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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
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McLain, Miss, Dec. 6 1907. Ed
tor HERALD:-I am going to repre-
sent McLain just one time.
Idon't know what is the matter
with Bro. Dawson, he hash t showed
up lately. We don t even know where
he ate Thanksgiving dinner. We-had
the pleasure of.shaking hands with
Bro. Dawson s, IL year old son of
Memphis, Tenn, whom he had not
seen for nine long years. And wit
ty little Dawson is he. He only stay
ed with his father two days, coming
out on the day before Thanksgiving
and leaving on Friday after. He is
now stationed in Mobile where he
said his work called him back.
The hammers are still ringing on
the new house OF DIR. r. H. Coleman S
under the workmanship of w. r.
Cochran. This will be an ornament TO
the town when complete.
Albert and John McLain Jr., visit
ed Mobile this week.
We notice several loads of the t1eecy
white cotton pass through town this
week enrouted to Leaf, the gin here
being broken.
Leaf river has been for the last ten
days good running stage for timber
and the timber men have all been
busy getting their timber RATED and
run off to market.
Tyra Roberts informed us today
that one of his square timber RATS Of
$50 pieces wa struck yesterday
while running by a rolling log raft
and tore into pieces and the timber
all went a drift.
Visited Mr.. J. J. BeXley and family
this week did Mr.. k,cksome Williams
of Big Greek.
Passed through town Tuesday, did
J. c. Daughdrill of Leaf nrouted to
New Augusta.
G. H. Green, ]. w. Green, j. j.
Bexley, J. w. Cochran are visiting
sea Coast towns this week.
f. Nj. Baldwin, better known as
Dad, is doing brick work here this
week. Everybody knows Dad by his
witty little songs and his monkey
motions.
WRITER.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
Eubanks.

Eubanks. Miss, Dec. 10, 1901
Dear Editor:-The people of Eubank'
are enjoying much rain fall thi:
week.
There was a large congregation ,ou
to hear Rev. DIR. Beall of McLain
who preached for us on Sunday last
Dec. g.
We expect to have the Rev. Leigh
lesy of Montrose here to preach fol
us next Sunday evening at six O'Clock
Dec. 10. Rev. Mr.. Leighlesy is to
preach on very important subject
He wishes all who can to be present
The Eubanks Sunday School was
reorganized last Sunday. Will meet
at 2:3O p. m. each Sunday. Mr.. ]
Bean was elected Supt., and Mrs
w. M. Dick, Secretary and Treasur
er.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. L. Gibson ant
children are visiting Mr. r. NJ. Eu
banks and family, the father of Mrs
Gibson.
Mr.. J. H. Mcleod and family have
moved from here to near Donovan.
Mr.. J. W. Burch bought the j. H.
Mcleod place and has moved his
family there.
The large saw-mill of Rooms Lbr.
Co., has been closed down since May.
The palmer is also closed down, for d
short time only though.
The Rooms Lmbr. Co. portable mill
is to be moved this week. 1t will then
be near Mr. Buck Ball S, about two
miles North of Eubanks.
Mr.. M. Dick has been suffering the
past week with two carbuncles on
his face. He had to call DIR. r. L.
Rafcliff VINO lanced them.
Mr. d. w. Eubanks is hauling lum-
Der from here to build him a new
house on Bailey Hill
Messrs Cleveland Eubanks a n d
Luther Stringfellow did some much
needed repair work on Eubanks
school house. This work added much
to the appearance of the house as
we'll as to the comfort of the occu-
pants.
Mr.. ID. G. Eubanks was down last
week surveying some lands Tor Rooms
Lbr. Co. and ]. w. Burch.
Mr.. S. Fl. Dickens passed through
Eubanks buying cross tie timber.
Mr.. Joe Lane who has been very
sick and had become blind was sent
to Vicksburg to the Hospital. The
good people of Eubanks made up
money to send him.
Mr.. I'll. M. Eubanks has had about
seven acres of oats planted and has
about eight more to plant.
Mr.. Ed l.. Robin is having his
house repaired also new chimney
put up.
Messrs Jerry Finuff and Bob Smith
of Bexley was in Eubanks Sunday p.
M. to services.
Hoping to escape the waste basket
as this is my first attempt and the
first news IRON Eubanks.
Cora
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
Exsho, Ala.

