The Starkville news., March 08, 1912, Image 2

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local and personal
Mr. G. B. Hutchinson was here
Monday.
Mr. Frank Love was a town
visitor Monday.,
Mr. Percy Oswalt, of Bradley,
traded here Monday.
Mr. Geo. W. Bostick was a
business visitor here Monday.
Commissioner Davis is putting
the streets in fine condition.
Mayor Johnson, of Longview,
was in the city Monday.
Preparations are in hand for
gardening and the seed will soon
be put in the ground.
Rev. W. A. Jordan preached a
forcible sermon at the Sunday
morning service.
Garden planting will be some
what behind this year on account
of the wet weather.
March came in similar to a
lamb but we have no information
as to how it will end.
Rev. W. E. M. Brogan, made
another flying trip to West Point
Monday. This time he went in
an aeroplane.
Quite a number of farmers
throughout the county have
sowed wheat, and if the weather
conditions seem fair the crop
will do well. •
The roads are still in bad con
dition, but if the weather keeps
on for several days like it has
been the early part of the week,
they will be passable.
The concert at the opera house
Saturday night for the benefit of
the new pipe organ at the Meth
odist church was well attended
and a handsome sum was real
ized.
Everybody is trying to garden.
If you have chickens and no
fence, better feed the seed and
save the expense of pitching the
crop.
Mr. George Mclnvale, super
intendent of the power house,
was in Memphis the first part of
the week, where he went to visit
his grandmother whom we learn
died. The News extends sympa
thies.
Mr. Watt Sikes is one of our
most progressive young farmers,
cattle and stock raisers in this
section of the state. He has the
very best high grade hogs with
in the state. He is strictly bus
iness in his pursuits.
Mr. Prank Josey was here
Monday on business.
Mr. C. L. Pulton was a busi
ness visitor Monday.
Mr. D. C. O’Bryan was look
ing after business in town Mon
day.
Mr. A. R. Pondren was a busi
ness visitor here Monday.
Mr. E. E. Cotton was here
trading Monday.
Mr. Jim Me Minn was in the
city Monday.
Prof. O. Y. Scroggins was
here Monday.
Mr. A. R. Puigham was look
ing after business here Monday.
Mr. Lewis Sherman was a town
visitor Monday.
Wiley James, of Self creek,
was a visitor here Tuesday.
Mr. Charlie Templeton was
seeing about business matters
here Monday.
Mr. T. E. Sikes, north of Brad
ley, was attending to business
here Monday.
Mr. Hunter Wofford, of Trim
cane section, was a town visitor
Monday.
Mr, Harry Johnson was in
town Monday looking after bus
iness.
Mr. Melyin Butler, of Self
creek, was transacting business
here Monday.
Mr. Willis Pondren, of the
Adaton neighborhood, was trad
ing here Monday.
Mr. Robert Lewis made a fly
ing trip to Self creek last Sun
day evening.
Mr, D. M. Sudduth, of the
western part of the county was
in town Monday.
Messrs. J. T. Chiles and F.
Hogan went to Aberdeen Tues
day morning.
A number of people of Long
view and Sturgis were in the city
Tuesday.
Mr. James Johnson was at
tending the Supervisors Court
Monday.
Mr. W. G. Walker, of Bradley
neighborhood, was a visitor here
Monday,
Messrs. Billie Robertson and
B. B. Bufford, south of Bradley,
were here Monday.
Mr. W. H. Hammond, another
splendid citizen of the Forest
neighborhood, was a visitor to
our city Monday.
Mr. Floyd Priest, one of our
best farmers in western Oktib
beha was a business visitor here
Monday.
Messrs. James Johnson and
Anthony Puigham, of near Ma
ben were trading in town Tues
day.
Messrs. C. C. Ferguson and
Arnie Funderburk, of Bradley
vicinity, were here on business
Monday.
Mr. Prank Turner, of the his
tone village of Double Springs,
was looking after business mat
ters here Monday.
Messrs. P. H, Bolin, Y. C.
Lummus, White Lummus and
Berry Lummus, of Hickory
Groye vicinity, were transacting
business here Monday.
Messrs. W. E. Drane, T. A. B.
Lemons, J. E. Robinson, Prank
tiemons, Will Love and C. A.
Robertson, of Osborn, were bus
iness visitors here Monday.
Mr. C. H. Butler, who recently
moved back from here to his
country home in the eastern por
tion df the county was trading
here Monday.
I Mr. J, W. Martin, an old Con
federate veteran, near Longyiew,
was a town visitor Monday.
Everybody seems to be deter
mined to plant bountiful gardens
this Spring and are at it.
Mr. H. J. Banta, traveling
agent for the Commercial-Appeal
was in the city Saturday.
