The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-17
GOOD FACTORIES WILL BE LOCATED Farmers Around Jackson Will Benefit By Cannery WILL GROW Plans Are on Foot To Investigate the Rivers of Mississippi With
 View of Making Them
 Navigable.
INDUSTRIES WILL GROW

Jackson, Miss. September 16.-(Speclal) John c. Clair, industrial commissioner of the Illinois Central railroad, with head quarters in Chicago, was here today con- ferring with the members of the board of trade as to the location of two or three the board was so favorably impressed with some of them that an effort will be made to land them in the very near fu- ture.
 One of these industries Is a canning fac tory, and all the guarantee the moving spirits want Is that sufficient acreage of vegetables will be planted to keep the moving. There are hundreds of acres devoted to trucking in this vi cinity, and it is not believed there will be any trouble in securing all the increase that could be desired in such vegetables and field crops as the factory might de- mand.
 MT. Clair had not been to Jackson in some time, and was rather surprised to note the many Improvements and changes that have taken place, though he has been watshing Jackson grow and prosper for several years, and has done as much as any other man in the country to help her along in an industrial way. He re- ports times getting better all along the lines of the Illinois Central. and has an idea that there Is going to be great to the south during the coming
 fall and winter. The old prejudice against the south as to a great extent worn out, and farmers and other men of means in the middle west are looking to the south for investments as never before in the history of the country.
 Secretary Stephenson of the board of trade has a letter from Major Pratt of Mobile who is connected with the war department in an investigation and exam ination of the rivers in this part of the country with view to finding out the feasibility of trying to improve and make them navigable, stating that he would be in Jackson in few days, and that he will make the trip from Jackson to Rock port, about 75 miles down the Pearl. Major Pratt arrived today, and will per- haps begin his trip down the river to- morrow. A large skiff has been assured for him. and he has been provided with long pole to be used in sounding the depth of the water
 The greatest obstruction to navigation of the Pearl below Jackson are the sta- tonary bridges. The business men of Jackson have been trying to get rid of them for years, and for that reason want ed a report from Major Pratt or some other representative of the government.
 Several members of the May and Dent families, all closely related, were in Jack son tonight, returning to their home at Parchman from Mendenhall, where they had been to attend the funeral of Miss Serena May, a 15-year-old girl, the daugh- ter of MT. Howell May, who had been &C., cidentally shot and killed by her 1o-year- old brother Willie.
 In view of the fact that this is the sec ond tragic death in the same family with in two weeks the story is interesting.
 Last Monday morning early Serena May was preparing for school, and had taken her seat on the piano stool Her little DTOlneT came through tilc TOOHl Wlti HIS single barrel shotgun, and in some unac- countable way 1t was discharged, the en- tire load striking the girl in the back of the neck and she fell to the floor dead
 Two weeks prior to that the May and Dent families at Parchman were giving a picnic. and the little 8-year-old son of Mr. Jim May was playing about the grounds when a wagon loaded with sawdust drove up. The child ran in front ofNthe wagon was knocked down and the wheels passed over his body, killing him instantly.
 The fathers of the two children are cousins of former State Treasurer A. Q. May and of the late Attorney General Will Williams of this city.
 Telephone messages were received here this afternoon late telling of the death of E. F. Baldwin, for 50 years or more one of the most prominent citizens of Hinds county and whose home was on his farm near Bolton. For many years MT. Baldwin practced law before the court here, and was recognized as one of the ablest advocates in this state. He was northern man by birth, educated at the University of Wisconsin. and came to this county before the war, engaging in school teaching. At the first call to arms he enlisted in the Confederate army and there was no braver soldier in the army of Northern Virginia At one stage of the war he was captured and thrown into a federal prison. There he was visited by his father and mother who begged him to take the oath of allegiance to. the union and accept freedom, but he declined to do so and remained in prison until exchanged.
 Though always a republican in politics MT. Baldwin was opposed to negro rule, and at the time of the riot between the whites and blacks at Clinton along in the seventies, he was one of the first to shoulder his gun and ride to the rescue of the handful of white men who were in dnager of annihiliation at the hands of the thousands of negroes
 Bishop Theodore Bratton of the Spis- eopal diocese of Mississippi is in Vicks- burg to attend the exercises incident to t,,o orcnsr,~ cf All Saints coege tha great Episcopal school just completed and about to begin its first session under flattering prospects.
 J. B. Yellowly. supervisor of the cen sus for the Eighth congressional dis trict of Mississippi. who was In the city yesterday. states that he received about iOO applications for places on the census taking force, some of them being from among the very best and most intelligent people of the district
 He does not as yet know how many places there are going to be to fill, but supposes there will be at least one enum- orator for each supervisors district In every county--two or three in some of the more populous, and the same as to thick ly settled wards in the larger cities. He has had no instructions or advices from the census bureau so far, but is looking for them.
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