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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Stunt. Power at StarkvilIe.

The A. and NJ College chapel was filed
with teachers, institute conductors and
visitors from Starkville to hear an ad-
dress by State Superintendent Power.
The superintendent dwelt. largely on the
Importance and the need of industrial
education in Mississippi, giving data
from various sources to show how those
countries are prospecting which train
their children along this line. He stat,
ed that the law passed by the last leg
islature permitting the establishment OF
agricultural high schools in every coun-
ty of the state would, to great ex-
tent, solve this problem, if all the coun-
ties would take advantage of it. He
said that just now the slogan of the de-
partment of education is a training
school for teachers of Mississippi.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Levin Lake Made a Knight.

The most unusual Masonic ceremony
ever held i'll this State, and perhaps the
only one of its kind ever held in the his
tory of that great fraternity, took place
at Grenada when the Knight Templar
degree was conferred ON Mr.. Levin Lake,
age 90 years. Mr.. Lake enjoys the dis
tinction of being the oldest travelling
man in Mississippi, having Travelled the
highways and byways of this State for
mere than 60 years, and he was an active
drummer until two or three years ago,
when he retired to spend the remaining
years of his long and eventful life III
peace and tranquility. Mr.. Lake was
nude a Mason in 1889.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Will Check Up Land Office.

Gov. Noel has sent communication
to State Revenue Agent Writ Adams,
requesting that as soon as convenient
he check up the office of the land COM
mission to the expiration of the period
of ineumbency of the late commissioner,
Capt. E. H. Nall. The governor holds
that all offices in which public funds are
handled should be checked up at some
time or other, and especially at the close
of term, whether it be by limitation
of time or by death of the incumbent.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
s5oo,ooo in Real Money.

1t is not generally known that from
the Golfers of the United States govern
ment there is over half million dollars
of the public funds either now in the
process of disbursement or available for
disbursement in this State for public
buildings and grounds alone, with more
in prospect. The grand total of all these
appropriations reaches the sum of $685.
coo, which, with the appropriations that
are sure to follow for the erections at
Laurel, Greenwood and Vicksburg, will
carry the grand total to be expended
during the next few years to fully
$500
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Aspire To Be Judges.

Although the term of Judge r. /. Bull
lard, of the Thirteenth circuit court dis
trict, who is the first incumbent of that
section of the Mississippi bench, will
not expire until June 1, 1910, there are
aspirants showing up who would not be
averse to succeeding that distinguished
judicial officer. The governor has stated
several times recently that he does not
intend to take up any judgeships which
are to become vacant next year, or af-
ter March, until next year comes. One
circuit judgeship, that in the Ninth dis
trict, now presided over by Hon. John
n. Bush, will expire January 1, 1910,
and one chancellorship will become va
cant at the same time, that of Hon.
J. Q. Robbins, of the First district, ana
these cases will be attended to during
the coming fall.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
/. & N. Earnings.

The railroad commission has received
the belated quarterly report OF the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Com
pany for the quarter ending March 81,
showing operating revenues OF $780,
s6O.79, an increase of $16,S66.75 over the
CORES onding quarter last year. Its
operating expenses are given at 1885,
91S.73, decrease of $24,019.1S. Con-
sidering that the company has but "a
miles of roadway in the State, these fig
ures are. regarded as showing remark
ably good business along the gulf coast,
where the road runs.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Nav Establish Pottery Plant.

That the organization of $2,5oo,oOO
corporation in Mississippi for the man
ufacture of clay products, such as pot
terry. is contemplated at once, is indi-
Gated by an inquiry received by Secre-
tarv of State J.NV. Powers, from pro-
moter located at Akron, O., who asks
for information as to the cost of filing
a charter with capitalization of that
sum for that purpose, and who volun-
teers the information that such con-
Germ is to be organized. The idea is con-
veyed that Mississippi may or may not
be selected for the domicile.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

Tie calabash pipe is one of the aft
er results of the South African war.
To supply tho demand to which popu-
lar taste has given rise quite an in
dustry has grown up in South Africa,
where the farmers are regularly plant
ing calabash specially for pipes. while
planting is already being carried out
in the south of France and even In
Australia.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

We have the
gospel according
to Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John.
but in this text
there is the COS,
pei according tc
Gabriel. An an.
gel is the preach
er, and 1t Is g
gospel 80 full and
complete that, II
all the rest of the
Bible were de.
stroyed, we might
be saved through
the knowledge II
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
tile Crime in NORWAY.

