Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-11-10
LOCAL

to Mobile the middle of last week and
operated upon for appendicitis.
Mr.. Jno. W. Whlgham. who is a
homesteader in the Platt settlement
Ia Upper East Side. was down to the
county capital Saturday looking after
hay.n his homestead advertised.
The court yard has been cleaned
up bv Henry Ball and Jerry Tribett
and 0ther pre-co preparations
made about the temple OF justice OF
Greene county. SO that next Monday
every Ting will be ready to grind
when he judge shows up..
Mr. Dan Mcleod, who was bed
ridden some of late, got able to get
up Town this week and voted in the
general election. Johnny Mclunis
is another sick man, who is coming
round having battled though the ty-
phoid fever attack and managing to
walk round little now.
The name &C @. Mcintosh. y which
appeared in last weeks marriage
license list. was Typographical err
ror made by our printer who is I'M
familiar with the names, of the
county and hence failed to get 1T in
type as @. c. McJnnis who was the
party who really got the wedding
papers
The last news received from A. b.
Pipklns lTobe), who is in Mobile at
the Medical College for treatment,
they had taken an X-ray of his leg
and found the bone rotten and tu-
bercular and figure that an ampnta-
tion is necessary and are waiting to
find out where to cut the limb off SO
as TO save to sound portion.
A letter from Evern Jones, Prin-
cipal of the Bexlev Consolidated
School brings the following tidings'
''At Fair Day in George county on
Oct. 18th. the, Bexley Consolidated
school won oyer the entire county
schools IN the parade and the said
school sprung quite surprise on
the other schools, being the youngest
school in George county.
Regarding that serial story, BE
You'd The Border" in which there
has occurred break by our using
Half Sheets for this the third edi
ton, will state that we expect t.
have it on next week and arrange Il
complete it, however. the character
of service may run, in our efforts t
ec0nomlze and keep the Herald a
the price OF II per annum and ye
j. pass through these days OF News
PRlsr Paper famine.
Mr.. J. I. Albums. who recently re
tired from tbs. barber business here
selling out 10 the Greens. has decd
ed not TO go to Laurel, the situation
there not pannlng out satisfactory
Lis plans are somewhat unsettled
Just now. but he thinks OF giving hi
health the benefit OF work in th
open awhile. unless good barbe
shop location unexpectedly develop
before, he gets to do that.
From Tax Assessor A. F. Amser
who is still busy working out tn
new figures on the personal assess
nent roll for 1918 account the re
commendations of the state ia
equalization board in which on
Supervisors acquiesced. we glea
the following figures. that new col
rtcted footing will be $372.259 a
compared with the old footing whicl
was 1896, 100. This shows an il
crease OF $75, $50, and is. he tells US
Substantially the figures as they wi
stand with some few possible mine
collections in the calculations on RI
populations. etc. The roll has to +
then approved by the state ia
board at jackson before it can pas
into the sheriff's hands. which is g
ing 10 make it about the first OF D.
cember rushing as best he can, be
fore the latter will likely get tax r
ceipts ready for delivery.