The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-11-18

At its last meeting, the Board
OF Supervisors of Franklin county,
decided to erect steel bridge
across the Homochitto at Wright
ford. The contract is to be let at
the next meeting.
Thirty bales of cotton were
burned on the platform at Eu.
pora. There we're 635 bales
within close proximity. The fire
was extinguished after an hours
battle with the flames.
Will Grant, a painter, at
Laurel, fell from a scaffold Wed
nesday, dislocated his hip and
broke his thigh. A team brushed
into the rafters that held the scat
fold in place and occasioned the &C
cident.
Within the next few days Gen
eral Robert Lowry, commanding
the United Confederate Veterans.
will issue an address to the veter.
ans and Sons of Veterans urging
a closer union between the two or
CARNATIONS.
An increase in the personal as
sessment of So, 900, 900 in the State
this year over last, but shows the
steady and positive advancement
OF Mississippi in a material way.
Much of the increase is due to the
new and enlarged mercantile anc
manufacturing enterprises.
The Board of Trustees of the
Mississippi Insane Hospital has
completed it's report. The report
shows 1926 inmates in the
Asylum, an increase during the
last two years of 113. OF the
amount appropriated for the sup
port of the Hospital, $35, 200 vii
be turned back into the treasury
There are LII convicts or
Mississippi's State penitentiary
roll and the number is gradually
increasing. After the regular
convict farm is put in a thorough
state of cultivation and the cost OF
Improvements paid splendid
revenue to the State should be re
ceived from the labor of the con.
victs--s something like quarter OF
a million year.
The Supreme Court of the State
will not hold its regular session
Monday at Jackson, because of
the uncompleted condition of the
courtroom. The judges will meet
IN one of the ante rooms, hand
down few opinions, and take
adjournment until Monday, the
10th, when it is hoped the furni-
ture and fixings will be installed
and the room finally complete.
[. NJ. Henry, Chairman of the
special committee appointed by
the Board of Directors of Beau
voir Soldiers Home, states that
there will be special meeting of
the committee at some time in the
next few days to make the final
arrangements for opening the
home. Mr.. Henry states that he
has received quite a number Of
applications for admission. He
requests all soldiers who are de-
|sirous of entering the home to adj
dress him at jackson, making
formal application.
Quite number of business
leagues have been organized in the
larger towns throughout the State
during the past week. These
local business organizations are
the direct outgrowth Of The call
issued by President Mckee Of the
Mississippi Business Mems
League for a meeting Of the league
| in Jackson on the 9th and 25th
of this month. All of the new
leagues that have been organized
will send delegates, and the meet
ing promises to be much better
attended than was at first antici-
pated.
During a vigorous blind tiger
hunt in jackson. a we'll dnVpl0npd
land full grown one was found be-
| tween the walls of restaurant.
The officers raided the restaurant,
but nowhere could they find d
drop of the much despised and
much beloved liquor. Neither in
back room nor kitchen was there
lany sign that the place had ever
been polluted BY a bottle of
whisky. Everything was as or
| derIy as a Sunday school room, yet
| the police we're certain that the
day Of miracles had passed, and
were sure there was whisky iii the
| place somewhere. One Of the
officers secured wrench for ex-
ltiacting nails. The room where
they suspected the whisky was
kept was papered, but there were
several nails stuck carelessly in
|the vail. The officer pulled out
1.-THE nails, the entire wall fell
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