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LEXINGTON, HOLMES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 11, 1904.
NUMBER 46.
VOL. LXVI
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BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS
Met in Regular February, 1904,
Session. Had Plenty of
Work on Hand.
Present: H. K. Buck, pres't; T
G. Stephenson, J. D. Weeks, G. S.
Rogers and \V. L. Smith, members;
W. W. Wilburn, sheriff anil l'arham
J.
Williams, rb ik.
G. 1). McCalnb having paid the
purchase money lor tax land sold by
D. H. Hobbs, sheriff, W.W. Wilburn.
said McCaleb a
sheriff, will make
ance to said land.
proper convey
T. F. Durham is allowed $60 for
Silver Laki
4000 feet of lumber for
and $20 for work, when
bridge,
received by W, L, Smith.
AV. W. Wilburn is credited $2.
being un
W. O. Nixon's poll tax,
der age.
The clerk will cancel warrant 51.
drawn on commutation road fund in
favor of J. T. Pierce for *1,000 au I
issue two warrants of $500 each in
place thereof.
J. B. Cunningham, former clerk,
by mistake issued to J.S. Brown,road
ants 104 and 105
same payable
road fund, the
treasurer is directed to charge
warrants 104 and 105 to commuta
tion road fund of district 3 and
credit the advaloretn road fund with
said amount.
The clerk will advertise for bids
to build a bridge across Black Creek,
at Bowling Green. '
The clerk will advertise for bid
to build a bridge across Black Creek,
on the Thurmond pike.
contractor, warr
for *502.75, making
out of ad valorem
sain
Mill
Elwards
The petition of J.
for a public road. i»
others, asking
filed and will lay over 30 days.
The petition of W. A. Eubank and
public road is
others asking for a
filed will lay over for 30 days.
ll.C. Baughn, t-up't of poor house,
Pahlen Bros
reports as follows;
*15.55, Henrich and Loftstrom *5,
Henry Hodges 2 25: MntildaHodge*
10.00; R. E. McCormick 9.00; Win
stead 6i. Durden 3.00; and II. C.
Bough 6.00.
J. D. Weeks and T.G- Stephenson
recommend appropriating as little
money on jail aside from making it
safe as possible, as it is only a ques
one will
tion of time when a new
have to be built.
J. D. Weeks and T. G. Stephen
inspected the lumber for lhomton
causeway and found it first-class and
as per bill rendered.
J. C. Pickens, county treasurer,
made his report showing amounts
in various funds as lollows: county
14,683.45; school 4.64; bridge
4,368.37; pension 25.94; commuta
tion road heat 1, 442.02:
14.91; beat 3, 1,046.99 ; beat 4, 102;
172 01; advaloicra road
J.
J.
J.
bent 2,
twnl 5,
4,106.09; Institute 46.69; Hancock
t 14 r 2 w 1,497.96;
county 2 05;
t 15r 1 w, 2,196.15; t 15 r2 w 466.94;
t 15 r 3 e 25.46; t 15 r 4 e 129.25:
t 13 i 3e 158.41; t 14 r 1 w 5.15;
til lie 142.91; t 16 r 1 e 183.67;
t 15 r 2 e 71.93; t 16 r 2 e 292.24;
l 15 r 1 e 34.73; t 16 r 4 e 236 56;
t 14 r 3 e 159.37.
Trustees of 1 14 r 2 w are allowed
$160 teachers salary for Decern tier
and January.
Trustees of t 17 r 1 e are allowed
,
$10 supplementary to county leach
ing at Cruger for January.
R. E. Warfield is refunded *1.50
the county's part of tax on u piano
erroneously assessed.
Aarou Jefferson is allowed 35e
being doubly assessed w.tli a *50
mule.
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The Orion Concert Company gave I
an entertainment at the Hoskins Op-!
era House last Wednesday night. The |
patrons of this show was quite disap
pointed, possibly the music was of a
high order, but decidedly the large
majority of their audience were un
able to appreciate it. Something
"with a tune" would have been a wel
come relief in the monotony of "class
ical music."