A new book descriptive of Norway
and its people, In Viking Land by
VIII S. Monroe, contains the following
observations on the subject of drink
in that country.
The crime problem is less serious
in Norway than in many European
countries. and there has been marked
diminution during the past 80 years,
with the decrease in the use of alco-
holic beverages The decrease has
been most marked in the matter of
theft and offenses against public NOR
ais.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
STAMPED OUT PLAGUE

Dr. Rupert Blue passed assistant surgeon OF
the public health and marine hospital service.
deserves we'll of the people of this country His
campaign against the plague in San Francisco has
been successful and it is announced that the city
by the Golden Gate is to-day not only free from
the plague, but perhaps the most healthfu city of
its size in the country. When Dr. Blue was called
TO take charge of the campaign against the plague
threatened to not only devastate the city, but to
sweep in deadly wave across the continent
Five million lives had been the CHASTITY toll
collected in India, and it had obtained foothold
on every continent of the globe. The story of the
threatening situation was carefully suppressed in
San Francisco, but the death list was jumping
skyward with fearful leaps. Radical, fearless
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
State Capital t. Nc 1: ):
Weekly Budget of State News Items Gathered BY Or Special
Correspondent at Jackson.
President Will Visit Fair.

A meeting of the board of directors OF
the Mississippi State Fair Association
will be called to determine whether q
change in dates shall be made i'll order
to correspond with the date fixed by
President Taft for his visit to jackson.
Several. weeks ago. an invitation to
President Taft to VISIT the State fair
was forwarded to Washington by Gen.
eral Manager Mckay. The president has
accepted the. invitation, and states he
will be in Jackson on November 13 or14.
The dates originally fixed for the fair
are from October 26 to November ), and,
as it is desired that the president be
given an opportunity to see the exhibits
of Nississippi's resources and industries,
some of the members of the board OF
directors, favor a change, of date, bring
ing The hosing day Of the, fair to CORE
spond with the presidents visit, which
will probably be on Saturday, November
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Merchants Fail to Pay.

1t has become evident that it will be
necessary for the Legislature to restore
the penalty clause in the privilege tax
law, by providing that merchants who
TAIL to pay this annual obligation shall
forfeit their standing in the courts of
law. . The sheriff of Leake county has
issued published statement, saying
that nine-tenths of the merchants in that
county are doing business without Ii
cense, and the same conditions prevail in
goodly number of other counties.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
UNAWED BY CONGRESS-

This Ohioan has the record of being the most
precocious new congressman" in the history of
the house of representatives. 1t is customary for
new members to sit back and listen for many
months after they come to Washington. Some re-
main silent all through their first session in the
house Mr. ]. NJ. Cox was not unfamiliar with
Washington when he came there He had done
newspaper work in the city some years before
So he was not in the least awed by his surroun
ings, and when he discovered, IA days after b
became member that he had something to SO
TO the house, he got up and said it. No ne
member ever made a speech IA days after
initiation, and Mr.. Coxs record will probably
main unbroken Mr.. Cox is the publisher of tn
of Oho's liveliest newspapers Dayton New
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
The Old Man and Death.

An old man that had travelled long
way with grear bundle of fagots
found himself so weary that he flung
it down, and called upon death to de-
liver him from his most miserable ex-
istence. Death came straightway- at
his call and asked him what he want
ed. Pray, good sir" said the old
man. lust do me the favor to help
me up with my bundle OF fagots."-
Aesop.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
What the Railroads Pay.

Unless the railroad officials can pre-
vail upon the railroad commission for
radical reductions during the August
meeting of that body, the ad valorem
tax assessments of railroad property for
the year 1909 will exceed $50,000,000
This also includes express, telegraph
and telephone companies under the super
vision of the commission, and will be
an increase of nearly $4,000, 900 over the
figures of last year. 1t means 100000
in taxes for the State alone, besides
about an equal amount for the various
counties, and smaller amount for the
municipalities. This does not include
privilege taxes, of which the railroads
tlone paid last year $62, 44S.5O, besides
he collections from the express, tele-
graph and telephone companies, all OF
which pay direct to the State auditor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
WOULD MOVE PENN's REMAINS

Representative A.. Mitchell Palmer of Penn
sylvania is of the six members of the house
affiliated with the Society of Friends which is
planning a movement to have the United States
bring the coffin containing all that is mortal of
William Penn to this country and have it inferred
on the banks of the Delaware.
The suggestion recently made to Mr.
Palmer by constituent, who is a Friend, and
who believes that the time is opportune for such
action. The body of Penn now reposes in a prac
tically abandoned cemetery in Buckinghamshire
England and considering his distinguished career
is not appropriately marked. Mr.. Palmer contem-
plates going about the business in practical way
and intends to submit the proposition to the presi
dent ascertain his views, and if it is possible get
He also proposes to enlist the aid of Secretary
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Negro Society Denied Charter.

To encourage marriages and births by
paying premiums or benefits" OF $50
for the former and $40 for the latter is
the scheme of negro benevolent asso-
citation of Vicksburg, which has just
made application to Insurance Commits.
sioner Henry for license to operate IN
this state. The application has been re-
iected
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Coffins Made of Paper.

