Laurel Ledger, The (Newspaper) - July 22, 1909, Laurel, Mississippi The Ledger Is wrong let the Gity Organ say so if we are correct the Mayor and three of his Council should resign THE LAUREL LEDGER Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter November at the Postoffice at Laurel of Congress of March VOL VIII NO 47 LAUREL JONES COUNTY MISS THURSDAY JULY 22 1909 PER YEAR EVIDENCE OF IMPROVEMENT Railroad Possibly Means Business by Operations Here A NEW STATION IS NEXT In Line of Section Houses Are Menace to East Front Sreet Property Holders The N 0 N E railroad has recently made slight ments on its property here which may be taken as a good omen of future material improvement The fence enclosing the small garden in front of the station has been put in good repairs and the general appearance of the lot improved Fairly good walks of plank and slag have been put in at the crossing on Central avenue The railroad evidently means to keep abreast with the spirit of growth in our town and is doubtless looking into the con- ditions of several of its holdings here with an eye to more rate expenditures for better vice and general development The station can no longer serve the demands naturally made on it It was erected when most sanguine hopes were to become a town of perhaps a thousand Now it is called upon to serve a city of more than ten times that population It was thought to accommodate an of ten traveling men a week but it now finds itself ing to serve Representatives of more than one hundred foreign every week Obviously we have grown out of its It belongs to a past which when Laurel thinks of she Was I ever that It is edly a relic of younger days Of course the railroad company are cognizant of these facts and de- steps will doubtless be taken in that direction at no distant date We will have a new depot Just in that connection let it be hoped that some favorable be made of the line of tion houses on East Front street south of Central avenue They front the railroad and therefore make some very obnoxious back yards fronting East street The negro inhabitants in these houses are very undesirable neighbors to the householders a- cross the street Anything like favorable relations are ble and in that of town real estate is kept down on account of the foregoing reasons These houses ought to be moved if not to the corporation line certainly further down the railroad Some of these improvements are now before the commission for investigation and tion And it is to be hoped that neither the railroad nor the com- mision shall be antagonised by those exercising too much en- and too little The railroad company will tainly recognize these things when they turn their attention to our town which it is hoped will be at an early date Consult Simmons your date photographer about your badies and children's photos Summer prices will prevail for thirty days Studio Oak street Laurel Miss Mrs J W Ford of Miss is spending some days at the home of her son R L Ford on Rumble street New lot of local views just in Send your friend a post card of city scenes Mississippi Drug Co Dr J P Spinks of Shubuta stopped off between trains day to see his many friends here A few nice pattern hats at half price on all millinery goods Co G T Powers will soon be ready to move into his now house in north Laurel Big stock of Laces and Em- broideries to a yard Co FOR male Terrier pups the kind that kill the rats Phone 270 bright gent young men to travel Ex- penses advanced commissions paid in full every week Must call in person J W DUPRE Magnolia Hotel Call 11 a m to 3 p m Good table board at per week Near Northeastern depot Phone 270 REMOVED I have moved across the street from my former stand This puts the most convenient side for my trade and also gives other advantages I am now better prepared than heretofore to serve my trade Drop in and leave your order in passing Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Phone 94 H J BUSH COUNCIL FAILS TO MEET MERIDIAN CASE CITED A lively session of the council was expected for Tuesday night's meeting but a quorum could not be corralled Whether this was an ordinary mishap or one for a purpose is for the interested ties to solve for themselves for a Laurel council never gives out information on its failure to form a public duty The people were curious to know what the board proposed to do with the REPAIR proposition on the old red store Private citizens are frequently turned down on their applications for repair permits for frame structures within the fire limits Mr Warren was not allowed to attach his building to a brick side At a recent meeting H H Rowell was turned down on re- pairing his building on front street not allowed to put back posts removed for side walk con- struction although the mayor had privately pledged to replace all damage caused by the moving of the side walk Some months ago a private citizen sought a permit to move the old red store onto a lot west of the rick Co but was lead to feel that it would be useless to go before the council as his lot was within the fire limits Later however when a member of the council be- came interested it was no ble to get a permit