The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-08
Board of Supervisors,

OOoI VI CupcI VtSOTS.
At the regular April meeting Of the
Lefiore county Board of Supervisors at
the court house on Monday, there were
present, F. M. Aldridge, President, r. A.
Joiner, Eli Ethridge. U. Ray, S. I. Brown,
r. W. Williamson, T. G.. CARROT, c.. w.
Crockett. The following is a list Of al
lowances: E. r. Locke, 1920 for med
icine for the poor house, jail; r. G.
Reese, 1856 repairs on Itta Bena
school house; S. r.. Young, 81; Delta
Machine Works, $50 repairs on Yazoo
bridge; Jas. Levy & Bro, $3.50 toilet
paper; c. W. Crockett, 500. so desk, light
stand and postage; Marshall & Bruce
Co., $21.35 stationery; Commonwealth,
$3.50 legal printing; Brandon Printing,
Co., S14 deed record; J. w. Quinn, $6.15
medicine for poor; Cumberland Tele-
phone Co., 1895; Greenwood Electric
Light & Water Co., 1915, lights for
March; T. G. Garrett, $24.65 postage for
six months; Ef1ie Harris, $40 Janitor; M.
M. Philips, $91, Miss Lottie Haggie, $50,
Mrs. J. H. Townsend, $50, Miss Pink
Cone, $25, for teaching ltta Bena school;
Sam Meadows, $3.50 digging grave for
pauper; c. E. Gillespie & Co., legal pa
per; Greenwood Electric Light & Water
Company, So for water for jail; Mann
Hardware Co., $3.50 mdse., for bridge,
S1O.25, for road $500; S. E. Higdon,
S237.75 for working 10 miles of road;
Mrs. Nellie Daniels, $500 keeping pau
per; Itta Bena Lumber Co., S2.95 lumber
for roads; d. o. Alexander, $363.37
building bridge on Marsh Bayon; w. L.
Stevens, $3.50 lumber for roads; Blan-
ton Thurman Lumber Co., ST. lumber for
roads; w. M. Peteet's school report APP
proved and account of S67.75, allowed;
Commonwealth, $40 for stationery; Com
monwealth, 5000 for notices for con-
tracts; Enterprise, 500. % stationery:
Same $3.50 publishing proceedings; c.
r. Wright, SLIPS coal; Eli Ethridge, s.
inspecting bridge; f. M. Aldridge, s.
inspecting bridge; A. J. White, $500 for
working public roads; Eli Ethridge, s.
services as road commissioner; State
Board of Heath, $1O0.56 for 1000 vaccine
points; G. II. Gossom, 81 for oil for
bridge; 7. c. Garrett, $50 for attending
bridge for March; ]. B. Bright, $3.50
county physician; T. G.. Garrett, $1,000
feeding prisoners; Eli Ethridge, s. in
speeding road; w. H. Stevens, 80 cents
making key; r. A. Joiner, s. inspecting
bridge; Q. Ray, s. inspecting bridge;
Jim jackson So road tax wrongly col
collected; A. W. Rose, $251.17 building
bridge or Slough west of Flannigan's; |
Members and officers usual allowances:
G.. S. Pate, treasurer, made his 1st quar-
terly settlement for year 1905; pension
fund oyerdrawn, 81; total amount on
hand $~123,524.25; Southern railroad COM
pany granted right Of way 100 feet wide
through sec Is, T. II, r. 2, w. except as
to claim of least holders. New court
house ordered to face Market street
and on center of lot; bridge over North
prong of Marsh Bayou inspected and APP
proved. Beport of J. W. Dulaney, coun-
ty Health officer, received; roads in beat
5 inspected and found in good condition
CACCpOluS y HlI0S, leuCS HOW ENCLOSING
house sold to J. H. Sutton for SO;
B. T. Sayer appointed Road Commission
er for all public roads in county at a
not to exceep 500 a month and
ordered to make regular reports; or
dered that all bids be received on first
Monday in May for building a bridge
near c. L.. Towns, about 140 feet long; S.
|. Brown released as contractor of public
roads; A. ]. White, a partner of Brown,
allowed to retain contract upon filing
approved bond of 4 1900, which he did,
with A. n. Pentecost, A. B. White, J. Ell.
w. W. burden, Douglass Robin
as sureties; Ruth Sims, aged 8, APP
prenticed to Mrs. Kate P. Joiner; or
dered that bids be received on MAY
meeting to build Branch bridge across
Alligator Slough; Sidon parties wrongly
assessed, released; Shu-Miller Lumber !
Co., ordered to remove obstruction from
Greek.
A complete line of Cigarettes and
Smoking tobaccos at Scates. {
Wanted:-Young ladies to learn mil 1
inery business. Apply
W. T. FOUNTAIN.