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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
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MARRIAGES
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McLEOD-EDWARDS.

On Sunday night, February 10,
1916, Mr.. r. G. Mcleod was married
to Miss Princes Edward in Lsakes-
vile, Miss, at the home of the
brides father. Squire ]. p. Edwards
formerly of Alabama in whose leg
islature he served a term. 1t so
happens that the father of the
groom. Hon. Dan Mcleod of this
city also is an old solons, he having
served term in the Mississippi leg
isature, as well as having served
the county for some eighteen years
as clerk of the courts, and he too also
served his community for number
of years as Justice of the Peace as
did the Squire" Edwards. The
bride is also a foster sister to Webb.
Arts and Miss Iduma Turner. Curt
is the present marshal, tax collector
and street commissioner of our town
and the youngest son Of his father.
The bride has only been a resident of
our town for some two or three
years but has won her way into the
esteem of the community by her
modest, amiable maidenly ways.
They immediately began housekeep-
ing il the Methodist parsonage,
which arrangement is a happy one
for them as well as the pastor who
happens to be a bachelor and is
boarding with them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
JACKSON LETTER.
EXPLAINING LEGISLATURES WORK.
Some Committee Trips. Thinks Term
May Run Till May.
BY REPRESENTATIVE ". l. NOLAN.

Jackson, Miss, Feb. 20, 1916
Dear Editor and friends:-I wonder
how the echoes from the capital city
sound by the time they reach the
free state of Greene During the
seven weeks that the Legislature has
been in session there has been but
very few constructive measures pas
sed, but many very important bills
have been introduced which are now
undergoing the required processes
10 become laws. Up until Friday
noon there had been five hundred
and fifty-two bills found origin in
the House and approportionate num-
Der in the Senate. Among those OF
distinction that have passed the
House should be noticed the Prohi-
btion bill and the anti advertising
bill which measures il enforced will
prohibit to great extent, the dis
tribution of Ticker within the com
mon wealth.
] am glad to further say that there
has been bills introduced to cover
almost every phase OF the issues that
| stood and am still standing for,
whether or not they will become
laws no man can tell, except those
that are hinged on the Constitution.
| am sorry to say that the vision OF
Constitutional Convention is yet
dim, but by some means we must
oring it about, if not this session, |
predict that there will be an extra
ordinary session within the next
eighteen months, by which it can be
brought about.
The House and Senate has reach
ed dead lock on the Free School
appropriation for the year 1915. The
House raised the appropriation "a
hove that of last year sufficient to
make So. 30 per capita, and then the
Senate raised it $73, 600 90 which a.
mendment the house refused to ac-
cept and thinks ID ABSURD as the f.
nancial condition of the state has
reached such a crisis within the last
few months. AS member of the
appropriation committee and having
tried to solve the problems of the
state | think it best TO keep the APP
preparations within the income of
the State. Don't your However, |
hope that relief for the many school
teachers will be found without fur
Their delay
The writer has had the honor of
taking some very pleasant trips on
committee assignments; viz: visits
to Westpoint. Aberdeen, Tupelo,
Corinth and Holly Springs for the
purpose of locating Charity Hos
pital in North Mississippi, and Vlcks-
burg to inspect the State Charity
Hospital and the Military ranch.
Last Saturday the entire Legisla-
ture visited the Normal College at
Hattiesburg, by request and at the
expense of the people of Hattiesburg.
The conclusion has been reached
by most OF the old members of the
Legislature that we will have "a long
and tiresome session, perhaps uotil
May.
With best wishes to all the people
of Greene county, beg to remain
your servant,
w. l. McMAIN.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
ADVERTISEMENT
DEMOCRACY.

