Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-24

Gonerd1 manager MChdyf VI tHe
Mississippi state fair, announces that
active work of preparation for the No
vember exposition are now under way
and will be pushed throughout the
summer period. Although the recent
legislature failed to make an appropi&
ton to aid the work of the state fair,
the officers are not In the least discour.
aged, but will go ahead with their de.
termination to make the 1908 exposition
on larger and more comprehensive
scale than ever before.
Auditor Smith has issued tabula-
ton showing the condition of 281 state
banks and "a branches doing business
in Mississippi. The statement shows
that the banks are in satisfactory ape,
Paving total resources of $50, OBS ,557:
total volume of loans and discounts
1876, OPT ,804.60, while overdrafts secured
and demand loans amount to 81, 848,.
1872 IL. The banks have an aggregate
capital stock of s12, SIT $685., surplus
of $2,747 ,594.05, and undivided profits
of 81 500, 22O07.
Mississippi will send several hundred
delegates to the annual meeting of the
Southern Baptist convention, which will
convene at Hot Springs, Ark, on May
IA. Plans are being formed for all
delegates in the southern and central
parts of the state to gather in jackson
and travel in body to the convention
city, leaving jackson on the afternoon
of May 13. The total active member
ship of the church in Mississippi Is now
between 10000 and l25, 900.
Senator E. H. Moore died at his
home at Cleveland. Senator Moore
was u potential factor in the public life
of Mississippi and an influential men,
Der of the state legislature. He was o
member of one of the oldest and most
distinguished families of Bolivar coun.
ty, prominent member of the bar,
and citizen held in the highest esteem
of his townsmen.
The mercantile firm of Mullen, Owen
& Co., of Durant, has failed with LA.
bilities of 100000 This firm had been
in business for many years, and enjoyed
the confidence of everyone, many per-
sons keeping their money with the
firm and checking it out as needed.
These were caught in the crash, and
many will lose their entire savings OF
years.
Through the efforts of Land Com
missioner Nall between 1000 and 5000
acres of land which had been wrong.
fully parceled out under the homestead
laws of the United States, has been re-
turned to Mississippi as state lands,
over which the federal government
neither has nor had control or iuris-
diction.
Reports from Pike county indicate
unusual activity along agricultural
lines. The Farmers Union Is strong
throughout that section, and their pol
icy of diversifcation and thorough
working of the soil is being largely
carried out. A considerably larger
area will be planted in food crops than
| heretofore.
A lively clash is on between Col.
Tom Haynie, editor of the Farmers
Union Advocate, and the executive
committee of the Mississippi branch of
the Farmers Union. The bone of con-
tention is the effort launched by Col.
Haynie to organize the Colored Farm
ers' Cotton Business Cooperative
Union.
The semi-annual examination of ap-
plicants for license to practice medi-
cine will be held at jackson May IL.
1t is expected that there will be 200
applicants. At the last examination
about 50 per cent. passed.
The last spike which connected the
Natchez end of the Mississippi Gen.
trail railway and the Hattiesburg end
was driven at Middle Fork, forty
miles west of Brookhaven. While the
road is now complete from HattiesburQ
to Natchez, distance of 155 miles, It
will be two weeks before any traffic will
be handled over the western end of the
line.
In the suit of Mrs. Laura HYDE OF
Laurel VS.. the Home Insurance Com
pany, for the collection of 1000 policy
on the life of her son, J. G. Hyde, who
committed suicide about a year ago,
the jury returned verdict in favor of
Mrs. Hyde. The verdict was based on
expert testimony, which tended to
prove that the act was planned and ex-
ecuted by an insane man.
Chairman Lee of the Mississippi rail-
road commission is trying to adjust the
Natchez depot controversy, which has
been pending for nearly year.
The annual convention of the Bank.
ers' association will be held at Brook
haven May Ii and Ii.
Dave Duncan shot and killed Babe
Cooper, peaceable farmer living near
Pontotoc. Cooper was to have been
married the very day he was killed.
Duncan is said to have been drunk, and
Cooper started to assist him to remount.
Duncan pulled his pistol and shot Coop
er through the heart: killing him In
stantly.
While cleaning his shotgun on the
front porch ut the family residence,
Robert Mathis, son of wealthy citizen
OF Crystal Springs, accidentally shot
and killed himself.