Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-01-12

Us would have thrown away or torn
down a house IN that stage OF decay
bur not them, and the wisdom OF
their course IS shown in the house
standing as it does today, having
safely weathered toe great storm OF
last July.
Bay Mnelte has fertilizer facto-
~, an ice plant, bakery, and water,
electric l'ght and sewerage systems,
the latter three of which. are owned
and properly 80 by he city. 1t has
some cement sidewalks. Cement
ks through The court house
square. A c. ment tower tank for
The city aud jail, city ana county
Jail In the county jail peeping out
of bars of cell We saw two cub
blood hounds, which made our com
pan 3 n b u Ode as til ey
Nhlued out their peculiar notes Of
protest egainst confinement probably
painting for man hnnt.
Then there is the TAR PLANT, as il
is usually called Its iurpentine
extracting still OF the JUICE from
pine stumps aud pine knots. Most
~ the latter rs they found the old
gnarcd stumps too hard to chaw up
even with the mechanical hog as
the champer is called. Such stacks
OF p'ne-knots as we saw on the yard
of that plant, which by the way
stands in an old pond where this
scribe played While boy as. "a guest
In his aunt's home, Mrs. Wilkins,
as Its close TO the site of her old
place. burned down few wears ago.
This plant is a hosling success, as
evidenced by the CONTINUOUS ship
ments of spirits, rosin and pine OIL,
1t runs night AID day and Sunday
too That Sunday running is the
only thing we learnt about it that
we do not like They use the same
argument to defend such Sabbath
running as do the great snelter
plants, that it takes too long to get
it heated up if once cooled down.
The writer remarked to our cousin
in discussing that that they might
as well get used to shutting it down
on Sundays now, as they will have
TO in Judgement day, fact of the
business, from the way they are
careful and have strict rules about
tire round it, not allowing an en-
p!oyee 10 work there VINO smokes on
the grounds, it will be one of the
first things to burn up If we have
word confiagration some day, as il
must be stored with highly inham-
mable substances. They are capital
ICED at one quarter million dollars
and load tank of spirits every day
or so, and have several in reserve
all the time and Rosin galore. They
gave away Christmas presents to
their men in money beginning al
the manager for $1,000 and down to
the humblest employee IS and $40
apiece owing to his importance IL
service. How we wish we had such
a p AM IN Leakesvlle, excusing the
Sunday running. They employ near
ly all white men, and we learnt thai
it was mostly white boys of the
town who took up and learnt the
trade starting in at 81 80 wages or
thereabout and have worked up some
Of them 10 800 to $3.50 month.
The Foley road was another new
sight to the writer, put there since
we last visited the town twenty two
years ago That road is branch Of
the l. q N and goes down into Bald
win county ~ territory adJacent toI
the Bay coast across from Mobile.
It's planned to be put through To
Fort Morgan. That is to deep wa
ter, but is hung up at present over
some right-of-way privileges. IL
runs through an old hollow in get
ting out of the town RIGHT in front
of our aunt. old place where we chill
dren PLAYED hide and seek and
other games in the cleaning of the
eventides of those childhood day Wis
its 1t makes regular schedules
each day, with passenger and mixed
trains and we were informed that
Haynes Byrne. a PLAYMATE OF our
two older brothers. Henry and Guy
Nall ,u,.. o1,I,,ntas Al