Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-03-30
MissIssIppl Historical society.

Volume III Of qualifications Of the |
Mississippi Historical Society was dis
tributed several weeks ago. 1t is a
very handsomely printed and substan-
TALLY bound book of $50 pages, edited
by DR.. f. i, Liley, the society's accom-
plished secretary. 1t contains twenty |
three OF the papers read or submitted |
at the annual meeting of the society in
February, 1900, Each paper is intro
duced by brief biographical sketch OF
the writer, prepared by DIR. Riley The
volume is a very valuable contribution
to State history, and DR.. Riley says
that the society meeting next month
promises to bring out papers of even
greater value.
The editor of the Hattiesburg Prog
ress has mind of his own, and knows
how to express it. Here is a recent
sample: "If this State does not estab-
lish reformatory school for boys it
will simply have to buy another farm.
Many kids these days are not worth
the toy torpedo that it would take to
blow them up. They lie around and
smoke cigarettes and would not work
for admittance to q circus but we do
not mean that they would remain on
the outside. II the State had re-
formatory school many boys could and
would be reformed, but observation
teaches us that the convict farms are
going to be little crowded in the near
future
f. T.. Evans, : Lewis place, st, Louis,
is Missssippian, and so interested in
his State that he wants TO procure, oy
purchase or otherwise, copy of every
literary publication by MississIpplan'
While the collection is to be for his own
library, he will place it on exhibition at
the Louisiana purchase centennial ex-
nosition at st. Louis in 1908 We will
gladly receive and forward such books
as NAV be offered in response to this
notice.
Edgar Wilson is doing splendid
work for the Picayune, but much bet
ter work for Mississippi, by his complete
sketches. illustrated, of the new cotton
mills. He has written up Tupelo' Lau'
rel and McComb, and will include all IN
course of erection. So much for liberal
legislative exemption to factories More
factories have been erected in TINS
State in the last three years than here
tofore in all her history. So mote 1t oe'
Master Robert B. Lee, Of Evansville,
Tunica county, donated his Shetland
ponv, Robert L. Lee to the finance
committee of the Memphis reunion
Two Memphis firms donated hand'
some cart and set of harness, and thus
equipped, Master Robert drove little
Miss Dorothy Snowden through the
streets of Memphis one afternoon last
week.
The members of the State board OF
education are being flooded with apph-
cations for summer normal work. III
some instances the proposed conductors
expect to graduate this summer
The annual meeting of the otate
Teachers Association will be held IN
Jackson Nav to 4. The attendance
PROMISES to be unusually large.
The superintendent of the nauona.
cemetery at Vicksburg transferred
thereto the remains of some federal
soldiers buried in jackson good many
years ago lie also disinterred ana
transferred the remains of several chil'
dren of n jackson family, lie claims
IN have made diligent inquiry; ana ne
also claims that the Jackson sexton was
not very amiable or communicative oe'
cause he was not employed on the loo'
DIR. w. S. Sims has started a series o,
Friday night lectures for the pupilS o.
tho institution for the blind, and sucl
o,tiyens as NAV wish to attend them
It was our privilege to open the course
With talk on jackson as FIRST "a"
1t" in April, 1858.
DR. j. i. Hunter, secretary Oh 'h'
state hoard of health, reported on tht
2oth inst. that there were 2'ooo cases
smallpox in the State from Jan Is. " y
Feb 18th. and 450 deaths, Also IN tht t
.ame neriod. 490 cases Of scarlet lever
and 81 deaths.