The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-13
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS

The Boosters Club at Meridian.
which has been working on q scheme tn
build d railroad from Meridian to Phil
adelphia, Miss, sent d committee ~
Mehan junction to confer with Chr
powers Of the Cotton States Lumber
Company, q wealthy corporation that
recently purchased the Meehan-R Rounds
Lumber Company's plant at that place
and which owns d railroad fifteen miles
long, running from that place in the
direction of Philadelphia, with refer
ence to making a deal with them for
extending the road to that place or fur
ther. 1t is understood that the lumber
company has been favorable tt such a
project for some months, and high hopes
are entertained hat the road will be
built soon, thus giving Meridian a con.
nection with the Mobile, jackson and
Kansas City road.
Replying to o query relative to the
cotton buyers privilege tax, State Aud
itor Henry addressed a tax collector the
following letter:
II think the law clearly means to tax
every person engaged in actually buy
ing cotton. The phrase whether for
himself or as agent or employee OF an
other is susceptible of no other mean
ing. I do not think A could employ B
to buy cotton under AS license. B, be-
fore buying cotton, should have a Ii
cense in his own name. The object OF
the law was to prevent a firm of buyers
from having agents in various parts OF
the State operating under the firms
license. Only one municipality is al
lowed to tax them, for the easOn that
on travelling cotton buyers were each
village, town or city permitted to assess
them with so per cent. Of the State tax,
the same would be prohibitive."
The Mississippi Cotton Association
will request Governor Vardaman to in
corporate in his biennial message to the
legislature a recommendation for the
establishment of a department of agri-
culture. This subject was fully dis
cussed at the recent meeting of the ex.
ecutive committee Of the Southern
Cotton Association at Asheville, and it
was the opinion of those present that
every State in the South should have a
department in the State government OF
this character. Such departments ex.
list in Alabama. Georgia, Louisiana,
Tennessee and North Carolina. and the
association believes that Mississippi
should take a similar step, for this is
pre-eminently an agricultural State.
President Harvie Jordan writes as
follows to the secretary of the Missis-
sippi Cotton Association: II wish to ask
your assistance in inducing the farmers
to stand firm in the face of the ire
mendous efforts being made by the for
eign spinners and the bear element to
depress prices. The crop in many &C.
lions has already been gathered. The
crop must necessarily be a short n
If the farmers will be patient and stand
firm for a short while, the market will
soon advance to our minimum OF ii
cents.
The secretary of the Oktibbeha Fair
Association has written to Manager
Mckay, of the Mississippi Industrial
Exposition, that he is going to get all
of the best of his fair together, II pos
sible, and ship to Jackson. The Oktib-
beha fair will be held at Starkville Oct.
81 and Nov. l and 2, sc that it will be
over in good time to ship exhibits to
jackson.
It is announced at the Office OF the
State Superintendent OF Education that
a State examination will be held at the
superintendent Office in Jackson about
the middle of October, provided the
fever situation permits. In the event
the guarantees have not been lifted by
that date the examination will be post
poned again.
The Jones County Fair was held at
Ellisville last week. The various ex-
hibits were the best ever shown in that
section, and proved a great attraction
to all visitors. An excursion train on
the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City
road carried 1000 children from Laurel
to the fair on children's day.
The State Board of Health has adopt
ed an ordinance quarantining every
county in which there is no yellow fever
against those that have the fever. The
infected counties are Claiborne, Jeffer-
son, Franklin, Adams, Warren and
Wilkinson.
A large number of farmers of Lowndes
county met at Columbus and discussed
the good roads proposition. Great in
terest was manifested in the meeting
and the people seem awake to the fact
good roads are a necessity.
The fine dry weather around Cotton
Plant is enabling farmers to get a good
start picking out the cotton. The po-
tato crop is bringing a good price. The
sorghum crop is short and sells easily
at 40 cents.
Owing to the shortness of time allot-
ted for his Southern trip, President
| Roosevelt will be unable to make any
stops at Mississippi points.
Bishop Charles B. Galloway dedi-
Gated a new Methodist church at Black
Hawk recently. The church was built
on the site Of the old church, in which
the bishop preached t~hirty-fve years
ago, when he first entered the ministry.
Hazlehurst has adopted a curfew law
requiring everyone to be off the streets
by 8 o'clock pm.
The Mississippi and Alabama Rail-
road Company has been chartered.
| The road will run from Corinth, Miss,
to Jasper, Ala, and it is said will be
built at once.
Secretary Woods, of the Mississippi
| Division of the Southern Cotton Asso-
| citation, has issued a bulletin, in which
he gives the condition of the cotton crop
of the State at IS per cent, which is a
deterioration of 4 per cent. from last
months report. This estimate is based