The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1902-08-09
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES -
Poplaville has organized Bow
crs Club.
Army worms have appeared in
the Delta and the cotton crop Is
threatened.
Seventy.flve Confederate veter-
ans Of Simpson county have or
ganized a camp.
The Wiggins Times is a new
paper, and Is going to support
Bowers for Congress.
George Pierce at Ellisville was
thrown out of a buggy and sustain
ed fracture of the skull.
Here's chance for someone to
make a fortune. The Tupelo Re-
view Is advertised for sale.
The Tupelc Cotton Mill, after
taking stock, found its net profits
to bc $7,44S.l3 for the year.
Excessive moisture is succeed
ing the drouth. which may pro-
duce second growth of the cot
ton.
A bed of good coal has been
discovered on the place Of I. @.
Chapman, eight miles from Lex
ington.
Hon. Pat Henry was overcome
by the heat while addressing a
crowd at Redbone near Vicksburg
Monday afternoon.
Business men of Macon have
come together and subscribed
enough money to insure the build
ing of a cotton factory.
West Point has a d. b. Hill,
but he is not candidate for the
Presidency. He celebrated his
91st birthday last week.
The Pole Stock Lumber Com
pany, Lumberton, Pearl River
county, has been chartered, with a
capital stock of 100000.
There were 1926 ,439 bales OIL
cotton grown in this State last
year. Washington county heads
the list with 68,513 bales.
The Laurel Truck Growers AS
sociation was formed on the 2nd. |
j. II. Bush was elected president !
and w. l.. Pryor, secretary,
$1,000 fine and nine months in
Jail is what Judge Neville measur-
ed out to a" :" blind tiger" at the
Marion term of circuit court,
In spelling match at Halle
hurst last week, Miss Maude |
Hawkins, one of the States most
prominent teachers, "stood up the |
longest
fhe Prvpusffiun To issua SI51.
600 of bonds for the construction
of a water works system at Meri-
dian was carried in the election
Monday.
AT Elliott, eight miles from
Grenada, a brother of /. M. Ste
vens was accidentally shot and
killed. The deceased was from
Maryland.
C.E.Shaw,a "a negro printer, ,swal-
lowed laudaunum with suicidal in
tent Monday. He was found three
hours later and taken to the hos
pital. His condition is serious. |
Lumberton men killed rat
tlesnake that measured z feet Z |
inches, and was twelve and one
quarter inches in circumference.
The stuffed hide is now on exhi-
bition.
On August 14th the women of
Mississippi will meet in the Sem
ate chamber at jackson for the
purpose of arranging the prelimi-
nary plan for the erection of an
sold Ladies' Home"
Charles A. Brown has lie fiji
Vicksburg. His visit was brief,
but he got about a whole lot and
there are many who regret ever
having met him. He victimized
people right and left.
In token of appreciation of the
royal treatment accorded the
boys on the road by r. ". Rach-
for, of the Edwards House, of
jackson, twenty-five Of them pre-
sented him silver loving cup last
Friday.
The board of supervisors of
Jones county Monday employed
Attorneys j. M Jayne. Junior,
and Arthur Fridge, to bring suits
against the lesees of school sec
tions. who had cut and sold tim
Der therefrom. The amount in-
volyed exceeds 100000.