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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12
Shaiffs Sale.


Writ Adams, State agent,
No. 8e40. vs..
Delta and Pine Land Company.
Execution.
By virtue Of the authority vested In
me under an execution issued to me BY
W. W. Downing, Chancsry Clerk OF
Kinds County, Mississippi, 10 accord
, ance with the decree Of the Supreme
Court OF the State Of Mississippi against
Delta and Pine Land Company. affirming
the decree Of the said Chancery Cont
against said Company for the sum Of
$50. 29917 taxes adjudged to be due the
State Of Mississippi, Kinds County, and
the City OF Jackson by said Company,
together with six per cent. per annum
interest on said SUM $50, 299.17 from the
18th day OF June, 1908, the date Of the
rendition Of the decree in the lower
court, and $l4.75 costs and costs to
accrue under this execution, l, s. z.
prophet, Sheriff 10 and for the County
OF Leaore, State OF Mississippi, will on
Monday the first day Of March, 1909, in
front OF the court house door in the
City of Greenwood, Lehore County,
Mississippi. within legal hours, offer for
sale to the highest bidder for cash, all
the right, title and interest Of the Delta
and Pine Land Company In and to the
following described land, situated in
Le6ore County, Mississippi, to-wit:
Lots n, Is and 70, Section 9, Town
ship l6. Range 2 west;
Il Section 10, Township 10, Range 2
west;
W OF " Section 2, Township II,
Range 2 west;
W section 8, Township II, Range 2
west;
Lots IL, IL, IS and ID, Section Is,
II, Range 2 west;
S Section 20, Township II, Range 2
west:
W of N " , Section %, Township II.
2 west;
E Section 80, Township II, Range 2
W . Section 81, Township II, Range
!, west;
MIN of i&sEiof e. Section
Is, Township II, Range 2 west;
wiofsE . Section II, Township
Range 2 west;
S E Section 20, Township IS, Range
west;
SwI&sE.of N W i! Section 20,
IS, Range 2 west;
W Of s W Section 81, Townsh ip IS,
Range ? west;
S S ction %, Township IS, Range 2
west;
N Of N E Section 20, Township IS,
Range 2 west;
S & S J Of N L . Section 8, Township
7, Range l west;
All Section IS, Township II, Range 1
vest;
N & S W ] Section 10, Township II,
Range l west;
S of N K . Section n, Township 20,
range 2 west;
W Of N q Section 20, Township q,
Range | west;
Lots II & 10, Section 10, Township IS,
range l east;
The said lands having been duly and
levied upon by me under and by
'irtue Of said execution and will be-
old te satisfy said decree and costs.
Witness my hand this the 2sth day Of
anuary, 1908.
S. 2. PROPHET,
Sheriff Of Lefiore County,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12

The writer enjoyed a delightful
visit last Monday evening to the
hospitable home of his clever friend,
Mr.. J. F, Rogers, near Cruger. Mr..
Rogers is a prince among good fell
lows as well as a most royal host.
1t always does us good to visit his
splendid home, and we hope his
shadow may never diminish.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12
Notice.

The firm Of Williams q Wallace has
this day been dissolved by mutual con.
sent, T. e. Williams withdrawing from
the trm having sold his interest to Mr..
Will Kelley. The new firm collects all
debts and pays all claims of old firm.
Respectfully,
r. n. MILAN
This Jan. 18th. 1909.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12

The statement Of The First Ma
tional Bank Of Greenwood, which
appears in this issue Of The Com
monwealth, makes a magnificent
showing for that staunch financial
institution. We congratulate the
officers and stockholders upon the
splendid management and prosper
Gus condition of their bank.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12

How about the opera house prop
osition ? Greenwood deserves to
have a first. class opera house, and
our people should interest them.
selves in the matter of inducing
some one TO build one.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12

The proposition Of properly drain
ing Greenwood is now being agi-
tated, and the City Council is Civ
ing the matter consideration. II a
drainage system can be devised that
will do the desired work it will be
cheap at almost any cost.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12
WHAT IS ffffCT or EXCESSIVE DfOR.
fSTATkN?


