The Canton times., 1902-05-16
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MATTERS
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By KATE MARKHAM POWER.

tion will have meeting in January
worthy of the growing Importance of
the poultry business in Mississippi.
The meeting will be held January 5-11,
in West Point, and the finest poultry
and pet stock in the South, as well
as prize specimens from all parts Of
the country, will be exhibited. These
exhibitions and the good-natured ri
valry they engender do great things
for Mississippi poultry, and are rapid
ly bringing our stock and our breed
ers to the notice Of the world. Mr..
J. r. Young is our State secretary and
it will be through no fault of his if
his wide advertising and excellent
methods do not insure success. The
Dixie Poultry (the trade paper) is,
by the way, the very thing that is
needed, not alone by breeders of fancy
stock, but by every farmer or farmers
wife in Mississippi. There is no earth
ly excuse for the present scarcity of
chickens and eggs in Mississippi. If
every home in the country raised more
than enough for home consumption
the city tables could be easily sup
piled, and the women Of the small
farms would enjoy the rare luxury of
plenty of "pin money" 1t requires a
little capital, goodly amount of work
| and care, and, first and best Of all,
wise foresight and the economical
planning of poultry houses, etc. But
the returns are ample and the work
full of interest; and so far as we have
been able to learn, pin money" comes
by the same route to the woman's
pocket as is travelled by the more i'm
portant sums en- route to the more ca
pacious pockets of the head of the
house." and that route is labor. Usu-
ally it lies with those most interested
to make the journey pleasure or a
trial.
| With "broilers' still bringing 30 to
35 cents and eggs standing at Is cents
per dozen, despite the approach OF
summer, the farm wives around the
| Capital City should find it both pleas
ant and profitable to increase their
| flocks.
| Commissioner R. H. Henry returned
| last week from his trip to st. Louis,
where he went to select the site OF the
Mississippi building at the Louisiana
| Purchase Exposition. Mr.. Henry
came home full of enthusiasm because
of the magnitude and splendid man
agement of this great enterprise, and
is delighted with the site for the Mis-
sissippi building. He Is pleased be-
cause of the postponement, and says
| that everybody else is in high good
humor about it. In an interview Mr.
Henry says, among other interesting
things:
"The selection of the site was made
ON Tuesday. in company with some OF
the exposition officials, regret being
expressed that the members of the
State bureau were not present. The
site is near the government building,
on an eminence overlooking the
grounds, in the section set aside LOT
state and foreign buildings, and IS
most eligible and beautiful, In grove
of magnificent oaks. The manage
ment reserves the right to make slight
changes in these locations, but Missis-
sippi being among the first States to
stake her claim can count on a hrst-
class site.
"No plan for our building has beep
definitely agreed upon, but l am dis-
nosed to believe that the idea ao-
vanced by Gov. Longino, that Beau
yoir be duplicated, be adopted inis
suggestion has met with favor by some
of the members of the bureau, ana
director of Works Taylor thinks the
idea a splendid one. He says replica
of the old home of Jefferson DAVIS
would attract more attention than any
thing else this State could build; tnat
n would attract attention both by rea-
son of it's historic interest and peculiar
style of architecture"
II Is certain that Water Valley is
bonored far above other MISSISSIPPI
towns in the man who serves her as
police justice, Col. M. D. L. stephens,
one of the FIVE surviving members Oh
the Secession Convention which as
sembled in jackson, January Z, 1861
Though this stanch old citizen must
have changed considerably from tne
straight. strong, clear-eyed man IN
life's prime, whose picture honors tne