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HERNANDO, MISSISSIPPI, DECEMBER 23, 1909
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VOLUME 13
Senator McLaurin Dies Suddenly.
Jackson, Miss., Dec. 22—United
States Senator A. J. McLaurin died
suddenly at his home in Brandon at
6:35 o'clock this evening.
Death was due to an attack of heart
failure, and came without the slight
est warning.
Senator McLaurin was seated in a
rocking chair in front of the fireplace
in his library and toppled over dead.
Life was extinct before any member
of the family reached his side. It was
a swift summons, and but a few mo
ments previously the distinguished
statesman had remarked that he was
feeling better than at any time since
his recent severe illness, resulting
from an attack of ptomaine poison
ing.
Tfie announcement of the death of
. Senator McLaurin caused a real sen
sation here, where he had lived for
four years as governor, where he was
known to everybody and had a host
of friends. His only son, A. J. Mc
Laurin, Jr., and his brother, S. L. Mc
Laurin, lawyer and banker of Bran
don, were both m Jackson when the
news of the death of the senator
reached herejby telephone. They had
left him at noon, in the best of health
and spirits, and could hardly believe
the report that was brought across
the intervening fourteen miles.
NOTES FROM DAYS
That season of the year, which is
naturally and rightly the most joyous
of all, is upon us. There is a quick
ening af the footstep an added sparkle
to the eye, a something unusual and
invigorating in the atmosphere.
It is Charles Dickens, we believe,
who speaks of the spirit of Christ
mas, as though it were a veritable
sentient essence which spreads abroad
good cheer and touches mankiud with
holier feelings and aspirations. It it
a beautiful thing too, and one which
quickens the poetic imagination.
Christ's birthday! The day on which
God gave us that good and perfect
gift. Then let us weave our holly
wreathes. Lot us crown the Christ
with our garlands, let ub feast our
souls on the fullness of God and on
the riches of his gift to mankind,
Christ Jesus.
Let us drink deep of the soul of the
Christmastide, while we enjoy its outer
semblance, by remembering the little
children whose homes are those of
direst poverty, who have looked and
hungered so long in vain for Santa
Claus' visit that they have despaired
and lost all faith in him. That Christ
mas to them, will bring no cheer—uu
less, you or I can be the good angel
to bring it.
Little Marguerite Welch who has
been very sick, we are glad to learn
is improving.
Mrs. John Rollins is visiting rela
tives in this vicinity.
Miss Beulah Cooper is on the sick
list this wetk.
Miss Lena B. Flinn will visit home
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folks at Kelly during the holidays.
Mr. Oscar Thomas, of Clinton school,
will be the guest of his parents Christ
mas.
Little Miss Beatrice Earnhert, of
Eudora, has been visiting her grand
mother, Mrs. C. E. Crumpler the past
week.
A merry Christmas and a prosper
ous and happy New Year for the good
Times-Promoter and every body this
broad land over, is the wish of
Old maid.
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POPLAR CORNER CORNER PICKUPS
Hello boys, we are having a plenty
of good old winter time. A plenty of
snow, and some of my neighbors are
out of wood, some of them are cutting
and hauling wood. I am glad it is
not me.
Mrs. Collin and children, of Tupelo,
Arkansas, left for home last Thurs
day.
Aught Hughey and wife, of Rosa,
Ark., have gone home.
J. R. Brewer, of Joyner, Ark., is a
guest at the Corner. He reports every
thing in good shape over there.
C. Tulley has moved from the Cor
ner to his new home in Tennessee.
Our school teacher, Miss Minnie
King and some other young folks took
a walk around tne Hart section last
Saturday evening in the snow. They
made the trip 4 miles in good time,
and wasn't satisfied and took another
hike nearly to Walls station and back.
I had rather it was them than myself.
When they got back they complained
of being hungry.
Boys, I saw in The Times-Promoter
where Alex Polk a negro who was
convicted of murder, and was to have
been hung on the 7th day of January
1910, escaped on the night of the 14th.
Don't blame the negro, he only did
what you or I would have done under
the circumstances. The blame be
longs some where else.
