The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-04-16

boost, are getting their stationery
from some medicine house or Cheap
John concern. This shakes his con-
fdence in his fellow men and causes
him to wonder if he has not been a
little too fresh"
State Commissioner r. H. Henry an
nounces that no more exhibits will be
received at Jackson for the Worlds
Fair, and no exhibits will be received
at st. Louis after April 30. Those
who now have exhibits ready for ship
ment may send them by express &c
st. Louis, addressed to "R. H. Henry,
Mississippi Building" The MISSISSIPPI
nj exhibit at the fair will be a credit
to the State and to the several gen
tlemen who have worked so indus
triously to make it possible.
Seventeen new brick houses are I'M
der contract to be erected in Green
wood. Several others are projected.
More than fifty residences are being
built in various parts OF the town. An
electric railway will be built this sum
mer and several other enterprises are
ON the tapis. On April is Greenwood
will hold an election to vote bonds
for the purchase of the waterworks,
electric lights and sewerage.
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Some towns in the State that, will
issue bonds for municipal improve
ments: jackson, for new w~aterworks,
s25OO00; Meridian, for general m
provement, $3.50, 600; Aberdeen, for wa
terworks and sewerage, 100000; va.
zoo City, for waterworks, lights ana
sewerage, SITE 900; Tupelo, water.
works, 100000; Gulfport, municipal
improvements, $4,000. Mt. Olive and
Flora are both contemplating the ls-
suance of bonds for public conven-
fences. And there are many other
Mississippi towns deserving or men
ton in this connection which we can
not now call to mind.
A number of the boards OF super
| yisors Of the State have taken ad-
vantage of the authority granted them
by the last legislative session to III
crease the salary of the county super
intendent of education.
KY
A dispatch from Columbus an
nounces that the Progressive Union,
an organization of the business men
of that city, has secured the location
Of a big knitting mill with a capital
stock of $500 The plant will EN-
plov 200 hands. The securing Of this
industry again demonstrates the po-
tentiality of organized effort in town
building.
NY
The Greenville Democrat announces
that a million dollars of the recent ap.
propriation for levee Improvement VIII
he expended in the immediate Vlcln-
ity of Greenville. The money put In
IN circulation in that vicinity ought
ia make Greenville a hummer. 1t Is
already one of the best towns IN the
State.
Marshall county citizens have
launched a determined effort to secure
the location Of one of the branch agrl'
cultural experiment stations PROVIDED
for by the last legislature by the
terms of the bill n Of the stations
Is to be located in the hill section OF
North Mississippi and it is probable
that several propositions for Its loca,
ton will be submitted to the boaro
of trustees before the site OF the ne"
station Is finally decided upon. An
l other branch station is to be located
: in the delta, and Yazoo, Holmes and
, Lelore counties have already signitieo
: a desire to compete for the prize.
L KY
The Clarksdale Challenge, edited BY
! Mrs, Hala Hammond Butte, n OF the
ablest writers of the State press, per
petrates the following very truthiu
+ paragraph: "You can tell a successlu
farmer by the condition of his i've
= stock. You can tell a slouchy woman
by looking at her hair. You can Tel
the poisonous serpent by the plum
ness of his tail. But the easiest o
S all you can tell an enterprising mer
n chant by a glance at the local news
g paper. This is no divine reVelatlon
= but the gospel truth"
l. Ky
The little town of Edwards, IN limo
county, has just voted a bona lssu
for the establishment ofsa waterWorks
A number of other small owns i
this State are discussing the questlo
of municipal improvements. Wlthln
few wears, at the present rate, II WI
he hard to find a town OF five hundre
e population without waterworks an
electric lights,
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Among the curious antique flrearm
lie tn he exhibited at the st. Louis exp'
n sition is an old percussion rifle carrie
ID by Jefferson Davis, President OF IN
st C~onfederacy, when he was taken prl
oner bv Ger. Nelson A. Miles, in Ma.
1866. The gun was presented 10 re
ident Davis by a French lriehu Oh
lie admirer, P. Devishme, OF Paris.
Ky
IN A BUSINESS League has been ofgal
re ;zed NJ Nettleton with thirty mempel
I'd and that thriving little town WIZ 500
ID issue bonds for a new $4,000 pupE
IS school building.
d. The old town of Natchez seems
Us have fallen into the industrial pal
at wagon and several extensive muhi'
d. nal improvements are being agltale
in that city. The city council III
IN decided to levy a street tax and II
OF probable that bonds will be issued
ne an early date for 100000 worth
u street paving.
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IN New Albany has just consummate
a deal by which a $4,000 pants Ia
tn torv il to be located In that pr
~, gressive town.
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n Mississippi cotton planters are no
,es inc that Dan Sully will get ON
feet again. The bulls Of the cot.
market are always considered =
NC friends of the South.
Ky
., The Carrollton Conservative wan
Ill ,ba vacant lots of that town ira
zee formad into flower gardens.