The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-23
Pike and Marion Will Be Sliced
Up to Form Tyler
SHARP FIGHT BREWING
Chances Are THAT New County VIII Not
BE Nude This Sessi0n--Schoo1sO OF
the State VIII Soon Get
Their Money

tation of those demanding the efeauoh
of new county to be called Tyler, and
with Tylertown as the county site, same
to be made out of portions of Pike and
Marion counties, and this opens up the
way for the legislature to remain in SEES
sion another month. These new county
fights are the most engrossing that are
ever known to a legislative session. They
always call out the best men in the dis
tricts concerned, and they make 1t very
interesting for the lawmakers.
There is small probability that Tyler
county will be created at this session, the
end being too near, unless there should
happen to be no opposition to the meas
ure. But opposition always develops. and
no doubt will do so in this instance. 1t
is contended by the friends of the bill
that citizens of the present Pike and
Marion counties are forced to the neces-
sity of travelling great distances to court,
some of them about fifty miles. and IL
that be true, the county lines should be
drawn in.
There has been suggestion that
new county should be created with jack
son as the site. This is an old and time
worn suggestion, and some of these days
it will bring forth fruit. The city of
Jackson, the biggest part of the county Of
Kinds. is not always going to permit it.
self to be wagged by the tail of the dog.
Jackson should be, and is tho head and
center of the county. There is more
business here for the courts than In any
other county in the state, and there is no
reason on earth that Jackson and Ray
mcnd should be tied together. They are
friendly, all right enough, but their in
terests are not the same. and in course
of time they will be divorced. thus max
ing two of the best counties in the state
out of one. This will not be attempted at
this session of the legislature, but no
doubt at the next. and there is every
reason to believe that such a bill would
be accepted by the law-malxing body.
The bill for the support of the COM
mon schools has been passed at last, and
the teachers of the state will get their
money in a few days.
The total amount appropriated was
sl,424,0es per annum, and means about
% per educable child in Mississippi. there
being more than half million of them
on the rolls, and the majority of them
being negroes.
The teachers of the state would have
been paid two months ago. the intent of
the law being to send out their warrants
about the first of January for two-thirds
of their stipend
Even at that, if the warrants had been
sent out the first of January, the teach
ers would have just been getting their
pay for November and December In a
great many Of the counties of the state,
and no doubt some OF them have suf-
fered because of the failure of the state
to pay what it owed on time.
In view of this fact it has been sug-
gested that the end of the fiscal year
should be changed. and that the legisla-
ture should make appropriations so as
to be available after the LIST of January
not only for the teachers but for all
other employees of the state. II happens
every other year just as it has this.
that the employees of the state are forced
to walt on the legislature to pass the
general appropriation bills before they
can get their salaries. and they are put
to a great deal of Inconvenience. 1t would
be Just as easy for the legislature to
make the fiscal year end at one time as
another, and just as easy to have the
appropriations lap over to include jan
uary and February as November and De-
cember.
The following charters have been
filed with the secretary of state for
record, viz:
The Georgetown bank. Georgetown,
Copah county; capital, $4,000; incor-
porators, I. N. Ellis. r. w. Millsaps,
b. r. Catchings, W. w. Catchings,
G. A. Shoemaker, w. d. Berry.
The Colored Realty company, domi-
ciled at MCNEIL, Pearl River coun-
ty; capital. $4,000; inccrporators, ].
J.. Jefferson, Purvis; e. x. wormins
ton, Pass Christian; J. M. Raine. Pop
larsville, and others.
Natchez Packing company, Natchez;
capital 100000; incorporators, j. N.
Carpenter, A. B. Leonard. e. e. Brown
and others.
Cox Mercan Title company, Marks.
capital, $4,000; incorporators, e. Trull.
G. A. Cox, w. v. Turner and 9TH
ers.
According to State Treasurer Ed
wards there are now in the hands of
the several banks recently selected as
repositories of state funds for the next
year and drawing interest the neat sum
of s1,270,000. In addition to this there
are also few dollars IN the vaults
of the treasury in the capitol--suffi-
cient to pay OFF little bills that ac-
cumulate daily.
Nearly one-half Of this sum will be
drawn out In a few days, however, to
pay the school teachers what is now
past due them.
Mississippi has found the depository
system more than satisfactory. The
money is we'll secured and there is
something in the way of interest to be
considered, as last year the interest ac-
count amounted to about $4,000.
Adjt. Gen. Arthur Fridge has issued
general orders No. to the National
Guard, advising that under recent in
structions from the war department
the annual inspection of the organized
militia Of the state will be made by
officers other than those on duty with
the militia and by officers from the
same arms of service as the troops to
be inspected. For this reason the or
der announcing that Lieut.. Edgar N.
Coffey, U. s. A.. retired, and stationed
at jackson, will not make the inspec-
ton. This will be done by Lieut.. Roy
w. Ashbrooke, Seventeenth United
States infantry.
The date for the inspection of Troop
A. cavalry. Is changed from April
to Is.
In this connection attention is called
to the fact that no man will be per-
mitted to attend the annual encamp-
ment at Chickamauga who has not haen