Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-04-16

after he has blown his head off try
ing to discourage people from send
ing to catalogue houses, that some fel
lows whom he has been trying t.
boost are getting their stationer!
from some medicine house or CheaI
John concern. This shakes his con
fdence in his fellow men and causes
him to wonder II he has not been &
little too fresh"
State Commissioner r. II. Henry an
nounces that no more exhibits will BIZ
4 received at Jackson for the Worlds
Fair, and no exhibits will be received
at st. Louis after April 30 Those
who now have exhibits ready for ship
ment may send them by express tc
st. Louis. addressed to 'R. II. Henry
! Mississippi Building" The Mississip
pi exhibit at the fair will be a credit
TO the State and to the several gen
, temen who have worked SO indus
/ triously to make 1t possible.
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Seventeen new brick houses are I'M
der contract to be erected in Green
wood Several others arc projected
More than fifty residences are being
built in various parts of the town. An
electric railway will be built this sum.
I mer and several other enterprises arc
on the tapls. On April Is Greenwood
will hold an election to vote bonds
for the purchase Of the waterworks,
electric lights and sewerage,
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Some towns in the State that will
issue bonds for municipal improve.
ments: Jackson. for new waterworks.
s250,000; Meridian. for general i'm.
provement, $3.50 900; Aberdeen, for wa
terworkS and sewerage. 100000; va.
200 City for waterworks, lights and
sewerage. $l75,O00; Tupelo. water
works, 100000; Gulfport, municipal
improvements, 100000 Mt. Olive and
Flora are both contemplating the is
suance of bonds for public conven-
fences. And there are many other
Mississippi towns deserving OF men.
tion in this connection which we can
not now call to mind.
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A number of the boards of super
visors Of the State have taken adj
vantage of the authority granted them
by the last legislative session to in.
crease the salary of the county super
intendent of education.
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A dispatch from Columbus an
nounces that the Progressive Union,
NJ nj Of tho httutnnco n
of that city. has secured the location
of a big knitting mill with capital
stock of $150,000. The plant will EN-.
ploy 200 hands. The securing of this
industry again demonstrates the po-
tentiality Of organized effort in town
building.
The Greenyille Democrat announces
that a million dollars of the recent ap-
preparation for leveo improvement will
be expended in the immediate vicin-
ity of Greenvlle. The money put in
to circulation in that vicinity ought
to make Greenville a hummer It Is
already one of the best towns in the
State,
Marshall county citizens have
launched a determined effort to secure
the location of one of the branch agri-
cultural experiment stations provided
for by the last legislature. BY the
terms of the bill one of the stations
Is to be located in the hill section OF
North Mississippi and it is probable
that several propositions for its loca-
tion will be submitted to the board
of trustees before the site of the new
station is finally decided upon. An.
other branch station is to be located
in the delta. and Yazoo, Holmes and
Lenore counties have already signified
a desire to compete for the prize.
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The Clarksdale Challenge, edited by
Mrs. Hala Hammond Butte, one of the
ablest writer's of the State press, per-
petrates the following very truthful
You can tell successful
farmer by the condition Of his live
stock. You can tell slouchy woman
by looking at her hair. You can tell
the poisonous serpent by the blunt
ness of his tail. But the easiest OF
all. you can tell an enterprising mer-
chant by glance at the local news
paper This Is no divine revelation,
but the gospel truth"
KY
The little town of Edwards, in Kinds
county, has Just voted bond issue
for the establishment of waterworks,
A number of other small towns in
this State are discussing the question
of municipal improvements, Within
few years, at the present rate, 1t will
be hard to find town of five hundred
population without waterworks and
electric lights.
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 the
when he was taken pris-
0ner by Gen. Nelson A, Miles, in May !
1865. The gun was presented to Pres
ident Davis by French friend and
p. Devishme, of Paris.
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A Business League has been organ
lied at Nettleton with thirty members |
and that thriving little town will soon ,
issue bonds for a new $1,000 public |
school building.
The old town OF Natchez seems to
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.
New Albany has just consummated
deal by which a $4,000 pants fac
ory is to be located in that pro-
ressive town.
Mississippi cotton planters are hop.
ng that Dan Sully will get on his
'eet again. The bulls Of the cotton
market are always considered the
friends of the South.
The Cayrollton Conservative wants
he vacant lots of that town trans
formed into flower gardens.
Ky
Maben has a barber who is also a
He gives with a ten
cent shave or fifteen-cent hair cut a
fne cigar The Meteor says that he
IS doing a good business.
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Jackson is going to issue bonds in
he sum Of $4,000 to provide a paid
dre department