The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-11
Mississippi News
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Sheriff j. B. Rawls of Pearl Riva
county executed an attachment on $685.
600 worth of timbered land in the south
ern part of Marion county. The attach
ment was for timber for the following
firms: Edward Hines Lumber Company,
Champion Lumber Company, Lumber
mems Mill Company and the Wolf River
Company. The attachment follows ac
ton entered against the Edward Hines
Lumber Company of Chicago. Suit has
been entered by the state at Poplarville,
charging this company with violation OF
the statute prohibiting the corporation
ownership of more than $4,000, 900 OF
timbered land.
The entire committee on pen~itentiary
of the house of representatives of the
state legislature visited Parchman farm
for the purpose of a thorough inspection
in general and to view the lands pro
posed to be purchased by the state for
the purpose of having lands sufficient tc
keep the convicts properly employed.
They expressed themselves as highly sat.
isfied with the management, and will in
troduce a bill authorizing the trustees
to purchase about 1000 acres more land
in Sunfiower county, and may also pro-
vide that trustees be allowed to lease
two sixteenth sections in same county.
VIM. Vandiver, a farmer near Murphy,
killed five 13-month-old hogs, from which
he got 1884 pounds of pork and 169
pounds of lard, the average weight of the
five hogs being 266 pounds after the lard
was taken out. Just after Christmas
Mr.. Vandiver killed a pig that weighed
net $50 pounds. Mr.. Vandiver says his
meat from these hogs will not cost him
over 5 cents per pound, and that the idea
that it costs a man more to raise his
meat than it does to buy it is all bosh,
as he has tried both.
Greenwood is at present very much in
terested in the announcement of Presi
dent Latta, who is president of the Chi
cago, Memphis & Gulf Railroad Com
pany, of the plans of this new venture
which shows that this proposed line will
run from Cairo, ILL.,, to Jackson, Miss.
where it will connect with aroad to New
Orleans. The Greenwood Business League
has been actively engaged in a campaign
to have this line pass through Green
wood from Memphis and on to jackson
via Yazoo City.
W. II. Moses and F. J.. Badger. repre-
senting the Mississippi Valley Transpor
tation Company, a $~1O,oo0,O0o barge
proposition to operate on the 1azoo ant
Mississippi rivers between st. Louis anC
New Orleans, visited Greenwood in an eff
fort to interest local business men in The
project. Terminals have already beer
arranged for at certain points on thu
Mississippi, and they propose to make
Yazoo City and Greenwood the principa
terminal points on the Yazoo river.
Charles NJ. Bryan, publisher of tn
Commoner, and a brother of Hon. Will
lam Jennings Bryan, owner of the paper
was a visitor to Greenville a few day
ago. Speaking of the delta, Mr.. Bryal
said these lands were among the mos
fertile in the world, if they were not tn
most fertile, and said it was only a ques
tion of time when this valley woul,
TEEN with hundreds of thousands o
prosperous people, as it would even nov
We're its virtues fully recognized.
SoutAbound passenger train No. 1, sec
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hatchie, a station about four miles sout
of Sardis. The engine turned upside dow
and the coaches, all except two, turne
on their sides against a high embanl
ment, which kept them from turnin
completely over, and this no doubt save
many lives. Five persons were slight.
injured, Engineer Greer being the or
most seriously hurt. He had his foe
badly crushed.
For House, Barn and Roof Paint
Shing'e Stains, Wagon and Impleme,
Paints, Wall Papers, Rubber Rootin
write to FarreIlCalhou Paint & Wa
Paper Co., Wholesale and Retail, 46-A
S. Second ST., Memphis, Tenn.
Samples sent o N request.
Prof. S. NJ. Nash, county superinten'
ent of education, has issued a call to tn
boys of Lowndes county, inviting the
to meet for the purpose of organizing
boys corn club. Lowndes county ha
such an organization last year, but III
favorable weather cut short the yield i
this as we'll as in other crops, and man
of the boys were discouraged.
It is announced that the meeting
the Royal Dam of Beavers is to be he'll
at Vicksburg, with hundreds in atten'
ance, May II, IL, 13 and IA.
Will Nicely, charged with attacking
little s-year-old white boy, at jackson
was sentenced to fifteen years in tn
pen. Much feeling was engendered owe
the offense.
Bread made of cottonseed meal is OF
of the unusual things which was seen e,
hibited at Vicksburg in a local hote
the specimen having been sent to a gel
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