Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02

at Beauvoir. well cared for and IN 'n'
main contented and satisfied. OF course
all cannot be pleased, but the house is
right on the beach and is an ideal place
for an old Confed to spend the remain |
der of his davs l met Lieut.. S. P.
McDavid, Sim Freeman, Tom Franklin
and Jim McMullen. The latter is suf-
fering from cataract, but we hope soon
to have this relieved. They gave US a
first rate dinner and all were glad to
see US. While on the coast we had a
very smart lady with ms. Sallie said.
Emmett tells me everything" and
she said never am to believe that a
man tells his wife everything. l told
the boys that she would be dangerous
girl to marry.
The Board of Trade gave us banquet
last Thursday night and Owens spoke
for North Mississippi and eul 'gized our
section. and was replied to by johnson,
of Coahoma, who said that the delta
was the greatest section. had furnished,
the two present U. S. Senators, also
Senator Money and would furnish
the next Senator, Vardaman. Had
furnished the two last governors and
the present governor and the situation
reminded him of the time the Farmers
Alliance had gotten the ascendency in
Grenada county. A committee had
been called when they assembled at
the Court House. Hon. Joe Slack called
the house to order and said "who will
we have for Chairman7" And an old
farmer arose and said Gentlemen
have been coming to this Court House
for number of years. and Joe Slack
has always been the chairman, but |
propose this time our neighbor, Joshua
Green" and he was elected on the first
ballot. Then Joe Slack came forward
and said ''Now gentlemen, you have
elected the chairman and if any OF
you derned crowd can read and write
trot him out and we will make him
secretary" johnson said "when Brew
er has served his time, if any you
North Mississippians have any man
who will make half as good governor
as he is going to make. trot him out
and we will elect him.
Lucius Cole. our worthy treasurer,
came 40 see US today and carried him
and introduced him to the Governor as
I; our County Treasurer. The Governor
said that reminded him of the time
THAT one Of Joe Evans friends put him
in nomination for State Treasurer and
Ike to have killed old Joe by introduc
ing him, "As the man who wanted to be
the Judas Iscariot Of the democratic
party" I told him while Lucius was
onr treasurer he was not Judas Is
cariot
We had Mrs. Adkins make an ad-
dress to the house this evening on tenn
peranca. She is fine talker and well
acquainted with men. Said the men
talked about personal liberty and not a
one had ever had a particle of personal
liberty since old Adam had walked up
and found Eve lying by his side, and
she could prove it by every married
man in the house. She said that some
of the men said that women ought not
to bother about prohibition. Said if
they did not we would not have prohi-
bition. That men were like the old
rooster, when tile hawk flew in the
chicken yard, the little hen would sound
the alarm and fight for the chickens
until death and the old rooster would be
safe under the rarn watching the fight
and as soon as the little hen had WHIPPED
off the hawk, he could come right out
and crow Justify over her victory.
We have been invited to go to Hat
tiesburg next Saturday to look at the
Normal College and | voted to 60, for |
think every day can get this legisla-
ture off from passing laws i have bene-
fitted the state. We need very few
n; W laws. / am in favor of passing
the appropriations and then go home.
We have worked for years to devise
some way to benefit our colleges, We
took the Governor off of all the boards
educational and eleemosynary-for we
thought he had enough to attend to
without this duty and we formulated
the plan to- have one Board for all the
colleges, but to oust all of the Noel ap-
pointees, and to oust Hardy, Ia Noel
man, they proposed to abolish this
board and appoint board for each col
lege, as we formerly had. Several of
the present board at once resigned and
president Hardy sent in bis resignation
to take effect next June So Burkett
amended his bill abclishing the one
board for all of the colleges and only
asked that the Governor and Superin-
tendent of Education be added to this
board don't think that the Governor