Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-19
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struggle since August, 1908. The first
battle has been fought. The planters
who nave 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 cuI
tivate it have ar 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 cultf
vate the crops well are now all smiles.
The farmers of Lincoln county have
gotten together and organized a Lincoln
County Grain Growers Association, the
prime object of which is to raise oats
the coming season. Seven hundred an6
thirty-two acres have already beer
pledged to be planted and a threshing
machine will be ordered for the proper
disposal of the crop when it is harvested.
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 tc
reach the criminal negro and strive to
make him a better citizen.
Prof. o. A. Shaw, superintendent of
Winona schools, 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.
Miss Susie V. Powell, president of
the School Improvement Association,
will give a cash prize of $25 to the rural
school in the State making the greatest
improvement in sanitation.
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, a prosperous planter Of
NObdAI oOAA JIM NAid
sixteen bales of cotton to Walker Fow
Ter, manage of the Prairie Cotton Com
pany for Is cents per pound.
Oliver Francisco, a negro, who claimed
to be 1872 years old, and whose claim is
approximately ~substantiated, died at
Jackson, leaving a large number OF de.
scendants and several children who have
passed the average span of life.
A corn club has been organized at Gre
NADIA with a membership Of thirty-five.
Addresses were delivered by Superin-
tendent Thomas A. Early, of Yalobusha
county, Prof. Morgan, of the y. & NJ.
College, County Superintendent V. r.
James, Hon. w. NJ. Dubard and Prof.
r. H. Hester. Merchants and farmers
are supporting the movement.
Gov. James T. Harrison, a warm friend
of Judge j. NJ. Dickinson, secretary of
war, who was mainly responsible for
President Taft's visit to Columbus, has
received a letter from Secretary Dickin-
son, in which that official is ~overwhelm-
ing in his praise and complimentary
statements about the way Columbus en-.
tertained the president and the presi-
dents impressions of his stay.
Divorce was granted to Jack Rodgers,
of Goss, who, after living with his wife
forty years and raising a house full of
children until they were men and WON.
en-, separated from his spouse and sued
fol- a divorce. Uncle" Jack owned a
fine hog and his wife a Jersey cow, and
the question arose which should have the
slop. The question couldn't be settled
by a fireside discussion or by arbitra-
ton, so Uncle" Jack made the first
move of hostility by Selling the slop
and appropriating it to the use of the
innocent swine. This act caused his wife
to sever her connections with him as his
life companion.
The board of trustees of the County
Agricultural School met at Oakland and
arrangements were made by the board
and the citizens of the town to carry on
the school along lines of the original
plans, in the face of the decision of the
supreme court. TIL tax levy of a half
mill will be lost for this year, but it
is sincerely hoped that the Legislature
will relieve the situation in January.
At the annual meeting of the Missis-
sippi Baptist convention, held at Vino.
na, the question of caring for superan-
nuated preachers was one of the most
important brought up for disposal. A
plan was submitted to the convention by
DIR. J. l. johnson, in which he proposed
to first raise a fund for the care of aged
ministers, and allOw them to make their
homes wherever they may see fit, instead
of establishing a home for their sus-