The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-12
Echoes From
the State Press.

49,
Yazoo City has large and up-to
date new brick factory.
The corner stone of a new Masonic
building has been laid at Grenada.
A little more than 125 miles of rail.
road were built in Mississippi in the
year just ended.
The annual meeting of the Masonic
grand bodies of Mississippi will BE- held
at Oxford in February next.
President Jack Hardy, of the A. &
M. college, has launched crusade
against cigarettes in that college.
The way Summit stamps out small
pox is summary indeed, burning the
house that contained the patient of
their one isolated case.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars worth
of machinery has been donated by
manufacturers of cotton mill machin-
cry of the United States to the Missis-
sippi textile school.
Congressman John Sharp Williams,
of Yazoo City, was classmate at Held
elberg of the erratic party who is now
emperor Of Germany. The Mississip-
plan has good opinion of the kaiser.
The next annual outing of the Mis-
sissippi Press Association will include
the Pan American Exposition at Buff
faio, Niagara Falls, New York, Hudson
river. West Point and other points of
interest.
c. W. Doherty, one of our leading
farmers, will have twenty three coops
of fowls and pigeons at the poultry
show at Memphis next week, and then
won't show all the varieties he has.
Tunica Record.
One of the best advertisements for
the richness and fertility of our land is
the location of the state farm here
after thorough examination of all
delta lands by the state commission
Indianola Tocsin.
The citizens of Perry county have
lost the state agricultural experiment
station and are now endeavoring to
have Uncle Sam establish a fish hatch
cry in the piney woods. -Brookhaven
Times.
The greatest stumbling block to the |
establishment of free rural dalivery of |
mail in the state of Mississippi is the |
bad roads. They will have to be inn
proved before many routes can be es-
5ablished. jackson News.
The report Of the secretary Of the |
state house commission shows expen-
litures amounting to $2l, 915.4l. All |
If the amount went to the payment of |
,he architect, the commissioners and |
or advertising and Office furniture.
The smallpox situation in Rolling |
Fork is matter for congratulation.
The town is free of the disease. The |
asst case has bsen discharged, the
guards removed and the premises |
thoroughly fumigated and disinfected.
The State Historical association has
undertaken to find olt the value, access
sibility and extent of the states histor- j
cal material, and the aid of everyone !
Interested in such work is asked in To-
eating everything of historical inter-
EST to be found.
Theo. Hemingway, of Jackson, has
been awarded the contract for the ter
'acing of the old penitentiary site
where the new capitol building is to
De erected. The contract involves
lbout $1,000. A spur track will be built
rom the Illinois Central railroad to the
lew site.-Brandon News.
The Vicksburg Post suggests that
he day fixed for the laying of the
,orner stone Of the new state house
It jackson be made a Mississippi
lay. The state house is for the
'ntire people Of Mississippi. The
.ailroads win make a special rate that
lay.
The Duke Of Manchester and his
bride, nee Miss thinner
nan, spent several hours in jackson
sunday. They were on their way to