Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-03-23

Mrs. w. W. Evans went down to
Mobile last week and was operated
upon in one of the hospitals there
SUCCESSFULLY. She will be home again
lin few days and likely enjoy better
health.
The drop in the river the latter
part of last week was sufficient that
lafts began to turn loose and drift
their way to market. This means
more money brought back into the
country, even though great deal OF
the stuff was down timber and the
buyers are rather harsh on that
character OF timber this far removed
from the great July storm which
hnred it to earth.
The severe freeze in the early part
of March killed great many OF the
Satsuma orange trees in this county
THIS goes TO prove that our people
e will have to do like the Californians
Have learned TO do equip their
orchards with smudge fires for such
sudden snaps, to protect the trees
Orange trees are valuable enough
to protect in that manner even
4 though it means some time and
n expense.
Rvern Jones, principal of the Bex-
lev Consolidated School. was up to
the capital OF Greene county last
Friday. He was figuring with SUI
perintsndent Newton James upon
the addition of small piece OF ter.
ritory to his school district, which is
composite one, having portion
living in Greene and the balance OF il
in George county, as its name Bex'
lev would Imply. Evern has been
cleo Ted principal of that school for
another term. The present ter m
closes in about another week.
The appearance of the Herald as a
folio instead as a quarto form, VIII
have to continue until the price OF
NEWS print paper is really reduced.
There is something being said along
about the paper trust having accept
ed the price SO fixed by the Federal
Trade Commission. which is slightly
i over fifty per cent cut into present.
high prices that small newspapers
like the Herald have to contend with
but SO far such reduction has not
affected tie price we have been pay
ing ONE CENT. We hope it will but
WHEN and HOW MUCH is the 2?
d. A. Mcleod was up from VernaI
Monday. He is getting up pretty
full head of enthusiasm for Greene
county Exhibit at the Centennial
En- >aition. He seems to be decid-
eddy OF tie opinion that such exhib-
it should be gathered aud maintain
ed directly under the county's man
agement, not favoring the other plan
at all, OF Greene county donating SC
much money and letting the Exposi
ton authorities provide and look
after maintaining the booth in the
Exposition building. If a competent
patriotic and enthusiastic man can
be employed by the county to swing
such exhibit. the Herald is itself
very much of the opinion that that
is the better plan. but we want to
see some plan for an exhibit OF
Greene county down there. as we
don't want to be ashamed as we
were at the great International Ex-
position at San Francisco. in finding
that the state in which we were
born, i. e.. Alabama, which is richer
aud more populous than Mississippi,
did not have any building at all.
IT made us prouder of the modest
Mississippi building with its scant
arrey of exhibit. The supervisors
can likely arrange for such an exhiO
1t by having the work commenced
before next taApaying tide, but with
the understanding that the bills be
carried till then and such expense
be figured outialong reasonable lines
aud be included IN the budg when
the levies are made in Sci lembel
next.