The Jones County news., 1915-02-18
Mississippi.

Springs last week.
Carranza has expelled the Spanish
minister from Mexico.
Germany is getting ready to Dor.
row another billion dollars,
There has been a decrease in the
earnings of the Gulf and Ship Island
railroad.
There has not been a single prisor-
er in the county Jail at Forest for
three months.
Several persons narrowly escaped
injury when freight car crashed into
a Natchez depot.
The PresbytC rial Conference Of the
Meridian district was held at Hat
tiesburg last Thursday
An American woman has been ar
rested as a spy in Berlin. She was a
newspaper correspondent.
An agreement to put down the tral-
fc in opium has been signed by the
United States, China and the Neither
lands.
The advocates of female suffrage
are going to try and make this ques-
tion an issue in the campaign this
summer.
Two men. believed responsible for
the bank robbery at New Hebron,
Miss, were taken from a train at
Hattiesburg.
A suit has been filed against the G,
& S. 1. Railroad alleging violation of
the law preventing the overworking
Of their employees.
fall the pledges are met on time,
the new $50, 600 Y. NJ G. A. building,
now being erected in Hattiesburg
will be ready for occupancy by July
/.
The Travis & Abney store at
Heidelburg was burglarized one
night last week and large quantity
Of goods stolen. The thieves left no
clue.
L. B Geiger filed the face of H.
Carter, of Hatuesburg, with shot
when the latter came between the
former and covey of quail on the
wing.
The constitutinalitY of the anti
dipping law is to be tested. Judge
Everett. in the Circuit Court of Lee
fore county. declared it unconstitu-
tional
The Board of Trustees of the peni-
tenMary will consider the question of
using part Of the convict labor to
crush lime for sale TO the farmers, at
the meeting to be held on March ?.
S. A. Brown, a jackson barber, was
arrested for bigamy, on the charge OF
Miss Minnie Dixon, who alleged that
he married her, in spite of the fact
that he had wife and child in Meri-
dian.
The Alabama law prohibiting news
papers from carrying liquor adver-
tising is being tested in the courts
This law prohibits newspapers with
liquor advertising being brought into
the State.
In the. Senate last week Senator
John Sharp Williams came to the
defense of the president in the ship
purchase fight. The two Mississippi
Senators have locked horns again
over this bill.
Near West, Bernice Melton, aged
ten years, Fell from wagon used for
purpose of conveying the children to
the school house. The wheels of the
vehicle passed over her body snd life
was extinct when the body was picked
up.
Mr.. Mckay, director of farm ex-
tension work, says that the farmers
would make a mistake II they try to
raise unacciimated yellow corn. He
says that it will take years to pro-
duce a satisfactory yellow corn seed
adapted TO the South.
A Middleton, progressive North
ern farmer. residing five miles south
of Canton, who is also engaged largly
In stock raising, has lost II head of
valuable horses and colts, as we'll as
very fine jack valued at $1,000, from
feeding them from his silo.
Special Officer Ludie Monette is in
the Meridian hospital badly shot by
negro named Dozier Brogan, and who
is also in the hospital slightly wound
ed. The officer, while walking along
the M. & 0. Railway track, met two
negroes, one with an iron rod in his
hand. The officer started toward
Began to search him when the shoot
ing took place.
While bird hunting seven miles
above Forest, Cliff Dustin and Sam
Lovett found the den of a wolf in the
trunk of a hollow oak tree. There
were four young wolves, the size of
kittens, in the den. One of these was
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