Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-21

nearly all of whom own their homes
and are in some kind of business.
They anticipate some wonderful deyel
opments in the commercial and indus
trial line in that town and the COM
munity within the next year or two.
The few citizens here have energy
and vim and the most of them have
thousand or two in cold cash which
they are ready to invest.
Being young town, only few
months old, of course there are many
things they need which they do not
possess now. They need a school, a
church, a jeweler, shoe maker, and
other such things, and then they
want the town incorporated and a
good board of mayor and aldermen
and especially good marshal to keep
the peace. They want some one to
bore for arteisan water and are ready
| to foot the bill.
There are forty-five children in
Bassfeld who ought to be going to
school every day in the week except
Saturday and Sunday and they
number have Sunday school to at
tend on the Sabbath day. There are
hundred and fifty people in and
around Bassfield who would be glad
of the opportunity to attend church
in that town on Sunday, and they
should have church building. The
| Catholics are speakign of establishing
church of faith in the town, but
they should have protestant church
also The priest of Hattiesburg, who
was here yesterday, says there are
about as many Catholics in this sec
tion as in Hattiesburg and are ready
to support a church. They have a
church out mile or so from Bass
field, but the probability is that a
church will be built in the town.
Sunday evening the managers of
the Pearl and Leaf Rivers railroad
passed up the road, going to Blount-
Vile, which, by the railroad people,
has been named Prentiss, and return
ing later in the evening, stopped here
for few minutes. They walked
around over the town and soon the re-
port got out that they had decided to
establish a big saw mill here and real
estate took jump in price at once.
1t is generally believed that the mill
would be established here if water
could be had, but this can be had only
by making dam and catching the
large body of water which accumu-
lates on the hills and flow to center.
This can easily be done and with but
little expense. Right here an over
flowing artesian we'll would come in
mighty nice.
The people here want better and
quicker mail facilities and an effort j:
being made with that object in view.
They want the mail every day over
the Pearl and Leaf Rivers railroad,
instead of around by Collins and then
through the country by williamsburg
on horseback, as the case is now, re-
quiring two days for the mail to reach
Bassfield There are thousands OF
people along the road and they are
entitled to better mail facilities and
the way to get it is to ask for it.
The farmers in this section raise
everything in the way of food con
sumed at home. Good, fat beef cal
be had at five cents per pound, fresl
eggs fifteen cents per dozen, chickens
fifteen and twenty-five cents each ant
, sweet potatoes are a mere song.
One day last week there came neal
, being a serious fire here. Some boxes
f and other trash were piled up in {
, heap near the store of Hawkins Nc
| Raney Co.'S. store and a match stucl
D to it. 1t happened that the wind wa
: blowing so as TO send the blaze to
? wards the building and in a few
; minutes the house began to smoke AM
threatened to catch on fire. Me-
| turned out and by scattering the fir
> | and putting water on it succeeded il
S saving the building. But it was
$ close call. The firm is to be coDgrat
: ulated that it was no worse.