Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-02

seated beng negroes. Judge Bush heard
eyiAeAas FROM the court officials and
famy commissioners. There are forty
tws qualified negro voters in the city,
aaA aavcR CT eight were drawn on the
Dsssnber grand jury panel, but none
served aR that body. The defense claims
Sa&t it ID fixed policy at Vicksburg
% &Ariainats against negroes on ju-
rSes.
That ths NausAu Lumber Company,
s6 Wisconsin, will build at Laurel one
Of SAa largest saw mills in the state
Of Mississippi, bat that work on this
satsrpriss will net be hurried until the
ssn6itspn of the lumber market shows
sans Of permanent improvement, is the
aasaraRse reiterated to the people OF
laurel, by w. H. Bissell, the president,
who, with party of eighteen ether
vSfsrsnsiR lumbsrmen who are interest
cd inn GsatherR properties, spent the day
iA tAat city.
aMnAriR4ns.deat of Education John r.
EA4n ANNOUNCES that 100 boys of Laud-
srdale csunty have entered the corn club
contests, and that the interest 10 wide
awake He will announce the prizes to
Sa awarded shortly, and expects that
tie number of contestants will be great
% increased. Prizes will be given for
NE best yield per acre, and for the best
ten cans of corn raised.
The movement launched in Meridian
sAMe months ago by the ladies OF that
sttw. booking to the establishment OF a
paSfis library, il meeting with the sue
cess that was anticipated at the time.
A regular c~mpaigR of education Is be-
nag carried ON by the social clubs, and
the people are beginning to awaken to
the great need of such an institution.
IAAt the people Of Meridian are well
satisfied with their experiment. Ia the
mMicipal ownership Of the waterworks
SSsteM has been demonstrated to the
eatHe satisfaction of citizens in the re-
salt Of the two days bond election.
Thare were but two votes registered
against t4e Issue of $25O,0OO of bends,
the money to BE used in payment for
t&e SssteM.
The most enthusiastic meeting ever
held Inn Water Valley, and possibly In
NsrSh Mississippi, in the interest OF
scientific agriculture, was held at Water
Valley last week, when $50 members Of
sAs Girls Club, 800 members of the
Nalsbusha County Farmer Boys Corn
@laS and 300 farmers met to consider
tte wsrk for the coming year and to
@mAA to O lecture On the subject OF
Ssse4SS&s agriculture by DR.. S. A. Knapp
C&A&s wilson was hanged at Fayette,
tAAs xindfsating the murder of the FISH
srmaR, Kelly, which occurred at Rodney
Landing last Christmas. Wilson con
fsssed his guilt on the soaffold. just
6efere the black cap and the moose were
adjusted the sheriff asked Wilson if he
cared to pray, and the condemned man
kaeft ON the tFapdoor of the scaffold and
prayed earnestly for mercy from the Al
MiRAty, net only for himself but for all
t&s tswHPeopie.
Pie March term of the Criminal Court
of warren county was convened at
EieksbHg by Judge John n. Rush. de
sAarxed the grand jury to probe into the
Saet that some persons had internal reve-
nae licenses for the sale of liquor, to
investigate the locker system and to
deteFHine if "near beer" will produce
iataxication. There are sixty-eight per-
aans and hrms in Ficksburg now selling
near beer"
The Laurent military company, under
ssmmand of Capt. E. R Bartlett, was
Siyoa its annual inspection by Lieut..
0haFles Il. Danforth, of the regular
arMy, who had been assigned for the
sfSeiai inspection Of the national guard
Of Mississippi. The showing made by
tia Laurel company was entirely cred
i4GSle, with respect to the men, equip
m@t and drill.
EYeeial city election, held at Laurel,
to ascertain wishes of the voters on q
prapased ordinance to exclude hive stock
hEam the streets of the city, attracted
mush attention, and ruled against such
ordnance, the vote being 2o7 for and
S24 against.
Rev. D. 4. Tull has received letter
IN wAisA Andrew Carnegie offers to give
81 SEQ toward the purchase Of $4,000
eExan fsr the new First Baptist Church
bnffding, new in course of construction
in Greenwood. The generous offer has
heon accepted with thanks.
A government inspector spent several
days at Hsliy Springs endeavoring to
secure information by which to appre-
head the parties who recently burglar
lied the postoffce there. Beyond the
fnling of the strong box, which was
part Of tina exploded safe, nothing has
been made pubic.
u. 8. Humphreys, representative In
sangEass from the Third district, has In
trsdueed q bill for the erection OF pub
lie building at Clarksdale for the use
and accommodation of the Dostofttce.
Real Love as Been.
Lave temporarily obscures the glass
Of vanity. TO be accurate, it takes the
quicksilver off the back and turns 1t
mto q window pane through hich we
are able to see far beyond the per-
Sanal reflection to which it was once
dedicated exclusively. Therefore, any
real love, since it widens the horizon
line of the lover, Is an infinite boon.
whether he wins or loses the object
@f his heart