Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-07-14

Regular train service has been es-
tablished on the Liberty-White Rail-
road. from Maeomb City to Liberty.
and the people can go back and forth
in day now McComb Is confident
that the road will prove great feeder
for that splendid place. 1t has grown
in Importance as a cotton shipping
point for some time, and this Will give
impetus to the movement. The coun-
try around the town is especially
adapted to the growing Of truck. and
interest in that line will be stimulated
as much as possible. The business
section burned some weeks since is
being rebuilt with larger and better
buildings than before. and the re-
newed McComb will be a better town
by far than the old one.
Three years ago when A. NJ. Angus
tine, of West Point proposed the capt.
talization of $4,000 orchard. the peo-
pie dubbed him a CRATER of the worst
type The move was gotten on foot,
though, and this year the products of
the farm were something over S15,000,I
and it is only beginning TO bear. The
rate on improved acres was about
$500. Who could wish for better in
vestment? What Mr.. Augustine has
done thousands of others can do. Ours
is largely a truck and fruit country,
and there is no reason why our people
could not be growing rich off the pro-
duct of land that is now thought high
at two or three dollars an acre.
The board of supervisors of Bolivar
county have purchased farm for the
county poor, where all that are able
to do any work can find something TO
employ the hands as well as the mind.
Quite a number are able TO raise veg
etables, and it is expected that the in
mates will have better health and be
more contented if there is some light
labor to take up their time. The eX-
periment will be watched with inter-
est
A Monroe county farmer says that
he never saw crops in a better condt-
ton and q larger number of mule colts
in the country That is fine report
for old Monroe How r:any counties
in the State can say as much or more?I
Good crops, mule colts. killing hogs
and bread and butter at home are the
greatest prerequisites to prosperous
md happy people.
The Masonic fraternity Of Yazoo
City are contemplating the erection
of temple to cost about 100000, the
Odd Fellows are arranging to build a
$4,000 hall and the other orders are
not asleep by any means. Yazoo City
will be better fixed in the line of fra
ternal buildings than any town in the
State of twice its size.
Hazlehurst will truck 1t some next
season. Cabbages weighing eighteen
pounds and turnips weighing sixteen
pounds were produced this year, and
the Courier thinks that several will
engage in the business for proht next
year Other communities in the vicin-
ity of Hazlehurst are doing well truck
ing. and there is no reason why the
same could not be done there.
A new line of railroad has been
chartered, to run from Alexandria,
| La. via Bayou Macon, to point oppo-
| site Greenville The promoters are
| successful business men. and have the
money to put the matter through.
GreenviIle expects the new road TO
! be valuable feeder for her business,
| and it will no doubt prove so.
Mississippi is now in possession OF
a type foundry. and the declining dis
| counts need not longer worry the
( country printer The Mississippi Type
Foundry, Jackson, is new institution
| that proposes to furnish type at fig
ures that will bring business, 1t IS a
: home institution, and Mississippi
printers will see that it is maintained.
Hundreds of people are inquiring
about Mississippi daily. Interest in
| the State continues to increase
abroad. There is a desire to know
more of us. and the information
| sought must be furnished. The Great
err Mississippi Association is working
| to that end Help to sustain the AS
ISOLATION, and thereby help the State.
! It is now reported that the Nj. j. Il
! X. c. R. r. will be pushed from New
| Albany northward to Evansville. Ind,
making a through route from the gull
to the great lakes by connections at
| that point. The road is still a narrow
| gauge from New Albany to Middleton,
Tenn. but the report has it that the
work of broadening that portion of 1t
will begin at an early day.
Tate county capitalists are putting
in an independent telephone system
to cover the territory adjacent to Sen
/ atobia, the county site. In short
time every postoffice in the neiehbor-
hood and large majority of the farm
ers can converse with each other on
a moments notice.
G.. D. Able, one OF Water Valleys
4 prominent citizens ana business men,
says: Five years ago | would have
been ashamed to have taken a stran-
| ger two miles out from Water Valley.
Now the roads throughout the county
are something to be proud Of Yalo-
/ busha was one of the first counties in
the State to adopt the contract sys-
TEN of working public roads, and the
! success attending the effort is not
only source of qualification to the
| citizens but worthy of consideration
ard careful examination by other
| counties.
The Mississippi Central Railroad
which is chartered from Natchez to
Pascagoula, has recently been mort
gagged for the sum of $4,000, 900, and il
now seems that there is something
more than wind behind the move II
would open up fine country and at
the same time help wonderfully in de-
veloping the port OF Pascagoula. which
is said to have &c feet of water now
and could easily be deepened to ID
feet. Mississippi bids fair to have two
inonortant coast towns with deet