What has been the effect Of thu
tremendous consumption Of timber
upon our forests? This question is
often asked by people in various
sections Of the country, and often
the information Of the average mar
on the subject is not definite enough
TO enable him TO make a clear and
satisfactory answer. X. s. Kellogg.
assistant forester, engaged upon
statistics in the United States For
est Service, in giving a concise an
swer to the important question says
Now our annual requirements
exceed forty billion feet Of timber,
one hundred million crossties, four
million cords of pulp wood, besides
great quantities Of other forms Of
forest products, such as frewood,
posts, poles, mine timbers, etc.
The per capita consumption of lum-
Der in the United States was 2l5
board feet in 1850; now it is 40
board feet.
"One forest region after another
has been attacked. With the ex-
ceptlon of Maine, the New England
states are cutting mostly second or
third growth timber. The box fac
tories there take white pine saplings
down TO six inches in diameter.
The so.called "inexhaustible' white
pine forests Of Michigan are gone,
and millions of acres Of cut-over and
burned-over land have gone upon
the delinquent tax list. Michigan
supplied % per cent. of the lumber
production Of the United States in
1880, and less than 5 per cent. of it
Ia 1907.
THE value of the lumber pro-
luction in Michigan since 1919 has
been so per cent. greater than the
Of gold in California, and it
has all taken place without a
for the future. The cream
If our hardwoods is gone, and it is
)ecomlng more and more difficult to
get IN sufficient quantity the high
Of oak, yellow poplar, ash,
hickory that our great manu-
acturing industries require. The
once great supply Of yellow
'lne is rapidly giving way before
IKE and saw, ile and tornado.
lalf a generation more will, in most
see little but remnants left
Vt the Southern forests, and in that
ime the Pacific coast supplies will
heavily drawn upon.
ours is primarily a wood using
a
utilization. Despite the introduc-
ion Of substitutes for wood in the
OF stone, cement, concrete, and
teel, our consumption Of timber has
INSTANTLY increased from the earli-
st days up to the present time.
he prices of forest products have
isen more rapidly than those Of
Their commodities. According to
he reports OF he Bureau of Labor.
he quoted prices of the leading
inds Of lumber on the New York
have risen twice as much in
he last ten years as the average in
rease in all commodities. This in
lcates that the supply of timber is
ot keeping pace with the demand"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12

The trial Of G. H. Smith for muir
der was concluded at Columbus last
night, resulting in his conviction.
OF course, an appeal will be taken
TO the Supreme Court.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12
Notice to Bridge Contractors.

Contract will bc lot to the lowest and
BEST bidder, BY tho Board Of Supervisors
Of Lcnore County, mississippi. on the
First Monday Of March, 1909, u public
outcry, In front Of the Court House door.
atl . o'clock noon. for building bridge
over Catfish bayou 10 Beat Number Five;
bridge to be absat Ono Hundred and
Fifty feet long, according to plans and
specifications On nls 10 tho Chancery
Clerks Once. Bidders must give bond
IN AZ amount equal tn their bid Tor
the faithful performance Of their con-
tract.
Heard reserves tho right 70 reject any
AMI Ill bids.
G. w. CROCKETT. CLERK.
By NJ. CnAfIAs, y. q
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12
v0x QAMANlIS.

