The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-03

two years than New Albany. 1t has
been transformed from an ordinarily good
county town to a thriving manufacture
ing city. The population has increased
from 1893 in 1900 to 2,700 at present.
Large factories for the manufacture of
hardwoods, clay and other materials into
the finished article have been built.
Splendid business structures have taken
the place of insignificant buildings and
the town has undergone one of the most
remarkable transformations ever wit
messed in the South. 1t was the writer's
pleasure to visit the numerous factories
recently and learn something of their
magnitude. A sixty-ton oil mill was the
first and has completed two seasons of
success. An $4,000 cotton compress,
with the latest machinery and immense
brick sheds is just beginning the second
season. A clothing factory that employs
125 hands has just completed its first
season, paid 80 per cent. dividend and
increased capital stock from $4,000 to
100000. A handle factory is nearing
a year of good work and promises to be
a good investment. An immense fur
niture factory, with the very latest ma
chinery and employing 140 hands, is
running and turning out a product that
is pronounced by experts to be equal to
any made anywhere. A box factory
with a large capacity is just beginning
to set the wheels in motion. Two brick
factories, one for pressed and the other
for plain, are running on full time to
supply the demand for home consump-
ton. The NJ, j. & X. c. railroad is
building large shops and relay stations,
which adds a great deal to the prosper
ity of the town. The town has recently
installed one of the most complete sys-
TENS of waterworks and electric lights
to be found anywhere. A $4,000 hotel
and hundreds of other buildings are 60
ing up as fast as men and money can
push them along. 1t is in a good section
of the country, and there is every reason
why the place should have 10000 in
habitants when the enumeration Is made
by Uncle Sam in 1910. New Albany will
occupy a prominent place in the Greater
Mississippi" of the future.
The following from one of u bright
est exchanges contains a splendid lesson
and a wholesome moral:
1--WE know a man who as a farmer was
an acknowledged success. He made the
biggest crops of any Il in his section.
His wife was the best cook in the neigh
borhood and she always had plenty to
cook. His hogs were always fat, his
barn lot full of cows and he had con-
siderable money ahead. But the desire
to % 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 bal
ance of his life. His wife held out
against the move for a long time, but at
last she signed the deed and they let
the old place go.
"That was ten years ago. Today the
old man is driving a dray, the few quar-
tiers he picks up each day helps to keep
body and soul together in a little rented
three-room house in the outskirts of the
town. A success as a farmer and hon
est, he went into business with a town
fellow as a partner. Five years ago the
business failed. Everything he went
into was a money-losing proposition. At
last he had to sell his town place to pay
a note he Endorsed for a friend. ~ HIS
wife lost her health and is now an in
valid. 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 a farmer and is a
most unhappy man."
Which leads us to remark that a sue
cessful farmer is the most independent
man on earth and should be the happlest.
Baldwin held a stock show and general
exposition of one days duration recently,
with excellent success. This little event
NAV pave the way to the organization OF
a successful county fair. Our people are
fast awakening to the advantage OF such
institutions.
Okolona boasts of some splendid side
walks and laments the fact that other
improvements are lacking. Good walks
and roads are an educator that Will
eventually lead to the best of everything.
I. w. FARRELL, of Newton, made 1,OOO
gallons of molasses from a two-acre
patch. 1t was Louisiana cane and the
crop throughout that section is said to
be excellent, better than for years.
The Aberdeen button factory has re-
Gently made a large sale of goods at tan
prices. This factory makes a finished
button from common mussel shells that
are found in the rivers and lakes OF the
State.
Hon. Charles Scott, of Rosedale, has
been in Europe for some time studying
labor conditions, and has come to the
conclusion that the farm labor OF Italy
will prove the salvation of the South
in the much discussed labor question. He
has shipped a car load of laborers and
that in the future his planta'
lions will be worked by them in prefer
ence to the negroes, who are becoming OF
less account every day. Hon. Leroy
Percy, of Greenyille, is of the same opin.
ion and has been using Italian labor fol
some time. The question is likely ont
that will solve itself in the near future
but at the present time it is n that is
Worrying landowners no little.
Il
Good and sensible management IS nee
essary to the success of any undertake.
ing, especially in handling municipal