Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08

GENERAL EE".1S



number of conflicts. They allowed the
time for levying taxes for next years
expenses to expire without making a
levy. AS a result Ms, Wilson faces
enough morey to pay the towns 1912
expenses. Mrs. Wilson was az tste1,
but she declared her conf : nee in be-
ing able to adjust the situation. She
said she was considering the institu-
tion of custer suits agairst the con
Gil Using the ground of negligence as
basis. She pointed out that the G
was still a way to secure the revenue
by the collection of poll tax, but the
council must pass an ordinance tefore
this can be done, and the council is
firm and refuses to act.
Fully 1000 persons from throUght
out the state Of Indiana tended TIE
first annual picnic given by the In
diana Brotherhood of Ame lean Yeo-
man, at Anderson. All brought hea y
baskets and a big dinner spread under
the trees was the special feature OF
the day. Twenty-Five homesteads
were represented and among the of
ficers present were w. l.. Carter OF
Decatur, ILL.,, state manager, and Ell
mer II. Ely of Indianapolis, district
after the dinner the Crescent Home
stead team of Indianapolis won first
prize. while Marion Homestead team
of Maricn won second prize. Owing
to the inability of the chief correspond
ent, W. Il. Davy, of Des Moines, Ia, to
arrive in time, the speaking part ot
the program was omitted.
Prcsperity's blessings and the smile
of Providence upon the fruit bearing
trees of the state present to Michigan
railway men and orchardists just now
tie problem: How best to handle the
crop of fruits under which the trees
of the state are grCaning
Railway men have made prepara-
tions to handle from $4,000 to 1900
cars of fruit before the New Year;
perhaps rs per cent of this crop vii
have been moved by fall. The Pert
Marquette and the Michigan Centra
railways will haul the lions share o
the crop, which is said to be likely
to reach new high level this year
unless a blighting frost Injuries th'
grapes before they are garnered.
At New York City, grocery cir
cles here showed concern over tht
high prices now prevailing in the suga
market. There was another advance
in eranulated during the day, to 6.25
representing a full cent rise in the las
few weeks and highest in many years
Coming at the height of the cannirs
season, this advance in IL tital inter
est to consumers all over the country
1t is attributed primarily to a poo
sugar Eeet crop in Europe. To maxi
matters worse the Iupan crop, wnlol
furnishes tie bulk Of raw material fol
American reiiners. also proved short.
1t is possible that King Albert will
pay a visit to America in the neal
future in connection with his cherish
ed scheme to create national mer
camille marine, with the view of hay
ing Belgian freights carried by Bel
gian bottoms instead of in foreign bot
toms. King Albert has been holdinr
conferences with those interested HC
has not found them excessively ell
thusiastic, but he hopes to be able tt
carry out his scheme, partly by mean!
of private capital and partly by STATE
aid. He is now planning tour o
the principal seaEorts of Europe.
Edicts of the governments of Eng
land, France and Germany ia led t
tcrrify w. Hiles, ostrich farmer o
PENNSYLVANIA on his --latest trip 10 Afri
ca. The three governments had issue'
fats that no ostriches be taken out O
Africa. MI lilies is in Boston will
fifty-three of the birds, brought Il
America and the steamer Kansas
The birds were put on the Kansas
secretly at Jibuti Owing to the fac
that it is practically impossible to oh
tain more MIR. Hiles values his birds a
$4,000 each.
Calling themselves the advance guar
of the only army which ever can pre-
vail against the trusts, with "co-op
Grafton" as their cry and object the re
ductiop of the cost of living to 1t
lowest possible level, fifty farmers o
New York and Pennsylvania have ar
rived in New York for the purpos
of placing on a business basis a plal
whereby the farmer is to sell his pro
duce direct to the city retailer with
out intervention by the midd.eman.
Money on deposit in the Unite'
States postal savings banks is sub
iect to taxation, according to ali op1n
icn given by Attorney General Carmc
DIV to the state board of tax commits
sioners. The attorney general hold
/ that the state tax law which exempt
from taxation money due saving ban
derositors was intended to apply onl
to savings banks provided for in tn
state banking law.
The entire town of Dragon is to b
moved twelve miles as the result O
the completion of the Uintah railway
! Dragon, now boasting 600 inhab
| itants, will be moved bodily on fla
cars to Temple, which will be the neN
| town. Houses, railroad shops, store
and all are to be transported.
When The postal savings BAN
opens in Los Angeles, Cal, it i
to be in the charge of Mrs. B. c
Shelton, who for years has been assist
ant superintendent of the money orde
| division. She was once connected
with the auditors division in Wash
| ington.
The National Hobos convention viii
| be held near the state fair grounds al
o. t1, A