Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-10-16
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obusha and Holmes counties have been
added to those already received at the
auditors office, both of which show the
difference compared with 1907 on the
right side of the ledger. Holmes coun-
ty reports q total personal property
value for 1908 at 81 424 ,59l, and that for
1907 ut 81, 404, 796, an increase OF 49,
1876. The polls assessed are /, 020 whites,
to 5,722 negroes. Yalobusha couniy'A
assessment for 1908 reached the tots
of s993, 597, compared with 1888, 1876 for
1907, leaving a balance to increase OF
ss,S0l. The white polls are in the ma
jority in this county, the figures being
2,3oS to 1,497 negroes, an excess OF 90l.
More than 600 veterans attended the
reunion of the Mississippi division OF
the United Confederate veterans held
At Greenwood, among them many men
who had won fame by their deeds OF
valor on the battlefield, ~ well as
many prominent in the affairs OF state
aad nation. A resolution was adopted
indorsing the erection OF = monument
in each state to the women of the Con
fsderacy. Gen. Robert Lowry was
unanimously elected commAnGer-in.
chief of the Mississippi division. His
absence on account of serious illness
was the cause of keen regret among
the veterans.
Judge w. II. Hardy granted an in
:juMction to the Gulf & Ship Island, the
Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City and the
Hew Orleans & Northeastern railroads
against the enforcement of an order OF
9he Mississippi railroad commission re-
Guiriag them to build union depot
nj Laarel. The contention of the rail
roads 10 that the order is cOnfiscatory
81 their property and violative OF the
Fourteenth amendment of the constitu-
sion of the United States.
The construction of a combination
logging road and commercial railroad
hne from Collins to ElliBville is part
OF the large enterprise which the Sill
vsrthorns Bros, of New York, have
announced for the development of the
humber properties which they have &C
CURED in South MiEsissippi. The Oko-
toma Sawmill company is now being
termed to take over all the properties
AID to carry out the plans.
The keynote of the several speeches
delivered by Booker 7. Washington
during his tour of the state was to ad-
wise members of his race to acquire
property. According to Washington'a
idea the negro cannot become a good
citizen until he becomes a property
owner, nor can the race hope to make
mueh substantial progress 30 long al
iss members do not rsAlizs the value OF
q b&ak &eeeuAt.
An immense factory for the nAnufac-
ture OF paper out of yellow pine refuse
will be established in Hatties burg i'm
aediAtely, with capitalization OF $780,
900. The grades of paper will be OF
she heavier kind, and in connection
with the paper mill will be factories for
cas manufacture of paper boxes of all
kinds. The enterprise was on foot over
= year ago, and had been put well for
ward when the financial panic came
along. The present enterprise is re-
aSwal of the earlier company.
The state board of pharmaceutical ex-
aminers met at Jackson for the regular
examinations with q class of seventy
sc~eQto take the examination along
the lines in practical and theoretical
pharmacy &s designated by law and
Regulation. The class quite well filed
SA0 hail OF representatives., whore the
msesinE was hold, four negroes, OF
whom one Is . woman, being Included
In the number.
A. movement has been launched to
secure q pardon for J. B. Slade, the
noted Pike county deSpsrado, now
vsrvinK life term in the penitentiary
for the murder of William Miller.
Slade had been on the RankinfArm only
q few months when he made his escape.
Several months later he was captured
near the scene of his crime, but it was
necessary for the officers to wound him
before he would surrender.
That W. J. Rice, the fugitive presi-
dent of the defunct Central Bank OF
Mississippi, now under indictment in
the Kinds county circuit court on the
charge of ENLIGHTENMENT, il preparing
to settle with his Mississippi creditors,
10 the announcement that comes from
Lexington, KY, in the form OF private
letters from the fugitive. He claims
ability to show that he was not person
ally responsible for the failure of the
Central Bank.
Ex-Governor Vardaman has been as
signed to speak in Tennessee and Ken
lucky for the national Democratic
ticket. His dates for Tennessee are
for the week of Oct II to IL and for
Kentucky the following week, ending
Oct. "a.
What promises to be the most notA-
bic gathering of farmers ever held in
the South will take place at Natchsz,
Nov. 24-27, inclusive. The prime pur-
Yess Of the gathering In to prepare the
farmers of the cotton belt east OF the
Mississippi river to battle with the
boil weeFil, and to acquaint them with
ways and means of minimizing the
ravages of the pest.
Aunt Fannie Barrett, colored, died
as Decatur, aged 104 years. She joined
bhs white Baptist church years ago.
and always retained her msmbsrshiB
Aeeeia.