The Tupelo journal., 1908-09-04

Mews

the following:
II have noticed several reports to the
effect that my name will be presented
to the national union at Fort Worth,
Tex, for president of the Farmers;
Educational and Cooperative Union OF
America. l desire to say to my friends
that do not aspire to that position.
and that the Mississippi delegation will
not present my name to the convention.
l think such positions should seek the
man instead of the man seek the posi-
tion. | have on all occasions discour-
aged the use of my name in this con-
nection, and | make this statement that
the members of the order everywhere
may understand my position"
The Order of Odd Fellows in the
Mississippi jurisdiction are urged by
Grand Master Maer to arrange for a
degree contest at the next annual grand
lodge, to be held at Columbus in May,
1909. The proposition is that the de-
gree teams at Vicksburg, Jackson, Co
lumbus, Meridian, Hattiesburg and
such points get to work and perfect mi
degree, either in%itiatory, first OF Sec
ond or third, since it would require toe
long a time for the exemplifcation OF
all the degrees, and, this being adopt
ed, the competing teams could get to-
gether and decide which of the degrees
it would be the most practical to
work up.
DR.. A. f. Order, state g~eologist, has
resumed his work in the field, and will
be actively engaged during the re-
mainder of the year in carrying out the
plan of work arranged by the Missis-
sippi geological commission. Three
distinct lines of work are now being
carried on by the state geological forces.
An investigation of the soils is in pro-
gress, 4 Typographical survey of the
state, commencing with the southern
counties, is under way, and a corps is
cooperating with the United States
geologists who are making a survey in
the sections of the delta where drainage
districts have been created.
That cotton will continue to be the
South's mainstay in spite Of the boil
weevil, and the farmers must learn o
raise their own provisions, hay and
stock, is a summary of the lectures de-
livered by the scientific a~griculturists
representing the federal department of
agriculture and similar departments in
Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, who
addressed the farmers institute held
at Natchez. The lecturers declared
this to have been the most successful
institute they have attended so far, and
a movement was inaugurated to make
it an annual affair.
The mississippi Official and Stats
teal Register for 1905" just from the
press, is a work of great historical
value. There is no doubt that this ex-
cellent and exhaustive work will be-
welcomed by all intelligent Mississip-
plans, as we'll as by students and statis-
ticians everywhere, as q credit to a
great state, and as rejecting the high
est honor on the energy and ability of
the director of the department of his
tory-Dr. Dunbar Rowland.
State Treasurer Edwards has finished
the distribution of the available funds
in the treasury to the thirty-one banks
throughout the state which qualified as
state repositories, ignoring, according
to his previously announced intention,
the eight banks offering only surety
bonds as security.
1.-THE Champion Lumber company mill,
located at Orvisburg, was destroyed by
fire. The mill had a capacity of 5000
feet a day.
Hon. Dunbar Rowland, director of
the Mississippi department of history,
has forwarded, at the request of the
London Times, one volume of the new
Official and Statistical Register of Mis-
sissippi for use in compiling Southern
history for the revised edition Of the
Encyclopedia Britannica.
We and cool weather has had the
effect of causing rather free shedding
in parts of Kinds county, and both the
blooms as well as the young forms are
dropping off, which means a considera-
BILE shortage. There have been a num-
Der of boil worms seen in the lower
places, which are reported to be doing
considerable damage.
Robert Montgomery, colored, charged
with the murder OF Sheriff Douglass of
Jefferson county, was arrested at Chi
cago with the aid of Frank Walker,
colored, a detective from Mississippi.
Montgomery is alleged to have MUIR
dered the sheriff and robbed him of q
gold watch and automatic pistol in 1907.
The voters of Sunfower county have
directed the board of supervisors to
work the roads by contract.
All the oil mills have been putting in
the time between season making re-
pairs and getting ready for the coming
season, and most of them are even now
ready to start up as soon as there is
enough material to work on. The
price Of seed for the coming season is
even more of a speculation than that
for the lint itself, and all calculations
for both are the merest guesswork.
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