The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-13
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0G8anized at Cleveland and are ac-
aively at work
The annual session of the Tri-
State Photographers Association met
ut Columbus this week.
The gunboat Wasp arrived at
Yicksburg Thursday on its trip for
= recruits for the United States Navy
The Board Of Supervisors of Boll
var county appropriated $4,000 for the
erection of Confederate monument
A big decrease is noted in c. o. D.
shipments of liquor into the state
since the enforcement of the c. q.
D. law.
Hon. Chas. Scott, guberr atorial
candidate, has resigned the attorney
ship of the Y & NJ " railroad at
Rosedale
The Little city of Cleveland has
gone into municipal ownership, hav-
ing purchased the electric light plant
for $4,000.
Maj. H. ]. Goldman, of the United
States regular army, is inspecting
the companies of the Mississippi Ma
tional Guard
Phillip Kelley, negro, was given :
five year sentence at Vicksburg for
attempted assault upon woman of
his own race.
1t looks like an organized fight is
being waged against saloons in all
the remaining wet towns and coun-
ties in the state.
The Woman's Home Missionary
Society of the Mississippi Methodist
conference held their annual session
at Hattiesburg this week
Back taxes amounting to $4,000 is
claimed to be due from Clarksdale
citizens by the state revenue agent.
"A new assessment will be ordered
The annual meeting of the Episco-
pal DIOCESAN council of Mississippi
will be held at Yazoo City the first
week in May with Bishop Bratton
presiding.
Owing to the death of E. M
Hemphill, Phillip w. Shaw, of Car
rollton, has been appointed statistical
agent of the State Department of
Agriculture.
Several hundred physicians and
surgeons of Mississippi were in at
tendance upon the Mississippi State
Medical Association Meeting at Gulf
port this week.
A new paper has been started at
Clinton, called the Climonian Mr..
M. M. Lackey is the editor, and from
the first edition, the paper promises
to be a success.
Clarksdale has an active business
league with am experienced and paid
secretary, and the town expects to
be materially benefited through the
efforts of the league.
All the state papers are congratu-
1ating Mr.. H B. Dixon, editor of the
Greenwood Enterprise, on his mar
riage to Miss Annie Hughes at
Greenwood last week
The Board of Supervisors failed to
meet last Monday. Owing to the
condition of the roads it was impos-
sible for the members to get here
Mayersville Spectator.
A freight train wreck occurred near
Delta on the V. S. & P railroad
Monday. 1t was head-on collision.
No one was ~jured but two 1ocomo-
tives were badly damaged
Federal patronage referees, Mosely
and Collins, recommend the appoint
ment of Judge T. H. Reber for ps>St-
master at Natchez. made vacant by
the resignation of Gen W. T. Martin
The Sanders-J Johnson Co., of
Vicksburg, has filed its bonds for
the satisfactory construction of the
, Yazoo City street car line, and the
work of construction will be started
at once
p X. Mayors, editor of the Pasca
goula Democrat-Star, recently won a
suit in court in which his right to
certain properties consisting of. his
printing plant was assailed by heirs
of the seller.
A negro, full of blind tiger wills
key, struck a white citizen in the face
with a pistol at DoddsVille last Sun
day, aud was promptly shot and kill
ed by a deputy officer who was
standing near.
President Roosevelt has been in
eited to attend the dedieatory cere-
monies of the Y. NJ c. A. building at
Jackson when it is completed. The
President has been requested to de-
liver the principal address
The Warren County Medical As
ISOLATION unanimously adopted reso-
lutions favoring the proposed sew
erage system OF Vicksburgs and ask
cd the voters to vote for the floating
of bonds for this purpose.
Senator Ben Tillman addressed his
FIRST Mississippi audience at Laure.
on Friday night. April 5. Governor
Nardaman introduced the speaker and
from reports, both gentlemen re-
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