The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
MEDAL OFFERED
 FOR BEST ESSAY
Daughters of the COnfederacy
 Make the Proposition
TRYING TO SAVE CAPITOL
Railroad Commission Has Tough Problem in Case of Newton Depot. People of Jackson Stirred on
 Water Question.

Jackson, Miss, April Special )-The Mississippi division of the United Daugh- ters of the Confederacy offers a medal an- nually to the pupils in the two highest grades of the public schools of the state for the best essay on a subject selected by it's historian and historical comrnit- tee. The subject of the prize essay for 1909 is Why the Old Capitol and Cover nor's Mansion Should Be Preserved" In the recent examination of the essays sub mitted the committee awarded the prize to the contestant from the Edward Cary Walthall chapter of Holly Springs. The name of the successful contentant has not yet been given to the public. The prize will be presented at the '. D. c. conven- ton held in West Point May ,, 1909
 Every woman's organization In the state is working for the preservation of the old capitol building, and as a majority of the legislature and many of the strong est private citizens in the state are in favor of it being preserved, there is good chance of 1t being restored for some edu- cational or other purpose.
 Since the completion of the new capitol it has come to be known that it is not large enough for the present. let alone the future, needs of the state, and an or ganized effort is going to be made at the next sitting of the legislature to have the state take hold of the old capitol and re- store it to safety. Thousands of valuable records are even now going to ruin for the simple reason fiat there is no place in the new capitol to store them away, and they have been stacked in the old capitol where they are being rained on and eaten up by rats and reaches.
 The Newton depot matter is not settled yet. At the last meeting of the railroad commission an order was passed requir ing the Alabama and Vicksburg and the Mobile Jackson and Kansas City rail- road companies to establish @ free trans fer line between their depots at Newton. That order was a compromise of the proposition to establish the union depot that was demanded by the town, and the railroad agreed to it. The commission is now in receipt of a telegram from Vice President l.. A. Jones Of the Alabama and Vicksburg, demanding that the case be reopened, and the demand has been acknowledged by the commission, with mo- lice 10 all pdILlcd COlSSAAco eO " Ho4S next Tuesday.
 There has been more bowling and more mad men and women in the city of Jack son the past few days than ever known before Several days since the water commissioners announced by publications In both newspapers that water would be cut off from all parties who had not paid their water dues There were nearly l00O Celinouents and the representatives of the commission got busy. More than 50O per sons have had their water cut off, and every one of that number got mad as hornets. But abuse and vituperation served no good purpose; it did not get water, and the only way to get the fluid turned back on was to march around 10 the city hall and pay up back dues
 The justice of the new rule-cr rather the enforcement of an old rule-is ad- nitted by all persons who pay their water charges promptly, and it does not make much difference what the others say about it-they have to pay or quit taking city water
 Following new charters have been filed for record with the secretary of state:
 Grenada Athletic association, Grenada; capital stock $5O00; incorporators. M. H. Moore, S. S. Roane, Claud Hall and others.
 The Inda Mercantile company, India; capital stock $5OO0; incorporators, Sam R. Guyther G. H. Hovey and others.
 Frank Jones of Memphis, one Of the owners of the Jackson Electric Light and Power company, which not only operates the street cars of this city, but furnishes the lights for the streets at $114 per light, is in the city to see after the renewal of his contract The board of mayor and aldermen propose to have cheaper ser vice in the future, having discovered that Jackson is paying more for lights than any other city of It's size in the land.