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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-04-23

ming to help towns build number of
stretches of model road. They fur
nish road machinery such as crushers,
steam rollers, etc., and an engineer
to see that the best results possible
for the mouey are obtained. These
roads will be built at Sparta, Bara-
boo, Chippewa Falls, and several
places in other parts of the state not
yet definitely decided upon,
In addition they are furnishing ex-
pert engineering advice and bridge
designs to towns which plan to build
bridges this year.
This work cannot help but produce
better results for the same amount Of
money we are now spending on our
roads, and will arouse the interest Of
the people in this very important
subject.
The Highway Division is working
to the end that every town may get "A
Dollars Worth of Road for Every
Dollar of Tax; and it is much to
be hoped that their object will be
realized.
Want a0VS nor,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-04-23
THE NEW COUNCIL,

Mineral Point, Wis, Apr. 81, 1908.
Mayor Osborne, retiring, introduced
ed Mayor Brown, elect, who delivered
a short but very practical and helpful
speech; and the common council elect
for the coming year met in the council
chamber pursuant to law.
Called to order by Mayor Brown.
Present-Aldermen Weidenfeller,
Crawford, Jeuck, Shepard, Blewett,
Johnson. Frieden, and Engels.
Mayor Brown appointed the follow
ing standing committees:
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-04-23
State Sunday School ConVen-

The Sunday-school leaders of Wis
consin are planning a great State
Convention to be held at Neenah
-Menasha on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, the Goth, 9th and
28th of May. Neither pains nor
money have been spared in the pro-
duction of program that outranks
anything of the kind ever given in
Wisconsin. The array of talent
secured is attracting unusual attention
throughout the state.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-04-23

Unless there is daily action OF the bow
els, poisonous products are absorbed,
causing headache, biliousness, nausea,
dyspepsia. We wish you would ask your
doctor about correcting your constipation
by taking laxative doses OF Ayers Pills.
-~~Msde by the J. C. Aver Co.. Lowell. Mass
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-04-23

Want advs. on page |, column 7.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-04-23
Dread Tariff Revision.

The New York elephan that was
scared into a fit by the sight Of a
mouse wasn't a bit worse frightened
than the republican elephant is at the
mere thought of tariff revision
Milwaukee, Journal.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-04-23
Misuse of Power.

Milwaukee Journal: We shall miss
our guess if the people of the country
do not show their disgust for the way
the lower house of congress is now
made up when they go to the polls
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-04-23

held at Galena, Monday, April y,
1908. The annual address will be de-
liVered by Hon, Leslie M. Shaw, for
mer secretary of the treasury.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-04-23

The Grant Birthday Exercises.
Exercises commemorating the eighty
sixth anniversary of the birth of
General Ulysses S. Grant, will be
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05
Report Sent Out from HazIehurSt.

HazIehurst, Miss. Feb. l.
More and fuller details cf the ter
rible cyclone which passed
through Copiah courty yesterday,
we're obtained from people who
came to Hazlehurst for succor for
those injured, and visit by your
correspondent this morning to the
scene of the worst damage. The
cyclone, as far as can be traced,
commenced twenty miles west Of
here in the Bowerton neighbor-
mood, where gins. negro houses,
cotton houses and woodland were
swept away. On the old Ras
Matthews place near Bowerton, a
dwelling, store and several tenant
houses we're blown away. One
negro is reported killed and sew
eral injured. The cyclone next
swept across the plantation of L.
Ii. MilIsaps and destroyed eight
or ten negro houses, but no one
was fatally hurt. The Browns
Wells Lumber Company lost its
saw mill and planer and a large
quantity of lumber. One negro
is reported dead at the saw mill
and several severely injured.
Browns Wells, the famous health
resort, was barely missed by the
storm.
At Centerpoint negro house
containing sixteen nccu pants was
teIescoped, and the house was
blown against a tree with such
force that now the tree is standing
in the middle of the house. The
negroes were hurled about but
none hurt.
The next place was the Barry
place, where j. Q. James and
family live. This house was
blown from its foundation, its ell
blown away and the family hurled
to the floor.
Two hundred yards west the res
idence of Ben Martin was totally
destroyed, the lumber in the
building was blown miles away,
while the family, with the e-x
ception of Mr.. Martin, was blown
into a swamp several hundred
yards and all killed.
The dead are as follows:
Mrs. Ben Martin, 81 years old.
Charles Martin, six.
Floyd, four years old.
Lille May, two years old.
Effie, nine months.
Dave Martin, Ben's brother,
has his throat cut with flying
pieces of timber.
Mr.. Martin is badly injured and
will hardly recover. When found
he was standing in mud up to his
! knees in the swamp with a little
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05
MOUNT ZION NOTES.