also spoke in the senate one day
last week. lie was very angry and
didn't care who knew it. Still he
couldn't get many to take an inter
est in his state Of mind. Senators
fled from the chamber as if they
were trying to dodge a vote IN a
prohibition bill. Neither wind nor
tide could stop them. The senator
from Arkansas had about fifteen
galIeys Of warm composition on his
mind, and he couldn't hold it any
longer. So he turned it loose.
In order to get a good running
start, JEFF began with the assassina-
ton Of Julius Caesar, and what he
had TO say about Brutus and the
rest Of the Night Riders made Mark
Antony's address over the dead body
Of Julius Caesar read like a chapter
from Henry James. As Juvenal TO
Andrew Lang, as Horace TO II owells
80 was JEFF Davis 10 Mark Antony.
He then passed by easy degrees to
the destruction of Pompeyeyeeye, as
he termed it, which he condemned in
unmeasured terms. The fall Of Con-
stantlnople and the Sack of Rome
came in for their share Of attention;
and the orator Of the day passed up
a few warm embers to the Man who
fired the Ephesiap Dome as well as
the Man who struck Billy Patterson.
He did not, however, strike his
stride until he got down TO our own
time, when he opened all the drafts
and unlunged himself in the pres
ence of eight surviving senators
who could not hold on to their seats
for one consecutive minute. Then
followed in orderly procession war
and flood, cyclone and fire, earth.
quakes, volcanoes, panics and pesti-
lence, The Hon. JEFF spat upon the
stock gamblers, the Wall street
and the internal scouudrels
who build railroads and extend
commerce and don't do it for their
He nailed several "niggers"
the cross, pilIoried the editor as
hired tools Of some ring or other,
the bankers of America
because they would not lend money
a fellow just because he needed
it, disposed Of a large and yariegated
assortment Of vampires who have
been planting the deadly upas tree
the bowels of the republic" and
have felled the common people
the bitter pill Of adversely"
pronounced the government bank
rupt, asked with biting indignation
whittier are we drifting, declared
hat the people wouldn't stand it
much longer, and called a halt.
But it was not a day Of triumph {
n Capua; for when the climax was {
reached, the Hon. JEFF found him
'elf talking to the Iistless chande I
iers and a sleeping reporter who '
when the Great Wind had ceased to '
make a noise, woke up under the I
impression that somebody had hit
lin with a poultice.
This was a shame. When the !
Ion, jeff delivered his first speech :
t was to a listening senate. His
econd speech was aimed at an
audience of eight. When he deliv-
RS his third speech we would sug-
,est that he obtain an injunction
ompelling all members of the senate
o be present and that he have the !,
ergeant-at arms sent out to round
Up those who are inclined TO play
1t was all right this time to treat I
he Lycurgus Of Arkansas thus, but !
t must not occur again.-Commer- u
iaI Appeal, LIST inst. 2
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12

The government has issued a
fraud order denying the use Of the
mails to parties advertising by cir
culars and letters fine whisky" at
impossible prices.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12

You can't build up your home in
dustries by patr0nlzing foreign con-
Germs.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12

Circuit court will adjourn to-
morrow.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12

The decision of our Supreme
Court in the cotton oil mill case,
sustains the validity of our anti
trust statutes.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12

state OF NissIssIDpI, ts.,
County OF Leflore. US"
|. +. NJ. Purcell. Cashier OF the above
named bank. do solemnly swear that tho
above statement II true 10 Il @ best OF nv
knowledge aud heiief.
r.. NJ. PURCELL. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this
nth day Of Feb, 1900.
HARRIS l.. RAY, Notary Public,
correct-Attest: GID MoNTJoY. JR.,
p. A. MALONE,
R.T. JONES.
Directors.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-02-12
No. 72i6.
Report OF the Condition OF the
NATIONAL BANK,
In the State Of Mississippi, at the
Close Of Business, Feb. 5th. 1909.
RESOURCES.
At GREENWOOD

RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts 800. ct. s4s7, siI 70
Overdrafts. secured and unsecured A. 100 70
Y. :. Bonds 10 secure circulation 25O,CNQ o.
Ronds. securities. etc. .... -. 4o.l 100 90
Banking house, furniture and fx-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23
ReappOrtiOnment of The House.