Mrs. J. D. Deane is suffering
from an attack of the grip. We
hope for her a speedy recovery.
What little Springtime we have
seen looked mighty pretty, and
indications are we will have
more of it.
Dr. W. P, Hand, State Chem
ist of the A. & M. College, left
for Jackson Monday evening on
business connected with his de
partment at the College.
Mr. A. P. Rush, cashier of the
Merchants and Farmers Bank,
was called to Greenwood Friday
last, his father being yery ill.
We hope the condition of Mr.
Rush, Sr., will soon be improved.
Mr. J. R. Dayis, of the Trim
Cane neighborhood, was a pleas
ant caller at our office, Saturday.
We are always glad to see him
and we regard him as one of the
best men we ever knew.
Mr. J. H. Huffman paid West
Point a business trip Monday.
He will, about the last of this
week, open up a first-class meat
market in Needmore. No doubt
that he will succeed to his full
expectations.
Miss Mollie Crumpton, one of
the efficient assistant teachers in
the Sturgis High School, came
up Friday evening and spent till
Sunday afternoon most pleasant
ly in the home of her father, Dr.
J. W. Crumpton.
Dr. A. A. Wofford was here
Monday looking after business.
He informed us that his sister,
Mrs. June Bell, is improving and
it is believed that she will be
restored to her usually good
health. This is most pleasing
and gratifying to everybody.
The town was filled with peo
ple from all quarters of the coun
ty Monday. The Board of Su
pervisors was in session, which
is always the occasion for the
attraction of the crowds, most
all having business to look after
in that court.
Mr. R. B. Neal visited his
daughter, Mrs. Watt Sikes, at
Patrick Sunday. His little grand
son has been sick for some
weeks, having chills and it seems
a difficult matter to break them
on him, but it is to be hoped that
with the Springtime he will soon
be restored to good health.
But for the hard ram Saturday
night there would not have been
scarcely a field in the # county
that the plow was not in action
Monday morning. The grocer
and the hardware merchant are
beginning to feel the good effects
of spring—selling goods in good
ly quantities.
The following persons were
here from Longview, Monday:
Mayor G. W. Johnson. Nash
Seitz, W. W. Hall, J. W. Warner,
J. I. Cummins and J. M. Hall,
Shelly Shropshire, E. A. Buck
ner, Loff Sanders, Andy Ed
monds and James Bracken, and
perhaps others whose names
our reporter was unable to pro*
cure.
Mr. M. V. Richards, land and
immigration agent for the South
ern Railroad at the A. & M.
College Monday in conference
with President Hardy, relative
to the scholarships offered by
President Finley some time ago.
President Hardy is in favor of a
loan instead of scholarships, for
the former plan would benefit
poor boys to a great extent. Mr,
Richards will visit several other
institutions in the state on this
trip, and the plans of the schol
arship awards will not be per
fected until he returns to Wash
ington.
We noticed, passing through
Starkville over the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad, to the address of
Prof. W. R. Perkins, Deeson,
Miss., 100 bushels of seed corn.
It is refreshing to know that the
large corporation plantation will
grow other things than cotton.
This should be a pointer to all
farmers—grow corn if nothing
more.
Mr. John McCormick, an old
influential citizen of Meridian,
spent seyeral days here this
week yisiting his daughters,
Mesdames Jerre and James Bell.
Mr. McCormick speaks in high
terms of his city and says that
the prospects for three new rail
roads in the near future are fine.
Meridian is a good town, all are
oound to admit.
I
Money in the bank is a friend in need.
Money talks. Be business like. The checfe
system is the most dignified and business-like
method of paying your bills and other obhga
gations. It is one of the best ways to keep
“tab” on yourself—to keep from spending a
lot of money uselessly—Put all you get in the
bank and check against it. In just a little
while you will be surprised to see how you do
save. Deposit your money right away.
BANK OF STURGIS
Sturgis, Miss.
Blumenfeld & Fried
Will have on hand
a full supply of
Fertilizers, Home Mixture
And Acid Phosphate
We are rounding out another
week and. from newspaper expe
rience, two weeks of satisfaction
and. pleasure in our work. News
paper work has its pleasures,
disappointments and perplexi.
ties, yet withal, there is some
thing about it that is charming
and enchanting. Proof-reading
has been more of form than oth
erwise—no errors or defects to
mar the even tenor of the way.
For all of this we are indebted
to our highly appreciated and
most efficient foreman, Mr. J. M.
Murphey, who understands the
“art preservative” in every de
tail. You can only have a faint
imagination of what a great re
lief to be “encompassed around
about” as we are. Mr. Murphey
has a large experience and is one
of the most pains-taking and ar
tistic job printers in the whole
land, to whose taste and judg
ment we can always defer, and
can unqualifiedly recommend him
a gentleman in every respect.
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