Some of the girls had a nice time
sleigh riding Sunday evening.
Sunday school at the Corner was
short last Sunday. Too cold for the
kids to turn out in large squads.
One more school week and the chil
dron can begin hanging up their lit
tle stockings. Old Santa Claus will
soon start out.
News at the Corner is frozen out.
Christmas tree at the Corner on
Thursday night after Christmas, Dec.
30th. Exercises will commedce at
7:30 o'clock sharp. Everybody in
vited.
Old Hughey.
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Notice to Hunters.
Hunting is positively forbidden on
any of the lands owned or controlled
by R. M. Banks, Geo. Banks or Banks
& Co. Hunters violating this notice
will be prosecuted.
R. M. Banks,
Administrator.
12-23-tf.
Tallahatchie Drainage Plans.
(Continued from last Issue.)
Iif most localities where large
drainage operations are undertaken
it is necessary to construct enough
outlet channels to carry the drainage
water through the district, for in
stance, iu the St. Prrncis drainage
district in Arkansas, for which I have
prepared plans and estimates, more
than a thousaad miles of artificial
channels will be necessary for drain
ing an area approximately equal in
size to the Tallahatchie drainage dis
trict. In thatdistrict the lateral drain
age channels will approximately equal
in coBt the main drainage system. In
the Tallahatchie district,' however, a
very remarkable condition exists.
The Mississippi River, in overflowing
the delta, has formed a vast number
of bayous and channels. It is esti
mated that there are not less than
1500 or 2000 miles of these. A thor
ough cleaning of them will be inex
pensive as compared with the cost of
excavating ditches, and will complete
the surface drainage for a vary lar^e
part of the area, leaving compara
tively few new channels to be con
structed. In fact, there are more
miles of natural drainage channels in
this district than there will be of both
natural and artificial channels in St.
Francis drainage district when that
work is completed.
''The Tallahatchie drainage district
is exceptionally well situated in that
with the completion of the main drains
and the clearing of the natural chan
nels, the question of surface drainage
to a large extent will be solved. In
time the people of the delta will de
mand tile drainage and this will re
quire additional expenditure for tiling
and in some cases for deepening out
lets, as it has in ; all other localities
where this final fbrm of drainage im
provement has been undertaken.
''In the study of this situation there
is one single fact which has impressed
me as of more immediate import than
all others. It is|hat while great care
and mature consideration should be
given to the choice of the method
adopted for improving this area, it is
very necessary for the welfare of the
people of the Tallahatchie-Coldwater
Valley that this problem be worked
out as a single enterprise, and by a
single, well prepared plan. This is a
great engineering problem, and to be
sucbe9sful it must be handled in a
comprehensive and an able manner.
To temporize with the situation by
dismembering the district at the pres
ent time, and by organizing in its
place a number of shialler districts,
will inevitably mean a much greater
cost of drainaga, a continual conflict
of plans and of interests, a failure
ever to receive the full results of a
comprehensive development, and *a
loss of all collateual benefits such As
the development of power and the im
provement of navigation.
''If the people of the district ought
earnestly too support the working
out of this problem as a whole, the
inhabitants of the counties below the
district ought to be none the less in
sistent that this course be taken; for
by the plan proposed a large part of
the flood waters of the district will
be prevented ever reaching their ter
ritory ; while a haphazard system of
improvement must inevitably result
in increasing the flood stages on the
lower river."
Mr. Morgan quotes Mr. Proutt's re
port to the effect that the water which
would be available for power pur
poses (during the year of lowest rain
fall since 1871,) would generate a con
tinuous output Of 1600 horse power
for 24 hours per day or 3200 for 12
hours per day, delivered to consumers
in Memphis. With a conservative
minimum price for this power, he
thinks that a net revenue of $100,000
per year should result, after allowing
all fixed, maintenance and operating
charges for the power plant, the first
cost of which, with accessories, is es
timated at $540,000.
