The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-10

burned to ashes some two years ago.
The country far and wide knew what
| loss that entailed upon Hattiesburg.
Some people thought it was death
blow to Hattiesburg. And it was
somewhat of paralizer. But now that
great enterprise is starting up again,
indeed has started up again and is
| running on full time night and day.
not half the people of this lucky little
city have stopped to think what that
means to Hattiesburg.
This company's pay roll here approx
inmates fifty thousand dollars month.
With its lumber camps, and log crews
and other allied interests all running
on full time; with hundreds of men
stacking up lumber, as they soon will
be, and hundreds more loading it into
cars for shipment to the markets OF
the world; with everything going at
full swing as everything soon will be
at the Newman Lumber Company, the
monthly pay roll of this great finan'
cial concern will be seventy-five thou
sand dollars per month, or more.
And all that money will go into the
pockets of the laboring men in and
, about Hattiesburg, and most Of 1t VIII
find it's way into the various channels
of trade of this town. That means
Prosperity with big P.
A dollar in the hands of working
man, who spends his money for the
necessities of life, nearly as fast as he
makes it, is worth several dollars in
the hands of capitalist or pleasure
seeker, who runs away from home to
spend his money OF every hundred
thousand dollars paid out for labor by
this big concern, ninety thousand
are spent right here in Hattiesburg.
When the laborer gets it he begins to
spend it; to pay his honest debts and
to provide comforts for his family.
And when he begins to spend it, it be-
gins to circulate; and as it circulates
every man of Drawn and brain and
muscle will get hold of some OF 1t.
And that means Prosperity, also to be
written with big P.
If the celebration on the first, there
fore, is as large as the occasion JUS
titles, it will overflow the streets OF
Hattiesburg and spread out miles
around. Everybody should begin to
get ready for it. If you have friends
you want with you, invite them
come and see the balloon ascension,
and then see sight bigger thing, the
Newman Lumber Company, the Me-
ridian Fertilizer Company, the Watkins
Machine and Foundry Company,
and other great industries in Hatties-
burg.
And Hattiesburg itself should
get ready to entertain and make
comfortable the crowd. The no
tells and restaurants will have more
than they can attend to. The ladies'
of the church organizations, the Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy, the Kings
Daughters, ETC., can reap harvest
serving lunches and cool drinks that
day. And even the small boy can turn
many an honest penny by having his
mother cook him lot of pies and
cakes, and opening up for himself a
stand that day. And the city authori-
ties, for the comfort Of the strangers
within their gates, should have barrels
of ice water, at convenient places, with
chain dippers nailed to them, for the
free use of any and everybody. Ana
If improyised benches can be had, they
should be placed in shady places, as
rest resorts; for it is awful tiresome
to stand all day. The gates of the city
should be thrown wide open, and our
guests should be made to feel that the
people Of Hattiesburg are not a grasp
ing set, but are generous and hospita-
BILE and did everything they could to
make their short, sightseeing stay
in their city, both pleasant and COM
Portable.
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