The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-07-14

MEETING OF THE BUSINESS LEAGUE.
Small dodgers scattered over the
streets Tuesday afternoon, announcing
the meeting of the Business League
that night at the court house, drew
forth quite a number of u citizens.
The object of the meeting, as stated by
Mr.. Crosby, was for the purpose of urg-
ing or demanding Of the Board of May
or and Aldermen that the city map
question be settled at once, as it's delay
has stopped, almost entirely, the indus
trial improvement Of the city. Another
object as stated, was that the league,
through some means, urge upon the
board the necessity Of deciding the sew
erage and water works question.
The question Of Fall trade, and how
to bring it to our city, was also n of
the objects of the call. After the OBJ
jects of the meeting were stated, r. T.
Jones. Il member of the board, and also
the league. arose and assured the citi-
zens that the settlement Of the map
question would be lone as soon as a
decision, bearing on some Of the main
points in the case. was given by the
court. This was also guaranteed by the
mayor, w. S. Vardaman. who was.
present. Nh. Jones then took MP the
question of water works and sewerage.
and showed its necessity in our city for
health and advancement. and told the
league he would favor it before the
board.
DR.. Brister was then called on, and
gave to the league his news on the sub
.iect. His arguments in favor of sewer
age, when health was considered. con-
vinced every member present the great.
necessity it is to the city's advance
ment.
and proved a strong supporter of the
measure, and requested a petition be-
presented to the board, asking the board
to call an election on the question.
Messrs. L. p. Yerger. w. L. Wall
and A. Weller followed Mr.. Vardaman,
advocating the examination Of the ques-
ton by the board and all others looking
to the city's welfare.
A motion was made that a committee
Of three be appointed by chair to cir.
culate a petition to be presented to the
board at its next meeting. asking the
question Of bonds for the purpose Of
putting in these franchises, be submit
ted to a vote of the people-carried, and
w. S. Vardaman, K. V. Pollard and H.
I. Crosby were appointed.
The condition of the different roads
leaSing into our city were shown to be
in an almost impossible condition, and
to save trouble for the different over
seers, the secretary was requested to
write to all the overseers asking them
that they at once De put in fix.
Mr.. Crosby then gave to the league a
plan. which he believes would induce
farmers to do their trading and bring
their cotton to Greenwood this fall, and
asked the chairman that a committee
of five, composed of the merchants, to
formulate the plans and report at next
meeting, be appointed. The following
are the committee:
w. L. Wall, r. T. Jones, G.. I. Stein
L. Yerger and A. Weller. The meeting
IL en- adjourned.
We are requested to state that all
business men and citizens of our city,
who have plans to draw trade this fall.
will hand them to Chairman Wall.
The mother church of Christian
Science. which is located in Boston,
will add largely to it's membership next
Sunday. The first church of Christ.
scientist, since it was established under
that name in 1892, has built up a mem.
bership of 12,414. New members are
admitted semi-annually, and on Sunday
there will be 1925 candidates for mem
bership. This will make a total mem
bership of about 5000, OF whom 1900
are resident members. This church
has now sO4 chartered branches in the
United States and foreign countries.
and in addition there are III regularly
established Sunday services. The total
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