Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-10-19

premium attached. His report, just Il
completed, shows that the prison cot e
ION crop will be 4,925 bales. 1t is estl- $
mated that nearly 1000 bales Will be n
required to meet the expenses OF run Il
ming this vast and complicated prison. Il
leaving close on to 1000 bales clear Q
profit. In addition to this splendid 1
cotton crop, and, despite the unfaVor- !
able conditions for corn crop, the
farms have made enough good corn !
with hay, etc., to carry them through S
the year by using some corn left from
last year In addition to all the regu- I
lar farm and garden products when
have been successfully raised and so
prudently harvested, there has been
marked increase in the number OF the
value of the States stock--a most I'M
portant gain. TWO of the leased farms'
DuIaney's, in Issaquena, and Marks,
in Sharkey will not be leased at all
this wear. and the acreage has been
,essened on the Randolph and the
Shelby places, In Washington county,
and the McLaurin place, In Sharkey'
Sy almost 300 acres each. The con-
victs who have been working the land
thus abandoned will be sent to the
new plantation, in SunfoWer county,
where Mr.. Parchman hopes to have
q 1000 acres cleared and ready for plant
4 ing by January. During the past year
/ the board of control cleared off every
= indebtedness and turned into the state
: treasury $9748.35. The gross eX-
S pense of maintaining the convicts dur
r Ing the past year was only $169,925,1O'
d The increased number Of conYlcts VIII
II add considerably to this sum for main
- tenanCe during the coming year Inc
board OF control and Warden Parch'
/" man deserve the appreciation ana
II thanks of every citizen of Mississippi
because of their wise, careful and eco
- nomical administration Of the affairs
of the prison. 1t was once a heaVy
burden. financially, to the State, bu'
20 is now a little more than self-sustain
te ing.
9r, The thanksgiving number of the
he Lexington Advertiser will doubtless b'
'e' one of the most interesting OF TIL
III many fine issues of that reliable news
"s paper. The managers, editors, re
", o., porters and all hands will temporary
withdraw leaving the paper IN ID
care of the ladies forming the Ben
G. Humphries Chapter, United Daugh
ters OF the Confederacy. The ladie
have their plans well matured an
the work is now progressing admirabl
so that a really fine paper promises
be the result of their efforts. Ever
'"r man. woman and child in Holm'
'Ps county should do something to he
~. the ben. Humphries' Daughters b
,o.. cause theirs is indeed labor of loV
rod The entire proceeds Of the ventu
rod land we hope they will be large), W
tate be devoted to the fund they are nc
hat raising, with which to build mon
re- ment to the memory of the Holm
ONE county Confederate veterans 1t wou
lout be a graceful thing, at the same III
mas great help to the ladies and to tn
tha' sacred cause, if their sisters-t
roop. "other Daughter" ers"-throughout
,s Wv State would assist by ordering one
WV, moro comics of the special edith
And IT isn't imperative that they Ill
their enclosures to the regulat
IOo' newspaper nickle. Nor are the DauI
ters the only contributors from Wh
"'eS this anpreciated help would co
dttingly: veterans, sons OF Veret
and friends of the gallant boys in 81
Dmas should all delight to help according
New THAR means. whenever a devc
Mac. hand of women undertakes ii
and "labors of love-" We wish success
rday, non uumnhries Camp, U. D. c.
said An important meeting was held
'rrow Gently in the Office Of the state ou
main intendent of Education, by nun
| am of the leading educators in the D
assure Their purpose was the organlzatlo
anu to the Mississippi School Journal I
club, Wv .,,ith a canital of 5000. S;
ere d. of which was in hand. The Boar
II '"A directors is as follows: h. l.. ia
Jackson. President; M. Rose, A
ED. deem. Vice President; G. W. Hud
ton. Jackson, Secretary and Treas'
n As G. f. BOYD, Kosciusko, J. M. Ia
'ir- Port Gibson; G. NJ, Lattimer, Clli
and Robert TORY, Yazoo CITY,
~, ,,,. koard will at once employ comp
phyXi- man 10 assume o0N''e- ohi,
o The cation--a man who wields an aDl'
h por. and whose heart is in the school
ON, he With the great army of teache
, leav- the State who are huhserihs
ldioin- tbirsting for good school Jouri
it is home there should be no trouble
light it curing at once subscribers enou
naIe the venture q finncial su
Then, with a good man In chars
,r,oorn the teaching force ready and "
-
&c Arm N uphold him and support
armers Mississippi's school journal
their stand second to none.
lg, and -. 4ho r
! meet II any man doubts that the !
Ship Island road is rapidly 81
into big thing, he needs only
der such facts as these: The ro'
comes soon begin the construction Oh d
world house in jackson; the building
IS Ellen io"' ...s - +ho southern part
s",,"h -, ",,' city, and the ground has airead
""'e staked off. The roundhouse
noint is made necessary by
len. creased traffic of the system
postal shops at Gulfport are kept $
W that that it is impossible for them
ers were M with the work, hence the est
d States ment of other and larger she
Ter more uattiesburg. This point on II
ID States 10 excellent because of its centf
tion and its convenience to the
& Columbia brnches. The 70
: nore nut ip Twelve tracks, as pes
! dsad or IL land they have purch
Nos been pattiesburg, so 1t is safe 10
;nstruc- that they mean to make that
important railroad point