Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-18

ready for occupancy by the opening OF
the next session. The new college Will
be modern in every particular, occupy
ing the site of the present college.
Never in the history of the circuit
court of Tunica county has the docket
been so small as this term. Since whisky
has gone out, the hOmicides among the
negroes have fallen off TO such a marked
degree that there are few murder cases
these days in court, there being only
three on tbs docket. Heretofore the
usual number ranged from twenty to
twenty-seven.
The newly appointed NazOo-NIissis-
sippi levee board met at Clarksdale for
the purpose of organizing, electing w.
NJ. Carruthers president. Thomas H.
Rice of Tallahatchie county was elected
secretary and treasurer, and c. l.. LO-
max of Greenwood, attorney. Major T..
G.. Dabney was reelected chief engineer
and w. L. Head his assistant.
T. S. White, agricultural agent for the
Frisco system, was in NettletOn with his
car Monday, March II. He lectured at
10 am. and 2 pm, in the knights of
Pythias hall. The farmers appreciate
Mr.. Whites visits, and he was greeted
by the largest crowd this trip than ever
before.
There never has been as much pillow.
ing done up to this time before in the
history of Oktibbeha county. Prof. W..
L. Hutchinson, director of the A. and NJ.
College experiment station, says his
plows were running all winter, with a
very short inUermission. The farmers
of the county generally are well up with
their work, and corn planting has al
ready begun.
Anticipating the enactment of the SUI
preme court commissioner bill into law,
it is stated that quite a number of law
yers of the state are out with their
lightning rods and hopeful that the APP
pointive current may be detected their
way The bill lacks several steps as yet
before it can be classified among the
laws of 1910, but there is no doubt of
it's ultimate approval by the governor.
The managers of the cottonseed oil
mills are getting ready for the shutdown
for the season at Jackson. There are
four of these mills, and all are of a
high capacity, and have handled and
crushed between them about AZ, 900 tons
of seed, which is rather below the record
for 19O8-1909, which went above $4,000
tons.
Twenty people were injured in a col
lision at Philip, eighteen miles above
Greenwood, on the Yazoo and Missis-
sippi Valley railroad, when the Tasscn.
ger train ran into a supply train. A
tlagman that had been sent back to flag
the passenger was called in, and the
passenger train crashed into the SUPPLY
train without warning.
D.. G. McLaurin of Hatticsburg, who
runs a dray, seems to give his attention
to delivering beer and whisky to the
Illicit dispensers of same. Justice Davis
takes the position that such is not a
legitimate occupation, and fined him the
limit of the law. The case was appealed
to the higher courts for final adjudica.
ton.
Inc gloom cast over the community
by the closing down of the Mississippi
mills at WessOn indefinitely has not di-
minished. Gov. Noel has promised to
recommend to the legislature to pass a
special act as quickly as possible au-
thOrizing the Wesson mayor and board
of aldermen to use $500 Of the city's
funds for the relief of The distressed
women and children there.
At the February meeting of the board
of supervisors, an appropriation of 3d.
600 was made, the money to be used
in building a Confederate monument on
the court house square at Hattiesburg.
A committee of T.. D.. C.is met a like
committee of Boys in Gray and Sc
lected the spot on which the monument
will stand. The contract has been let
and work is now in progress.
There is a joint movement on foot of
the A. & NJ. College authorities, the
Starkville municipal board and the
county board OF supervisors, private
subscription to enable a model, up-to-
date chink road and concrete walks from
the court house in Starkville to the a.
& NJ. C. chapel.
At the annual stockholders meeting of
the Winona Cotton Mills the manage
meDt reDorted a good wears business