The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-23

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Marathon race and athletic meet to take
place on Oct. 10, announces that Mis-
sissippi College and other colleges and
high schools of the state will send rep
resentatives not only for the great Ma
rathon race, but also for the other
events.
| The ninth annual fair held under the
auspices of the Mississippi and West
Alabama Fair Association, will COM
mence in Columbus Oct 10, and continue
four days. The preparations for the
coming meeting are such that warrant
the prediction for the most successful
fair, race meet and general exhibitions
the local association has yet held
The eighteenth session of the Missis'
sippi Synodical College opened at Holly
Springs under most favorable auspices.
The attendance, both in the boarding and
local department, is perhaps the largest
in the history of the college.
The A. and M. College opening far ex-
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Hardy and the members of the faculty.
1t was probably the brightest opening
the college has ever had in its history
There were present at the first exercise
fully 700 young Missippians. This is
about 100 more than the college opened
with last session.
At Indianola buyers are paying 20 to
22 cents for best staples, and other
lengths in proportion. Buyers are plenti-
full and sellers few. The crop continues
to deteriorate and the smallest produc-
ton is predicted for this country for
more than a quarter of century.
The Lincoln county convict farm,
which has been advertised for sale for
$4,000, has not yet been sold. On this
farm are kept the county convicts as
well as the poor, and it's sale by the
board has not met with the approval of
the majority of the taxpayers.
Acting under instructions from the
City Council, City Attorney Anderson, of
Vicksburg, filed bill in chancery asking
| for forfeiture of the franchise of the
local water works company and the APP
pointment of receiver during the pend
ency of the suit.
At meeting of the taxpayers of Tai
lahatchie county, held at Sumner, coun
sci were employed to enjoin the board OF
| drainage commissioners from issuing
$4,000 bonds, recently authorized by
said board.
The Southern Railway Company an
nounces an accommodation train from
| Columbus to Winona will be put on on
| Oct. 6. This train will in no manner
| have any effect on the service now in
vogue. 1t will be an additional train,
put on to serve the people between Wi
mona and Columbus.
Heretofore it has been so that the
| A. and M. boys could buy anything they
needed, from pen point to a suit of
clothing, on the college campus, but
this will no longer be the case. In con-
sideration of certin amount subscribed
| by the merchants of Starkville to be paid
to the A. and M. College Athletic Asso-
citation, the "shacks" have been closed,
and the boys will find a cheaper and
better market in the city of Starkville.
The Oktibbeha county fair this year,
which occurs on the 9Th, 18th and sth OF
October, promises to surpass anything
that the association has ever undertaken.
The Northeast Mississippi Christian
| Cooperative Convention will meet with
the West Point Church of Christ, Sept.
81 and %. An interesting program haa
been prepared.
The Oktibbeha county board of super
visors, At their September session, fixed
the tax levy as follows: State levy,
6 mills; courthouse bond tax, u mill;
common county schools, s1a mills. To
tai, Is mills.
| John Mcdaniel, negro, was hanged
at New Albany in the presence of large
crowd for the murder of H. B. Bracy,
whom he shot and killed on the night
| of Jan. last. From 1900 to 5000
peonIe witnessed the hanging, and a
small book giving history of the crime
was sold to at least 1000 of those pres
| ent.
The board of supervisors of Washing
ton county has fixed the tax levy for
the coming year at mills on the dollar,
which includes special tax for road
J and bridge purposes.