Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-11-26


$4,000, or about $50 per acre. Under
the state law county and city prisoners
cannot be leased, but must be worked |
under official authority. This year the
county worked the convicts on rented |
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 were being put to
some inconvenience in getting their pro-
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 a three days |
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 were 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 a glorious victory. /
The planters who have kept their la
borers and forced them to plant their |
best lands in corn and to thoroughly crl- !
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 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 a 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.
Dr,fY
for the Second Congressional District, /
is disappointed at the few applications
he is receiving from the interior pre-
cincts for census enumerators.
B. \. Edens, a prosperous planter of
sixteen bales of cotton to Walker Fow /
Ter, manager of the Prairie Cotton Com
pany for 16 cents per pound.
Miss Susie " Powell, director of the /
School Improvement Associations activi- |
ties in Mississippi, reports encouraging
results of the campaign that is being |
conducted for practical as well as intel
leetual development of the rural schools |
The postofice department has issued
fraud orders against the Pennsylvania !
Company and j. Baker Company and |
Southern Sales Company, both of New
Albany, Miss.
Hon. Garland Lyell, chancellor of the I
Fifth District, and one of Mississippis |
brightest young men, has accepted an
invitation from the Mississippi Society !
of st. Louis to deliver the address at |
the annual meeting, to be held early in
December.
The Attala county farmers are re-
ported to be making practical arrange
ments for the sowing of wheat, the seed
for which is now being received, and it
is understood there will be quite an
acreage cultivated. The movement is