Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-07-22

to catch up.
At a meeting of the A. NJ. E. Zion
Church for the states of Tennessee
n Mississippi, it was decided to
found a negro industrial school at
CORTLAND and so acres of land, costing
$1,450, yer purchased. The board will
spend $4,000 on the building and Will
open the school the first Wednesday
in October.
Hon. John Y. hurry, Jr., former
manager Of the Ripley branch of fish
omingO Savings Institution, which in
stitutiOn failed in December, 1907 who
was indicted by the grand jury on
the charge Of receiving money for de
posit after the bank had become in
solvent, was acquitted in the court at
Ripley.
United States Deputy Marshal Lyon
served an injunction on the state or
ganiZatiOn of the Council Of Calanthe,
an association of negroes, restraining
them from holdig meetings, collecting
dues and paying out funds or transact
MS any 1OuSS DuO1lICoS HC
writ was sued out by the supreme
council of the order and the colored
knights of Pythias.
Jesse Scott, the white man who was
convicted and sentenced by the circuit
court Of Sunf1Ower county to pay the
death penalty for the murder Of an
other white man, w. L. Embrey, near
Cleveland, Miss, in May of last year,
has become hOpelessly insane.
The Sherman normal, arranged by
Union, Lee, Pontotoc and Tippah cOun-
ties, began with about 100 teachers in
attendance. Miss Susie V. Powell gave
interesting and instructive talks on
school improvement work and school
hygiene and sanitation.
Prof. R. B. WaldrOp, superintendent
OF education, announces that the
C~hickasaw and Webster county nor,
NAL will be held at Woodland in Au-
gust. The normal will be under the
management of Prof. Waldrop, and
Prof. Shaw, superintendent of Web
ster county.
1t appears that the people Of Wayne
and Clarke counties are going to have
a1jOint fair and exposition during Oc,
tober, which is to be held at Shubuta,
Clarke county.
The university normal closed with
appropriate exercises. This has been
he best and most numerousl yattend-
ed normal ever held at the University
Of Mississippi. These summer normals
are becoming more and more popular
and are attracting a better grade OF
teachers each year.
In the seventy-third year OF his life
Rev. G. w. Potter died at Nettleton.
Rev. Mr.. Potter spent most of his life
as a Baptist minister and teaching
school over the northern part of the
state.
An interesting normal for Chickasaw
and Webster counties will be heId in
Woodland. An exceptionally strong
faculty has been selected, and mate
rial for a model school" secured.
The farmers of Choctaw county are
very blue over the crop situation. II
has rained nearly every day for three
weeks and crops are getting awfuIIy
grassy.
The Democratic congressional ex.
ecutive committee of the Fourth con.
g~ressiOnal district of Mississippi has
ordered a primary to be held August
25th.
A farmer by the name Of Kutts, who
lives a few miles from Alderman, had
on exhibition a squash Of his raising
which weighed thirty-nine pounds.
At an enthusiastic meeting held at
preliminary survey Of the Tutwiler,
Guide and Yazoo City railroad at once.
The East Tennessee and Mississippi
Orchard Company of New Albany, is
now making large shipments of peach
es, and last week shipped 1000 crates
of the Belle Of Georgia n the FL
berta.
State Auditor Smith report that
the banks Of the state are not com
plying as promptly as usual with the
request ent out two weeks ago for
statement Of their conditions at the
close of business June 80, for the in
formation of the comptroller Of the
currency.