The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1916-03-15
AN OVERLAND TRIP
TO COPIAH COUNTY
Good Roads Noticeable for Their Ex-
csIIence and abundance
Other Conditions.

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good roads as far as Hazlehurst
was enjoyed by the editors Sunday
afternoon. There was not fiaW
| in the roads of our sister county,
if one excepts the narrow gauge
which seems to have been made
the accepted, if not the altogether
acceptable, standard.
"It was rough'-and that's not
only slang-from Wesson on down
to Montgomery where the enter.
prise and personal interest of Mr..
III. F. Middleton has made the
roads ideal near his pleasant coun-
try home for distances that benefit
Ibis neighbors as well as his own
family. Just suppose everybody
would show that much interest
and prowess in the neighborhood
lof his own home! Why, soon
Ineighborhoods would join hands,
so to speak, and there would be q
blooming, blossoming Lincoln
County in every feature of life and
there would be no time to grow
over a tax of two mills on the dol
lar or of one man "gettin' the
Good Roads past HIS house" while
the other doesn't. Now, we are
saying this on the presumption
that Mr.. Middleton put in his own
good roads. If he didn't, we will
wager he is willing to help all over
the county, anyway, by paying his
taxes and thus lending a hand for
the general good
Those deep sand beds and sud
den depressions and elevations this
side of the old Lowell of the
South" make a rough ride to the
A. H. S. and should be taken in
hand. The school buildings and the
students in bright groups on the
campus and porches of the Lin
coin -Copiah Aggies made an at
tractive movie as we sped by.
| A good acreage is being put in
for truck in .Copiah; and small
farms are in repair along the way
and new ground is cleared enclosed
with splendid new wire fencing.
The truckers are in good spirits
over the prospects, which leads us
to remark how fine a thing it is
that "Hope springs eternal in the
human breastp' Just suppose that
farmer was as hopeless at the be-
| ginning of the season as he is
sometimes at the close! Life
wouldn't. be worth living and he
would be of no value to life. Let
us hope!
Already Encouragement has
been met in the loss of the first
and second and even third setting
of cabbage plants; but, invincible
| in courage and determination
other plants have been secured and
the crop is thus cut to about one
third only.
Last year the crops in carrots,
peas and beans were Improbable
and this year the seed are scarce
and therefore high-so, somebody
will make money this year!
The tomato acreage is somewhat
reduced but plants are doing well.
About Crystal Springs and Gallman
| there will be no reduction.
Herds of Red Poll cattle and Jer-
seys along the way bespoke the up
ward grade in stock. Jersey COWS
were as fine as many seen at our
State Fairs.
Hazlehurst is beautiful city.
The residences of the Sections, the
Covingtons, the Ellises, Judge Conn,
Judge Miller and others, mod
ern or of notable reminiscence, to-
! gether with new buildings in prog
ress and the well kept town mark
it as one competitive with Brook
haven in progress and desirable at
mosphere.
| Halle Lake made us bit envi-
ous. Mothers with their babies,
and children were out on the banks
among the springtime influences
that rippled the water and beckon-
ed on to the good old summertime
when the barefoot boy will fix his
Ibait-and then perhaps remember
"It is Sunday"
i Brookhaven needs its park and
Its water. Some day, and we hope
not far hence, it will have them
| both.
| All along crowds of men ano
boys were trying to pass the hours
lust looking-the boys finding di'
version in catching at cars and risk
ling their very lives to find vent
| for their boyish natures. We
| thought of the Y. M. G. A.! How
| the boys and men need such an in
Istitution, whether they realize it o.
mot. That, too, is coming for
1, Brookhaven; and autos, that have
| made near neighbors of residents
| for hundreds of miles north, south,
least and west, will bring visiting
I | men and boys to our city. to enjoy
our parks, our gymnasium, oul
natatorium, our music, reading,
and the supervision of a Y. M. C. "A.
man like Mr.. Godfrey and other!
1--we know.
Il Let us hopel