Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-03

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sioner ought to have the power to regu-
late assessm ents in the counties as
we'll ss between the counties as at
present
Any one interested in comparing the
values of the personal property given
in by the citizens of the various
counties, can get copy of the state
Tax Commissioner report, by writing
to D. T. Thompson, chairman of this
body at Jackson, and he will gladly fur
nish you. with copy and you will find
it interesting reading.
got down to Macon last Sunday
evening and went to the court house
Monday, met a goodly number of my
friends, and had the pleasure of hear
ing my talented friend Harden Brooks
deliver an able argument to prevent
certain persons sitting on the grand
Jury. Harden admitted that there was
no precedent Cor this, but he certainly
presented his side of the case so well
chat he about convinced me that he
was right, | was called out of the
court house and did not hear either of
the other gentlemen argue the case,
but | did hear Judge Carroll's ruling on
this and was convinced that it would
not do, for if every grand juryman was
disqualified who might be charged with
prejudice against any one who might
be presented to them, we would never
have grand jury, so again we were
shown that there are always two sides
to question.
A friend of mine said to me "You
had better let that drainage bill alone, j"
implying thai l would lose votes if |
did not. This is just what had done
and it died on the calendar. and could
haye called it up for passage had |
thought ought to have done so, for |
did get the creamery bill up at the last
moment when the friends of the
measure had about lost heart of ever
getting it up, and | am glad it was in
my power to do anything to help the
creamery business, for nothing has
done more to help our people than the
establish ing of the creamery in the
state and the persons that were in-
strumental in doing this are certainly
benefactors, and are entitled to be
called "Abou Ben Adbams." | expect
| will have to get the Beacon to pub
lish this little poem, for understand
that not few of my readers are un-
familiar with it, and thought | had
gone to "cussing" again when re-
ferred to it in former letter.
Any one that is at all familiar with
my legislative career. or who have
heard the speeches | made when can
vassing the county will not charge me
with snsping my career, or speaking so
as to get votes. Any one that did it is
not worthy of being the representative
of the great people of Noxubee
County.
neglected to tell in my last letter
about calling on my cousins, Elisa Stin-
son, Annie FAINT and Bess Daugherty,
who live near the |, [. & C. | am
very proud and fond of all of them, and
take great pleasure in calling on them
when in Columbus. After an early
breakfast ! strolled on down to the
college and found Cousin Elisa in her
front yard working her flowers and
called to her and she at once ran IN the
house, and when | met her | said well,
Elisa, you have not lost all hope yet,
when you run to primp up little when
you see a man," and she said, la,
Cousin Emmett, could marry without
any trouble, but all who come to see
me are too poor to marry" Cousin
Elisa is strictly business and they tell
me that when a sutor calls on her
with a view to matrimony, when
Cousin Elisa gets through catechising
him he is glad to get away, and feels
like he has met back tax or federal
income tax collector. If Sallie had
made me show down when | proposed
to her | would have had to leave too,
for | only had two old cavalry horses,
but, thank the Lord, we had not found
out we were busted and Sallie said
she thought all white folks had money.
] went on down, called on Cousin An
ME FAINT and the maid told me as it
was Saturday, the ladies were not up,
thus justifying old "Hambone" in say
ing that he expected to use the extra
daylight hours he had gained by turn
ing up the clocks, in waking up his
white folks. | had them aroused and
had pleasant hour with them and
their friend, Miss Kiern, who had me
to go over and talk to her class about
the doings of thel legislature. Annie
and Miss kiern have bought them
nice home near the college for being
women" of course the state will not
furnish them houses to live in as they
do the men teachers at the other state
"Mirrabble dictu," Mrs, Price asked
some of the scholars of the A. H. H.
School if they knew who Big Bud was,
and one smart boy replied Immediately,
'it is Bilbo;" such is fame.
BIG BUD.