The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-06-03
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS,

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tural and Mechanical College, who was
asked by Gov. Vardaman Il make an
investigation of the Oakley and Rankin
county farms to ascertain their adapta-
bility for certain crops, makes report as
follows:
"YOu have at both the Rankin aad
Oakley farms satisfactory and easy con-
ditions for growing grass and live stock,
while the Oakley farm appears to afford
you the opportunity to have one of the
best live stock farms in the whole cOun-
try, as the foundation for this is al
ready laid, if the board will only realize
it. Good pasture Is the basis of all live
stock farming, and in this State Ber-
muda and LespadeZa are the main pas
ture plants, and they are already at
Oakley in great abundance. You may
grow and use to advantage the follow.
ing crops: Corn, cowpeas, Bermuda,
L~eSpadeZa, vetch, burr clover, sofa
beans, sorghum, rape, peanuts and po-
tatoes. You may also grow cotton,
wheat, oats and orchard, trucking and
garden crops. You may grow mules,
horses. hogs, cattle and poultry"
The Supreme Court has handed down
a decision in the case of the State Rev
enue Agent VS.. w. K. NJ. Duke ct al. OF
Biloxi, seeking to collect back taxes on
delinquent personal property situated in
that town. Dukate and others set up
that Biloxi was operating under a
special charter granted by the legisla-
ture, which did not give it the power to
tax personal property, the charter being
silent on this. The Supreme Court
holds that all the power a municipality
has to tax is derived from the State,
that the Legislature has the power to
specify what municipal taxes shall be
collected, and that the municipality
cannot be forced by the revenue agent
to collect taxes when 40 authority eX-
lists for their collection.
Gov. Vardaman has received a re.
quest for the issuance of a proclamation
Incorporating the Percy, Lake Provi-
dence & Yazoo Railroad. The out
proposed to be followed is from Percy.
in Washington county, southwesterly
through the county of Washington,
through the county of Sharkey, to the
town of Grace, in I~ssaquena county;
thence southwesterly through Issa.
quena, by or near the town of Mayors
vile and the town of Ben LOmond to a
point nearly oppositeLake Providence,
La. on the Mississippi river; thence
southerly and southwesterly to a point
at or near Valley Park; thence running
sOutherly to a point on the Yazoo river:
The Board of Levee Commissioners
for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta has
awarded contracts for over 1000, OOC
cubic yards of work, which, when COM
pleted, will bring the entire levee sys-
tenn to that degree of perfection which
the chief engineer considers necessary tc
make the Yazoo-M Mississippi Delta safe
from further high water. According to
present ideas, the rate of taxation will
be materially lowered in the near
future, as the only work to be done will
be the keeping in repair the system.
A deal has been closed at Jackson
whereby the Goodyear lumber and rail
rOad interests purchased 4,800 acres OF
long-leaf yellow pine land in Lawrence
county, paying the very snug sum OF
$40 1000 therefor. The average price
paid for the lands was S14.5 per acre..
The lands are adjacent to the proposed
route of the New Orleans and Great
Northern road now being built north
ward from Slidell, La, to China Grove,
Miss, and which has been chartered for
a through line from New Orleans to
Memphis.
The Columbus Summer Normal.
,rI;aI 49, ON Two . &c 70 ha IoxrN+aI
for the most part to primary work.
general methods of primary work with
methods of teaching in the fourth, fifth
and sixth grades.
The Red Snapper Sauce Company,
which has been conducted as a private
business enterprise at C~enterville, In
Wilkinson county, has now become in
c~orporated, with q capital of $50 900,
and it is said that its output is to be
greatly increased.
The business men of Eupora, in Web
ster county, are about to turn their at
tention toward securing the Memphis
and Pensacola road for their town. II
is believed that a bonus of $4,000 and
the right of way will get the road.
The State last week disposed of 2,575
bales of its cotton for 7.65c. The cot.
is not especially good cotton, being
below grade. This cleans
out the State entirely.
Two hundred and thirty pounds OF
chewing tobacco and seventy pounds Ell
smoking tobacco have been donated to
the Soldiers Home at Beauvoir for the
use of the veterans by Capt. r. w.
McNeer.
The various companies comprising
the National Guard of the State are
O putting in a great deal of time
drilling and getting in shape for the
coming e%ncampment, which is to be
held at Gulfport in July. The boys
will have more money for their encamp-
ment this year than ever before, and it
should be the most successful in the
history of the State Guard.
The Elks lodges throughout the State
are preparing for the annual meeting
of the State convention which is to be
held at Gulfport on June 10. Some OF
the most prominent men in the State