The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-10-17
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.

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A Baptist church has been organ
lied at Fayette.
Will Sorsby and Austin Fergu
son, the Kinds county murderers
are still at large.
This is Work Day" for the
Mississippi Methodist Orphanage,
located at jackson.
Mississippi College announces an
interesting lyceum course running
fromlOct. 80 to April 7th.
Tylertown is charging her pub
lie school facilities. The town is
now q separate school district.
Mr.. Ben Folks, reputed to be the
oldest citizen of Warren county
died this week at the advanced age
of 81.
On Nov. 6 the corner stone of
the new dormitory on the campus
of the State University will be laid
by the Grand Lodge of Masons of
this State.
Mrs. W. @. Lowd, formerly of
jackson, Miss, and daughter of
Major David Dickson, died in
Washington, D C few days ago.
Her husband and four sons survive
her.
An involuntary petition in bank
puptcy has been filed with United
Estates Circuit Clerk Moseley
against Hebert McRae Company of
Lexington, by S. L. Burwell and
others.
Gov. Noel was late reaching the
executive office yesterday afternoon
because of a very pleasant little
informal dinner party at which he
and Mrs. Noel were host and host
ess. Among the guests were DIR.
and Mrs. 7. ]. Bailey, Rev. and
Mrs. w. F. Marlborough, Miss
Forbes, Revs Wooster, Wills and
Jelks.-Jackson News.
Charles P. Dement,, founder of
the Meridian Star, has purchased
the Jonesboro (Ark). News. BY
this deal Mr.. Dement,, one of the
oldest active newspaper men of the
State, sewers all connection with
newspaper work in this State. He
some time ago sold his interest in
the Meridian Star to his sons, who
are now publishing the paper.
Two negroes-Davis brothers
were lynched at Lula Sunday night
by an orderly mob for fatally
shooting Frank Kendall a conduct
or on the Helena Branch of the
Mississi ppi Valley Railroad. These
two negroes, with others, had been
over to Helena on an excursion to
hear Booker Washington, and came
back tanked up with liquor and
ready to make trouble, with the
above result.
Mr.. H. E. Magee has finished
grading the front of the court yard
for the erection of the new iron
fence: which has arrived and is a
very pretty pattern. The three un-
slightly water oaks have been dug
up from the yard, and when the
new fence is up and the concrete
walks put down, the appearance of
the central portion of the town will
be greatly improved. The fence
on the front will have a brick
foundation two and a half feet
hlgh.-Franklin Advocate.
The five jackson social clubs with
second story saloons, which were
indicted by the Kinds county grand
jury, all came into court this week
and entered a plea of noIle con
tendere-that is while not plead
ing guilty to the indictments, they
would not contest them, and
threw themselves on the mercy of
the court. Those unwilling to pay
a fine of $50 and enter into 81, 900
bond for future good behavior,
were fined $3.50. This is one of
the direct good results of the new
Law and Order League.
The Board of Supervisors will
meet in special session tomorrow
to arrange for the change in loca-
tion of the steel bridge proposed to
be built at the PROXY bluff on the
Homochitto river and select a site
at or near the Cassidy ford, as the
latter location will the more easily
accessible and will give better sat-
isfactoin to the travelling public.
The bridge company. we under
stand, favor the change and will
build the bridge at the new loca
tion at the original figure. Frank
lin Advocate.
In delivering his charge to the
Adams county grand jury, Judge
Wilkinson particularly emphasized
the necessity of investigating the
charges made against the two can.
didates for congress who ran in the
last primary. He said the law for
slander had been most fiagrantly
violated. and demanded that the
matter be thoroughly sifted. Men
who have double moral standard
one for politics and one for ordi-
nary secular and business affairs
seem to think they are privileged
to lie about candidate without
scruple
The Lexington Advertiser of last
week published nine bank state
ments, all of which are located in
Holmes county, and the two at Dur