The north Mississippi herald., 1915-09-10
PROMINENT men AD-
DRESS BOOSTER CLUB

held a rousng, enthusiastic and
profitable meeting in the Court House.
Hon. w. Z. Bryant of Bryant.
Hon. G. B. Harper Asst Industrial
commissioner of the l. C. Railro ad,
and Hon. I. C. Bradford, principal
of the Yalobusha County Agricultur-
al High School, were the principal
speakers of the evening.
Mr. Bryant the first speaker,
touched on dairying, stock raising,
diversifcation of crops, creameries
and marketing of farm products.
His speech was both educa-
tional and practical and
teeming with wise suggestions for
remedying the evils of the existing
conditions and practical sensible So
lutions offered to overcome the diff
culties confronting not only Yalo
busha County but the farmers and
stock men of the whole state.
Mr. Bryant is most pleasing and
entertaining speaker, possessing a
gift of oratory and most pleasing
and attractive personality, coupled
with polished education and know
ledge acquired by deep thought and
painstaking study supplemented by
extensive travel both local and a
broad, which gives him vast fund
of knowledge and information possess
ed by only few He is native
son of Yaobusha County and his
heart and very soul is wrapped up
in her people and institutions. What
he advocates he believs in from the
very depths of his heart and with the
vigor of his young manhood he un-
selfishly and through purely patriotic
and benevolent motives increasingly
works for the adoption of more and
better things for his beloved people
and county. Yalobusha County just
ly feels proud of this distinguished,
progressive and talented son and is
under an everlasting debt of gratitude
and appreciation for his efforts and
assistance in the progression and up
building of the county.
The second speaker, Hon. G. B.
Harper devoted most of his time in
discussing creameries' and in stat
ing the attitude of the railroad com
pany toward such inst tutions, of the
needs of this county in such an insti-
tuition and the assistance that would
be given by the railroad company to
| creamery should one be instituted
at Water Valley He also gave some
valuable information in regard to
diversification Of crops, stock rails
ing, and marketing of farm products
Mr.. Harper made a sensible, in
structive talk which was we'll re-
ceived by the highly appreciative
audience.
The next and last speaker was
Prof. T. c. Bradford, the efficient
manager and head of our excellent
county agricultural school at Oakland.
Prof. Bradford suggested that Yalo-
busha County farmers "swap" their
NANCY cur dogs for sheep and that
the Booster Club show their interest
toward the encouragement and up
building of sheepraising in the county
by said Club using their influence to
induce the Board of Supervisors to SC
tax the dogs of the county that 8
material reduction would occur and
thus make it possible for sheep to ex-
ist He also admonished the Booster
Club that talk was cheap and talk
alone did not accomplish results-that
work, hard labor along we'll defined
plans was necessary to accomplish
anything.
A business session next followed
during which a resolutio on was unan,
, imously adopted requesting the |. C.
| Railroad to install cattle dipping
/ vat at their shipping yards in thil
city.
l.. C. Barber, chairman of Cream
cry committee representing the
County Live Stock Association made
report to the Club of the extent anC