The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-05-25
State NeWSB Boiled Down.

""OhSoH NJ" Has Il COW CdJCucT,
Flies are terrible ut Port Gibson.
Ellisville has Il female photographer
The wooden mill at Corinth is busy
Gov. Stone attended the Press Con
venti0n.
Crop prospects around Ellisville ar,
excellent.
Wool sold for l3!c at Ocean Springs
the past week.
Poplarville High School has 225 on
the roll.
Biloxi is to have a $4,000 city hall
building
McComb City has Il chicken with
four legs.
1t has been quite stormy at Brook
haven.
Jackson entertained the Bankers
Association.
The Baptist church of Hickory Flat
is to be carpeted.
Scvcnteen-year locusts are making
their appearance.
Croquet parties and elocution are
the rage in Whitestown.
A loaf of bread, three feet long,
costs l0c in Bay st. Louis.
The Mississippi City court has dis
posed Of a divorce suit.
Yazoo City has IL new buildings
nearing completion.
Children's Day, in the different
churches. is popular.
Oxford University commencement
has been set for June 3D. to 9TH.
The Brookhaven Citizen gets SIS a
year for doing the city printing.
Ernest Mellard, Of Wesson, died
from Il carbuncle on his nose.
A music department will soon be
added to the Monticello academy.
The corn and cotton crops of Ran
Kin county are in good condition.
The Tupelo canning factory has
been destroyed by fire.
Meridian is to have another oil mill.
The pay roll will be 800 per week.
Houston, though 90 miles from the
railroad, will soon have a canning
factory.
Homemade lard and bacon are be-
ing sold by merchants of Columbia.
Senator McLaurin's speech will be
printed and distributed by the Demo-
cratic National Executive Committee.
A genuine tramp has not been seer
in McComb City since Coxcy organized
his army.
During a recent hail storm at b.
VIVA, a gopher 6Xs inches was in one
of the hail stones.
The Brandon News wants the peo-
pie of that place to wake up and have
a Fourth Of July celebration.
Greenwood has pair of shoes that
are over 100 years old. They have been
worn by babies of five generations.
Blind tiger keepers and timber
thieves have kept the Federal court
busy 50 far at Jackson.
The oil mill at Jackson has shut
down. This throws $50 men out of
employment.
The Valley Record is a 6-column
weekly paper, and its subscription
price, as published, is 300 per year,
Prof. j. c. Brooks has been rc-elcct-
ed superintendent of the public
schools at Yaz0O City.
Considerable Improvement, in the
way of handsome and solid buildings,
is going on at Summit.
The only Chinaman in the Confed-
crate army was enlisted from Missis-
sippi, and went from Madison county.
Miss Mamie Lott will deliver the
salutatOry and Miss Irene MaXey the
valedictory, of Brandon Female Col
legc.
Hon. A. NJ. Hicks, of Myrvillc, va
200 county, has been appointed Grand
Lecturer of the Masonic Order of the
State.
New Albany is talking of building
a $4,000 school house. The town has
442 school children; $50 OF whom are
white.
The Grand Lodge X. of p. has do
mated 5000 to the Protestant and 800
to the Catholic orphan asylums of
Natchez.
Gov. Stone has appointed W.. II.
Tribbett, of Terry, a delegate to the
Southern Interstate immigration
Convention at Augusta, Ga, May 80.
From the number Of circular letters
appearing now it would seem that
politicians are remembering that the
time has come to notice the "press."
Gen. b. 5. Kicks has been appoint
cd by Gov. Stone as Il delegate to the
Southern Interstate Immigration
Convention to be held at Augusta,
Ga, May 30.
The Grand Encampmcnt of Odd
Fellows have presented TheobOld En-
campment of OkOlOna a gold medal
for greatest increase In membership.
Theobold Lodge presented it to Mr..
j. W. Cunningham, for his active ex-
ertions in obtaining members.