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S— . —.— ■" The Progress. 8. B. Boosts, Editor and Proprietor 0. D. BftOVl, Associate Editor. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ~YADOBUSHA COUNTY— Metered at the Poet Office at Water FaUer. as Second Class Matter. SATURDAY. 8BPT. 12, -1903. mrnmimmmmmmmamBemaaBBeamBmmm Democratic Nominees. For Governor, Jas. K. Vardaman United States Senate—Term begin ning 1907, A. J McLaurin. Unite! States Senate—Term begin ning 19o4. H. D. Money. District Attorney-Eleventh Judicial Dlstrlot, Bari Brewer. State Senator—28th District, James Moore. ' ■ . __ ' ■ !' ' jh&jva V'*. I? " For Representative, Jas. G. McGowen. J. Mel Smith. For Sheriff, G W Price For County Treasurer, S D Boyle Circuit Clerk, L L. Blount. For Chancery Clerk, J Leland Trusty For Tax Assessor, W ▲ Nolen For Coanty Supt. of E-luoation, J It Hoduett ~p Light frosts ars reported from tho Northwest. Bsor sssm to h%ve control of the cotton situation and have hammered down prices nearly a sent a pound in the face of poor orop reports. Tho Democrats of Louisiana will nominate their candidates by tho primary election system, having adopted, in the main, the Mississippi plen. Judge Grits, late candidate for governor, has issued an address to tho people of Mississippi in whieh he returns thanks to hie supporters for the gallant fight Mads is his. behalf. The Mexican boll weevel is de* otroying thousands and thousands of acres of cotton in portions of Texas. It is estimated that in a number of counties the crop will not overage more than a bale to coven acres. The Columbian senate has ap pointed a special commission to draw up another canal bill to be the basis of a new treaty which thud government woull be au thorised to negotiate with the United States. The Columbian Commission pmpoposes a new canal treaty with fee United States. It de mands as the price of concession twenty million dollars, besides a yearly rental of $10,000,000 by the canal coafjjany. Gov. Lon^ihb'has appointed Hon. W1U T. McDonald, of Bay St Iionio, as judge of the first circuit court district to succeed Judge J. H. Neville resigned. Judge McDonald is comparative ly a young man. He was raised in Benton oounty; is a graduate of the law department of the State University, and one of the attorneys of South Mis mm Mississippi Matters. Congressman John Sharpo Wil liams is in Louisville, Ky., where he has gone for surgical treat ment. A white farmer named Barnes was shot and killed from ambush m Smith coanty. No clue to the murderer. Six citizens of Smith county have been placed under arrest by the Federal authorities under a charge of whitecapping. A bill providing for a uniform system of school text-books for the State will be strenuously urg ed in the next Legislature. The official count shows that 556 more votes were ca^t in the State forgovernor in the sec ond primary than in the first. Cotton picking is becoming general in the southern portiou of Mississippi. The chief com plaint is the scarcity of pickers. P. B. King, jr.. the son of a prominent druggist in Jackson, was killed by an engine at Terry. He was an employe of the I. C. railroad, The Mississippi division of the Kings Daughters will make an effort to have a child labor bill passed by the Legislature at its next session. According to the estimate of Secretary Hester of the New Or leans Cotton Exchange, Missis sippi’s cotton crop last year was 1,400,000 bales. In two days the Federal grand jury at Biloxi found eighty-eight indictments. The most of them were for timber depredations and unlawful retailing. The case of the State against White Owens for the murder of the Montgomerys, was tried in the Marshall county circuit court last week. The verdict of the jury was “not guilty.” It is cur rently rumored at Jack son that two more circuit court judges will tender their resigna tions before the end of this year. The rumor mentions Judge W. F. Stevens, of the fifth district, and Judge P. H, Lowrey, of the third district. World’s Fair Commissioner Henry and J. F. Barnes, a well known contractor, are at Beau= voir, where they have gone to take the dimensions of Jefferson Davis’ old home, which is to be reproduced at the World’s Fair in the Mississippi building. Mr. Barnes has been designated to erect the building and has agreed to do so without profit. Com. missioner Henry says the lumber men of the State have contrib uted almost enough lumber to construct the building. Brooks