The Grenada sentinel., 1910-04-15
| Mississippi News
OHOOOOO OOOUO
ADVERTISING THE GREAT DELTA.
Capt. Merry Urges the Business Men
to Hustle for Farmers.

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launched by Capt. ]. F. Merry, general
immigration agent for the Illinois Cen
tral and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
railroads, when he spoke for an hour be-
fore members of the Greenville Cotton
Exchange, outlining for them a 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 for
the land congress to be held in Cincin-
natl. beginning the last week in August
and lasting for thirty days. He urged
the necessity of having well versed men |
attend this congress, SO the advantages |
of the State could be brought before |
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 boll weevil would soon be hunting
new fields.
"But the best way to kill this de-
stroyer of your great cotton fields is for
you men to grow something besides cot
ton," he said. II 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
l believe cotton acreage in the delta has
decreased. Still, it is hard for any ond
to Judge farming from the back plat
form Of car. l cannot say what the
Legislature is going to do about the ap'
preparation bill, which 1 an interested
in, but if it fails to pass the Illinois
Central will handle this exhibit not only
from Greenville, but from Vicksburg,
Greenwood, Yazoo 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 variety Of
products the equal of any State. You
have an annual rainfall that insures th'
growth of crop every year. Your eli
mate is good. All of which makes Mis-
sissippi an exceptional territory in whicl
to locate farmers from the Northwest
y who are just now looking for permanen
homes. There is no comparison betwee
farming conditions in Canada and Mis-
sissippi. The only thing is the Canada
government spends millions of dollars i
the United States advertising thei
n. cheap lands, while Mississippi does lii
e. tie or nothing in this direction.
III Mississippi now has fifteen millio
a acres of uncultivated lands, yet it make
no effort as State to advertise it
to farming possibilities. Other states lik
q, Oklahoma, Texas, Idaho, Colorado, wy
e. oming, Washington and even Florid
u. spend thousands of dollars annually i
letting homeseekers know of their chea
r. lands and in extending to them a cords
invitation to locate among them"
Although diI2ent efforts are bein
made to capture the negro Georg
es Thames, who murdered J. NJ. Willis, Jr
p at Newton, on March 2s, no clew has 8
far been obtained of his whereabouts.
private reward of 5000 is offered for tn
delivery of the negro to the sheriff {
=. Newton county, and the governor Offer
s in addition q reward of $50 for hi
capture and conviction. The negro
- about 25 years old, height about l.
po feet, weight 125 pounds, wears No. z c
/ 10 .hO rim
a. gums, slim face with prominent chez
". bones. Has old bullet scar in thigh.
The first session of the third annu;
conference of the Jewish Religion
School Teachers Association of Missi
40 sippi was held at Meridian, with man
delegates and a large number of distil
guished visitors present.
re Miss Mabel Head, associate secretar
I'D woman's Home Mission Society, Met
odist Episcopal Church, South, fro
ne Nashville, Tenn, addressed the Mort
'el Mississippi branch of the organization
~. which is holding it's annual meeting
nd Columbus. Gospel Need in the Unite
l States" was Miss Heads theme. Or
or hundred of the 143 chapters in tt
IL North Mississippi conference were repr
Sc sented. There are 2,533 members
this conference.
er. In the United States court at Abe
ZEE deem Judge Niles sentenced Joseph Ws
ZEE lerton of Alderman to serve thrt
he months in the Monroe county Jail for vi
ad lation of the postal laws. Earl Bee
he ham, of Memphis, Tenn, got three yea
ief in the Federal prison at Atlanta, G'
Of for taking registered letter address,
to another person, with IS mon'
an order in it, at Amory, Miss.
nd
On vicksburg.-Manager 0atewood, of Il
re Uncina convict farm, stated that he HI
'fy never seen conditions better and mo
ou enco,ira pinD for n good crop wear tn,