The Tupelo journal., 1905-07-28
BY H. E. BLAKEsLEE, Jackson.

Nothing can take the place in the
home of the country weekly. The fol-
lowing on the subject is from OF
our valued exchanges:
Those who have any apprehension
that the city daily will invade the
field of the country weekly to such an
extent that the latter will suffer there.
by, are bothering about a bridge that
will never have to be crossed. The city
daily ought to be in every home, but
lay it alongside the country weekly,
and notice what choice the reader
makes of the two. The doings of his
home town. whether he be resident
thereof or removed, are of vastly more
interest to him than national politics
or the exposure of public graft.
LET the editor of the country week
ly miss one of his subscribers for M
week, and he hears of his oversight.
For one issue they have been deprived
of gratifying their desire to know what
is doing in the town, which through
years of association has become a
part of them. The country weekly APP
peals to the heart. Its diction may be
impure and its articles sound queer to
the outsider, but to the one who val
ues it enough to be its subscriber, its
every paragraph is pure gold.
1T is all very well, after every word
of the country weekly has been close
ly scanned, to casually pick up the
city dailvNto find out about the Pana-
ma canal or what the latest scandal in
Washington NAV be. But first of all
we are interested in those people
whom we know from personal asso-
citation, and we want to know about
those more vital affairs that are going
on about us. The city daily may lie
on the doorstep until father comes
home from down town, but by that
time mother and the rest of the fam
lily have all read the country weekly
over each others shoulders.
I'm this day and age every family
can afford and ought to take both, but
if there is a choice to be made between
the two. the subscription should go to
the editor who keeps tab on the events
in ones home town"
The Gulfport and Crystal Springs
chautauquas have been held. and both
were successes. The next to open up
is at G~loster. Amite county. under the
cognomen of the "Whitworth chau-
tauoua." It will begin July 80 and
continue fifteen days. This charac-
ter of amusement and recreation is
gaining strength in Mississippi, and
it is confidently expected that a meet
ing will be held in North Mississippi
somewhere next season. It not only
furnishes recreation. but instruction
as well. The very best platform ora
tors and scientists are engaged, and
give the people something to think
about as well as amuse. The writer is
pleased at the sentiment prevailing
among our people for a high grade of
amusement, and hopes to e it fur
Their c%rystaliZe as the years go by.
Two of the largest hotels in Jack
son are charging. about $50 rooms be-
ing added to the two. Two smaller
hotels are being erected, one with 81
rooms and the other with ga. After
these improvements are completed the
Capital City will be in condition to
care for the travelling public hand
somely. There has been a demand for
more hotel room in Jackson for years,
but it seems that all deficiencies will
soon be supplied.
Laurel is advertising for plans by
whica to construct a 100000 school
building. The rapid growth of that
city necessitates the constant adding
of facilities to care for the people.
The "Figure Fiend' of the city talks
f1ently of the 5000 inhabitants
claimed. and those who know believe
that a census would locate that num-
Der in Laurel.
Isbam Evans and other energetic
West Pointers have established a cold
storage plant in that city, and will be-
gin business right away. The advan-
tages of such a concern in any city
are too numerous to mention, and now
that the ice has been broken in Mis-
sissippi, as it were. we expect to see
other places following the example of
West Point. The produce business
positively demands such a concern to
it's handling to the best advan-
tage. Build more of them.
The large number of murders in
Mississippi during the past month
calls to the attention of our best peo-
ole the admonition enforce the law
If it were not for the fact that shrewd
lawyers can so often clear a man OF
this awful charge if he has the money
to employ them, there would not be
half the killings in the State. Then,
too, this ~infraction is induced by 9th
ers of less importance. The way to
break it up is to enforce the law rig
idly and without favor.
A gentleman who is in a position to
told the writer a few days since
Mississippi bought last year eight
dollars worth of mules, and
hat of this amount Washington coun-
ty alone lsought a million and a halt.
Every mule used here should be raised
the State and there is no plausible
excuse to offer for not doing so.
Meridian is busilv engaged in spend
ing $4,000 paving the principal streets
Of the city. Meridian is nothing II not
progressive. and we confidently ex-
pect that city to easily show 10000 in
habitants when the census is made in
1910. Her people are made of the
stuff that will accomplish something.
even in the face of obstacles.
After a delay of ome time the cleo
tric lights and water works have been
turned on at Woodville. and the good
citizens of that place can e to get
around now without lanterns and can
battle their faces by simply turning on
the water.
BURY the kickers" is the text of the
following sensible article from n Of