The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-01-21
Mississippi News
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H. D. Temple was fatally shot by his
13-year-old son, FIVE miles east of Meri-
gold. The father had been drinking.
After asking the son to make him a big
toddy, which he did, he got mad at the
son for losing a key, and said that h
intended to kill him, and went for his
shotgun. The boy grabbed his 22-cali-
bre target rifle as he ran out the door,
but finding his father did not follow
him outside the house, he went back to
the door and fired on the father, hitting
him in the back of his head.
The old guards in gray at Beauvoir,
the Mississippi Confederate soldiers
home, and formerly the home of their
chieftain, are getting too giddy and gay
for any use. Beauvoir is getting to be
an old lovers retreat, where the bygone
days are lived over again, and a young
mans thoughts in ~springtime never
turned half so lightly to love as to these
battle-scarred warriors. It was given
out long before Christmas that there
was to be a wedding there, but two of
the shy young things, fearing to incur
the displeasure of the superintendent and
the house mother eloped and went to
Gulfport and were married by the Rev.
J. l. Finley. The bridegroom is 50 years
old and his bride is 81. They are H.
H.. Cravens and Mrs. Easterland a SOL
dier's widow.
DR.. J. w. Provine, professor of chem
istry in Mississippi college, has demon.
strated the value of intensive farming
over that of extensive. A few years
ago he bought a little WORKOUT hill
farm of some seventy acres. He has.
by a system of wise fertilizing and deep
blowing, brought this farm up to an al
most perfect state of cultivation and
production. 1t is no uncommon thing
for him to gather forty or fifty bushels
Of corn to the acre and to make from
ii bale to a bale and a half of cotton
to the acre.
A wealthy gentleman of this state
has just promised to give $4,000 to the
endowment fund of Chamberlain-Hunt
Academy, the fourishing Presbyterian
institution at Port Gibson. President
Melvin is endeavoring to raise the
amount to 100000. Already, with the
$4,000 referred to, $74, 900 has beer
raised, two wealthy New Workers hav
ing each promised $4,000.
State Revenue Agent Writ Adams has
filed suit in the chancery court of Harri'
son county against the Dunbar, Lopez 4
Dukate Co, said to control all the oyster
packing factories in Mississippi, claiming
that they are due the state penalties t.
the amount of $2,225,O 0 for forming (
combination, the real purpose of whici
was "to restrain trade and to limit ano
restrict competition in the purchase, sale
and marketing of the commodities dealt
in by them"
DR.. Seaman A. Knapp of the United
States department of agriculture, was
in West Point on the 18th Of January
and lectured on diversified Farming
Adapted to Conditions in East Missis
sippi,' in which he discussed the gen
eral problems of diversified farming anc
the greater profit to be realized from it
One of the most important gather
ings in the state was the truck-growers
meeting in Gulfport on Friday and Sat
urday. All the important problems con
fronting the truck farmers were dis
cussed, and it is expected that a perma
,nrf nrro &c 4{o ,Io ,,~,,
tance will be formed.
Chancellor Hicks has granted an in
junction enjoining the American Express
company and the Southern Express com
pany from refusing interstate shipments
of liquor from the Southwestern Express
and Telegraph company, whose main of
fee is in Vidalia, La, across the river
from Natchez.
Letters are being sent out to planter:
in the delta generally advertising tn
proposed visit to Greenville, January II
Of DIR. S. A. Knapp, chief of the bureau
of plant industry in the agricultural de
partment at Washington, who will speal
at the courthouse on the afternoon o
that: day on Investigation
After evading the officers of the lay
of Kinds county and the state of Mis-
sissippi for more than fourteen months
during which period he has covered tn
greater part of the great West, Austin
L. Ferguson, the railroad switchma1
who shot to death Ethel Maxwell, i
again in Jail at Jackson.
MI. MCGEE, who has the seining priv
leges on Moon Lake, caught 903 all
gator gar, averaging 40 to so pound
each. This is the largest catch ever re
corded, and it is predicted that the elm
nation of the gar will greatly improv
the fishing on the lake.
A dividend of 10 per cent was ordere
paid to the stockholders of the Bank o
Tutwiler, and a nice sum placed to tn
surplus account, the net earnings 70
the year being 16 per cent.
The amount of taxes collected by tn
sheriff and tax collector of Pike count
for the month of December was $66,
6S1.13. Sheriff Holmes saws the hur