1t is calculated that if the next census
gives the country 90. 900. 900 inhabitants
1t will be necessary to raise the unit of
representation in the national House
from 1874. 900 to 225, 900, if the member
ship of that body is not to be allowed to
exceed 400. But however desirable il
might be to keep the House from in
creasing in size, any attempt to raise
the unit of representation is likely to
meet with opposition, as it would oper-
ate TO deprive several States of one of
their Representatives. Under 225, 600
allotment Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska,
and perhaps one or two other States
west of the Mississippi would lose a
member of the House. So would Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont. So, too,
probably, would South Carolina, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, and few other South
ern States.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23

this appropriation When Judge Mann
jumped on Mr.. Tucker for his bad man
sgement of the jamestown Exposition
the Richmond Journal exposed the fact
that Colonel James Mann, manager for
VIM. Hodges Mann in the primary cam
paign, had acted as chief lobbyist for
the jamestown appropriation bill and
had received as q fee, supposed from
the sum appropriated, to the amount of
five thousand dollars; and in addition
thereto the postal card concession at
the Exposition which he sold for $40, 600.
At the time Colonel Mann lobbied this
bill through the legislature his uncle,
Judge Mann, and his law partner, Col
onel Sale, were members of the State
Senate and identified with the Ma
chine.
Not satisfied with wasting two hun
dred thousand dollars of the publ c
funds on the Jamestown Exposition,
appropriated by the Democratic Legis-
! lature in 1904, the Legislature Of 1906
approp' lated one hundred Thousand
dollars more for tie show, to be ex-
pended as follows: Seventy thousand
dollars for State building and thirty
thousand dollars for military display
and public entertainments. The thirty
thousand appropriation was largely ex-
pended by the Governor of Virginia.
Claude A. Swanson, in displays and en-
tertainments. Fifteen thousand dollars
or more of the public funds used by the
dress-psrader Of the Democratic Ma
chine barn-yard, who arrayed himself in
his peacock regalia and strutted before
the princes, potentstes and powers that
were beguiled into visiting the EXPOSE
ton.
Three hundred thousand dollars OF
the revenues taken from the tax payers
of the State, secured by lobbyists OF
the Democratic Machine, and wasted or
a thing that every thinking man must
have known was doomed to failure.
We will file another bill next week.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23

the l.5OO Illegal voters in the two wards
of the city are dead or have moved
away; and even those. no doubt. were
voted by substitutes and repeaters at
the primary.
How did those fifteen hundred illegal
voters get upon the registration books!
Evidently they were placed there by the
liquor men, as it is announced that the
saloon men will contest their removal
from the registration book.
1t cannot be denied that there was q
coalition between the Anti-Saloon forces
and liquor men in Norfolk to support
Judge Mann. This being true, it is
reasonable to believe that the illegal
voters were placed or left upon the reg
istration books with the knowledge of
the Anti-Saloon people. Certainly they
acquiesced in fraud, as it is a fact
that movement was started before
the primary to hold local option cleo
ton in the city, that election being de-
terred in the interests of Judge Mann.
1t is evident that the liquor men have
been overreached by the moral forces,
the Anti-Saloon men; and it is equally
evident that 1900 or more illegal votes
were cast at the recent primary in Nor
folk, and that they all voted for Mann.
Another proof of fraud is furnished
by the fact that the returns of the pri-
mary from the city of Norfolk were not
correct as between Williams and Cat
lett, candidates for Attorney General.
We have it from direct authority that
the votes for these two candidates were
transposed- The returns showed that
Catlett received 1876 votes and that
Williams received 1,2l1. The vote was
reversed or transposed. For what rea-
son is the question. But the Machine
has all kinds of tricks, and this was one
of them.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23
Night On Bald Mountain.

On a lonely night Alex. Benton of
Fort Edward. N. Y, climbed Bald
Mountain to the home of a neighbor,
tortured nv asthma, bent on curing him
with DR.. Kings New Discovery, that
had cured himself of asthma. This
wonderful medicine soon relieved and
quickly cured his neighbor. Later il
cured his sons wife of a severe lung
trouble. Millions believe its the great.
est throat and lung cure on earth
Coughs, colds, Group, hemorrhages and
sore lungs are surely cured by it. Best
for hay fever, grip and whooping cough.
SOC and $l.00 Trial bottle free. Guar
anteed by Jno. f. Jackson.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23
The NaVieS' Growth.

