The Grenada sentinel., 1907-03-30
BYH.E. BLAKESLEE. JACKSON.

The important matter of improving
the condition of our public highways is
being seriously considered by the good
citizens of a number of counties in the
State. The bulletins on roads issued
from this department about Christmas
is growing in demand supervisors,
overseers and citizens calling for them.
Information concerning the method OF
road building and the cost OF same is
being eagerly sought for by interested
parties, and the educational work be-
ing done will undoubtedly bring forth
gratifying results in the near future.
A number of the more progressive
citizens of Scott county are seriously
agitating the subject over there and
mass meeting of citizens was. held in
Forest on the 10th to discuss ways and
means for improving the public roads.
Earnest and thinking men from all Sec
tions of the county were there on that
date and spent the day in conserva-
tive and studious consideration of this
very important question. Mr.. Chas. L.
Harrison, special agent and road ex-
pert for the u. S. Department of Agrl-
culture, was present by invitation and
went into the subject of road improve
ment at length, giving the result OF in
vestigation and experiments for num-
Der of years. He was given careful
attention and closely questioned by
those anxious to learn of what has been
accomplished in communities of like
conditions. The writer was present
and distributed the bulletins of infOr-
nation concerning the roads OF Missis-
sippi. The subject with especial refer
ence to Scott county was discussed and
| the campaign of education will be kept
up throughout the year, or until tangl-
| BILE results are obtained.
AT the close of the meeting the Scott
| County Good Roads Association was
permanently organized with healthy
membership, officers elected and plans
mapped out for a campaign that will
result in improving the roads in that
county. The citizens are in earnest
and will keep up the agitation until
something definite is done. The move
ment deserves the hearty support of all
who are at all interested in the future
welfare and prosperisy of the country,
and Scott may yet show her neighbors
something worth looking at in the way
of public roads.
Last fall Yazoo county gave pre-
liminary fair and was so we'll pleased
with the result that at mass meeting
held in Yazoo City on Monday of last
week permanent organization was
effected and announcement made that
fair would be held this fall, display
ing to the world the splendid products
of that section of the great Delta coun-
try, and the hill portion of Yazoo coun-
ty, which is something like half of the
county. Citizens from every section of
the county were present and took an
active part in the meeting, heartily en-
dorsing the proposition and subscrib-
ing literally to the stock necessary to
put the project on foot. Ground has
been secured and the necessary build
for the meeting in the fall. Yazoo is
we'll capacitated to give fair that
could not be eXcelled in the State.
Comprising as it does both hill and
delta lands, with the combined products
of both sections, diversified exhibit
covering an immense field can and Will
be made. There is every reason to be-
lieve that YaZoo will give a successful
fair, and that the benefits to accrue to
the county will be of the greatest and
not to be considered in dollars and
cents. Such institutions can be made
of incalculable benefit to the communi-
ties in which they are located, and it is
to be hoped that in a few more years
every county in Mississippi will have
its regular county fair.
According to the estimate of the
Manufacturers Record the people of
the South are getting rich faster than
any section of the country just at pres
ent. The rate of increase in valuation |
of property is something like two dol
lars per day per man. At this rate
each man should have been $700 better
off January than on the same date
last year, but is this true? Not quite.
The increase has been realized, but
largely by favored class that neither
spins nor weaves but continues to accu-
mulate. What we need most is
means of dividing prosperity so that it
will fall upon all with something like
unto an equal division.
Itta Bena is celebrating the COM
of work on splendid
school building to be erected of brick
end stone The increased number of
school children demands better facili-
ties and the demand is being properly
met.
Truck is moving from Mississippi
now to northern markets and stream
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