The Tupelo journal., 1907-05-24

town, Copiah county, planted tive and
one-half acres in cabbage and up to the
18th had netsed the handsome sun of
S 1883 and was not through shipping
then. Unfavorable 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
a 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 %fiuctuation of
prices-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. If tomatoes bring
stiff prices the truckers will be CORE
s%pondingly happy and will soon forget
the unfavorable weather at the begin
ming of the season.
1t is t. 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 a conference will bring
the two interests closer together and
l~;rr n bout a n nAorStanAin 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 tote the
harmony existing between these power
full organizations, both working toward
the same end and in the interest q the
same people-the producer.
The new county of ''Forest" was
almost unanimously voted by the citi-
zen of the same recently. This county
will be composed of the western half OF
the old county of Perry with Hattles-
burg as the county site. Mississippi
will, after the first of January, be COM
posed of IS counties and 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
a dividend of profit and furnishing
labor for people who have heretofore
had little or nothing they could do to
make a living. 4he pay in these fac
tories is much better than in the cotton
mills and is more inviting in every
way. Pity tits that there are not more OF
them. Mississippi should at least make
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
a 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 a pack of good dogs in
every county in the State, as much a
prevention to crime as catching the
criminal afterwards.
The matter of a farmers contract
with the telephone corporation that has
a 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 DE
unkind enough to intimate that they
show a 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 a 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
ular midsummer meeting at the
grounds neal Lake, Scott county, the
latter days of July and the first days of
August. An interesting program has
been prepared for this year and ar
rangements made for a much better
event than in the past few years. 1t is
an educational as well as an entertain
ment institution, and deserves the I'M
qualified Endorsement of the good peo-
pe of that section of the State. We
need more just such affairs, and the
increasing interest is given as proof of
the assertion.