Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-03

heirs brought against Mr.. Smith for
damages in the amount of $4,000, ne
gotiations were resumed and the option
secured.
DIR. Robert P. Wendell, one of the most
prominent citizens of Aberdeen, and of
Northern Mississippi, was shot, beaten
and stabbed to death in the lobby of
the Clopton Hotel at Aberdeen by John
P. Carter. DR.. Wendell and Carter had
taken dinner together and had been in
company all evening. Carter had been
drinking and the physician had taken
him to the hotel TO put him to bed.
DIR. r. G. Henderson, a prominent
physician of Dixon, in Neshoba county,
was shot and killed by his brother-in-
law, William Hudson, in Leake county.
Mr.. Hudson is a prominent merchant
and planter of High Hill, Leake coun-
ty, and married a sister of DIR. Hen
derson.
More land is being opened up for cul-
t~ivation in the Lambert section than
was ever known before at one time
III CAS OISdLlZdCIOn u QulLIldH COuQ-s
ty. The soil is of high quality, this
being one of the most fertile and high
ly productive sections of the Mississippi
delta.
Columbus will secure a new railroad
which, it is said, will be built from
Winfield, Ala, via that city, to some
point on the Alabama, Tennessee &
Northern railroad, probably either Alice
vile or Dancey. The incorporators nave
ample money for the project without
asking for outside assistance, and expect
to have the road completed with two
years.
Mayor j. j. Hayes is very much
pleased with the promise of the South
ern Rife Association of Alabama, Louisi-
ana and Mississippi to give personal
backing in efforts to get the United
States army maneuvers at Vicksburg
next summer.
E. [. Watts, county superintendent of
education, is requesting every teacher in
Marion county to furnish a list of boys
in each district, whether in school or
out, who may wish to enter the corn
growing contest for next year. This
will be the first corn growers contest
ever held in this county, and the boys
have shown much enthusiasm since cash
prizes were offered by the board of SUI
pervisors and the town board of alder
men.
The Farmers Union of Oktibbeha
county will convene on December 10
and II at Bradley. Among the number
who will participate in the proceedings
are DR.. TAFT Butler, editor of the Farm
ers' Gazette, and Prof. E. r. Lloyd of
the A. and NJ. College. Both will de-
liver addresses of interest to the farm
ers, on the first day of the meeting. A
discussion whether it will be feasible
to place the convicts in their respective
counties where convicted or allow them
to remain in the States care, will oc-
cupy an important part of the program.
An old-fashioned country dinner will be
spread both days.
A mob of two hundred men at Nee
han Junction, twelve miles west of Meri-
dian, took Morgan Chambers, a negro,
from Town Marshal Broadway and Dep
uty Joe Camp, and riddled his body with
bullets. It was said that every man of
the large mob fired the contents of his
gun into the body of the negro, and then
dispersed as quietly as they had put in
their appearance. Chambers had been
arrested for beating and robbing an aged
white man, Martin Dressler.
Congressman Humphreys and Mr.. Bar
nett, a practical rice grower from Lou
isiana, were in Le1ore county comforting
with prominent planters on the subject
of rice culture. They went up the Tai
river, where they examined
the plantations of Hon. G. A. Wilson
and o. F. Bledsoe, Jr., two of the larg-
est planters of this county, and Mr.. Bar
nett pronounced both places to be in
every way suitable to profitable rice cul-
ture.
W. W. Boyle, a deputy sheriff of
Washington county, was arrested on
the charge of matchmaking, and gave a
bond of $50 to appear before JUS
O'Bannon, but he did not appear
and a forfeiture was taken on the bond.
He had skipped for parts unknown.
went to Cinnamon grocers and
them with running blind tigers,
would take SO and let them off
arrest.
One of the largest corn clubs ever
formed in Mississippi was organized in
by Prof. P. P. Garner and Coun-
y Superintendent r. B. Waldrop. One
and fifty boys agreed to work
| plat of Ian according to specific rules
Turing the year 1910.