The men who nodded Ameri-
can democracy were men to
whom principles were dearer
than popularity and who put
their faith not in the shifting
suffrages of the people, but in
the substantial certainties which
history and experience had veri-
fed. To them an imperfect gov
eminent based upon principles
well tested was better than a
perfect government based upon
theories untried. They were
not in love with any one form
of government. They chose a
democracy because they believed
that the principles of liberty and
equal opportunity and human
brotherhood could best be Sc
cured to all men under that form
of government. and they chose a
representative rather than
pure democracy because they
saw that emily so could they es-
cape the tyranny which lurked
under their new found freedom.
DIR. Charles A. Richmond,
President of Union College
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25

New plats from the U. S. Land
Office at Jackson, Miss, have re-
Gently been secured for Greene Coun-
ty by Circuit Clerk G. B. McRae by
consent of the board of supervisors.
These plates cover about a dozen
townships and show something like
$500 acres of land still vacant and
subject to Homestead entry. So it's
now possible for any of our citizens
to come to the countv-slte and find
there where hons tead land lies that
is open to entry. This will prove d
great convenience and is money well
spent as it will enable many of our
young citizens to search them out a
home from the government domai
yet lett, and fasten their claim to 1t
before another large body of such
lands are snapped up by swamp land
script or some other form of capital
istlc effort.
TAdvartiSapenfl
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
FOR SALE
Horses and Mules.
], T. Plnkerton,
Waynesboro, Miss.
ADVERTISEMENT

The Herald makes mention at his
request that Superintendent Newton
James was interrupted in his visit
ing the schools by the sickness of
his boy, but hopes to resume visiting
them next week and see as many of
them as he can before they close out,
and such as he could not get to will
be visited along with all others next
fall.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
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ALONZO McINNIS.

Early in the night Of Wednesday,
February 20, 1916, Alonzo McInnis,
youngest child of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
]. McInn. DIED in Leakesville, Miss.
from an attack of pneumonia with
which he has been battling fof life
some some ten days or more. He
contracted it from getting wet and
sleeping out in the open one night on
a hunting trip. He was just getting
into the teens and seemed to bow
of an even disposition and so far as
we know of average good habits. He
is survived in addition to his parents
by his older brother Bill McInnis,
who is just merging in manhood.
and a married sister up in Wayne
county. Mrs. Webb Denmark of
near this city was maternal aunt
of his. The remains are to be
buried here tomorrow, FRIDAY.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
FLETCHER RRINEHART WRITES FROM
ARIZONA.
Makes Some interesting Comparisons
OF That Country With This.

Ofeen county 6efdlu.--l receive
the Herald regularly and assure you
shat it carries the same interest
with me as did years ago. Every
issue / pick up names OF old friends
that had not thought of for many
months, perhaps years. have been
away from Mississippi for ten years;
have formed many new acqnaintances
and saw good part of the United
States, These things naturally
attract attention of one S mind and
old times lay dormant. However
the Herald is a faithful reminder
that in days gone by spent many
good days in the southern pinv
woods.
followed your write up of your
xmas trip and noted the changes in
Greene County as compared with u
decade ago. Your mention Of silos
was rather a surprise as | had
thought they had not worked their
way so far south. The silo is at
present the greatest feed preserver
IN the United States. When in
/ Minnesota two years ago found
that every farmer had one or more
of them. They are becoming very
plentiful in the Pan Handle and
eas tern New Mexico where greater
part of the crop is forage. In Iowa
and Minnesota they have cutters
which are operated by steam or gas
oline and this does away with a
great deal of the hand work.
Feed put up in a silois very heal
thy food for all classes of animals if
done properly, If not it is danger
Gus. The weekly News Letter put
out by the Department OF Agricul-
ture con tains MANY good points on
farming and stock raising. en-
close clipping from it giving the
purpose OF the letter and since
Greene County IS becoming All agri-
cultural part of the south | think
your readers would be interested
reading excerpts from it. The clip
ping, of course shows how ii may
be procured for reprint.
The article which appeared in your
paper on the Elephant Butte Dam on
the Rio Grande In Mexico was inter
esting since it appeared IN my home
paper and ! at one time lived in 30
miles of the dam while il was beng
CONSTRUCTED. On your trip to the
coast you passed In twelve miles of
it and it certainly would have been
worth your time IN going out to it.
L., like the Grand CANYON. has to be
seen 20 be appreciated. | think you
will admit that when you made your
write up of your "trip DO the canyon
that it was to a certain extent fall
ure. That, in my opinion, has been
true Of all paintings or articles on
the Grand Canyon.
We have had hard cold winter
here. Since December 10th. there
has fallen twelve feet of snow, and
the thermometer has been 70 degrees
below zero. Had | known when you
passed through our burg ] would
have been glad for YOU to have stop
ped a day or SO and visited the
points of interest in this vicinity.
We have Cliff Dwellings, lava beds,
extinct craters and petritied forest
near by.
Ii there is any part of this letter
you care to publish it will be salts
factory with me and remember me
10 old time friends.
With assurance of my best inter
est in all that pertains to your vel
fare,
| am, sincerely,
| ID LN DurNpu4pr
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
Advertisement

