The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-30
Congressman and Supreme
Court Judges to Be NOmi-
mated August Is
SENATOR WILLIAMS is
WITHOUT OPPOSITION
Trustees of State Prison to Let Big
Contract for Supplies-Model
School in Pearl River County
Proving Great Success

I
sssippi was so little interest shown In
an important election, such as is now
approaching. This is very strange, but
| true, and of people who fairly revel in
politics, ordinarily August Is is the date
set by the state democratic executive
committee for the primary to name the
| candidates to be voted on in November.
| One United States senator, eight con-
gressmen and four justices of the SUI
preme court are to be chosen, but as i'm
portant as are these offices, the people
do not seem to care who gets them.
| Senator John Sharp Williams has no
| opposition, and his name will not be
placed on the primary ticket Even his
enemies believe him the greatest man in
the Senate, and are proud of him. They
had an idea of pittng the strongest
Biboite they could find against him. but
after laundering around for year or
more gave up in disgust
| OF the eight congressional incumbents
three have no opposition. These are
Humphreys, venable and Harrison. But
Gambler, Stevens Sisson, Quin and Col
lier have one antagonist each, and they
are all busy while their opponents are
tied down at Washington 1t is not be-
lieved, however. that the ranks of the
present delegation will be broken this
time, though some of the states strong
est men are after their jobs
! OF the four candidates for the supreme
court, Judge J. B. Holden is the only one
without opposition. He is one of the
three appointed by Governor Bilbo last
| winter cd Nv
stitutional amendment, their terms to hold
until next January. The candidates
against Justice Clayton D. Potter of Jack
| son are H B. Greaves of Canton, and
George Etheridge of Meridian against
Judge E. O. Sykes of Aberdeen, are Judge
j. G. McGowen of Water Valley and R.
| H. Knox of Houston. Chief Justice
Smith, one of the old guard, and whose
| term does not expire until 1918, Is being
opposed by ex-Gov A. H. Longino. These
| gentlemen are all out on the hastings,
| but they are not able to stir UP any en-
| thusiasm one way or the other, and the
| prospect is that the vote polled in the
| August primary will not be anything like
as heavy as when every county is elect
| ing justices of the peace and constables.
| Less than one year ago Pearl River
| county, Mississippi, was selected by the
department of education, acting under the
!
cation Of New York, as the model edu-
| cational county, OF the state, and to-
| wards the betterment of which the board
| Is dev6ting its best energies, paying the
major portion of the expenses. DR.. Harry
| R. McKeen of Chattanooga, who is field
| secretary of the southern conference for
| education and industry, has just spent
week at Poplarville. the county site of
Pearl River, and is high in his praise
! of the interest those people, old as well
1 as young, took in the summer school
| that has been going on several weeks,
and before which DR.. McKeen and other
experts in his line have delivered lectures
every day. He states that more than 400
children attended the meetings, occupy
| ing the dormitory at the county agricul-
| tural high school, and being crowded
| sometimes 10 or more to the room. After
| the youngsters had spent three weeks
there the old folks were invited to come
| and take their places in the school and
lecture rooms. and they came. 200 strong,
| from all parts Of the county, showing
| great interest in the daily routine espe-
| cially when 1t came to practical lessons
| on home economics and the betterment
of rural conditions. The school and the
church are the two most powerful agen-
cies in the reforms demanded, and DR..
McKeen uses both to good effect de-
claring that he finds good and progress
sive people settled around good country
schools or churches.
At their meeting next Tuesday the
trustees of the Mississippi penitentiary
will let contracts to the lowest bidders
for six months supply of tobacco,
snuff hats. etc. for the convicts, and
it Is expected that a large number OF
representatives of wholesale houses In
and out of the state will be present
The trustees will also let contracts for
necessary for the operation of the
lime rock crushing plant to be estab-
lished near Okolona. The building or
| cage" in which the score or more
| convicts will be confined when not
at work, will be of brick Another
crushing plant is to be located in the
southern part of the state and these
each per day, will try to supply the
demands OF the farmers Of the entire
| state.
1t is claimed by the farmers of Mis-
sissippi that the boil weevils are not
near so numerous as they were two
years ago, and even fewer than one
year ago. ]. B. Allen, a Claiborne
county farmer, who has made care
full study of the weevil for years. re-
4 ports that off a certain piece Of land
devoted to cotton he has picked %
VVO WeeVlIS this year as against only
| $4,000 last year. However, two years
ago off the same land he picked and
destroyed 100000 of the. bugs and then
quit in disgust.
This immediate section of Mississipp,
has been drowned out with rain dur.
ing the past month and some farmers
state that they have not been able Il,
run a furrow since the first Of Julv
But the rains are local, and there arc
sections Of Mississippi. especially in the
delta country, where there has not bee,
a day the plows had to stop except for
a nice. seasonable shower, and the
crops there are the finest so reported
that were ever known to grow out OF
the ground. Here the grass and weeds
are as high as the cotton and youne
corn. and farmers have "the blues, the
worst kind. declaring that with dry
weather from now on they would make
nothing worth harvesting. Conditions
are not that bad. of course, but they
are bad enough.
Two calamities have dawned q,
Mayor Swep Taylor during the past
| week. One was when burglars bold
! entered his residence and relieved him
| OF few dollars in cash and his hand
| some gold watch. The other was whe,
| he came to the conclusion he could
/, not be reelected mayor OF the CITY
| and withdrew from the race. He In
augurated the commission form of gov
eminent for Jackson and has made a
Fairly good mayor, but political enc
mics have multfplied during HE ta~,~,