The Tupelo journal., 1908-04-17
Mississippi
Nems

The new board of directors of the
Beauvoir Soldiers Home met at Beau
voir and organized by the election OF
Il. G. Sharkey as president pro tenn. and
L. M. Henry secretary. 1t became
necessary to elect a secretary outside
the membership, and on account Of Mr..
Henry's devotion to the interests of the
Home from its inception to the present
time, and his knowledge of the affairs
of the institution, the board unani-
mously rendered him the position,
which he accepted, and agreed to serve
without compensation. Mr.. Henry is
ineligible to serve as a director on ac-
count of the law making all State Of
fcers, members Of the legislature and
judges ineligible as trustees on any Of
the state institution boards. The Home
is now full of inmates-about 100-and
no more a be accommodated until
additional buildings are provided, work
on which will be pushed rapidly. There
are now on file twenty-three accepted
applications for admission.
Workmen have just completed the
erection of q handsome monument to
the memory of the late j. L. Power, on
the family lot in Greenwood cemetery,
Jackson. This monument was raised
by the Odd Fellows and newspaper men
of Mississippi, to commemorate the
life of, and to prove their regard for
the late Col. j. L. Power, for many
years the states "chief citizen"
AT the time of Col. Power'sdeath the
Masons expressed a desire to erect a
monument to the memory of him who
had been for more than thirty years
their beloved grand secretary. The
plan meeting with favor, after some
time spent in getting their plans
worked out, the Masons erected their
memorial on the family lot in Green
wood, where today it stands. There
having been some misunderstanding
among the various committees of the
Masons, the Odd Fellows and the news
paper men, they did not unite their
forces but decided to act Independently
of each other, and the result is that to-
day there are two handsome monuments
on the lot, both in memory of the man
whose service to his state and to her
people cannot have too many proofs of
appreciation and respect.
1t has been arranged to hold the an.
nual meeting of the Mississippi Audu-
bon society at Jackson during the meet
ing of the Teachers association. The
meeting will be planned especially with
reference to the interest and needs of
teachers in this work. A suitable hall
for the exhibition of stereopticon slides
will be secured, and Prof. Allison will
make a talk on bird study and the
Audubon work in connection with the
stereopticon exhibition. In addition
to the illustrated lecture by Prof. ALA
SOD it is planned to have brief talks by
several others, including Profs. Sullivan,
Ellington, Foster and Rose.
The Mississippi Ri, er Mound ~associa-
ton was formed at Greenville. The
purpose of the organic ltion is to
awaken interest among those owning
lands along the levee front in the bill
now before congress providing for the
erection of mounds for the protection of
human life and stock along the banks
OF the Mississippi river between the
government levees and the river during
high water.
Although the Boddie anti-bucketshop
bill, enacted at the recent legislative
session, does not become effective until
June, a large number OF persons and
firms engaged in the operation of
brokerage and commission business,
with wire facilities for dealing in
futures, have quit business, and others
are preparing to do so.
The cornerstone of the Old Ladies'
Home was laid at Jackson with i'm
pressive ceremonies in the presence of
a large thrcng of interested spectators
and friends of the Mississippi Old
Ladies' Home association.
The regular spring examinations OF
applicants to practice pharmacy in the
state were held at Jackson by the state
board of pharmaceutical examiners,
with seventy-tive applicants, four OF
whom being negroes.
Arthur N. Beattie was elected secre.
t~ary-treasurer of the Yazoo-M Mississippi
levee board to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Percy NJ. Houston.
The board of supervisors of Yazoo
county appropriated $500 to the build.
ing of the Old Ladies' Home at Jack
son.
Preliminaries are being arranged for
work on the new road between Jackson
and Carthage, to be known as the Pearl
River Valley railroad.
The board of supervisors O: Lefore
county appropriated $4,000 to the Kings
Daughters hospital at Greenwood.
Capt. E. P. Thompson, Confederate
journalist, and one of the most promi-
nent men of Eastern Mississippi, died
suddenly at Aberdeen. Capt. Thomp-
son was born in Mississippi in 1889. He
enlisted at OkolOna in the Confederata
army in May, 1861, going out with the
Eleventh Mississippi regiment.