The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-19

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The celebrated Walthall county case
will shortly go to the supreme court, Judge
Weathersby having decided that the cleo
ton judges have final jurisdiction and
that they acted within their authority when
they threw out one box, thus defeating
tne new county.
The supreme court on Monday handed
down thirty-6ve decisions, probably the
largest number ever delivered at one sit
ting This was the first week in which
decisions prepared by the two new COM
missioners were handed down, practically
increasing the number of judges from
three to FIVE.
Chancellor Denton has decided the case
of the o-Mississippi-D Levee
Board by .dissolving the injunction re-
Gently granted against that faction which
he'd elected J. W. Cutrer president of the
board. This, apparently, means the end
Of the trouble, which had become some
what serious, owing to the fact that two
factions had each elected officers, for whose
places they warmly contended.
Hon. c. H. Alexander, of Jackson, who
has announced his intention to become a
candidate for the United States Senate
against Senator Leroy Percy and former
| Governor James K. Vardaman says he
will shortly issue statement in which
his campaign policies and platform will
| ke set forth,
Former Assistant Attorney General
George Butler has decided not to enter
the race for attorney general next year.
Hon. J. W. Cassidy of Brookhaven, has
Withdrawn from the race for congress in
the seventh district. The two have formed
partnership for the practice of law in
Jackson.
Many municipal and commercial bodies
have adopted delegates to attend the state
wide immigration convention to be held
in Jackson on June 2I and 22, in accord
ance with the call issued by Governor
Noel Addresses will be delivered by
some of the greatest industrial heads in
the country.
Miss Mai Evans, who had been prac
tically the manager of the Kimbrell hotel
in Meridian, was arrested as she was leav-
ing the city with several trunks contain
| ing Silverware, etc. Later she was re-
leased on bond. 1t developed that she
and one of the owners had planned to
thus move this property to outwit the
ether owner, following a disagreement
i Mrs. Tracy Green, who more than a
month ago mysteriously disappeared from
her home in Columbus, has been heard
from in SapuPa, Okla,. where she is
apparently happy, notwithstanding she
know of 70 reason why she should have
left.
1t is announced that Prof w. H. Smith
Of Durart, will resign as superintendent
of education of Holmes county, to be-
come supervisor of the elementary schools
under the auspices of the Peabody educa-
tional fund Thus the originator of the
corn club idea in Mississippi is to make
himself still further useful to the rural
schooiboy.
Rev. Dr. w. B. Murrah, for years
president of Millsaps College at Jackson
was on Monday elected a member of the
College of Bishops of the Methodist church
He therefore becomes practically the sue
cessor of the late Bishop Charles B. Gal
loway, whose death occurred more than
a year ago.
Numerous counties have tafcn advantage
of the new law authorizing board of
supervisors to issue bonds for road pur-
poses in one or more supervisors districts
without affecting other parts Of the coun-
/ ty, with the result that great strides in
road-making are expected during the COM
ing year.
The State Beard of Health has selec-
| ted DR.. w. S. Leathers to be state bac-
teriologist, placing him in charge of the
sanitary work to be conducted by that
| body to promote more healthful condi-
tions throughout the state. Although he
will take the place of DR.. Fred J. Meyer,
who lectured last year all over the state
on sanitation and hygeine. Dr. Leathers
will have much wider scope and will
maintain an office in the capitol at Jack
/ son.
Hon. w. Calvin Wells, Jr., of Jack
son, has been appointed special judge to
try the case of Mrs. Alvin O'Pry against
Judge w. H. Hardy, in the Harrison
county circuit court. The case is based
On the effort of Mrs. OPry to recover
her salary as stenographer for Judge Har-
dy while he was member of the Code
Commission appointed in 1903, and for
which services the legislature refused to
pay her, as did afterwards Judge Hardy
himself. .~tt "A sssA
Gov. Noel has issued a proclamation
abolishing the town of Walters, in Warren
county. The town was incorporated soon
| after the Dunn law was enacted in 1904,
which provided that whiskey should not
be sold in any but Incorporated towns,
having a population of 500 or more and
ample police protection. Without incor-