Exsho, Ala, Dec. s, 1907.-Dear
Editor:-This has been a very incle-
meDt day. Has kept old Southern
Boy in doors most to close, Tor Sun
day, When | as all other boys, do
want to be out counting some good
man S fair curly headed girl. Ha! ha!
People in this vicinity are on the
change these days but I'm informed
the change they get is not money,
but is places, and when it is not pla-
ces, it is changing the girls names.
Miss Allie Platt, daughter of Luke
Platt, who was taken to Mobile for
operation few days ago, | am glad to
say is improving.
Married at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs VIM. Blanken-
ship, Thursday night Dec. sat p.
NJ; was Mr.. E. R. Wexford to Miss
Claudio Blankenship. Rev Berry
Byrd of Chronicle, Ala, officiating,
and before about seyenty-five witness
es. Most of whom were relatives OF
the bride and groom. After the cere-
mony which made those two hearts
beat as one, long table which usual
ly follows such occasions, was spread
and filled with all the good luXuries
to enrichen and satisfy the craving
appetite of the inner man. And Mr..
Editor your humble scribe didn t
fail to do justice to himself at this
particular time.
Mr.. W. c. Wexford and family have
moved down to Mullett, in the Goose
Pond neighborhood. We hate t {
loose Charlie from our vicinity, but
hope he will do well down there.
Mr.. Alex Wexford has moved t.
the Charlie Wexford place. Don
know whether permanently or indef
initeIy, but any way for the BENEFIT
of Mt Pisgah School.
Miss Eugenia Naples is spending
while here with her aunt, Mrs. B
G. O'Daniel.
Mesdames A. Davis and J. A. Da
are spending few days visiting rel
atives at Merrill and Richton, thu
former visiting her two sons, NJ G.
and NJ. L. Davis, the latter hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Mills
and family.
People in this vicinity are through
digging potatoes and making syrup
There is quite little complaint o.
potatoes going to rotting; there was
an awful potato yield in this section
and it would be too bad to loose
them.
Well Christmas is drawing smear,
the time will soon be here, and, oh
the number of deeds, crime and pain.
before you hear from old Southern
Boy again. If the people of Mississ
ippi and Alabama would denote the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
WRITER

HERALD Everybody round here is
through making syrup and digging
potatoes.
Miss Ida Byrd, who has been visit
ing near Richton, returned home
Sunday. We all welcome her back.
Miss Nola Todd spent the day with
Misses Susie and Bessie Roberts
Sunday
We see the smiling face of Mr..
Cleveland Bradley quite often down
at Mr.. Roberts.
Masters Charles and John Hillman,
sons of Mr.. James Hillman are stay
ing at Mr.. J. X. Roberts attending
the Byrd School.
Byrd School is progressing nicely
under the management OF Miss Kate
Williams.
Misses Ida Byrd and Ethel Brewer
entered Byrd School this week.
Miss Bertha Byrd spent Saturday
night with Miss Geneveive Byrd.
A great many of the young people
gathered at Pleasant Hill Sunday to
sing. They carried dinner and stayed
all day. They will meet again next
Sunday to sing.
Mr.. Victor Smith was seen il Janet
Sunday.
Misses Lettie and Ethel Brewer,
Ida Byrd and Katie Williams called
on Misses Susie and Bessie Roberts
Monday night.
Mr.. Andrew Bradley wen t Q
Leakesville Monday to attend bust
ness.
Mr.. Walter Byrd and wife moved
back to their home Saturday. They
have been staying at Mr.. Brewers.
Mr.. Hugh Cockrell and wife spent
last week with the latters mother,
Mrs. Brewer.
Mrs. Mary Byrd has gone to visit
her daughter, Mrs. Summers.
Mr.. Forest Breland was in Janet
Sunday. Come again Forest | saw
some of the girls smiling at you.
Mr. Brewer has gone to Leaf this
week.
Mr.. Irwin Byrd spent Saturday
and Sunday at home.
Mrs. Brewer spent Monday with
Misses Susie and Bessie Roberts.
Mr.. Editor | hope you did not eat
too much turkey Thanksgiving, for
there is danger in you getting foun-
dered.
Mr.. Oscar Backstrom visited the
Byrd and Pleasant Hill Schools last
week.
Mr.. Gaines West passed through
Janet Saturday, enroute to McLain
Mr.. and Mrs. r. M. Vanderforo
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. w
g. Todd.
Mr.. Luther Turner, who has beer
attending school at McLain, returned
yesterday.
Mr.. Joe Roberts and his sister
Minnie spent one night last week Al
Mr.. James Roberts.
Mr.. Charlie Roberts was in Jane
Sunday.
Mr.. Ira Roberts has his house al
most completed. He is working fas
as he still continues to make trips tt
Mr.. Brewers
Mr.. Charles Byrd is getting GU
some boards Wonder what for girls
Mrs. Hillman and,chlldren spen
Sunday with Mrs. Byrd.
! We heard that Mr.. Irwin Byrd wa
asking the price of building materia
last week. That sounds awfully suspi
Icious.
| Miss Susie Roberts has finished
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
I SlS1
MARRIAGES
S& 8@lGzaSaa zIJ1111
Denmark Smith.

