The Bolivar County Democrat., 1915-04-03
News Items of
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The residence of Judge Cary C. Moo
dy, Indianola, was destroyed by fire.
Insurance of $500 ON the house and
$4,000 on the furniture was carried.
All past grand masters will be pre-
sented with jewels at the fifty-fifth an
nual grand conclave of the grand COM
mandery Of Mississippi knights Tenn
plar at Natchez May 4 and S.
Frank Treadwell died at his home
at Early Grove. He was the first sher-
iff of Benton county, having been ap.
pointed by Gov. Alcorn when the coun
ty was formed in 1870. He was ~
years Of age.
Mrs. Fannie Harris, 50 years Of age,
Of Terry, was seriously injured whsn
the horse attached to buggy in which
she was riding took fight at passing
motorcycle and ran away. Mrs. Harris
received a cash on the head and 2
broken ankle.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the eleventh annual meeting
Of the Mississippi Woman's Suffrage
Association, which convenes in Green
Vile April and 8. The convention
will be featured by addresses by DR..
Anna H. Shaw, national president Suf.
frage Association, and Mrs. Medill Nc
Cormick, chairman of the national con
gressional committee.
The Amory public school building
was destroyed by fire in the early
morning. When the fire was discov-
cred the building was enveloped in
flames and those first arriving could
not enter because OF the intense heat.
No part of the library, furniture or 9th
er equipment Of the school or build
ing could be saved. 1t is a total loss
to the city of about $25,00O, except two
policies of insurance amounting to $10,-
900. The origin of the fire is unknown.
DR.. H. M. Faser, president of the
Mississippi State Pharmaceutical
Board of Examiners, who is also dean
of the pharmacy department of the uni
versity, announces that the board
would meet Tuesday, April 6, at Jack
son, to hold the semi-annual examina
tion. DR.. Faser stated that a large
class Of applicants is expected to be at
Jackson to stand the examination for
the purpose of securing license to prac
tice pharmacy in the, state.
The third days session of the Won
ans Missionary Society of the North
Mississippi Conference was featured
by a memorial service and an automo-
bile visit to the Cooperative Home and
reception to the delegates and visitors.
The Cooperative Home in Corinth is
new institution, enterprised by the
Missionary society, and made possible
by various Corinth societies and clubs,
without reference to denomination, and
will, it is thought, be continued by the
various missionary auxiliaries of the
conference. The Cooperative Home is
what its name signifies, homelike
place maintained at moderate expense
for the benefit of the working girls of
Corinth.
Former Sheriff w. +. Williams, who
last fall defaulted with Calhoun coun-
ty's money and was finally captured
after several months at Binghamton,
Tenn, and brought back to Pittsboro,
was indicted on three counts for en-
bezzlement Gov. Brewer appointed
Scott Hardin as sheriff, pending an
investigation of Williams affairs, sus-
now develops that if Williams is SEN
fenced to the penitentiary he will nat
urally be entirely removed from office
and his successor will also be auto
matically removed. The governor has
been petitioned to again appoint Har-
din to serve as sheriff until the board
OF supervisors can hold an election,
which they will do at their April meet
ing. In the meantime the court can
not run without a sheriff, and for this
reason sentence is being withheld on
Williams until Hardin can receive his
commission.
Her doll trunk packed for journey
that was to take her to happy home,
little Lillian Gibson, years of age,
an inmate of the Mississippi Orphans
asylum in Jackson, became so excited
and confused over preparations fol
dressing that her little calico dress
was swept into an open stove. The tot
burned in sight of two little boy or
phans attracted to the scene by the
victims cries. The little girl fingered
for several hours after the accident
passing away during the afternoon
The body was taken to an undertaking
establishment and prepared for burial
It has been many months since more
heart breaking death has occurred in
jackson. Only few moments before
the cruel flames enveloped her little
body the child was in the happiest OF
moods, when told that she was to be
legally adopted by the governors cous.
in. residing near Carrollton. Then her
dress caught in the flames, and in 3
short time she was dead.
While cutting down tree, Webster
Carr, of Houlka, an industrial student
at the Mississippi Heights academy,
suffered fracture of his left leg three
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