Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-08-06

Greenville over the appearance OF a bug.
The bug was believed to be a regular
Mexican boil weevil by several gentle
men who examined it, Prof. w. L.
Hutchinson of the Mississippi Agrieul-
tural and Mechanical College, being in
the city, with Prof. ]. w. Fox of the
Delta experiment station, these two gem
tlemen were called in, and after exam
nation declared that the bug was not
the boil weevil Their decision gave
much relief to planters and business men,
as the crop is late and the appearance
of the boil weevil now would do great
damage this year, aside from damage
for the future.
Prof. \. B. Mckay, of the A. and NJ.
College, assisted by Jesse NJ. Jones, held
a farmers institute at Ripley. The
meeting was the most largely attended
and most enthusiastic Of the kind ever
| held in the county. More than ordinary
| interest was taken from first TO last,
and Judging by the questions asked and
the interest manifested, it can Re safely
said that Tippah is making progress in
| her farming and stock raising.
Prof. f. B. Lloyd. director of the
! farmers institute work i'll Mississippi,
announces that three Institutes will be
! held in Lowndes county, the time and
places at which the Institutes are to be
! held being as follows Hamilton, Mon
dav. August 16; Dowdle SchoolhOuse,
Tuesday, August II; Steens, Wednes-
day, August IS.
Two we'll developed cases of the new
disease, pellagra, have made their ap-
pearance in Laurel and are the source of
much interest to the medical fraternity
| hereabouts Fortunately the disease Is
! known to be non-transmissible, and no
alarm is occasioned on that score, but
people are getting more particular about
eating bread made from Western corn
and seeing that their bread is cooked
thoroughly.
Before a Chautauqua audience, the
Hon. B. G. Hightower delivered an ad-
dress at Crystal Springs on the subject
of the revolution now going on in agri
| culture in the South. Mr.. Hightower IS
president of the Farmers Cooperative
Educational Union, and is doing active
field work in this and adjoining States
At a recent meeting of the Farmers
Union of Jasper county, cotton bagging
was adopted by unanimous vote, the
members pledging themselves to use no
other.
The Meridian Waterworks Company,
during the three years that the city has
owned and operated the system, has paid
all operating expenses and interest on
outstanding bonds, and has net profit
of $50, 451.80,
E. ]. Bonner, president of the Board
of Trade, received a letter from Secre-
tarv of War Dickinson, saying that
President Taft would leave st. Louis
about October &c for his Mississippi
river trip, and probably stop off at
| Vicksburg
special meeting of the Yazoo-Mis.
sissippi Delta Board of Levee Commits
| sioners has been called to meet at
Clarksdale for the purpose of ratifying
the sale of the refunding bond issue in
the sum of $325,OOO.
Under the decision of the Board of
Education the U. D. c., Mississippi Di-
vision, the scholarship to be given in
teachers colleges at Columbia Univer-
| sity, New York, was awarded to Miss
Elise Undertake, of Clinton.
! Prof. Z. r. Lloyd of the Mississippi
I Agricultural and Mechanical College,
held farmers institute at Heuck's Re
treat, five miles east of BFoekhaven. The
value of these Institutes, which are UNI
der the immediate supervision OF the gov
eminent, are only limited by the attend
! ance on them.
Much attention was attracted by the
{ exhibition on the streets of Holly
( Springs of two genuine Mexican boil
weevils, captured by w. L. Palmer, OF
Chulahoma, Marshall county, in his field.
| This established beyond doubt the start
| ling fact that this pestiferous insect has
extended its ravages to this territory,
though no serious damage will likely
ensue this year.
Bishop Z. E, Hoss, who will preside
over the sessions of the two conferences
of the Methodist Church in Mississippi
this year, has moved up the dates for
both events one week The North Mis-
sissippi conference will meet at Okolona
on Dec. /, and the Mississippi confer
| ence at Brookhaven on Dec. s. Bishop
Hoss makes the changes because it will
be impossible for him to reach this State
earlier The original plan of episcopal
visitation provided for the holding of
these two conferences by the resident
| b;sbn1 fhe LATE RishOn Charles B. Gal