Well, spring time is almost here.
The road workers are fixing the
roads now. | guess we can all
travel with more ease soon.
We are sorry to note Mr.. Rus
sell Ellzey has been absent from
school on account of sickness.
We hope he will soon be able to
come back.
Versie Smith attended the
teachers meeting,
The teachers meeting at our
school Saturday was pleasant and
helpful. Many fathers and
mothers came out, and enjoyed the
improvements being made for the
children. The newly painted
house, the cultivated yard, the
pretty interior additions, were en-
joyed. Most of all, perhaps, we
enjoyed the talks of Miss Watkins
and Messrs. Nelson and Campbell.
The boys and girls are quoting
these speeches. The teachers. we
are glad to know, spoke in highest
terms of the fine school spirit at
Mt. Zion.
LITTLE BILLY.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05
MISSISSIPPI COTTON ASSOCIATION.
President Clark Makes Some Timely
Statements.

The following paragraphs from
circular letter issued last week
by Pres. Clarke, of the Mississippi
pi Division of the Southern Cot
ton Assnciation, are worth con-
sidering:
Shortly after the Southern Cot
ton Association was organized
cotton steadily advanced, and for
the past three years the price has
been higher than for many years.
While we do not claim the earth,
we do claim th9t our efforts have
had much to do with this condi-
ton, and we feel that our Organ
ization is entitled to the moral as
we'll as the financial support of
every man in Mississippi.
In all of our work we have en-
ldeavnred to keep belore the minds
of Cur people the necessity for the
diversitication of crops and the
Improvement of the soils. While
this subject is as old as the hills,
1t is none the less important-in
fact, | believe it to be the most
important business measure be-
fore our people today, A great
many of our farmres are improv-
ing their soils; but | do not hesi-
tate to say that where one acre of
land is being improved and built
up fifty acres are being destroyed
by the one-crop system. This
question must be constantly a9i-
tated and kept before the minds of
our people.
Our bales of cotton with their
covering are a disgrace, a re-
Election on our intelligence, and
the ridicule of the cotton buying
world. These conditions, and
the enormous leakage thereby
incurred, can only be changed by
organized effort.
The interest of every man in
the South is affected by the vari-
GUS Cotton Exchanges, and yet we
have never claimed the right to
voice in making the rules and
regulations which so vitality afiec
the price of our product; and
now, one of these institutions,
after so many years Of every
thing their own way" sets up the
plea. that it is Private Institu-
ton, and only responsible to its
members tor its acts. y The work
ings of these institutions should
demand at our hands very careful
and thoughtful consideration.
think that every thoughtful
man must see the necessity for
continuation of our work. If you
can not get local organization in
your community, you can at least
write US. and send us check for
YOUR own dues, ever remembering
that even salvation is not free, and
in this Iaud of ours nothing can be
accomplished without money.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05
A TERRIFIC CYCLONE.
PASSES THROUGH COPIAH COUNTY NEAR
MARTINSVILLE.
Twenty People Killed and Many Others njuedGreat Des=
tructon to Property Along Storms Track.

