The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-10-03
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS.

MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS.
Millsaps College, at Jackson,
opened its new term with a large
enrolment.
The Cumberland Telephone Lom-
pany won out IN its controversy at
Hattiesburg.
Mississippi College, at Clinton,
opened its eighty third session with
an enrolment of 300.
Two railroad news agents were
fined $75 each at Wesson on the
charge of selling liquor.
The Mississippi Levee Board, in
session at Greenville, awarded con-
tracts for 100, 900 yards of work.
The prediction is made by a Gov
ernment expert that the boil wee
vii will reach Warren County by
next season.
Fifteen business houses, includ-
ing the Postoffice and Telephone
Exchange, were destroyed by fire at
Arcola, Miss.
The Clarke Memorial College,
recently completed at Newton, be
gan it's first term with a satisfac-
tory enrolment.
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w. T. Harkness, charged with
circulating anonymous campaign
literature at Biloxi, was found
guilty by jury at Gulfport.
W. R. CASTOR, charged with the
embezzlement of more than $50, 900
from the Pike County Bank and
Trust Company, at McComb City,
while he was cashier, went to trial
at Magnolia.
Mrs. Alice Blades, aged "a, died
at Wesson. She was the mother of
Mrs. W. w. Robertson, of Wesson,
and of Mrs. Tom Morrow, of Nc
Comb.
In a battle at Greenville with a
monkey wrench and a sledge ham
mer, Jack Robinson was killed by
Lon Davenport. Davenport WELD
ed the sledge hammer.
A contract was awarded for the
erection of chapel and admins
tration building at the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Missis-
sippi at a cost of $81 OFT. go.
The Industrial Institute and Col
lege, at Columbus, MISS, opened
with 800 girls in attendance. Ap-
plications from 400 others were re-
jected because they could not be ac-
commodated.
The new Farmers Union ware
house at Hattiesburg will cost $10,-
1000. The business men of the city
will pay for the site by popular
subscription and will turn it over
to the farmers.
Vicksburg has decided to ne
gotiate the issue of 1925, 900 4 IL
percent interest bearing, twenty
year bonds to defray the cost OF
constructing the thirty-two miles
of city system of sewers.
William Acy, Sc years old, who
fifteen years ago dug his own
grave, prepared an expensive mar
BILE tomb, suitably inscribed, and
purchased a costly casket, dropped
dead while dining in his home at
Amite City.
The old Ed Richardson corner,
where Mississippi's millionaire be-
gan to amass his fortune, was
burned down at jackson on Tuesday
night. It had lately been purchas-
/ ed by the Morrison Brothers and
the building and contents were val
ued at $50. 900.
Rev. John III. Eager, who for
years was a missionary to Italy,
but who is now serving as agent
for the Endowment Fund of the
Baptist Theological Seminary at
Louisville, made a brief stop here
| yesterday morning en- route to the
Lawrence County Association at
Prentiss.
Booker T. Washington, of Tuske-
gee, Ala, the leader of the negro
race, will be in Natchez on Oct. Z
to lay the corner stone for the col
ored church in Bee street, which
has been built at a cost of $40, 900.
He will deliver an address that
night at the Baker Ganrd Theatre.
Boxes will be reserved at the thea
tire for the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen and tile officers and di-
lrectors of the Chamber OF Com
merce, while the lower floor will
be reserved for the white people.