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THE COMING YEARING, JULY 14, 1907.PRICE FIVE CENTSMRS. J. J. HIBBETT.The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hlbbett will be shocked to learn of her death this morning at 12:30 at the O. 8 I. hospital.Mrs. Hlbbett had been 111 for about five weeks with typhoid fever and that terrible disease finally wore her out and she succumbed. She was one of the young matrons and was a charming woman with many friends and acquaintances who will regret her death.Mrs. Hlbbett was Miss Katie Gay and even as a girl she was popular and had a host of friends whose loving Interest followed her Into marriedlire.Owing to this late hour it Is impossible to give a more extended notice of her death and nothing can be learned as to the arrangements for the funeral, but It Is probable that she will not be buried until Monday.Partial Summary of Developments Now in Progress For Which Contracts Will Be Let.i: - “ PARALLEL AMONG SOUTHERN CITIESFacts and Figures That Betoken the Future Greatness of This Marvelous Magic City—the “Atlanta of Mississippi.SIXTY-SEVEN SALOONSLICENSED IN CHATTANOOGA.Chattanooga. Tenn., July 13.—Sixty-seven saloons, all that Chattanooga is allowed by law, have been licensed and hereafter all who wish to go into the saloon business must await retirements.• HATTIESBURG LEADS •• SOUTHERN CITIES. •'•ml—Clubb in Rochester Herald.RCE COMMISSIONman I alluthatest he•oad‘His1)80-the licy 1 all andughbaveughtreor-: in nant ensethe• In epitomizing the Improve* •• ments being made In Hattiesburg •• the News makes no claim to coin- •• pleteness. Many buildings under •• construction are not Included, •• and readers of the paper are re- •• quested to make corrections. •• Hattiesburg Is the fastest grow- •• lug cltv in the South, and this •• fact should be proclaimed to• world.NEW OFFICER* ARE NAMJEO FORAt a time of the year when there Is very little building going on some citleB, Hattiesburg *8 fclve, «The city la hot on a boom—It la a steady, substantial growth of a pros-•rous business community, that Is lng the allied building trades inMr. R. E. Kennington as Chai and E. A. Stephenson, as Secretary —Plans on Foot to Get Lower Rates Out of Jackson.ed the law when he absorbed the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad and with ex-Senator ClaVk monopolized the California trade until a few weeks ago.The Commission's report recites the history of the Alton deal, when Har-riman took a rake-off of nearly $14,-000,000 from a road costing $58,000,-000, adding nothing tangible since to the value of the property.Within the past year the report of the Commission recites the fact that the Harrlman system acquired Interests in the Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Chicago and Northwestern. Northern Pacific, New York Central and St. Joseph and Grand Island, amounting to nearly $132,000,00.Says the Commission: If this policy of purchasing and controlling stocks in competing lines is permitted and continued It must mean the suppression of competition.The only recommendations publicly made are: Confine the rallroAd business absolutely to furnishing transportation; punish railroads acquiringJackson, July 13 —A meeting of the freight rate bureau of the Jackson Board of Trade was held last night and Mr. R. E. Kennington was elected chairman to succeed Mr. V. D. Campbell. and Mr. E. A. Stephenson as secretary to succeed Mr. J. T. Savage. The bureau Is composed of the following well known business men- R. E. Kennington, J. B. Herln. W. W. Orrick. I. A. Mosal. B. I. Fulner. R. H. Green, W. D. Hannah. W. W. Ward, E. B. Iron, E. A. Stephenson.The new chairman Is one of the leading wholesale and retail merchants of the community, while the new secretary la a freight rate expert, having been in charge of all the detail work of the bureau for the past year.Arrangements have also been made with Local Freight Agent Bevins, of the Illinois Central, with the view of securing better service Tor jobbers, this being preliminary to a conference with the freight traffic officials of all lines to get a better service and lower rates to the surrounding towns.thelf_dinner pall In Hattiesburg.Every kind and class and style building is being erected or U c tracted for erection this summer from the stately church edifice to the m railroad station, and from the ©ring office building to the modest cottage home, everywhere there are the raucous cries of labor, the creak of cranes and the sounds that go with industry.Streets that are unpaved are graded and made of the paving material and and brick sidewalks are being put down In every direction, for, while the private Individuals and corporations are having their work done rapidly and thoroughly the city authorities are attending to the affairs of the publld.Ordinances calling for the immediate paving of unpaved sidewalks have been passed and are being enforced, for where the owner of property Is negligent and given to procrastination In the matter of sidewalks the city authorities step In and do the work and send in the bill.The Traction Company, which has absorbed the gas plant aud the elec-(Contlnued on page twelve.)
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Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Sun, Jul 14, 1907
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