Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1910-03-17

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The friend. Of John s. Smylie will be
clad 20 know that of a class Of iO6 who
tool the examination to enter West
Point Military Academy, he was among
,he twenty-six who passed and was en-
,,rrd a student Of that institution. He
vas the only Mississippian who quail.
FED. John 5. is the youngest son of ].
e. Smylie, a native of Copiah county,
bat Tor several years q resident of Hat
,iesburg. and grandson of the late Rev.
Angus MeCallum, a pioneer minister of
the Presbyterian church in South Mis-
sis.ippi. where he has a large family
connection. John comes from good old
southern blood and has in him the max
ing of a loyal defender of his country.
A meeting Of the faculty of the Mis-
.i.sippi Medical A<soristioa was held at
Meridian aud il was unanimously de-
eise,l to build a magnificent new college
with hospital attached The new build
iuss will b. constructed at a cost of be-
tween $4,000 and s15.0Oo, and will be
ready for occupancy by the opening Of
the next session. The new college will
b. modern in every particular, occupy
ing the site Of the present college.
Never in the history of the circuit
court Of Tuniea county has the docket
bsen % small a. this term. since whisky
has gone out, the homicides among the
u-rroes have fallen of to such a marked
degree that there are few murder cases
thee days in court, there being only
three on this docket Heretofore the
usual number ranged from twenty to
twenty-seven-
The newly appointed Yazoo-Missis-
sippi levee board met at Clarksdale for
the purpose of organizing, electing W.
u. Carruthers president Thomas II.
Rice of Tallahstchie county was elected
secretary and treasurer, and C. l. Lo-
max OF Greenwood, attorney. Major 7.
q. Dabney was reelected chief engineer
and ". L. Head his assistant.
T. s. White, agricultural agent for the
FRISCO system, was in Nettleton with his
car Monday, March IL. He leetured at
10 an and pm, in the Knights of
Pythiss hall The farmers appreciate
Mr.. Whites visits, and he was greeted
BY the largest crowd this trip than ever
before.
Thsre never has been as much plow-
ing done up II this time before in the
history Of Oktibbeha county. Prof. W.
L hutchinson. director of the A. and "
CoIl-ge experiment station, says his
PljEs were running all winter, with a
very short in.ermission- The farmers
Of the county generally are well up with
their work. and corn planting has al
r-ady begun
Anticipating the enactment of the SUI
Preme court commissioner bill into law.
i : stated that quite a number of law
yers OF the state are out with their
lightning rods and hopeful that the ap-
pointive current may be detected their
way The bill lacks several steps a. vet
before it can be classified among the
hws 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
Tor the season at Jackson. There are
four OF these mills, and all are of .
high capacity, and have handled and
hal ka1Tv .
OF seed. which is rather below the record
Tor lsOs-1sO9, which went above $4,000
tons.
Twenty people were injured in a col
hsion at Philip, eighteen miles above
GREENWOOD, on the Yszoo and Missis-
sIPpi Valley railroad, when the passen-
ger train ran into a supply train.
hAgman that had been sent back to flag
the Passenger was called in, and the
passenger train crashed into the supply
tram without warning.
d. g. McLaurin of Hatriesburg, who
runs dray, seems to give his attention
70 delivering beer and whisky TO the
HiieIi dispensers of same. Justice Davis
taxes the position that such 10 not Q
l@gltinate occupation, and fined him the
Hnit Of the law The case was appealed
70 The higher courts for final adjudiea.
ton
me gloom east over the community
y The closing down of the Mississippi
nliis at Wesson indefinitely has not di
7inlshed- Gov. Noel has promised I.
recommend to the legislature to pass 4
pssal act as quickly as possible au
s-orlAnS the Wesson mayor and boar
y aldermen to use $500 of the city,
i4nas for the relief OF the distresseS
women and children there.
Al the February meeting of the boar
supervisors an appropriation of 8,
w was made, the money to be uses
guiding Confederate monument OF
,ae court house square at Hattiesburg
committee of U. ID. Cis met lik,
,onmfttee of Boys in Gray and Sc
eeu the spot ON which the monument
VA stand The contract has been leI
a work IS now in progress.
iaere Is joint movement on foot oi
4 4 NJ College authorities, the
Asille municipal board and the
~ board of supervisors, private
ptlon to enable a model, upto
-'e ehink road and concrete walks from
a. court house in Stsrkville to the A
eA C. chapel
tne annual stockholders meeting oi
"inona Cotton Mills the manage
reported good years business
-Aa showed that the mill had earned 4
good dividend for the psst wear