.
large for his age, has dark brown eyes,
dark complexion, scar on left leg below
knee, and wore light pants, black
stockings and shoes. He will weigh
perhaps IS pounds. His father, W. W..
Cronin, So Dean avenue, Memphis,
Tenn, will appreciate any information
concerning his absent boy.
Has the elective judiciary amend
ment been carried, or has it not? is now
the question, and the Legislature. or
the courts, will have to settle it. Mr..
Noel and many others contend that the
amendment, having received a majority
of the votes cast on that question, it il
carried; others, that it requires a ma
jority of all the votes cast at the cleo
ton. In other words, that IL there are
40, 600 votes cast for governor, a u~t.
jtNrity Of this number should have voted
for the amendment.
Even the best-regulated families
have their misundersta nd
ings; and so there has been some dis.
cord in Harmony public school. Copiah
county, as to who were the legal truss
tees. County Superintendent Wilson
decided in favor Of g. W. Bridges, J. j.
Bell and +. T. Bailey, and the State
board of education sustained the de-
Col. William q. Yerger was q trustee
of the Industrial Institute and College.
When the news Of his death reached
the college, on the morning Of the eth,
the exercises were Immediately sus.
pended for the remainder Of the day.
The Commercial Appeal compliments
volume 2 of Mississippi Historical So.
with a column Of very kind edito-
rial criticism. concluding thus: "Per.
haps the chief pleasure from this pub.
LEGATION is that 1t arouses The pleasant
feeling that justice is being done TO the
memory Of those to whom injustice was
done while in the flesh, the feeling Of
quiet ecstasy or wen rapture that one
must come to those who get re-
who feel that atonement in the
present has been fully made for the de-
Of the mast"