Some undertakers, whose customers
are poor people, are using collins
made of paper. The collins are made
in all styles of pressed paper pulp.
just the same as the common paper
buckets. When they are vanished
and stained they resemble polished
wood, and in point of durability it is
claimed they are much better than
wooden ones. .f1siti x'fH
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

To Gust Standard Oil. ''',

The biggest suit in chancery ever filed
in the state of Mississippi, involving
in the aggregate the sum of Sill 900 900
ny way of statutory penalties, has just
been prepared, and is to be entered III
the chancery court of Clay county for
hearing at the November term for that
county. This suit lies against the Stand
ard Oil company, and such conspicuous
characters as John d. Rockefeller, Arch
bold and other luminaries in the Stand
ard Oil armament are named as, co-de-
PENDANTS. The prayer of the bill is that
the Standard Oil Company be perpetual
ly enjoined from doing business in the
state of Mississippi; that it is engaged
in sitting competition in restraint oi
trade, and has been so engaged for IA
long term Of years, and has been
illegally engaged in business, and petit
tioners pray that an order to GUST the
concern from the state be issued
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
On Common Sense and Madness

Common sense confuses the fact OF
experience with inevitable facts, and
supposes in good faith that what is.
is the measure of what may be. Mad.
ness, on the other hand. cannot per.
ceive any distinction between what is
and what it imagines--it confuses its
dreams with reality.-Henri Frederic
AmieI
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
A Matter of business ONLY.

The coal mining department of the
United States Steel corporation has
just adopted new rule which states
mo miners who become intoxicated
whether on or off duty. will be employ
ed, nor will any new man be employed
who drinks intoxicating liquors wheth
er in excesA or not 1t is purely bust
ness matter"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Prenared for Death.

At the funeral recently of William
Lakin, aged 80, in Stspenhill church
yard. Burton-on- Trent. England, it was
found that he had bought his vaul;
80 years ago, and since then had per
sonally bricked In his wife and daugh-
ter and other members of the family.
He had lived within stonethrow OF
the grave over 80 years.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Want Mississippi Archives.

Director Dunbar Rowland has re-
ceived request from the Carnegie In
stitution, in which permission is asked
to use certain records of the Mississippi
department. The data which this noted
historical research institution desires is
certain records pertaining to the early
days of this section, as brought forward
in history from the records obtained by
Director Rowland from European CEN
tiers, and they can really only be had
from the records now in the Mississippi
archives. 1t tanf
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Petition for Pardon.

The friends of H. c. Rourke, the for
mer banker of Scranton, who is serving
his sentence in the state penitentiary,
following his conviction on a charge OF
receiving deposits in an insolvent bank,
are continuing to besiege the governor
for his pardon, by mail and by personal
calls.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
SETTLED STREET CAR STRIKE

Senator Jim" McNichol the man who settled
the big Philadelphia streetcar strike after the
public officials and almost everybody else had
failed, is the political boss of the Quaker city.
He is only member of the state senate officially
considered. In a business way he is the head of
firm of contractors that does much public work
at a reasonable profit.
Politically, however, he is a power of the
greater magnitude. He makes mayors, congress
men, judges, police chiefs and public issues with
wave of his hand In the present instance the
city upon the edge of a primary election.
There some fear that the public the voting
public, might have reached point of resentment
over the strike that would affect the results at the
,,nn ,r.hn had T.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
NEGATIVE Virtues.

Beware of making your moral stable
consist of the negative virtues. 1t is
good to abstain, and teach others to
abstain, from all that is sinful or hurt
full. But making business of it leads
to emaciation of character, unless one
feeds largely also on the more nutri-
tious diet of active sympathetic benev-
olence.-Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
True and Patient Work.

An idea arrives without effort: a
form can only be wrought out by pa
tient labor. II your story is worth
telling. you ought to love 1t enough
to work over 1t until 1t is true-true
not only to the ideal. but true also to
the real--4esyy - Dyke.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Covers Visits Normals.

Hon. ]. NJ. Powers, State superintend-
sent of educatin, is making the rounds
of the State normals, at Hattiesburg,
Columbus, Sherman, Starkville and the
University of Mississippi, in response
to urgent invitations and requests.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
FIRST GERMAN ADMIRAL

Admiral Won Rooster is at the present
ment one of the little knot of individuals whose
names are sufficient to spoil the night sleep of
the naughty Briton with horrible dreams. There
are others-a few-but responsible for most night
mares is this Won Rooster person.
For the one great fear that is whitening the
hair of the Englishman at home just now is the
probability that Germany is preparing to jump
across the channel and lay violent hands upon
Dame Britannia. The kaiser may do it by a gen.
eral attack on land and He may send over
a fleet of airships under command of Aerial Ad-
miral Won Zeppelin. That possibility throws the
average Englishman into a fit of deep thought
when he reads the newspaper accounts about
Zennelin's circus feats with his air craft. But
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09


unique ideas sanitation
in his office and reporter and editor
all rubbish night the
editorials if to be
In
committee which Wright
ceIeb
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Nc Dancer from JImmie,s KNIFE.