WessOn, Miss, Jan. 31.-Six
persons were killed outright by a
cyclone which laid waste a strip
of farming country three quarters
of mile wide several miles north
of here today. -Four persons we're
probably fatally injured and many
Others slightly hurt, when their
homes were blown down. A
negro who arrived here about
dark brought the news of the
storm and an appeal for aid.
Three physicians started in car
riages for the stricken district.
According to the negro's story,
the dead are: Mrs. Ben Martin
and four children and Dave Mar
tin.
Fatally injured: Ben Martin,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Maddox, 0 ne
unknown negro.
Seriously injured: Bill Allen
and daughter.
All of these dead and injured
are whites except the unknown
negro.
The cyclone struck. about 4
O'Clock this afternoon. For dis
tance of twenty miles in north
easterlJ direction, the wind tore a
pathway nearly a mile wide, part
ly or wholly destroying nearly
every building in this area.
SGnres of dead farm animals lit
tered the cyclones track.
The residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Maddox was blown almost off the
premises, and Mrs. Maddox's
spinal column broken. A negro
was found fatally injured in the
debris of Robert LittIeton's farm
buildings. The cotton gin and
store of Ras Matthews were al
most wholly destroyed.
Surrounding towns not in the
direct path of the storm suffered
severe damage during the few
minutes of the cyclones duration.
At Georgetown, buildings we're
blown down. At Hazlehurst, two
saw mills we're destroyed, many
fences and several small buildings
we're blown over. Centerpoint
reported much damage, but no
loss of life. MartinsviIle, which
was on the edge of the cyclone's
path, escaped without serious
damage.
Darkness settled SO quickly af-
ter the storm that only an incom-
plete estimate of the destruction,
both to life and property, was OBJ,
tanned.
Men in carriages are tonight
driving through the devastated dis
trict offering aid to the storm
sufferers.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05
A Called Meeting.

There will be a called meeting
of the Farmers Educational aud
Cooperative Union for Brook
haven Local, at the Court House
on Friday, Feb. 7th, at 7 O'Clock
p. m., and we extend a general
invitation to every one who feels
an interest in this great organiza-
tion to meet with US. There is no
reason why Brookhaven should
not have the banner local of the
county, so, farmers, come out and
join us, and those who belong to
other locals and live nearer US
should come in with their demits
and help US build up a Union here
which will be power for good.
Come, and we will give you some
propositions to think about.
Fraternally,
DR.. Fl. FLOWERS, Pres.
A. W. MEYERS, Dist. Lecturer.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05

en- egg, because their neighbor
was still the only one who paid
in advance, and we failed to get
the extra 50 cents with which to
furnish the credit man, and in
many instances had to cut off his
paper supply. 1t has been our
earnest endeavor to supply each
postoffice with as many free papers
as possible, using the surplus
derived from cash subscriptions
for that purpose, but a reduction
in price of subscription and a cor
responding increase in cost of
material has greatly hampered US
in this philanthropic work, and
now it seems that the. Government
refuses to look with favor upon
the charitable object we had in
view, and hereafter those who are
not able to pay for the paper will
have to do without, because we
are not able quite able to advance
the stamps.
Numerous other laws are con-
tanned In this pamphlet, one being
that publisher can not send a copy
of his paper free of postage to
any one even in the county unless
he is an actual subscriber, and
another that paper shall not be
sent free on account Of any ad it
may contain. Another is for post
masters to inform publishers to
fold their papers to not more than
9 x II size, which will require an
extra fold on Z col size and over.
Under this late law a publisher
can not send his paper compli-
mentary. 1t Will also be hard for
a new paper to secure second class
postage rates, as it will necessi-
tate their starting of with a bona
fide paid up list depositing even
then regular postage in advance,
and the average "prominent,"
and ''one of our best," citizen
does hate to pay for his county |
paper in advance, though he
thinks nothing of riding all the
way to the money-order Office to
send the cash for a city paper
which gives him no home news
and cares neither whether he is
living or dead, and isn't apt to
which or either, has not
a dollar invested in the county,
is not liable to have, and pays
neither taxes nor preacher.-Lib-
erty Herald.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05
There Has Been a Change.

Country journalism has in re-
cent years undergone a most graf
flying change. The newspapers
published outside of the larger
cities, country weeklies," and
their editors are no longer consid-
cred as a butt for Jokes. The
day is past when such papers are
filed with dead advertising matter
and the publisher with cabbage or
greens taken on subscription
settlements. Particularly is this
so in Mississippi, where the coun-
try press is power both political
ly aud morally.
A community should do the
most for paper which shows the
most inclination to do something
tor its community Madison
County Herald.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05
City Spends Thousands for Newspaper
Advertising.

