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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15
WATTS LOSES PLACE
WON BY MAJORITY
Legislature Awards Unexplred Term ol
Representative to ]. Il. Gotten.
Of FRANKLIN.

Notwithstanding the fact that
DR.. v. B Watts had a majority of
votes in Lincoln and Franklin for
Floater Representative. be was
ruled out by the Legislature. after
committee of five investigated
the matter on the authority Of that
Law-making body.
The commissioners of election in
Lincoln. laboring under a mistaken
idea, had no names printed 90 the
ticket franklin did, and Franklin
gave j. H Gotten a majority over
both Griffing, the other candidate.
and Watts. Gotten and Griffing
protested against Watts election
and went before the Legislature.
while Watts claimed his election
legal. because he had received the
majority in both counties, regard
less of names. printed or imprinted
on the tickets.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15

We have received cotton worms
during the past few days from
many sections Of Mississippi, in
cIuding Noxubee. Clay. Lowndes
and Monroe Counties in the eastern
and Claiborne and Leflore, in the
western half of the State. The in
dications are that they will be much
more numerous during the next
month. It will pay everyone to be
on the outlook for them and to be
prepared to fight them. However.
it may not be wise to go to too
much expense as it is possible that
the worms will be destroy ed by
their natural parasites, and instead
of becoming more numerous. they
may entirely disappear. We have
found that some of the worms that
have been sent to US have been
parasitised. 1t is to be hoped that
these parasites will increase SO rap
idly that the worms will be ex-
terminated very soon.
Powdered arsenate of lead is the
best remedy for the cotton worm.
1t is applied in the same manner
as Paris green was formerly used.
1t is busted on the plants by a man
on a mule. from sacks fastened at
each end of pole about as long as
the rows are wide. The sacks are
made Of two thicknesses Of cheese
cloth. ("8 OF. Oznaburg" was
formerly used for Paris green, but
the cheese cloth seems to be more
satisfactory The pole should be
a strip of oak, or other strong
wood, about one and a half by two
inches and as long as the rows are
wide. A one-inch hole is bored
about five inches from each end.
Ia sack is fastened at each end Of
the pole, the edges Of the opening
of the sack are tackled to the mar.
row sides Of the pole. The sacks
are filed by pouring the poison
through funnel inserted in the
holes through the pole above the
sacks.
The poison is distributed BY q
man riding on mule carrying 9
pole with the sacks attached at each
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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15
A Terrible Arraignment
Of Women BY Women

! Atlanta. Ca, Nov -Declar-
ing that the dresses worn in the
streets by Atlanta women are lin
decent" and "a disgrace to woman
hood" the clubwomen and the
preachers have begun crusade of
reform. Leading ministers say
that Atlanta women wear dresses
in the street that in any other city
in the south would mark them as
women of the underworld
The clubwomen today joined the
preachers and it, was decided to
launch campaign to force women
to cease wearing indecent" dress
es in the streets.
Miss Daisy Eckert, general Sec
retary of the Young Women's
Christian Association, said: Con
ditions are worse in Atlanta than
in any other city | have been in.
! have been in New York and other
large cities of the east and west
and women dress more brazenly in
Atlanta. The way Atlanta girls
and women dress would stamp them
as denizens of the underworld in
any other city"
Mrs. Laura White. leading
clubwoman, says: If IL disgust
ing the way Atlanta girls dress for
the street. The fathers of these
girls know exactly whaf tie young
men Of today must think Of th
daughters. Their abbreviated
skirts are bad. but what is worse
is the way these fashions outline a
woman's form.
According to the crusaders. At
lanta women use more paint and
powder than those of any other
city. Mrs. Catherine Wooten,
head of the Carnegie library. says:
"A travelling man from the
North. representing firm of drug
gists, told me that Atlanta is the
best rouge and face powder market
in the country. ! do not wonder
that Atlanta is one Of the best face
powder markets. Atlanta girls
are like walking advertisements OF
a paint company.
The crusaders say they intend to
ask the council to pass an ordinance
regulating street dresses of women,
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15
Peanut Crop Success
full at Bogue Chitto

