The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
Synopsis Of Proceedings of
Forrest County Supervisors


1909 term.
First Day.
The board of supervisors met at the
court house in Hattiesburg on the
first Monday. and Bird day of May
1909, according to law, all the mem
bers and the proper county officials
being present. Orders were passed as
follows:
M. e. Ward was appointed overseer
on road link No. 80 in place of w. L..
Hathorn, exempt; Theodore Morgan
was appointed overseer in place of
Dan Boyce. exempt, in road link No
IL and Sid Waits in place Of Albert
Malloy on road link No. So.
Petitions in reference to public roads
disposed of as follows: Mary Burkett
ct al referred to j. L. Davidson and
j. p. Pace, committee; ]. l.. Batson
ct AL j. c. Mcdonald and ]. P. Pace,
committee; J. B. Hensailing ct al, to
]. l., Davis and W. A Conn, commit
tee.
The sheriff reported an inspection
OF the convict camps during April and
that everything was in a satisfactory
condition.
Mills Ezell was appointed road over
seer in place of Tim Ezell, removed,
on road link No. 30.
Road links Nos. 1 and So were con-
solldated to be known as link No IS.
and F, G. Graham was appointed over
seer.
allowances were made as follows:
H. G. Culpepper $124.55, salary,
freight charges and passenger fare;
). 5. Black $4,000, operating road ma
cnlne; Cooper Henderson $500, fore
man OF convict camp; J. C. Magruder
$4I.9o for stamps and janitor's salary:
$o0.OO for serving overseer's commits
sions; $26.S0 for conveying Tom Nc.
haney from Oakvale to Make and
So.oo money furnished destitute wo
men and children; City of Hattiesburg
$3.50 for water for court house and
JAZZ; south Mississippi Infirmary $1,000
surgical operation on negro; Pat clark
$zz.OO work done on public road.
american Printing Co. $4,000 supplies
furnished sheriff and circuit clerk. Dr
T.. l.. Gardner $4,000 for medical at
tention to pauper; r. e. Ramls $3.50 ,
1or wire cable for bridge; DR.. w. F.
Howard 1896 for treatment of small |
pox patient; S. L. and W. s. Pierce |
80 cents excess on lands purchased at |
TAX sale; Fl. ellis s1.O6 same purpose
ana X. c. Bradley 1884 same MIR
pose; T. E. Batson $500 stamps and
phone; Marshall & Bruce $3.50 office
materials to sheriff; Hattiesburg Trac- !
tion Co. S32.90 for lights; M. L. Thomn-
son $56.75 for work done on bammocl,s
Tor Jail; Southern Cement Building Ma.
terial Co. $425.00 for mules; DR.. Robert
Donald $500 salary as county heaItbd
oiflcer; Hattiesburg Cabinet Works
Sl'oo material in superintendent of ed.
ucatlon; A. Draughn $500 lumber for
James Davis $1.4O for putting
up mile boards; Hattiesburg Printing
Co. $3.50 stationery: T. A T.ewe11;r
$S.oo breaking jam at, river bridge.
the Love Drug Co. $375 stationery for
chancern clerk; ]. e. Herrin $500 for
work done on public road: Cumberland
Telephone and Telegraph Co. $3.50
phone at county farm. same $3.50 fir
phone in sheriff's office.
Second Day.
}. K. Lees account of $500 reject
ed
Allowances were made as follows.
oFerral Bros. $500 shoes for con.
Victs; Hattiesburg Grocery Co. $4OS.41
supplies for road hands; R. d. Davis
So4.5O for running road machine.
Steadman & Wentworth $1OS9 for
lumber; Southern Lumber and Ice Co
po'IS Tor lumber; Hawkins Hardware !
20. $3.50 supplies for road hands:
). B. Baylis $500 for hay; M T. a
thompson $1345 material for road I
lands; j. s. Turner & Co. 500. 60 SUD- y
'iies for road hands; B. NJ Daven- I
ort S15.51 hay and attention to mules. E
lily of Hattiesburg $4,000 for road S
Machine; Perkins & Co. $685. SUBJ K
mes Tor road crew; S. C. Powe S2.77 E
OF meat for road hands: T. A. High II
over $1.20 supplies and seeds to N
ounty farm; Jno. A Mcleod s773 h
uppiies for county farm; A. L. Stra- H
an $500 seed corn for county farm; d;
lake Mercantile Co. $S4.2S supplies IS
OF road hands; DR.. e. L. Gardner pc
100 treatment of convicts. W
approved and filed report of SUD- M
Your COMPLEXION as well