The Jones County news., 1913-03-27
TOWN AND COUNTY CONDENSED.

ana handsomely lifted up.
Mr.. Wyatt Collins says be is col
ieeting another herd OF cattle to fatten
for market.
Our market is abundantly supplied
with the finest yellow yam potatoes
and delicious syrup.
Fishermen report the streams as
alive with the finny tribe. aud some
fen catches are made
or late our town has been infested
with beggars, but they all come from
a distance.
The Doctors say the health OF both
our town and country was never bet
ter than at this time.
MIR. Joe Cough has one of the finest
little girls in not only Ellisville, but
the State and the South
Several OF our farmers say they in
tend TO @o into the strawberry busi-
ness on limited scale.
The little child of Mr.. and Mrs
Edgar Harris, OF Laurel, was quite
sick last week, but is much better.
Capt. Hardy says Spring has sure
ly arrived. Last Friday he saw a
lizard and martins have registered.
DR.. Ray left for Hattiesburg last
Monday to have carbuncle on his
neck treated, and from which he was
suffering.
Last year the second largest cotton
crop ever known was grown The boil
weevil don't seem to effect the produc
tion of the staple.
DR.. Carter says there are several
suspicious cases in Ellisyille, but they
are uncertain about their being dip
iberia.
Very few farmers are coming TO
town these days, all being busy plant
ing crops. They are very backward
with their planting.
The little son of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Hassell who has been quite
sick with what was thought to be dip
theria, is fast recovering
Col. B. F. Fridge has one of the
finest gardens in town, and it looks
like spring sure enough. Our friend
Fridge generally gets there when he
sets in to achieve an end.
Mr. Brooke of Meridian spent Sun
day with his family. He always re-
ceives a warm welcome when in our
town.
Our farmers are devoting great
deal of attention to raising hogs, and
say there is nice profit in the bust
ness.
A a number of our Ellisville people
attended Easter services In Laurel
Sunday, and to see the drill of the
Commandery.
There is one case of diptheria in
Ellisville, but there is no fear of its
spreading. Doctors now successfully
treat this once fatal disease.
A full-blooded Choctaw Indian was
in town Saturday. He said he did
not like whiskey, and which is some
thing unusual with that race.
We understand that arrangements
have about been completed to plant
large colony OF people from the Mid
die West on some of our cut-over
land.
The Board of Supervisors will rigid |
ly enforce their rules about quaran- |
timing cattle that have not been dip
ped. They cannot be brought into
healthy beats.
Last Friday flock of about one
hundred wild geese passed over Ellis
vills, and which is another sign that
winter is over. They we're too high |
up in the air for guns.
Wewant a company of Jones county
farmers to organize and import fine
Spanish Jack. Bear in mind that
mule meat is worth rs cents per pound |
and you can raise q mule colt as
cheap as you can a yearling.
The Jones County News has just
Cotton in splendid line OF job
stationary OF all kinds Send us your
printing. We have one OF the best
equipped job printing plants in the
State. All the latest style type.
Mr.. Joe Cough bought some sedge
brooms from an old darkeY the strwa
being nearly as long as tall man.
This shows what kind OF land we have
here in Jones county 1t takes rich
soil to grow such broomsedge.
They are now double tracking the
North Eastern Railway between Lau-
rel and HAttiesburp. end IL il the de- |