The Orion Concert.
Accounts are allowed as follows:
1
Clark & Courts, stationery for
chan'y clerk.
Geo. D. Barnard & Co., deed re
, corded for chan'y clerk. 21 20j
It. 11. Baker, support of J. Dona- '
hoe, ex-Confed. 10 00
Mrs. Nancy Brown, support of
an idiot child.
C. A. Brown, for his support... 5 00
Frank Melton, for his support,
wife and P. Lucas.
Mrs. M. J. Mitchell, support of
pauper child .
Mrs. Fannie McMorrough, sup
port of, herself .
W. C, Red, freight on books... 1 14
G. C. Reid, sheriff, visiting con
vict farm. .
G. C. Reid, shf., conveying pris
oner from Greenville.
G. C. Reid, shf., victualing pris
oners in January.
G. C. Reid, shf., wood for jail.. 3 00
Henrich & Lofstrom, .coffin for
pauper at poorhrmse.
R. J. Whittington, ex-officio
service as constable. 14 15
H. C. Baughn, supt. of p. house 6 00
Matilda Hodges, matron p. h. 10 00
Mutual Co-op. Association, sup.
for sheriff.
Mutual Co-op. Asso'n supplies
for chan'v clerk.
Pahlen Bros., supplies for p. h. 15 55
R. E, McCormick, sup. for p. h. 9 00
Henry Hodges, burying pauper. 2 25
Lexington Drugstore,supplies
for election commissioners.. 2 20
Ily Hawkins, courthouse jani'r
for January
R. M. Edwards, j p., hold inqst. 5 00
W. J. Edwards, con. "
H. V, Thornton, F. M. Sandifer.
Jas. Springier, Ike Hill, West
Brown,OscarWilliams, jurors
' each .
R. M. Edwards, burying Mike
Jefff rson.
J. V. Sp*ll, jr., ex-officio serv's
as J. P.
Advertiser, suppl's elec, com'rs 6 10
spec'l elec. 70 87
" " offices and
$10 15
5 00
15 00
800
800
... 4 00
18 00
14 10
5 00
of
2
in
3 00
2 00
12 00
1 00
1 00
5 00
13 15
public printing.
J. W. Holloway, for public use
of his pond.
R. M. Edwards, ex-oflicio ser
vice as J. P.
W. H. Smith, county supt. for
January.
Ike Hill, poll tax refunded, over
54 75
25 00
. 6 60
. 62 30
2 00
age
Jim Springier, poll tax refund
ed, over age.
Wm. Herd, poll tax refunded,
over age.
Doty Bros., bldg, bridge across
Tackett's ditch.
R. C« Barger, repairs on bridge 15 50
J. S. Shurlds, 30 ft. additional
bridge.
R. M. Edwards, lumber Thorn
ton causeway.
W. V. Tyson, repairs Harland's
creek bridge.
J. W. Eakin, 384 cubic yds dirt
work on albino.
J. W. Eakin, flooring, dump on
albino.
Oliver D. Wright, road tax re
funded, a preacher.
W. D. Robertson is allowed $525 00
for building Jordan's Creek bridge
when received by T. G. Stephenson
and G. S. Rogers. Board adjourned
until to-morrow at 9 a. m
H. G. Buck, President.
D.
T,
S.
S.
C.
2 00
2 00
50 00
30 00
249 47
16 00
55 68
15 00
3 00
Tuesday, the 2nd day of February, S.
1904. Board met pursuant to ad
J. C. W atson, 8. J. Siddon and C. A. ^
Weston are appointed trustees of
journment. Present as on yesterday.
Jno.
, , seer
that G. C Reid, his successor, be 1L
at
charged with the same:
t. 15, r. 4, e.
