Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-07-15
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Inspired by the marked improve
nent in The bodybuilding in Bolivar
county within the past year, the peo-
pie have decided to call a good
roads convention to be held at Cleve
land in the near future. The conven
ton will be under the auspices Of the
cleveland Business Mems League, who
lave asked HE board of supervisors
Of the county to cooperate with them
in extending the invitation to the peo
PIE all over the state, and from any
ether place where parties are interest
Cd enough in the good roads move
llent to come.
C. T. Ames, director of the branch
agricultural experiment station of Hol
l. Springs, gives his experiences in
aising alfalfa, in which he says;
Paintings of alfalfa made Septem
Ter p, 1909, we're cut May and June
c of this year, giving yield of one
ton Of hay per acre at each cutting,
Gud are now fast approaching the
tlird cutting, which promises equally
IS good a yield.
paintings made March 8 of this
year were cut June 6, averaging 26
ilcnes in height, and giving a yield
Ct one and one-half tons per acre.
These paintings are now headed for
the second cutting"
A negro named Skiffer was riddled
ritA bullets and two other negroes,
rames unknown. were given an un-
I2c-ciful beating by mob in Simpson
county. Ski9er is supposed to have
Eapt the negro Brady, wanted for MUIR
Ger of a white man, in concealment
ter he had promised to give him up
to the authorities. The other negroes
we're regarded as accessories to the
crimes that have been charged against
Era6y and other negroes, for which
ore white man has been killed and two
negroes lynched.
A terrific watersDout fell at Derma,
coming on top Of the inccssant rains
for the past two weeks, has almost
ruined the crop prospects Whereabouts. |
Schoona river is fully twelve inches
higher than hes c~cr been known be-
fore. Three different pike roads
across the river have been washed
away entireI-. The damage to ryads
and bridges alone vii cost Calhoun
county thousands of dollars.
Yalcbusha county is IS wet as the
most pronounced anti-prohibitionist
would desire. All lowlaud crops have
been submerged. Greeks and rivers are |
h. cher than at any time since 1879. |
Bridges have been swept away and |
much damage has been done b. a pie
tho~a Of wct-ess. 4 citizen who has
ko9t tab on the rainfall says it rained !
forty-ntne times during the month Of
June.
The board of supervisors of ChOctaw !
county has ordered an election to take
place on the Goth of this month to de-
termine whether the courthouse shall !
be abolished at Chester and the county
seat moved to Alderman. The county !
was divided into two districts in 1900, |
with one courthouse at Alderman ard
tie other at Chester, only six miles
anart
The commissioners of the Belzoni |
drainage district net in Belzonia and |
organized by eleoting Fulton Hutson
OF Is0la, president; J. L. Jackson, |
treasurer; o. J. Turner, secretary, and !
II. w. Somerville, attorney, the latter
three OF Belzoni
Olive Branch has an anomaly in the !
81 ape Of a sunaower grown by little |
NJ ISIS Linnie May Wilkins. 1t meas
uTes thirty-fve and one fourth inches !
in circumference and across its widest
portion is thirteen inches. Another of |
tie same lot has a circumference of
thirty-four inches.
Or. w. T. Lowrey, director of the |
g inner normal at Clinton, states that
cit of ar enrolment of SIS there are
81 Who went into the examination
THIS IS a most gratifying showing for
II Q great success of the normal in the |
work that has been accomplished.
The farm SIS CT Marion county are !
giving the boil weevl a hot reception. |
Realizing tat the weevil is no fake, |
9lofting b. the experience Of others,
2rd following the advice Of govern
neat experts, the farmers have start !
ed out in tie fight with a grim earn
7Gtness.
J. r. Pickle, Sr., an aged citizen Of !
aCkeTman, died of pellagra His daugh- |
ter, Miss Nora, is also suffering with |
lie same disease. These are the towns |
first cases to be reported. the first
proving fatal.
The Tippah county Sunday school |
viii be held at Silver |
Springs July q and %. Dinner will !
DC served or the grounds each day. A /
a ge crowd is expected.
The fiscal year closed on June so, I
gave the Vicksburg pcstcffce = s.len-
lii showing in the increase made /
y er the precious year. The postal
'eoeipts for the closing year amounted /
o S52.61776; in actual figures an in
crease of $1,2S4S3 over the year 1909.
The postal receipts Tor the month of
June amounted to 16 IL per cent. in
,raase over June last year.
Chas. L. Townes, one of the wealth.
ell planters Of Mississippi, died at
Iintar City, as the result of an attack
4 apoplexy.
The Chief Bar.