The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

and dwelt upon the returning good fell
lowship of the sections, promising to do
all in his power to further this friend.
ship.
Some of the most prominent farmers
and citizens of Copia county appeared
before the board of supervisors to urge
action by the board in creating a county
commission of agriculture to combat the
boil weevil The board decided to ap.
point committee to begin house-to.
house campaign, urging the farmers to
cut and burn their stalks at once.
In his charge to the grand jury at
Clarksdale, Judge Sam Cook dealt seri-
ously with the action of the mob which
recently hanged negro who aided his
brother to escape after committing a
crime. He told them to leave no stone
unturned in an attempt to find the
names of those who composed the mob,
and to deal with them according to the
law.
President Taft received joyous well
come at Columbus when he came to visit
the birthplace of Secretary of War Dick
inson and brought Secretary Dickinson
with him. The president held a recep-
ton at the old home of Gen. Stephen d.
Lee of the Confederate forces, as the
guest of the son of the house, Blewett
III. Lee.
A monster mass meeting of citizens
of Meridian and Lauderdale county was
held in the interest of good roads. A
resolution was adopted favoring the
building of good roads throughout the
county. The resolution favors the is
suance of bonds by the county.
A most important general meeting of
land owners and citizens was held at
Greenwood. The matter under consid-
Grafton was the plans of the Tallahatchie
drainage commission, which some of the
planters of Lenore county are very much
alarmed over. The meeting was attend
ed by land owners from Coahoma, Talla-
hatchie and LAHORE counties.
The open season for quail began Nov.
/, with promise of good sport on the
part of the nimrods, the birds being
unusually abundant.
The Fernwood & Gulf Railroad Com
pany will begin operation at once on the
extension of its line from Tylertown in
the direction of Columbia, The Fern
wood Lumber Company, in the interest
of which this road is mainly operated
has vast timber holdings in Marion coun-
ty, consisting of about $4,000 acres Ct
virgin pine forests, and the extension Of
this road is in the direction of this tim
Der.
Railroad Commissioner John A. Webb,
who has just returned from an inspection
trip over some of the smaller branches of
the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad,
found particularly discouraging situa-
ton on what is known as the Silver City
branch, running from Silver City to Kel-
so, distance of about Al miles. On this
there are three practically new depots
which have been abandoned for lack of
business, and which are likely to remain
unused for some time to come, owing TO
the short cotton crop in that section and
the consequently small business the road
is handling. These are Fotosi, Colby and
Spanish Fort.
H. H. Summers of Lincoln county has
a Poland sow that has raised twenty -five
pigs for him in less than thirteen months.
The matter of systematic fight being
made against the ravages of the boil
weevil in Marion county, whereby the
farmers might place themselves in de-
fensivc array against whatsoever on
slaughts that might be made by this lit
tie pest, is taking the form of an organ
ization in the county.
The price of cotton seed was adj