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Show CLOSING DOWN MILLS BRINGS STARVATION Pitiable Situation at Wesson, Miss.; Steps Taken to Secure Legislative Relief. WESSON", Miss., March 6 As a result, re-sult, of tho closing down of tho text.Ilo mills at this place nearly one-third of the peoplo of Wesson have left town and many who remain are In a. state of poverty pov-erty bordering upon starvation. So serious has. the situation bocome that tho city council, at a special meeting, meet-ing, appointed a committee to go to Jackson and ask Governor Noel to urge tho legislature to pass a bill authorizing the city of Wesson to sot aside out of tho general fund a sum of ?500 to relieve tho lmmedlato needs of the people. The committee went to Jackson Saturday, Sat-urday, only to find that the legislature was off on a Junketing trip and that nothing can be done until Monday. On Monday the committee, accompanied by Mayor Thompson, will go again to Jackson Jack-son to urgo the remedial measuros. Tho mills at this place, which aro owned by the Textile corporation of New Orleans, now In the hands of receivers, had been running on short . time for months, and now that they havo closed down entirely, with llttio or no prospect for resumption for months, tho workers are. many of them, left without work and without funds, for tho majority of them were women and children, who made only enough for their actual needs. |