Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-11-03
GREATER MISSISSIPPI.
BY II. E. BLAKESLEE.

The curtain is down on the last act
Of the Stegomyia Fasciata stock COM
pany and let us hope that it will re-
! main nailed down.
|
| OlSolona boasts of some splendid
sidewalks and laments the fact that
other improvements are lacking. Good
walks and roads are an educator that
will eventually lead to the best of ey.
| erything.
/. W. farrell of Newton made L.
900 gallons of molasses from a two
acre patch. It was Louisiana cane,
and the crop throughout that sec-
| ton is said to be excellent, better
than for years.
| Baldwin held a stock show and gen.
eral exposition of one days duration
recently with excellent success. This
little event may Iave the fast awaken
ing to the advantages of such insti-
/ tutions.
The Magnolia Gazette cites an in
| stance where a>farmer in the vicinity
of that town realized over $4,000 from
sweet potato patch that cost him
| only $3.50. This is another evidence
of what the soil Of Pike and other
counties in that section viii do if
| properly managed.
Yazoo City's new directory is being
distributed and contains the names
and addresses of 1864 people. There
is much friendly rivalry between a
number of progressive and aspiring
towns throughout the state and of
about the same size, but Yazoo has
the laugh on them just at present.
Greenwood, Hattiesburg, Columbus
and other towns would prove an in
vlting field for directory canvassers
just at this time.
Good and sensible management is
NECESSARY to the. success of any un-
! dertaking, especially In handling mu-
! nicipal utility plants Mississippi is
making a wonderful record in the way
Of successful municipal, water, light
and sewerage plants. They have
proven that if properly managed they
will pay handsomely. Service is fur
nished at a less rate than if owned
by private individuals, and more sat
isfactory from the fact that the mu-
nicipality will do what the people de-
mand for it is the people.
The Pontotoc Ridgeway Fruit com
pany has been organized at Pontotoc
for the purpose of planting orchards
and marketing the product. A number
of excellent business men are inter
ested in the movement and it goes
without saying that success will crown
| their efforts. Pontotoc Is in a section
Of the state noted for it's fine fruit.
! The ridge Of hills that pass through
that section are said by those in a
position to know to be the best adap-
ted to fruit raising of any portion of
the south. Professor A. B. Mckay,
horticulturist at the A. & NJ. college,
has purchased tract Of land near
Pontotoc and last year planted 10000
peach trees and will plant more this
! year. The industry is one that is very
likely to increase in interest. Land
generally considered unfit for farming
will be made to produce the worlds
needs and bring profit to the owner
| May the greatest measure of success
attend the efforts of the promoters,
for it means much to that section of
the state.
The following from one OF our
brightest exchanges contains a spien
did lesson. and a wholesome moral: :
I'VE know a man who as a farmer
was an acknowledged success. He
made the biggest crops of any one in
| his section. His wife was the best
cook in the neighborhood and she al
ways had plenty to cook His hogs
were always fat, his barn lot full of
|
ahead. But the desire to go to town
| at last took possession of him. He
decided that with the money he had
and that received for his place, he
could move to town, live easy, wear
a white shirt and polished shoes the
balance of his life. His wife held out
against the move for a long time, bus
at last she signed the deed and they
let the old place go.
'sThat was ten years ago. Today the
old man is driving fray, the few
quarters he picks up each day help to
keep body and soul together in a lit
tie rented three-room house in the
outskirts Of the town. A success as
farmer and honest, he went into
business with town fellow as
partner. Five years ago the business
failed. Everything he went inso was
money-losing proposition. At las;
he had to sell his town place to pay
| note he endorsed for a friend (?l.
His wife lost her health and is now
an inSalid. The farm he left ten years
ago is worth $4,000, just four times
what he received for it when he
sold He is too old to start over as
farmer and is most unhappy man.
Which leads US to remark that IL
successful farmer is the most inde-
pendent maa on earth and should be
the happiest.
a 1t was the writer's pleasure to at
tend the opening of the McComb City
Fair on the 18th. This was the sec.
ond year for that phenomenally sue
cessful institution. and the promoters
who are of McComb's best business
men, have much to congratulate them
selves for.
The grounds for the Fair are we'll
sifuafed lust outside the residential