We desire to correct the impress
sion that the peanut crop was a
disappointment. both in yield and
price. On ordinary soil without
fertilizer the yield is 80 to 40 BUSH
els. which at rs cents to so cents
per bushel nets a profit much in ex-
cess of cotton under boil weevil
conditions. One farmer stated to
US that on equal plots of ground he
cleared SIS IN cotton and $l25 on
peanuts and also raised an oat
crop on the peanut land, and is
holding the peanut hay at SIS per
ton. Two peanut pickers and sew
eral threshers have all they can do.
Several cars have been marketed
and farmers and merchants are en-
thusiastic over the prospects. -
Picayune Cor.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15

probably be found to be most salts
factory. although from / IL to A
pounds per acre may be used, de-
pending upon conditions.
Powdered arsenate of lead may
be purchased. depending upon the
quantity, at from Is cents to 25
cents per pound. Many firms man.
ufacture this substance. The
Grasselli Chemical Company located
both at New Orleans. La. and
Birmingham. Ala, can probably
supply it more conveniently than
any other firm that we have been
able to hear of.
Where Paris green is on hand.
this substance will be satisfactory,
but Paris green should always be
mixed with at least ten times as
much flour or other powdery SUBJ
stance. However, experiments
have shown that Paris green in
jures the cotton plant and that cot
ton will not produce as heavily
where it has been used. Powdered
arsenate of lead can be used at any
strength. It will not injure the
plants at all. The chief thing to
be remembered is that the powder
should be evenly distributed over
the plants. The arsenate will be
applied most satisfactorily without
mixing it with any other substance.
We advise that everyone have the
poles and sacks made as soon as the
first worms appear. It will also
pay to keep a small supply Of pow
dered arsenate Of lead on hand if
arrangements cannot be made for
this substance to be supplied imme-
diately when it is needed. Every
one should be prepared to order q
large enough supply Of the poison
to cover his entire cotton crop II
necessary. The worms work very
rapidly and there is no time to be
wasted after they once appear af
they can do a great deal Of damage
in a very short time. If rain
comes just after the poison is ap.
piled and wai hes it off Of the
| plants. another dusting will be
necessary. otherwise one dusting
will do for each crop" or genera
tion Of worms.
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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15
STATE TREASURER
SEEKS INVESTIGATION
Has Paid Out all State Money Has
Only $47.76O.SI Of Govern.
ment Money.


jackson. Miss, Nov. 13. State
Treasurer Edwards gave out the
following statement today as to the
conditions of the Treasury:
The Senate committee, compos-
ed OF Senators Franklin. Of Ponto-
toe. Gibbs and Tucker. appeared at
the Treasury department this morn
ing in pursuance of a resolution
which | understand was adopted
last Saturday by the Senate, the
purpose Of which was to investigate
the State treasury in order to as
certain whether or not the state
ment which ! gave out a few days
ago to the effect that all the availa-
BILE cash balances in the treasury
had been exhausted in paying the
old Confederate soldiers their pen
sions. This committee wanted to
know of me how much money we
had on hand. | replied by stating
that there was in the treasury now
Sal. .769. 81. This money belongs to
the fund which is appropriated an.
nually by Congress for the support
and maintenance of the A. and M.
College and the Alcorn A. and M.
College. On Jan. 4. 1909. | re-
quested of the Attorney-general of
Mississippi an official opinion as
to whether or not the State treas
urer is authorized by law to turn
this government money into the
general fund of the treasury and
to use it for that purpose. The
Attorney general gave me an opin-
ion to the effect that / must keep
this United States fund on hand at
all times. and that the money could
not be used legally by me for pay
ing any other warrants.
II am going to hold this money
subject to the draft of these col
leges on that fund as have been
advised by the Attorney general of
Mississippi so to do.
This department stands ready
at all hours of the day and night to
be investigated by any person
having authority to do so. and
gladly welcome the blessed sun
light of publicity" because ! want
the people of Mississippi to know
just what is going on in their
treasury.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15
PERMENTER MAY
NOT BE GUILTY
Thos meElrOy Arrested for Crime for
Which Permenter Vas Sentenced
to Hang.

