The Tupelo journal., 1907-05-03
BY H. E. BLAKESLEE. JACKSON.

OF the Gulf Cotlpress Co., known as the
trust in thb compress line, is agitating
the proposition to locate %delinting
plants at ocean and gulf ports to delint
cotton seed for export. He claims that
the price offered for delinted seed by
foreign mills is in excess of the price
paid by home mills. Mr.. Hanson's sug-
gestion may be all right, but it might
be well for our people to carefully in
vestigate the matter before giving it
their endorsement. OF course, if the
eel are crushed abroad our home mills
would be deprived of the job and that
much money paid for labor sent away
from home. Then, too, if foreign
cru 'hers can afford to pay more than
the home mills are Offering there is
something else wrong. The mills have
an understanding with reference to the
price of seed that smacks strongly OF a
trust, and the evidence brought out in
the Kosciusko suit will be taken adfan-
tage of by Attorney General Fletcher
to test the efficiency OF Mississippi's
antitrust law. The outcome of these
proceedings will be watched with in
terest by all concerned in this contest.
The interest in good roads through
out the State is indicative of the best
of results, and that this interest is in
creasing none can deny. Within the
past few days communications from SUI
peryisors of three counties have been
received at this Office asking for in
formation concerning the display OF
woodworking machinery to be exhibited
at the Fair this fall. 1t is probable
hat several counties will send their
newly elected boards to examine the
machinery offered and see it at work.
Arrangements have been perfected for
a comprehensive exhibit of this char
acter, and practical demonstrations
will be made each day. The manufac-
turers will of course try to make their
product show up better than that OF
the competitor, but the official as well
as private individual will have the OPP
portunity of seeing and judging for
himself. 1t is to be hoped that all
officials, as well as individuals inter-
ested in an Improvement of public
roads, will take advantage of this OPP
portunity to see practical machines for
road building at work.
John B. Easter of Sartor's Mill, Mon
roe eounty, came to Aberdeen a few
days since with a wagon load of water
mill meal that it is reported sold
like hot cakes. And it ought to have
sold that way. How many people who
read this notice remember the little
water mill where they, as barefooted
boys, went to mill and waited until late
in the afternoon for their turns, return
ing with meal that made hoecakes I'M
like anything to be had 20 The
writer has ridden six miles to mill and
waited for the old overshot wheel to pa
tiently grind out a bushel per hour.
but when you did get that meal it was
meal totally different from the roller
mill variety to be had in this day and
time.
Laurel is to have a real live street
railway, application for a charter being
asked for by two enterprising citizens
of that burg. The gentlemen behind
the move state that they do not want it
to sell nor do they expect to build the
line and then transfer it to some syn3i-
cate, but that they see in Laurel an OPP
p~ortunity to make a street car line a
good investment, and they expect to
build and operate it themselves. 1t is
to be hoped that the line will be built
and operated by home people, and that
they may never experience the trouble
with outside owners as have Jackson
and other Mississippi towns.
w. N. Day, formerly of Crystal
Springs, is making a success of raising
strawberries near Greenville, and states
that the delta lands will grow as good
berries and produce as a%bundantly as
any section of the State. He is grow
ing tomatoes, cabbage and other vege-
table crops and insists that they would
prove as profitable in the delta as in the
hill sections. Great is the delta in
every respect.
The good people of Winston county
place great value upon the privilege to
vote, the delinquent poll tax list in
that county being small. The county
is experiencing a great period of pros
perity since the advent of the NJ, j. &
K. C. railroad, and the citizenship is of
the best.
Have you hogs enough to make next
years meat? Better look into this i'm
portant matter before it is too late.
Don't pas Armour-Swift- Cuddahy's ex-
orbitant prices when you can raise it at
home for Sc per pound.
Warren county has conditionally pur-
chased five graders for use in building
roads and will make a practical demon
stration of the work to be performed by
them. The people of Warren are very
much in earnest in the effort to make
their roads better, and the result will
no doubt be satisfactory to all parties
concerned.
Prohibition Fight.
The coming prohibition fight in
Washington county will, from all indi-