The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-18
Mississippi News
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The big dredge boat two miles west
Of Verona is now in operation. a canal
more than nine miles in length viii
start two miles west OF Verona and
empty into Town creek, below Shannon.
This is by far the most important canal
construction yet begun in the county. 1t
viii pass through the richest land in Lee
county. 1t is claimed that 23,034 acres
of vet land nave been reclaimed in the
last two or three years. It is a fair
estimate that this reclaimed land will
have an increased value of $50 per acre.
If this is true, more thar 81, 900, 900
have recently been added to Lee county.
Hon. III. Z. Blakeslee, State commits
sioner of agriculture, Prof. E. R. Lloyd
and A. A. Garner, of the agricultural de-
partment of the A. & NJ. Colleg. at
Starkville, spoke to the farmers of La
fayette county in the interest of the corn
club. At the conclusion of the adj
dresses. a. corn club wa organized and
much interest was manifested in the
growing of prize corn.
The Columbus, Mississippi & Western
Alabama Railroad Company, the con-
templated line from Winfield, Ala, to
| Columbus, Miss. via Vernon, Ala, will
soon be in shape to announce their plans.
Charles F. Sherod, president of the COM
pany, will give no plans he has in mind.
There is every good reason, however,
to believe that he is affiliated with some
Of the largest railroad systems in the
country and the line is everything but
built.
Lincoln's birthday was celebrated by
the students and faculty of the A. & M.
College at Starksville with appropriate
exercises. This celebration is in keeping
with the resolutions of the faculty some
time g t. the effect that the birthdays
of Lee, Washington and Lincoln, three
of the greatest Americans, would be eel
ebrated with suitable exercises.
Circular letters are being mailed out
to the farmers of Warren county, di-
r~ecting them as to the formation of
boys corn clubs. which are to be started
with a view of improving crop conditions
and giving the planters a better UNI
Outstanding of corn and other planting
the coming year.
The completion of the boys corn clubs
of Lafayette county brought a large
crowd of farmers, school teachers and
business men together at Oxford. P.
2. Garner delivered an excellent address,
instructing the boys on organization and
preparation, and Prof. E. r. Lloyd, of
the A. & M. College, spoke on fertilizing
and drainage.
Under the command of Capt. Winsett,
| the American Salvation Army has es-
tablished divisiona headquarters at Col
umbus, and recruits are arriving almost
daily. The rapid industrial develop
ment at Columbus has opened a good
field, and representatives of the army
have already accomplished good results.
Three hundred thousand dollars is the
consensus of opinion among the insur.
ance men of the property damage and
loss to buildings and stock in the fire
Vicksburg.
Carrier pigeons may prove an inval-
liable adjunct to the practice of medicine.
A physician of Ocean Springs has demon:
strated their usefulness. Receiving many
calls into the surrounding country and
finding it difficult to keep in touch daily
with his patients, he hit upon the car
rier pigeon plan. The birds, bearing in
a small aluminium capsule a report OF
the condition of the patients from whose
homes they are released, return to the
doctors home at the rate of more than Z
mile a minute. Urgent calls are thus
promptly answered and visits are obyi
ated.
j.. B. Allen, the originator of the ia
NOUS cotton by that name, has just
returned from Washington, where he has
been engaged in trying to get the gov
eminent to establish a long staple cot
ton experiment station in Claiborne coun'
ty. While the government declined to
establish the station, it promised to sup
ply a variety of seed.
The Greenville Elks, known through
out the United States as the Cotton
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bigger sensation at Detroit next July
than they AVE ever done at any of the
previous national conventions of Elks
The supreme convention of the indie
pendent Order of Beavers is the next
public occasion at present occupying the
attention of a number of Vicksbure
members of this order, the dates fo1
the three days meeting here having beer
finally decided upon for May II, 13 anc
IA. Last year there We're eight States
represented at the convention, and from
what can be learned of the coming Vicks
burg gathering, Dam No. A, Vicksburg
is to have delegates from that many
States, and the convention here will very
likely be one of the best the order has
ever had.
At a special meeting of the board OF
Mississippi levee commissioners W. j.
Shackelford was elected chief engineer
Of the board, to succeed Capt. Charles FL.
West, who resigned to accept member
ship on the Mississippi river commission.
Mr.. ShackplfOrd has been an asSistan mt