Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-09-29
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Business is opening up lively after
several weeks of depression on ac.
count of quarantines, and the pros
poets for the fall are especially prom.
Using. Push everything harder than
ever.
A franchise has been granted and
work will commence On an electric
light plant at Byhalia at an early date.
The good citizens or that splendid
community have groped around in
the dark long enough.
Yazoo City is boring additional
wells to supplement the water sup
ply. An increase in the demand for
water in that progressive burg is re-
sponsible. The wells now In use are
artesian and of the best.
Now that Woodville has secured an
up-to-date water and light plant, fire
company to make use CT tie water IN
fighting fire is being organized. Such
an organization will be worth . great
deal to the town, possibly thousands Of
dollars in single day.
The trade day and business celebra-
tion planned for Yazoo City by the
business league has been postponed Oh
account of the mosquito quaran inc.
The proposed celebration was along
the right lines, and it is to be hopel
that the project will be taken up af-
ter the quarantine are called of and
carried to q successful termination.
The hustling citizens Of Gulfport
are not at all discouraged by the ap-
pearance of few cases of the pre-
vailing fever and are busily engaged
in building a splendid $4,000 city hall
as well as new electric line and
many other handsome buildings. Gulf
port is destined to be a great city,
and the people of the whole state
glory in the enterprise displayed by
her enthusiastic citizens.
Lexington has a pumpkin on exhi-
bition that is two feet and nine Inches
long, four feet in circumference and
weighs seventy pounds. 1t should be
placed on exhibition at the exposition
in November to show our northern
visitors what can be done in Miss.s-
sippi. The largest here last year was
about this size, and was sent in from
Sharkey county. Why not get Holmes
into the running this year?
AS result of the good work done
by Hon. B. G. Humphries of the third
congressional district, work was re-
Gently commenced on the cleaning Of
Coldwater river from Marks to the
mouth. After the river is cleaned, a
line Of small steamer will ply it's
course and will no doubt do fair
business and at the same time furnish
transportation facilities to a large sec
tion of country that has heretofore
been without.
Greenwood has capped the climax Of
its progressiveness by letting the con-
tract for over five miles Of new con-
crete sidewalks Already nearly that
much walk has been laid, and when
the new contract is completed, Green
wood will claim more uniform walks
than any city in the state. 1t is an
evidence of progress that is almost
without an equal, and other towns and
cities would do well to visit Green
wood and learn from Mayor Vardaman
how it was accom- plished.
The Clarksdale Register shows COM
mendable enterprise in keeping prom
inently on the first page Of that pa
per list of the enterprises Of that
city. The idea is good one and wor-
thy of being copied. The newspapers
generally are doing a great work for
their respective sections. Nothing has
a greater influence for good, and it is
to be regretted that the people do
not shof the proper appreciation for
what is being done in this line. Sup
port the home paper literally
The steamer Export apd barges will
ply the Pearl this winter from Jack
son as far up as Carthage and Edin-
burg. This is the first attemp. in sew
eral years to make use of the river
for transportation, but there seems to
be every reason why the project can
and will be made success. It will
prove a paying investment for Jack.
son as well as a great convenience
for the people and towns en- route. The
Jackson board of trade is responsible
for the movement and will help to
push it along
1t is cleaned from the newspapers
of the state that farmers are backing
up the demand of The Southern Cot
& ton Association for minimum price
of IL cents for their product in :
strong manner. Almost every paper
received at this Office last week noted
that Gotten had been hauled bacl
home to remain until the fixed price
was received. 1t looks as If the farme
at last had an organization to NEE
the organizations that have been prey
ing on him for the last hundred years
After several attempts to perfect al
agreement to protect their in crests
always meeting with failure, it look
Is if something tangible had been ac
complished at last With the crop il
sight, IL cents win be REASONABLE
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