jackson. Miss. Nov. l3. That
|eighteen-year-old Swinton Per-
menter. once under sentence Of
death FOR the alleged murder Of
Miss jamie Sharpe, daughter Of a
Winston county planter, is an inno-
cent victim of circumstances and
at his second trial his innocence
will be proved, is declared by
private detective. who arrived here
today with Thomas McElroy, who
was arrested at GreenviIIe, Tex.
several days ago IN connection with
the killing. What evidence is held
against McElroy has not been di-
|vuIged.
II Is declared that McElroy, with
his wife and two children, left
Winston county few days after
the girls mutilated body was found
in ravine near her fathers planta-
tion at Rural Hill.
McElroy was lodged in the Win
ston county jail tonight.
The body of Miss Sharpe was
found by the roadside. badly
mutiIated. Permenter was arrest
ed and charged with the murder.
He protested his innocence. He
was tried in the Circuit Court of
Winston county, convicted and SEN
tenced to death. His case was
appealed. and finally the Mississippi
Supreme Court reversed the Circuit
Courts sentence. A change of
venue was obtained, and Permenter
is now under bond awaiting his
second trial. which will take place
in the Montgomery Circuit Court.
Some time ago it became known
that Thomas McEIroy. who lived in
the Rural Hill community at the
time Miss Sharpe was murdered,
was living at Greenville, Texas. A
|reQuisition was honored, and he
was brought here last night.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15

The hope of the South is in bet
ter farming learning not only how
to produce the worlds cotton crop
on the smallest possible acreage.
but also the biggest possible yield
of grain. forage ard feed crops
for human food and for feeding
live stock, SO that we may be inde-
pendent of 'speculators and
raiders and prepared to hold
cotton whenever the time comes to
hold. And every man who is farm
ing SO poorly that he can not do
this is drawback to your entire
section. -Ihe Progressive Farmer.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15

clothes of the people working with
it should be thoroughly shaken. 1t
is best to work early in the morn
ing while the dew is on the plants.
1t is a useless waste of time and
poison to apply the poison when it
is not actually needed. Many peo-
pie make this mistake during every
cotton worm scare. 1t is useless TO
poison a whole plantation if the
worms are confined to a small patch
or two.
Address communications concern
ing insects to the Entomologist,
Agricultural College. Miss.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15

Miss Elizabeth Harvey. only
child Of Judge and Mrs. Robt.
Harvey. of Minneapolis. and teach
er at Belhaven Institute. jackson.
died last Saturday at the Capital.
She had too long deferred an opera
tion for appendicitis and died as a
result. after the enforced surgery.
She was teacher of mathematics,
having begun her work with the
fall term.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15

DR.. w. Fl. Rowan. one Of the
field agents in the crusade against
the hook-Worm has already success
fully treated aover 1900 cases and
has five hundred more to treat. at
the free dispensary located at
Laurel. Seven field agents Of the
board of health are engaged in the
war on hook-wOrm in South Mis-
sissippi: others are making as good
record. comparatively. as DR.. Rowan
IL
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15

President Joe Cook. the educa-
tional enthusiast. has reached Hat
tiesburg end entered actively into
the preliminary work connected
with the Normal College. The
presidents home. to be erected on
the Normal site. will be the FIRST
building rushed to completion.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15

The Climbers are busiIy prepar-
ing for their annual banquet.
which will be held on Thursday
evening. the 2Srd. at the home Of
the President. Mrs. Chas S. But
terfield. Past events prophesy
brilliant achievement on this occa-
sion.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15

Charlie Moses and his wife. and
Carrie Powell, convicted Of retail
ing in the Circuit Court, are all.
ION the job at the county farm.
having been carried out Saturday
by Sheriff Smith.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15

The Sunday School Convention
convened at 2 p. m. There will be
services at 7:30 this evening and
again at 10 and 7:30 tomorrow.
All interested are invited to attend.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-15
A "SeVen-Cent Supper" by the EpwOrth
League Of BOeue ChittO.

Remember every one. | pray.
At seven O'Clock on the sixteenth
day
Of this present month. come wet
or dry.
Please gather to laugh and talk and
buy.
Also without fail,
Will be held an Oyster sale.
And bargain packages piled up high
For seven round cents.
Your choice can buy.
At B. E. Brister's Store.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-09-28
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

