Water Valley progress., August 18, 1906, Image 4

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file Progress
S. B. Uaowx, Editor and Proprietor
Q, D.Ukown. nMaoc.itte Editor
Entered at the Poet Office at Wa^er
Valiev. as Second Class Matter.
SATURDAY, AUG. 18, 1906,
Telephone, No. 249.
For Congress.
We are authorized to announce
MON. W. S. HILL,
of Montgomery County, as a cau*<
didate for re election from the
Fourth Congressional District,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic Party.
District Attorney
We are authorized to announce
HON. 0. E. HARRIS
of Tallahatchie county as a candi
date for District Attorney, of the
eleventh Circuit Court distric.,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic party.
Weare authorized to announce
HON. JAS, Q. MoGOWEN
of Yalobusha county as a candi
date for District Attorney of the
Eleventh Circuit Court District,
subject to the action of the Demo
cratic party.
The Texas State Democratic
Convention endorsed Bryan for
president.
Some picking is in progress in
the southern and southwestern
counties, and the crop is maturing
very rspidly.
The fortieth annual reunion of
the Grand Army of the Republic
began in Minneapolis last Mon
el y.
Memphis received Tuesday the
first bale of the new cotton crop.
It was grown in Arkansas, and
orought 55 cents a pound at an
auction sale.
G n. George W. Gordon, gal
1-ifit old Confederate Vetefau, has
t» en nominated for Congress by
t e D oiucrats of the Tenth Ten*
u s^d D strict.
K'ng Edward of England is on
» visit to his kinsman, Emperor
Wiliam of Germany, and the dipt
Jom itic world is much exercized
w i m u issing at the purpose of
tiij royal courtesy.
Mississippi’s first bale of the
Jt))o07 cotton crop has been
in s-aot. j t at Uoiumoia, and was
soil for t*o cents per pound. It
wo 'fou jy R. A- Forbes, ot the
Wuirpjie neighborhood, and
w i .< i soil to the Hampton Oom
P i *y vis classed full middling.
A. EL Chisholm, paying teller
of a Birmingb tin, Aia. bank, has
been arrested charged with em
bezzling $97.UU0 of the bank’s
funds, lie oas made a full con
fessiou, and says he lost the mon>
ey specula iag in cotton lutures.
Mississippi corn crop this year
will be a bumper In some sec
tions of the biate Harvesting ot
the crop will be commenced with*
in a few d«ys, a tturity period be
ingmuch uau.,. .aau usual and
it would be indeed to find a
community wht:iu termers are
not well saiuii u .*i,u me pros
pects.
District Attorney Jerome will
be a candidate lor governor of
Mew York. If lie uoes not get
the nomination ou me regular
Democratic nckei, it is stateu Ue
will run as au inu» pendent can
didate to de.eat Heaiai.
Ex-G v. ‘li.b’’ Taylor, Sena
torelect irom Tenne- a,, and a
fiddler ol some celebrity, has ac
cepted an mvitaton to act as judge
ol t ie old time fiddler’s reunion
which will take place at Yazoo
vtty uo o 13th at the ciosiug
iv.ulv u Jeand carnival week.
.Joe Meeks wasennhfd t death |
ii a mill accident ..i u»* 1.
jP.re in the business »< eli >n o1
Magee caused a $28 000 loss.
Barrow & Price, mor 'bauts of
Greenwood, have failed for $15.
000, assetts, $11,000.
Democratic executive committee
of the Sixth Congressioal District
has rennominated E. J. Bowers.
The cotton crop of central and
south Missisippi is said to be de*
teriorating on account of the hot
and dry weather.
At Natchez a camp ot Sons of
Confederate Veterans will be or
ganized with a charter member
ship of nearly 100.
State Treasurer Miller reports
that the treasury receipts for the
month of July amounted to $271,
540 37, a slight increase over the
past month, with a cash balance at
tl e end of the month of $40,61o.65.
The Newton Kecord says that
Mr. John Lowe, of that county,
95 years of age, is a flue squirrel
shot with the rifle, and his hear*
ing is as good as It was 75 years
ago. His wife is 96 years old, and
a hearty old woman. They have
been married 75 years and their
descendents number 207.
