The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-07-22

served an injunction on the state or
sanization of the Council of Calanthe,
an association Of negroes. restraining
them from holdig meetings, collecting
dues and paying out funds or transact
ing any lodge business whatever The
writ was sued out by the supreme
council of the order and the colored
knights OF Pythias.
State Auditor Smith reports that
the banks of the state are not COM
plying as promptly as usual with the
request sent 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.
Prof r. b. Waldrop, superintendent
or education, announces that the
Chickasaw and Webster county nor
NAL viii 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.
It appears that the people of WAYNE
and Clarke counties are going 10 have
joint fair and exposition during DC.
tober. which is to be held at Shubuta.
Clarke county
The board Of supervisors of Choctaw
county has ordered an election TO take
place on the goth of this month to de-
termine whether the courthouse shall
be abolished at Chester and the county
seat moved 10 Alderman. The county
was divided into two districts in 1900.
with one courthouse at Alderman and
the other at Chester. only six miles
apart
Inspired by the marked improve
ment in the bodybuilding in Bolivar
county within the past year, the PEG.
pie have decided to call a good
roads convention" to be held at Cleve-
land in the near future. The conyen-
ton will be under the auspices OF the
Cleveland Business Mems League, who
have asked the board of supervisors
of the county to cooperate with them
in extending the invitation to the peo-
pie all over the state, and from any
other place where parties are interest
ed enough in the good roads move
ment to come.
Yalobusha county is as wet as the
most pronounced anti-prohibitionis
would desire. All lowland crops have
been submerged. Creeks and rivers are
higher than at any time since 1900.
Bridges have been swept away and
much damage has been done by pie
thora of wetness. A citizen who has
kept tab on the rainfall says IT rained
forty-nine times during the month OF
June.
terrific waterspout fell at Derma,
coming on top of the incessant rains
for the past two weeks, has almost
ruined the crop prospects Whereabouts.
Schoona river is fully twelve inches
higher than has ever been known be-
fore. Three different pike roads
across the river have been washed
away entirely. The damage TO roads
and bridges alone will cost Calhoun
county thousands of dollars.
G.. w. Buford. one of the oldest
citizens of Lafayette county. died at
his home near Oxford Mr. Buford
was a farmer of the old school and an
elegant old-time Southern gentleman.
He was a prominent member of the
Lamar Rifles and was always present
at their reunions.
Chas. l.. Townes. one of the wealth
lest planters of Mississippi, died at
Minter City. as the result of an attack
Of apoplexy.
The farmers OF Marion county are
giving the boil weevil a hot reception.
Realizing that the weevil is no fake,
profiting by the experience of others,
and following the advice of govern
ment experts, the farmerA have start.
ed out In the fight with a grim earn
estness.
]. r. Pickle, Sr.. an aged citizen OF
ackerman. died of pellagra. His daugh-
ter, Miss Nora. is also suffering with
the same disease. These are the towns
first cases to be reported. the first
proving fatal.
Oisc ID lldS OH AZ thN
shape of a sunfiower grown by little
Miss Linnie May Wilkins. II meas
ures thirty-fiye and one fourth inches
in circumference and across its widest
portion is thirteen inches. another of
the same lot has a circumference OF
thirty-four inches.
The Tippah county Sunday school
convention will be held at Silver
Springs July 81 and D. Dinner Will
be served on the grounds each day. A
large crowd is expected.
DIR. w. T. Lowrey, director of the
summer normal at Clinton, states that
out of an enrolment of BIS there are
2I1 who went into the examination
This is n most gratifying showing for
the great success of the normal in the
work that has been accomplished
The commissioners OF the Belzoni
drainage district met in Belzonia and
organized by electing Fulton Hutson.
Of Isola, president; j. L. Jackson.
treasurer. O. j. Turner. secretary. and
N. W. Somervi;le. attorney. the latter
three Of Belzoni-