The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-29
|Mississippi
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orators Tor the approaching OoihS
ment exercises at that institution. Inc
commencement sermon will be delivered
on Sunday, June 6, by DIR. q. ID. Gray,
of Atlanta, secretary of the Baptist
home mission board, and the baccalau-
reate address will be delivered the fol-
lowing morning by DIR. j. b. Aswell, ex-
State superintendent of education in
Louisiana.
H. d. Dyer, who conducted a piano
voting contest in Hattiesburg for
number of local merchants, was bound
over to the grand jury to answer a
charge of operating lottery. The sec
ton of the Mississippi code relating to
lotteries reads IF any person, in order
to raise money for himself or another,
or for any purpose whatsoever shall
publicly or privately put up lottery to
be drawn or adventured for, he shall, on
conviction, be imprisoned in the peni-
Tertiary not exceeding five years.
Maior-General Frederick Dent Grant
the unwilling of the Gen. Stephen D. Lee
monument in the National Military Park
at Vicksburg on June II. Secretary of
War j. M. Dickinson has notified Park
Chairman w. T. Rigby that he cannot
attend, but has assigned Gen. Grant to
come.
have closed out all their cabbage to q
commission house for $1.50 per crate,
f. o. b. Wesson, and efforts are being
made to get them to close out their to-
matoes, peas and beans. The truck raised
this season will be worth about $4,000,
and so encouraged are some of the farm
ers they say they expect to double the
acreage in another year.
1t is authoritatively announced that
the Alabama Great Southern, New Or
leans & Northeastern, Alabama & Vicks-
burg, Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific,
composing the Queen & Crescent system,
will be recognized and put under the
original operators, the Erlanger syndi-
cate of London, England, within the next
| few months.
For the purpose of securing colony
| of German-American farmers and recog-
| nizing the advantages which will accrue
| to the trade of Greenwood plantations
into small tracts with thrifty white set
tiers located on them, number of Green
wood business men purchased the w. G.
George plantation, consisting of 1850
acres, and will divide the same into
small farms.
The twenty-frst annual session of the
Mississippi Bankers Association will be
held in Columbus May IL and ~.
For several months past prominent re-
ligious workers have been endeavoring
to secure funds for the erection of mod
ern Young Mems Christian Association
building in Columbus. About 5000 to-
ward the erection of Y. NJ G. A. build
ing has already been secured, and by
arousing the young men to Jealous effort
it is hoped to raise the $4,000 which is
necessary to insure the success of the
undertaking.
The record of building permits issued
at the city clerks office at Jackson since
the 1st of January shows a total of
$174,5S7.25, representing the investment
| that has been made in new buildings
within the corporate limits during the
| present year.
About 600 students of the Industrial
| Institute and College went to Starkville
| to witness the exercises incidental to the
laying of the cornerstone of the new adj
ministration building at the A. and M
College.
| During the annual meeting of the
| State Teachers Association in Natchez
Prof. j. e. Walmsey, of Millsaps Col
lege, will take the junior and senior his
tory classes of the college to hatcher
| primarily for the purpose of having then
visit the historic places around the city
but incidentally to see the industrial ex
hibits and hear some of the able papers
and addresses which will be a part OF
the program carried out by the teachers
Willis Blackledge, prominent farmer
residing few miles west of Moselle, Is
looking for his daughter, who disap
peared. The young lady retired to hel
room at the usual hour, but when mem
bers of the family went to arouse her
next morning for breakfast it was dis
covered that she had mysteriously disap
peared during the night, leaving no note
of explanation.
Henry Sledge, a merchant and farmer
of Moselle, had his arm shot off by 9
trap gun in his own store. There hat
been several gurglaries and all the mer
chants of Moselle set trap guns in theii
stores. Mr.. Sledge forgot his trap.
Jake Thompson, negro, was founS
guilty of running blind tiger at Wig