The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
STATE SELLS COTTON

STATE SELLS COTTON The board of trustees of the penitent- 1 iary met at the Parchman farm in Sun ! flower county this week and sold S00 bales of cottoh and GA head of old and 1 brokendown mules. The long staple cot ! ton brought 9 cents per pound; the short staple 20Ia to 2tc, and the mules an aver | age of S52, This is the first time in the ! history of the state that short staple cotton ever sold for as much as 20 cents per pound, and makes a bale, counting the seed, worth about $140 The convict farms will not produce as much cotton l this year as last, when something like 5000 bales was the crop, but it will sell for more money, and the trustees will put three-quarters of a million dollars net in the state treasury.
 RETURNED TO ALABAMA | S. E. Brinsfield, traveling sergeant | for the Alabama penitentiary, was in ! Jackson this week armed with requi- sition on the governor for one Lucius King, alias Phillips, an escaped con- vict from that state. King had been
 arrested and jailed here for compile | ity in a burglary at the little town Of l Clinton several nights ago, and crim- inal court being in session, would no doubt have been railroaded into the Mississippi penitentiary in a few days
 
 officers from the sister state
 WILL HAVE GREAT DINNER In accordance with their annual custom the trustees of the Mississippi penitentiary will give the 1900 con victs under their charge a holiday on Thanksgiving, and have them served with the best dinner that can be got ten together. They will have all kinds of fresh meat, roast pig, bar becued beef and pork, chicken and l turkey, as we'll as plenty of vegetables produced on the farm. In addition 10 barrels of apples and other fruits have been purchased for distribution on the four or five farms and the convicts will have a great feast at state eX pense. But they have earned it, the crops they cultivated this year having returned an abundant harvest. GAME LAW FIGURES As yet Bolivar county has not re- ported the result of the election held November and the chances are never will, the boxes from several precincts being reported lost The re- maining 80 counties show total vote in favor of the game and fish law of 24,917, against the law 54,5S4. The returns from these 80 counties also show that more than S0.000 votes were cast for the democratic presidential electors. The vote for the other elec tors congressman and supreme court judges has not as yet been added up. Those responsible for such informa- ton take it for granted there is no danger Mir Hughes will intimate he wants a recount of the Mississippi vote so what's the difference?
 TRIBUTE TO CHARLES SCOTT
 The State Bar association paid glor- ious tribute to the memory of Charles R. Scott of Bolivar county this week. MT. Scott was eminent as lawyer, planter, banker and merchant, and the bar declared him the most wonderful man the state of Mississippi had ever produced. It frequently happens that a man becomes famous in one single line of endeavor but 1t never before happened here that one man sue ceeded so well in four widely differ ent lines of business. He was the biggest" lawyer, planter, merchant and banker in the state.
 GOT A SOAKING RAIN
 The long drouth in Mississippi has been broken at last, it having rained steadily here for day or two this week. The dry spell has been the most disastrous ever known here, even to the oldest in- habitant. Cisterns, wells, small streams, ponds and lakes were dry as kindling, and farmers who never before in their lives had to haul water or drive their live stock to the river had it to do this fau wherefore they suffered great iu- convenience. Forest fires have also been very disastrous in some sections of the state fences, pastures and great deal of hay being destroyed. Fall gardens are a failure nearly everywhere, and the folks around over Mississippi are eating few vegetables.