Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-01-22
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A rathAs aRxd proceeding By way Of
6 andM a AA@ssAssz was fled and
wmAaa nd eNeRas by Judge BuIlArd.
m the sAss Of Rsaest Cai.s 70. ths
Sheriff and Treasurer of Jasper county.
The bill seeks to restrain the defend
ants as officers from using money and
collecting taxes for the support of the.
agricultural schools, 40 provided by the
last legislature. The legislature pro-
yided that counties could establish these
schools for the education of the white
youths of the counties, and the COM
plainant in this case is q negro, and
seeks to restrain the carrying out of
she act, because it miolstes the Four
keenth Amendment.
DR.. S. H. Mclean, secretary of the
State board of health and state health
officer, announces that DR.. Fred Mayer
had O successful week in his lecture
course on practical household hygiene IN
Southern Mississippi, his lectures haV-
ing been generally well attended, and
intereat in the important matters dis
eussed by the doctor remains undated.
The program for this week will cover
Ehe Mobile and Ohio railroad below
MerMiaR. This round will finish up the
sOcti@ of the State south of the Ala
kama and Vicksburg railroad, and the
next week DR.. Mayer will carry his hy-
genie crusade into the upper part of
the @ate, the Itinerary for which has
not yet bcea fully made up.
J. G. Oarraway of Biloxi, one Of the
foremost business men of that little
city, states that while matters are I'M
usually quiet, and the effect of the
Statewide prohibition law is felt, not
withdrawing they were prepared by
anticipation, so far as his information
extends there have been no cases of or
attempts at violation On evasion of the
law, and no Fpests. They are disposed
TO accept tAs law and % see that it is
oAyed, and he b@iev@ that this will
be doAs.
fom Morrissey and his barkeepers. w.
]. Fitzgerald and Ralph Rcmono, were
each fined $50 for the unlawful retail
ing of liquor sa the island opposite
Nlcksburg. Justice Murch held that the
niIale of He old bed of the Mississippi
river was the boundary line between
Louisiana and Mississippi, and there
fore the place where Morrissey opened
his saloon and sold liquor was clearly
in tia State Of Mississippi.
NJ q Meeting OF the stockholders of
the First National Bank of Shaw, divi-
dend Of IL per cent was declared. The
Stockholdefs Of thu Bolivar Cotton Co.
declared SO per cent net earnings, pass
e. Is pei eent to surplus and paying
Is per cent In cash. A dividend Of 20
per cent was also declared by the Shaw
Hardware and Lumber Co. and paid in
cash.
Representative McLain OF Mississippi,
called upon the secretary of the navy
and presented petition from the citi-
zens Of NatcheG requesting that a war
vessel be sent to that port during the
Mardi Gras festivities. Secretary New
berry assured Mr.. McLain that if it is
possible he will do so, and that within
the next two weeks he may decide.
Mardi festivities are there in February.
WhiIs the students were at dinner
Gre broke out in the boys dormitory of
Clarke College, ut Newton, and had
gained such Roadway before it was dis
covered that IL was impossible to save
il. It was entirely covered by insur-
ance. Arrangements were made to take
care Of al the students and there will
be No Interruption Of the school.
The preliminary trial of Dyke and Al
Edwards for killing DR.. A. T. Richard.
son in Sturgis on the night q Dec. "a,
Ieos,1 resulted In bad being allowed the
accused in the sum of 81, 900 each. This
trial, on account of the prominence Of
DR.. Richardson, who was q member OF
the State board Of health and one of the
leading physicians Of Oktibbeha county,
attracted O great deal of interest.
The civic league wave has struck Co
lumbus and the ladies are determined to
add that city to the list of Settles beau
tiful." A local league will be organized
along lines similar to those pursued in
other cities.
The net earnings OF the Sunhower
Bank at IH1Aanola were IS per cent, and
a dividend Of 10 per cent to the stock
holders was declared and the balance
passed to the surplus.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
have undertaken to raise fund to erect
O. monument to the Confederate dead of
Copiah county. The board of supervisors
of Copiah county will be asked to give
liberal appropriation.
Grand Master E. j. Martin of the Mis-
sissipp grand lodge of the. Masonic fra
tsrnity, announces that the Masonic
grand bodies will hold their annual SEES
sions this year IN Meridian, commencing
On Feb. 8. A local committee on ar
engagements Is new busily engaged with
preparations for the event. It is expect
Cd that there viii be several hundred
delegates fu attendance, and several ps@
lie entertainments win be given IN their
honor during the stay in the Queen City,
which has long been regarded as Masona
headquarters In this State.