The leader., 1902-04-23
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-IIand Chronicle of Cur
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VII
Greenwood raised 900 FIR the Beau
voir fund.
Natchez had three weddings last
Wednesday.
The banking business is on BONN
in the State.
Columbus is to be improved by a
street railway.
The Beauvoir purchase fund has
passed the $1,000 mark.
The Grand Lodge of odd Fellows
meets in Meridian May 6.
The State Medical Association was
attended at Jackson by 100 members.
Private John NJ. Allen has been ap-
pointed orator for the Dallas Reunion.
Some eight or ten new oil mills are
now in the course of erection in the
State.
Lexington will have a second cotton
oil mill and third bank with cap
ital of $4,000.
The residences of J. w. Box, at Shu-
buta, and J. F. Cunning, at Terry, we're
burned on the 18th.
Local capitalists will establish a trust
and banking company at Natchez, to
be capitalized at 100000.
jackson butchers have advanced the
price of beef 215 cents a pound, owing
to the high price of cattle.
The Edwards House, at Jackson, has
passed into the hands of |. c. Enochs,
who will expend $4,000 on repairs.
The corner stone of Jefferson coun-
tvs new courthouse was laid last
Wednesday with Masonic ceremonies.
The contract has been closed for
the erection of an oil mill at Gloster.
Its capacity will be forty tons per day.
Mrs. Rose Middleton died at Vicks-
burg on the 18th, at the age of 81. She
was formerly resident of jackson.
During the last two months Mt.
Olive has had five firms incorporated
with combined capital stock of $780,
600.
Warden Parchman has turned in
$1,000 realized from the sale of cotton,
and has 296 bales on which yet to col
lect.
The trend of development in the
State is towards every town of conse-
quence owning its own cotton oil mill
and fertilizer factory.
On July 81, the proposed removal of
the courthouse from Mississippi City
to Gulfport, will be voted on by the
people of Harrison county.
Leading architects of the State are
now interested in the plans and speci-
fications of the $4,000 Industrial Hall
for the |. l. & c., at Columbus.
Meridian is to have new paper. 1t
is to be called the State and will be
published by the State Publishing
Company, with j. F. Gray as editor.
The insurance agents of Vicksburg
have suspended business, an action
growing out of the failure of the city
authorities to provide adequate pro
lection against fire.
The entire Mississippi National
Guard, numbering 1900 officers and
men, are to be furnished with khaki
uniforms, leggings and campaign hats
by the Government.
Mrs. Catherine Sharp and Mrs. Eva
lima Crawford, aged 70 years, are said
to be the oldest living twins in Mis-
sissippi. They live near McComb
Each has been twice married.
The Peoples Bank has been organ
lied at Clarksdale with capital STOCK
of $4,000. Dr. w. c. Weathersby, for
merly of Lawrence county, will b'
president of the new institution.
The Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary societies of the Methods
church of the Delta district, convened
in annual session at Greenville las
Wednesday, with fine attendance.
The Illinois Central is to be bal
lasted with rock from Water Valley tt
Canton. 1t is hoped that deeper ex
cavations near Beech Grove will prov
the rock there to be suitable for sucl
purposes.
The Sunday School Institute of tn
Presbytery of Mississippi met at Por
Gibson last week, and was presided
over by j. S. Rea, of Wesson. 1t wa
preliminary to the meeting of tn
Presbytery.
The Deputy Revenue Agent droppe'
down on Vicksburg and unearthed
list of $40 persons who have been es
Gaping taxes on collaterals held b
them aggregating some ten or twelv
million dollars.
Statistics show that lynchings ar
growing fewer in Mississippi. Al
kinds of crime would grow beautiful
less we're all officers as determined a
is the Governor on the abolition of mo
rule and other grave offenses.
Miss Nal Scott, of Rosedale, one G
the most attractive of Mississippi
delegation to the Dallas Reunion, wi
not attend on account of the death G
a near relative. Her first maid c
honor, Miss Sykes, of Aberdeen, ha
been promoted to her position, that c
State sponsor.
Judge Enochs has emphasized his a.
surance that ''those brought befor
him on charges of unlawful retailin
would not escape lightly. Las
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