Quite d number of friends gather
ed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. M,
Smith Wednesday afternoon at o.
clock to witness the marriage of
their youngest daughter, Miss Carrie
to Mr. Webb Denmark. Rev. A. NJ.
Sheppard officiating. Both parties are
well known in Richton, and the many
friends of each wishes for them long
happy and prosperous life.
Mr.. Smith said it was very hard to
give up his youngest and last daugh-
ter. But in giving up his daughter he
has gained another son.
The Review joins in with best wish
es.- Richton Review.
The bridegroom is Webster c., the
eldest son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Jack
Denmark of LeakeSville, Miss, and
an old acquain lance of this writer's.
The HERALD offers congratulations.
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

condition as some people are when
they loose their wife
Well Xmas is right on hand hope
Old Santa Clause will make it round
to see me and bring me some oranges
and pecans and etc.
Hoping a Merry Christmas to all.
Bye, bye.
BRIGHT EYES.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
New Advertisements.
CONTRACT NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that contract for
the building OF a bridge over Harvisons Mill
Greek River read, Beat No. 5 according to
plans and specification file in the clerks
office will be let to the lowest responsible bid
der at the trout door of the Court house in the
Village of Leakesville, on the first Monday Of
January A. d. 1908. Bond will be required
according to law. The Board reserves the
right to reject any and all bids. BY order OF
the Board OF Supervisors Greene Co. Miss,
this 18th day of Dec. 1907
S. R.MCKAY Clerk.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
BIRTHS }'lJERIl11[jH!1!,S

Born, Saturday Night, December
Z, 1907, to Mr.. and Mrs. G. J. Miller,
a ten FOUNDER boy.
BIRTHED, Monday, December 8,
1907, to Mr.. and Mrs. L. N. Williams
who live about eight miles from town,
bOv.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
NOTICE.

G. P. Eubanks, D. D. G. M, will
meet Leakesville Lodge, No. 420, A.
f. NJ. ,onSaturday Dec 14th190 for the
purpose of lecturing and continue as
long as the Lodge desires. All MEM
bers urged to be present.
SAN Pool, Sec.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

We are going to make some home
happy this Christmas as is our GUS
ton. We have onIdisplay d very fine
and beautiful Doll. The finest ever
brought to this section of
the country which we are go
ing to give to SOMEONE perhaps you
call in and see it and look over our
up to-date line of Christmas Goods,
Fire works, Story Books, Toys and
Jewelry, and ask us all about the
Big Doll. Remember the place.
1920 Peoples Drug Co.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
Leakesville High School Items.

School gave a very interesting and
Entertaining program Thanksgiving.
Miss Jenner's song Face to Face"
was given with the true expression
of an arts, on Thanksgiving. The
School is progressing we'll in knowl-
edge, lower, influence and numbers.
j. If there is one thing to which the
people of Leakesville are attached to
it is their good school. They have a
true right to be justly proud of
their school for their is many an un-
cut diamond in the student body !.
The school grounds arc beginning to
put on their robes of attractiveness
since the sound of dynamite under
the stumps heard, and the woodman's
AK on the debris from the storm. The
Town Fathers" have seen fit to
open up the road fronting the school
house Thanks TO this honorable body
FOR the children of this generation
are now rising up and calling you
blessed for saving them taking pare
goric and Group medicine, which of
course their good mammas would
give after their return home after
waiding shoe mouth deep in water
going and returning from shool. The
motto: Never weary in well doing"
is carried out to the letter this time.
Hurrah for our school, town and
the inhabitants thereof :. The walk
thrown up from back of the school
house to DIR. POOLS front is conven-
fence never to be forgotten =. Pipes
are being laid for artesian water in
school building and electrict lights
will soon give us more light on this
important subject. Written by IF.
MILLER.
Santa Claus left nearly all of his
Toys, Candies, Fireworks, Nuts and
Presents with NJ. L. McRae & Co.
after they promised to sell them
cheaD.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
Marriage Licenses .

