Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1906-03-15

A hotel with 36J rooms. and to cost
s36s,ooo, is to be built at Pass Chris
tian. Work has already begun. and il
will be open for business by next season.
II is said that si35.ooo will be expended
on furnishings, making the total cost
$5oo,ooo. Dispatches also give the in
formation that Capt. Jones will build a
sea hotel on Cat Island. with regular
line OF small passenger vessels connect
ing it with the pier at Gulfcoast. At
any rate, our coast is attracting in
creased attention as a winter resort. The
hotels are full tn overflowing now, and
the winter visitors could be largely in
creased in number by additional accom-
modations, and men with money are
busily supplying this deficiency. The
coast electric railway will in a short
time connect all towns ON the coast. and
it will then be a continuous city some
sixty miles long
Wilkinson county has under consider
alton the opening OF a portion Of Homo
ehitt2 river to navigation. An effort
was made along this line some years
since by the government, but with poor
success, the money. likely, having been
expended under adverse circumstances,
or possibly not all on the work appro-
priated for. The citizens of Wilkinson
figure that with the aid Of $4,000 they
can open "A canal to the river that will
in a very short time prove valuable
waterway. 1t is proposed to tax the
land to b. directly benefited small
amount each year, sell bonds and use
the money as proposed The experiment
seems to be worth making. to say the
least Of it, aud there il large posi-
bility of success in the proposition.
The Silver Creek & Nieksburg Railway
Is being pushed a. fast as possible Wet
weather has interfered with railroad
building considerably during the past
year, but construction is going along
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completed from Philip to sardis. The
|. c. line from Corinth to Jasper, Ala,
i dotted with camps. and dirt il moving
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Tor general municipal improvements 1t
VIII be largely used IN erecting an adj
dition to the school building, building
street crossings, eqniPpinS hre depart
heh'' estehaihg water and hight service
and bridging bayous- There Is one thing
about GREENWOOD that Is refreshing. in
deed-when they need anything up there
no haiting and biekering. The few old
i"gies nave been buried hong since, and
tine people pun together with unanimity
when improvements are needed
Master Percy A. Laws, OF Bethlehem,
s'iss-, wrote the editor OF TINS depart
ment some days since for few reasons
Mi,sissippians, to be used in a compost
tion ON that subject. There are so many
reasons why We should be proud that
it would take a fair-sized book TO emu
merate them.
Longbeaeh is shipping carloads of rad
ins been forwarding small shipmeuts for
several weeks. The truckers antieipats
a ycrv profitable season thi. year ,usy.
ing from the opening. Preparations mr..
being made for big erop. and work .ep
orally Is well advanced.
Charles G. Morcau. editor of the Sea
coast Echo. at Bay st. Louis. will build
a 81. 1000 opera house in connection with
the building now occupied a. a news.
paper Office. After reading this noties
II i presumed that there will be n
heAss movement VI NV 'ie' men '''-