The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-09-19
Magnolia Gazette Items.

am candidate Tor Mayor OF
Magnolia.
seek the office because it is the
highest honor which any man may
receive from his fellow townsmen,
and because of my sincere desire to
be of service to the people of this
community.
January 1, 1909 will mark the
beginning of the fifteenth year of
my residence here, and during the
whole of that period / have worked
for the moral and material advance
ment of Magnolia.
If / am elected Mayor of Magno-
liza, | promise faithful, active,
careful, conscientious, jealous ad-
ministration, with an eye single to
the welfare of the town and all it's
inhabitants.
JOS. E. NORWOOD.
Sept. 18th.
(Mr. Norwood is the able editor
of the Magnolia Gazette and his
election as Mayor would be an hon
or to his town. unachieved by few
corporations. Our State needs the
offering of more such men as Mr..
Norwood, for public offices. We
hope to see him duly enthroned as
Lord Mayor of Magnolia Ed.
LEADER.
One of the most horrible crimes
in the history of this county was
perpetrated near Gladhurst post
office Sunday morning. A small
negro boy, about thirteen years
old, named Nathan lines, shot and
instantly killed his little cousin, a
girl about nine.
Miss Effiie Powell left last week
for Gillsburg where she will have
charge this session of the Music
Department of the Gillsburg Cole
giate Institute. Miss Powell is a
fine musician, of great natural
ability and fine training and the
Institute is fortunate in securing
her services.
The spirit of boyish vandalism
has already appeared in the new
school building. Sunday, Contrac-
tor Lenoir was obliged to put a
watchman on duty in the building
to protect it from the mischievous
pranks of a horde of little boys.
The Mayor and Board of Aldermen
should pass an ordinance making it
a misdemeanor, punishable by fine
and Imprisonment, to maliciously
deface or mar the beauty of this
splendid building, and the idea is
being seriously entertained by some
members of the Board.
The absence Of any provision in
the tax levy made last week by the
Board of Supervisors for the sup
port of the Agricultural High
School means the death of the
movement toward the establishment
of such an institution in this
county, for a year at least. The
Board found much opposition in
the county to the location of the
school at Walkers Bridge, petitions
being on file bearing several hun
dred names against the school.
Then, too, the fact that the law is
clearly unconstitutional operated as
an additional objection toward |
making the levy. So the inaction
of the Board kills the proposition.
A distinguished visitor to Mag
nolia during the last few days has
been Hon. Ebenezer Ford, of Co.
lumbia, who has been the guest of
his sister, Mrs. V. L. Terrell, and
his cousin, Mr.. Jerome Ford. Mr..
Ford is the young Missi ssippian,
who at the age of II years captured
the Cecil Rhodes Scholarship for
this state, which entitled him to a
full course in the great University
of Oxford, England. This schol-
arship was secured after a severe
competitive examination, in which
the leading colleges of the state
placed their best students. Mr..
Ford has lately won a yet great
er honor, when a few weeks ago he
carried off highest honors in the
final examinations of Oxford over
5000 competitors who are regarded
as the best student body of the |
world. Mr.. Ford took a law
course at Oxford and is now pre-
pairing to stand the legal examina-
tion for license to practice in the
courts of this state. He will locate
at Scranton.