Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-10-12
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENT
Rv KATE MARKHAM POWER.
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,ra many in the place of his nativity 7
who mourn as for one very dear 10 MI
hem. VIC
The Dixie Press, an indefatigaoie 10
worker for the good of Clay county, W.
wonders If it is economy and enter 90
prise for the people of that remark
ablv productive county to spend money 'i'
on railroad fare and hotel bills going '"
hack and forth to the fall fairs in other .
counties: 1t would be easy-and hmm o
itely better for the county-if west .
Point had its own fair this fall, so ="
that the money of the people could Do =
kent at home. Then the races could ~
he run by their own horses and the
premiums be captured by their own
folks" AS we have often said before,
Mississippi will be far along on the
road to prosperity when every county
in the State has its own annual "falr
or stock and agricultural exhibits IL
is good for people having common In
terests to get together at least once
a wear and compare notes and PROD
ucts as we'll. And the "falr Is the
place for this.
Hattiesburg is doing some good
work, along practice lines, in her ell
fort to build cotton factory
meeting was held September 80 Tor
the purpose of Starting the ball.
This was done, after an interesting
, talk by Capt. Hardy, and $4,000 was
, contributed on the spot A commit
z tee was appointed next day to canvass
A the town and solicit subscriptions, and |
c If we may Judge by our former knowl- |
# edge of the enterprising, straight
e forward people of Hattiesburg, they
r will have that money when 1t Is need-
ed so quick that some of our slower
going, more conservative towns Will
y, wonder If the committee had Aladdin's
g. lamp concealed in their pockets while
s. they made their round.
of DR.. w. T, Lowery raised more than
nd $1,000 at recent service in the Bap-
4 tist church in Columbus for the Mis-
1r. sissippi College endowment fund. Ihe
ai- work of increasing the endowment
ITS was assigned Dr.. Lowery, president OF
mi the college, by the last convention
nd He is making fine headway. The funo
tly was $4,000, and it Is desired to in
the crease it to 100000 at once. OF thls
the the American Baptist Education so
Mt ciety offers to contribute $1,000 pro
av- visionally. DR.. Lowery has alread!
,m- secured about $4,000, and it ought tt
any be made easy by the great army o
a loyal Baptists in Mississippi for thl
tie devoted pastor and educator - IN
life worthy son of noble sire-to rails
no the $50, 900 still needed to put this I'm
1 to old institution on safe basis.
ola The United Daughters of the Coz
the federacy, at their meeting in NoVen
'hor ber. will distribute in pamphlet torl
the a list of the contributors to the Je
nese ferson Davis Monument Associatio
lts All. therefore, who have funds on mar
hese ,,,ho ;n+end making contribution
cav to the monument fund should comm
nicate at once with Mississippis mel
:, her of the executive committee Jetft
wen son Davis Monument Association, MI
sup sGn sJl tranr,son Of Co,umhus Miss.
ni'oo We have often heard it stated
SUN, one who knew that there were num-
and oii0 Wv 49, .,o,,nta on donosit in
an rious places of safekeeping throughC
ng to eta4o ,,,hioh wero originally z
spite ,.os fou Tho monument which
"! u hoped to erect to Mr.. Davis in N
u0'iie sissippi. These amounts, or some
'"o" them, have been forgotten and IN so
'Nei" al instances the depositors are dead.
'ys'ei it rests with the parties or the in
'ilis tutions having these funds in cha
ere Ill to sneak out and give the deyo
iapoi Daughters a chance to gather u
u = 'AAo in if possible.
Unless -,,-.
nrattv That first grade journalist
where splendid young Mississippian, H.
/, +ho Rlakeslee, has established the Inc
as Is trial heVle" at upeio' !. 10 DN' 9
,tors-- fully printed, we'll managed, and fl
d,rirg each week with excellent matter
% that deep interest to its growing circl
end so readers lnaI eis'"hlio ii'''0
labor OF Iupelo VIII oeai Wa''iiNe "
,on,e- more pretentious neighbors or 1t
need soon doff its swaddling clothes
compe- come forIh luii sro"h, "i'n .le
fshor- cellent natural advantages posse
by Tupelo, it only needs few
Young men as Blakeslee of the Re
IN fund and Hines of the Cotton Mills to
with new life and vigor into 1t and
,ksburg 1t right to the front as manufa
y the ing point and agricultural ce
to help Every town in the State needs
nat our men to develop its resources and
of the see to it that the world hears
mt war about it.
"'ul' 1t is splendid evidence of
-" - progress that we can now I'm
many of our own stores, cotton
(domesties, etc. made in our
mills, of our own cotton, by the
nopo' of our own people. Surely we
peop find greater pleasure in we
. ., " "home-made" clothes than we
snn ~ tho ever gained from the finest pr
-, ~ of Mississippi cotton, when WOW
Lang EaS'ein 'oi'i''
a while Travellers along the line OF t
all pos & O. Railroad will miss the hote
ike that formerly stood at Artesia. 1t W
imful Of stroyed by fire last week. as wa
the depot building. The old A
dining room was famous VIII
Henipni9' Southern travelling men went, fl
VI ~" hotel men in all the land serve'
he work ''''N'' -
adorned 1t is highly probable that
no trav- asaw county's two most imI
was one towns will soon be connected by
essee ana road. Long years ago the
nphis de- was made and the earthwork
a in Holly pared between Houston and o
he State and as much Of this work still
dge Jere- good, the much-to-be-desirec
presented should be easy of accomplishm