The people of Oxford are ar
ranging to give the survivors of
Walthall’s brigade a great barbe
cue and old fashioned brunswick
stew on the occasion of their re
union on September 6tb,
A meeting ot the Board of Trus
tees of the State University has
been called for AuguBo 23d, when
the vacancies caused by the res
ignations of Chancellor Fulton
and Gov. Shands will be filled.
The Board of Supervisors of
Simpson County is advertising
for plans and specification for the
construction of a courthouse.
The courthouse is not to exceed
$75,000 in cost.
The Mississippi division of the
Southern Cotton Association has
set for itself the task of securing
cotton crop estimates, calculated
in 500-pound bales, from the pro
ducers of the staple themselves
A systematic robbery oT bag
gage at the Jackson depot has
been going on tor months. Thou
sands of dollars worth of jewelry
and other goods have been taken
from the trunks and valises of
traveling men.t The negro porter
has been arrested, but the detec
tives think the main offender is
still at large
The truck farmers of Mississippi
are balancing accounts toascer
tain the recsuUs of the season re
cently brought to a close. Vege
table shipments closed some time
ago, but the horticulturists are
making soms sh'ptr ents of peach
es and figs, and fancy prices are
being obtained
For the first time in the history
of Illinois there is a probability
that one or both of the political
parties will nominate a colored
man for judicial place in a court
of record. There are seven avow
ed candidates among the negroes
of Chicago for a judgeship on the
oench of the municipal court, six
of them Republicans and one a
Democrat, their argument being
that they are as fit by education,
experience and ability as any of
the white men who seek the hon
or of the ermine.—Chicago Record
Herald.
Richard Cheatham, secretary of
the Southern Cotton Association,
has by participating in specula
tions, thrown a damper over the
organization which will take sotn e
time to obliterate. A comm it lee
of five was appointed to take evi
dence in the matter and in making
a report Oheathnm is condmned in
a mild way. From the evidence
submitted in the investigation it
would seem that the best thing
that could have been done would
have been to recommend his dis
missal, as it is quite certain there
will be thousands of farmers who
will be afraid of the organization
as long as he is connected with it,
whether or not he has or would de
anything wrong—Columbus Com
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Mississippi Items,,
J Woodard Bhot and mortally
wounded Obas. Thomas over a
craps game near Liberty.
Hou. A. M. Bytd has been re
nominated by the Democrats of
the Fifth District for Congress.
Hon. Chas. Scott, candidate
for governor has subscribed one
thousand dollars toward erecting
a monument to the M women of
the Confederacy.’’
Sixty million dollars is the new
estimate on Mississippi’s assess
ment increase for the current
year.
1 he rural telephone line from
Coldwater to Abbeville has been
completed. This line runs through
three Jcounties, Lafayette, Mar
shall and Tate, for a distance of
over sixty miles.
J. P. Slade, a noted white life
convict, made his escape'from the
Rankin county farm last Sunday.
Slade was sent up from Pike for
the murder of a man named Mil
ler. He was a well-to-do farmer
of that county.
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An epidemic of crime is report
ed among the negroes along the
eastern border of Leake county,
no less than fifteen members of
the race having been killed during
the past six months.
At the special election held in
Webster county to pass on the
question of creating a new circuit
and chancery court district, the
proposed change waa lost by a
majority of over 200 votes.
Recent extensions to the Laurel
cotton mill brings its capacity up
to about 10,000 bales of cotton per
annum, or 200.000 yards of finish'
ed cloth per week. Employment
is given 500 hands.
Announcement is made that the
W. T. Adams Machine Co.’s plant
Corinth, and which was greatly
damaged by fire some time since,
will be rebuilt on a larger and
more permanent scale than ever.
Col. J. R. Binford. commander
of the organization, has issued a
call for the annual reunion of the
survivors of the famous Fifteenth
Mississippi regiment, to be held at
Eupora on the second Wednesday
in September.
The six candidates for gover
nor addressed an audience of ten
thousand Tuesday at the Neshoba
County Pair, in advocacy of their
respective claims for the office.
The gathering was the greatest
political event of the year, and
was characterized by entv usiasm
and good feeling.
The heaviet rain storm that has
visited Meridian and vicinity for
fifteen years fell last Monday, ac
companied by a violent wind. Du
ring the storm the residence of T.
R Bryant was struck hy light
ning and his son, Willie killed. A
negro fell into flooded ditch and
was drowned.