story, the noted express robber, who escaped last week from the Rankin county convict farm, has returned to prison life. Monday evening he walked into Gov. Longino’s office, and said he wanted to apologize “for escap ing.” He stated that he had no intention of remaining perma nently away from prison, but that he had received word that his wife was sick at Kosciusko, and feeling confident that he could not get a leave of absence if re quested, decided to take a tem porary leave without asking. He said he had made the trip to Kos ciusko and, after seeing his wife, came on back to Jackson. The governor ordered him to return to the prison office. The first Monday in Saptember has been set apart in nearly ev ery State of the Union by legis lation as Labor Day—the work* ingmen’s holiday. The first cel. ebration of Labor Day took place in New York, September 5,1882, Last Monday, the 7th, was gen erally observed as « holiday by laboring men in the towns and cities throughout the United States. In many of the larger cities the principal features were parades of labor bodies, speeches, <fcc. -m m Hi ^————— PROCEEDINGS, Board ot Supervisors. Yalobusha County, September Term, 1903. Accounts Allowed. T H Brewer, sal & stmps $ 53 56 Courier et al, acct 12 00 L L Blount, tak’g registra tion, mak’g poll books, 300 00 Woodard & Tiernan,prit’g 54 00 Brandon Print. Co. acct 3 50 J B Pate, reco’d deed, 1 25 J D Riyburn, pau. acct, 23 00 J G Simpson, lumber 52 70 R H Wilboum, bd’ge w’k. 6 00 W A McOartnoy, lumber, 15 12 J M Allen, clean, c’t h’se, 2 00 W W Koonce, lumber 16 05 J T Barry, build, bridge 29 2.1 Sam Moora. rep. levee 3 00 Lee Roberts, lumber t 10 H W Durant, lumber 21 47 McLarty & Oj.. paid work on levee, 1 00 J M Berry, w’k on .ovee 4 00 J M Allen, acet 31 tO J K Coulter, lumber 6 25 Denley & Chapman, work 16 no John Countiss, lumber 20 80 E A Davis, lumber 17 33 Mrs M L Robinson, et al., tem. relief 17 50 Blount & Stone, attys 10 00 J H Bates & Co., acct 2 50 J T Trusty, road contract. District 2 315 00 Ordered That J M Allen, tax collector, be charged with the following amounts, additional assessments reported by him for the years 1902*3: On account of personal roll $1,705.00; Account Rolls, personal 'rolls $52.00; ^Account Realty, additional, $1,795.00, and that he account in settlement of taxes for the year 1903 for tax on same. That said J M Allen be allow ed credit on his said assessment rolls for the following amount erroneously assessed, $1,600.00. That J M Allen be allowed credit for delinquent personal lists presented at this date: ^Per sonal propei ty solvencies $350.98; Delinquent polls (1697) $3,394.00. The partial report of Sheriff J M Alien on personal and polls was received by the Board and further time given for comple tion of annual report. The resignation of J W Me Larty, Supervisor from Beat 3, was accepted by the Board and office declared vacant. That H W Hunter take charge of the business of Beit 3 until the Supervisor-elect be sworn in. , mi i it_r.11 fovea TDT* lUdil luu —# the ensuing fiscal year be levied: State—6 mills. General County—fc mills. School—1 mill Court House—1-2 mill. Road—1 mill. Bridge—1 mill. Total 15 1-2. W C Vickery was elected by the Board to fill the vacancy in the Board of School Examiners created by the expiration of the term of H E Hunter. The following road contractors report the names of those who have worked out their time, and same is reported to Sheriff and Tax Collector: Road District 1—none. Road District 2—none. Road District 3—none. Road District 4—none. Road District 5—none. It is therefore ordered by the Board that said Sheriff and Tax Collector proceed and collect all road tax as per assessment lists made under the law of 1900, chap ter 119, in Yalobusha county for the year 1903. The Bureau weekly summary of crop conditions, Sept. 8, states that cotton during the last week had greatly deterioated, much rust and shedding throughout the cotton belt, and prematurely opening. The boil weevil con tinues to operate in Texas. The negro might do worse than go back to his Southern home. It is true that he may not enjoy the right of suffrage to an extent as he does in the North, but the Southern man understands him better, and eyerything consider ed, treats him better than any* We Are Here to Stay, and we earnestly solicit yoar pitroiage. Wo arj a tt mj Institu tion and beheyo wo are w jrtliy Investigate us. You are sure to give us your boys and girls if you do. 0 all or drop