The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-06-15
Flrst Day. june /, 1eoa.

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court house on the first Monday and
first day of June. Present, ]. p. Pace,
president; j. c. Mcdonald, ]. L. Davis,
w. A. Conn and s. E. Perkins. mem
bers. J. c. Magruder, sheriff, and T. e.
Batson, clerk.
Jacob Ryan, Jr., was appointed over
seer of road link No, 40 in place of l.
G. Pool. deceased.
Joe Lewis was appointed overseer
of road link Ga in place of Garlic
Lewis, removed.
| w. F. Slade was employed at $3.50
per day to superintend the extension of
bridge on Beaver Dam Creek on
Brooklyn and Purvis Road.
John L. Davis and w. A. Conn, COM
missioners to mark and lay out pub
lie road beginning at Helena Station
on Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, re-
ported favorably as to portion of said
route. =
Ellis johnson was appointed over
seer on road link No. SO.
Assessment of part of lot 4, block
25, Hardy C Scott survey, changed
from Hattiesburg Eight-Wheel Wagon
Company to Mississippi Central Rail-
road Company.
Discontinued one-haf mile of Hat
tiesburg and McLaurin road.
Denied petition of Willie Hall, pris-
oner praying that the time spent in
jail before trial be Credited on his
Jail sentence.
Second Day.
Orders and correspondence relative
to the sale of the Jail bonds entered on
the minutes.
! Reconsidered petition of N. w. Lee,
ct al in reference to public road and
John L. Davis and ]. P. Pace ap-
pointed to investigate and report at
lext meeting.
]. P. Pace and ]. C. Mcdonald. ap-
pointed commissioners TO lay out and
mark a proposed change in Hatties-
burg and Augusta road reported in
favor of said change.
John L. Davis and ]. G. Mcdonald,
commissioners to lay out and mark a
road from three mile post on Hatties-
burg and Rawls Springs road to Ar
mold made report recommending open
ing said road.
The following allowances were
made:
Hays & Field, IS cents for drugs;
DR.. ]. H. Harper $11.60 for vaccination
performed in March; ]. c. Barksdale;
s13 for building coal bins in basement
of court house; H. E. Clark, Sc for sur
veying county farm, F. H. Powe So for
drugs, Hattoesburg Daily Progress
$25 for printing delinquent poll tax
list, W. A. Sumrall s32.7S for sup
plies at county farm, Hays & Field rs
cents for glue for county assessor, T.
E. Batson $4.25 for stamps. DR.. Rob-
ert Donald $25 services as county
health officer, T. E. Batson $3.50 for
phone in office, T. j. Nixon $9.05 for
stamps from January to June, Moore
Bros. Grocery Company so cents for
Gold Dust at court house., Farley
Lumber Company 5000 for lumber. M.
S. Cranberry $2O.SS for lumber.
Third Day.
Hattiesburg Grocery Company al
lowed $9O.2s for supplies for county
farm.
Accepted report of H. G. Culpepper.
superintendent of county farm, for
May. 1908.
Hopp Bros. & Co. allowed $70.27
for cloth furnished county farm.
Ordered that the following amounts
be paid to Perry County: From gen.
eral fund $370.15. bond interest and
sinking fund $1,17S.92, school fund
$3.50, sixteenth section fund $40.
Allowed on account of county farm:
VIII Crawford $40, guarding convicts;
George Koonce $40 guarding convicts;
H. G. Culpepper $112.9s salary as SUI
perintendent county farm and other
supplies.
H. G. Culpepper was authorized to.
purchase a county road convict camp
ing outfit for Forrest County.
Allowances were made as follows:
B. NJ Thompson SO for team for grand
jury, Hattiesburg Hardware Company
$219S for supplies for county farm,
Hattiesburg Hardware Co. SO for hand
SUITS for sheriff, Jones Repairing
Works 1929 for furnishings. to court
house, Capeton Bros so cents for haul
ing chair from Gulf and Ship Island
depot.
Two accounts of j. c. Magruder for
conveying prisoners, one from Shreve-