Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-10-29


season. On So acres planted III Allen
HYBRID cotton he has gathered fifty
bales, weighing 500 pounds each, at csc
per pound, making d total OF $3.50 OF
1925 per bale. This cotton win measure
l SIS inches. This estimate does not IN
ciude the seed, which will sell ior fancy
price.
Congressman Ben G. Humphreys, act
ing on the request of the board of su. er-
visors of Washington county, has Sc
cured a road expert IRON the office of
public roads of the department OF agri-
culture, Washington, to confer with
County Road Commissioner {. r. Cock
and the public generally as to the best
methods of building roads in the Delta.
Between 500 and 500 acres of wheat
will be planted in Monroe county. Near
ly every member of the Farmers Union.
winch is very strong in the county, is
going to give this new industry a trial.
If they are successful they expect to
double the acreage next year and re-
duce cotton growing as much as posi-
Bile.
The largest crowd Hickory has enter
tanned in number of years was present
at the celebration of Field Day." Great
enthusiasm was manifested in the dif-
ferent competitions and the committee in
charge IS arranging another day for Nov.
16, and another will be planned for the
third Tuesday in December.
The action of the committee having
charge of the banquet to be given TO
President Taft at Jackson in proposing
to serve wine at that function was moth
ing short of an insult to the state, was
the declaration of Rev. j. G. Galloway,
of Magnolia.
President T. W. Raymond, of NIissis-
sippi Synodical College, has arranged
with the Lyceum bureau 10 have a regu-
lar lecture course of SIX eng4aen ents fer
his pupils and the general public during
the present session
County Commissioner of Agriculture
L. A. Markham has arrarred for series
of three farmers Institutes Tor Washing
ton county. A number of subjects will
be discussed and all of them of vital
concern to the planters OF the Delta.
The Leake county grand jury has been
going after a number of miscreants,
and as the Indictment records show, has
caught quite a number in the drag net
for violations of the law more or less
serious, from simple trespass and unlaw-
ful retailing to homicide.
Cotton seed sold at Prentiss for $41
per ton. A lively interest was shown
in local market in the buying of cotton
seed. The market opened with S. s..
Dale & Sons offering $35 per ton. The
firm of J. +. Dumas 4 Sons then offered
mere. Several tons were sold at $50.
The two firms then began bidding
against each other, and several tons sold
fol $41 per ton. The cotton crop is short
and seed are in demand
The first annual fair of the North
Mississippi Fair Association at Holly
springs is now a matter of history. It's
success is a matter of great pride to the
management as well as to the entire peo-
pie. 1t was success from its very
start. Gov. Noel's presence and inspiring
speech started things off on the right
foot and no tagging was allowed up to
the close. 1t is believed that much good
along agricultural, horticultural and
stock-raising lines has been. accomplished.
4 member of the Weaver Manufactlu-
ing Company, of Corinth owns a large
act of land bordering on Tallahatchie
river, one mile west of Batesville, on
which he is contemplating planting rice
he coming season. He says that he
an put i'll an irrigation plant on the
banks of Tallahatchie river, by which
lie can flood several hundred acres and
feels confident that his lands will pro-
lace rice equal to that of Arkansas,
md claims that the water from the river
sill enrich the lands every year.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Upchurch.
on trial at Indianola, charged with the
murder of her husband, returned this
verdict: 1--WE, the jury, find the de-
tendant guilty as charged, but disagree
Is to the punishment. Thereupon Judge
rashin sentenced her to the penitentiary
for life. Provine Turner, convicted of
murder, was granted new trial
The Taft Guards, composed of some
fifty or sixty boys, ranging in age from
to Is years, who are to act as escort
of homer to the president, have been well
drilled into shape by Capt NJ b. Hern-
don and Lieut.. Featherston, of the Cap
ital Light Guards, and are now fitted out
in regulation khaki uniforms, with CAM
raign hats, 22-caliber parlor rifles, and
not only look but act the part
Chancellor A. A. Kincannon of the
University of Mississippi, announced
that the examinations for the Cecil
Rhodes scholarships will be held at the
university October 1920 These scholar
ships are worth 81, 500 per year, and are
good for three years study at the OK
ford, England, University.
The Confederate Veterans and Maben
chapter of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy gave public entertainment
at Maben, the occasion being in COM
memoration of the birthday of noble
Mississippian, j. 2. George.
Get Much Zinc fron, frussi4.
Half of the worlds zinc comes from
Prussia.
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