Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18
Mississippi News
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The big dredge boat two miles west
of Verona is now in operation. A canal
more than nine miles in length will
start two miles west of Verona and
empty into Town creek, below shannon
This is by far the most important canal
construction yet begun in the county. 1t
will pass through the richest land in Lee
county. 1t is claimed that 2 3,O34 acres
of wet land have been reclaimed in the
last two or three years. 1t is a fair
estimate that this reclaimed land will
have an increased value of $50 per acre.
If this is true, more than $1,000, 900
nave recently been added to Lee county.
Hon. H. F.. Blakeslee, State commits
sioner of agriculture, Prof. +. r. Lloyd
and a. a. Garner, of the agricultural de-
partment of the y. & NJ. College at
~Starkville, spoke to the farmers of La
fayette county in the interest of the corn
club. At the conclusion of the adj
dresses a corn club was organized and
much interest was manifested in the
growing of prize corn.
The Columbus, Mississippi & Western
Alabama Railroad Company, the con-
templated line from Winfield, Ala, to
Columbus. Miss, via Vernon, A4., will
soon be in shape to announce their plans.
Charles F. Sherod, president of the com
pany, will give no plans he has in mind.
There is every good reason, however,
to believe that he is affiliated with some
of the largest railroad systems in the
country and the line is everything but
built.
LincOln's birthday was celebrated by
the students and faculty of the A. & NJ.
College at Starksville with appropriate
exercises. This celebration is in keeping
with the resolutions of the faculty some
time ago to the effect that the birthdays
of Lee, Washington and Lincoln, three
of the greatest Americans, would be Gel
ebrated with suitable exercises.
Circular letters are being mailed out
to the &lrmers of Warren county, di-
recting them as to the formation of
bows corn Iubs, which are to be started
with a view of improving crop conditions
and giving the planters a better IN
derstanding of corn and other planting
the coming year.
The completion of the boys corn clubs
of Lafayette county brought a large
crowd of farmers, school teachers and
business men together at Oxford. P.
F. Garner delivered an excellent address,
instructing the boys on organization and
preparation, and Prof. E. R. Lloyd, of
the A. & NJ. College, spoke on fertilizing
and drainage.
Under the command of Capt. Winsett,
the American Salvation Army has es-
tablished divisional headquarters at Col
umbus, and recruits are arriving almost
daily The rapid industrial develop
ment at Columbus has opened a good
field, and representatives of the army
have already accomplished good results.
Three hundred thousand dollars is the
consensus of opinion among the insur-
ance men of the property damage and
loss to buildings and stock in the fire
which started in Kuhn Bros store at
Vicksburg.
Carrier pigeons may prove an inval-
liable adjunct to the practice of medicine.
a physician of Ocean Springs has demon
strated their usefulness. Receiving many
calls into the surrounding country and
finding it difficult to keep in touch daily
with his patients, he hit upon the car
rier pigeon plan. The birds, bearing in
IA small aluminium capsule Il report of
the condition of the patients from whose
homes they are released, return to the
doctors nome at the rate of more than a
mile a minute. Urgent calls are thus
promptly answered and visits are Obvi-
ated.
j. B. Allen, the originator of the ia
nous cotton by that NAME, has just
returned from Washington, where he has
been engaged in trying to get the gov
eminent to establish a long sta APPLE cot
ton experiment station in Claiborne cOun-
ty. While the government declined to
establish the station, it promised to sup
ply Il variety of seed.
The Greenville Elks, known through
out the United States as the Cotton
Pickers,' nave laid plans for creating a
bigger sensation at Detroit next July
than they nave ever done at any of the
previous national conventions of Elks.
The supreme convention of the indie
pendent Order of Beavers is the next
public occasion at present occupying the
attention of a number of Nicksburg
members of this order, the dates for
the three days meeting here having been
finally decided upon for May II, IS and
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