Copy for the "Sheriff's Tax Sale of
Lands" has been handed in and is
being worked up into type. 1t will
appear in an early issue and be run
through the month of March, the
sale coming off the first Monday in
April The amount of lands adyer-
tised this year will be about one half
Of what 1t was last year account sew
eral punches that usually go to the
bat having been sold to the state
last year, and not coming within the
purview of sale thus year. Then
some of the stuff of "the regulars"
(delinquents) as the sheriff calls
them, was bought in by private par
ties who have paid the tax this time
to strengthen their tax titles.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
The Herald is authorized to announce
L Al

I1ftFII1
of Lauderdale county as candidate to I'LL
the unexpired term OF Honorable w. w Ven
able Circuit Judge, in the Special election,
''oi March 4 called by the Governor"
to fill such vacancy in the Judgeship in the
10th judicial district OF Mississippi.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
The Herald IS authorlzed to announc

The Herald is authorized to announce
Il. w HEIDELBERG.
Of Shubuta Clarke County. as candidate In
the special election called by the governor fol
March FLOR the election of Judge in this the
io6h circuit court district succeeding w. w
venable resigned account his election as con
gressnan
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25

boarding with them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25

Ladies interested IN the work OF
the United Daughters of the Con.
federacy, and who may desire to or
game local Chapter, will please
write for information to,
Mrs. Virginia r. Price, Pres.
Miss. Div. U. D. c., Carrollton, Miss,
or Mrs. E. d. Simrall, State Organ
izer, Miss. Div. U. D. c., Columbus,
Miss.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
MARRIAGE LICENSES

WHITE
2-14-16. %. o. Ulmer to Mss Abble
E. Green.
2 19-16.-R. G. Mcleod to Miss Prin-
ces Edwards.
None 20 COLORED
FOR SALE.
One three-quarter and one full
blood Red Pole Bull; each two years
old.
3-3 B. c. O'Daniel, Exsho, Ala.
ADVERTISEMENT
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
The Herald is authorized to announce
f.. V. BRAHAN

of Lauderdale county as candidate for Cir
cult Judge of the 10th judicial district OF
nth to I'LL the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Judge w w venablc.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

rate is largest where housing con-
ditions are poorest.
The local health board is doing
splendid service. but it is poorly
equipped and under-o -officered. The
proposal has been made that police
officers be required to act also as
health officers. There would seem to
be no good reason why this should not
be done. Thus the whole city would
be constantly under the eyes of health
board representatives and in time this
service could be so enlarged, without
interfering with the duties of the
police. that housing conditions could
be made the subject of thorough and
frequent inspections. But before that
the health board must be vested with
more authority than it has now, both
in the way OF compelling careless
property owners to keep their houses
in sanitary condition and in requiring
ignorant or thoughtless tenants to obey
the laws of health and sanitation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
WHEN WAR IS OVER
kansas City Times.l

