The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-17

appropriate silver service, library or
something else useful, as is custom
airy. The best way to do this would be
by an appropriation by the legislature.
as in this case all would bear a part
of the expense. instead of a few, if
it were raised by popular subscription.
Begin to think about it.
Mississippi people should get top
notch prices for their fruit this sea-
son, if the report that a large AMOUNT
of damage was done the fruit in other
sections by the extremely cold
weather of some days since.
A contractor has just finished eight
cen new buildings in Senatobia, the
larger portion of which were resi-
dences. 1t looks as ii Senatobia was
experiencing a considerable wave OF
prosperity, although not so very much
is being said about ii.
In harmony with the writer's fire.
uuent admonitions to be optimistic on
all occasions, is the following from
a publication called Physical Gull
ture." and devoted to elevating the
race:
Hang these words on your bed
post or tack them into your brain:
From now on | am going to change
my entire life and my style of think
ing. | will endeavor in the hereafter
TO be generous in my views toward
broad-minded. large-spirited
and kind. thinking well of everybody.
mean to nobody, and overlooking the
little faults, believing that there are
other qualities in the man tina over
whelms the deficiency. There is SO
much bad in the best of us, and so
much good in the worst of us, that we
should be charitable to the rest of us.
| shall see the bright side OF every
thing. | shall talk like an optimist,
laugh like an optimist. move about
like an optimist. conscious of the fact
that | shall radiate sunshine and make
everyone around me happy"
Track laying on the M, j. & K. C.
railroad has been resumed since the
bad weather of February, and is now
down to Dewey, south of Houston. 1t
is not thought that trains will be run
through from Mobile to Middleton be-
fore September or October.
Greenville will keep clean, if pos
sible, and in pursuance OF this deter
mination the second steam laundry is
under construction. That splendid
delta city will make an aggressive
campaign this year for factories, and
hopes to eclipse the excellent record
OF last year.
Dewey, one of the new towns on
the M, J.. & X. C. railway, and located
in Chickasaw county, is beginning to
show a great growth, even before the
track of the new road was laid.
Great progress is reported in build
ing residences and stores. The eau
cassian. by C. A. Robertson. has be-
gun publication, and proposes to let
the world know of Dewey. All de-
nominations are preparing to build
churches, and school buildings, will
be erected at once. 1t is in a good
section of country, and will, no doubt,
ere long be one of the best business
points on the NJ. j. & X. c.
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The Columbus Progressive Union,
industrial organization that brought
TO the city something like $700,000
worth of factories last year, is to be
revived and an effort made to do
equally as much during the present
year. Columbus made an excellent
record last year and is becoming one
of the most prominent manufacturing
oftfa. gf III, Ctotn Thnrn ie Ctil nlantr
of work for an active industrial or
g%aniZation to do. and the city should
not let the Progressive Union die by
any means. 7
An enterprising young farmer and
stockraiser of C%offeeville, J. P. Lam
bert, has ten acres of fine strawber-
ries that will bring their first fruit
this year. This crop alone should
bring Mr.. Lambert a handsome in
come and increase as the years go by.
He also has several hundred tomato
plants and other vegetables. His to-
matoes are claimed to be the largest
grown in the State, being a variety
of his own promoting. He also raises
what is needed to keep things going
his farm. and Is very successful.
This is the kind of farming, and Mr..
Lambert is the kind of man, that it
takes to solve the perplexing prob
lem of overproduction in cotton.
Enough like him would shortly settle
it permanently.
West Point is happy in the contem-
plation of two new railroads. One is
A. DoDcaoD1o raaI fAr vrhiah caunraI
charters have been granted, and more
than M turned down, and the other
is an extension of the Illinois Central
that point to the coal fields of
Alabama. Either of them would prove
a valuable acquisition to that progress
sive city on the prairies of East
Mississippi. II is to be hoped that
both will be built.
Buy your goods from home mer-
chants and ~patronize home people
every opportunity. They are the ones
who will help you in adversely and be
glad at your success. The Chicago
department store pays nc taxes or in
any way helps to support Mississippi
her institutions.
A friend in Hattiesburg has for
warded the writer a cas- of canned
syrup, put up by the factory at that
place, with the request that as many
six of the cans be reserved for use
in the months of May, June, July,
August, September and October, to
test the efficacy of the processing"
through which the syrup has under
gone to prevent granulation and fer
mentation. A new system of preser-
walton is being used on this syrup. and
it is to be sincerely hoped that it will