The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-19
Echoes From
the State Press.

Nearly the entire right of way fc
the Water Valley and Mississippi Ri'
er railroad has been secured.
u Six blind tiger establishments wer
raided in the little village of Jone!
town, Coahoma county, last week.
There will be lis lodges, represent
ing $500 members, in the meeting c
Masons held at Oxford the last week il
February.
} loves well near Hazlehurst, is to b
made health resort. A hotel wit
forty guest chambers is to be erecte'
at once.
Hattiesburg is to have another fac
tory. which will work up hickory and
other hard woods int useful articles OF
merchandise.
The cotton factory building at Tupe-
10 is one of the most imposing struc-
lures on the line of the NJ & o. road.
1t is credit to the town and state
When Mississippi can use half of her
cotton crop in her own mills. this state
will indeed be state for immigrants
to find home in.-Carroll News.
S. Joe Owen, for the past five years
editor of the Southern Sentinel, pub
lished at Ripley, has sold his plant to
Robt. T. Holt. We wish him success.
The first cotton purchased by the
Macomb City Cotton Mills for man.
ufacturing purposes was sold to them
last Wednesday by the Hampton Mer
camille Company.
The Birmingham News says that the
reason why the south should be thank
full this new year is because she re-
ceived $3.50, 100000 more for her cotton
crop this year than last year.
The Courier notes that the Halle
hurst oil mill has added a fertilizer
plant and is putting up 1000 sacks a
day, after formula prepared by Prof.
Hutchinson, director of the expert
ment station.
People who want to get in on the
ground floor in Mississippi's CONNER
cial and industrial progress should file
their applications early, or they will
be kicking themselves everlastingly
MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Virginia Carolina Chemical Com
pany will establish a quarter million
dollar fertilizer plant in Jackson next
spring. 1t is already operating forty
four factories in the southern states,
making about 400 different brands.
Under the apportionment bill adopt
ed by the house of representatives Mis-
sissippi will gain one congressman.
The whole number is fixed at 1856.
There is little doubt that the senate
will promptly pass the bill.
Wyatt J. Draughan, of Hattiesburg,
is und oubtedly the oldest member of
the legislature in Mississippi. He rep
resented Perry county in the state leg
islature, at its regular session in 1845.
He is S8 years old and has lived in Per-
ry county eighty-two years.
The very neat sum of 800, 900 was
paid into the state treasury on Friday,
January 18th, by sheriffs in making
their annual settlements. The sheriff
Of Washington county paid in nearly
S35, 900, which eclipses the record the
Kinds county sheriff made earlier in
the day. -Clarion-Ledger.
Those farmers who neglected to
plant oats last fall should not let the
slip to do so in February.
The short corn crop of last year will
prove disasterous to many, the chances
being that credit corn will again be
north dollar bushel next spring.
Fisheries in Louisiana, says the New
Orleans States, are now kept busy
filling orders from the Eastern and
New England states for cat fish, inn
mense quantities of which are shipped
to those states, where they are put up
and sold for sturgeon and canned and
sold as genuine salmon.
Mr.. w. NJ. Collins brought to this
Office last week several punches of rad
ishes which he had grown in the open