DETROIT, Sept 2S.-Close: Liver
pool had both bullish and bearish con-
ditions on Thursday. but the down
ward tendency was most pronounced
and lower prices resulted. Extensive
buying checked the decline and Rus
sian offerings were not large On the
other hand crop advices from india
and Argentine were favorable. prices
In Winnipeg and Buenos Ayres were
lower and there was active selling by
continental dealers.
thoroughly liquidated market at the
close on Wednesday, and Monday 8
opening brought a more confident feel
Ing TO the bull side OF the deal. The
the knowledge that the market Is COM
pletely dominated by the holders OF
| cash wheat and they are expected TO
continue their churning process. put
make s P Il pay Tor n its cSrrSins Charges
and a little more. This discourages
the believers In higher prices for they
know the wheat will come out on Q
With the recent holders out OF their
lines and n good demand for hard win
ter wheat at good premiums. the mar
ket on Thursday was encouraging TO
the bulls. IL Is believed that the pres
emit run OF spring wheat will not last
more than a couple OF weeks and that
farmers will hold their wheat until
they have sold all the other products
Dealers were looking for a greater
break In the Liverpool price on Thurs
day and feel encouraged by the fea-
ture Of the foreign markets to go
lower The market In Buenos Ayres
had a break of 4hc because OF an
abatement OF foreign demand and fine
crop prospects on our Increased acre
age. There was covering OF shorts on
| Thursday and the selling OF long wheat
had gone the limit, leaving the mar
ket with small offerings. Winnipeg
was higher and the Detroit wheat mar
ket closed at an advance OF ole:
Corn advanced hc and beans for
| hmm ediate shipment declined &c.
Wheat quotations.: Cash No. red,
| s3hc: Dee. opened without change at
ssE c and advanced to 99hc: May
siolN, closing asked; No. white
Coarse grain quotations: Corn--cash
No 5 zoe; No. osss sIlos nlnsi No iss
asked: No. white. ishc. Rye-cash
! No. ?. CSC Beans--Immediate ship
ment. .2I2; Rromp:, ssis; &c.,, Oct $40
sample, So bags at si1.25, ~ at 1880.
at sill; prime alsike. $1,000; sample
aisike. 10 bags at BIS. 8 at 80. Tim
othy seed-Prime spot. 7s bags at y.
Thursday were 1000 bbls OF flour, Q
cars OF wheat. 1 of corn and OF oats.
Withdrawals were 500 bbfs OF hour:
1000 bu OF wheat, AIS bu of corn and
| OF wheat I74,S57 bu OF corn, 246.67f
bu OF oats and 43.0s2 bu OF rye.
Receipts of wheat Thursday: Mime
| apolis. eel cars. against 3eS cars 2
| 22s: Winnipeg, 436 cars. against 6l2;
~. Louis. $4,000 bu, against $4,000 bu;
! Kansas City, IS cars. against 20s.
Primary wheat receipts were l.2bt,-
COO I'm. against 1,Isi, 900 bu a year ago.
Exports OF wheat and -four Thurs
day. 10000 bu.
Stocks OF wheat I'm Minneapolis have
| Liverpool wheat closed unchanged
20 ia higher and corn 40 NJ lower.
Argentine exports OF wheat this
week are estimated at 100000 bu.
TOLEDO GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
TOLEDO. Sept. 2s.-Wheat; Sasn
L Corn; Cab and Sept. lie: Dec. $50 g;
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-09-28
BUnM|NS WON'T
60 ON TAFT TRAIN.


PORT DODGE. Iowa, Sept. 28.-
Senator Albert b. Cummings fatty de-
Senator Albert B. Cummins fatty de
iial train, while President Taft was
making his short campaign through
the state.
ClImmins had been specifically invit-
cd by Gov Carroll. TO accompany he
president. when he entered the state
a Council Bluffs. however. Gov. Car
roll. standpatter, and his stan of thir-
" on more. joined the train with q
special car. Senator Kenyon and half
4 dozen insurgent congressman also
boarded the train. among them Picket
Prouty, Woods, Green and Kendall
But Cummins. the pioneer and leader
OF Iowa Insurgency. was not there. He
sent word that He would not ride
on the presidents rain through the
state. but would act on the reception
committee when the president reached
Des Moines, Cummins home"
The president talked prosperity
and the tariff and defended his
vetoes OF the Democratic Insurgent
tarin bills at the last session OF con-
gress throughout the day. Thousands
Of Iowans turned out to hear him at
Council Bluffs, Woodbine, Denison
and Fort Dodge. but there was little
enthusiasm. Like the Kansans Just
left behind, the Iowa farmers seemed
TO want to hear what the president
had TO say and then take II home with
them and think II over. There was
no expression of approval or dissp-
proval.
At Woodbine, the president said:
1T would be better for Iowa II her
crop OF statesmen was less and her
crop or corn more"
X was we'll satisfied with my re-
ception In Kansas" was the presi-
dents attitude today. land | wish TO
express my appreciation Of the wsl-
come given me by the people,
The presidents friends in Kansas
declared he received a much warmer
welcome than had been expected.
Regular and insurgent leaders accom-
panied him throughout the trip. vie
ing with each other in doing him
honor.
The people OF Kansas are waiting"
said one OF the leaders today. "Taft's
standing with Kansas now depends
on what In done at the next session
Of congress. II his promises OF tarifr
reform through the tariff board are
fulhlled he may have chance, but
right now he Ii on probation. The
people want to be shown"
That Taft win have the Kansas
delegation In the national convention
is generally accepted. But political
sharps In the state declare that under
present circumstances, progressive
Democrat such as Woodrow Wilson
could down the Republican majority
IL Kansas I'm the election and per
haps even carry the state. But the
Taft forces PROGRESSED TO be much en-
couraged over the result Of the presi-
dents visit.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-09-28
FIFTY YEARS STEWARD
ON ROYAL MAIL SHIPS
Tom Jordan MinIstered To Mason and
sIideii, the Confederate
Commissioners.

