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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-02-07

uary, $144.60; j. C.. Hardy, salary
January, 100000; T. w. Vaughan,
work on good roads Dist. S, $1,000;
Chas Smith, same, $500; Leon Smith
work on roads Dist. S, $10.50; w. j.
1898; M. C. Montgomery. same, $S.-
33: DR.. d. w. Magee. same, 1898;
Frank Scott, refund road tax Tin ar
my $3.00;i Keelox Mfg. Co.. mdse
as per bill, $500; j. l.. Pitts, hauling
gravel Dist. q, G.. R., S14.00; j. B.
Speed, same, $14.00; w. A. Rutland,
As yds, gravel Dist. 2, s2.25; Neal
Durr, building culverts Dist. 2, S10.-
90; Marion Beacham, hauling gravel
Dist. 2 G. r., $500; Marion Bea-
cham, work on roads Dist. 2, $500;
Lon Fore, ditching u day, $3.50;
A. G. Davis, expense G.. r. Com. Dist.
Q, 1888; R. e. Furr, same, $8-33;
Hoffman Bros, supplies court house.,
$0.25; Hoffman Bros, supplies good
roads, Dist. /, $213.65; A. e. More
ton, supplies court house, $3.50; Mis-
sissippi Printing Co., supplies Chy
Clerk, $94.5O; Mississippi Printing
Co., supplies Cir. Clerk, $11.15; C. s..
Buterfield Co.,( Ibr as per bill, $26.-
13; J. w. Mccullough, lbr and work
on Roads Dist. 8, $3.50; Central
Lumber Co.. lumber as per bill Dist.
i, $14.51; j. A. Carroll Lbr Co., lbr
as per bill Dist. l and 2, $127.24;
A. G. Seavey & Sons, mdse as per bill.
$3.50; Bolian Nero Co., same, $751;
80; Brookhaven Drug Co., same, $3.-
15. Lee Moak CLARK fees Sac
2172, .$31.90.
Ordered that the Board do now ad-
journ until tomorrow (Tuesday)
morning at $3.50 o'clock.
ITO be continued
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-02-07
WOMAN AT BOTTOM
OF NEGRO KILLING
Accidental Meeting and Passing
of Letter Brought on Fri
days Shooting.

After trial which lasted until af-
ter sun-down at the court house We'd
nesday, Justice j. e. Barron bound
Edward Williams, colored, over to
await the action of the grand jury
for the killing of Noah Brown, also
colored, last Friday. $500 was the
amount of the bond fixed.
The testimony developed that Will
liams' wife was the primary cause
E.of the killing due to the. attentions
of the dead man, Brown, a prominent
and well-to-do negro in the neighbor-
hood where the shooting occurred,
four miles north of town.
The defendant, Williams, testified
that he had himself, approached
Brown about the matter, the news of
which alleged intimacy had been
brought to him by friend, but that
he had decided on account of not
wanting to get into trouble to let the
matter drop, put the actions and oc-
currences on the day of the killing
brought the homicide about.
Brown was quoted by the witness
as neither denying or affirming what
Williams told him had been brought
to him, with the f1aunt at the time
that he (Williams) could not do
anything about it, but that he
(Brown) was either going to kill
Williams or the party who told VIII
liams about the alleged relations.
On the day of the killing Williams
was preparing to go hunting and was
returning from town with new gun
he had purchased, Williams stating
that an old gun he had owned would
snap and that this was the reason
for his purchasing new weapon.
On his way home, so the testimony
went, Brown, also travelling, in the
same direction as Williams, met Will
liams' wife, also in a vehicle, but
coming toward her husband. AS
Browns vehicle and the wife of VIII
liams passed each other, Brown threw
letter into her buggy, which either
fell into the buggy or on the road
side. Williams, so the testimony
went further, drove on up and se-
cured this letter, which he was en-
deavoring to decipher when Brown.
not having noticed him before OH ac-
count of going in an opposite direc-
ton, turned around and came back
snatching the letter from Williams
hands while he was trying to read it.
1t was also stated by the witnesses
that he also made varied derogatory
remarks at this juncture. 1t was at
this time that he was killed. One
witness stated that he (Willianls)
raised and lowered his gun three
times before shooting Brown with a
single-barreled breech-loader, but
the defendant denied this, averring
that he only shot after Brown had
cursed him and at the same time
telling him that he was not afraid
of his gun and the dead man went
for his pocket.
A shot gun she'll cut all the way
around. which is generally acknoW-
ledged to shoot a load in wad was
admitted BY Williams to have been
owned by him along with others that
were cut In the same way which h9
stated he had used Christmas Jay to
celebrate. The reason for his hav-
| ing them with him when the killing
occurred was that he had Just pick
ed them out of the drawer where
some of them had been left along
with new ones he had purchased
since that time.
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Negro as Well as Jesse Watts viii
Be Tried in Port Gibson.

