The leader., 1904-05-07
BY H. E. BLAKEsLEE, Jackson.

List of charters recorded during the
past week:
Columbus Comfort and Manufacture
Ing Company, Columbus Capital. $25,.
600; manufacture cotton and cotton.
filed goods.
alberta Hoop Company, Sanders.
vile, Jones County Capital, $40, 200;
manufacture hoops. heads, slaves.
boxes, lumber, etc.
Bank of Gunnison, Gunnison-Capi-
tai, $4,000; general banking business.
Laurel Machine and Foundry Com
pany. Laurel-Manufactur and repair
machinery.
Greenwood Savings Bank, Green.
wood-Capital $4,000; banking bust
ness.
Cassell Drug Company, vicksburg-
Capital, 100000; wholesale and retail
drug business
Fair-Chritton Lumber Company, Goa.
homa County-Capital, $43, 900; manu-.
facture and deal in lumber and timber,
own and operate boats, etc.
Amendment to charter of Capital
Light and Power Company, Jackson
Increasing capital to $4,000.
T. j. Rossell Manufacturing Com
pany, Biloxi-Capital, 100000; manu-
facture sash, doors, blinds, etc., and
do general material for building bust
| ness
Amendment to charter of D. C.
Camp Farming Company. Lumberton-
Increasing capital to $4,000.
Sons Academy, Oak Vale, Lawrence
CONGRATULATIONS
Jackson Baseball Association, Jack
son-Capital, $4,000; promote baseball.
Benton Normal High School, Benton
COMMUNICATIONS
A move is on foot to form State
association of the industrial clubs,
progressive unions, business leagues,
etc, which ought to be pushed until
the project materializes. Nearly every
| town of any consequence in the State
has an organization of some kind for
the purpose of advancing it Industrial
ly, commercially and in every legiti-
mate way. To make these organiza-
lions more complete, a State organiza-
| ton would go long way 1t is pro-
posed to form union of all Industrial
| workers on broad and conservative
lines that will act as unit in the up
building of the whole State as well as
their respective communities. There is
great deal that can be accomplished
| by this means and it Is well worth
the time and trouble to give it trial.
Several towns without leagues are ar
ranging to supply the deficiency and
| express desire to come in and be one
of the State body About twenty places
| have pledged support of the move
ment and there is every good reason
to believe that ere long it's permanent
organization can be announced.
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The trust again advances the prices
! o. broom corn and the price of brooms
must advance accordingly. This lis
necessary article in every home and
it is to be hoped that ere long Missis-
| aippi will raise the corn and manufac-
tire every broom used in the State
Ncodville has a factory under con-
| struction for the manufacture of
| brccms. The farmers of Wilkinson
county can raise as good corn as any
section of the Union, and when this
factory is in operation what care they
for the trust and the price of brooms?
This is sensible suggestion for our
| farmers and business men. Some may
say that the average farmer don't
knew how to handle and cure the corn.
Admitting this to be fact, if COM
munity would plant few acres for
each member it could afford to employ
an expert to manage the whole crop.
A man of this kind could go from field
| to field and advise as to the manage.
ment of all. There are ways and means
provided for all things, the culture of
broom corn not excepted.
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Laurel is building a foundry and
machine shop, which enterprise is
made necessary by the large amount of
machinery in that section, and the de-
| mand for ready means of repairs
without the attendant delay in sending
to shops in the, cities. Then, too, the
Laurel people will keep the money
| paid for repairs at home. These ma
chine shops, while they do not en-
! ploy large number of men, what
they do employ get good wages and
are generally desirable class of citi-
zens.
Municipal ownership of utilities has
proven winner in every instance
where ordinary business sense mas
been exercised in the management of
| the same. Municipal plants kept clear
| of political influences are great boon
to any town or city.
NJ A. Dees, of Moss Point, raised
over 600 bushels of yellow yam pota.
toes on an acre of ground; over $500
worth of truck to the acre. Why want
! to leave Mississippi to farm, truck or
| manufacture? There's no State in the
Union that can turn her down.
Pecan growing is attracting more at
IenJlon at the nandS OF our citizens
| yearly and promises to be a principal
industry before many years roll by.
The Mississippi exhibit at the Fair
viii show as fine pecans as the world
produces.
Greenwood is now making an effort
to secure the location of large chair
factory that will cost great many
thousand dollars and employ several
hundred hands That city usually gets
what she goes after, and it is likely
! that in a few days announcement can
be officially made that the factory will
be located there.
A thousand pound lump of rosin will
be one of the attractions with the Mis-
sissippi exhibit at Saint Louis Enough
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