The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-04-12
BY II. Il. BLAKEsLEE. Jackson. Mss.

In the first place good roads VIII tenu
to bring all communities in closer re-
lation with each other. Then better
school facilities will carry education
al advantages to the most extreme
isolated places. Extension of tele-
phone lines and increased number OF
rural delivery routes will soon place
all of our people in touch hwith each
other almost equal to towns and cities.
Then the boy or girl in the country
will have equal advantages with those
in the more densely populated com
munities. Speed the day when this
will all be done.
Gov Pennypacker of Pennsylvania,
who recently visited the state with
his staff, has the following to say
'I am greatly pleased to find such
an era of industrial development In
the South. Every state through which
l have passed appears to be prosper
ing and Mississippi as much so ormore
than any of them The eyes of the
entire nation are now upon this see
tion of the country and it is matter
of common qualification and pride
to see this development under way"
The new drainage law passed by
the present session of the legislature
is believed to be the means of re-
claiming thousands of acres of rich
delta land that heretofore it has not
been possible to cultivate. The law
clothes community with the right
to create a drainage district and is
sue bonds for the purpose of raising
funds to drain the land
The poor people and newspapers Of
the state are indebted to Hon. w. A.
McAllister of Wayne county for the
new law with reference to the adver-
tising of mortgage sales. Under this
law it will no longer be possible for
notices of sale to be posted in out-of-
the-way places where no one will see
them. They must be published in the
county newspaper where all OF the
best citizens will see and read them.
Miss Alleyne Shivers of Poplarville
was the only lady photographer who
operated a photograph gallery in at
tendance on the meeting of photo
graphers OF Birmingham recently.
This lady is said to be doing excellent
work and is making a good livelihood
from it. Mississippi girls are not at
all behind the boys in making for
themselves fame and fortune.
The tax levy in Mississippi is ex-
ceedingly low when compared with
other states. Then we must take into
consideration the fact that taxes are
only community expense account,
and if the money is properly spent
the investment is generally good
one. If it is not properly expended
the people have only themselves to
blame
A practical cotton mill man from the
east is in Tupelo talking to the citi-
zens about the advantages of. build
ing a mill to manufacture portion
of the cotton raised in that section OF
the country.
Heavy rains during the past ten
days have cost the railroads of Missis-
sippi a neat little sum. Schedules
were pretty badly deranged but after
the first few days they were gotten
in fairly good shape again.
The good people of Lexington have
made a gallant fight for new depot
but a divided supreme court pre-
vents the possibility until the railroad
gets ready to build it voluntarily.
The Piedmont Club of Indianola a
social organization will furnish that
thriving delta town with modern
and commodious opera house. The
demand for such place of amuse-
ment in Indianola warrants this ac-
ton on the part of the club and sue
cess will be the reward.
Gov. Vardaman has appointed as
commissioners to locate the monu-
ments in the Vicksburg National park
Hons. J. G. eastman, of Vicksburg;
w. r. Ratcliff of Jackson; and VIM.
Yerger of Greenville. Mississippi will
spend $4,000 in marking the spots
occupied by her gallant troops in that
memorable seige that lasted almost
half year. Good for Mississippi.
The limit on realty holdings in
Mississippi has been held down to
S1,000,000 as has been for some
veafs. Hon. Sidney NJ. Smith Of
Lexington led the fight that prevented
taking off the bars.
The A. & M. college will take
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