Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-04-15
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THE GREAT DELTA
Capt. Merry Urges the Business MeT
to Hustle for Farmers.

to Hustle for Farmers.
Plans for advertising the great delta
sections of Mississippi were thoroughly
launched by Capt. J. F. Merry, general
immigration agent for the Illinois Cen.
trail and Yazoo 4 Mississippi Valley
railroads, when he spoke for an hour be-
fore members of the Greenville Cotton
Exchange, outlining for them Il general
line of action The spirit of advertising
the delta's resources to the world had in
certain way preceded Capt Merry.
Capt. Merry told of the Illinois Cen.
trails plan of gathering an exhibit fol
the land congress to be held i'll Cincln'
natl, beginning the last week in August
and lasting for thirty days. He urged
the necessity of having well vcrsed men
attend this congress, so the advantages
of the State could be brought beD:e
homeseekers in satisfactory way. His
talk was splendid and to the point. He
said considerable about the boil weevil
scare, advising planters to grow cotton
in the manner advised by the agricul'
tural department at Washington, then
the boil wGevil would soon be hunting
new fields.
But the best way to kill this de
stroyer of your great cotton fields is foI
you men to grow something besides cot
ton" he said. Il don't see how any OF
YOU can make money growing cotton
and buying your stock feed from the
city and your table supplies from even
YOUR home markets. Prices OF food
stuff are too high to continue this. You
must raise more hogs. You must have
corn and oats for your mules, horses and
cows.
If there is any difference in your
cotton acreage this year, it is for the
better" continued Capt. Merry. But
[ believe cotton acreage III the delta has
decreased Still, it is hard for any one
10 judge farming from the back plat
form of Il car. | cannot say what the
Legislature is going to do about the ap,
preparation bill, which | am interested
in, but if it fails to pass the Illinois
Central will handle this exhibit not only
from GreenviIle, but from NickSburg
Greenwood, Nazoo City, jackson, Clarks-
dale and Natchez.
You have here at Greenville the best
lands in the United States for the
money and you can grow 4 variety of
products the equal of any State. You
have an annual rainfall that insures the
growth of Il crop every year. Your eli.
mate is good All of which makes Mis-.
sissippi an exceptional territory i'll which
10 locate farmers from the Northwest.
who are Just now looking for permanent
homes. There is no comparison between
farming conditions in Canada and Mis-
sissippi The only thing is the Canadian
government spends millions of dollars in
The United States advertising their
cheap lands, while Mississippi does lit
tie or nothing in this direction.
mississippi now has fifteen million
ceres of uncultivated lands, yet it makes
40 effort as State to advertise its
farming possibilities. Other states like
oklahoma, Texas, Idaho, Colorado, Wy
oming, Washington and even Florida
spend thousands of dollars annually in
letting hOmeseekers know of their cheap
lands and in extending to them Il cordial
invitation to locate among them"
Although diligent efforts are being
made to capture the negro Georg"
Thames, who murdered j. NJ Willis, Jr..
ut Newton, on March %, 10 clew has so
lar been obtained of his whereabouts. \
private reward of 5000 is offered for the
delivery Of the negro to the sheriff OF
Newton county. and the governor offers
in addition "a reward of $3.50 for his
capture and conviction. The negro is
about p years old, height about ) ~
feet. weight 125 pounds, wears No. or
7 1-2 shoe, ginger cake color, dark blue
gums. slim face with prominent cheek
bones Has old bullet scar in thigh.
The first session of the thid annual
conference of the Jewish Religious
School Teachers Association OF Missie-
5ippi was held at Meridian, with many
delegates and Il large number OF distn-
guished visitors present.
Miss Mabel Head, associate secretary
Womam's Home Mission Society. Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, from
Nashville, Tenn. addressed the North
MississiI pi branch of the organization,
which is holding its annual meeting in
Columbus. Gospel Need in the United
States" was Miss Heads theme. One
hundred of the l43 chapters in the
North Mississippi conference were repre-
sented There are 2,533 members in
this conference.
In the United states court at Aber-
deem Judge Niles sentenced Joseph Wal
lerton Of Alderman to serve three
months in the Monroe county Jail for vio-
lation of the postal laws. Earl Beck
ham, of Memphis. Tenn, got three years
in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ca,
for taking a registered letter addressed
to another person. with s. money
order in it, at Amory, Miss.
Observation-Disclosures Gatewood, of the
Uncina convict farm, stated that he had
never seen conditions better and more
encouraging for a good crop year than
at present Mr. Gatewood believes that
the high water question was ont of the
argument for this year, having no idea
that there will be any water to amount
to anything.
At meeting of the Northeast Missis-
sippi Fair Association at Corinth it was
appointed that the fair at Bonneville
be held October 4 to Z, inclusive.
Hard to Be All Things to All Men.
Do not think that your learning and