The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-26
MILLION DOLLAR
 CHARTER FILED Farmers Warehouse Company
 Is Incorporated HIGHT0WER AT THE HEAD Plan of Concern Is to Store and Hold Cotton for a Rise In Prices and
 Handle the Staple In
 Many Ways.
.HlGHTOWER AT THE HEAD

Jackson, Miss, March 25-(Special.)- One of the most important charters ever filed with the secretary of state has been recorded in the name of the Farmers Warehouse company, capital $1.oo0.OoC, shares BIO each, and authorized to begin business when S50,o00 shall have been sub scribed. The domicile of the company is at McRaven, suburb of the city of Jackson. The incorporators are G. R. Hightower. president of the Farmers Union of Mississippi; J. A. Jones of Me Comb, J. B. Mitchell of Goodman; B. F. Ward. Jr., of Winona, and editor of the Farmers Advocate.
 The capital stock of s, ,O00. 600 makes this the biggest corporation that has filed charter here in years, and the fee to the state for recording it is $250. The purposes of the company are to give the farmers an opportunity for storing their cotton and holding for rise in prices, to do a general farming, merchandising, cotton broker commission, or most any other kind of business In connection with the production. marketing, holding, or selling of cotton. Stockholders are limited to $50OO worth of stock.
 The following charters of new corpora, tions have also been filed for record with the secretary of state:
 Alcorn Overall company, Corinth. capital sSo,0Oo; incorporators, John H. Jones, Sr, John H. Jones, Jr., and V. Nixon.
 Duncan Store, Duncan. Bolivar county capital $5O0O; incorporators. Thomas A Goodwin, c. F. French, and Ovid Wynne.
 Greenville Cement company Greenville capital sSO,OOO; incorporators, Leroy Percy J. H. Crouch, H. c. Bingham, H. c. Hom- righous, Nathan Goldstein.
 Horace c. Smith Undertaking company, Meridian, capital s1O,Ooo; incorporators, H. c. Smith and E. E. Robinson.
 State Superintendent Powers has re- ceived word from the bedside of Prof. T. P. Scott of Brookhaven to the effect that he will not be able to participate in the meeting of the State Teachers associa tion at Natchez on April 29, though he has passed the crisis of his almost fatal attack of pneumonia and is on the road to recovery. In view of this fact Superln- tendent Powers has wired Prof. J. R. Ellis of Meridian, vice president of the association, to assume charge at once MT. Ellis and MT. J. T. Connell of Gulf port, secretary of the big organization have been invited to meet with State Su- perintendent Powers here tomorrow, and at which time the programme will be gone over and perhaps perfected for the Natchez gathering, which is expected to be the largest ever held.
 Representative A. l.. Yates of Marion county was among the visitors to the cap itol yesterday. Like many if not all cit izens of the great yellow pine region of Mississippi, MT. Yates Is very much op- posed to the removal of the tariff duty of g per thousand on lumber. He declares that his section is just beginning to get on its feet once more, and that if the duty is taken off and Canadian lumber is let in this country free, business in South Ms sissippi will be paralyzed again and there will be no hope of resurrection.
 According to Mir Yates. the citizens of south Mississippi are standing by Con gressman Bowers in his opposition to the removal of the tariff on lumber and have sent him many telegrams and letters of congratulation during the past few days
 Secretary Yerger of the penitentiary board of trustees has turned into the state treasury the sum of S9, the proceeds of COG bales of cotton produced on the Belmont farm, and recently sold to H. and c. Newman of New Orleans. There are yet seventy-seven bales on that farm to be disposed of, being of lower grade.
 nephew of Dom Paul Kruger, one time president of the Transvaal, and the old gentleman who gave England some seri- ous trouble a few years ago, is in Jack son on visit of a religious nature, and is the guest of pr. Hutton, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. The visitor Is Gen. Epke Rolfe De Wall, an ordained minister of the Presbyterian church, and who is educated in several languages. He refused to take the oath of allegiance to England and was banished to Jamaica whence he finally escaped.