The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1917-03-01
MISSISSIPPI STATE NEWS.

| Lincoln county farm.rs have
organized a produce exchaage.
The city schools Of Corinth are
'aislng money for the purchase of
. victrola.
The first community car of hogs
shipped from lVinona severa
lays ago brought total of 81 .86s
| I + Davis, Of Yazoo City, has
been officially notified by Secre
.a-y Mc.Adoo of his selection as
president of the new farm loan
'ank of New Orleans.
The first co operative shirment
# hogs from Tate county was
made recently. Eighteen farmers
4 the county brought in hogs to
make up the carload.
Inc matter ot establishing a
AMINO camp ut Shiloh National
ark has been taken up with Con.
FRESHMAN L S Gambler through M
/ Sharp Of the B NJ c.
The First National Bank, of
Okolona, received recently two
car loads of Holsiein dairy CATTLE
from Minnesota and all have been
taken by their customers.
There were shipped from the
pcntoioc depot the last twelve
months. IL carloads Of hogs. 81
arloads of cattle and IS carloads
of mixed hogs and cattle making
total of 81 carloads OF hogs and
cattle in all.
The Tri-county Live Stock AS
soc:ation consisting of Tippah.
Union and pontotoc counties have
b;en organized at Pontotcc. The
object OF the Association is to fos-
ttr the live stock interests of hogs.
cattl, and other live stock, and
especially to aid and assist in the
work of tick eradication.
Il .ti
With over 5000 boys enrolled
II pig Gibbs. one-third of whom
produced s32,0 900 worth of hos $ at
profit o, $751; during the past
year. there is no question of Mis-
sissippi's progress as a hog raising
tate. These figures were taken
from the annual report of p Fl
sanders, agent of the pig club
'ork in Mississippi.
Rankin county has voted to hcal
$40, 900 in bonds for highway int
pr 1ven ent III the Palahatchie dis
-rlrt. According to Xavier A
Kramer. Mississippi Highway
Engineer, this action insures the
C completion of the Dixie Travellers
Highway, which will belt the state
rom east to west, and will come
to be one of the most important
roads in the South.
If the plans which Gov Bilbo is
working out in his mird, and
which he is getting in shape to
submit to the Legislature when it
.onvenes in January, 1918, find q
ruitful echo from the law. making
'ody Mississippi will be equipped
With a state board of censors
othed with sufficient authority
0 regulate the photo play business
Is may be-offered to the Missis-
;ippi public.
When the two big drainage
litches are completed the acreage
If cultivated land in Tate county
will be almost doubled and some
# the land reclaimed will be as
{ srtaIeras lands can be made. The
contract for one of these bitches
will be let soon and it will be %
'iles long and it will traverse the
entire western length of the county
and 10, 900 acres of land will be
reclaimed. Work on the other
ditch will be begun within the
next 80 days.
A great many people have an
idea that the stamped envelopes
furnished by the post office
department, with return address
printed in the corner. are printed
by the government. This, how
ever, isn't true. These envelopes
are printed by contract by cheap
John, snide. printing concern in
OHIO which is to the printer what