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Columbus.-The tenth annual meet.
ing Of the Grand Chapter of Missis-
sippi, Order Of the Eastern Star, con-
vened here, and after Q three days
session Natchez was selected AZ the
next point Of amalgamation by the
grand chapter.
Yazoo City.-B P. Golden received
a letter from Gov. Theo. G. Bilbo, in
forming him Of his appointment as
treasurer of Yazoo county to serve un.
til the election Of a permanent officer,
In about six weeks. The office OF
treasurer was vacated by the death Of
w. D. Kennard here recently.
Hattiesburg.- Representative OF the
Retail Lumber Dealers Association Of
Ohio and Indiana were here, guests OF
local lumber men. The object Of their
visit was to acquaint themselves more
fully with the processes of manufac-
ture and grading Of lumber. They Wis
tied the big mills of the city.
Greenville.-A convention of China
men, the first ever held in this Sec
ton, convened here and organized a
branch Of the Chinese Nationalist
League of America, the headquarters
of which are in San Francisco.
There were 40 Cinnamon in attend
ance from Mississippi. Louisiana and
Arkansas. Yuen Cheng Toon was
elected president and Gee Gin Jong
vice president and secretary.
Jacksonville latest association OF
men formed in Mississippi has just
been organized, made up Of alumni OF
historic and classic Harvard Univer-
sity. This organization is known as
the Mississippi Harvard Club, num-
Der of whose alumni have been CORE
spending for some time past with a
view to perfecting an association in
the Magnolia State.
Jackson.-Z. A. Brantley, state game
and fish commissioner, has not yet
completed his selection OF county
game wardens. There are from four
to dozen applicants in each county,
while hundreds of men have applied
for the position Of beat and district
wardens. This detail, or the appoint
ment OF local officers, is left to the
county wardens and is not the prov
ince of the state commissioner, as stat
ed by Mr.. Brantley.
Holly Springs.-Jndge Egleton NJ.
Smith of this bar has declined to al
low his name to be used as candidate
for the supreme court bench from this
the northern district of Mississippi.
This leaves but two avowed candi-
dates for that position. They are the
present incumbent, Judge E. 0. Sykes,
of Aberdeen and Hon. Rush Knox,
present district attorney, from Hous
ton.
Senatobia. home from
the field where he had been at work,
Ed Soween, living 10 miles from Sen
atobia, found his wife's body in pool
OF blood at her bedside and that of
her 16-year-old son on the bed. The
son had been shot through the heart
with a shotgun. Mrs. Soween's body
plainly showed that death had been
self-inflicted. The theory is accepted
that the mother, mentally unbalanced
from continued i'll health, killed her
own son while he was asleep on the
bed and then, with stick which was
found nearby, pulled the trigger OF
the shotgun and sent a charge through
her own brain. A verdict to this ef-
feet was rendered by a coroner's jury
which viewed the bodies.
Milwaukee, WlS.-The organization
OF the Foster Creek Lumber and Man
ufacturing Company of Madison, Wis.,,
with a capital stock of $1,500,OOO, by
Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago and New
York capital, marks the first large log.
ging and numbering enterprise put un-
der way in Wisconsin In many months.
The company will operate IN Missis-
sippi, and owns approximately $1,000
acres Of timber lands in Wilkinson
county, on the main line Of the Z. & M.
v. Railroad. A double band mill, with
resaw, costing between 100000 and
$500 900, will be established In Will
kinson county, Mss, during the sum-
mer and fall. It viii cut on an aver
age OF 100000 900 feet a year. accord
ing to present estimates.
Hattiesburg. - The fourth annual
meet 81 the Meridian Presbytery con-
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