The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-09
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

SION thlS eek QeclQe0 TO reject q
bids for resurfacing the, Humphrey
Highway on account Of the high col
of material. The said bids were
high at the present cost Of materi,
that the building Of roads at thi
time was out Of the question.
Five miles of the road waste hav
been built Of asphalt and The remain
der was to have been treated over I'll
gravel with a liquid asphalt prepara
ton. The five miles Of road froI
the Northern, end Of the Ysxoo Rive
bridge to Lucas 9Th 10 q part Of til
highway running through the coun
ty east to west and is already be
ing built.
Be it remembered that q regula.
meeting of the Board Of Supervisor
of Leflore County, Mississippi, wa,
held at the court house in the city o.
Greenwood, on the first Monday ant
fifth day of December, A. D., 1915
all members and officers being pres
ent, when the following proceeding.
were had and done:
Wilson Banking Co., for remittiacs
to National Park Bank Of New York
$4,000, in payment Of interest on
road Improvement bonds; Gus Blass,
$500, bedding for Jail; T. C. Carrot,
sheriff, $ls9.20. board for prisoners
W. 7. Mathews, salary $500; A. h.
Bew, $1.66, express; ]. W. Dulaney,
salary, $50; II. G. Flanagan, salary,
$25; Means Johnson, salary $3.50; w.
T. Davis, salary, $50; Ordered that
the following named officers Of cleo
ton be allowed the amount set OPP
posite their name for holding gen
eral election, towit; F. p. Peasants,
B. M. Crawford, F. P. stainback, J..
F. Rodgers, NJ. G. Mcmillan, r. A..
Joiner, G. W. Evans, W. M. Duke D
A.. Joiner, J. J.. Church, R. Y. Wright,
R. B. Schlater, L. s. Rogers, C. A.
Hammack, c. B Hammack, B. M.
Brown, Eli Ethridge, o. F. Bledsoe,
Jr,. l. F. Floyd, R. S. Wingfield, E.
G. Hamilton, W. B. Fulkerson, Gano
Henry, A. o. Peterson, R. l.. Kirby,
T. A. McGhee, R. R. hernandez, C.
J. Healey, A.. W. Evans, j. R. Hughes,
T. H. Holmes, H. W. Petty, c. E.
Saunders, T. M. MILESTONE, w. R.
Bell, W. H. Rucker, F. B. Morris, J.
H. Moore, H. H. Nsbors, c. P. Brad
ford, s. S. Mitchell, D. C. Hill, H M.
Coca, R. B. Niven, B. D. Brown, E.
E. Ellsi, o. o. Smith. R. P. Clark, E.
B. Clark, W. G.. Poindexter, w. ].
Dent, W. W. Neblett, J. L. Robinson,
W. A. Swift, D. F. Swift, Floyd A.
Stevens, W. B. Posey, G. M. Linch, J.
w. Cartwright, each one 81; William
Sanders, election CON-, $6.25; P. H.
Cain, Sc; B. H. Brown, Sc; Greenwood
News $25, printing board proceedings
and legal notices; the Tucker Print
ing House, $34.56, filing cases for
tax assessor; 7. G. Carrot, $59.72,
postage and envelopes for sheriff's
office; Tucker Printing House, $685.
SO, book for sheriff's office; L. P.
Lane $40 and Miss Armstrong $40
for teaching Swiftown school; Green
wood Enterprise $79.50; Greenwood
Light and Water Plant, $29.93; Miss
Verna Cockerham, $40, teaching
Purnell school; j. D. Lanham, $780,;
s. G. Beeman, s2.25; Mississippi
Printing Co, SIS; M. l.. Gillespie,
$27.ss; Itta tBena Compress Com
pany, IS, for coal; Geo. c. Myers,
$29.15; Gardner, McBee & Gardner,
$500 for legal services rendered in
chancery court and supreme court in
the matter of bond issue; account of
Geo. c. Myers, $685., costs in case
State vs. Southern Ry Co., rejected;
Itta Benai Negro school teachers:
Lizzie Strong, 81; ]. T. Strong, $15;
E. W. Quartman, IS, payable out of
funds Of said township; Henderson &
Baird Hardware Co., $46.S6 for MAJ
and Miss Rosa Spann $65 for
teaching the Schlater school; Mrs. L..
S. Rogers, SIS; Miss Tallou Town
send, SIS, teachers, and Troy Brown,
$40, janitor, Schlater school; Wor-
rell Mfg. Co., $50. for d%isinfect-
ant for jail; same $50; same $685.
$50; same $12.4O; A.. R. Bew
SIS for postage; Wilson Furniture Co.
SO for burying pauper; A. R. Bew,
IS for copy proceedings for John NJ
yeen & Co., bond buyers; Fischer
Heating Co., $477, new steam boiler;
Sykes, SITS, repairing stove
in Itta Bena school; Delta Steam
Laundry, 96c; laundrying bedding
for jury room; T. C. CARROT, $500,
statutory allowance; T. G. CARROT,
$76S, for per diem for self and depu-
ties at November 1916 term of Cir
cult Court; Greenwood Enterprise,
$40, printing; Greenwood Enterprise,
1885, A. c. Strickland 5000, statutory
for arrest of the homi-
cides Yves Brown and ALI Brown;
W. Smith, 500, for arrest Of Will
Curry, fleeing homicide; s. L. Raines,
81, for ink; Senatobia Blank Book &
Stationery Co., $3.50 for record
". D, Cooley, $3.50, board
for paupers; Henderson & Baird
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