Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-05-04

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]. c. Catchings, DIR. W. W. Watkins
and many others, including Joe Hall
and Arthur Walker, colored. DR.. Wat
kins last week made a large sale of
fodder to clear his barns for the Al
falfa product Of thirty sores, from
which he hopes to cut 80 tons.' So
1t would seem that the growing Of AL
falfa in the particular section men
toned has long since passed the ex-
perlmental stage, and is now one of
the staple crops. The gold medal AL
won in competition at the Fair over
mountains Of it from all sections Of
the United States. Investigate Al
falfa.
Emphasizing the advice to buy your
goods from those who are always will
ing to help you IN time of trouble and
adversely, the writer submits the fol
lowing: Recently a congregation IN
little Kansas tow.' huilt a new
church. To pay for it Z y were oblig-
ed to call on the merch IS of the COM
mnnity for donations help pay for
it. The merchants res .sonded liberal
ly and $500 was soon rs ed from this
source The last asked to subscribe
was, John Smith, a je' eiar. ~ will
give $40 if you will al.ov>m to add
something to the subsc ion list he
said. The permission given and
he wrote at the foot of list:
John Smith, Jeweler. -. $4,000
Scar, Roebuck & Co... -. 00.00
Montgomery, Ward & CO. -. 00.00
There is a great number of schemes
being tried to bring old and out of
date manufacturing 2 ats to Missis-
sippi towns that are q anizlng bus
mess leagues and deve. pment asso-
Citations. The promoters want the peo-
pie to put up the money to buy these
old plants and furnish the promoter
with job of managing It, or misman-
aging as the case is freQuently Our
people are fast learning q yever, that
it is the best to get th, oest at the
beginning and steer clesr If all sec
ond-hand propositions. ne shrewd
schemer will find Jordan lard road
to travel in this state fro now on.
Our people are fast becoming wise to
the tricks that at one time might have
caught some of them.
The suspicious case has again ar
rived and the sooner our people get
themselves hardened to pay no atten-
tion to such reports the better. A
few cases of mild fever cost the
South millions of dollars last year and
the death rate was less than for la
grippe, pneumonia or any other dis
ease. Then why become panicky if a
case of fever is announced Keep off
the mosquito and prevent the disease
or have it and become immune. The
death rate was not over four per cent
in Mississippi and bad colds are
worse. We might as well make up our
minds to treat the matter In a sensi-
BILE manner and right now is the time
to make beginning.
It is a noticeable fact that the Mis-
sissippi farmers are beginning to real
ize the new condition that is making
corn as steady an article Of produe-
ton as cotton. While there may pos
sibly be sections of the state that can
raise cotton more proftably, the larg-
er part of the country is different.
Corn is staple and brings good prices
all the year round If the delta can
raise cotton to a better advantage
than corn, and it is said that it can,
then let the other sections of the state
raise the corn for all and cut out the
large amounts shipped here every year
from other sections of the country.
Raise what is used in Mississippi in
Mississippi.
God bless the good people of Missis-
sippi Many and liberal have been thu
responses to the call for help by the
stricken people of San Francisco and
the Pacific Coast. This is time when
| the better elements of man S nature
is brought to the front and our people
were not found lacking. They have
not forgotten the liberality displayed
toward them in the dark days of 1878
when the yellow fever was devastating
our beloved Southland. 1t is an op-
portunity to show their appreciation
in a substantial manner that has been
taken advantage of in the proper man.
ner Mississippians can always be de-
i. pended upon in times of trouble.
The public and private schools Of
the state will soon be ready to close
| heir sessions which have universally
been prosperous. A late start was
made on account of quarantlnes. but
the general work has been exception.
ally good. Mississippi has a great
deal to be proud Of in her excellent
system of free schools and they are
splendid drawing cards to good people
seeking homes. No state in the Union
can excel us in this particular.
The Poplarville Business League is
getting on a sound basis. 1t has been
i a great factor in the development OF
that section of the state and will be
more active in the future. 1t was re-
Gently determined that the stock OF
the organization would be raised to
s25, 900 and social features added at
ter building a handsome club Office
Poplarville citizens are wide awake