Water Valley progress., October 09, 1909, Image 4

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THE PROGRESS.
G. D. BROWN, Ed. and Pub.
Hntered at the Postoffice at Water
Valley as Second Class Matter.
Official Organ of Yalobusha Co.
and the City of Water Valley.
SATURDAY, OCT. 9, 1909.
Telephone, No. 249.
Editorial Brevities
Subscribe For The Progress.
Eight fre? Dight schools opened
in New Orleans Monday.
The Independence League is
to put a mayoralty ticket in the
field in New York.
The mayors of 361 cities are
attending the convention of
Mayors in St. Louis this week.
Governor Patterson of Tennes
see has practically admitted that
he will be a candidate for a third
term.
The Chile pepper crop of Mexi
co is said to be a total loss, due
to the recent unprecedented spell
of freezing weather.
There were 107 accessions to
the churches in Corinth at the
close of a revival conducted by
Rev. W. M. McIntosh.
Several North Carolina cotton
mills are considering closing
down for some time on account
of the high price of cotton.
The pendulum has swung back
In Connecticnt and a number of
towns that have been dry for
years went wet in elections held
Monday.
President Taft is tiring of the
repetition of banquets being
served np on bis tour of the
country and a few days ago wired
in advance for a dinner of beef
and cabbage.
The cotton market went off
name fifteen points Monday and
as mush more Tuesday, and that
despite the government and other
reports stating the exceeding
shortness of the crop.
Dr. Fredeic Cook, discoverer
of the North Pole, has agreed to
submit bis records and instru
ments to the United States Geo
grapical Society and let that body
pass officially upon the question
as .to whether he did or did not
reach the northermost part of the
earth’s surface.
lady's suit case was
ipenen on a public street in Bir
_ningbsm a few ago and searched
for whisky, exposing her lingerie
md toilet articles to the gase of
ping crowd that quickly as
bled. This outrage oq corn
the grossest yet
our craay sister
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B.1ELAKBX C.
Water Valley’s Leading Dry Goods Store,
Announce, to their host of friends and patrons
in Water Valley and vicinity that their
Immense Stock of Fall
and Winter Goods
has been received And is now ready
for public inspection.
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19* Merchandise of all kinds has’advanced sharply, but this firm
•9* having contracted long ago with the manufacturers for their
19* goods, are fortunate in being sjble to give their customers low*
19* er prices on all new and desirable Dry Goods than can be
X9* found elsewhere in all this land. ♦ *t* <$> <$•
19* A visit to this Great Store wiB'convince all buyers of the fact
that they are in the right plate. ft •S*
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Cotton Condition
The New Orleans Times-Dem
ocrat in its issue of Oet. 4th,
compiles a statement of cotton
conditions upto Srpt. 20th, made
up from the reports from sever
al thousand correspondents
throughout 4he cotton belt, as
follows:
Taking the Belt as a whole,
there has been no marked change.
The cbaDge, if any, has been to
ward further deterioration.
The storm of bept. 20 did great
damage in the districts whioh
came within Us sweep.
Pioking has made rapid prog
ress and there ie generally an
abundance of labor for this pur
pose.
Farmers seem disposed to soil
at current prices, at least enough
to pay their debts, but a consider
able part of the crop is likely to
be beld for an advance later on.
Tbe boll-weevil has wrought
havoc in certain sections, but the *
intense heat minimized the loot
from this pest.
The Government cotton report
issued Monday estimates the cot
ton condition on Sept. 20 as 0&fl
per oent compared with a normal
yield. The estimate for Mississip
pi is 58 per cent.
Notice to. Road Contractors is
Boat 1.
All work most be put np ac
cording to speefleations before
any more pay will be allowed. .
D. E. Pate, Supervisor.
A bale of staple cotton sold ai
Olarkadale Monday for a trifle
less than 0120.
Newsy Items of
This Great State.
' The Jackaon Loatr and Trust
Company la to erect a handsome
office building.
McComb has decided to revive
its Mardtgraa Club and will h old
a carnival next year,
The Cumberland Telephone Co.
estimate# its loss by tbe storm of
Sept. 20 at <250,000.
J. W. Tedder, white, was giy
on a life term in the penitentiary
at Indianola for killing a negro.
The Coffeeville Courier has
been revived with Mr. E. H. Har
ris as editor. We wish it much
prosperity.
An experiment is to be made
on the penitentiary farm in Sun
flower county of fifty acres in
winter wheat.
A young white farmer wee
hone-whipped near Olarksdele
Saturday for an alleged insult to
a neighbor’s daughter,
J. W. Roberta, Jr., chanoery
dark of Suaflower oounty, bee
been indicted for changing the
oeurt record# of hla oounty.
Montledio haa organised a
wheel improvement league. A
splendid thing; even county end
aohoel district should have each
an organisation,
KEEPINGS
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PH Smith, trans lunette
F H Smith, feed printer— “
JR Haynes, lumber
Wegner ft Oo, eon sotf
Herald, printing
J E Laycook, td
Nolen Bron. sun
P M Hendricks, pi
Tnrnagc-Atlrinidn,
F It 8mitb,mek
cation license
Progress printing
Itemizer, printing
8 B Young, iambi
Lee Herron, rep
J E Lisles, lumtM
G VMIilstead, ri
W E Morton, 1
L B Burke, lum
B H 8ims%osti
H W Davis, rdi
Pass ft Alien, le
Belt Wllbourn,
Trusty Bron. ft
Bvaas ft Dyer,
J L Reese, 1
W 6 Langetoi
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Solon Hotrell,
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We will sell you any goods In our store at
prices which cannot be beat in Water Valley.
We now have on hand a nice line of Fall
Dress Goods.
Ladies, Misses and Childrens, Fall and Wtd-'
ter underwear, Misses and Childrens Cloaks,
Childrens caps, Calicoes, Outings. Flannels and
Domestics. ‘
<411 the latest novelties in Ladies Neckwear,
Belts. Hair Ornaments anda new assortment off
our Famous S cent Torchon Laces. Etc.
ForT/mMen: "
Wo havens fine a lino of roady-to-wonr Suita, atovo* shown
in Water Volky and at prices you cannot boat anyWhoro, '
Mon and Boys' Winter Underwear. Mon and Boys' Si
line of F.oc/sbirt, you ever w^H^SSLsft
Ite Sm* mmd UtmtStyL fa Mm'.,
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