Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-06-29

News comes to US by way OF the
Kansas City Journal that the corn
stalk is increasing so rapidly in value,
and becoming such money maker to
the farmer that 1t will soon pay us to
grow earless corn! While we can't
quite take the Journals view, we be-
lieYe that 1t may be helpful to some Of
our readers to recite few Of the uses
to which the corn stalk is now put.
From 1t is made packing for war
ships; high grade Of writing paper;
it is used as a basis for a smokeless
powder and cattle food is made by
grinding the dry corn stalks, leaves and
tops to powder and mixing with
molasses. This is pressed in cakes
under a hydraulic press and can be
shipped like bricks. For feeding it Is
broken up and mixed with water.
Samples have been sent to Europe and
favorable reports come from those who
have tested it. If this food is as good
as our informant thinks, it will be a
great thing for this section, where so
many thousands of gallons of low
grade molasses go to waste annually.
What gold mine the corn stalk would
prove to the South, if this, hitherto
comparatively useless product should
develop as has the cotton seed which
was formerly considered far less Yalu-
able than the corn stalk.
While Mayor Hemingway, OF jack
son. has done many good things during
his incumbency, we feel safe in as
serting that nothing in his previous
career can touch in importance and
happiness to all concerned the great
achievement of Wednesday, June 16,
when he took unto himself a bride,
in the person of Miss Grace Hyer,
one of Mississippis loveliest young
women. Miss Hyer is a daughter of
the late DR.. Hyer of Meridian, than
whom few physicians are more beloved
than he was in his large and success
full practice. Since coming to Jackson
Miss Hyer has been member of the
faculty of the Central school, and has
won the love and esteem Of our peo,
pie. 1t is needless to introduce Mr..
Hemingway, as he has friends all over
this section, who rejoice in the great
good fortune that has come to him, and
wish long, useful and happy life for
him and his lovely wife.
State news from Laurel gives real
pleasure to those of our people who
are interested in the states advance
ment, and who appreciate genuine
boom minus the usual rrills and fur
bellows, The depot building at Laurel
of the Kingston Central Mississippi
r. R., was handsomely fitted up, and
turned over, last week, for active work.
The building of the road is progress
ing rapidly, if quietly and will soon
reach Bay Springs, Later it will be
extended to some point on the A. & V.
R. R., opening up one of the finest
timber belts in the State, as well as a
good farming country. Work has also
been started on the Laurel Waynes-
boro road, out from Waynesboro, and
it will be rapidly pushed to completion
Rev. Peter G. Sears, the rector Of
st, Andrews Church in Jackson, has
been called to st. Paul's Mission, in
Meridian. This is not the first, nor
the second, nor the third call that
Mr.. Sears has received during his min
istry in Jackson, ana as some of these
calls were to influential city churches,
the people of his parish indulge the
hope that he means to stay with
them yet a little longer Mr. Sears is
an able mana deep thinker devoted
student, a forceful, charming speaker
and fearless preacher-just such a
man as the parishes of Jackson and
Meridian need, and just the man Miss.
issippi can not afford to lose from the
high place to which he has been called.
With the issue of June 18th, that
staunch old representative of the
Mississippi press, the Woodyille Repub.
lican, celebrated its diamond annivers.
ary-the 18th birthday-full of honors,
as of years. The Republican was es-
tablished in 1926 by Mr.. W. A. A.
Chisholm, and has never missed
single issue, except during two years
of the war, when paper could not be
procured 1t is now under the editorial
management of Robert Lewis, who, we
doubt not, will continue it in the good
old way in which it has for so long
journeyed, May it, like good wine,
continue to improve with age, so that
its last days may be its best days"
State Geological Survey.
1t is forty-one years since DR.. Eug.
w. Hilgard made his report of "the
geology and agriculture of the State
of Mississippi" in a volume of four
hundred closely printed pages, illus
trated. There have been several efforts
to provide for another survey, but they
have not received favor by the legis.
lature. The time has come when the
industrial progress of the State de-
mands a thorough survey, that her hid
den wealth may be brought to the
light. This. it is believed. will be
among the recommendations of Cover
nor Longino to the special session of
the legislature in January next.
The gunboat Scorpion touched at
Vicksburg and Natchez again last week
and while there the officers were
handsomely entertained by the best