The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-16

ing land in Mississippi, now lynn
idle, to raise all of the mules an,
horses that the farmers of the Stat
can use, and they can be raised her
at much less cost than further North
where the winters are severe an
stock requires heavy feeding for hal
of the year.
Among the curious antique firearms
to be exhibited at the st. Louis expo
sition is an old percussion rife carried
by Jefferson Davis, President of thu
Confederacy, when he was taken pris
oner by Gen. Nelson A. Miles, in May
1865. The gun was presented to Pres
ident Davis by a French friend ant
admirer, P. Devishme, of Paris
A Business League has been organ
lied at Nettleton with thirty members
and that thriviAg little town will soor
issue bonds for a new $4,000 public
school building.
The old town of Natchez seems tc
have fallen into the industrial band
wagon and several extensive munich
| pal improvements are being agitated
in that city The city council has
| decided to levy street tax and it is
probable that bonds will be issued at
an early date for 100000 worth OF
street paving.
The always ably edited Grenada Sen
tinel says: Mississippi is on boom,
but it is boom founded on sub
stantial basis"
The Meridian Star gives voice to
the following good advice, which it is
not yet too late for our farmers to
heed: There is no worse policy for
our farmers than the decreasing of the
corn acreage to increase the cotton
production. With the enormous crop
that favorable season will bring
forth, we may again go bankrupt by
buying our meat and bread with
and cent cotton. Be on the safe side.
Plant plenty of corn, then all the cot
ton you can conveniently cultivate and
gather"
The government has just let a con-
tract for carrying the mail from Car
thage to Forest at $1,399.75 per an
mum. This is the longest rural mail
route in the State, the distance be-
tween the two places being more than
thirty miles. The trip is made daily,
which gives the people along the route
the benefit of one mail each way every
other day.
Purvis is to be the seat of govern
ment of the new county of Lamar, in
stead of Lumberton, as heretofore stat
ed in these columns.
There is a constant and increasing
demand for poultry in almost every
town, in the State, yet very few Mis-
sissippians have so far had the fore
sight to engage in the industry.
Ky
Greenville's Business League now
has a salaried secretary, who will de-
vote all of his time to the work. All
business leagues ought to have sal
aried secretaries. What is everybody's
business is usually nobody's business.
You can't expect to get something for
nothing in this age of competition and
business activity.
Ky
New Albany has just consummated
a deal by which $4,000 pants fac
tory is to be located in that pro-
gressive town.
Mississippi cotton planters are hop
ing that Dan Sully will get On his
feet again. The bulls of the cotton
market are always considered the
friends of the South.
Ky
Maben has a barber who is also a
He gives with a ten
cent shave or ffteen-cent hair cut
fine cigar. The Meteor says that he
is doing a good business.
Ky
An exchange asserts that during
the past year not less than 100000 |
has been invested in buildings and |
at Shaw, another pros |
porous Bolivar county town.
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Osyka is another small town blessed |
with a progressive citizenship that |
would do credit to a much larger
place. At an election held there last
week, a proposition to issue bonds
n the sum of $4,000 for the erection
If waterworks and electric lights, was
carried by a vote Of "A to IL.