The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-22

the acts regulating the handling and
putting up of cotton by public ginners
and its transportation by the common
carriers.
The grand lodge, Knights of Pythias,
held a two days session at Vicksburg,
with 224 delegates representing 2O4
lodges. The financial condition and
growth of the order in membership is
the most gratifying in its history. The
number of members in Mississippi 10
lO,l02. Representatives of the trus.
tees of the widows and orphans fund
reported S10,475.1 10 on hand and recon-
mended that the grand lodge make in
vestments of the income in securities to
become due and payable in 1911, and at
that time building operations will be-
gin. The trustees estimate there will
then be $50, 900 on hand.
A statement Sust issued by the state
auditor shows the expenses of the last
legislature to have been 800, 489. IS.
AAS Ao q obotStAChV III uCbdll SuOWl uk
every item of appropriation. the low
est of which is $25 fees for the supreme
court clerk in civil cases, and the high
est is 81 1000, 900 for the common school
fund for the two years. The sum total
OF all the appropriations reported to
the auditor was Sc, 523, 71O.9 81.
Hon. Walter Clark, president of the
Mississippi division of the Southern
Cotton association, has been named as
q delegate to represent Mississippi at
the National Good Roads association,
which V in Chicago June Is,
and in Denver early in July. He has
also been named as one of the states
representatives at the international
congress of good roads, to be held in
Paris October next.
Chairman H. E. Blakeslee, of the
Mississippi livestock sanitary board,
expresses much qualification over the
passage by congress of the agricultural
appropriation bill carrying a good al
lowance for the bureau of animal hus-
bandry. "The passage of this bill will
render it possible for US to commence
our campaign for the eradication of the
cattle tick by the first Of July" says
Chairman Blakeslee.
Rev. John B. Andrews has just closed
q very successful revival meeting at
Greenville. More than 100 professions
and reclamations resulted from the
meeting, the membership of all the
churches being increased as a result of
his earnest preaching.
Planters in the Jackson section are
generally replanting their cotton, of
which so per cent. had been planted
when the recent rains came. Up to
that time the growing plant could not
have been in better condition.
Columbus has a merchants ~associa-
ton, which was formed to push the
business interests of the city.
The first annual convention of the
Mississippi Travellers to be held at Me-
ridian June 26-27, promises to be one of
the largest and most important gather
lngs ever assembled in the state.
While the acreage as a whole has
been decreased, probably 10 per cent,
around Hollandale, there has been an
Increase of at least Is per cent in the
corn, hay and alfalfa crops.
Lieutenant-Governo Manship acted
rs the states executive during the alb
sence of Governor Noel, who attended
the conference of governors at Wash
ington.
The members Of the Baptist faith in
the state are looking forward with in
terest to the general state convention
which assemblies at Meridian July 8.
Members of Ratliff's battery of the
celebrated Withers' artillery will hold
their annual reunion at jackson on
June 3, the birthday of Jefferson Davis.
Two men were instantly killed and a
lumber mill partially wrecked when q
boiler exploded at the plant of the w.
Z. Wood Lumber company at Collins.
The Lincoln county board of %
visors is advertising FOR bids for the
loan of $4,000 to meet current ex.
penses. Six per cent will be paid and
the money borrowed at the June meet,
ing.
The erection of cotton warehouses OF
arrangements therefor by the Farmers
Educational and Cooperative Union
while not SO general as was the case 8
year or so ago, is still being heard of
and there will be several new organiza
tions and warehouses ready for holding
surplus cotton by next fall.
The outlook for crops in the Newtor
section is not at all encouraging since
the terrific rains, which played havo,
with farming interests. Rebeddins
and replanting will have to be done ii
many instances.
The commencement period for tn,
high schools throughout the state i
fast approaching. and the faculty anS
student bodies are devoting their ener
gies toward the perfection of the pro
grams. The year has been very sue
cessfnl with all both in scholarship