Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-07-23

Mississippi command of the army of the
United States in the war with Mexico,
forming the Fifth Division, has there
been such genuine and pure enthusiasm
in the life of the historic town of Pom
totoc and of Pontotocans as was ex-
hibited last week, when her citizens and
all business men laid aside their business
cares and spent the day entertaining the
Home Comers,' and attended en- masse
the laying of the cornerstone of their
new public school building
Little Willie Henderson was struck
and instantly killed by lightning in the
country near Water Valley during a
thunderstorm. General Henderson,
farmer, the father of the little boy, was
sitting near the mantelpiece. Lightning
struck the telephone wire some twenty
five feet from the house, came down the
chimney, struck the little boy and
shocking the father so that he was UNI
conscious for about five minutes. When
he recovered consciousness he found his
little boy black from the stroke of
lightning dead at his feet.
Ollie Williams, the 2O-year-oId son of
c. c. Williams, who was murdered at
his home near Stonewall last week, is in
the Clarke county Jail at Quitman, hav-
ing it is said, confessed to the commits
sion of the deed. The elder Williams
was shot down in his home, the muir
derer firing through an open door, four
bullets having taken effect, producing
death almost instantly.
The fifteenth annual session of the
Mississippi Chautauqua assembly opened
Thursday to continue until the end of
the month. The program is regarded as
the best ever arranged for a meeting of
/ the assembly. Included among the prom
inent speakers to be heard are eX-Gov-
ernor Yates. of Illinois: Ex-Governor
Vardaman, of Mississippi Prof. J. n.
Powers, State superintendent of Educa-
tion of Mississippi, and j. B. Aswell,
former superintendent of education in
louisiana
Hon. Walter Weaver and Gov. James
T. Harrison each received letters from
Hon. j. NJ. Dickinson, secretary of war,
stating that President Taft had prom
Used him Columbus would be visited
during the trip the president and sew
eral members of the cabinet would take
through the Southwest and South in
September or October. Columbus is the
boyhood home of Judge Dickinson.
A quartette of elders of the Church of
Latter Day Saints are campaigning
around Clarksdale. They are making
house-to-house canvass of the city, dis
| tributing literature, and they will fur
ther the work of propagation by street
preaching if a crowd can be secured.
Two large tomatoes of the Uncle
Toms Cabin variety, weighing 2 1-2
pounds, one measuring Is 3-4 inches in
circumference and The other IA 81 inches,
were exhibited in Starkville. They were
grown in the garden of Capt. w. r. La
nier.
The news butcher on train No. 10 OF
the Mobile, jackson & Kansas City rail
road was arrested at Houston by W. H.
Curry, the railroad detective, on a
charge of retailing whisky. This is the
second arrest of this nature in the last
week. The whisky is put up in small
bottles and sold in a sack containing,
besides the whisky, bananas.
The Union County Summer Normal
has closed its summer session after sew
eral weeks successful term at Sherman.
The battle of ballots in Lawrence coun-
ty on the question of the county issuing
$4,000 of thirty year 5 per cent bonds,
for the purpose of building a courthouse,
resulted in defeat for the bonds The
opposition was mainly caused by the
fight for a division of the county three
years ago, when the new county of JEFF
ferson Davis was formed out of a part
of Lawrence and Covington.
The normal at the University of Mis-
sissippi closed with the largest attend
ance in its history. Over 400 teachers
have been in attendance and good work
has been done during the entire term.
There was a feeling of qualification no
ticeable among the throng of teachers
because of the ease and comfort with
which the crowd has been lodged and fed
at the university.
As result of the earnest solicitation
Iof Representatives Sisson, three experts
have been assigned to duty in the
Fourth Mississippi district, beginning
August %. There will be one man to
lecture on plant industry, one on good
roads and one on the boil weevil and
:rop diversifcation.
According to statement by the city
clerk forty persons have been convicted
for operating blind tigers in Gulfport
during the past six months.
The OIltibbeha County Fair Associa-
lion is offering handsome prizes this year
all departments. A grand enterprise
:ast range will be given as first prize
Tor the largest family on the show
grounds the first day of the fair. A bar
;el of flour will be given for second prize
and two large hams for the third.
The public school board, which met at
Waynesboro, refused to locate schools
where majority of the patrons had
failed tn nav their Doll tax This did
not affect any white schools, but viii
mock out several negro schools.