Governor-elect Bilbo Plans Fiscal Reform in Mississippi
Governor-elect Bilbo returns to Jackson after a Hot Springs sojourn and outlines immediate aims for the Legislature in January. He pledges careful study of Mississippi finances, the needs of institutions, and potential new laws or trimming old ones to deliver what he calls the best administration yet. An exchange criticizes tax assessments for relying on unsupported statements, noting the burden on small farmers and the tendency of large landowners and corporations to withhold taxes.
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Bilbo
Jackson
Hot Springs
Exchange
Asset values and market vitality in national trade
The text notes assigning assets at less than one tenth of their market value within the country, signaling a disparity between official appraisal and true market worth. It implies economic distortions and potential regulatory or policy implications in domestic asset valuation.
Supreme Court Upholds Rankin County Tax Levy Decision
The Supreme Court sustains the Board of Supervisors of Rankin County in levying a four mill tax on petition of Cross Roads consolidated school district voters. The chancery court’s injunction against collection is void, and the bill is dismissed. An appeal upheld the chancellor’s decision.
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Supreme Court
J. T. Purvis
G. O. Robinson
Board of Supervisors of
Rankin County
Cross Roads Consolidated School District
Chancery Court
Condition of cotton at lowest point on record
The Times-Picayune reports its correspondents show the cotton crop as of October 12 with a consensus that conditions are likely the lowest on record. Unfavorable weather and boll weevil damage, especially in Alabama and Arkansas, have driven the decline. picking is advancing and seed cotton needed for a 500-pound bale is high. Labor is ample due to the poor yield, and farmers intend to hold with funds available.
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Times-Picayune
Alabama
Arkansas
Mississippi Farm Workers Earnings Highlighted in Lecture
Dr. Nelson spoke at the courthouse Friday night detailing earnings gaps between regions. He compared Mississippi farm workers earning half a cow per person to central west workers earning over $600 annually, noting machinery advances and the link between accomplishment and income.
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Central West
Illinois
South
Dr. Nelson
Court House
Nelson
Orient
Europe
Laurel
Officers Appointed to Hold Rankin County Election
Election commissioners named managers clerks and bailiffs across Rankin County for the November 2 general election. Returning officers will collect and return the ballot boxes. no boxes may be mailed or sent by express. Locations include Steen's Creek Cleary Mt. Creek Whites Plain Brandon Oakdale and more with listed individuals as managers clerks and bailiffs.
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Rankin County
J. M. Hemphill
J. A. Holcombe
A. T. Pace
S. S. Pierce, Sr
Mt. Creek
E. O. Weathersby
J. P. Clark
Jeff Butler
W. B. Bridges
H. A. Laird
W. S. Compere
G. W. Sebren
W. See
J. W
J. T. Berry
John W. Simmons
Oakdale
G.B. Miller
J. E. Kersh
J. M. Williams
C.C. Rouse
E. A. Smith
1915 Crop Pecans Sell at 20 Cents a Pound
Classified notice from Rankin County Mississippi advertising pecan sale at 20 cents per pound and listing Mrs. W. S. May contact. Includes probate notice for Maggie R. Buchanan estate seeking claims filed within one year and a separate legal notice about an attachment against E. R. Sloan in Rankin County circuit court with a January 1916 deadline.
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Mississippi
Rankin County
Chancery Court
Maggie R. Buchanan
Buchanan
P. Henry
State of
E. R. Sloan
W. H. Watkins
Ninty
Brandon
A. D
J.A. Linpsey
Notice to all borrow ers of township school funds and bidders
Notices warn borrowers of township school funds of foreclosure if interest not paid by December 1 1915. Sealed bids invited to build a bridge between Bob Gate's Store and Clear Creek. Special Commissioner to sell land under decree of Rankin County Chancery Court. Sale set for first Monday in November 1915 in Brandon.
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State of Mississippo
Eugene
Shancery Court
Rankin County
Mississippi
Court of Inn
Chancery Clerk's
Bob Gate
Clear Creek
T. L. Gay
Courtney Butler
Interior Lumber Company
Chancery Court
Said County
Brandon
T. T. Cottrell
Special Commission
H. A. Busick, Jr
L. D. Carter
G. QO. Robinson
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Y. D. Butler
St. Louis, Mo
American Optical Association
Pelahatchie
Darnall
But Immeiately
Butler
The
Brandon News
Brandon, Miss
S. May
Mississippi State Fair
City of
United States Department of Agriculture
G. E. Hoover
W. D. Hannah, J. L. Knochs
Thad B. Lamp L. B. Mosley
On, G
P. M’rae
Commissioners
J. M. McRight
Pearson
J. F. Boehle
C. R. Biederman
A. A. Smallwood
Jno
B. L. Ferguson
L. T. Lawrence
J. L. Long
R. S. Latham
Pat Allen
M. W. Tubbs
Pisgah
Chas. Horne
W. S. Bates
J. F. Baker
Ollie Worley
Eddie Anderson
C. A. Baker
Red Oak
J. W. Harrell
G. W. Holmes
W. H. Walsh
C. C. McKay
J. M. Parker
C. W. Cox
J. Y. Barnes
W. L. Barrow
R. V. Shields
KE. E. Jones
B. F. Mulhollan
Cross Roads
A. P. White
J. R. Huff
W. M. Huffman, Jr
I. R. Knight
W. A. Martin
J. S. Franklin
Shiloh
D. G. Ragsdale
O. B. Roberts
Virgil Rhodes
J. E. Johnson
L. C. Roberts
Jasper Rhodes
Antioch
Ellis Donnell
W. J. Gill
J. W. Summer
J. T
T. L. Morgan
C. M. C. Shotts
Dobson
R. E. Barnett
G. L. Bass
J. H. Brown
J. R. May
J. H. Nash
Amos Kendall
Dry Creek
T. L. Cook
E. Runnels
B. F. Wilkins
O. J. Ragland
O. C. Billingslea
J. P. Bullock
W. S. May
Commissioners Sale
E. Knight
Board of Supervisors
A. Ys
Board of
Sucaviene
Andrew Carnegie
America
State OF Mississippi Bank
Miss
Sidney L. McLaurin
Presid
Ent
Roy Lident
Depositors’ Guarantee Fund OF
Pelahatchie Bank
Z. D. Davis
A.G. Purvis
Cumberland
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