vicksburg, Miss, Feb. Judge
Brien In the Warren county Circuit
Court today granted the change Of
venNe asked for in the case Of Reu-
ben Winbush. the negro held ais an
accessory to Jesse j. Watts in the
murder of DR.. d. S. AIverson on the
night Of January 5. This case goes
with the Watts case to Claiborne
county.
Judge Brien has issued an order
for special term OF the Claiborne
County Circuit Court I'd, be convened
Monday, March 18th, at Port Gibson,
at which term these two cases will
be tried. G. S. Hamilton Of jackson
is representing Winbush.
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Fair Price Committee Receive Brook.
haven Merchants.

Two sessions Of the County Fair
Price Committee were held Thursday.
There were present H. F. Middleton,
r. f. Aylward. B. e. Summers. G. G.
Coleman, Jas. Rawls, D. r. Hayes,
J. A. Maui, w. D. Davis, I. w. Coop
er.
Leading merchants appeared be-
fore the committee and discussed the
issue before the body. The Commit
tee was gratified at the attitude Of
the merchants toward the aim and
object of the organization. An invi-
tation is extended all merchants to
meet with the committee at an early
day. Their cooperation is solicited.
The next meeting will be held on
Thursday. Feb. Is, at two o'clock
at the City Hall.
w. W. Nelson, Sec.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-02-07
FOR SALE.

2021s acres Of land 2 miles south
of Brookhaven, one mile from Dixie
Creamery on Bogue Chitto road.
Known as "Old Brook" One 5 room
bungalow with bath. Tenant
house. Barn 30x40ft. All new and
under fence. Best dairy farm in Lin
coin County. House and Barn have
acetylene lights.
w. e. GATES,
Brookhaven, Miss.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-02-07
CHRONIC CONSTIPATION.

There are people who never have
movement of the bowels without it
is produced by cathartic. Most of
them have brought that condition on
themselves by the use of mineral
waters and strong cathartics that
take too much water out of the sys-
tenn and aggravate the disease they
are meant to relieve. A mild laxa-
tive tonic like Chamnerlain,s Tablets
affords gentle movement of the
bowels that you hardly realize has
been produced by a medicine. and
their use is not so likely to be fol-
lowed by constipation.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-02-07
Marriage Licenses Issued During
Past Week.

White.--G. M. Harmon and Miss
Lillian Thames, e. F. Dunning and
Miss Marie Phillips, Thos. e. Smith
and Mrs. S. L. Smith, j. G. Peavey
and Miss Ruby Price, R. t. Waldrop
and Miss B. A. Martin.
Colored. Harvey Harrington and
Lucretia Magee, Jim Brister and Jo-
sic May, Alus Johnson and Clara
Biggs, Eugene Kirsh and Rosa Hanes,
Samuel Bullock and Leutie Reed, Sy.
Lawns and Edna Harris, Freddie
Jones and Carrie Williams, L. H. Nc
farland and Annie Martin, James
Nixon and Bertha Williams.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-02-07

Mrs. r. =. 1igdon was called to
Hazlelfurst by the death of her bro
ther, Mr.. Luther Sexton, who died
in the prime of life leaving widow
and three small children. the oldest
a daughter eleven years Of age and
the youngest, one year. Mrs Sexton
was, formerly, Miss EEtelle Woelper
Of Brookhaven, and is granddaugh-
ter~of Mrs. Boswell Our sympathy
is extended her and her fatherless
little ones in 4heir sorrow. TO the
father, Hon. J.. S. Sexton and others
stricken in the untimely death con-
dolence is extended.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-02-07
Mrs. Mcleod and Mrs. Thompson to
Birmingham.

