The Neshoba Democrat., 1909-10-07


like 100000 being authorized for that
object and added to the pensions the cur
rent drafts for the expense of State gov
ernment.
The city of Greenville is making an ex-
pertinent with crude oil as street pre-
server and dust settler. While the prin-
cipal streets are paved, the residence
streets are not, and during the summer
and fall become very dusty. The test is
being made with the oil on half mile
of Main street, out from the business
section of the city, the Standard Oil Com
pany making the demonstration at small
cost to the city. The streets of Green
vile have been put in splendid condition
during the past year, and the chief pur-
pose of the city council is to test oil as a
dust settler in comparison with the water
sprinkling carts.
The grandest sale of cotton in the del
ia country took place last week on the
plantation of r. c. Garnett, one of the
largest planters of Sunhower county. MIR.
Garnett displayed eighty-tive bales of his
best cotton, and had present cotton buy
ers from Memphis, New Orleans, Yazoo
City, Greenwood and Indianola, to class
and bid on the lot as a whole. B. p. Fail
ings, who represents Humphreys & Co.
at lndianola, got the goods, paying Mr..
4, ,f
The school of instruction for the Free
and Accepted Masons was held at New
Albany and a public entertainment was
given by the order at the courthouse.
Grand Master w. NJ. Clifton delivered an
instructive, able and eloquent address on
the origin and history of Masonry. This
school of instruction was conducted by
Grand Lecturer A. M. Hicks.
The interest among Washington coun-
ty poultry fanciers, who are making
preparations for the big poultry show to
be held here on Oct. II to 16 in connec-
ton with the Delta Fair, is intense. Ar
rangements have been made to accommo-
date 1000 birds in well-lighted and VEN
tilated building erected on the fair
grounds for that purpose.
Attorney-Gencral ]. B. Stirling and w.
P. Shinault, special counsel, filed bill
in the chancery court at Holly Springs
against the Cumberland Telephone and
Telegraph Company for violation of the
Mississippi antitrust law, and demand
damages in the neat little sum of ST..
093,000. The bill is returnable before
Chancellor 1. 7. Blount at the November
term of chancery court.
At the State meeting to be held in
December at Jackson, president of the
State Farmers Union will be elected.
The Lafayette County Farmers Union
has passed resolutions recommending the
work of the present State president, G..
R. Hightower, and recommending him
for reelection. President Hightower's
home is in Lafayette county.
G. B. Merrill & Bros lumber plant at
Lake burned. The planer, commissary,
ice plant and yard, containing 100000
feet of lumber, were completely de.
stroyed. The saw mill was saved by
heroic work of employees.
Kinds is the leading county in point
of personal property valuations, with a
total valuation of $5,462, ,175, compared
with that for 1908, of $5,212,245, the in.
crease being $249,o30. The value of
banking property ard capital employed
shows up well with total of $1,275 sos;
of capital employed and merchandise, ST..
2S9,69o, and capital employed in manu-.
featuring, $259,245.
The enthusiasm and interest displayed
over the agricultural high school propo.
sition in Pearl River county, which is so
pronounced that it has eld to provision
being made by the local authorities for
an additional $4,000 in order to in
crease the facilities, is especially grah
'SihS W Chc euuCdlOTS ana Cne DraCtlCaI
men who have laid the foundation for
this advance.
Advices have been received by the pris-
on authorities of the arrest near Birm.
lngham of Joe Saunders, who escaped
from the Mississippi penitentiary about
four years ago. Saunders is white
man and was sent up from Newton coun.
ty for burglary. He is desperate char.
acter, and after his crime in Newton
county for which he was sent to the
penitentiary he surrendered only afte,
being shot down by the sheriff.
Since the organization of the Corn
Club of Mississippi for Boys the record
for the yield per acre has been held by
n Newton county boy, Henry Harper, by
name. The county is proud of this fact
and is encouraging all to participate in
the contests for prizes.
BY concerted action of the city and
county authorities, half dozen social
clubs and number of "locker clubs"