Week ending December II.
12-8-John Mosely to Eva Dent, col.
12-7- VIM. H, Moses to Catherine
Robinson, col.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

LOST or STtLEN:--One light bay
horse, 10 years old; has white on
both hind feet; weighs about LOCO
pounds. Reward will be given for re-
turn to Markley g. Miller, Mill, Choc-
taw Point. or Office City Bank Build
ing, Mobile. 1920
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

We can save you from 20 to 90 per
cent on your winter clothing.
M. L. McRae & Co.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

Below we list the names and "a
mounts for renewals and new SUBJ
scriptions received for week ending
Dec. II:
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

France published the first news
paper in 1905; the first English news
,aper appeared in 1922. :.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
France Had First Newspaper.

See our big ad for reduced prices
on all lines. NJ. l.. McRae & Co.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

beautiful quilt. Everything seem Gu
rious to me when girls gets to max
ing quilts.
Can anyone give any information
as to whether Mr.. Melton Lyles is
building or not? | heard a girl inquir-
Ing lately.
Come again Bright Eyes.
SIX SISTERS.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

He is educated who is master Of
himself and of his task.-Peabody.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

Real Education

A barrier, to a colt, means some
thing to jump over.-Deland.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
a Daily Thouoht,

IfON9E'ef
We ought to call in reason, like o
rood physician, as help in misfor-
une.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

If you don't attend the GREA1
SLAUGHTER SALE at NJ. L. Nc
Rae & Co.'S. you will loose money.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
DENTAL NOTICE.

Shubuta, Miss.
Dec 4, 1907.
Editor HERALD.
will be at Leakes-
vile to do Dental Work on Dec is,
to 10Th
CHAs. e. WARD.
Buy your Christmas Presents at
M. T.. McRae & Co.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

Santa Claus left nearly all of his
Toys, Candies, Fireworks, Nuts and
Presents with NJ. L. McRae e Co.
after they promised to sell them
cheap.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13

Good Morning! Have you read the
HERALD?
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30
An Unfair System.

The Surveyor General of the State of Idaho is to
be given a hearing How much of is not
known but his demand for a chance to present his
side of the case is not to go unheeded He will be
permitted to answer the covert charges lodged
against him upon which his resignation asked
for.
1t was the method of procedure in this and other
like cases that will strike the public savorng too
much of autocracy. The common understanding is
that an Inspector of the Department of the Interior
came this way and without letting the Surveyor
General know anything in relation to his mission,
proceeded to examine into the affairs of his office
and take testimony from his clerks
Completing some sort of examination in
ex parte way the Inspector forwarded his report to
headquarters at Washington and in due of
time the inspected official invited to retire from
office through the unheralded pathway of resig
nation. Everything to transpire the quiet.
Russia sometimes takes an official out and shoots
him without telling him why. But the victim is
spared all the gnomny of the transaction and only his
surviving relatives suffer in mind.
The Surveyor General of Idaho represents Gov
eminent that is prone to boast of the excellence of
its civil service methods, especially under the
tive who now overlooks the patronage of the Ma
ton. The Surveyor General will incline to the
opinion that for civil transaction, the to which
he has been exposed was most uncivil.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30
Food Trust Dissolved

The public is manifesting considerable interest in
an action instituted in the courts of Denver by the
Attorney General of Colorado against local COM
bination of dealers through which the prices of
tices of food were exorbitanty advanced. The At
torney General proceeded under the antitrust law
of the State and had not gone far in his litigation
when the combine weakened and the prices before
extorted fell off 25 per cent, taking all the reduc-
tons into account
1t is not the intention of the prosecutor to drop
the suits instituted by him account of the
render of the malefactors, for he holds that they
levied unnecessarily the necessities of life and
deserve the punishment the law provides
comparison of the old prices and the prices
granted under the pressure of prosecution will con-
vince the public that there is something wrong in
other places than Denver. The cost of sugar fell
off from Ga to per pound sirloin steaks from
17X to 1919 cents a pound, eggs from 35 to 27H
cents a Dozen butter from 35 to 271a cents pound
and lard and sausage from 1919 to cents pound.
Communities in which the old prices prevail will
scan the list of reduced prices with curious interest
feeling that perhaps they too, in the clutches of
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30
A School Land Question.

