Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-05-17

llOu Will udN6 u uCOliu6 ia JohudAy
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 net stool, In the South we'll
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..
]. R. Young is our State secretary, and
it will be through no fault Of his il
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. II
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
S5 cents and eggs standing at Is cents
per dozen, despite the approach Of
summer, the farm wives around the
Capital City should find 1t 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 for
State and foreign buildings, and is
most eligible and beautiful, in a 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 first
class site.
''No plan for our building has been
definitely agreed upon, but l am dis
posed to believe that the idea ad-
vanced by Gov. Longino, that Beau
voir be duplicated, be adopted. This
suggestion has met with favor by some
of the members of the bureau, and
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; that
it would attract attention bothrby rea-
son of it's historic interest and peculiar
style of architecture"
1t is certain that Water Valley is
honored 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 of
the Secession Convention which as
ga,,ab IN Too1yoOn Tou,,orty y 1901
Though this stanch old citizen must
have changed considerably from the
straight, strong, clear-eyed man in
lifes prime, whose picture honors the
writer's room, we are confident that
he is, despite advancing years, quite
as able to fight his own battle as he
is to put a stop to those OF others.
He declares, with great earnestness,
that he has never regretted his vote
for secession in that great convention
of 81. May the Colonel, with that all
too small remnant Of the Old Guard
that is left to us, remain long among
us and enjoy the blessings of a we'll
spent life.
The interesting story Of the great
convention of nearly five hundred
teachers, which assembled in Jackson
May 1, has been told SO often and so
we'll by the State papers that further
account of it would be superfuous.
However, lest some of our readers
may have missed this excellent read
ing, we will state for their benefit that
finer choice of officers could not have
been made than those who will serve
during tA ensuing year. These are:
President, e. e. Bass Of Greenville;
vice-president, P. H. Saunders Of Ok
ford; secretary, T. P. Scott Of Brook
haven; treasurer. p, L. Bailey Of JaOls
son.