The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-21
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teachers and visiting the various local
boards of education for the purpose of
encouraging longer school terms and
the establishment of agricultural high
schools. He has been constantly on
the go, and according to his mileage
account, has travelled more than 500
miles since the first of the year for the
purpose of promoting the cause of edu-
cation. Prof. Powers has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address at a
joint rally of the teachers of Grenada
and Yalobusha counties to be held at
Water Valley during the week begin
ming August "a, and continuing for a
period of five days.
That large sums of money belonging
to the school fund of Forrest county are
in jeopardy has just been discovered.
The money at stake is that derived
from what is known as the sixteenth
sections, those parcels of land set apart
for the use of the schools. AS these
lands are sold OF leased the funds de-
rived therefrom are loaned out at inter
est, the principal being kept inviolate
and the interest applied to the schools.
Many thousands of dollars of these
moneys have been loaned in Forrest
county. 1t is found, upon examination,
that the interest, in many cases, has
not been paid; in other cases the prin-
cipal itself remains unpaid after ma
and in other cases, where loans
have been renewed no security has
been taken, and the county is in dan
ger OF losing the whole amount.
Leaf river, from Merrill to Hatties-
burg, will be dredged and made navi-
gable at once, without waiting for any
survey or appropriation from the United
States government, for which a bill is
pending. The bed of the river is
literally lined with yellow pine sawlogs,
the recovery of which, in the course of
the dredging operations, will more than
pay the expense of cleaning out the
channel for ordinary river craft. These
are the accumulation of the past
half century, and, as most of the logs
were cut when the timber was all vir-
gin, they represent the choicest cut of
the Mississippi forests.
An institute for farmers under the
auspices of the United States depart
ment of agriculture is being held at
Lexington. The institute is conducted
by DR.. S. A. Knapp, superintendent of
the cooperative and demonstration
farm work in the South, and the TWEEN
ty special agents of the bureau of plant
industry now employed in Mississippi
are in attendance. simultaneously with
this institute an institute for school
teachers is being held, conducted by
Prof. w. II. Smith, county superin-
tendent of education, and originator of
the boys corn club idea.
AS a result of recent raids by the
Jackson police department and by the
attaches of the sheritf's office, the lug
at the city hall and courthouse
at jackson are pretty well filled with
both whisky and beer, which will be
held for a short time, and if no claim
made for it the stuff will be DESTROYED.
F. NJ. Berryhill of Amite county, one
Mississippi's champion farmers,
whose exhibit at the state fair at jack
son last year attracted such general
attention, will be on hand this year,
and has written the management ask
ing that adequate space be reserved for
the exhibit he will enter for the sweep
stakes premium.
After a preliminary discussion by
men interested in the gin compress sys-
tenn, the Gin Compress association was
organized at Jackson, with the follow
ing officers: S. E. Dudley, Herman
vile, president: P. L. Stackhouse,
Springs, vice-president; r. w.
klllingsworth. Lorman, secretary and
treasurer. Membership dues were
fixed at S25.
A meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Mississippi branch of the
Farmers Union was held at Jackson to
charges hat the state business
agency Of the organization has been
purchasing non-union foods and ship
ping them out to farmers with union
attached.
An agricultural high school is to be
established at Walthall, where twenty
acres of land, 10000 feet of lumber
and $1,000 in cash have been SUBJ
scribed. The board of supervisors
have pledged themselves to vote the
necessary levy.
The boards of supervisors in most of
the counties of the state have com
their work of revising the as
for this year. 1t is not be-
that the entire state will show an
increase of more than $500, 900.
John Goolsby, "a prominent farmer
residing near Oxford, while in a fit of
anger, knocked his wife down with a
heavy scantling, poured coal oil over
her PROSTATE body, and then set fire to
her clothes. She was rescued by neigh
bors, who extinguished the flames.
In the ''wet" counties of Mississippi
the saloonkeepers whose license will
during the remainder of the
year have decided, in a majority of in
stances, not to apply for renewals, but
will retire from business when their