The foremost enterprises in our town are the churches and school. We have three church buildings, Baptist, Methodist and Nazarene. We have an organized Christian church but they do not have a building. Our home ministers are Brother E. T. Putman; pastor of the Baptist church and Bro. T. W. Smallwood pastor of the Methodist church. Both churches are alive and both preachers are efficient in their work and the most loved men in town.
We boast of having one of the best high schools in North Mississippi. We have a very [able faculty], consisting of Prof. C. B. Sisler, Supt.: Mr. Bell, Miss Earnestine Gust, Mr. Earl Blue, Mrs. Inez Summerall, Miss Clara Christian, Miss Idell Landreth, Mrs. Essie Cochran, Miss Ruby Sanderson: Miss Irene Parker, Litreary [sic]: and Miss Rhodes is in charge of the Music department. Our school building measures about 80 feet by 140 feet, two stories high with a small building outside for the primary grades and it is only a matter of a year or so until we will have to increase the room to take care of the increase in attendance.
We have twenty two houses of business made up of able business men. Some of the most complete stocks of merchandise to be found in this section of the State are to be had here in Vardaman. In addition to this we have the best country hotel you can find anywhere, a good telephone system, handle and planer factories together with an up-to-date gin that can get all the cotton off the seed.
This is recognized as the best cotton market [line too light] and rank with the highest in this part of the state, at all times you can get the top for your cotton and other produce.
Sweet potatoes are raised very extensively here and we have a large public storage house for them in charge of Mr. J. L. Garmany. It was said by a traveling man that he never heard the name Vardaman without thinking of a sweet potato
You see we do not have to rely on King Cotton for a living. We have strawberries in a small shipping way but we anticipate a large increase in as much as we have over 100 acres pledged for this fall. This will enable us to ship every day by car lots during the shipping season.
We are on the East-West highway. It turns here and goes south across the Yallowbusa [Yalobusha] River bottom intersecting another highway under construction in Chickasaw county. We have a designated highway running from Hohenlinden in Webster County through Vardaman to a point in Pontotoc County.
Our town continues to grow, we have had several new residences added
to our list together with the new businesses. -- Publicity committee.