Mrs. George Adkins guests at the
Edwards, Mrs. MA. Mcleod and Mrs.
N. r. Thompson left on Tuesday
night for Birmingham to spend some
time with relatives in their girlhood
home. These sisters were the recip-
tents of numerous pretty social cour-
tesies which filled their visit to Jack
son.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-02-07
A. H. $. BOND ISSUE CARRIES.
Lincoln Takes Place Beside copiah in
$4,000 Issue for Dolmitory at
Copiah Lincoln Institution.

Friends of education and those vi
tally interested in the progress of
Lincoln county are gratified at the
vote of last Tuesday that will give
to the Copiah-Lincoln A. H. S., the
backing it needs to prove itself eff
ficient in the service 1t wants to do.
$4,000 will help.
Following are the official returns:-
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For THE CHILDREN

Too much care canont be exercised
in selecting cough medicine for
children. II should be pleasant to
take, contain no harmful drug and
most effectual in curing their coughs
and colds. Long experiences has
shown that Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy meet these conditions. IL
ID favQrlta with many mothers,
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-02-07
PERIODIC BILIOUS ATTACKS.

Persons subject to periodic bilious
attacks will observe that their appe-
tite fail them just before an attack.
That is, they do not really crave
food but eat because 1t is meal time.
II they viii eat only a light meal
and no meat, then take two of
Ohamberlain's Tablets the attack
may be avoided.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-02-07
The Best There is in Public Car
Service.

/ now have in public service q
newly purchased car that is the best
car in such service in Brookhaven.
can satisfy any one who needs a
car. Call me at the Ben Cafe. Phone
So.
HERBEHT MfpuFFEY.
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# your head is dizzy on STOPPING
or rising suddenly and everything
turns black before the eyes, you have
torpid liver. Take Herbine. It Is
a powerful liver regulator. Price
60c Sold BY Price Drug Co.. and
Rrooklaayen DRUG Cus
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-29

A STRANGE cry it is that comes from
n certain industrial esntsrs in New
England where mills have suspend
ed. For mercy's sake start up again"
appeal the mayors Of the towns concern
ed, land save US from having to establish
soup kitchens and bread lines for the I'M
employed"
Now the interesting aspect OF the sit
uation is that within short ride of these
silent factories the fields, If not alto
gether ripe for harvest, are at least beg
ging for laborers, and the latter are pitt
fully few. AS the Boston TRANSCRIPT re-
ports it: Farmers are paying five dollars
a day for workmen for day Of eight
hours, and lodging and feeding the men.
Yet in many instances they are unable to
get any help, although willing to take men
heretofore unskilled in farm work. OF
one district it is related that farmer,
hard pressed for hands, drove into town
and personally solicited men who were
without jobs to return with him to work.
But not one could he persuade to do so.
Soup houses" the Transcript laconically
observes, "are for those who cannot get
work, not for those who will not work.
Though it would be presumptuous for a
distant onlooker to pass upon the merits
of this or any other particular situation OF
eraI and imperative need of farm labor on
the one hand, and, on the other, of gen.
eral dissemination on the part Of idle men
to- this field of service. Work for work s
sake is an ideal rarely attained save by
the gifted artisan and the true artist. But
work for a 1ivings sake and from sense
of duty is a standard assuredly within
reach of most of US. Yet how often in these
squeamish times do we hear of worthwhile
jobs going begging because they do not
suit silken taste, and of able arms
hanging unproductive because they cannot
find a fortune in a days pay!
Well. we can not expect the demoral1za-
+ions of a World War to cease of sud
den. nor the sons of this complex Twen-
tieth century to develop keen appetite TOT
Arcadian simplicity. Few OF us, arter all
are of that heroic fibre which courts TIE
line of greatest resistance and counts l.
better to add even mite to the "or1u
welfare than selfishly suck its money. LIE
brother who works grudgingly three Gays
a week in order that he may loal 'ne
other four is of human clay, that IS all; 9
nrettv poor sort of clay, be it granted "a
sort that is certain to crack and go ~
nieces under the stress of days yet 70
come. But the majority will learn IN Ilne'
though it may take iron experience 10 ullve
the lesson home, that work Is pflNlleso
mt an imposition, and that rgnts having
no meaning apart from duties.
One NAV hope, indeed, II he be sangulhe
horn that a golden age will come "neh
Mains which now clench in anger or "rltne
IN disgust ON being offered the ploW nan
dies for an honest living, will turn VIII
lingly to the farm and learn how minute
" better a producer is than parasite
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-29

