Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-08-04
STORM NOTES

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w. d. Rallwas in town last SAT-
urday and'informed us that things
were pretty bad about Nolan and
along Leaf river in. Greene county
from the effects of the storm. As
he did not seem to be satisfied with
what the writer has written about
storm conditions in the county, we
prooffered him space to tell about
such facts as he had gathered and he
may submit such an article as he ex-
pressed himself as believing that to
be fair We have nothing to cover
up, cloak over or hold back about
the storm and are being influenced
| by nobody IN our method of handling
| the news on it. Are simply not con
ferring with flesh and blood and GO
ing forward presenting it in the best
way which our Judgement acquired
in number Of years of experience
in newspaper writing doth dictate,
trusting to time to vindicate our pol
ICY IN SO dong.
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The Herald has thrown out no
promises to cover in minute detail
all the damages which the recent
storm wrought. We have been gath
ering from many sources and chron-
icing the items of high point inter
es6s as the roads and mails and COM
munication haye opened up, but
there was too much damage done
over too widely distributed an era
to attempt to round 1T all up. Some of
this was too unimportant to mention
unless our rural correspondents had
written it up while it was still news.
Other of it stands out in strong e.
nough proportions to yet be referred
to and we have nothing TO keep back.
AS it is waited into us, using the
best Judgement we can command
from near twenty years of journals
tic experience. we shall present it. If
a lot of deinquents- who are possibly
arch-eritics at this time had paid up
their subscriptions we would have
had money enough to, spare to, have
bought Ford and made close per-
sonal canvass of the situation and
thus been able to have given first
hand news, as it is, however, we are
Towering it sufficient for all sensible
purposes.
The way leaves are growing back
on trees. which had been stripped of
by the storm reminds of that faculty
fof tree nature. manifested several
year ago in mid winter when an un-
usually warm spell at that time
brought the leaves almost to full
growth and a freeze soon after
killed many of them and with the
real opening of spring they put out
again to supply the place Of the miss
ing foliage and preseatedsan appear
ance of two ages of leaves on the
same trees. Such is the case now.
Look at manv OF the oaks, sweet
lgums and even pecan trees and no
tice on that north OF east side where
the fury of the wind beat off the
leaves and see now new growth
where few days ago was only strip
ped boughs and dead leaves. This is
a wise provision in nature for the re-
cooperation of the trees as scientists
tell us that leaves are the lungs OF
the trees and it surely needs full
set,to breathe through to make the
best headwav during th g warm
mon tbs in its growth. a. man can
live with one lung but can't grow
the other back. Ia this respect the
storm distressed trees, or many of
| them are showing themselves to be
more highly favored by nature than
is he.
About the hardest hit of anybody
that we have learned of on stock
loss from the storm was George Cow
art, who lost about seventy-five head
of cattle and Henry James who lost
seventy. two head of sheep. Both
men suffered this loss from having
their stock in the river, swamp and
the waters came up so swift. they
did not have time to rescue them.
The Coolev's also lost about dozen
head. pretty near all of. their cattle.
However, these people are in posi-
ton to live right on though of course
Isuch hurts, but>it reminds us of a
statement made by one of our prom
inent property holders of the coun-
ty, who said IN speaking of his los
tses, looked like they we're sert in