The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-06-24

nave revived ACTIVITY IN regard 10
the proposed cotton warehouse to be
constructed there to take care of ex-
port cotton Arrangements have al
ready been perfected for running a
steamship line to handle cotton ex-
ports to European markest.
A large party of wealthy railroad
and lumber men with their families
left Gulfport Tuesday in automobiles
for Buffalo, n. Y. They went by way
of Hattiesburg, Meridian, Florence,
Ala, Pulaski and Nashville, Tenn,
Louisville, Mammoth Cave, Cincinnati,
Cleveland and Lake Shore.
The annual convention of the Mis-
sssippi Fire Underwriters association
was brought to a close in Jackson on
Friday, after the election of B. H.
Grimes of Meridian, president; Fred
V. Becker of Brookhaven, vice-pres
ident; and Jas. K. Moore of Vicksburg
secretary and treasurer. Next years
convention will probably go to Mer-
dian
The internal revenue collector OF
Mississippi instituted suit against five
of the largest .nter-insurance com
panies doing business in the state dur
ing the past ten years. He seeks to
compel them to pay all back license
fees and taxes, amounting to about
100000.
Less than One-ffth of the newspa~
pers of the state are evincing any de
gre of interest in the senatorial race
in this state The farmers and bust
ness men are too busy to become ex
cited as yet, and most of the "warm
talk is being done by professional
politicians.
The state board of health is making
an active warfare on the house fly,
and has issued a bulletin to be dis
tributed throughout the state telling
best how to obviate the nuisance. The
fly is declared by the board to be the
greatest menace to the health of man
kind.
The trustees of the penitentiary de
parted Tuesday on a tour of inspection
g.
state as a penal farm. This land is
located in several counties, and much
of it adjoins some of the state farms,
while other lands are some distance re-
moved The price authorized to be
paid is $25 per acre.
Crop conditions are reported from
all sections of the state to be good,
and the hard-times bugaboO is being
driven to cover The fight against the
boil weev1 and other crop pests is be
ing waged with intelligent effort by
the farmers, and the losses from these
sources this year will be at minimum
The school text book commission
which has been n session at Jackson
concluded its labors Monday. Changes
in the books to be used in the public
schools of the state are not as many
as was expected, amounting to only
about 80 per cent, and the commission
claims that considerable saving in
the cost of the books is also assured.
Representative White of Prentiss
county, who is said to be a minister
of the gospel as well as a legislator,
was arrested in Jackson Saturday on
the charge of carrying and threaten
ingly exhibiting a concealed weapon
during the last session of the legis
lature. White gave bond for his APP
pearance on Saturday, June %, and
MS trial is awaited with much interest.
He alleges that the charges are the
result of spite work by political ene-
mics.
Almost every city and town Of Mis-
sissippi of any consequence s anxious
ly awaiting the publication of the of
fetal figures of the census bureau as
to the population. Tt will be two
months or more before they are sent