Modern navies grow in cost. The
gold output of the world last year was
S420, 900, 900, the highest record. This
is surpassed by the average annual out
lay by five countries for war ships. In
these expenditures England leads with
81, TAO, 900, 900. the United States is Sec
ond, with 5000, 900, 900; France third,
with $3.50, 900. 900; Germany fourth,
with $500, 600, 900, and Russia fifth, with
$3.50, 900, 900. These were the sums act
uslly appropriated for naval purposes,
including the amounts for the current
year. This does not include Japan, Ita-
ly, Austria and smaller nations that also
are spending money on war ships.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23
A Notable Year.

This year 1909 is even thus far from
its expiration notable in its achieve
ments. In this year it can be recorded
that the wireless on a sinking ship first
summoned aid from ships below the no
rizon; that the four-day transatlantic
boat became a fact; that Shackelton
carried the British flag to within Ill
miles of the south pole, or $40 miles
farther than any predecessor; that Cook
and Peary announced their discoveries
of the north pole, and that man made
practical conquest of aerial navigation,
an uninterrupted flight of lit miles at
thirty-six miles an hour being achieved
in heavier than-air machine.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23
RIpeness Left to TIma.

He was going to act in some ANA
teur theatricals, and having beer
greatly struck by Georges" beauti
ful, plum-oolored dress coat, in the
Merry Widow" he thought he would
try and pick one up somewhere. Al
last in a secondhand clothes shop
kept by q descendant of Abraham, he
was persuaded into buying what the
vender described as "schust ter ting
my poy."
He bore II home In triumph. only
to discover next morning by the light
Of day that the garment was green.
In dudgeon and disgust he returned
to the shop and complained.
Green, ith it?" said the old He
brew, oontemptuously. Well. vell
wear Il tn its rtpel"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23

We notice that the distinguished
Democrat, soldier. citizen and patriot.
Samuel w. Williams. spent FIVE thous-
and dollars to secure the Democratic
nomination for Attorney General. 1t is
q pity that he could not arouse his pa
triotism enough TO contribute one dollar
and half to the public school funds by
paying his poll taxes, but refused to
make the lawful contribution and forced
the treasurer of Wythe county to post
him on the delinauet insolvent list.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

Election November End, 1909.
For Governor,
WILLIAM P. KENT,
of Wythe.
For observation-disclosures,
A. T. LINCOLN,
of Smyth.
For Attorney General,
GEORGE A. REVERCOMB,
of Covington.
For Secretary of the Commonwealth
JOHN B. LOCKE,
of Newport News.
For State Treasurer,
JOSEPH P. CRUPPER,
of Alexandria.
For Commissioner of Agriculture,
JAMES T. ROBSON,
of Rockingham.
For Superintendent of Public Instruc
ton.
FRANK P. BRENT,
of Nelson.
For House of Delegates-Tazewell anC
Buchanan Counties,
JOHN M. RATLIFF,
of Buchanan.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23
HoW's Thla7

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY x CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. ],
Cheney for the last l5 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions, and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARvIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mu.
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price, 75c per bottle. Sold by
all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa.
ton.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23
NOTICE.

The overseer of the poor for each
Magisterial District of Tazewell county
IS provided with contingent fund Of
fifty dollars for each year, which is
under control of the overseer of the
poor and the member of the board, of
the respective districts, to be used for
gency fund has been expended by anv
overseer of the poor, for any one wear.
he has no authority, under the law. to
bind the county for any further amount
under any circumstances. All further
allowances must be made by the Board
of Supervisors -
Published by order of the Board of
Supervisors of Tazewell county.
Tests:
jan2Stf s. n. Graham, Clerk.