The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-23
FARMING SCHOOLS
 CREATE INTEREST Pike County Missy Gets the
 First One MANY SITES ARE OFFERED Noxubee County Is Also Agitating the Agricultural School Question. Municipal Contest in Jack
 son Will Be Lively.
MANY SITES ARE OFFERED

Jackson, Miss, June 22-(Special.) 1.-The legislature of last winter passed an act authorizing the establishment of a coun- ty agricultural high school in every coun- ty in the state, under certain conditions, which were itemized and explained fully. Several counties have taken the matter up. but so far only one or two have got ten beyond the talk station.
 Pike county claims the distinction of be- ing the first county In the state to get ready to locate and inaugurate the school, the board of supervisors to act on the prop osition at their meeting on the 9th of July. Four different neighborhoods in Pike are after the school and have submitted bids that are valuable No bid under 40 acres of land was to be considered, but these Pike bidders have gone twice that and put up valuable money considerations, school houses, free fuel for term of years, etc.
 However, Pike is not ahead of Noxubee in this matter It may be that the two counties are about neck and neck on the proposition. Hon. E. D. Cavett of that county, and one of the most prominent and influential members of the legisla- ture, who was in Jackson last week, re- ported that his county was ready for the location of the agricultural high school. He may have said it had been located. but anyway it was determined on and all the requirements complied with.
 The city of Jackson is now launched upon what is destined to be one of the most desperate contests for municipal of- fees ever experienced. There are Is sep arate and distinct offices to be filled, and for which 39 citizens are suuabbling in good natured kind of way so far. but with prospects of lively doings be- fore the 20th of July, the date of the first primary. Interest centers, as a mat ter of course, in the race for mayor, the candidates being w. s. Hamilton, a prom inent and prosperous merchant, and A. c. Crowder manager of the Prudential insurance company business in this state.
 On the day of the state convention in this city and after the alternate delegates to the state-at-large had been selected. member of the Coahoma delegation one ol tue InOSl prominent attorneys in the state, said to this reporter: "Coahoma wants 1t distinctly understood that Earl Brewer is selected as alternate for Sena- tor McLaurin.''
 MT. Brewer is a citizen of Coahoma, and was the candidate for Governor a year ago who was in the second primary with Governor Noel. It was understood at that time that he was the candidate of the McLaurin faction of the democratic party in the state, and that alliance seems to have been kept inviolate. It Is now an- nounced that Senator >McLaurin is not going to the Denver convention, and that MT. Brewer will take his place in the Mississippi delegation. There was no ar engagement of this kind on the floor of the convention, but it was just understood be- tween the friends of MT. Brewer and Sen ator McLaurin that Brewer was his al- ternate. The arrangement will suit the people of the state all right as the ef- fort of the state convention leaders in selecting six delegates and six alternates from the state-at-large was to pacify all factional feeling.
 The trusty system in vogue the past