The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-10-25
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI
Devoted to tho Industria Commercial aad Agricultural
Deyeopment of the Wonderful Resources of the Stale.
Items Of Interest from oil Quarters.
By II. E. BLAKEsLHE, jackson, Miss.

party awoke at Greenwood and found
the rain falling in torrents. However,
a good audience was on hand at this
point and an especially interesting
meeting was held. 1t was deemed
wise to abandon portion of the reg
! ular schedule at this point from the
fact that continued rains had made
the track on branch road to be
Travelled unsafe. Yazoo City and
points from there into Jackson turned
out good audiences. Saturday morn
ing opened clear and cold and the
prospects for what proved to be the
banner day were bright and encour-
aging. Good audiences were ON hand
at every stop during the day, at
times it being necessary to hold over
flow meetings. At Brookhaven, where
the fall carnival was In progress, the
train was met at the station by a
brass band and committee and the
party conducted to the opera house,
where an immense audience had as
sembled. Magnolia and Osyka furnish
ed the record attendances, at both
places there being more people in the
open air meetings than were able to-
get in the cars. After leaving Osyka
the train entered Louisiana and good
meetings were held at Kentwood,
Tangipahoa, Roseland and night
meeting at Amite. This wound up
the first week and those in charge
were happy indeed at the success at
tanned so far.
After spending Sunday in New Or
leans, the train began the second week
Independence Monday morning. AT
Hammond an especially large crowd
had gathered and a number of the
party were driven out three miles to
inspect model dairy. The entire day
was devoted to Louisiana towns and
wound up with an immense meeting
a. Garig hall on the university campus
in Baton Rouge. Tuesday morning
the first stop was made at Zachary,
where the school children were out in
full force as well as large number
of planters. At Slaughter the main
line of bhe Y. & NJ. V. was left for
run up the Woodvilie branch to Wood
vile and other points. At Ethel the
train went out to Clinton and thence
back to the main line for the trip
north. Mississippi was again entered
at Centerville and the days work COM
pleted at Roxie, more than one hun
dred meeting the train when it ar
rived after O'Clock. Wednesday
found the party at Natchez, where
the first meeting of the day was
held. Fewer points were visited this
day than any in the two weeks al
though the attendance was fair and
wound up with a good meeting al.
Vicksburg in the city hall at night.
Thursday proved to be the second best
day of the t%o weeks in point OF at
tendance. The entire. day was spent
in the rich delts section Of Missi;-
s.pni and c,mmcnced at Rolling Fork
at $50 in the morning. At num-
Der of points it was found necessary
to hold overfows. While the exclu-
sive negro town of Mound Bayou was
not on the schedule for a stop, a
few minutes was given them and a
crowd entirely too large to get IN tho
ears was OH hand and were addressed
from the depot platform. The night
meeting In he c,'Tt house at Green
vile was very we'll attended and in
teresting The last day, Friday the
18th, began bright and early at Ben
oft on the Riverside division of the
Y. & NJ. V. Many stops were made
during the day and splendid attend
ance and interest was the result. The
last stop Of the memorable trip was
made at Lake Cormorant and the train
pulled out for Memphis, where the
party was to disband and return to
their homes. Good byes were said,
congratulations passed and Captain
Merry roundly thanked for his untir-
ing efforts in the interest Of the COM
fort of the paay and the success of
the undertaking.
While the good to be accomplished
by this undertaking is to large ex-
tent problematical, there was evil
deaces all along the line that the
people appreciated the efforts of those
responsible for the train and were
interested in the sujeet of diversi-
fication of crops as necessity to the
future welfare Of our agricultural
country. A great many questions
were asked and not few suggestions
made as to how this end might be ac-
complished and all were impressed |
with the Importance of the subject
and the benefits to accrue. The rail-
road representatives freely made
known their principal object in equip
ping and running the train at al
enormous expense to the company.