Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-07-29
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The Winston county authorities have
taken steps to engender better road
spirit among the people and to eucour-
age the road contractors 20 not only do
well, but better than they have hitherto
done. The board Of supervisors and the
Winston County Fair Association are
acting jointly in the matter, and q reso-
luton has been adopted offering as .
special induecment one hrstcla-s. latest
model road machine for the hest worked
stretch Of road Of not les. than Eve
miles, which will be the general prixe.
In addition to this a cash prire Of 500,
to Be divided into three parts. !. to he
given the FIRST. second and third b~-t
stretches Of highway in the supervisors
beats, in which contest all fve beats are
expected to participate.
President J. c. Hardy. Of the AgrieuI
tursl and Mechanical College. accom-
panied by his wife, has gone on an ex-
tended tour of the West. lie will first
visit Yellowstone Park and the Yosem-
ite Valley. and then he viii go to Ore
gon TO a meeting Of the presidents of
agricultural colleges. After the meeting
he and Mrs. Hardy will go to Seattle. to
the worlds fair. They expect TO return
TO the college the first week in Septem-
her. to be ready for the opening Of that
institution Sep. is.
Presiden NJ. Sanders, of the Iafay~
ette County Farmers Union, has an
nounced that the union will hold a two
days session with the Tula local on
Thursday and Friday, July 20 and 30.
Rev. X. A. y. Wilson, Of Batcsville, will
deliver an instructive address the first
day, and several other noted speakers
have been invited. Tula is seventeen
miles southeast Of Oxford, in a fine
farming section. and large crowd is ex-
pected to attend these meetings.
IL busy-bodies do not interfere, the
Newman-Pritchard feud at Meadville,
Franklin county. which has claimed four
victims, the last being Dr. Lenox New
wounds received in the memorable street
battle on June ~, when his father. Chan
cery Clerk A. NJ Newman. and Silas @.
Reynolds were killed, will be settled in
an amicable manner.
The district meeting II the Knights Of
Pythias of the Tupelo district. called by
District Deputy c. g. Walton, was at
tended by a good number Of knights
from the various lodges OF the district.
Grand Chancellor Sam Montgomery, Of
Greenville, Grand Keeper Of Records and
Seal Quinn, Of Jackson, and Past Grand
Chancellor Sessions. Of Grsenvilie, were
present.
The statewide prohibition law enacted
by the last legislature, removing saloons
| within the state borders, has been bene-
fetal. 80 far as Leland is concerned.
| Crime Of different kinds in notieeabiy
less. gambling is on the wane. blind
tigers are exceedingly scarce. and the
eity's prison. formerly 50 conspicuous for
its regular occupants, is now a lonesome
place.
Judge c. ID. Christian. Sr.. one Of Me-
ridian's oldest and most prominent citi-
rens, shot and fatally wounded Jim
Bsasley, a negro highwayman, who at
tempted to hold him up at the point !.
a pistol on a prominent thoroughfare at
rlv hattr NJ ha ,,,nrutus.
W. NJ. Wagner and Dave King. two
Meridian capitalists, announced that All
arrangements are completed and plans
are now being drawn for a new seven
story building to BE- erected at Twenty.
second avenue and Sixth street. The
ground floor n to be designed for busi-
ness purposes and the remaining six
foors will be for offices The building
will cost something over 100000, hav.
| ing all modern conyeniences
With his Office in flames, o. o. Hamp
ton, American Express company agent
was found unconscious and bound to
his bed The flames were extinguished
/
was descued. and from appearances the
office had been looted. Hampton SAYS
he was struck from behind by some one
whom he could not identify.
At . meeting Of the tent-holders Of the
oxford camp ground. it was decided to
have the camp meeting begin Sunday,
Il 4 nd Ta
the ministers who will conduct and as
sist in the meeting have not been heard
from, but il 10 a meeting place well
known in North Mississippi and . large
crowd Of visitors are always in attend
ance.
Cotton growers in the southwestern
counties of Mississippi. where the boil
weevil has made its appearance, are, as
rule, indorsing the theory advanced
by Prof. Newell, State entomologist Of
Louisiana. that the intensely hot weather
now prevailing in this section is literally
cooking the eggs and larvae of the boil
weevil. and greatly diminishing prospects
Of continued ravages by the pest, thus
showing that even sizzling weather has
its uses in the plan of nature.
/ Invitations have been sent by Mayor
J. j. Hayes, representing the city coun-
ell, by the Board Of Trade of Vieksburg
and by the vicksburg Cotton Exchange,
to President Taft, cordially inviting him
to visit vicksburg during his trip
through the South nert autumn.
| Pro- and his associates
| will ( .ers' institute in Nettle-