Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-14
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The board of supervisors OF Adams
county refused to pay the claim of
Sheriff Z. NJ. Clarke for $625.40 on &C
count of the recapture of George Bre-
land, the self-confessed river and rail-
road thief, who sawed his way out of
Jail and escaped to Portland, Ore,
where he was recaptured. Sheriff Clarke
put in charge of travelling 3,1S7 miles
at 20 cents per mile. The board has the
advice of County Attorney Ernest b.
Brown, and the report of supreme
court decision, declaring that a sheriff
cannot demand expenses for the capture
of prisoner who escaped from his Gus
tody.
Hon. j. w. Boatwright, of Marshall
county, addressed large number of
men of Kosciusko in the interest of the
Farmers Warehouse Company, the mil
lion-dollar corporation recently organized
in Mississippi. He spoke enthusiastic
cally of the great work by the Farm
ers' Union, and it was unanimously de-
cided by the stockholders of the Alfalfa
Leake Warehouse Company, located at
Kosciusko, to put in their plant with
the state corporation.
The board of supervisors of Tunica
county established and created a county
department of agriculture and appoint
ed Edgar Eads commissioner of agri-
culture for the county. The board was
influenced to this action for the pur-
pose of giving aid to the United States
government and state department of
agriculture in the work now being car
ried on in the country to remove the
quarantine restriction on cattle.
At a large and enthusiastic meeting
held at Tupelo, all necessary steps were
taken looking to further development
of the Tupelo, Pontotoc, Fulton and Toe
copola Interurban Electric Railroad. The
contract for the survey of the road has
been let, work to be commenced not
later than May IS.
The Philadelphia high school has just
closed the most successful year i'll its
history with appropriate commencement
exercises. DR.. W. B. Murrah, of Mill
saps College, preached the annual SER
man to crowded house, 1t was a mas
terful and eloquent effort. characteristic
Of the noted divine and educator.
L. Ford, who sued the Vicksburg
Waterworks Company for $4,000 dam
ages because water was shut off from
his home in 1907, after a disagreement
over a disputed bill, was awarded YER
dict of 5000 by the Warren county cir
cult court.
Now that it is definitely settled that
the Oratorical contest and the final base
ball game between the A. and NJ. Col
lege and the University of Mississippi
will take place in Greenwood Friday,
May IA, preparations for this big event
are being made on a mammoth scale.
An effort will be made to have the en-
tire Mississippi national guard Partiel-
pate in the dedication of the monument
to Gen. Stephen d. Lee, in Vicksburg,
on June II.
The Lawrence county board of super
visors is preparing to declare bond
issue in the sum of $4,000, to be used
in the erection Of a new courthouse.
1t is expected that more than six hun
dred members will attend the annual
convention of the Mississippi Retail Mer-
chants Association, to be held at Hat
tiesburg, on May IS and 10, and the
gathering will be of exceptional interest
because of the fact that a number OF
matters are slated for discussion that
will probably be brought before the leg
islature at its next session in the form
of memorial asking for remedial leg
islation.
John r. Ellis, Meridian, presidents
Jas. w. Bell, state university, vice pres
ident; W. C. Williams, Newton, treas
urer; John T. Connell, Gulfport, sec
rotary. After selecting the foregoing
officers, the twenty Fourth annual meet
ing of the Mississippi School Teachers
Association, in session at Natchez, dis
cussed the sdvisability of adding press
committee to the list of association COM
mittees, without adopting the idea, in
stalled officers and adjourned, leaving
the selection of the next meeting place
to the executive committee.
Valley Bank, Of Rosedale, declared a
dividend of 200 per cent. on its capital
stock out of the earnings Of the past
two years. This bank enjoys the dis
tinction of having paid its stockholders
over 1000 per cent in dividends during
the past eight years
The rural schools of Oktibbeha coun-
ty have just closed the most successful
term in the history OF the free school
system of the county. There has been
better average attendance, less fric-
ton and more enthusiasm among teach
ers and pupils.
Congressman Richmond Pearson Hob
| son and the party of agrOnOmists who
| are touring the Sixth Alabama district
| under his chaperonage spent Sunday in
Columbus. Congressman HobsOn deliv'
cred an address at the First Baptist
Church on "The Mission of Man and the
Mission of the Nation"
Robert Wade, young man OF Fort
Gibson, while engaged in loading a en-
L.. Col.