The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-20


Pro rate pensioners, veterans and
widows, for 1904. .6,622
increase. -fE
The pro rate pensioners get $50. 10
each. Last year they received 1920.
The total amount distributed was
s~249,655.60.
The crop bulletin for the past week
follows: Over much of the State cotton
suffered some deterioration as a result
of wet weather and injury from worms,
especially in the western counties,
where worms have wrought much in,
jury to young cotton by stripping it Of
foliage and destroying young bolls. In
the southwestern counties recent heavy
rains have caused much cotton to sprout
in the bollS; rotting is also reported
from several localities. Upland cotton
is nearly all open, but lowland cotton
continues to open slowly. Picking was
generally hindered by damp weather,
but is well advanced south and east.
The yield outlook appears to grow
as picking advances.
The housing of corn, continues with
poor to fair yields, Sugar cane is very
promising. Both sweet and Irish pota.
toes are generally yielding finely. Tur-
nips and fall gardens are doing well.
Pasturage continues good.
Thomas McCraine, a prominent cit.
zen of Franklin county, was shot and
killed by Alec McCraine, q negro, who
later met death while trying to elude
Will jackson. a quarantine guard, sew.
eral miles away. The quarantine guard
did not know that the negro had killed
Mr.. McCraine. He arrested him for
violating the health board regulations,
McCraine stating that he had come
from Mobile, Ala. Jackson was escort
ing his prisoner to the quarantine sta
ton when the latter, making q gun
play, wa shot and killed by the guard.
The assessment OF real and personal
property of the city of Meridian for
the current fiscal year aggregates ST..
1881, an increase over last year OF
1869, 81. The activity of the real es-
tate market in hat city is evidenced by
cash transfers recorded for the past
week, which foot up $l69, 15S. SO, the
largest single amount paid being Sl6,.
900. Values have advanced rapidly
the past two years, and are aug
menting now more rapidly than ever.
Superintendent Whitfield has sent
out the following.
'"rn the County Superintendent-In
view OF the TACT that the examinations
nave been interfered with in many
counties Of the State by the quarantine
TO SO great an extent that many teach.
ers have mo- had the opportunity to
stand their examinations, the State
Board OF Education has appointed Nov.
. and 4 as another general examination
DAY Tor white teachers in the State, and
me 10Th and 18th for negro teachers,
lor all counties that desire it,
II. f. Simrall. State MANAGER Of the
Woodmen of the World, states maj
the first nine months Of the
present year 3,49f certificates of mem.
,oershlp were issued in this State. This
brings the membership up to Is, 563 on
Oct l, and with $27, 700, 700 of insurA
ance In force. Fo~rty-nine new camps
nave been organized in the State dur.
ing the year, SO far, and it is predicted
Ihat by Jan. l the membership will
reach 20, 1000.
ga higgins, a prominent citizen of
.arroll county, and a resident of Hem
llngway, accidentally got his arm caught
IN a GIN, and before assistance could ar.
rive his arm was so badly mangled that
amPutatlon was necessary. The shock
was SO great that Mr.. Higgins died un.
Ter the operation. He leaves a wife
seven children.
Secretary Maxwell of the RaiIro,a
has just completed his cal.
sulation of the railroad mileage in The
state OF Mississippi. He gives The
mileage in the State as 3,440, Al, acainst
), H. on the last estimate, which was
n 1902. ~ was
Inc New Albany Clothing Manufac-
urlng Company has increased It's CAM.
al stock from $50, 900 to SlOo,0 900 owing
0 the increase of business.
a numbered citizens of Ocean sprinos
ave organized a Law and Order
-eague. The ~law-abiding citizens are
reused and determined to stamp ont
nd all. sooa
Judge Dunn will hold a special term
! circuit court in Choctaw county in
'oVember, beginning at Chester on tha
st day of November, and at A-ckerman
n the first Monday in November,
The A. and NJ. College will not n,on
ntli Nov. and students will not he
lowed on the campus until two days
rlor to the opening. :
The Secretary of State has rece;vod
copy OF the new eode-a dummy conr
mt by the printers. 1t is an immenss
olufne, containing more than / 1ae
ages. This code is yet to be snhmi,'
ID to the legislature. and /, i n,a
imed that It will be cut down some.
nat, but the fact remains thai If l.
oing to be the largest as well as one .,
ie best the State has ever had printed
Two thousand persons attended /
imp meeting at Shiloh, in Rankin
last Sunday. The RanEin;ta.
ere There Tor forty miles arnpnd anS
very n OF them brouUht graa4 -