Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-07-14
BY H. E. BLAKESLEE, jackson.

Mississippi is prospecting as never
/ before Money is more plentiful and
! the spirit of broad-gauged progressive
ness is beginning to pervade the peo-
! pie. which is evidenced by the Won
! derful improvement on every hand.
| Our splendid climate and land adapt
/ ed to such varied uses is attracting the
attention of the world. A people whose
/ whole being is chivalrous and well
/ come to good citizens from all parts
/ of the country that is unexcetled for
1 It's warmth and sincerity is bringing
/ the Test that other States have TO
/ offer A diversity of interests that is
/ possessed by no other State and OPP
1 pSr;unit;es without parallel attract the
/ mechanic and the farmer A splendid
| exhibit of our resources to the view
| OF thousands daily at st. Louis. to-
| gether with the large quantities OF de-
| scr;ptive matter being sent out by the
Greater Mississippi Association is let
ting the world know what we have,
| and it is astonished at the showing
1 made by State of which but little
| had beer known heretofore. The good
| work las only been commenced. 1t
| falls upon the people to see that it IS
| kept up with increasing energy until
| the object in view has been accom-
pl:shel. What are you doing to bring
about this end? Before you forget 1t.
serd 81 to tn ter Mississippi As
sociaiion at jack 4. and have the
| pleasure of knowing hat you have at
| least contributed a mite to keep the
| ni4Cels moving That amount is the
! indiy dual membership fee for one
year, and will be expended upon order
| of the executive committee where it
will do the most good. Get friend
or two to join you in the remittance
and the good done will be doubled or
| trebled Do something for your State.
and your reward will be plentiful
/
Here Is actual experience again to
! prove that trucking in Mississippi
pays About seven months since the
! Farmers Union of Bay st. Louis was
organized for the purpose of promot
ing the growing and shipping of veg
| etables to the Northern markets and
/ to procure more advantageous terms
| to the shipper The Union also bought
seeds and fertilizer in quantities,
thereby getting it at wholesale prices
and reducing the freight to car load
rates. Success has attended the first
year of the Union. and it will be great
! " strengthened next season. report
! just made shows that twenty-one solid
| cars of truck have been shipped, and
the net proceeds to the community
was a little over $4,000. Work at the
packing house employed sometimes as
| high as eighty or ninety people, ami
| others besides the truckers were given
employment. The truck shipped was
radishes, potatoes. lettuce, cucumbers,
string beans, SQUASH green onions,
| caulifower. carrots, cabbage and
beets. The success attending the ef-
forts of the people of Bay st. Louis
! will no doubt have the effect of en-
couraging others to engage in the
business Mississippi ought to furnish
a large per cent of the vegetables used
in the United States, and after few
years will do so.
/ A statement recently made to Hon.
| e. S. Gambler, congressman from the
| First congressional district, by the
| fourth assistant postmaster general,
gives the following interesting stats
tics regarding the number of free de
livery routes now in operation in the
several congressional districts and the
| number now pending: First, II in OPP
Grafton and SO pending; Second, in
operation and II pending; Third none
in operation and pending; Fourth. 20
in operation and SO pending; Fifth, 81
in operation and 35 pending; Sixth, /
in operation and 6 pending; Seventh
II in operation and II pending;
Eighth. in operation and 6 pending
Total, 153 in operation and 1876 pend
ing. This is very creditable show
ing for the State, and is evidence that
our representatives in congress are
looking after our interests to some ex
| tent. anyway Ere long the system
will spread all over the State, and the
remotest citizen will have his mail de
livered at his door daily.
McComb City has enthusiastically
| entered into the work of rebuilding
their burned district. Two new banks
have been chartered, the Liberty
White Railroad finished, great prepa
rations are being made for county
fair this fall, and. take it all in all
| McComb Is very much alive. Hers is
a plucky citizenship that does not sill
down to a tear or a frown, but con
sistently paddle their own canoe.
Still there is room for the citizens
of Mississippi to do something fol-
their State. All of our land should be
bringing the owner something in the
way of profit Every acre is suited fol
some purpose, and what we want tc
see is every acre producing something
There are thousands of people IN the
crowded districts of the North ano
East that would come here and make
good citizens if they knew something
of our country and what 1t would pro
duce. as well as what the land coule
be bought for.
The Greater Mississippi Association
Bulletin No. 2, relative to truck grow
ing in the State. will be out and ready
for distribution by Saturday of this
week. Every section will be given at
tention. and they ought to be distrib
uted from one end to the other o.
these United States Send to the Sec
rotary for few and mail them TO YOU
frien e outside the State. A number
of people took advantage of the oppor
UNITY to mail out the health bulletins
TRY the truck bulletin now, or, If yol
need more of the health bulletins
write for them and they will be fur
nished cheerfully. They were made
for distribution.
Newton is to soon have factory To-
hottling soda. ginger ale and kindred
| teunerance drinks. Several other en-