The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-11-17
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS,


ITO the People OF Mississippi,
II feel quite sure that all fair~miuded
men will agree with me that the South
ern Cotton Association has accomplish
ed some good. That much moge good
cation | feel assured. | feel ii absoiuto-
ly necessary that we go 10 work and
bring about n more complete organi2a-
ton, and | ask the people of every
county in Mississippi to seud their
county president and secretary, or at
least Two representatives, to meet with
.ho executive committee at Jackson on
Nov. % and n. The meeting viii he
called to order promptly at 10 o'clock,
am, OF Nov. %, in the house OF repre-
sentatives. | should also ike to have
any others who feel interested enough
in this great work to attend and give
us the benefit of their counsel. My
idea in calling this meeting Is to con-
slider carefully this organization from
every standpoint, aud 10 devise ways
and means for better organization and
more definite purposes. II will be
necessary that each county pay the ex.
penses Of It's own representatives. \
few dollars expended and q few days
loss of time should not prevent your
attending. | consider this meeting Of
vital Importance to you. Your pres
ence will be worth a great deal to all OF
US, and ! want you to come, not with
the idea of q frolic, but with the ideaot
two days hard work"
Less than thirteen months ago the
village of Sturgis, in Oktibbeha county,
between S~tarbville and Alderman, was
wiped ont by fire, nothing being left to
mark the spot except the ~smoldering
ashes and one lonely store. In less
time than two hours $4,000 worth of
property was consumed, with only
$500 insurance TO cover the loss. This
calamity would have disheartened pee
pie of less energy and determination,
but not SO with the merchants of Stur-
gis. Today where the old, dilapidated
buildings stood, twenty new brick and
modern wooden buildings stand, we'll
appointed for their business, with inyit-
ing plate glass fronts. Before the fire
the weary pedestrians had to wade the
mud in winter and the dust and sand in
summer, but not so now. They have
graded the streets, put in good side
walks and have made the little place
look like a city.
DR.. G. G. RucGer, of Bluff, is the
owner of some very interesting relics
dug from the grave Of an Indian in the
Tallahatchie hills. The grave was ac-
cidentally discovered as the result of
hogs roofing up the ground and bring
ing to the top some old spoons. Fur
ther digging brought TO light the skel-
eton and some more spoons, a bowl, a
bottle and a brass kettle. The bones
were SO old as to be easily crushed in
the hand. The bowl is in almost per-
feet condition, which Is an unusual
thing for bowls of this kind and age.
The c~oloring is very strange, but beau
tiful. The bottle is made Of dark-col-
ored glass, and is almost u~nbreakable
on account of thickness,
An Eastern cotton factory has ex.
pressed a desire TO get to Jackson, and
the city is going to be asked to take a
sufficient amount of stock to bring 1t.
The factory is a observation-disclosures
concern, and the owners are anxious to
get their plant down in the vicinity OF
the cotton patches-as a great many
have already done, and as many more
are going TO have to do in the ourse OF
time. The city Of Jackson has a great
many factories of one kind and another,
but no cotton mill, and that is what is
believed to be necessary TO put the old
town on the real high road to pros
perity.
Senator McLaurin of Sbarkey and
Senator Dulaney of Issaquena declare
the cotton crop in the delta is only 90
per cent of what it was last year, and
on manyf fine farms the crop amounts to
nothing. These gentlemen are two OF
the largest planters In the delta.
The board OF supervisors Of Coahoma
county have let the contract for the
construction of a steel bridge over Sun
flower river between Clarksdale and
Friars Point. This is the second steel
bridge for which contract has been let
within the past few months.
The police of Jackson have been CIV
ing the blind tigers a genuine shaking
up recently, and several of them, white
and black, men and women, have been
fined as much as $50 and the costs. 1t
seems to be impossible to break up tho
tiger dens, their profits being so large,
but life is being made a burden to some
of them, and they declare they are done
with the business. Some few Of the
older and stronger ones have been
pulled" and fined 20 many times that
they have grown used to the feeling
and hardened TO the crime, so that an
arraignment before the courts has no
terrors for them.
The following subscriptions to the sill
yer service fund being raised by the
governor were sent in last week: Presi-
dent Spencer, Second Vicc-P resident
Finley and Weep PRESIDENT Russell Of
the Mobile and Ohio and Of the South
ern Railways, 500 each; the Missis-
sippi Home Insurance Company OF
Vicksburg, 500; the Meridian Fertil-
izer Company of Meridian, S25; Mrs.
Ed Kahn OF Meridian, So.
Gen. Robert Lowry, commanding the
Mississippi division, United C%onfeder-
ate Veterans, has issued an order to
hold the annual State Reunion in jack
son on Nov. % and %, and assures all
who may attend a cordial welcome and
hospi.ab4s treatment.
Work IL now in progress on the icy
Mobile and Ohio bridge over the Tom
bigbee at Columbus. The immense