Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

hICIC dSI bureau at Il0 recent
state fair at Jackson, Miss. The trip
will be of two weeks duration and the
time will be spent mainly in Washing
ton, d. c., seeing the sights there.
Upon his arrival in the city a guide
will be turned over to this young man,
and will devote his entire time to him,
showing him the various points of in
terest in and about the city of Wash
ington.
Miss Susie Powell, president of the
Rural School Improvement Association
of the state, addressed the teachers of
Lee county at Tupelo. She delivered
an impressive lecture, explaining the
methods of improving and systematic
ing the work of country schools and
making the work in these schools as eff
fective as the work lone in the graded
schools of the separate districts.
The people of the Delta are begin
ming to awake to the necessity for i'm
proved drainage. Gov. Noel having in
timated that he will recommend for con-
sideration a bill! authorizing the organ
lzatlon of the Black Bayou drainage
district if a bill is agreed on, the Bust
ness Mems League of Greenville has
taken the matter up with the people
and the members of the legislature from
Washington county.
What promises to be a sensation
among the negroes of Mississippi was
sprung by Bishop E. Cottrell of Holly
Springs, before the Mississippi confer
ence of the colored Methodist Episcopal
Church Sunday, when he bitterly ar
raigned the negro secret orders, which
to a large extent predominant in the life
and activity of that people.
Miss Laura Taylor, one of the most
estimable young ladies of Eupora, met a
most horrible death by being practically
cremated. The unfortunate young lady
was sitting in her room when it is sup
posed she was seized with a spasm of
epilepsy and fell into the fire.
Sheriff J. o. Baugh of Coahoma coun-
ty raised several points of questionable
character in the New World' district
in search of blind tiger whisky, and
found quite a quantity of beer and
whisky. The negroes were arraigned
before Justice J. B. Killebrew and were
fined $40 each and were given a severe
reprimanG.
The report of County Health Officer
W. W. Hamilton of Lauderdale county
shows that pellagra is prevalent in the
county to an alarming extent. The re-
port shows that during the past eighteen
months ending December 1 there nave
been a total of As cases of the new dis
ease. Of this number 27 have proven
fatal, 6 have recovered and ~ are now
under treatment.
j. E. Branton, a prominent planter of
Washington county, has finished picking
a field of cotton which has made a most
remarkable yield. This field comprises
five and one-fourth acres and the total
yield of cotton is over $500 pounds,
enough for two standard weight bales
per acre. At prevailing prices for cotton
and seed each acre of this land, which
was planted in the S~impkins variety of
cotton, will yield him a gross return of
about SITS.
DIR. R. J. Brown killed two hogs that
weighed in the aggregate 682 pounds.
Another citizen of Iuka killed two that
weighed 600 pounds, and Will Also
brooks, a farmer living ten miles east
of Iuka, killed eighteen hogs from one
pen and brought six of them to Iuka for
sale. They weighed 1871 pounds and
Melted him the sum of $16O.
Congressman Dickson of the Sixth Mis-
slssippi district has written a letter to
the papers of his bailiwick in which he
tells the farmers that he will render
them every possible assistance in build
ing up a market and creating a demand
for their cane syrup-the best in the
way of molasss that is to be had in this
section of the country, and which seems
to find its natural element in the coun-
ties to the southwest-those now in
tested with the boil weevil.
Claims for back taxes alleged to be
due by the banks of Vicksburg, extend
Ing back to 1908 and running up to
several thousands of dollars, were filed
for collection with City Tax Assessor
and Collector Kiersky, by Deputy State
Revenue Agent Adams, at Vicksburg.
A number of prominent citizens nave
formed a fruit growers association, to
be known as the Ridge Fruit Farm
Company. The purpose of the organiza-
ton is to raise fruit and operate a gen.
eraI truck farm. Fruit and vegetables
will be shipped