Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-25
While the sp.ing has not AZ all been

SiAilNcu III spite OF Ju6 uuldNOr-
able conditions and the growers are
reaping handsome returns from their
shipments w. S. Catchings of George
town, Copiah county planted five and
one-half acres in cabbage and up to the
Ilth had netted the handsome sum of
1883 and was not through shipping
then. Unfayorable conditions at other
points in the cabbage belt made the
prices received by Mississippi growers
abnormally high. Crystal Springs is
also IN good condition as to cabbages,
shipping as high as twenty-five cars in
day, the good prices making up some
what for the backward condition OF the
tomato crop. Trucking is not different
from other crops in the Auctuation of
prlces-some years being good and
others not so favorable. Last year a !
good price was received for tomatoes
and the present year starts off well in
the cabbage line. II tomatoes bring
stif prices the truckers will be CORE.
spondingly happy and will soon forget
the unfavorable weather at the begin
ming of the season.
1t is to be sincerely hoped that the
visit of President Clark of the Missis.
sippi division of the Farmers Educa.
tional and Cooperative Union to Vienna,
Austria, for a conference with the
spinners of Europe, will result in sub
stantial good to the cotton growing in
terests. Such conference will bring
the two interests closer together and
bring about an understanding that will
eventually eliminate the middlemen
and their profits, giving to the planter
that which has in the past been lost in
speculation and profits to intermediate
dealers. 1t is gratifying to note the
harmony existing between these power
ful organizations, both working toward |
the same end and in the interest c4 the
same people-the producer. I
The new county OF Forest" was
almost unanimously voted by the citi-
zens of the same recently. This county |
will be composed of the western half of |
the old county of Perry with Hatties-
burg as the county site. Mississippi |
will, after the first Of January, be COM
posed of rs counties ana from the agi-
tation in various quarters, more will |
be authorized by the sitting Of the next
legislature. The rapid development of
the southern half of the State prompts |
the people to make the larger counties
into smaller and more convenient di-
visions Within the past few years a
number of new counties have been |
formed and several made into two court |
districts.
The clothing factories of our State,
six in number, are experiencing a
healthy business, giving to the owners
dividend of profit and furnishing
labor for people who have heretofore
had little or nothing they could do to
make living. Che pay in these fac
tories is much better than in the cotton
mills and is more inviting in every
way. Pity It's that there are not more of
them. Mississippi should at least mako
the trousers necessary to clothe her
population.
President Lewis OF the Kinds county
board of supervisors has placed himself
on record as favoring the purchase of
good and reliable pack of blood
hounds for running down criminals and
a purchase will be made as soon as the
kind of dogs desired can be had. There
ought to be pack OF good dogs in
every county in the State, as much
prevention to crime as catching tho
criminal afterwards.
The matter of farmers contract"
with the telephone corporation that has
monopoly in the State is still in doubt.
So soon as a. copy of this contract can
be secured it will be given ample pub
licity. .....
The newspaper fraternity is holding
the annual meeting in jackson this
week where a cordial reception is be-
ing given. The papers are largely in
the hands of the devil" while the
editors are away, and some one will be
unkind enough to intimate that they
show decided improvement. This
annual outing is the one oasis in the
life of the country newspaper editor
and is of course hugely enjoyed. They
are class that does more free work
and generally gets less thanks for the
same than any people on earth. But
such is life in this day and time.
THE Patrons Union will hold the reg
hIar midsummer meeting at the
grounds near Lake, Scott county, the
latter days of July and the first days of
An interesting program has
been prepared for this year and ar
made for much better
event than in the past few years. 1t is
an educational as we'll as an entertain
ment institution, and deserves the un-
qualified Endorsement of the good peo-
Jse OF that section of the State. We
need more just such affairs, and the
interest is given as proof of
The assertion.