The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-06-22
State News Boiled Down,


Magnolia has a brass band.
kentwood has a box factory.
Much needed rains have fallen.
McComb City is still improving.
Ellisyille has $40 school children.
Beware of unwashed b%lackberries.
Bay st. Louis has a public library.
The Ripley Sentinel is enterprising.
New Albany is on a building boom.
West Point wants a fire department.
El!isyille has two night watchm-en.
A street sprinkler is needed in Hat
tiesburg.
Columbia wants a telephone line to
Puryis.
The cemeteries of Columbia are
knee-dcap with weeds.
ElliSyille wants an arteSian well,
since it cannot have a bank.
A large saw mill is being built at
Rosetta.
Pontotoc county invites Northern
and Western immigration.
Poplarville has a Wool Growers AS
ISOLATION.
McComb City will have six weddings
within the next few days.
Natchez has some expert lady BIZ
cycle riders.
There Is not a Populite in Washing
ton county.
Chatawa ships 100 cars of gravel
every day.
Jones county has 1856 white, and
1,0l9 colored school children.
Escapes from the State %penitentiary
are getting common.
Meridian has 10 churches and II
secret societies.
Pythian Decoration Day was gen.
orally observed in the State.
All the small towns are looking to
protection from fires.
A rich vein of gold has been dis
covered in Rankin county.
On the 18th inst. a $4,000 fire oc-
Cured in Nicksburg.
This State has % building and loan
associations.
Grasshoppers are destroying cotton
near V%icksburg.
Merchants business league is doing
good work for that city.
Poplar springs is healthy, and bust
ness is lively.
Populiteism will soon be a thing of
the past in this State.
Up to June It'll Crystal Springs had
shipped l64 car loads of vegetables.
The grand jury at Port Gibson has
returned three true bills for murder.
st. Johns Day will be celebrated
by the Masons throughout the State.
Marshall county has 10, 954 school
children BIS white, and 1886 colorcd.
Twcnty-siX young ladies graduated
from Whitworth College, Brookhaven,
at the session just closed.
The Peabody normal at Oxford
opened with 800 teachers in attend
ance.
Only one bank in the State has been
forced into liquidation by the hard
times.
Bay st. Louis uses slcuth hounds to
destroy ''blind tigers" within her
borders.
Counterfeit money has been circu-
lated in Greenwood. Two arrests have
been made.
A horned snake was killed at Sum-
NIT recently. The horn was two-and-
a-half inches long.
Williamsburg wants a school, and
j. +. W. lIuddleston is willing to
donate the land on which to erect it.
There is not an old eX.slave among
all the negroes confined in the State
prison they are all new niggers."
West Point has citizens who are not
afraid to invest some of their money
in public enterprises.
There were IS arrivals at Cooper's
Well last week eight of whom made
the journey or bicycles.
The West Point canning factory
opened June 18th, and will run night
and day through the season.
ga curlly-headed saint" is what the
Aberdeen Examiner calls a negro of
that town who is in Jail for stealing.
A colorcd school teacher of Indiana.
la has been caught robbing a store.
Other colorcd teachers are Implicated.
The men in the Y. & NJ. V. shops at
Vicksburg, $50 in number, are working
only five days a week, and eight hours
per day.
Bicycles were used TO carry the Ma
rion county white cap news to the
telegraph Office. The wheelmen made
80 miles in four hours.
The Williamsburg Waterman says:
ut is getting SO hot that sheol is a
moderate expression and would be a
delightful summer residence"