postal to McIntosh Training School, Water Valley, Miss. Your Spring Irugs. I1 i n-) i') i jf > * l an / (ii'i th , are now, or soon will be seasonable? • Disinfectants, house cleaning help9 moth balls, spring remedies etc. We want you to see us about them We wish to show you the quality and to demonstrate how low our pri ces are. Our knoweledge of drugs has been gained, first, by a full course in one of the best Colleges ot Pharmycy, second, by greater practi cal experience in this locality than any one else has hai. We aro able to afford you SECURITY AND i \.VL f Spencer 8c Jennings, Prescription Druggists. We Are Paying Out VE3TJLGA.TE and if wa deserve it, give us your boys and girls this Fall. McIntosh Training School, wateh vallev, miss. one else. Climate, environment and everything else will be in hie favor, and the plow and the hoe are the beat tools on earth for him to carve out hia future.— Chicago Herald. Joe Grimes, the lurgest man in the world, died at his home in Chicago last week, “Big Joe,’’ as he was called, weighed 754 pounds; he was 34 years old, and had toured the world with mu< seums, and as a representative of a bicycle manufacturing com* pany. CROUP. Usually begins with the symp* toms of a common cold; there is chilliness, sneezing, sore thioat, hot skin, quick pulse, hoarseness and impeded respiration. Give frequent small doses of Ballard’s Horehond Syrup, (the child will cry for it) and at the first sign ol a croupy cough, apply frequently Ballard’s Snow Liniment to the throat, 50c. at Robinson’s Drug Store. 21 Years a Dyspeptic. E H Foster, 318, 8 2d St. Salt Lake Oity, writes: *‘I have been bothered with dyspepsia or indi gestion for 21 years: tried mapy dpctors without relief; recently Igota bottle of Herbine. One bottle cured me, I am now taper ing off on the second. I have recommend* d it to my friends, it is curing them, too.” 50c. Rob inson’s Drug Store. Devoured by Worms. Children often, not from pain, but from hunger, although fed abundantly. The entire trouble arises from inanition, their food is not assimilated, but devoured i by worms. A few doses of White’s Cream Vermifuge will cause them to cease from crying and begin to thrive at once, very much to the surprise and joy oi the mother. 25c. at Robinson’^ Drug Store. Raised from the Dead. C W Landis, porter for the Ori ental hotel, Chanute, Kan., says, “I know what it is to suffer with neuralgia, indeed 1 did, and I got a bottle of Ballards Snow Lini n ent and i was ‘raised from the dead.’ I tried to get some more, but qefore I had ‘deposed’ of my bottle, I was cured entirelv. Iam telling de truth, too.” 25c., 50c, and $1.00 at Robinson’s Drug Store. Artesian Well Notice. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors will receive sealed bids at the Oourt House in . Water Valley on Monday, Oct, the 5th, tor the repairing and boring deeper of the artesian well at the Oourt House in the town of Ooffeeville, a sufficient depth to secure a how of not less than 2 gallons per minute. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. J. D. Haile, Olerk of Board L. L. Blount, D. 0. Sept, 8,1908, 3—T Do you suffer with Constipa tion, Liver Complaint, Billoufnes* Sour Stomach, Indigestion, Jaun dice, etc? If so, Dr. Mendenhall’s Liver Regulator, (tastless,) will cure you. Price .25—Sold by Les lie Smith. T eacher’sExatti ination. Examinations will be held as follows; For white Teachers in Water Valley on Friday and Sat urday September 18 and 19. and in Coffeeville October 23 and 24, For colored Teachers m Water Valley on Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26 and in Cof* feeville October 30 and 31. No visitors allowed. T. H. Brewer, Supt., of Education. TAKE THE G. & S. I. R. R Q nicest and Best. Connects witb trains in all directions at Golf* port, Hattiesburg and Jackson. —o — Through Line to Gulfport, Miss., the Newport of the South. —o— Double Daily Service. Short Line between Jackson and the Gulf, making close connec* tions with trains or all points from Gulfport, Hatiesbnrg and Jackson. Two Through Trains Daily. Parties can leave Jackson in the afternoon and reach Mobile or HI points on the Gulf Coast the same fl night, or take the L. & N. coast fl train in the morning and go to the K interior towns without lying overff in Gulfport. 1000 mile tickets, good for onefl year, $25.00. fl For further particulars call onM or address S. D. Boyldston, o. p, a.% m rhos, P. Hale, 2d V’ice-Pre’st • fl ‘ Gulfport, Miser fl