J. E. Stanfield, sheriff, etc., dec'd,'
is credited with the following and 1
On real estate, $446,513.00.
Un personal, $278,298.00
Brooks Story Free.
I Brooks Ftory has been released
Op-! fnm prison, he was serving a ten year*
| sentence for robbing the express office
at Durant. He has escaped from
a the penitentiary five different times,
the last time voluntarily giving him
self up. His health has broken down
and the penitentiary board of trus
tees ordered his release. It was a
tosa-up who was the most pleased,
Story or the authorities.
1756 road hands at $3.00, $5,268.00
1 5116 polls at $2.00, $10,232.00.
J. E. Stanfield, sheriff, etc., dec'd,
is charged with additional assessments
20j m „
' as folloW8: Persona1 ' $900.00; 11 polls
hi $2.00, $22.00; 13 roads at $3.00,
j$39 00.
15
J. E. Stanfield, sheriff, etc., dec'd,
is allowed a $1.60 for making 16 per
sonal assessments and 13 cents for
making 13 road assessments
G. C. Reid, former sheriff, etc., is
charged with amounts additionally
assessed as follows: On personal
$940.00; on 34 polls at $2-00, $68.00;
49 roads at 83.00, $147.00.
G. C. Reid, former sheriff, etc., is
credited with the following amounts
and that W. W. Wilburn, present
sheriff, etc., be charged with the
same.
On realtv $98,211.00; on personal
$116,236.00; 4702 polls at $2,00—
$9,404.00; 1379 roads at $3.00 - $4,
137.00.
G. 0. Reid, former sheriff, etc., is
allowed $3.40 for making 34 personal
assessments and 49 cents for making
49 road assessments, additional.
The clerk will take up and cancel
warrant 56 on bridge fund in favor
of King Bridge Co. for $3,200, and
issue, therefore, two warrants of
$L^00 each to said King Bridge Co.
J. L). Weeks reports roads in beat
2 as only passable and bridges out of
repair and cannot recommend pay
ment for the present quarter.
W. L. Smith reports the roads in
v^ry good fix, better than he ever
saw them at this time of the year,
and found the bridges in fair shape,
and recommends payment for sane.
T. G. Stephenson reports his roads
in good traveling condition; the patch
work is not properly done and not
enough of it; more brush in washes is
needed and less shoveling in ditches,
and recommends payment.
G. S. Rogers reports his road* in
good condition and recommends pay
ment.
IL E. Buck reports his roads in
very good condition and recommends
payment' for this quarter
The jury list was this day selected
and filed for 1904 according to law.
Accounts are allowed as follows:
Henry Hodges, 8 cords of wood $16 00
Election officers for the different
precincts, and the election commis
sioners were allowed their fees.
Winstead & Durden, beef for
poorhouse.
D. W- Beall, supplies for jail.. 1 95
Lewis & Herrman Co., supplies
for poorhouse.
T, F. Doty, 2nd quarter of sec
year as road contractor for
beat 4.
S. J. Brown, 2d quarter second
year as road contractor for
beat 1.
S. J Brown, 2d quarter second
year as road contractor of
beat 3.
C. B. Alexander, 2d quarter sec
ond year as road contractor
of beat 5.
is
to
be
$300
8 05
360 12
869 00
to
522 76
400 00
S. J, Brown, repairs on 5brdgs 5 00
® Stanfield estate, R. L.
Whites poll tax refunded,
being under age.
^ j; T err y ( roa d refunded,
200
Jno. Marshall, tax refunded,
doubly assessed. 3 00
B. S Chunn is appointed road over
seer in place of ,1. F. Rogers on roai*
1L
Board adjourned until to morrow
at 9 a. m.
not liable.
300
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H. E. Buck, President.
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MASONIC
GRAND BODIES
Time and Place of their Next
Meeting. Large Attendance
Confidently Expected.
The Masonic grand bodies of Mis
sissippi will be convened at Greenville
next Tuesday, February 16, and will
hold their sessions as follows:
Grand Coramandery -Tuesday, Feb.