Eight years ago some enterpris-
ing citizen of Villa msport, Pa.
conceived the brilliant idea that
newspaper advertising could be
used tO advantage in the promo
tion Of the growth and progress of
his town, and he forthwith pru-
cGcded to raise a fund for the pur-
pose.
The idea appealed to the bust
ness men o&the place, and mum
bar Of them made liberal cOntri-
buttons for the purpose.
The first advertising contracts
were placed on December 4. 1900,
in the home newspapers and in a
number of ncighboring city dali
lies. Good results were obtained
and other papers were added to
the list until the whole country
was covered.
To make long story short. the
city Of WilIiamsport las expended
S4Gl, 900 for newspaper advertis-
ing duriog the past five years
and the appropriation for 1903 is
the largest yet made.
And the resuIts2 There's no
worry on that score.
Since the advertising campaign
was inaugurated in 1900 more than
Is factories have been located
there, employing many thousands
Of men and increasing the popuIa-
tion of the place several times
oyer.
This is not pipe dream. On
the contrary. it is a true story,
terSely told. .-Hattiesburg News.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05

The attorneys oe Loss Benja-
min, colored, convicted at the last
term of the Lincoln Circuit Court
of the murder of Richard Camp
bell, colored, gave notice to Sher-
if Greer Monday that the appeal
taken in this case would not be
prosecuted in the Supreme Court.
Benjamin was accordingly sent to
one of the Penitentiary farms
Monday to begin serving his life
term. The murder in this case
was most unproVoked one and
BENJAMIN was lucky to escape
with his neck.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05
Michigan in the LimeIieht.

A proposal is pc nding in the
Michigan Constitutional Conven-
tion to have the new constitution
punish by fine and Imprisonment
men who neglect to vote, and re-
ward those who cast their ballots
by deduGting So from their taxes.
Both penalties and inducements
are held out to make men vote,
whether they want to or not, while
the right is denied to the women
who do want it. That there are
women in Michigan who want the
ballot cannot be gai- said, as some
thousands have petitioned the
Constitutional Convention to pro-
vide for woman suffrage. The
movement has heen endorsed by
the Modern Maccabees, the Ladies
Of the Maccabee8, the W. G. L. U.
and by some of the most conserva-
tive and influential women's clubs
Of the State.
Nor are the women without al
lies among men, for Senator Thos.
W. Palmer has addressed letter
to the Constitutional Convention
urging that a woman suffrage
amendment be embodied in the
new Constitution. The State
Grange, the State Federation OF
Labor and many mems organiza-
tions Of minor importance have
taken favorable action on the ques-
tiOn.
The Constitutional Convention
will grant the women hearing at
an early date, at which Rev. Anna
II. Shaw, whom Michigan claims
as her own, will be the principal
speaker.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05
Roosevelt on Recent Business Troubles

In his ringing message sent to
Congress last Friday, President
Roosevelt makes the following
vigorous reference to the recent
business troubles of the country:
] do not for a moment believe
that the actions of this administra-
tion have brought on business dis
tress; so far as this is due to loo al
and not world wide causes, and to
the actions of any particular in
dividuals, it is due to the specuIa-
tive folly and fragrant dishonesty
of few men of great wealth, who
seek to shield themselves from the
effects of their own wrongdoing
by ascribing its results to the
actions of those who have sought
to put q stop to the wrongdoing.
But if it were true that to cut out
rottenness from the body polite
meant momentary check to an
unhealthy seeming prosperity, |
should not for one moment hesi-
tate to put the knife to the cor
ruption.
On behalf of all our people, on
behalf no less of the honest man
of means than of the honest man
who earns each days livelihood
by that DAYS sweat of his brow, it
is necessary to insist upon honesty
in business and politics alike, in
all walks of life, in big things
and in little things; upon just and
fair dealing as between man and
man. Those who demand this are
striving FOR the right in the spirit
of Abraham Lincoln when be
said:
"FondIy do we Eope, fervently
do we pray, that this mighty
scourge may speedily pass away.
Yet if God wills that it continue
until all the wealth piled by the
hondsmen's two hundred and fifty
years of unrequited toll shall be
sunk, and until every drop of
blood drawn with the lash shall be
paid by another drawn with the
sword, as was said three thousand
years ago, so still it must be said,
The judgments of the Lord are
true and righteous altogether
with malice toward none; With
charity for all; with frmness in
the right, as God gives US to see
the right, let US strive on to finish
the work we are in."
In the work we of this genera.
tion are in, there is, thanks be to
the Almighty, no danger of blood
shed and no use for the sword
but there is grave need of those
stern qualities shown alike by the
men of the North and the men OF
the South in the dark days when
each vaIiantly battled for the right
as it was given each to see the
right. Their spirit should be oul
spirit, as we strive to bring nearer
the day when greed and trickery
and cunning shall be tram pied
under feet by those who fight
for the righteousness that exaltett
a nation.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05