On Jimmie's birthday his mother
gave him knife. A little friend
told him that he ought to give his
mother penny so that 1t would not
cut their friendship. whereupon jim
mic replied: 1T won't cut anything
else, sc guess 1t won't cut our
friendship.S- Delineator. 'a a8f
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Life Should Not BE All Work

Life is spectacle and has a lot
OF fun in the changes of scenes if you
watch out. Do not take your work
too seriously. Do 1t the best you
know how. then shut the desk and
20 off and make merry.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

The enrolment at the A and NJ Nor
NAL has reached $50. The work is NOV
ing on smoothly and the teachers are
doing good work. Director ID. c. Hull
had the instructors to dispense with
their regular work from II to IL am,
and all assembled with the teachers in
the chapel to meet with the Oktibbeha
County Farmer Boys Corn Club and
listen to talks along the line of corn
raising by Professors Lloyd and Perkins.
Prof. Archibald Smith at the same time
made a short talk to the boys ON What
to Do With Your Corn" impressing
upon them the Importance of feeding
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
DR.. Stewart Accepts.

DR.. Nolen Stewart, first physician at
the Mississippi Insane Hospital, and one
of the best known alienists in the South,
has accepted the chair of mental and
nervous diseases in the medical depart
ment of the University of Mississippi,
at Vicksburg.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
Theory and Practice.

MY dear. you can, go to school
with the children: some one is going
to lecture on the curse of alcohol. I'll
wait for you at the Blue Rock over
a couple of mugs of beer. - Fliegende
Batter.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09


strike settled before the polls
TO
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

admitted
adding
to OF
modern enough make other
think And Rooster its first adma the great
commanderinche the
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

Springfield, O., city of 5o,-
900, for the first twenty one days
under Prohibition, April 20 to
May 10, 1909, reports twenty
eight arrests for all causes as
compared with eighty-nine ar
rests last year during the same
period with saloons wide open.
There were thirteen arrests for
drunkenness and disorderIy con-
duct under Prohibition as COM
pared with twenty-four last
year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

As an illustration of the military en-
thusiasm that is being aroused over the
State by the approaching annual encamp-
ment of the Mississippi National Guard,
to be held at Jackson, the governor has
been requested to authorize the forma-
ton of new company at Newton.
Promise has been given that the COM
pany will be thoroughly organized,
drilled into first-class shape, and be in
readiness to take part in the encamP-
ment by July IL.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

Hannah, the 13-year-old daughter Of
D. McAuthon, was burned to death at
Bond, through the explosion of gallon
can of alcohol. She was ironing with
patent iron and forgot to put out the
light when she filed the tank.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

Judge w. A. Roane today Pretermitted
the July term of the circuit court OF
Tippah county, in response to represent
ations made to him in regard to wealth
er condition and the serious crop situa-
ton.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
How > War Set a Fashion.

Criticism should not embittcr, sat
benefit us.-Jordan.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

needed
did The dseaseIaden
eliminated the earthquake debris
the of the advancing death has been stopped
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

Because, as she alleges, James Cum
ningham gave her husband, William
Green, drink of whisky, Mrs. Green met
the two men on the street at Meridian
and whipped both with buggy whip
which she procured from vehicle
standing near. After chastising Cum
ningham, she gave her baby, which she
was holding in her arms, to her hus-
band, and whipped him. The two men
jumped into buggy and hurried away.
The whipping created considerable ex-
citement.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

The East Tennessee Nursery Company,
w. B. Robbins & Co., and large num-
Der of fruit growers made their first
shipment of peaches from the New Al
bany section last week, shipping points
being to Mobile, Memphis, New Orleans
and Blue Mountain, and goodly num-
Der of crates were sold to local dealers
at 81 per crate. The peach crop is fine,
and several carloads of crates have re-
Gently been received by the shippers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09
/ AN ANGELS
| GOSPEL
By eEv. A. c. DIXON, D. D.,
Y Pastor Of the Chicago Ave. tAieedy's)
Church, Chicago.

Thou shalt call his name Jesus !;
for he shall save his people from
heir sins" Matt 1.21
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

Hon. R. L. Dullard, judge of the Thir
teenth judicial district, in response to
numerous petitions from the taxpayers
and citizens of Covington county, has
ordered the July term of the circuit
court pretermitted till the next regular
term, which is in January.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-09

Govern the lips ais they were palace
doors, the king within.-Arnold.