16th, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Grand Council--Thursday, February
16th. at 4 o'clock d. m.
Grand Chapter—Wednesday, Feb.
17th, at ll o'clock a. m.
Order of High Priesthood—Wed
nesday, February 17th, at 8 o'clock
p. in.
Grand Lodge- Thursday, February
18th, at 11 o'clock a. m.
Hamasa Temple, Ancient Order.of
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, will hold
a ceremonial session Tuesday evening,
February 16th, at 8 o'clock, at which
a large number of pilgrims will be led
across the burnirg sands, followed by
the traditional b .nquet.
All railroads in the state have
granted reduceiyates for the occa
sion.
February 3rd, 1994, Board met
pursuant to adjournment. Present
as on yesterday.
The open season for hunting deer
is extended to the first day of March
of each year.
The following accounts are allowed:
C. B- Alexander, partial pay'nt
for 2d quarter second year
as road contractor.$250 00
T. G. Stephenson, 3 days and
12 20
T- G. Stephenson, 10 days ex
amining roads, etc.,,
J. D. Weeks. 9 days examining
roads, etc.
J. D. Weeks. 3 days and mile
age...
G. S. Rogers, 3 days and mile
20 00
18 00
13 80
13 80
age
G. 8. Rogers, 11 days, examin
ing roads, etc......
W. L Smith, 6 days examining
roads, etc.
22 00
...... 12 00
W. L. Smith, 3 d's and mileage 13 70
H.|E. Buck, 3 days and mileage 13 00
H. E. Buck, 8 days examining
roads, etc ..
W. W. Wilburn, sheriff, 3 days
on hoard.
Parham Williams, 3 days clerk
on board..
16 00
600
900
The sheriff is authorized to notify
all parties to have bill hoards and ad
vertising boards around the court
house and on the courthouse square
removed within ten days or have
them lemoved himself.
Wilson Cotton Oil Company's bid
for wiring court house and putting in
fixtures for electric light at $130.50,
is accepted, and that they be directed
to do so at once.
It is further ordered that the propo
sition of the said Wilson Cotton Oil
Company for furnishing electric lights
be postponed until the next meeting
for further consideration. Board ad
journed until the first Monday in
March, 1904. H. E. Buck, Pres't.
Estraycd.
On Sunday, January 31, one roan
horse, one bay mare, one dark horse
mule, two dark mare mules, one gray
horse mule. Any information leading
to their recovery will be liberally re
warded. Notify C. F. Nelson, Good
man, Miss.
Lost.
A fox-hound dog—color, red; rather
bushy tail; white breast; small white
stripe on neck and between eyes, and
about one inch White on tip of tail. Re
sponds to name "Telegram." Liberal
reward for his return or information
leading to his recovery.
D. W. Beall, Jr.
Statisics in Stocks.
A writer in the Chicago Beeord
Herald, a republican paper, says that
during the last eighteen months, fully
fifty corporations capitalized at $1,
000,000 to $50,000,000 each have
gone completely out of existence.
This writer says that be saw a list of
287 corporations, some of which have
collapsed and many of which are now
pretty near dissolution. He explains
that most of these 287 corporations
were formed during the last four
years; that their issues of stocks
amounted to the stupendous total of
$5,800,000,(XX), and the bond issues
amounted to $1,169,000,000 more, a
total of nearly $7,000,000,000 of se
curity. He says that the actual mar
ket value of this podigious product of
the printing press to date is probably
about 25 cents on the dollar and that
the rest was water and the water has
been squeezed out.
If this is the showing when the
republicans are shouting prosperity,
what will be the condition when an
era of bad crops reduces the ability
of the producer to stand trust extor
tion?
The only lesson that some republi
cans will draw from the statistics
presented is that the trusts will die
of themselves without any necessity
for legislation, but that is a very
complacent conclusion. What of the
stockholders who lose by the decline
in prices and by the final collapse?
