The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-04-14
Mississippi News
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THE GREAT DELTA.
Capt. Merry Urges the Business Mer
to Hustle for Farmers.


Plans for advertising the great delta
sections of Mississippi were thoroughly
launched by Capt. J. +. Merry, general
immigration agent for the Illinois Cen.
tral and lazoo & Mississippi Valley
railroads, wheii he spoke for an hour be.
tore members OF the Grrcnville Cotton
Exchange, outlining for them general
line OF action. The spirit of advertising
the delta's resources to the world had in
a 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 we'll vcrscd men
attend this congress, SO the advantages
OF the State could be brought before
homescekcrs in Il satisfactory way. Hn
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 boil wecvil would soon be hunting
new fields.
But the best way to kill this dc.
stroycr OF your great cotton fields is for
you men to grow something besides cot
ton he said. Il 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 yom
cotton acreage this year, it is for the
better" continued Capt Merry But
believe cotton acreage in the delta has
decreased Still, it is hard for any one
to judge farming from the back plat.
form of II car. cannot say what the
Legislature is going to do about the ap
preparation BILL which am interested
in, but if it fails to pass the Illinois
Central will handle this exhibit not only
from Grccnvlle, but from Wick sburg
Greenwood, lazoo 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 Il variety of
products the equal of any State You
have an annual rainfall that insures the
growth Of crop every year. Your eli
mate is good. All of which makes Mis-
sissippi an exceptional territory in which
TO locate farmers from the Northwest,
who are just now looking for permanent
homes. There is no comparison between
farming conditions in Canada and Mis-
sissippi. The only thing is the Canadian
government spends millions of dollars in
the United States advertising their
cheap lands, while Mississippi does lit
tie or nothing in this direction.
mississippi now has fifteen million
acres Of uncultvatcd lands, yet it makes
no effort as a State to advertise its
farming possibilities. Other states like
Oklahoma. Texas, Idaho, Colorado, Wy
oming, Washington and even Florida
spend thousands of dollars annually in
letting homescekers know of their cheap
lands and in extending to them u cordial
Although dilgcnt efforts are being
made to capture the negro George
Thames, who murdered J. NJ. Willis, Jr.,
at Newton, on March 2S, no clew has so
far been obtained of his whereabouts. A
delivery Of the negro to the sheriff of
Newton county, and the governor offers
in addition Il reward of $50 for his
capture and conviction. The negro is
about 81 years old, height about ) II
feet, weight 12j pounds, wears No. or
: 1-2 shoe, ginger cake color, dark blue
gums, slim face with prominent cheek
bones. Has old bullet scar in thigh.
The first session of the third annual
conference of the Jewish Religious
School Teachers Association of Alissis-
sippi was held at Meridian, with many
delegates and II large number OF distin.
gushed visitors present.
Miss Mabel Head, associate secretary
} Woman's Home Mission Society, Meth
odist Episcopas Church. South, from
Nashville, Tenn, addressed the North
Mississippi branch OF the organization,
which is holding its annual meeting in
Columbus. Gospel Need in the United
States" was Miss Heads theme. One
hundred of the 143 chapters in the
North Mississippi conference were repre-
sentcd There are 2,533 members in
this conference.
In the United States court at Aber.
leen Judge Niles sentenced Joseph Wal.
erton of Alderman to serve three
months in the Monroe county Jail for vio.
lation of the postal laws. Earl Beck
liam, of Memphis, Tenn, got three years
in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga,
for taking a registered letter addressed
to another person, with a IS money
order in it, at Amory, Miss.