The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-25

OlHtI 20 anu COSiS
The principal cases were 10 murder
cases. One case was continued, two
nolle pressed.
Washington county has purchased a
farm on which the county convicts are to
be worked in the future.
The farm consists of 970 acres, with
$50 in cultivation. The price paid is
$4,000, or about $36 per acre. Under
the state law county and city prisoners
cannot be leased, but must be worked
under official authority. This year the
lands, and after paying all expenses will
have net profit of $4,000.
The Mississippi Pine association met
in Hattiesburg and among other things
brought up before the body was the
the matter of prospective car short
age. Most of those present stated
that already they We're being put to
some inconvenience in getting their pro-
duct to market because of the fact that
but few more than half the necessary
number of cars could be procured.
The fall convocation of the Scottish
Rite bodies of the valley of Meridian
convened at Meridian for three days
session for the purpose of comforting de-
grees from the fourth to the thirty
second inclusive. There are large num-
Der of the most distinguished Masons
in the state present.
Alderman had two days trades day,
the first of the kind ever had, but iudg-
ing from the success of this venture, it
will not be the last. The crowds on both
days were large, and We're made up by
people from all over the country. In
addition to the bargains offered prizes
were given for innocent amusements.
The planters of Claiborne and the
boil weevil have been engaged in a fierce
struggle since August, 1908. The first
battle has been fought. The planters
who have carried out the governments
instructions have won glorious victory.
The planters who have kept their Ia
borers and forced them to plant their
best lands in corn and to thoroughly cul.
tivate it have an abundance of corn.
Those who forced their tenants to plant
cane and sorghum and to give it the
proper cultivation have enough molasses.
Those who forced their tenants to plant
sweet potatoes, peas, ETC., and to culti-
vate the crops well are now all smiles.
DR.. s. H. Mclean, secretary of the
Mississippi state board of health, has
addressed a letter to the Rockefeller
commission offering the aid and CO.
operation of the State health authori-
ties in the campaign to be instituted for
the eradication of the hook worm dis
ease. ANY plan proposed by the COM
mission for the suppression of this dis.
ease will meet with our cordial sup
port" said Secretary Mclean, "and l am
confident the same spirit prevails among
members of the medical fraternity in
Mississippi"
Prof. o. A. Shaw, superintendent of
Winona schools, announces that he will
guarantee cash prize of $25 to the
rural school in the Fourth Congressional
District making the greatest material
improvement during the present session
Crime, criminals, assaults, lynchings"
and every grade of lawlessness was con-
demned in the Northwest Mississippi
Conference of the African Methodist
Episcopal church in session, at Water
Valley, and strong resolutions were
passed calling upon the negroes all
through the State to join in an effort to
reach the criminal negro and strive to
make him better citizen.
Rufus F. Gillespie, census supervisor
for the Second Congressional District,
is disappointed at the few applications
he is receiving from the interior pre-
cincts for census enumerators.
B. N. Edens, prosperous planter of
Monroe county, sold one hundred and
sixteen bales of cotton to Walker Fow-
Ter, manager of the Prairie Cotton Com
pany for 16 cents per pound.
Miss Susie V. Powell, director of the
School Improvement Associations activi.
ties in Mississippi, reports encouraging
results of the campaign that is being
conducted for practical as we'll as intel
lectual development of the rural schools
The postoffice department has issued
fraud orders against the Pennsylvania
Company and J. Baker Company and
Southern Sales Company, both of New
Albany, Miss.