The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-02-20

eral insurance, capital stock, $4,000.
A. F. oliver Co., CORTLAND, capital
stock 100000. general merchandise.
Amendment to.charter of the Pearl
and Leaf Rivers Railway. changing the
eastern terminus from Hattiesburg to
Scranton and the western terminus
from Columbia to Natchez. Also a
second amendment changing the name
to the Mississippi Central. The prop
osition is to build the road at once
between these points.
That our State is forging to the
front in the matter of stock raising,
becomes more evident every day. The
establishment of oil mills at every
town of any Importance makes the
raising of cattle great success and
our people are not slow to catch on.
Statistics go to show that the ship
ments to market last year were far
ahead of former years and the start
for this year is unusually good. Mules
, are also becoming an important fac
-tor in Mississippi exports. More are
being raised than formerly and Of a
! better grade. The State is now in the
market for sixty mules of extra size
and it will not be necessary to go
outside of the State to get them. This
is as it should be- When our people
learn that everything needed can be
raised at home and at profit, the
prosperity of all will be materially in
creased.
Louisville, in Winston county, is TAX
ing a new lease on life since the adj
vent of the grading, crews lor the M.
]. & K. C.. railroad. A number OF
substantial brick buildings are going
up, two banks have been organized,
brick factory put in operation and
many other enterprises of substan-
tial nature put on foot. The good
people over there do not propose to
sit down and let all the good things
go by but are getting hustle on them
and will go after what they want the
town to have. Success Is sure to
crown their efforts.
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The people in our several levee dis
tricts will be glad to learn that Presi
dent Roosevelt has at last been i'm
pressed with the Importance of levees
for the development of their section.
Gov. Heard, of Louisiana, seems to
have gotten close to him in an argu-
ment made before the senate commit
tee of commerce few days since. Ar
guments against our levee systems has
prevented liberal appropriations in the
past, but there is promise of better
things for the future.
Organized effort should be the slo-
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greater development in the future.
Much more can be accomplished in
this way than each man to try to stand
on his own bottom and make an eff
fort by himself. Organize progressive
unions, boards of trade, industrial
leagues, ETC., and get to work right.
When anything is offered so after it
with vim. Results will follow.
Pecan planting is again attracting
the attention of landowners in the
southern portion of the State and
many trees are being put out. 1t of
fers a good field for investment and
sure and steady income after few
years. Pecan orchards are better and
safer than orange groves in the long
run There are thousands of acres
of land in the southern portion of the
State especially adapted to raising pc
cans and those who have tried the eX-
pertinent find it profitable.
A great number of Mississippi
towns are getting a move on them
selves and making organized cam
paigns Of industrial as well as COM
mercial improvement. They are at
least awakening to the fact that an
effort is necessary to accomplish any
thing
The food of chartered institutions
in the State continues with undated
vigor. Hardly a day passes without
several applications for charters be-
ing received for record at the secre-
tary OF States office.
A new county is being formed from
a portion of Marion, to be called La
mar" 1t is named after Hon. L. @. c.
Lamar, the honored statesman and pa
triot who graced the legislative halls
of the State and United States in days
past and gone. No more fitting trib-
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could be made than this.
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A movement has been started to
build road from Woodville in Will
kinson county to Natchez- Promoters
have taken the matter up and the pro-
gressive citizens of Woodyille are very
hopeful of seeing something substan-
tial evolve il short time,
There is one city in Mississippi with
enterprise enough to get up a Mardi
Gras celebration in competition with
the larger places outside the State
and try to keep her people and money
at home. That city is Natchez, and
her celebration is success from
every standpoint. A number of years
ago the project was put on foot and
has been kept up every since. While
| the celebration may not show big
dividend to the stockholders when the
accounting is made, it is worth much
| to the town from other sources and
brings many dollar in that would
| ordinarily go to other places. 1t would
be better if more of our towns made
greater efforts to keep their money at
home. When the people can be made
to see that the benefits from such a
move are so far reaching in their eff.
feet, then more interest will be shown
A farmer in Jones county last year
ran three plows and gathered more
than one thousand dollars worth OF
crop to the plow He raised cora, cot
ton, potatoes, tomatoes, oats, etc
What one man can do in Mississippi
| is an index to what another man can
accomplished If he will only hustle
There is no place in the world where
the laborer gets more for his work
| than here.
How They Are Elected.
| "A few days ago." said Mr.. E. C.
Tooke, of Philadelphia, according to
the Washington Post, Il happened to
be present when an Italian who was
applying for naturalization papers