John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi,
in his speech before the Senate Thurs
day, gave expression to the thought
that has been in the minds of military
men since the European war assumed
such vast proportions: Europe's task
of disbanding its armies.
Senator Williams points out that it
will be no easy task for the belligerent
nations to disarm the millions of men
Generally speaking, they will have
nothing to go back to. Their occu-
pations will be gone. Industry will be
paralyzed, the homes of millions de-
Stroyed or ruined
Every man who has witnessed the
European situation has been disturbed
with the same thought. Every one of
them, as Senator Williams does. scouts
the notion that they will be too eX-
hausted to fight. They will be better
prepared to fight than they will be
prepared for peace.
The milksop theory that the warning
nations will be bankrupt and not able
to fight is not held by a military man
of Europe or of America.
And, unfortunately, Senator Williams
is confirmed in this view of the big
war problem by Americas own expert
ence. The country was in serious
danger from its own army after the
Revolutionary War. The disbanding
of the federal army in the Civil War
was accomplished without serious re-
suits, because the country of the SOL
diers had not been touched by war.
And even at that it was one of the
most tremendous results of the great
conflict. from the worlds viewpoint,
that the disarmament was effected
without trouble.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
TO-DAY'S EDITORIALS
Philadelphia North American.

Hnladelphia North American: A
New York paper, referring the other
day to the submarine controversy, said
complacently that "'the triumph of
President Wilson's peaceful, patient
and reasonable diplomacy seems to be
near at hand" This is an echo of that
strange fallacy, still rather widely
held, that Mr.. Wilson, by the exercise
of superhuman strength and sagacity,
has kept the nation out of war"
There never was a more egregious
misconception. His foreign policy, in
the case of Mexico as in the case of
Germany, has thrust this country
steadily nearer and nearer to war.
1t goes without saying that all civ
ilized nations reserve the authority to
defend the lives and rights of their
citizens abroad. Repeatedly and elo-
uqently President Wilson has asserted
those rights. even saying that he would
omit no word or act" TO uphold them.
But in every instance, upon challenge,
he has retreated-or, rather, has done
worse than retreat, by reiterating hol-
low phrases in which every nation i'm
the world justly reads irresolution,
timidity and false pretense.
Thus he has gone again and again to
the verge OF war, only to draw back
Thus he has taught Europe to despise
the United States as a nation of craven
braggarts. Thus he has led even the
Mexican greaser to feel that he can
with impunity loot the property and
take the lives of American citizens.
Thus he has destroyed the prestige OF
this country, abandoned its citizens to
pillage and assassination and made
war ultimately inevitable
For, If anything is certain, in logic,
~.
1t is that there is no more effective
means of inviting aggression than to
submit to it, no surer provocative of
war than the repeated surrender of
nationalTights.
Philadelphia Public Ledger: Since
the European nations after the war is
over will have to get along with each
other somehow. il would seem to be
the part of wisdom to shut down on
the extreme doctrine of hate" so
sinisterly developed by Germany. Con-
sequently when one of the combatants
repudiates the hate idea ii is a very
encouraging sign. and those who know
their Europe will not be surprised to
learn that it is the very independent
kingdom of Hungary that has set the
better example to its sister States of
the central powers through the issu-
ance of the following order:
The royal Hungarian minister for
education requests all teachers to pay
special attention in the coming term to
the respect and honor due to our ene-
mics: that no hatred or contempt
should enter the minds of the children
against the brave men with whom
their fathers are in deadly combat
| and that hate or contempt is not to be
cultivated in the youthful minds"
The New York Sun: If Ben Frank
| Inns spirit could have animated his
statue in Park Row yesterday. his two
/ hundred and tenth birthday, what
words of counsel. admonition and re-
buke he would have addressed to the
statesmen who spend their time in
futile talk under the shadow OF his
! diEnihed bronze toes!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

