The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-07-29

miles, which will be the general prize.
In addition to this a cash prize of $500,
to be divided into three parts, is to be
given the first, second and third best
stretches of highway in the supervisors
beats, in which contest all five beats are
expected to participate.
President j. c. Hardy of the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College, accom-
panied by his wife, has gone on an ex-
tended tour of the West. He will first
visit Yellowstone Park and the Yosem-
tie Valley, and then he will go to Ore
gon to a meeting of the presidents of
agricultural colleges. After the meeting
he and Mrs. Hardy will 60 to Seattle, to
the worlds fair. They expect to return
to the college the first week in Septem-
Der, to be ready for the opening of that
institution Sep. Is.
Presiden j M. Sanders, of the Lafay-
cite County Farmers Union, has an
nounced that the union will hold two
days session with the Tula local on
Thursday and Friday, July 30 and 80.
Rev. r. A. n Wilson, of Batesville, will
deliver an instructive address the first
day, and several other noted speakers
have been invited. Tula is seventeen
miles southeast of Oxford, in a fine
farming section, and large crowd is ex-
pected to attend these meetings.
l. sx%o f1,
NewmanPritchard feud at Meadville,
Franklin county, which has claimed four
victims, the last being DR.. Lenox New
man, who died in a sanitarium from
wounds received in the memorable street
battle on June IA, when his father, Cham
Reynolds were killed, will be settled in
an amicable manner.
The district meeting of the Knights of
Pythias of the Tupelo district, called by
District Deputy G. G. Walton, was at
tended by good number of knights
from the various lodges of the district.
Grand Chancellor Sam Montgomery, Of
Greenville, Grand Keeper of Records and
Seal Quinn, of Jackson, and Past Grand
Chancellor Sessions, of Greenville, were
present.
The statewide prohibition law enacted
by the last legislature, removing saloons
within the state borders, has been bene-
fetal, so far as Leland is concerned.
Crime of different kinds in noticeably
less, gambling is on the wane, blind
tigers are exceedingly scarce, and the
city's prison, formerly SO conspicuous for
its regular occupants, is now lonesome
place.
Judge G. D. Christian, ST., one of Me-
ridian's Oldest and most prominent citi-
zens, shot and fatally wounded Jim
Beasley, negro highwayman, who at
tempted to hold him up at the point of
pistol on prominent thoroughfare at
an early hour of the morning.
w. M. Wagner and Dave King, two
Meridian capitalists, announced that all
arrangements are completed and plans
are now being drawn for new seven
second avenue and Sixth street. The
ground floor is to be designed for bust
ness purposes and the remaining six
floors will be for offices. The building
will cost something over 100000, hav.
ing all modern conveniences.
With his office in flames, 0. 0. Hamp
ton, American Express company agent,
was found unconscious and bound to
his bed. The flames were extinguished
by the fire department after Hampton
was descued and from appearances the
office had been looted. Hampton says
he was struck from behind by some one
whom he could not identify.
At meeting of the tent-holders of the
Oxford camp ground, it was decided to
have the camp meeting begin Sunday,
Aug. 1, and continue one week. Us yet
the ministers who will conduct and as
sist in the meeting have not been heard
from, but it lis meeting place well
known in North Mississippi and a large
crowd of visitors are always in attend
ance.
Cotton growers in the southwestern
counties of Mississippi, where the boil
weevil has made it's appearance, are, as
rule, indorsing the theory advanced
by Prof. Newell, State entomologist of
Louisiana, that the intensely hot weather
now prevailing in this section is literally
cooking the eggs and larvae of the boil
weevl, and greatly diminishing prospects
of continued ravages by the pest, thsa
showing that even sizzling weather has
its uses in the plan of nature.
Invitations have been sent by Mayor
j. j. Hayes, representing the city coun-
| Gil, by the Board of Trade of Vicksburg
and by the Vicksburg Cotton Exchange,
to President Taft, cordially inviting him
to visit Vicksburg during his trip
| through the South next autumn.
Prof. E. R. Lloyd and his associates
will hold farmers institute in Nettle-