NEW YORK, Sept 2S.-Before the
Naedalena reaches Southampton by
way OF Cuba and the Spanish Main.
chief Steward Thomas Jordan WIN
have rounded out a half century az 0
steward Of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Co.. 40 years as a chief stew
ard.
Jordan began running with the line
on the old sidelwheeler Versailles
from Southampton to st. Thomas,
whence side lines ran to Mexico. ma
vana and other points. In those days
there were 20 ships OF the line. To-
day there are So. No steamer could
run further from Southampton than
ST. Thomas, because no steamer conld
carry more than 1900 tons Of coal. IN
addition to 500 tons OF freight
Mason and Slidel, the commission
ors from the Southern confederacy TO
England. were caught on the Trent,
which sailed from Havana for South
ampfon. and were taken on by the v.
81 Narship San Jacinto. After that
the Magdalena ran out OF St Thomas
without lights. Before she made her
next trip from sc. Thomas Mason and
slldel had been freed, and both went
10 st. Thomas and embarked on the
Maedalena for England. Jordan
served them at table. They sat with
the captain and were the lions" OF
the trip.
Fifteen hundred passengers a trip
used to leave England for San Fran
cisco BY way of the Isthmus, while
900 went down on each trip of q
steamer from the United States TO
Aspinwall, Jordan says.
During the Franco-P russian war
French warships followed the Royal
Mail liners until they turned into
cherbourg. suspecting that they were
Germans disguised.
After Macmillan was shot Jordan
sailed with hundreds of Austrian and
French soldiers OF fortune bound
home from Mexico. He also crossed
the ocean with De Lesseps. and much
Of the machinery for digging the old
French canal across the Isthmus, or
% much Of II as was dug.
Jordan has also sailed with the En-.
ocrbr Dom Pedro Of Brazil and his
suite TO Brazilian ports.
Once the veteran steward sailed
with Scotland Yard man who was
after British embezzler at Barha.
does. The Hawkshaw was seasick all
ne way 10 Barbados. He arrested
81 EnglIshman. travelling with his wife
ID San Francisco. but when he had
taken him back to England the pris
rntr was found to be the wrong man
n have run into all kinds OF South
- "a xTfnak IuHlan aud Zen
|raI American revolutions, said Jor
dan. "but the British flag has always
.(1r1td me ample protection"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-09-28
sues o. U. r. For IS. 600.

The handle OF a street car Itch
had been torn from its fastening wen
Edward Gerlack was thrown FROM the
steps OF car TO the pavement. sorued
an exhibit In Judge Hosmer's co,rt,
Thursday. where Gerlack is suing he
ID. U. r. for $4,000. Gerlack ALLEGES
that as the car approached his STREET
he walked to the step and gripped ne
handle waiting for the car 10 cole
to stop. The car stopped with
jerk, he says, and In his efforts 90
save himself from falling he held 10
the handle. which was torn loose. Re
claims TO have been badly injured.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-09-28
DECIDEDLY AGED.

N. G. Goodwin. comedian. condemn
ed at dinner In Los Angeles an elder
ly millionaire's marriage with girl
OF IS.
Such a marriage isn't fair for the
girl" he said. GRABBED age and
youth you know, cannot live to-
gether'
Il once knew an old chap OF ~ who
thought seriously Of wedding his
young typewriter. advised him not
to take such a foolish step.
"'You are too well on limited.
But his withered cheek flushed an
grily and he replied:
"A man, Nat Is as young as he
feels, and feel as fresh as . 2-year-
old
81 suppose you mean said I, a
2-year-old egg7' LOS Angeles Times.