Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-15
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door on the Louisiana side of DeSoto
Island, 10 stirring up much concern
among the city officials. Thomas Nor
rissey Is operating the saloon on the
barge temporarily, until the new saloon
building on the island is completed,
and is doing land Office business.
Mayor-elect j. ]. Hayes, who win be
Installed in office on January IL, owns
part Of the DeSoto Island, and made q
statement, saying: "The property be-
longs to me; leased it to Morrissey,
and I will resort to every step legally
TO protect the property, as long as
Morrissey runs the saloon within the
law of Louisiana. / intend to make
somebody suffer if any interference 10
made by people who can be sued"
Sheriff r. NJ. Kelly of Warren county
asked the county board of supervisors
70 join with the city engineering depart
snsnt in determining where the line is on
DeSoto island, in order to see If Tom
Morrissey's saloon is in Mississippi. The
supervisors refused to do it, saying it
was q State matter Sheriff Kelly says
Ne will accept the city engineers line,
when run, and act accordingly.
In . letter of regret sent to Atlanta
over his inability to attend the ban
quet there January Is, in honor of Judge
Taft, John Sharp Williams says: 'Tf
the country has to submit to the mis-
fortune of a Republican presidency-a
sort of relic of barbarism'-I would
rather the misfortune came with Mr..
Taft at the head of 1t than any other
Republican in the United States. l have
= very high regard for him personally"
The presence in Laurel this week of a
party of gentlemen interested in the
electric light business in South Missis-
sippi has caused revival of the talk
of an interurban line to run southwark
from Laurel, such as was projected a
year or two ago. The interurban pro-
ieet eontemplates the employment of
water power, to be obtained from the
Bouis river, either at Hattissburg OF at
Seminary.
The. movement which for some time
Fast has been on foot to drain Magowah
swamp took definite shape when sew
eral of the principal owners of the land
in question presented to the board of
supervisors of Lowndes county a petit
ton requesting that the land be placed
in q drainage district, and a special tax
levied to provide for its. reclamation.
There are thousands Of acres of fertile
lana in this swamp, v
Black Hand No. 3 Society" sent q
letter to Mrs. Sallie Walters, a grocery
woman in Natchez. The letter was
printed with lead pencil without
punctuation marks, and demanded ST.
500, and further declares that q demand
for money was made on Robert r. Reed,
who was murdered at his home In Nat
chez recently. The Black Hand threat
ems TO kill Mrs. Walters and child il
che money is not paid.
Ia his charge to the Federal grand
fury at vicksburg, Judge Niles paid his
respects, to night riders. He said he
had received number Of letters COM
planning of the sending through the
mails Of anonymous letters, the whip.
pings of persons and ordering of 9th
srs to leave. He declared this was the
work Of irresponsible towards, and in
structed the grand jury to make
thorough investigation.
Following quarrel over lawsuit, in
which IL is said threats to shoot it
out" at next meeting were made, E. B.
Fitzgerald, q prominent planter, shot
and instantly. killed o. g. Mcclure, a
wsll.known lawyer of Rosedale. Nc
CURE had represented q client I'M
friendly to fitzgerald in lawsuit, and
bitter feeling had grown out of this.
It Is a pretty well assured fact now
that Newton is to have State normal
this summer. The buildings of Clarke
Memorial College had already been ten
dered for the purpose of holding this
normal. This means that some $50 or
300 teachers will sojourn in Newton for
several weeks this year
The Bank of Blue Mountain made a
of 211a per cent. net profits.
Eleven and one-half per cent. dividend
was declared, and the ether 10 per cent.
wsA added to the banks surplus fund.
That there has been q considerable
of the tone of the lumber
market In South Mississippi is evi-
denosd by the unusual activity of the
buyers, who ara f0cking from mill to
mill in fsverish haste to place orders
before the prices advance.
Adjt. Cen. Fridge reports that the
Third regiment, Mississippi national
guard, 10 again twelve companies strong,
including Battery E at vicksburg, since
the muster in of the new company at
Fayette.
With the beginning of the new year
lumber manufacturers In Mississippi
are expecting marked improvement in
trade conditions. The market has been
In fairly good shape during the past
thirty days, with a steadily increasing
volume of orders. A noteworthy feat
urs-of the market is the fact that the
demand Is equally good for nearly all
grades, and some of the mills have or
derr booked from 80 to 100 days ahead,
sufficient to keep them fully occupied.
The movement Of the cotton crop sim'
with the revival Of the lum-
Der industry has enlivsned the demand
Men Do Not mag"
Men as husbands are not so faithful
90 women; they are not SO tender;
they. do not forgive, as women do, con-
duct which disgraces them publicly;