The Jones County news., 1913-07-24

~ coIhe say tney nave been poison
ed.
Owing 10 poor collections the City
Meat M arket OF Laurel has closed its
doors and sold its fixtures. etc.
Mr.. Bacon is expected next week in
Laurel to start work on the gas plant.
be may later on run main TO Ellis
vile.
Mr.. John Ward has been nursing
q large boil on the side of his neck
John says he did not know how to
sympathiz- with poor old Mr.. Job
until this affliction seized upon him
Ellisville is enliyening up since the
opening of the Normal School, which
will hold for four weeks. Many
pretty girls in town and they are
heartily welcomed.
Honor Mayor Taylor, OF Ellis
vile, was born in Newton county,
Miss, in a town now known as Little
Rock But when Tom lived there
that budding city was known as
"Coontail. y
There are more different kinds of
religion in Jones county than per-
haps any other place in the South.
| L Ou can Just 20 W ntdNcu bl Aug
roads you like best.
Peter Hulsey, who has been engag-
ed in the mercantile business here for
about six months, has made an assign
ment under the national bankruptcy
act. The liabilities are small,
That insect eating up the pea crop
is about as great a fraud and nui-
sance as the boil weevil. 1t begins
to look like we must stop raising the
COW pea, and which is one OF our
most valuable CROPS.
If you need srectacles oreye glasses
call on DR.. Mark w. CAN'T at this
office, and he will examine your eyes
free of charge and give you cor
rect report of their condition. You
should not neglect your eye-sight.
The Jones County News wants a
correspondent in every neighborhood
in one county, and if you will drop
} US a postal card or call at this Office
we send you stationery. We wan
brief news items from levery locality
Our friend G. w. Crumbley says
his corn is so black and thick on the
t land that the field is full of lightning
! bugs in the daytime, and when he
! goes through it must'take a lantern tc
see his way, lest he gets lost,
Mr.. Luther Everett, one our hust
t ling farmers, has three acres in cot
+ ton, from which he confidently counts
e on ga thering three bales. He hai
kept the boil weevil picked off ans
O burned.
+ Mr.. Joe B. Coughs piano contes
8 Is warming up and attracting q grea
y deal of attention. Some lady vii
win a magnificent piano and othe
q nice and valuable prizes. Mr.. Goug
q Is surely a hustler and is away
e working for his town and people.
It A te legram was received from til
bishop approving the recommend
a ton of the presiding elders of tn
d and the Hattiesburg district, au
:. transferring Mr.. j. L. Neil from thi
II city to the pastorage of the Fift
Avenue Methodist church in Laure
a We are satisfied that peaches ca
a be successful grown in Jones count
n did our farmers prepare to sprs
"a trees and kill the insects that destro
them This is done by the pea
growers of Georgia and South Care
u lima.
q We ask our subscribers to carefl
n ly read the Jones County News an
then see if they don't find it IL
NEWEST paper they ever saw. W
p CLEANED over the whole country an
condense every item OF important
% for our paper.
We are glad to know that tt
ST ate is taking steps to prevent th
! fsf OF
I disease, charbon, that is ragin
IS around Biloxi and Gulfport.
would be a terrible visitor for Jone
county.
1t A brother of Carlos Keddoch
" this year contesting for the pri2
: offered in the Boys Corn Club. Hi
n corn is very fine, but suffered sever
from the dry weather, being heavil,
manured, and which will consider
=, ably curtail the yield.
is Ellisville ought to have a sewerag
j. system. 1t viii not cost taxpayer
,e more to pay interest on bonds t
build same than they now pay to hay
their closets cleaned out. In fact, W
sr believe 1t would cost them SO per cen
e less.
~ Madam Rumo says that JudR
y Harrington has been busy OF lat
- making out marriage license TO
Hon. Dave Collins. Dave says
ID Barkis is willing If the Judge vii
it furnish the license and then find som
l. good looking old gal or widow VIII
le will stand hitching.
RI Ben Ward received letter froI
JEFF Anderson, in which jeff says
e, has just built large garage In Per
It sacola, Fla. for the the storage @
e moter cars, and intends to branch oil
q every direction. JEFF Anderson