The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-23
NEARLY ALL STATE
 COTTON IS SOLD

Jackson. Miss, April 22.-The peniten- tiary management Is now winding up the sale of it's cotton crop for last year.. gathering up the odds and ends at the different state farms and selling to the highest bidder. Forty-six bales raised on the Oakley farm were sold today to c. c. Red6eld of Edwards at 91z cents, while one bale from the Rankin farm was sold to Hummer & Lewis at Jackson Tor 10 cents.
 The only cotton now remaining unsold is 70 bales raised on the Belmont farm and which is at Greenwood, and 1S9 bales from the Parchman farm. Thus before the state is done with the gathering, gin ming and marketing of one cotton crop IL is planting another, and reports are to the effect that the planting season has been about the best the state has ever experienced. There has been uo trouble about getting the seed in the ground no delay on any Of the farms on account of cold weather rains or wet land, and the prospect now is very bright
 The meetings of the State Sunday School associations are being held at the First Baptist church, that having the largest seating capacity in the city, and yet it has been filled to overhowing. It is stated that there are already 600 dele gates here, and more are coming on the morning trains.
 Homes have been provided for all corners who have made themselves known to the local committees-even those ladies who are without cooks taking the strangers to their hearts and homes and doing the best they can for them under the circumstances.
 The opening exercises consisted of services of song and prayers by sev- eral of the leaders of the movement. after which MT. Marion Laurence, secre- tary of the International Sunday School association, with headquarters at Phila- delpha, entertained the audience for an hour or more, telling the teachers and delegates more about how to create in- terest in Sunday school work, how to build up their schools. how to collect money and statistical information than they ever dreamed of before, though many present are old workers in the Sunday school field. MT Laurence has been @ Sunday school superintendent years, he stated, was for 10 years secretary of the Ohio State association, and is just rounding out his tenth year as national secretary.
 Attorney General Stirling goes to Natchez on Friday to argue the motion to dissolve his injunction against the Sims Express and Telegraph company of Louis jana, which was caught red-handed doing 8 land-office business in Mississippi a couple of weeks ago, it's $500o or $1o,00O worth of wet goods stored in Natchez seized in the name of the state and the company enjoined from doing any fur ther business in Mississippi for various and sundry reasons. The motion to dis solve the injunction will come up before Chancellor Hicks at Natchez.
 The Newton depot matter is again be- fore the railroad commisslon-the cti- gems of the town demanding the undoing of the free transfer arrangement agreed to at the last sitting of the commission and the building of a union depot by the Alabama and Vicksburg and the Mo- bile, Jackson and Kansas City. Repre- sentatives of the railroads and of the town of Newton were here. and presented their views, but no action has yet been taken.