Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-17

trading points. 1t depends upon the
enterprise of the merchants and resi-
dents Of the towns.
The present state campaign viii |
60 down into history as being the |
cleanest ever conducted There has |
been less of vitupertiaon, less of
singing, fewer fights and diff
culties, considering the white heat
worked up, than ever known.
The congressional district in the
northern portion of the state. through
the work CT Congressman Chandler,
has had seven new rural delivery
routes added to the list.
The Raymond Gazette can point to
a career such as but few papers ever
eclipse. 1t is in its sixtieth year and
has been in the hands of the same
family-the Harpers-from its birth
to the present time.
Kinds county is low the cynosGre
Of all eyes, made so by the action Of
the C,arion-L Ledger and Evening
News coming out for Critz. All
are anxious to see the cut ONE CT
their influence as will be given in the
next primary. The Vicksburg
Evening Post, generally correct in
its calculations, says that Vardaman
will carry the county despite the
combined efforts of the two papers.
Forest is getting beside herself.
| She is putting Oh all sorts OF becom-
ing style. One Of her latest doings
was to vote a tax Of 81, LOCO for
general water works system. Other
towns could profit by keeping the
pace that this hustling little town has
set.
The camp-meeting at Lake, Will
begin Sat urday, August %, and will
continue one week. Every prepar-
alton has been made to entertain che
large gathering expected.
Jones county has the credit of be-
ing the frs in the state to establish
a county convict farm. The board
Of supervisors, it is said, bought II
large tract of land, placed it Though
prison labor, i'll high state Of cul-
tivation ard now tie product of the
farm brings to the county treasury
much of the revenue for running the
county.
The Yazoo Sentinel throws this
bouquet to the Gulf and Ship Island
people: IF the Gulf and Shil
Island railroad expects to build tt
Memphis, as is the report, it cam
afford to leave Yazoo City out, i
, being, as the Sentinel claims, th'
most important city between jackson
and Memphis. .
t The manager of Noel's campaign
r in Holmes county, Hon. S. \. Sam
, pie, has taken the stump for Varda
D man. He is firm in the belief tina
that county will go overwhelmingl
for Vardaman in the next primary.
: The Yazoo Sentinel, Frank r
Birdsatl's paper, asks the question
2 If Major Vardaman represents til
s theories so visionary and impract
e cable, and if he is an extremist al
! fanatic, why did the people Of I'll
It classic cities of Columbus, Aberdeen
It Jackson, Vicksburg and Natches
: (cities proverbia for cultured pee
e ple), give him the majorities the
is did in the fir It primary %
4. Hon. >. NJ. smith OF HOln
county is spoken of as q possible cal
is didate for the speakership of Il
ne next house of representatives. v
Of never think of this Office without ha
it ing both sad and pleasant memoir
I'd revived of poor Jud Russell, nature
- nobelman.' After life of so maj
M | good and noble deeds we kOnw i
sleep is peaceful.
p. APPRECIATED MENTION.
ch The Hattiesburg Progress has be
No sold to Capt. J. j. Haynie, q new
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