The Semi-weekly leader., 1907-03-27
STATE HAPPENINGS.

The Q. & G. system will build a
new $4,000 freight depot at
Meridian.
Capt. Ed. AIdrich, Confeder
ate veteran, was killed by train
at Gulfport.
The Yazoo Sentinel has contain
ed of late some beautiful spring
poems in prose.
C. F. Engle, city attorney OF
Natchez, is a candidate for State
senator from Adams.
The q. & S. l. r. r. is laying
heavy new steel rails on its line
between Hattiesburg and Jack
son.
Pike county has organized a
cotton and corn growers associa-
tion among the school bodies OF
the county.
There was hung jury and mis-
trial in the case of the members
of the McComb City Owl Club,
tried at Magnolia last week.
The Louisville & Nashville Rail.
road is cleaning up it's station
buildings and grounds along the
Gulf Coast. 1t is a welcome i'm.
provement.
Hon. James B. AswelI, the new
chancellor Of the State Universe
ty, will deliver the address for
the Natchez Institute in June.
Also for Belhaven at Jackson.
The Mayor and Board of Alder
men of Magnolia have changed
the date of the election for school
bonds from April l to April 8.
and the amount to be voted upon
is S25, 900.
The work of rebuilding the
large lumber manufacturing plant
in DuttoviIIe will be commenced
next week, the corporation being
reoTganized under the name of the
Southern Lumber Manufacturing
Company.
The harbor at Gulfport is filled
to overfowing with foreign yes,
sells awaiting lumber cargoes, and
the loading facilities of the port
are taxed to the utmost. Work
on the new pier and enlargement
OF the basin is soon to be com.
menced.
Hon. H. E. BlakesIee, State
Commissioner of Agriculture and
Commerce, is agitating the pro
iect of having agricultural high
schools established throughout the
South and expects in ten years to
see the elements of Agriculture
taught in every public school in
Mississippi. The idea is a good
one.
In Yazoo City 40 people at
tended the Pace Killing Recital,
the same that was given here on
the 18th. That kind of audience
here would have made our two
prominent educators, who were
instrumental in having the recital
in Brookhaven, smile a large
smile. The Yazoo Sentinel praises
the evening, much as The Leader
did.
A prominent citizen of Yazoo
City was placed in the lookup for
"a hours because he refused to
|diyulge the name of a man
through whom he had purchased
blind tiger whisky. Much local
discussion was thereby caused and
the outcome will be watched with
interest by Mr.. H. M. Caden-
heads, the culprit's, friends.
Messrs. Neville 4 Thompson,
lawyers of jackson, have awarded
the contract for the erection Of a
new Office building in Congress
street, just north of the s. j.
johnson store, and work will be
commenced within the next few
days. The structure will cost
about SIS, 900 and fronts thirty
feet in Congress street. 1t will
be equipped and devoted for office
purposes.
A special from Natchez under
date of 22nd inst. says: Prince
Roundtree, negro, is in the hos
pital suffering from bullet
wound IN the lungs, having been
accidentally shot yesterday by
Charles Bell, another negro, at a
grading camp near here. Two
years ago, while working ID
Brookhaven, Roundtree was acci-
dentaIIy shot through the head,
part Of bis brains oozing out.