The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-05-06

ElSnU nunureu young Wone1iJ aH oeu
dents at the Industrial Institute and
College, in Columbus, will take part in
the biggest and most pretentious May
pole dance ever held in the South. 1t
is being arranged under the supervision
of Miss Emma Pohl, instructor in ath-
letics at the college, and practice is in
dulged in daily. Truly there will be
800 girls in the affair, and the entire
campus will be required to encompass
the assemblage.
A sensation has developed in the
circuit court at Vicksburg. Attorneys
for the defendant in the suit of Mrs.
Maggie Hosie vs.. the Yazoo & Missis-
sippi Valley Railroad Company moved
to quash the jury and enter a mistrial.
The attorneys charged that they had
seen two sons of the plaintiff taking
dinner with two of the jurors, for which
dinner the two sons paid. Judge Bush
lectured the jurors and the young Ho-
sic boys severely, and the $4,000 suit
was entered as a mistrial.
The new railroad from Water Valley
to some point on the Mobile & Ohio
is now a certainty. At a meeting at
Water Valley 500 representative bust
ness men and ladies were present. The
amounts subscribed along the route were
tabulated, and 1t was found that $107,-
900 was in hand. The promoters only
asked for 100000. This road opens
up fine timber section, and some of
the best agricultural lands In the world.
With the announcement that the Scot
fish Rite Masons of Mississippi are to
build 100000 Scottish cathedral in
Meridian comes the announcement from
the Stnoewall Club, of Meridian, that
they will begin the construction at an
early date of magnificent clubhouse
Marshall county is to have fair.
The North Mississippi Fair Association
has purchased tract of forty acres Of
land, and this will be converted into
up-to-date fair grounds. The opening
date of the fair has been set for Octo
Der /.
Whitecapism in Coahoma county is
the latest and most sensational devel-
opment in that section of the delta, the
existence of an organized band of white
cappers at New Africa, negro settle
ment about eighteen miles south of
Clarksdale, having come to the knowl-
edge of the officials at this term of
court.
Decoration Day was appropriately,
but quite simply, observed at Columbus.
For the first time in the history of the
observance, there was no address. The
program at the cemetery consisted only
of songs and prayer.
Rev. t. d. Brown, secretary Of the
Mississippi Oratorical Association, has
officially advised Canton that the state
oratorical contest would
be held at Canton May IA.
The executive committee of the Mis-
sissippi Intercollegiate Oratorical Assoc
citation has decided to hold the annual
contest at Greenwood, on May IA.
County Superintendent of Education
Horton has organized corn club in
Marshall county. The boys of the
county are taking an interest, and many
contests are planned.
With fully 1900 educators in attend.
ance, representing every county in the
commonwealth, the annual convention
of the Mississippi Teachers Association
met at Natchez.
Clement A. Evans, of Atlanta, COM
mander-in-chief of the United Confeder-
ate Veterans, has accepted an invitation
to present to the United States govern
ment the monument to Gen. Stephen d.
Lee, at Vicksburg, on June IL.
j. w. Boatwright, state lecturer for
the Farmers Union, addressed several
hundred farmers at Newton. Mr.. Boat
wright spoke for an hour, giving a prac-
teal and interesting address.
Lefore Lodge No. 46, K. of p, of
Greenwood, has sent the following in
vtation to the representatives to the
forthcoming session of the grand lodge
at Meridian, asking that the 1910 ses-
sion of that order be held in Greenwood,
and the two local representatives will
use every legitimate means to get
the grand lodge to come here next year.
Columbus was visited by cloudburst
last week. For ten minutes it seemed
as if the clouds had parted and allowed
a perfect deluge to flood everything.
Hail as large as acorns literally covered
the streets during the flow. In fifteen
minutes it ceased, but bitches, cutters
and everything were overlooked. A dark
ness preceded the cloudburst.