State Treasurer Edwards has
sent a circular letter to eyery
sheriff and tax collector in the
State advising them that in max
ing your remittances to the state
treasurer, please do not send any,
thing except money, and warn
ing them that if their remittance
is not for the full amount as shown
by the report to the state auditor
to be due by you. it will be re-
turned to you by express at your
expense. = This is a rule as laid
down in the statute book and TO
which the new treasurer says he
will strictly adhere.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05

GilI1u III ulh al luo' AnC CulIu ulCu
this morning.
Three hundred yards further
east a new house was blown away
and all that remains is the floor
In this house were Mr.. and Mrs
Maddox, their little daughter anC
Chas. Martin, Sr. Mr.. and Mrs.
Maddox were severely injured
while the child and Mr.. Martin
escaped without serious injury.
Everything living at the Ben Mar
tin place seems to have met death
with the exception as above stated.
of Mr.. Martin.
Chicken, geese, dogs, cats and
hogs were found dead.
Not a living thing could be
found at this opce prosperous
farm house.
The storm pIOughed its way
through the woodland to Martins
Vile; here the Baptist church is
totally wrecked and dwellings raz
ed from their foundations. Just
a little east of MartinsviIIe the
cyclone widened and destroyed a
farm house and all out houses, and
wrecked a handsome dwelling for
Mr.. Cogdell. After crossing the
railroad the farm of a prosperous
negro named Mosby was struck.
The house was demolished and all
of the family was thrown together
in the yard. Mosby's back was
broken and several members of
his family bruised and hurt.
Andy Tillman lost five tenant
houses and a colored woman on
bis place was badly hurt. Amos
Browns house was demolished,
but the family is reported unhurt.
Ben Nebon's plantation was swept,
tenant houses blown away and
stock killed. S. Aliens house
was next visited and razed. Near
him lived a brother, who lost his
residence and all Of his corn and
some stock. Several members of
the family are hurt.
The storm swept everything in
it's trail to Georgetown, where w.
S. Catching lost his store, gin and
barn. The residence of j. B.
Middleton was destroyed and a
negro on S. f. Nichols place was
killed.
HazIehurst knew very little of
the cyclone until this morning.
All of the telephone lines were
blown down and the heavy rain
made it impossible to reach here
on account of the swollen condi-
tions of the streams. Medical aid
was received from Wesson and the
condition of the suffering was
ameliorated as much as possible
this morning by friends from all
sections of the country.
This cyclone was as terrific as
the Beauregard cyclone in 1888,
when nearly a hundred lives we're
lost. 1t was half mile wide and
made clean sweep of everything
in its trail. Clothing and house
hold furniture can be seen lodged
in trees many miles from the
scene of wreckage. The streets
of Hazlehurst are filled with tops
of pine trees and pieces of lumber.
1t is impossible to estimate the
loss and damage to property, but
several conservatives say that
$500,000 would not cover it,
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05
LITTLE BILLY.

The editor of the Magnolia
News has pronounced opinions.
He also has the courage to speak
right out in meetin' when the
occasion seems to demand it.
Here is timely paragraph from
that excellent paper to which the
Daily News adds its most cordial
endorsement: Next to the SYM
pathizer with crime stands the
suppressor of incriminatng facts,
who, when be should speak out,
plays shut mouth. He might be
instrumental in bringing the gull
ty to justice; but his courage
evaporates at the thought of incur
ring the enmity of the offender
and his friends. - Hattiiesburg
News.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-02-05

Hon. j. B. Webb, ex-Distriot
Attorney of this district, passed
through Brookhaven Monday
morning to Monticello, where lie
had beeu appointed as special
Judge to preside over the Law
renee County Circuit Court in
place of Judge Bullard, who was
prevented from filling his appoint
ment by illness. The term is
likely to consume all of this week
and part of next.