The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-09
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI
Items Of Industrial Interest Cleaned From All Over the State
Notes and Comments
BY 81. E. BLAKESLEE.

Chronological data will likely prove
the more interesting, so some extracts
from it will be given.
The highest temperature recorded
in the State during 1903 was at Aber-
deem, on July 6, 103, and Okolona, July
2, 1903. The lowest recorded was at
Ripley, February II, zero. The high
est mean temperature for the year
was at Pennington, Hancock county,
of 662. The lowest was at Ripley,
| 58.7. Average for the State was 62.9.
Fayette received the greatest amount
of rainfall, 62.26 inches. Macon the
smallest, 34.84. Average for the State,
1853. The greatest number of clear
days were reported from fernando,
245 The smallest number at Ponto-
toe, 102. Average for the State, 1874
The latest killing frost reported last
year was on April 4 at the Agricutur-
al College, Ripley and Duck Hill. The
| first in the fall on October 10, at a
ern part of the State. The year was
generally cooler and drier than usual
Several parties over around Macon
are successfully raising bees and sell
ing honey. Not long since solid car
was shipped from one apiary. 1t net
ted good prices and the owner hand
some profit. While it has been con-
sidered that bees were not paying
property in the State, it may have
been because the business was not
gone into In the proper way. There
are a number of industries in the
State paying the owners that major.
ity of the people would class as
chimerical illusions if approached to
become engaged in them. 1t takes
get-up and get to make anything CO.
and what we need most is a number
of just such people in each commun-
ity.
While there are in the State a num-
Der of railroads that have as finely
equipped trains and make as good
time as any roads in the country,
there are still some that are not ex.
actly up-to-date in either respect.
Some days ago large planter of the
delta was complaining to an official
of the poor service on the road which
ran through his town. The official
told him that if he were to put on
more trains that they would likely
kill a great many of the fine animals
that he kept on his farm. Mr. Planter
countered by telling the official that
if he had a COW that couldn't outrun
any train on the road he would kill
her himself. The service on that
road will, in all likelihood, be i'm
proved in the near future.
Greenwood has arranged to issue |
100000 in bonds for the purpose of |
buying the present light and water |
plants, adding sewerage system and |
making all three the best that money |
can buy.
Snow, ice and billiards in the North
and West. Balmy spring days and
breezes, like unto the breath of an
gels, in ole Mississippi. Who wouldn't
want to make their home here, any.
way?
Are there people in your neighbor-
hood who look with disfavor and sus-
picion upon every suggestion for i'm
provement and progress? Do they get
out their little hammers and begin to
knock every move to make the coun-
try better and more prosperous? AL
most every community has them. Lay
off fair sized section of ground and
begin at once to plant them so deep
that nothing can possibly be heard
from them in the future It is pass
ing strange why some men are so con-
stituted. They can never see good in
anything until after it has been tried
and made a success of by their more
sensible and to be desired neighbors.
Conservative men are still going to
mill with a rock in one end of the
sack and blowing with a forked limb.
The men who get there are too often