What of the honest industries that
have been bankrupted by trust meth
ods? What of the people who have
been the victims of trust prices?
And what, too, of the demoralization
of public sentiment and the degrada
tion of business ideals? These things
cannot be remedied by patiently wait
iny for natural causes to remove the
trusts. As well petmit a highway
man to pursue his avocation in the
hope than an early death will put an
end to hie career and give the com
munity a rest—-until a new highway
man takes his place.
And yet with these evils plainly
before him the president permits the
trusts to multiply while he plans for
another term.
If the administration will not do its
duty and protect the public, the indi
vidual can protect himself, at least to
the extent of buying trust stock.
As a matter of principle one should
not hold stock in any trust, but in
addition to that he can find a suf
ficient reason in the fact that it is
not safe to hold trust stock. It is
necessary to oppress the public in
order to make dividends on watered
stock and the holder of such stock is,
therefore, either imposing on others
or suffering loss himself. If honest
people will boycott trust stock and
leave such investments to the un
scrupulous, they will not only avoid
the risks naturally incident to such
enterprises, but will make it easier to
secure effective anti-trust legislation.
Just now there are many other reasons
of a business nature for avoiding the
stock market.
Rev. Mr. Bachman, of Winona, was
settling old and making new business
in town Monday- The reverend vet
eran, we are glad to note, was the
picture of health; his appearance
indicated plainer than words that
time had been partial and kind to
him.
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to
of
The Holmes County Teachers Asso
ciation rqet last Saturday. All rou
tine business was transacted. This
association can be made of much
benefit to our teachers. Let's hope
that there will be full attendance at
each meeting^ _
Simon Hyman, of the large house
of Hyman Bros., of Greenwood, trans
acted affairs of importance, Monday.
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of
Eloquent Plea for the Birds.
Tlmea-Dernocrat.
The following editorial, which re
cently appeared in the Cleveland
Press, is so fine that I hope you will
be able to reproduce it for the
benefit of your readers, and in the
interest of the Louisiana Audubon
Society. The editorial was read in
every schoolroom in the city by order
of the Cleveland Board of Education.
It is called:
"Let Them Stay Where Cod Put
Them," and is as follows:
'The song birds of Ohio are to stay
where God put them -in the woods
and fields. He who notes even a
sparrow in its fall has not forgotten
even the little troubadors of the sun
ny skies. He has raised up an agency
for their defense in their virgin sweet
ness, in their primal beauty and in
that which gives them their beauty
and sweetness both—their native lib
erty. There is at least one statutory
law in which the hand of God is surely
visible. And it is being righteously
enforced. No longer—in Northern
Ohio, at least, will the hedges, trees
and skies be robbed of their richest
treasures to adorn human vanity.
"It is a baffling physiological ques
tion why a woman wants a bird on
her hat. It is a confession carried
aloft like a banner that she needs un
natural aid to make her beautiful.
For the bird adorns the woman -no
woman adorns a bird. To refined
minds the woman is prettier without
a bird; to all minds the bird is prettier
without the woman. The bird on a
woman's hat. is a mark of murder, the
most cruel and useless that the mind
can conceive. And, it is even a mark
of more than that. It is a constant
reminder that the vanity of woman
can ruthlessly throttle the sweetest
music that ever kissed the soul, en
slave the most perfect type of free
dom, mar the purest thing of beauty
in the world, and then place the evi
dence of her heartless crimes above
her brow and ask us to look and
think her more beautiful.
"Is it then to be wondered at that
humanity has sickened of it and has
said through the law and the game
wardens, that the song birds shall
stay where God put them—in the
fields and woods?
"There in their native element the
song birds are man's first and holiest
inspiration. They taught him his
first note in music, and gave him his
first dream of liberty. They are the
greatest optimists in the world, teach
ing always cheer and hope. They
croak no melancholy dirges, but sing
only the song of love, joy and praise.
