Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-30
Mississippi
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The Winston county authorities have
taken steps to engender better road
spirit among the people and to encour.
age the road contractors to not only do
well, but better than they have hitherto
done. The board of supervisors and the
Winston County Fair Association are
acting jointly in the matter, and a reso-
luton has been adopted offering as a
special inducement one first-class, latest
model road machine for the best worked
stretch of road of not less than five
miles, which will be the general prize
In addition to this cash prize of $500,
to be divided into three parts, is to be
given the first, second and third best
stretches of highway in the supervisors
beats, in which contest all five beats are
expected to participate.
President J. c. Hardy, of the AgTicul-
tural and Mechanical College, accom-
panied by his wife, has gone on an ex-
tended tour of the West He will first
visit Yellowstone Park and the Yosem-
lite Valley, and then he viii go to Ore
gon to a meeting of the presidents of
agricultural colleges. After the meeting
he and Mrs. Hardy will go to Seattle, to
the worlds fair. They expect to return
to the college the first week in Septem-
Der, to be ready for the opening of that
institution Sep. Is.
Presiden j NJ. Sanders, of the Lafay-
cite County Farmers Union, has an
nounced that the union will hold two
days session with the lula local on
Thursday and Friday, July % and 30.
Rev. r. A. N. Wilson, of Batesvilie, will
deliver an instructive address the first
day, and several other noted speakers
have been invited. lula is seventeen
miles southeast of Oxford, in fine
farming section, and a large crowd is sx-
pected to attend these meetings.
If busy-bodies do not interfere, the
Northumberland feud at Meadville,
Franklin county, which has claimed four
victims, the last being Dr. Lenox New
man, who died in a sanitarium from
wounds received in the memorable street
battle on June II, when his father, Chan
Gerry Clerk A. NJ. Newman, and Silas C.
Reynolds were killed, will be settled in
an amicable manner.
The district meeting of the Knights of
Pythias of the Tupelo district, called by
District Deputy c. G. Walton, was at
tended by a good number of knights
from the various lodges of the district.
Grand Chancellor Sam Montgomery, of
Greenville, Grand Keeper of Records and
Seal Quinn, of Jackson, and Past Grand
Chancellor Sessions, of Greenville, were
present.
The statewide prohibition law enacted
by the last legislature, removing saloons
within the state borders, has been bene-
fetal, so far as Leland is concerned.
Crime of different kinds in noticeably
less, gambling is on the wane, blind
tigers are exceedingly scarce and the
city's prison, formerly so conspicuous for
its regular occupants, is now lonesome
place.
Judge c. ID. Christian, ST., one of Me-
ridian's oldest and most prominent citi-
zens, shot and fatally wounded Jim
Beasley, negro highwayman, who at
tempted to hold him up at the point of
a pistol on a prominent thoroughfare at
an early hour of the morning.
W. NJ. Wagner and Dave King, two
Meridian capitalists, announced that all
arrangements are completed and plans
are now being drawn for new seven
story building to be erected at Twenty
second avenue and Sixth street The
ground floor is to be designed for bust
ness purposes and the remaining six
floors will be for Offices The building
will cost something over 100000, hav.
ing all modern conveniences.
With his office in flames, O. o. Hamp-
ton, American Express company agent,
was found unconscious and bound to
his bed The flames were extinGuished
by the fire department after Hampton
was descued, and from appearances the
office had been looted. Hampton says