Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-08-27
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Hon. L. S. Gambler, Jr., who is mem
Der of the committee on territories il
Congress, left last week for Chicago t.
join congressional party of twenty-foul
other members. From Chicago they g
to San Francisco; they will be the
guests of the Chamber of Commerce OF
the 22d and 23d. On the gath they sal
on the steamer Siberia for Honolulu
Hawaii
At the clase of services at the Baptist
church in Buckatuma, a difficulty oc
CURED between j. w. Mills, Jr., and c
r. Thames and Cleve Thames, in which
Cleve Thames was beaten over the heaC
with a pistol in the hands of Mills anC
Mills was cut in several places and Sc
verely wounded by c. R. Thames, father
of Cleve Thames.
Mayor John w. Parker, of Meridian
in letter to Circuit Judge John L
Buckley, who ordered the sheriff recently
to enforce the Sunday law, stated t.
the Judge that if his order was not
modified he would enforce the statute K
the letter. The enforcement of this Law
viii prohibit the newspapers from doing
business after IL o'clock Saturday night
hamper the work of railroad employees
stop ice and milk wagons and possibly
the street cars.
The first bale of new cotton to be re
ceived in Vicksburg this season sold fol
81 cents pound. The cotton was raised
by L. c. Dulaney of Grace. 1t was solo
at auction in front of the Vicksburs
Cotton Exchange, and was bought by
that organization. The bale weighed
500 pounds and classed as strict mid
ding, and the staple is 11-16 inch long.
The farmers short course in agricul
ture opened at A. & NJ. College, with
Prof. E. R. Lloyd in charge and full
corps of assistants There was a goodly
number of farmers in attendance from
different sections of the State. This
school will continue at least two weeks
G. V. Reese, a grocery merchant, was
arrested at Meridian for riding through
the streets in hack with a negro
woman, and was fined 5000 and 80 days
on the streets. He made bond III the
sum of 5000 pending an appeal.
The fourth annual Baptist Young PEG
pies Encampment and Evangelistic
Bible Conference has just closed at Blue
Mountain. The attendance was large
and enthusiastic.
The executive board of the Freedmen:
Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopa
church, in session at Cincinnati, ha:
elected Rev. j. T. Docking president Of
Rust University at Holly Springs.
The assessment of Greenville, just
completed, shows an increase of $29,
3S9.9S over the assessment of last year
the total this year being 5,980.252.50
the assessment last year being $3.50,
419.52.
Capt. William L. Ray, one of the old
est citizens of Carroll county, died al
his home in Carrollton at the advanced
age of "a years. Capt. Ray had been IL
failing health for some years. He haC
lived in Carroll county from boyhood. II
his younger days he engaged in the mer
camille business in the town of Carroll
ton, and continued until failing health
The joint committee announces thai
the Sunday School Superintendent In
stitute, to be held under the auspices o.
the Sunday school boards of the Nortl
Mississippi and the Mississippi confer
ences of the NJ E. Church, South, vii
be held at Meridian, beginning Wednes
day night, Sept. %, and closing Friday
noon, Sept. "A.
The reunion at Louisville closed will
an eloquent address by Col. Sam Cook
of Walthall. The two festive days were
declared successful, and resolutions o.
thanks were adopted to Hon. J. P. Cagl'
for the barbecue and for his untiring eff
forts on behalf of the management.
Chief of Police Groome of Vicksburs
was the recipient of black hand letter
containing threats against the life o.
himself and Patrolman George Fades
who killed a negro musician, Henry Mi
nor, the early part of last week, ant
was acquitted in a preliminary trial, ant
this is used as the grounds of the ven
geance threatened.
Brick work has begun on the $150,O0(
roundhouse of the New Orleans anc
Northeastern shops at Meridian. Thu
concrete foundation cost 100000. Thu
roundhouse win accommodate forty-foul
locomotives when completed.
A party of United States engineers o.
the Mobile district have concluded al
inspection of Lne Leaf and Pascagouls
rivers, from Hattiesburg to Pascagoula
for the purpose of securing a six-foot
channel
The revival service which has been il
progress at the Baptist Church since
Aug. 8, has closed. The services were
conducted by Rev. L. F. Gregory, thu
pastor, and was one of the best reviva
services ever held in Kilmichael. There
were twenty-one additions to the churcl
and great interest was manifested.
A union protracted meeting was begun