As bearing upon the general solu
tion of this problem and its effect upon
navigation, General Ernst's report is,
n part, as follows:
"Prom the foregoing summary it
may be inferred that the plan which
promises the best results from the
Irainage point of view is the thiro
plan, the one in which the Coldwater
is partially diverted northward. Its
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cost is very much less than that of
any of the other plans. It benefit*
the country south of the Tallahatchie
drainage district instead of injuring
it, as the other plans do. It also fur
nishes the means of improving the
navigation of both the Coldwater and
the Tallahatchie; the water stored in
the hills may be released during the
low water season and thus maintain
the stages of the river at times when
they would naturally be obstructed
by low water.
"In addition to giving these levees
an unusually heavy cross section,
guard gates are proposed at the en
trance to Ho'fn Lake, by means of
which Mississippi flood waters may
be shut out of the floodway entirely.
The result will bo that the integrity
of the Mississippi levee system will be
absolutely preserved. It may even be
said that this will be the strongest
part of it.
A stranger coming to this work as
I do, without preconceiyed notions,
is Btruck both by its importance and
by the necessity of progressive de
velopment and of united action. The
district has been protected from the
ravages of the Mississippi River but
a large part of it is not available for
planting because of deficient drain
age. The most prominent feature in
the drainage problem is the control
of a large river and of its navigable
tributary. This cannot be accom
plished by a small locality acting in
dependently, but it can, be accom
plished by united effort. No drainage
district which'is not large enough to
place these rivers under control can
ever hope to solve successfully the
drainage problems. The scheme is
now in a formative state, but it would
seem that it is only a question of
time when it will be carried out. It
is entirely feasible to, furnish a largo
measure of relief by executing one
pbrtion of the plan first, leaving it to
the future decision of the taxpayers
whether the more perfect drainage to
be expected from the completed pla
skall be^c.^riecf out or not."
Each of the three consulting engi
neers makes special comment upo
the great volume of accurate data
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THE HERNANDO ANK
GEO. BANKS,
President.
E. T. WILKINSON.
Vice-President.
R. P. OOOKE.
Cashier.
T. P. FLINN,
Assistant Cashier.
CAPITAL $25,000
Does a general banking, loan and col
lection business. Acts as Trustee,
Guardian and Administrator.
Pays 3 per cent, on
Time Deposits.
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GIVE US YOUR BU8INE8S.
DIRECTORS
Geo. Banks
E. T. Wilkinson
B. P. Cooke
B. L. Bedding.
L. J. Farley. >
J. L. Cooke.
T. P. Flinn.
W A. Williamson.
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mission engi
an*nged for
use. Mr. Morgan says:""It may not
be out of place to say that the data
of this survey have been more in
telligently collected and are better
arranged than that of any drainage
survey I have examined." General
Ernst says:
Drainage District have
zeal and energy in the collection of
the topographical and hydrological
information required in the develop
ment of the plans, and have shown
excellent judgment in drawing con
clusions as to former years from the
measurements of the flow of all the
principal streams in that year, and
are able to make a close estimate of
the forces to be dealt with in extreme
cases.
which the Drainage <
neers have collected
"The engineers of the
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Women Not Eligible.
Attorney General Sterling has given
Governor Noel two official opinions as
to the legality if ladies holding office
in this state. The first was not ex
actly as to an office, but rather as to
an employe of the lunatic asylum, and
in that case he was certain there is
no obstacle in the way of a lady being
employed to fill any position frofn
which the incumbent may be removed
or discharged by the board of trustees,
and ^hosc duties arc prescribed by
contract and not by law.
The other case is as to the right of
ladies to serve on the Text Book Com
mission, the governor rather favoring
two or three of them, and would ap
point them if they were eligible under
the law. The attorney general is con
vinced that "only male inhabitants of
the state" are eligible to hold office,
there being one exception to the rule,
and that in the case of .the state
librarian*
"No woman can occupy any other
office within the gift of t^e people of
the state of Mississippi," says Gen.
Stirling, and he is of the opinion that
a Text Book Commissioner, appoint
ed by'the governor, is an officer, and
women are mot eligible.—GjaAon-Led
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