The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-24
FAXED IN NAME OF
FARMERS UNION
Subscribers to Bank Stack
Want Money Back
IRRIGATION IN THE DELTA
Farmer Who Had Level Land in Corn
Saves Crop in Dry Weather BY
Turning on Water When
Most Needed.

Jackson, Miss, August 23.-<(Special y
James Bush, prominent farmer of near
Ell@ville, Jones county, has been up to
Jackson to see what had become of the
$50 he paid for 10 shares of stock in the
million dollar bank certain members of
the Farmers union were trying to or
ganize the receipt for the cash he paid
having been signed by one of the state
officers of the union.
Mr.. Bush is alleged to have stated on
his return home that he found the bank
enterprise had been abandoned, and that
the cash collected for stock had been
tablish the bank He and other Jones
county farmers who had subscribed for
stock and paid in their money are very
much put out over the DEVELOPMENTS to
say the least, and have consulted at
torneys at Eillisville as to the chance of
recovery but have been advised there
is small hope of getting back penny
However, these subscribers to the stock
of the bank announce that they will hold
meeting at Ellisville in few days and
then determine what steps to take to
recover their money
The Jones County News, published at
Ellisville, has the following on the SUBJ
ject:
And Mr.. Bush is by no means alone.
Hundreds of the best farmers in Jones
county subscribed for stock in the pro-
posed Farmers Union State bank in the
belief that the organization of the Farm
~ ,,,,io, l.
that it was a safe investment. 1t now
develops that the proposed bank was to
be a private enterprise and that the
union as an organization had nothing
whatever to do with it.
Some of those who invested their
money in the stock of the proposed bank
are still of the opinion that the pro-
motors were honest and that their fail
ure was due largely to the financial
stringency while others express the opin-
ion that 1t was a deliberate steal and
that the union was used as a catspaw
by which to rake out chestnuts for a
few shrewd swindlers"
A great many crops of both cotton
and corn have been ruined this year he
cause of the long continued dry small
during June and July lasting from, fonr
70 civ u,oa,,. a., ,.a -o''
:. -. VITA ou' tiere Is
a. ieas' ohe farmer, Mr.. John A. Jor-
Dan OF carriers, Yazoo county, who made
use of his artesian well and irrieated
100 aeres of corn Tho oo,,,, -, -,
worxad ont 1ata haoo,,.a a.. 49,,
.ie iahu WAS
Wv "o' IN " iohs Tune ana AFTER 1t was
worked there was no rain and the corn
was burning out. The tract was level
freshly ploughed and when the artes;an
water was diractaa hon., a.,
4. .,,a, :. NV wig io"s
'eo ~ anu MT ,he spot where
nseoeo WORST, Inc result Is that Mr..
ooroan is sald TO nave as fine a piece
Vi corn as is 10 be found in the state.
NO doubt there are thousands of planta-
eiohs III .he oeta country on which there
are now aftesian wells, or could be- and
MI. JORDAN mas given owners of such
larms mint they will not be slow to
accept ana prepare to profit by hereafter.
nes,nhlhs Wednesday August rs. the
sea'e FARMERS institute and Industrial
sunven,ioh WIZ assemble at the Agri-
S.a,. anu meonanlcaI college at
sua vile, ior three days session,
aaa uurins wh,ch time there Will b.
a., ana lectures by several of