The leader., 1905-10-14


other is susceptible of no other mean
ing. do not think A could employ B
to buy cotton under AS license. B, be-
fore buying cotton, should have IL
cense in his own name. The object of
the law was to prevent a firm of buyers
from having agents in various parts of
the State operating under the firms
license. Only one municipality is al
lowed to tax them, for the reason that
on travelling cotton buyers were each
village, town or city permitted to assess
them with so per cent of the State tax,
the same would be prohibitive."
The Mississippi Cotton Association
will request Governor Vardaman to in
corporate in his biennial message to the
legislature recommendation for the
establishment of department of agri-
culture. This subject was fully dis
cussed at the recent meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Southern
| Cotton Association at Asheville,- and it
was the opinion of those present that
every State in the South should have
| department in the State government of
this character. Such departments ex-
ist in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Tennessee and North Carolina. and the
association believes that Mississippi
should take similar step, for this is
| pre-eminently an agricultural State.
President Harvie Jordan writes as
follows to the secretary of the Missis-
sippi Cotton Association: Il wish to ask
your assistance in inducing the farmers
| to stand firm in the face of the tre-
a Ioxyf
| eign spinners and tho bear element to
depress prices. The crop in many sec
| tions has already been gathered. The
crop must necessarily be short one
If the farmers will be patient and stand
firm for a short while, the market will
| soon advance to our minimum of ii
cents.
The secretary of the Oktibbeha Fair
| Association has written to Manager
Mckay, of the Mississippi Industrial
+ Exposition, that he is going to get all
of the best of his fair together, if pos
sible, and ship to jackson. The Oktib-
beha fair will be held at Starkville Oct
| 81 and Nov. and 2, so that it will be
over in good time to ship exhibits to
| Jackson.
1t is announced at the Office of the
| State Superintendent of Education that
State examination will be held at the
superintendent Office in jackson about
the middle of October, provided the
| fever situation permits. In the event
the quarantines have not been lifted by
| that date the examination will be post
poned again.
The Jones County Fair was neld at
Ellisville last week. The various ex-
| hibits were the best ever shown in that
section, and proved a great attraction
| to all visitors. An excursion train on
the Mobile, jackson and Kansas City
road carried 1000 children from Laurel
to the fair on children's day.
The State Board of Health has adopt
| ed an ordinance quarantining every
county in which there is no yellow fever
against those that have the fever. The
infected counties are Claiborne, Jeffer-
son, Franklin, Adams, Warren and
| Wilkinson.
A large number of farmers of Lowndes
county met at Columbus and discussed
the good roads proposition. Great in
terest was manifested in the meeting,
and the people seem awake to the fact
good roads are necessity.
The fine dry weather around Cotton
Plant is enabling farmers to get good
start picking out the cotton. The po-
tato crop is bringing good price. The
sorghum crop is short and sells easily
at 40 cents.
| nvu;,,or ~ +ba eho,,t,,1,er 1,f +;,,oo oll1+
ted for his Southern trip, President
Roosevelt will be unable to make any
ssops at Mississippi points.
Bishop Charles B. Galloway dedi-
Gated new Methodist church at Black
Hawk recently. The church was built
on the site of the old church, in which
the bishop preached thirty-five years
ago, when he first entered the ministry.
Hazlehurst has adopted cnrfew law
requiring everyone to be off the streets
by 8 o'clock pm.
The Mississippi and Alabama Rail-
road Company has been chartered.
The road will run from Corinth, Miss,
to Jasper, Ala, and it is said will be
built at once.
Secretary Woods, of the Mississippi
Division of the Southern Cotton AssO-
citation. has issued a bulletin, in which
he gives the condition of the cotton crop
of the State at 65 per cent, which is a
deterioration of per cent from last
months report. This estimate is based
on the thousands of letters and reports
received by the Cotton Association
from over the State.
State Land Commissioners Nails re-
port of the business of his Office for the
past two years shows that during the
biennial period he sold S143, Ala worth
of lands. These figures include cOllec-
tion for rentals, trespasses, etc.
Rates have been agreed upon for the
| Natchez, Columbia and Mobile rail-
road, being made about the same dis
/ those on the Pearl and Gulf. The chief
complaint was against the rates on
lumber, about all that has heretofore
been hauled by the road, and that was
made cents per 100 pounds.
Congressman John Sharp Williams
mas D66u luV1D6Q 10 NlS1b DOGl M airy.
land and Virginia and made speeches in
the interest OF the Democratic party.
/ It is very likely that Mr.. Williams will
/ 90 to Virginia, delivering his first ad-
dress at Salem on Oct 90.
The Yalobusha Baptist Association
met at Charleston last week with q
large attendance, twenty y-four churches
being represented.
The case of the State Of Louisiana
vs.. the State Of Mississippi, known as
the Loussiana-M Mississippi boundary
case, was heard before tho United
States Supreme Court at Washing ton
on Oct. 10. Hon. Hannis Taylor Of
Washington, formerly Of Alabama,
and Hon. Monroe MeClurg, former At
torney General Of the State of Missis-
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