The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-16


a number of petitions for signatures Of
those who would agree to SOW wheat
This was done in order that first-cas.
mill might be secured for Ripley, VIII
liam McDonough, of this place, agreeing
to put in mill if enough acreage would
be pledged to fully protect him. Stuff,
cient signers have already been secured
to make the mill certainty.
The fair opens Sept. IA and lasts fouI
days. Quite bunch of home horses and
others will arrive this week from Mobile
also from Columbus, Miss, and possibly
some from Jackson and Henderson, Tenn
A 2:20 race will go the first day. The
free-for-all is on the last day; $3.50 race
third day. Balloon ascension each day
with possibly automobile races to fill il
the time.
Capt. W. T. Rigby, chairman of tn,
Vicksburg National Military Park Com
mission, will make an effort to have con
gress appropriate 100000 for Con
federate memorial to be placed at Vicks
burg. Capt. Rigby brought up the mat
ter while the bidders on the naval memo
rial were in his office, and asked them t.
send him designs and drawings of
Greek temple such as the Parthenon al
Athens.
The regular September term of tn,
chancery court for the Second district
has been pretermitted by Chancellor Den
ton in Difference to the petition of the
local bar asking such concession. Court
will be held on the second Monday il
October, which will be the 18th, ant
will continue six days, according to late
advices from Chancellor M. E. Denton al
Belen.
For the first time in twenty years, tn,
presence of the screw worm is reported
in the Natchez section. Considerably,
stock has been killed as result.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Company is looking over the ground with
n view to extending its line into Merid
ian from Linden, Ala, giving Meridian
a direct connection with Montgomery
Ala.
Meridian is now almost assured of 9
population of $4,000 as the result of ex
tending the corporate limits, taking in
several of the most prosperous suburbs
Altogether an area covering 1,700 acres
has been added to the city.
The school board of Newton county
has given Decatur until the adjournment
of the next state legislature to builc
the agricultural high school authorized
by the Legislature in the fall term Of
1908. The legislature authorized each
county to build an agricultural high
school, but on account of the suit OF
the negro Going, of Jasper county, who
enjoined the county from collecting the
tax to build an agricultural high school
in that county, on the grounds that nc
arrangements were made for the negro
children, Decatur had intended to post
pone action in the matter in the hope
that the case would be decided before
they were required to build the school,
Prof. L. R. Massey, superintendent OF
education of Jasper county, has been no.
titled by the state board of education al
Jackson that the agricultural high school
of the county has been established. This
school, which was located at Bay Springs
last year, was enjoined by citizens OF
the county who opposed the tax levy to
support and maintain such schools, and
the state board of education has beer
compelled to withhold the 81 900 which
was appropriated to the school by the
state until the case was decided by the
Supreme Court. The school will open
Oct. IS.
The people of Meadville, among whom
will be found the very best element Of
citizenship, are taking steps to efface
the effects of the feud outbreaks which
have rent them asundef during the past
few months, and hope to work it out
among themselves. To make start in
this direction, mass meeting has been
called, the object of which is to endeavor
to insure and establish peace in their
community.
The Central Mississippi Baptist Asso
citation met in sixty-fourth session al
Yazoo City The association is made up
from thirty-nine churches in Kinds, Mad.
isan, Rankin, Warren and Yazoo coun-
ties, with forty-seven ordained ministers
and church membership of $3.50.
Jessie Lott, an old Confederate soldier.
member of Company A, Forty-second
Mississippi regiment, died at his home
near Carrollton. Mr.. Lott lost leg
in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. He
was one of the county's substantial citi
zens.