Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-06-03
TAKING IN fHE STATE PRESS MEET
At Greenwood On The Yazoo.

afternoon we Dau MISSED bne opening
OF the convention and the welcome
address by the mayor and also one by
Gi lespie OF the Greenwood Daily
Commonwealth who was host for
The association.
The next morning Wednesday
was taken up with business ses
sion in the Chamber of Commerce
hall The time was crowded with
the different items of business and
speakers and discussions, IA recital of
which would not prove interesting to
the ordinary reader as it had large
" to do with newspaper and job
printing problems.
The party had had the pleasure
the afternoon before of taking ride
round the city and its environs while
/ our broken connection of trains was
holding US on the way over. They
crossed the river on the steel bridge
wbich spans the Yazoo and circled
out of the country some, seeing bit
OF what is done in farming wav IN
that rich Delta section. The river
was yet in flood but was receding.
IT had been up pretty near to the
levee top IN the town ard had run o.
yer in some places abave and below.
Green wood is we'll situated for levee
Iprotecton being almost circled with
them, that is on the RIVER front and
above and below with some highland
behind so we were told The Yazoo
showed that yellow muddy color for
which it is noted and the willows on
each side were swaying with the rip
ping waters up beyond the ordinary
stage. However, the pow follows
the water quick as it recedes from
off OF the overlooked lands and crops
grow fast and mature rapidly in this
rich alluvial soil and broiling suns.
/, Greenwood is the financial center
of this immediate section and quite a
cotton market. We see several cot
ton selling concerns. Business dull
now but little selling going on.
They have the samples of the white
fleecy stuff in their establishments.
The selling at present is principally
of the long staple, which is bringing
about II cents as compared with 80
cents during the high flush of the
previous year This shrinkage has
lost thousands of dollars to planters
and farmers who did not sell clean out
on the previous year and there is
lots of 1919 crop held yet-and get
GA the market before it broke in the
fail of 1920 This information we
CLEANED from one of their prominent
bankers who also tod us that they
were hardest hit on feedstuff. That
his bank has paid out for customers
| abouta million dollars for feed
|
The people went wild on cotton and
neglected to raise corn and hays,etc.
This year the banks are compelling
those whom they carry to put GER
tain proportion of their acreage in
feedstufis which will help solve the
problem of better times in their sec
tion for another year
A pleasureabIe feature of the night
before was special newspaper mo-
tion picture, courtesy of the Saen-
ger Amusement Co. the principal OBJ
Ject of which was to catch the party
for some announcements with refer
ence to some movie" groups in
which they had caught us as a party.
After that we were piloted across
to the big department store on their
main street which is known as
Fountain 81 and is three stories
high and magnificent establishment
of its kind handling a wide variety
of clean attractive goods moderately
priced and splendidly arranged and
handled.
The last morning of the CONVEX
ton Thursday taken up with
} "a long session in which the business
was wound up including the election
of officers and selection of next place
of meeting. Columbus was chosen
as Tie 1922 convention city with side
trip planned to visit the A g. M Col
lege. Tho officers chosen for new
year were W. G.. Hight, of Wirton
Journal, president; Edgar G. Harris,
I anral Daily aadar Tor Woo nraot