The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-07
MEETING CALLED
 ID DISCUSS GINS Haryie Jordan Will Be At Jack
 son Conference PONTOTOC CASE SETTLED Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Road obeys Order of Court and Moves
 To the Site of the Old
 Depot.
PONTOTOC CASE SETTLED

Jackson, Miss, August 6.-(Special)- Harvie Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton association, is expected to be in Jackson on August Il to attend the meet ing of the Ginners' associa tion, and which meeting is expected to be one of the most interesting and important ever held by southern farmers. This meeting is called by prominent ginners from over the state for the purpose of discussing gin com presses-the most advanced proposition that has ever been submitted to man who owns or controls a gin.
 As heretofore stated, the gin compress is going to revolutionize the business of the ginner and the compress man. An at- tachment has been perfected by which means cotton Is compressed at any ord- nary gin The investment is a greater {, one than many ginners will feel able to make at first. but they will be forced to come in after while to be up-to-date. With this gin compress cotton is taken in l on side of the ordinary gin and turned out on the other side compressed to 30 inches density, perhaps to 2s, and in just such shape the cotton buyers and cotton spinners of the world are de- manding. The state of Mississippi has just installed two gin congresses on it's big farm in Sunfower county, thus set ting the example to other farmers and ginners, and no doubt they will follow it, l regardless of the expense.
 l The 'Pontotoc depot case' has been fin- ally settled once more. For several years 1 it has been a veritable Banquos ghost but Attorney General Fletcher is of the 1 opinion that it has been downed this time 1 to stay. The state and the United States | supreme court had agreed that the rail- 1 road commission had the authority to 1 compel the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas | City Railroad company to run it's trains on the old line through the town of Pon- totoc, instead of around 1t, and after several years the railroad company had | loaded its new depot on flat cars prepar- atory to hauling it to the site of the old depot in town, when several of the prop | erty owners in the vicinity of the new depot secured an injunction restraining l the railroad company from moving the 1 depot. The injunction was heard by the chancellor yesterday and was dissolved. 1 denied whereupon the railroad company | moved it's flat cars and the new depot to the site of the old depot, and it is be- lieved the trouble is over.
 Superintendent Marshall of the Isouis- vile and Nashville was in Jackson yes- terday before the railroad commission on the order requiring him to stop certain trains at the Front street crossing in Bay St. Louis. Failing to get what he wanted he showed his hand, which was to enjoin the commission. That came to the knowledge of the commission. and Attorney General Fletcher was prompt in touching the wires to advise MT. Cox, at- torney at Bay St. Louis. to file an injunc- ton with the federal court enjoining the Louisville and Nashville from running it's trains through Bay St. Louis without stopping. The railroad will now have to | make the next move, which will be an application, no doubt, to dissolve the in- junction.
 The majority of the members of the board of supervisors of Kinds county have agreed to the establishment of an agricultural high school, and there is no doubt Hinds will be abreast of her sister counties when actual work along those
 
 is yet to be made, and it is in order for those communities that want it to get busy Nothing less than 20 acres of land will be considered, and the larger the of fer of assistance from the several com munities the more apt they will be to draw the prize. Some 15 or 20 coun- ties have now established these colleges and others will do so in a short while.
 State Superintendent of Education Pow. CTS is spending day or two at head quarters In Jackson. having just returned from the gulf coast, where ne made couple of speeches in the interest of longer school terms and the cause of ed- {; ucation generally. Friday he is billed for an address before the Patrons of Hus- bandry at Lake; Saturday he will be at Bay Springs, Jasper county, where the normal closes for the term, and on Mon day will be in Tylertown, Pike county. Professor Powers Is greatly encouraged at the reception he is being accorded everywhere over the state, and sees in , that a lively interest in matters educa- tonal-a great awakening of the people a demand for longer school terms, better school houses and teachers who\ are com [ petent and qualified to teach.