PROPOS of the South's excellent
~ showing in the Federal income tax
receipts, it is interesting to observe
that of the nations total agricultural pro-
duction last year this regions part was al
most a half, or, in terms Of money value
six billion, four hundred and twenty-seVen
million, six hundred and seven thousand
dollars These figures become the more
meaningful when, upon Analysing them, we
find that cotton accounts for little more
than a third of the vast aggregate The
larger portion represents food staples. APP
proximately a third of the hogs and near
" third of the beef cattle raised in the
United States last year were in the South.
In farm production of all kinds only three
States in the entire Union outdistanced
Georgia.
In mineral wealth and other essentials
of great industrial development the South
is wondrously endowed. Her coal reserve,
estimated to be one-fourth of the whole
country's, exceeds that of all Europe; and
her iron ore is one-third of the country S
total. From her forests comes more than
one-half of the lumber hewn in the United
States. In her streams is energy sufficient
to develop nine million horsepower. Her
coast line is three-ffths of that of CONT
mental United States. Where else are the
basic sources of agriculture, Of industry
and of commerce exclled?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-29
ENVY
By DR.. Frank Crane

When you find human emotion that is
pad you can trace its path through the bust
ness world, as also. through the social, edu-
cational or religious world, by the waste and
ruin it causes, as tornado.
One of the constant products of the human
animal is Envy.
Envy is feeling bad because another sue
ceeds.
1t is the concentrated essence of the cuss-
edness of mankind.
Like all things devilish, it has many dis
guises, and never shows it's own proper ugly
face.
A good proportion of the Reforms that
claim to protest against injustice is sheer
Envy.
There are, undoubtedly, many sincere ad-
vocates of revolution, but the business has
fatal attraction Tor the disgruntled.
Envy clogs the wheels of business
Whoever rises above the commons in the
struggle of life is target for thousand poi
soned arrows
To many envy-smitten minds the fact that
man is rich is prima facie evidence that
he is some sort of a scoundel
Envy crucfied Jesus and poisoned Soc
ates, and there never has been a man since
who eXcelled in goodness or wisdom that
snarling human hounds have not wanted to
bite.
If you are woman, your very beauty is
an offense and your virtue an insult, and "be
thou chaste as ice and pure as snow thou
shalt not escape calumny."
AS Love is the geatest thing in the world,
Envy is the smallest. AS Love is the zenith
of the soul, Envy is it's master.
John D. Rockefeller is probably doing
more with his money to promote the welfare
of the race than any living man. He prob
ably has as many sins to answer for as I. but
that is not why the average sour-ball hates
him. His outstanding sin is his success.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-29
TO SPEAK WELL
By H. AddingtOn Bruce

