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- Gulfport Daily Herald, Mississippi, Monday, January 10, 1910
J.M. Bass Thinks Well of Coast
President of the Truck Growers Association of Copiah County Pays Us a Visit
Is Traveling In Interest Of Farmers? Union
And For Better Methods of Farming
Made Talk Before Big Ridge Local Saturday Night
Gulfport, Jan. 19. On last Saturday there arrived in Gulfport, J.M. Bass of Hazlehurst, Miss., one of the most prominent Farmers? Union members in the state, and it can be said with certainty that Mr. Bass will return to his people up the state with a most favorable and enthusiastic report as to the advantages of the coast for truck raising and fruit growing.
Mr. Bass, be it known, is the president of the Truck Growers? Association of Copiah county. He was the first state president of the Farmers? Union in Mississippi, having held that position for two years. This position is now filled by G.R. Hightower. Mr. Bass is now traveling in the interest of the Farmers? Union and is also representing in a commercial way the Great Southern Phosphate Company of Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. This was his first visit to the coast and to Gulfport. In a genial way he is working for the adoption of better and more nearly up to date methods of farming. He visited the Farmers? Union Warehouse here and was considerably chagrined when he learned of the Truck Growers? Convention to be held here on Friday and Saturday of this week, which he will now be unable to attend. Had he known of it earlier he said he would have arranged to be here, but a letter sent to him inviting him to be present did not arrive at his address until after he had left. He will address a gathering of growers in Covington today and then go to other points for the same purpose.
Mr. Bass on Saturday night accompanied Secretary Smith to the meeting of the Big Ridge local, north of the Back Bay bridge of Biloxi, and made the farmers a talk in which he grew enthusiastic over what can be done here on the coast in raising vegetables and fruits. He believed this a better country for that purpose than that around Hazlehurst, where as many as 89 cars of vegetables have been shipped out in one week.
Clarion Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, Tuesday, February 16, 1960
John M. Bass Dies In N.O.
HAZLEHURST ? John M. Bass, Jr., 70-year-old former mayor of Hazlehurst, died unexpectedly in New Orleans Monday while visiting his daughter.
A life-long resident of Hazlehurst, he was associated for 20 yearw with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He was a former state baning department official and a former chancery clerk of Copiah County.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday from the Hazlehurst Baptist Church with the Revs. Rowe Holcombe and R.I. Moore officiating. Interment will follow in the Hazlehurst cemetery.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Kate Bridges Bass; one son, J.M. Bass, III, Jackson; three daughters, Mrs. Charles Patrick of New Orleans, Mrs. Bennett Hall, of Baton Rouge, La., Mrs. E.W. Sptichley, Hazlehurst; two sisters, Miss Ruth Bass, Hazlehurst, Mrs. Cecil Landrum, Clinton; one brother, Meredith A. Bass, Hazlehurst and eight grandchildren.
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1889 - 1960 (70 years)