The leader., 1904-12-17


The little town of Pheba, in Clay
county, is experiencing substantial
growth just now. Many new enter
prises are projected and some are in
course of construction. A $4,000 gin
ming plant is being built and there is
move on foot to build an oil mill
1t is in fertile section of country
and will make an important business
point.
The difficulty being experienced in
all portions of the State in getting ne
gro women to do the family washing,
as has been the custom in vogue for SO
many years, is necessitating the erec-
tion of special laundries for that pur-
pose. Quite number have been char
tered in the past few weeks and others
are now being organized. That is the
way to meet a problem-hit on sub
stitute and put it in operation.
Yazoo City is seriously considering
the paving of Main street with vitri.
fed brick. Since the fire and conse-
quent heavy traffic of rebuilding, the
gravel that was there at one time has
gone and the citizens believe that
brick will be cheaper than to regravel
One of the new life insurance COM
panies doing business in the State an
nounces that the money received from
policy holders in Mississippi will be in
vested in the State. This sounds too
good to be true. Over two million
dollars is being paid old line compa-
MES every year and not dollar is
being invested here. 1t is carried
North and used to build up that sec
tion to the detriment of this. Let us
hope that the people of Mississippi
will in the future refuse to patronize
a company that does not invest it's
surplus received from the State in the
State. Investments here bring much
larger dividends than in the East and
there is every reason why we should
get the benefit of the money we pay
for life insurance that is to be invest
ed somewhere.
Although MISSISSIPPI is not a man
less land by any means, there is plenty
of land here to sustain several times
the population we now have 1t is
still low in price to compare with
what development few years will
Mississippi are thoroughly disgusted
right now while you can.
The Mississippi Poultry and Pet
Stock Association will hold it's regular
annual meeting in Aberdeen on Jan
uary 8. The officers are hard at work
and expect to have the best show since
the organization of the association
1t was started some years since on a
small scale, and is growing from year
to year. A large number of fanciers
of fancy poultry and pet stock have
become interested and help every year
to make the event one of ir 2ortance
1t is gratifying to see so much more
interest taken in such affairs than for
merly. It means that our people are
awake to the advantages to be derived
from such meetings and will work to
make them a greater success each sue
ceeding year.
Clark county has voted overwhelm-
ingly to work the roads by contract,
thereby hoping to improve their con-
dition. YaZoo county went on record
in the same manner some time since.
This goes to prove that the people of
Mississippi are thoroughly disgusted
with the present condition of public
roads throughout the State and are
anxious and willing to make any
change that even promises a better
ment of conditions. Keep up the agi-
tation for better roads and something
will come of it sooner or later.
w. A. McWhorter, of Laurel, sold
from one-half acre of cane $54 worth
of stalks and made $6550 worth of
syrup. He also raised $103.50 worth
of Irish potatoes and $84.50 worth of
sweet potatoes from an acre of land
that had been in cultivation for sixty
four years. Then there are people
who don't know so we'll whether truck
ing pays or not. 1t does pay better
than any kind of farming in Missis-
sippi today and land can be used to
advantage that would starve the man
who tried to raise corn and cotton on
it without the use of fertilizers of
some description.
Newton is not sleeping since the Sc
curing of several nice factories. Work
preliminary to organizing a $25, 900
sash, door and blind factory is being
done, and those familiar with the way
Newton is doing things, can almost
see that factory in actual operation.
Oil experts continue to arrive at
Laurel, and who knows but that in
short time the exciting days of first
oil at Beaumont will be lived over
again. Something down there is at
tracing the experts.
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Mathiston, junction point for the
Southern and NJ, J & K. G., now in
course of construction, is still doing
something The latest announcement
along industrial lines is that land has
been bought and sash, door and blind
factory viii be built soon. The town
is admirably located for the success of
such an enterprise, the new road open
ing up a large section Of finely tim
bered country, and there seems to be
every reason why the new factory
should prosper from the first day of
operation,
The fall has been especially favora-
bic for gathering crops and in the
hill sections it is pretty nearly all out.
The delta always makes more than
can be gathered and a scarcity Of la
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