Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-11-23
News From Aberdeen

Monroe county that are prize winners
in size and quality. Three-pounders
are nothing out of the ordinary
White egg plants have been success
fully grown by some of the farmers
and are of excellent flavor.
The big warehouses report marked
increase in the number of heavy COT
ton bales this year, having handled
more bales over 600 pounds than un'
der 500 pounds.
Aberdeen's five big ginning estab-
usbments are kept busy all the time.
The breeding of fine poultry is rap
idly increasing in the county.
One of the best of their farmers, MI
A. Seavy, has raised some beautllul
purple top globe turnips, weighing SIX
and a half pounds each,
70 the chief magistrate of the great
natior-the host of seal-brown guests
and the mighty hunter of big game
will turn over the official pie knlIe 10
some of his subordinates for a While
and come down to Mississippi we prom
ise him a good time in general ana
char hunt" in particular. The last
issue of the Clarksdale Banner tells
Of a hunting party that went to sun,
flower and killed six bear and TWO
deer" and neither the hunters nor the
renorters considered it worth more
than a three-line local. So, while the
Hon. Theodore might not las IS MS
wont) see his achievements pictured
in all the magazines, "Old MISS
could furnish him "brace OF D ar
and "coons" (of both the varieties IN
3 dipenous to the South enough to sat
isfy him and all his friends Whos'
, tastes lie that way.
e During the Confederate reunion nel'
a IN Meridian last May 1t was resolves
n assess each member of the grea
a army Of veterans in this state 20 cent
). \ wear for the support of the Confede'
a ate Hospital Annex at Vicksburg' In
n Sons of Veterans should also col
,r tribute to make easy and sweet ID
lost days of these old Confederate so
dIers. Some of the camps are alreau
h getting their contribution together,
at as 70 have no delay about 1t whe
Is January rolls around. If some acu'
IL member of each one Of these organlz
o. tions would undertake this labor
st love- in each town it would relle'
n, the camps, help the authorities at u
ne annex. give comfort and cheer 10 u
X comrades" and bring a glow oil sat
Is. faction such as comes from deed VIZ
MS done to the heart of the veteran
of the son who undertakes it.
ho Among the recent additions TO .
% great and growing lumber business
- tbe completion of building lou II
We m long (for drying lumber) at East /
~ ternrise. This plant is known as I
w. Brookpark Lumber Company ana
-, owned almost altogether by men fr'
NV Minneapolis, MINI. The eompah
- - daily output is from $4,000 to 75''
10 feet. Mississippi, whose timber wea
10 was comparatively unknown to
a. world at large ten years ago, WILL
olo fore another decade rounds out be
w - ornized all over the land as one
our best timber sections And
state will be rich with lumber mills
'py every variety, factories for the ma
lis- facture of house-building material
to furniture factories galore.
81 Another "gold mine" has D
GUS GUS struck in Mississippi. This one is
'he Jones county and takes the form
phosphate bed. A Jones county Ia
cad er was digging we'll a few days
, Is and at a distance of twenty-five feet
ein sha struck this stratum, which is
'ne 20, nosed to be phosphate. The deposii
.ro that point is about three feet Il
nre. and seems to be phospha'e @ OF excel
p IN quality. This will be d great ii
~ for Jones county IL the Ye'l iroYe
ton fine as 1t is thought to be. chem
are now examining II