Under the territorial enabling acts of the States
of Idaho, Washington, Wyoming, Montana, South
Dakota and North Dakota sections sixteen and
thirty-sx in each township set apart for COM
mon school purposes whether surveyed unsur
veyed More recently numerous forest reserves have
been created in those States and many school sec
tons included in the
Under the rulings of the Interior Department, the
school land States being deprived of valuable
tracts in the reserves, the department holding that
any claim is superior to the claim of the State on
lands not surveyed at the time the reserves were
established. The squatter and the mineral claimant
therefore deprive the States of portions of their
educational heritage
Against this ruling the authorities of the State of
South Dakota have started contest Recently the
Attorney General of South Dakota took up the
matter with the Commissioner of the General Land
Office and the Commissioner suggested the advis-
ability of a meeting Of the officials of the States
interested at which he hoped some satisfactory So
luton of the problem could be arrived at
The Commissioner is in sympathy with the States,
but is certain that additional legislation will
be necessary before equitable adjustment be
reached If the officials of the States will agree upon
a plan the Interior Department will recommend it
to Congress and ask for legislation.
Governor Crawford of South Dakota has there
fore issued invitations to the Governors of the
era interested States to attend meeting at Pierre,
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30

the capital of South Dakota, within the three
months, with other members of the State govern
ments, there to take up the subject and give form
to the expected legislation
In behalf of the State of Idaho, Governor Good
ing Attorney General Guheen and State Land Com
missioner Munsen will participate in the conference
at Pierre Representatives of the Interior Depart
ment, the Department of Justice and the forestry
division of the Department of Agriculture will be
present and it is presumed that the problem will be
solved and the school lands finally made secure to
the States
Idaho is probably largely interested in an
adjustment of the school land status than any of the
other States called into the conference for its forest
vast tracts in various sections of the
State. 1t will join in asking for other lands in lieu
of school lands that have passed beyond its control
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30
Invoking Peace.

Along with the returns from the press come many
regrets that the cause of "Americanism" prevailed
at the election in Salt Lake City They are entirely
from intermountan sources and the inspiration was
perhaps supplied by the defeated church, which ap-
pears to maintain press bureau assistant to
the tagging brain work of its rural organs. Chiefly
the fact is deplored that will reopen the Bit
terness of the past and stimulate renewal of the
contest against the peculiar institutions of the church
Buck Fanshaw, creation of Mark Twains vivid
imagination, who would have peace, even
if he had crack the skulls of the disturbing ele
ment, and that is the kind of peace that these OBJ
jectors solicit. While the enemies of polygamy
prone on the ground filled with the silence of
consciousness, the white dove that hovers the
destinies of the hierarchy is so acceptable
that it ought not to be frightened away by vocifer
peans of victory.
Commenting on the line of argument employed
by the defeated church, the Salt Lake Tribune asserts
its convictions:
The style of reasoning adopted by the priesthood
echoes would blame the American fathers for issu-
ing the Declaration of independence and the Union
forces that put down the secession rebellion. That
is all that turn of thought transposes the facts and
substitutes the effects for he cause The American
party is merely the effect; the is the aWess
and tyrannouS, deSpoC rule of the hierarchy in
political and civil affairs Just as the tyranny of King
George the cause of the American revolution
the effect in the events OF that time.
No high moral economic issue settled
until it was settled in the right way and the
test against the polygamous practices of the Nor
mon church will rise as often as it is put down.
until some day. the full strength of public senti-
ment will uphold it and it will go down more.
That is what the fight instituted by "Americanism,
encouraged through all its primary stages by the
Tribune, means.
The interests, enthroned at the financial center of
New York, are nsistent that business must not
be disturbed and ''hands off, is their command,
as it is the command of the promoters of the poyg
amous twin evil to predatory wealth.
These conflicts have to be wrought in the crucible
of strife and permanent peace will abide only when
the right becomes securely enthroned To talk about
peace at this time is to invoke the that Patrick
Henry flung in the teeth of his compatrots the
clouds of war were lowering The only peace will
be honorable peace the peace that will render the
home circle secure in this free Nation.