The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20
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4 GENERAL STATE NEWS i
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Gulfport is to have new half mil
EUn dollar pier.
Magnolia has voted $4,000 bonds
for a modern public school building
The city of Natchez is to do large
xmpunt of street paving and sewerage
cDnstruetion.
Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi
has taken a part in the Madison coun-
t. prohibition fight
The Mississippi River is again with
in its banks and sipe and back water
Is rapidly receeding.
The Meridian battery of artillery
has bees mustered out of the Missis-
sippi National Guard
The Mississippi Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs held its annual meeting
st Meridian this week.
While riding on his way home Chas
Grover Jr., was killed from ambush
NEAR Ieadville Tuesday
The pententiary expenses foT
March amounted to $4,000, $4,000
If which were for supplies.
The State bar will meet at Vicks-
burg in early May. An elaborate
program has been prepared.
Friday, April Goth, Confederate
Decoration Day, will be generally
observed throughout the State.
billiard Clarke, colored, will hang
IA yicksburg jail, June 5th, for MUIR
Aering his mistress, Lena Booth
C. A. Ncwson, a farmer living 3
miles from Brookhaven, was killed by
lightning while saddling horse Tues
day
A fund of $4,000 has been raised
by the whiskey men of Madison coun
y to fight the coming prohibition
election
The Home Telephone Company,
with cheaper rates, will be given a
franchise by Yieksburg municipal
authorities.
Hailstones as large as marbles fell
Tor thirty minutes at Marked Tree
Monday morning doing serious dam
age to vegetables.
DIR. William A. Evans, who has been
appointed as commissioner of public
health of Chicago by Mayor Busse,
is Mississippian.
The town of Libertyn, Amite
county will vote at special election
for the issuance of $4,000 bonds for
public Improvement.
The Episcopalians of the State will
plan two orthodox schools at the
meeting of the next council to be held
at Yazoo City the first of May.
The State Bankers Association will
meet in Vicksburg next May and
ten-day trip through Mexico has been
planned at the conclusion of the meet
ing.
The prevailing rains last Sunday
morning saved Mississippi farmers
$1,000 eco on their cotton crop. the
rain saved the crops from severe
frost
Vicksburg is the 1907 convention
city of the State. Besides number
of State r2ectings the National Kings
Daughters convention will be held
there later in the year.
A special session of the Mississippi
Lunfgcrmcn's Association was held
at Meridian Tuesday to act on inn
portant matters and to affiliate with
the Alabama Association.
DR. J. F. Hunter, of Jackson, sec
II. III,
for the past twelve years, will resign
his position at the expiration of his
term to enter private practice.
An effort is being made by the
newspapers of the State to keep the |
State printing work in the State. All !
this movements needs is concerted !,
action BIZ the Mississippi press.
The Mississippi editors will not |
MAX tip to the jamestown Expo
sitiou turing their annual meeting as
at first ilt5nted. A trip to the Gulf /
Coast towns will be taken instead.
Mr. w f Williamson. a wholesale
grain merchant of Clarksdale, and
Miss Belle Michels, of Noble, ILL.,, met
half way III Memphis. Monday and
were married by justice w. A Taylor
A branch road of the Y & M. v.
from Sardis to Charleston, is about
completed Charleston is one Of the
three county seats in the state with
out railroad connection with the OUT
side world.
The campaign for the good roads
the state, inaugurated by
Agric lltural Commissioner B1akes-
lee, is receiving hearty support every
where. Associations will be organ
lied in all the counties.
The Board of Supervisors of Prem 4
tiss county will vote $4,000 bonds /
for the completion of the court |
house at Bonneville. the erection of
which was delayed for several years
by litigation with the contractors. Is
A meeting of the farmers OF Holmes
county will be held at Lexington today |