The four year»old child of Mr.
and IV a Turner Oarraway, of
Amite county, wandered away
while lb ) parents were attending
services at New Zion church,
nearly 1.000 persons joined in the
search, which fasted for severa
hours. The child was finally
found shortly before sundown
about two miles from the church
and toddling contentedly alon;.
through the woods.
Alf Scott, Spaniard, was 1 ill*-d
by his daughter at Sarepta, ' al
houn county, last Friday, Ho was
very cruel to his family, and on the
day of his death tied the b y tr
a bed post and beat him. He bi -
came enraged at his wife £ nd stai
tedather with a knife. His (laugh
ter picked up an ax and dealt him
a terrible blow in the side, f I *
turned on fhe girl, to k If her.
when the mother snatched th(
knife from bis hand ami he fell
dead to the floor. 6ytnp *'hy b
wiihthe girl who had fli u't.\
in keeping her liberty by g v ug =.
bond o2 $2,000.
A Solid Car Load Each of
Wagons and luggies.
- - - GET THE BEST - - -
A STU EBAKEB
Here are the names of a few persons to whom
we have sold STUDEBAKER Wagons and Bug
gies. Ask any one of them about the Quality.
Wagons.
• M. D. L. Howell, Banner, 8
Wm. Gullett, “ 8
I. B. Orr, Orrwood, 4
G. W. Stogner, W. Valley, 3
C. R. Cock, “ 3
E. S. Cooper, “ 3
Dallas Jones, “ 2
W. N. Shippy. Paris, 3
Sim Sharp, “ 3
Prof. Vickry, Hatton, 1
Prof. Tom Early, Nolen; 1
S. E Hipp, 2
J. F. Holt, 2
W. W. Robinson. 4
R. F. Rowsey, 2
J. W. Champion, 3
Andrew Rowsey, 3
Buggies.
Walton Byers,
Mrs. I. B. Brown,
J. E. Hipp,
J. T. Williamson,
J. W. White,
Bedford Hipp,
Escoe Cooper,
J. C, Treloar,
W. F. Nail,
E. H. Parks,
I D. E. Parks,
R. R. PATE.
Assessments of all virgin pine
timber lands in Pearl River Coun
ty,, Miss., were raised to $20 per
acre.
Port Gibson, the contract for
the erection of a Confederate
monument here has been let by
the United Daughters of the Con
federacy to the Columbus Marble
Works, of Columbus, Miss. The
monument is to cost $4,000.
The supervisors cf Claiborne
county, let a contract Monday for
the working of the roads for the
next four years. The first year
contractors are to receive $48 per
mile, and for each of the succed
ing three years, $42.50 per mile.
The work is to begin at once, and
in ninety day3 tbe contractor
promises to have tbe road in first
class condition.
The Mississippi branch of the
Farmers’ Union is getting its
warehouse scheme m shape for
the approaching season, and by
tbe time tbe crop of 1907 8 iu har.
vested tbe officers expect to have
warehouses established at ever
importaut market center in the
State where the farmers may store
their cotton at a very low charge
to await better prices.
Subscribe for the Progress.
Important Business Notice.
Since the death of Mr. A. K.
Jobe, I have decided to dose out
his business in Water Valiev.
The entire stock will, there
fore, be sold at cost for cash, and
all persons indebted to him will
please call and settle their ac
counts as earl " *
Water Valley, Miss.
August ist, 1906.
Farmers of Pearl Biver County
formed a stock company to oper
ate a mercantile business. i
Several bales ef new cotton bat
been reported lrom the Southren
portion of the State.
Ed Williams, 4 years of age, was
crushed to death by a falling tree
at O. K. LindlDg, tbis morning,
dying instantly.
A large number of exhibits will.
be sent from Mississippi to the
State fairs in Iowa, Illinois, In
diana and Ohio, to take place dur<
ing the months of September and
October.
Mr. Hank White, quite a num
ber of years ago one of the best
^nowa and most capable locomo
tive engineers on this line of road,
now of Argents, Ark., was in the
city early in the week looking up
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Spencer’s Tooth Wash,
Spencer’s Corn Cure,
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Spencer’s Ice Cream, Sherbet,
and light summer drinks-all
home-made, are the best.
Spencer’s Prescription Depart
ment is prompt, accurate, and
only the best drugs are used,
Spencer’s line of druggists sun
dries and toilet articles and
fancy stationery is complete.
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