HEEP out of crowds, keep out of
n doors, quit kissing, and watch
your sneeze! Grip is abroad in
the land and its agile germs are prob
ably even now moving toward you.
Starting in Philadelphia, the disease
has spread all over Pennsylvania, COM
pletely subjugated New York and
made its appearance in Washington,
while scattered cases are cropping up
all over the country. Perhaps it will
be checked in the larger commercial
cities, and the epidemic ended But it
may reach all over the United States.
For grip travels by rail and boat
more rapidly than any other known
disease. Crowded cars and state
rooms are the natural habitat of it's
minute organisms. In at least one
case it circled the globe in a few
months and set all the world sneezing
from Paris to Australia. So there is
not much you can do to prevent its
arrival. But If you will keep out of
crowds, ventilate your rooms we'll and
live out of doors as much as possible,
YOU will be reducing your suscepti-
bility to the minimum. Also, if you
get the grip, for the sake of your fell
lowmen, keep to yourself and be care
full how you sneeze.
Grip is q colloquial term for la
grippe, known to the medical profess
sion in this country as influenza. 1t
has been known to science for a long
time, but owing to its remarkable fa-
cility in travelling 1t has grown con-
stantly more dangerous and wide
spread as means of communication
have increased. The first recorded
epidemics took place in the sixteenth
century, and in 1880 there was a pam
demic which set all Europe sneezing.
A pandemic is an epidemic which en-
braces practically the whole world.
Probably the most complete pam
demic that ever struck this earth took
place in 1SS9-90 when the grip made
it's appearance in Hongkong. A few
weeks later it had reached Russia, and
was in September, and by December
Germany France, Switzerland and
most of the other European countries
had the grip, which afflicted about 40
per cent. of the population wherever
it went. Both India and Australia
were invaded early in March. London
had caught the disease during the sec
ond week in December, and by the
seventeenth of that month both Bos-
ton and New York had it, showing
that the influence organisms crossed
the ocean in force by the first boat.
From the Atlantic seaports this re-
markable pandemic swept the whole
of North America wherever railroads
reached.
People doubtless know better how
to take care of themselves now than
they did in 1890; houses are better
ventilated, railway cars and boats are
more sanitary, but at the same time
transportation facilities have been
multiplied, and also the number of
people who travel So there is no tell
ing how far the grip will go.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
WATCH YOUR SNEEZE
By Frederic J. Haskin

Grip, or influenza, is a germ disease.
The organism which causes it is one of
the smallest known, but 1t has been
isolated, stained and studied under a
microscope. 1t will live only about
thirty-six hours outside the human
body, but 1t is very easily and rapidly
communicated wherever there are
people in crowds In it's early stages
the disease is scarcely noticeable, and
person who thinks he is perfectly
healthy may infect the entire force of
an office or all of his fellow travellers
in a Pullman. Roller towels, drinking
cups, food, lead pencils-in fact, every
thing that is used and touched in COM
mon becomes carrier of disease. A
sneeze pollutes the air with germs. 1t
is quite possible that Christmas pres
ents have helped to carry the present
epidemic.
Grip may develop into nothing more
than serious cold, or it may be a
prostrating~and fatal disease. There
are three principal forms of the trou-
bic. Bronchial grip attacks at tissue
of the respiratory tract and has all
the indications of a severe cold. In
nervous grip the toxins generated by
the disease attack the nerves and give
rise to some very severe pains; while
the gastro-intestinal form of the dis
ease affects the digestion.
A great deal of the havoc wrought
by grip, according to the health eX-
perts, is due to the fact that people
do not attach any importance to it
and fail to consult . physician. When
I ever an epidemic occurs the market is
flooded with cures and nostrums, most
of which are quite worthless, while
some of the pain-killers are positively
dangerous because they depress the
heart action Therefore If VOu have
grip it is important that you should
see physician. The treatment con-
sists in isolating the patient, eliminat-
| ing poisons from his body and giving
opiates to relieve the pain when it is
severe. Grip is almost invariably fol-
lowed by period of acute depression,
and recovery is often very slow.
Grip is a much more fatal disease
than is generally supposed. In 1913,
! 7,700 persons were victims of it in the
registration area of the United States,
while the death rate due to grip was
1872 to every one hundred thousand.
] This is more than two thirds as high
as the death rate due to typhoid fever.
l. The most important thing to remem-
Der, however, is that the direct results
of grip are not half as dangerous as
the indirect ones. Many cases of
pneumonia are simply an outgrowth OF
the grip, and in many American cities
pneumonia kills more people than any
other disease.
Most OF the victims of grip are either
old people or very young ones. On
the other hand, a majority of those at
tackled are robust males. This is be-
cause the able-bodied men are the
ones who go out and mingle in crowds
and hence are most frequently eX-
posed to the infection.