TO-DAY am going to call on another man
to address you-Grenville Kleiser, &C
- complished teacher of written and
spoken English. Mr. Kleiser has published a
little book, Something to Say and How to
Say It," Of value to any one who would excel
either in public speaking or in private con-
versation I like it so much that 1 want to
pass on to you few of the hints it contains.
Here they are:
The most approved type of speaking today
is conversation enlarged and occasionally in
tensified to suit the circumstances.
In addressing an audience talk to them as
you would to any one of them singly-clearly,
sincerely and conversationally. Do not allow
your earnestness to carry you into an unduly
high key. Guard against the faults OF exag-
geration, loudness and haranguing.
You can make your daily conversation
serve the practical purpose of comparing your
preconceived ideas with those of other men,
Of correcting your opinions when they are
erroneous, clarifying your thoughts in the
process of clothing them in suitable language,
and of broadening your general mental out
look.
You can learn much from others by being
an Intelligent listener.
While you are speaking your mind is CIV
ing out ideas; when you are listening to
others you are in the mental attitude of re-
ceiving ideas. You will find the art of in
telligent listening a valuable aid in accu-
mulating stock of ideas.
Conversation, moreover, offers frequent
opportunity for correcting in yourself faults
of speech which may have come to your at
tenton, such as slovenly articulation, care
less punctuation, monotony of tone hardness
of voice, Or high pitch.
These and similar faults can be quickly
eradicated by giving careful attention to your
manner of speaking in daily intercourse.
Remember, too, that it is chiefly in your
daily speech with others that you form I'M
conscious habits of expression. There
fore it is in your daily speech that you should
establish the desirable habits of clearness,
drectness, deliberateness, conciseness, pleas
antness, dignity and self-control.
For speech-making the principal source of
material is that of reading, especially of good
books.
AS a methodical beginning you should Sc
lect half dozen really worthwhile books,
and write out a definite plan for reading
them, making strict pledge with yourself
to carry out your plan faithfully. AS you
follow this method of regular and systematic
| reading, the way will open gradually to larger
and more productive fields of literature
And it will be of great practical value to
you to read daily from the dictionary
1t is not sufficient merely to examine the
definitions of selected words, but to read the
book in regular order, much as you would
any other book. Many of the most success
full public speakers formed early if life the
dictionary habit.
Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-29
Taxes That Tell PROSPERITY

EORGIA'S payment of forty-tWo MIL
1ion six hundred and sixty-fve thou
sand. seven hundred and ninety-tWo
dollars to the Federal tax till for the
tweIyemonth ended June 80 last pears I'LL
pressiye witness to the States proouctlVe
strength. OF this huge total an pu' st,i lhi0
cellaney of approximately eight mlllon
nine hundred thousand represents income
and profits taxes, or tribute straight from
the lap of prosperity. Everything CONSIDERED
the record compares favorably. Win tnat OIL
more populous and more extensively ue-
veloped regions. Less tnan TWO genera .. ns
ago the State whose sinew and enterprise
poured these millions into the natlonal
treasury lay crushed by war With sucn
powers of recuperation and progress as she
has evidenced, especially in recent years.
to what goodly attainments will she not go
within another generation, or announcer oec-
ade?
The South as a whole makes a remark
able showing. From the eleven States OF
this section the returns amount to seven
hundred and one million, four hundred ana
thirty-seven thousand dollars This is more
than three times the capital investment OF
all the cotton mills in the Union in 1880,
and little less than the nations total ex-
port values in that year. It speaks eloquent
. ~ of Southern resources that so vast
yield Of income and profits taxes should
flow from a region whose natural wealth
= Is III Lu0 udWu VI uSFC1OpA1OAAI Gnu "AAOSS
busiest centers are still frontiers of oppor-
tunity
: The collections for the entire country,
aggregating five billion, four hundred and
ten million, two hundred and e1ghty-four
thousand dollars, overtop the tallest record
in the Governments history. Indeed, they
are nearly seventy-five per cent greater than
the total of taxes paid in either Of the
war years, 1918 and 1919, and are said
to exceed the highest official estimates
Evidently the tides of American prosperity
have, deepened and widened as never be-
fore. Evidently, too, conditions are ripe
and urgent for tax revision, to the end that
this prosperity, now shared by the rank
and file, may not be penalized to the point
of discoura cement and danger.