Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-05-13
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Wis Chapter (Yazoo City,, Mississippi
Division, United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, read the annual report from
this chapter to the convention We
nesday morning. A mild storm fCl
| lowed the statement that YaZoo City
was the first to give the women of the
| Confederate days equal honor win
the soldieres, because on the $4,000
monument in that place there is sur
mounted the statue of woman halj-
| ing the colors to soldier. Many del
egates clamored for recognition and
ventilated their sentiments regarding
the claim of the Jefferson Davis Chap
ter. Many claimed their statues or
monuments were inscribed TO ,Ae
men and women of the Confederacy,
which expressed the same thought as
the Yazoo City monument indicated,
but in the long run Mrs. Thompson
was the winner.
| A man named Ferris Williams ere
,ated quite a sensation in and about
| Waynesboro with peculiar methods OF
saving souls. He made the converts
| to his belief sniff some kind of pow
der up their noses. They would then
go into a sleep and on awakening they
were told they would have to confess
their sins Two husbands and two
wives shifted, slept and the confess
sions that followed created a sensation
that caused one of the husbands to
knock the preacher down, and finally
land him in Jail. Later the preacher
was fined SIT and sentenced to six
months on the county road.
Starkville.-The board of supervis-
ors of Oktibbeha county postponed I'M
til January l, 1911, action on the tick
eradication bill passed by the last
| legislature in order to give the cattle
men time to prepare for it, as there
are some large cattle grazers in this
county who would be badly damaged
if the provisions of this law were en-.
| forced just now.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are very busy
replanting cotton that was killed by
the late freeze. Owing to the scarcity
of seed, the acreage will be greatly re-
duced. A great deal of land planted
in cotton is being replanted with corn.
Owing to present conditions the corn
acreage will be doubled
Two thousand youthful census emu
merators, all working for their "citys
PRIDE" asked every person they met
today, Have you been enumerated?"
| Supt. Cook Of the city schools placed
a specially printed form in the hands
of every child at both the white
schools and also the colored school.
! Meridian-At meeting of the board
of trustees of the Masonic Widows
and Orphans Home in this city, plans
| for q new addition to the home were
| discussed. The proposed addition is a
! home for old ladies, the widows of
Masons and the building when occupied
will be a handsome brick structure
two stories in height, and will be
! built on the same plan as the present
structure. 1t has been found that the
| capacity of the home is inadequate
! to meet the needs of the order
MAKE hogs pay off the mortgage"
was the advice given by DR.. S. A
Knapp, chief of the bureau of plant in
dustry of the governemnt department
of agriculture, in an address before the
Back to the Farm" meeting held here
under the auspices of the Columbus
| Business League. "Diversif1cation a
Necessity in Farming" was the sub.
ject of DR.. Knapp's address, and he
urged the farmers not only to raise
more hogs and more cattle, but to di-
versify their crops.
Natchez.-The sixth annual conven.
! ton Of the Mississippi Bar Associa-
ton was terminated with an elaborate
banquet at the Natchez Hotel, in
which 300 persons participated The
| banquet was the most brilliant social
affair of the kind ever given in
| Natchez.
Charles Wesley Thatcher, the good
roads apostle, spoke at Brookhaven in
the interest of the good roads move
| ment. At the conclusion of his ad.
dress a county good roads association
was formed.
A special term of chanecry court
will convene in Cleveland May 49, The
regular January term was pretermit
ted on account of the contemplated
redistricting of the state by the legis
| Ia;ure.
Yazoo City.-The jury in the case
| Of Mrs. Mary Dunning and children
against the Illinois Central railroad
ren0ered its verdict for $12,5OO for the
| plaintiffs.
Starkville.-The cool and dry wealth
err prevailing in this section is prov
ing very injurious to such cotton as
was left by the recent cold snap.
The Mississippi Travellers, the most
progressive organization of drummers
and travelling men generally in this
State, are even thus far in advance
making preparations for the annual
meeting at Columbus on June "a and
| %, proposing to make it the geratest
| in the history of their association.
What might have resulted in a seri.
| Gus wreck two miles north of Gibson
was averted when the engineer on
northbound Mobile and Ohio passen
ger train stopped his engine before {
pile Of crossties
5'z.nt Guides Over Taxes Prairles.
There is a plant which grows on
the vast Texas prairies which is as
good as a compass" said Harry M.
Topping of Galveston, Tex. Down
| that way it is a well known fact that