Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-02-12

respectively state manager for Missis.
sippi and district manager for South
Mississippi. in the farmers cooperative
work under the bureau of plant industry
Of the national department of agricul.
snre, made practical and convincing
speeches to a meeting of farmers at
Brandon. The agricultural department,
through these men, proposes to pay half
the salary of local manager, whose
duty shall be to supervise the cultivation
Of i've demonstration farms in each SUI
pervisor's district in the county.
An agricultural experiment station will
b established at Clarksdale, the board of
supervisors having made an appropria-
tiOn Of 800 per month for the mainte-
nance of same This station will be in
charge of specialists appointed by the
government, and its establishment is in
harmony with the present statewide
policy prevailing, looking to the improve
ment of agricultural conditions in the
South aud the application of scientific
principles to Mississippi's farming meth
DDS.
The alfalfa lands adjacent to West
Point, now declared by government ex-
rsrts making soil survey of Clay
county to be absolutely the finest in the
world, are attracting the attention OF
capitalists from all over the country.
One holder Of land seeded to alfalfa
GNhteen months has just refused a cash
effer of 500 per acre for large tract
that sold just previously to being seeded
for asS per acre.
Az an aftermath of the Littlewood
wreck on the Northeastern, some time
ago, when the Great Northern express
crashed into the rear end of the local &C
sommodation train on the Northeastern,
d. Seixas, claim agent for the Northeast
srn, has succeeded in compromising two
Of the most important cases by paying
to Mr.. J. A Travis, father of Ora Ira
Wis, the sum Of $500 for the death of
his son, and the Shows case has been
settled Mt $4,000.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
TupelO by the people of ltawamba, Pom
tatoe and Lee counties for the purpose
of making arrangements for survey of
the proposed Tupelo, Pontotoc, Toccopols
and Fulton railway. The people along
the route manifest much interest and
from the encouragement given it is now
quite evident that the road will be built.
The Retail Merchants Association OF
Meridian want the peddling ordinance
to apply to the wagons of the Standard
Oil Co. The existing ordinance provides
that peddlers shall not stop longer than
one minute for the delivery of goods, and
he local merchants association claim
that the Standards wagons violate the
law and thus practically control the re-
tail oil business.
Special terms for both the chancery
and circuit courts have been ordered to
Be held in Laurel by Chancellor Sam
Whitman and Circuit Judge Billiard, re-
speetiYely, the chancery court to meet on
the fourth Monday in February, and the
circuit court on the second Monday in
March.
Famed by a gale blowing from thirty
10 forty miles per hour, forest fires
ragged in the turpentine timber belt near
Seminary, involving heavy loss to stand
ing timber The fire covers wide area
and it is impossible at present to esti-
saatS the full extent of the loss.
Carroll and Claiborne counties have
FALLEN into line with the others that have
adopted the boys corn club movement,
and they are going about it in way
shat promises success from the first, and
Rave applied to Commissioner of Agricul-
Aurs Biakeslee and others in touch with
Cha nodus operandi for pointers.
The most disastrous fire that ever Wis
lied Clarksdale, bringing ruin and devas-
tation in its wake, swept away an entire
Aloek Of buildings in the principal bust
sass section Of the city. About thirty
AUusos were destroyed, the property loss
On all amounting to about $4,000.
A mass meeting of citizesn of Fayette
and vicinity was held to organize a law
and order league, for the suppression OF
ssrtah vices which the leaders in the
upevsmsnt believe are flourishing in Fay
dsNe and the neighborhood of the town.
The passage of a stock ordinances has
Fsst been effected in Coanoma county,
de board Of supervisors voting unanf-
SAously for a measure looking TO the
aholishment Of fences throughout the
sUHnty.
Gov. Noel appointed Hon. CASTOR L.
Jones Of New Albany to hold the ensu-
ING term of circuit court for Benton coun-
w, IN place of Judge Roane, who will be
prevented from disability.
Cad has been issued for the sixtieth
annual session of the Home Mission So
Gsty of the Mississippi Conference OF
she Methodist Church, to be held at Nc
Comb City from March II to Fl, inciu-
sava. This body represents the active
home mission workers of the Methodist
Church in this conference, and it is ex-
yested that about 200 delegates will be
in attendance at the gathering. Miss
Belle Bennett, one of the most noted
home mission workers in the United
States, has accepted an invitation to ad-
dress the conference, and will be in at
tendance throughout the session
Bloom on the Egg.
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