They bring into the heart of man
naught but brightness and take out
of it naught but gloom.
"Near to nature's heart, where
men and women have souls, the song
bird suggest all that is best in life or
to be longed for in eternity. They
whisper to the child its first message
from the Infinite, and carol to old
age of glories beyond the vale. From
dawn to night, from birth to death,
they flood our days and lives with
melody, and cheer with inspiration.
And let them stay where God put
them—in the fields and woods and in
human souls
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in
Audubon. *
We regret to learn that we are
going to lose J. E. Cunningham and
family from our midst They are
of onr best people of whom we have
none to spare, and want more.
Greenwood will gain by our loss
The town will be qnite a gainer bv
extending its limits {Several hun
dred people will pay street tax that
have heretofore practically paid
nothing. This is as it ought to be
Hurrah for greater Lexington!
Phone to Gwin Bros, for fresh
groceries.
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CRUMPACKER
BLISTERED
Hon. John Sharp Williams Ad
ministers a Stinging but
Parlamentary Rebuke.
During the discussion of
tradition measure in the House of
Representatives a day or two since,
Mr. .James, of Kentucky, took occa
sion to burl a few bolts at the Presi
dent and at Gov. Durbin, of Indiana,
because of his refusal to surrender
the murderer of Gov. Goebel to the
Kentucky authorities. That brought
Mr. Crumpaeker to bis feet and
he defended his friends the best be
could. He would have carried off the
honors of the little tilt, perhaps bad
not John Sharp Williams, of Missis,
sippi, thrown himself into the thick
est of the fray. The way Mr. Wil
liams made the fur fly from Crum
packer was a caution. He ripped
him up one side and down the other,
kicked the hones and threw the re
mains out the back window, as it
were, and tire Democrats enjoyed it
hugely.
"Mr. Chairman," said the distin
guished Mississippian, "politics is
one thing and Americanism is an
other thing, and there ought to be a
calm and cool consideration of a
grave question like this.
"Winding its way through the
country to the Mississippi river runs
the narrow thread of the 'beautiful
river,' as the Indians called it. On
one side are the people of Indiana,
on the other side are the people of
Kentucky, of the same parentage,
the same language, reading the same
literature, subject to the same law,
vith the same American traditions,
with the same American ideals.
And yet to-day every sentence in
the gentleman's speech is a quiet as
sumption that upon the left side of ,
that river the men who constitute j
juries, who, blood of blood and bone
of bone of the men upon the light
side of that river, and the men who
compose the courts are necessarily
corrupt and rotten and perjured, f
having taken oath, to do their duty
and that upon the other side of the
river there exists but one man who
beforehand, when not one word of
evidence had been heard, was com
petent, simply because lie was an j
lndianian and a Republican, to de. j
cide that this state of corruption did j
exist.
an ex
"Mr. Chairman, in some respects, i
and l say in all kindness, the speech |
made by the gentleman from In- I
diana, (Mr. Crtimpackerjis a dis- |
grace to American civilization and §
to American politics. There has
been loo much of this oozing out of
the assumption of superority upon
one side of that river, and inferiority
upon the other. Upon the forum,
upon the battlefield, upon the bench
in literature and everywhere they,
the people ot Kentucky, have been I
your equals if not your superiors.
''Gentlemen, one Edimm I Burke, '
long years ago, said that he did not
know how to draw au indictment j
against a whole people; hut the j
gentleman from Indiana can teach J
the great English statesman how to 1
draw it, and bow to draw it by in- •
uendo and from newspaper reports.''
—Clarion Ledger. j
The workmen who are engaged in j
remodeling the residence of Hon. G. A. ]
Wilson are rapidly completing their
work. ' This residence when comA
pleted will be one of the handsomest
in the city. __
$1.00 Timothy hay, bran, oats, com
and Purina. T. W. Smith & Sons Oft,
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