The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-07

shipyallls, nitrate plants and other places. as well as on farms, and at good wages. Those who just will not get out after work are going to have to leave Jackson-and this applies to white men as well as 10 negroes.
 A GREAT POTATO CROP
 During the past three or four weeks more than 100 carloads of Irish po- tatoes have been sold and shipped out of Mississippi on the cooperative plan John F. Mckay. of the extension forces at the Agricultural and Mechanical col lege, was placed in Jackson to look alt CT marketing the potato crop, and mas succeeded in placing every car offered at prices ranking from S2 to 2W per 100 pounds, which is satisfactory, put only about half what the farmers ex- pected to receive when they planted the seed. However, great fall crop ls so
 ng to be produced, provided the season is favorable. They will be planted in July, August and September-some or the best yields ever seen hereabouts nav ing come from the latest paintings, those made in September.
 WAS NO CELEBRATION Jackson paid as much attention as ever to the Fourth of July, ana that was nothing except to close the pos offices. the banks and few Of the larger stores A mass meeting was held during the late afternoon at the Gal lowav Memorial church, the largest audi tcrium in the city, and large crowd as- sembled to hear Rev. Philip DaVldson' | rector of the Episcopal church at Green vile. who has recently returned from | inc battlefields of France. There were
 no pyrotechnic displays, not firecrack-
 CT was popped, so far as heard, and the glorious Fourth was one of the quletest days Jackson ever experienced
 LABOR SERVICE MEETING | Cliff Williams of Meridian, director of the labor service bureau in five south ern states, held a meeting here this week after considerable advertisement of
 the time and place, but he had an in excusably small crowd. The majority of the score present were oil mill man 1 agers from Jackson and neighborlnS | towns. all of whom agreed that labor 1 is very scarce. It is feared that the l farmers are not going to be apie 10 | gather the crops now maturing, and 1t IS | already ,the case that many industries
 are seriously handicapped. MT Williams
 and his assistants. Messrs. Bond ana Scott have important messages Tor the employers of labor with suggestions as | to making every able-bodied man go l to work It was suggested at this meet | ing that beginning July A. Mlsslsslpplans do as they are doing down in Florida | l day at 6 o'clock Mississippi will send up her little prayers at o'clock at night, the electric lights in all cities and towns to flicker at that hour as reminder. The country districts will just nave to remember the hour.
 WIFE CHANGES TESTIMONY J. Luther Singleterry is for the sec lond time on trial for his life in the Kinds county court. He is Florence banker who shot and killed Dr. c. l. Todd in this city year ago, and got Ia .hung jury" on the first trial six l.months ago At that time his wife stood
 by him testifying that pr. Todd had seduced her Since that trial she and lSingleterry have quarreled and she has
 filed an affidavit with the court that lher testimony then was false, and that she never was guilty of intimacy with lDr. Todd. Because of the prominence
 of the principals in this tragedy very
 great interest is manifested and the
 courtroom has been crowded all the
 week. A verdict has not yet peer
 reached.