Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1908-08-20
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tendent OF education, Is dividing his
time between attending county insti-
tute sessions and delivering lectures to
teachers and visiting the various local
boaris OF education FOR the purpose OF
encouraging longer school terms and
the establishment % agricultural high
schools. He has been CONSTANTLY ON
the 30. and according TO his mileage
account. has travelled more than |. so
miles since the first OF the year for the
purpose OF promoting the cause OF .du-
cation Prof Powers has accepted an
invitation 10 deliver m address At
joint rally OF the teachers OF Grenada
and Nslobusha counties TO be held At
Water Valley during the week begin
ming August -. and eontiuuing sor
period Of five days.
That large sums Of money belonging
10 the school fund OF Forres, county are
in jeopardy has Just been discovered.
The money 1t 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 or 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
turity, 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 bill is
now pending The bed OF the river IS
literally lined with yellow pine sawlogs.
the recovery of which. in the course Of
the dredging operations, viii more than
pay the expense OF cleaning out the
channel for ordinary river craft. These
logs 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 choices, cut OF
the Mississippi forests.
An institute for farmers under the
auspices Of the United States depart
ment of agriculture is being held H
Lexington. The institute Is conducted
by DR.. ). A. Knapp, superintendent OF
the cooperative and demonstration
farm work in the South, and the TWEEN
~ special agents of the bureau Of plant
industry now employed in Mississippi
are in attendance. simultaneously with
teachers Is being held, conducted by
Prof W. Fl. Smith, county superin-
.tendent of education, and originator Of
the boys corn club idea
As q result OF recent raids by the
jackson police department and by the
attaches of the sheriff-s Office, the lug
rooms at the city hall AMI courthouse
ut jackson are pretty well filed with
both whisky and beer, which will be
held for q short time, and il no claim
is made for it the stuff will be destroyed.
E. NJ. Berryhill of Amite county, one
of Mississippis 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-
TEN, the Gin Compress association was
organized az Jackson. With the follow
ing officers: S. E Dudley, Herman
vile, president: P. L Stackhouse,
Crystal Springs, vice-president; r W.
killingsworth. Lorman, secretary and
treasurer. Membership dues were
liked at IS.
meeting Of the executive commit
tee of the Mississippi branch OF the
Farmers Union was held at Jackson to
consider charges that the state business
agency of the organization has been
purchasing nou-union foods and ship
ming them out 70 farmers with union
labels attached.
An agricultural high school Is 20 be
established at Walthall, where twenty
acres OF land, $4,000 feet of lumber
and 5000 in cash have been sub
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
pieted their work of revising the as
sessments for this year. IL Is not be-
lieved that the entire state will show an
increase Of more than s4oo,Ooo.
John Goolsby, prominent farmer
residing near Oxford, while In nj OF
anger. knocked his wife down with
heavy seantIing, poured coal oil over
her prostrate body, and then set nre %
her clothes. She was rescued by neigh
bors. who exringuished the names.
In the wet counties OF Mississippi
the saloonkeepers whose license VIII
expire during the remainder oil the
year have decided, in majority OF IN
stances, not to apply for renewals, oa'
will retire from business when their
present legal authority ceases
A civic league has been organized
NJ CsrroIlron. The object OF the asso-
citation is to devise ways and means for
the general benefit of the town IS 70
the sanitation, cleanliness and oeauti-
flying the streets
The Great Tribe Improved order OF