to move this old shack and leave it right on one of the most prominent ness thoroughfares When this move was threatened by tion it was agreed to sell it to be torn down but more light dawned to the interested parties one of whom note you is a member of the council and they proposed to show the people a trick or But more revolting still to a al public is the fact that after this old shack was on the lot re- pair work began at once without a permit and even more of an outrage still is that a quorum can't be had when citizens want to present this state of affairs to the council for redress We submit for the people of Laurel means one of two The parties interested in the financing of the old store move feel that they can depend upon the council to protect them or they propose to bully the town Marshal Duckworth ed today and found no permit for repairing the old store building He gave out orders that it would require a permit to continue Equal rights to all or special privileges to the few Let the mayor and the council respect thier own city ordinances or get down off the next stated that he had heard considerable cism of himself because of the fact that tho city had purchased some brick from the Bonita Brick company in he happens to be a stockholder Mr Parker said that he had made an and found that the Bonita Brick company had sold the city just worth of bricks sincd he was mayor but that in the future that company would refuse to sell the city any more bricks The above is taken from a Meridian paper reporting a cil meeting it for two reasons H shows that other towns do violate the law by ishing the city It also shows a decided contrast between the Meridian mayor and the Laurel mayor Here its none of the people's business The council does as it chooses law or no law and the man who wants to know their authority becomes a ing stock for them Miss Lula Smith Miss Lula Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs died at their home in Kingston this morning after an illness of six weeks with fever The remains will be carried to Sandersville for interment tomorrow Miss Smith was twenty years of age of a most lovable tion and greatly esteemed by all who knew her for her noble traits of Christian character THE COUNTY OFFICERS MAKE A GOOD RAID Whiskey and Beer Pound and Convictions Follow Deputies Hill and Boutwell have made several raids with good results this week Anzie Smiths place was raided and 60 quarts of beer and some whiskey found Maggie Trotter was given and cost in Justice court for Lula Johnston got off with 820 and cost for allowing the thirst liquid sold in her place Six casks of this personal fluid were captured day night A agent was ar- rested Tuesday He plead ty and received 850.00 Eight casks of beer and four of key were found consigned for his agency here It develops that a great deal of whiskey and beer has been sold here lately and most of it bv these agents who have the shipments here and get out and sell The people who prize morals and character more than money or or peace in the camp will be found lined up with the county officers who are willing to shoulder the responsibility and work in an fort to rid the community of these pests A constant and persistent watch by tho officers and the full limit of the law by the courts are the only remedies To make any concessions or compromises is to license the crime You can depend on any shoe you buy from us we only handle reliable goods ker Co D R Jenkins one of Jones county's well-known teachers who is now conducting a summer school at Myrick was in the city Saturday The swellest and newest line of local views in the city Buy your post cards here Miss Drug Co Street Commissioner Phil Cook has been working in Kingston some this week with the full con- sent of that part of town Rev T W Adams had as guests at dinner Rev J A Moore Mt Olive W J Ferguson Brooklin and W W Moore of West End Laurel THE BOLL WEEVIL IS ACTUALLY HERE i So Say Men Who Have Had Ex- with the Bug Communications from various parts of the county announce the boll weevil So general has be- come the cry that it seems to warrant the statement that they are actually here Specimens from all over the county have been sent in to this office and they all bear the same general appearance of sey writes that the weevil is in the cotton patches of his and that they are much harm to the cotton Mr Tom Geiger of Louisiana who for two years has had with the bug gives out on authority that the weevil found in the cotton of this county is the Mexican weevil Ladies Waists to 85 worth to 810 Special prices on all summer goods aker Co We make tinselling a specialty Select your post cards and have them tinselled as you like Miss Drug Co W C and J M two prominent farmers of near vice were business visitors in our town Monday School Board Meeting Postponed On account of the continued illness of Supt T E Waldrup the county school board will not meet until Friday and Saturday July 30 and 31 Friday at Laurel and Saturday at Ellisville We Are Going to Get Rid of Them Sure by SO WE Any Suit in Our BlacKs and A Few of the Worst Brohen Lots We Offer at SEE WINDOW DISPLAY CENTRAL AVENUE
