Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-09-23


Age years; weight pounds; height
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Signature
All county and municipal health Of
ticers are hereby instructed to issue
health certificates in accordance with
above form. as the Marine Hospital In
spectors will be instructed by SurgeoD
G.. b. Young, who hes charge Of train
inspection, not TO honor any other form
of certificate after Monday, Sept u,
at pm. J.. f. HUNTER,
Secretary,
Col. Russell, vico-prcsidert of the
Mobile and Ohio, writes the State Rail-
road Commission that the Mobile,
jackson and Kansas City road would
not stand by the rates on lumber to
Memphis from Houston, OkoIona and
Corinth that he had agreed to put in,
and that for that reason the Southern
should not be held for ovcrchargcs. His
agreement was that the Mobile, Jack
son and Kansas City was to get ! cents,
the Mobile and Ohio ; cents and the
Southern 81 cents. The Mobile, Jack
son and Kansas City having declined to
enter into the agreement, the rate was
never established, wherefore the South.
crn should not be held liable for over
charges.
The board of supervisors of Lowndes
county has ordered q convention to be
held in Columbus ON October to de-
eide upon ways and means of bettcring
all thorOughfares in that section As
the different avenues throughout the
county now stand, they are in much
better shape and condition than those
usually found throughout the State,
but still there is much room for needed
improvement,
The attention of Gov. Nardaman hav-
ing been called to the fact that county
school book agencies are making the
requirement that when old books are
presented for exchange they must con-
tain certificate from the teacher in
whose school the book was formerly
used that such books were actually
used subsequent To March,. 1901, tho
governor holds that the agencies have
no right to exact such a requirement,
the contracts between the publishers
and the State containing no clause Oh
this subject
James Hale, perhaps the oldest white
citizen of Marshall county, died near
Holly Springs, aged % years. lie had
enjoyed good health up to q few weeks
ago, and then was not confined to his
bed While at dinner ono day last
week he remarked that he had lived
long enough and was ready to die. Be-
tween and o'clock he went to his
room and laid down on the bed and at
. o'clock was discovered dead.
Capt, f.. &. Robertson, aged 66 years,
died at Corinth last week. He served
in Wheelcr's Cavalry, was captured at
Murfrcosboro, Tenn, and spent two
years in prison at Fort Delaware. lie
was man Of sterling worth and strong
personality, living at all times con-
sistent Christian life.
Cotton picking is general in Adams
county, but none of the crop can be
taken to the Natchez market ON account
Of the quarantine. 1t is expected that
when the bars are let down there will
be small-sizcd rush of the staple ID
market.
Seeing the great need Of protecting
game against automatic and repeating
shotgunS, the board Of supervisors OF
Clay county has barred the use of these
guns in the pursuit of game, under
heavy penalty.
In Tallahatchie county two young
boys, named Brady and Faned were
fooling with gun, supposed to be un-
loaded, when Farned playfully pointed
o. weapon at Brady and pulled tho
trigger, literally blowing the top Of
Brady's head OFT. Brady and Earned
were cousins.
The governor has appointed II, I.
Allen as circuit clerk of Montgomery
county, vice j. $. Cameron, deceased.
Because of quarantine restrictions,
the meeting of the State Board OF
Pharmaceutical Examiners has been
postponed till Nov, at Jackson,
In response to the call of the Railroad
Commission for II report of accidents on
its line during the past two years the
Alabama ana Nicksburg Railroad re-
ports to June 30, 1904, killed and 30
injured; to June 30, 1905, there were
killed and 81 injured.
Mart Perry, of Monroe, marketed 800
bushels of pears readily at Slo0 per
bushel.
A great deal is being written and
said Just now about the G. o. d. system
of selling whisky in Mississippi 1t
has come to pass that the wholesale
whisky dealers of other States have
found a loophole in the interstate law
through which they are enabled to ship
their goods to any express, Office in the
State, collect on delivery. The ship
per may then send an agent to the town,
or he may secure the services OF local
agent, TO dispose of the goods.
AOUSlTutlltu NbIh DuS btcu ItNulneu
on the new Delta Southern Railway
from Greenwood to Bel2oni, and the
contractors expect to complete the line
by the first of next year,
The governor has offered Il reward OF
$3.50 for the arrest Of tns murderer OF
Henry Applin of Wayne county. Tho
assassination took place Sept II.
Bert Fields, a l5-year-old white boy
Of Natchez, was playing with loaded
revolver when the hammer raised and
fell, exploding the cartridge, the ball
entering his breast just above the
heart, causing almost instant death
During severe thunderstorm at
ohuqulaS laso week, Mrr George Lock-
ley was killed oy lightning which
passed down d stove pipe the kitchen