The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-06-23

New YORK. 1I.9z
New Jersey. :. >. :. ;. 1887
Maryland. :. :. :. :. :. ;. 17.1S
Tennessee. E. :. :. :. -. 1913
Pennsylvania. -. :. :. -. =. 1432
Michigan. :. :. :. :. ...... 1878
Virginia. :. :. :. :. :. 80. 1868
Indiana. :. :. :. ........ 1885
MISSISSIPPI. :. :. :. -. 1906
MISSISSIPPI, whites alone) 1850
1t will be seen that the death rate
here is less than the average for the
whole United States and far less than
many of the Northern and Eastern
States Deducting the negro popula-
tion and taking the deaths among
the whites alone the rate runs
down to the remarkably low figures
of 11.60 to the thousand The Great
er Mississippi Association is distrib-
uting several thousand bulletins con-
tanning this information where they
will do the greatest amount of good
and they will certainly go long ways
to correct the erroneous impression
that is abroad concerning the health
conditions of our state
An Illinois man who was touring
the state recently stated that it would
be easier and more economical to take
some of the poor land in the state
and place thereon five dollars worth
of commercial fertilizers to raise a
bale of cotton than to invest fifty dol
lars in an acre that would raise the
bale without the fertilizer. While
this may be true, it must be borne in
mind that the ten dollar acre that
with five dollars in fertilizer would
make bale of cotton, must be fed
with the fertilizer each year, although
after the first year or two probably
not so much as at first. Good land
is all right if you happen to have it,
but if you havn't, then go to work to
make what you have good.
Indianola, not satisfied with the
present rate of progress, will attempt
to make the wheels go round faster by
the Inauguration of county fair.
There is nothing that would pay the
people of Indianola better than a
good old fashioned county fair. 1t
is a great stimulus to the farmers and
stock raisers to grow better crops and
stock. The benefit to be derived does
not all come in the way of dividends
directly.
The great Democratic State Con-
vention has been held and was entire
lv harmonious. Good and true men
have been selected to represent us in
the National Convention and we
should be satisfied with their action
up there While it is presidential
year. there will be nothing more of
local interest except the congression-
al elections to claim the attention of
the people of Mississippi. It's all one
way down here
L. G. Ford of near Charleston pro-
duced a turnip that measured 33
inches in circumference and weighed
full thirteen pounds. Tallahatchie
county has always been considered a
cotton producer but this feat puts it
to the front in the way of horticulture.
When the O. C. & W. railroad is COM
pleted we may expect to hear that
Tallahatchie is making a show for the
vegetable shipping pennant.
Capitalists from Lexington are put
ting in large factory at Yazoo City
for the manufacture of brick to re-
build the burned buildings. An en-
tirely new process of making brick
from sand and lime will be used. The.
business people are re-opening their
stores in tents, houses made of goods
boxes and any sort of an old thing to
get along until the handsome new
stores contracted for are completed.
From almost every Mississippi town
comes the demand for more houses
and the end is not yet. All of them are
growing steadily and surely and the
country adjacent thereto is likewise
prosperous. When a town can use all
the produce raised in county it is
worth something to the man who lives
in the fartberest corner