Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-12-07

Bay ST. Louis.-Bay Chapter Red
Cross shipped to New Orleans 50
sweaters and other knitted goods.
Mer1dian.-The board OF superVis'
ors has fixed the levy for the Oakland
Heights school district at 6 mills.
Brookhaven.-The first real rain in
this section for many weeks fell
Wednesday and continued for the
greater part Of the day.
JacksOn.-There was a large attend.
ance Of high degree Masons at Jackson
for the ceremonial meeting Of Wahabi
Temple, MOBILES of the Mystic Shrine.
Columbus.-"The Golden Goose
has been selected as the name for the
tearoom recently established at the
Mississippi Industrial Institute and
College by students Of that institution.
Natchez "A verdict Of guilty as
charged was returned by the jury in
the trial of Rudolph Enterkin, charged
with the murder of John Wurster, at
Vidalia.
Jackson.-Three alien enemies have
been arrested at Pascagoula, Moss
Point and Canton, and placed in jail on
orders from the U. S. district attorneys
office here,
Magnolia.-The revival meeting in
the Baptist church has closed and Rev.
W. A. McComb, d. D., who did the
preaching, has returned to his home
in Baton Rouge.
Meridian.-A German giving his
name as Otto J .GrOsch, aged 10, clad
in ragged costume, was arrested in the
railroad yards, alleged to have been
acting suspiciously.
Greenville.-Secretary R. l.. Pr1t'
chard of the G|reenville chamber CT
commerce has returned from Texas,
where he purchased live stock for d
number OF Washington county plant.
ers.
Notwithstanding mob violence,
w. F, Fitzpatrick, sheriff of Pickens
county, Alabama, has rushed Ernest
Spruill, a negro who was convicted at
Carrollton on the charge of murder, out
of the county.
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Yazoo City.-The city tax rate was
fixed for Yazoo City by the mayor and
board of aldermen at a special session
last week at a total of 20 mills. This
is the same rate fixed for the last as
sessment.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for the
viewing Of at total eclipse Of the sun,
visible in parts Of Mississippi June s,
1918, are being made by Prof. G. L.
Harrell, of the chair Of astronomy at
Millsaps college.
Meridian.-The scarcity of sugar in
the east was strikingly brought home
here when a local retail grocer receiv.
ed a telegram from a man in New
York inquiring if he had any sugar
and to ship him 100 pounds by express
Jacksonville Galloway Memorial
Methodist church, a 100000 edifice,
was dedicated here with Bishop Hen.
dirk, of Kansas City, as chef speaker
DR.. Alfred 7. Smith, of Saint Louis.
a former pastor Of the church, also
spoke. The church is a memorial
to the late Bishop Galloway.
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Bay st. Louis.-The body Of D. D.
Posey of Standard, former Hancock
county road commissioner, was found
on the public road at Bayou ITALIA,
near here, There were four bullet
wounds in Posey's back, indicating
he had been shot from ambush. The
dead man was 40 years old.
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Clinton.-The Philomathean Liter
airy society in Mississippi college, the
oldest literary society in the state,
having been organized in the fall of
1850, has elected this years anniver-
sary ticket as follows: A~nninversar-
ian, Luther P. Lane; first orator, A, B.
Massey; second orator, A. B. Russell;
third orator, D. P. Dunn; herald, Ross
Anderson; marshall, ]. o. Gordon.
Coldwater.-A novel method Of rails
ing funds for the Red Cross has been
adopted here. A nutting party was OF,
ganized, and m dropped their knit
ting and went in automobiles to Cold
water bottom at a point 13 miles west,
to hunt scalybarks, Fifteen bushels
were gathered and sold and the pro.
ceeds used to purchase wool from
which to knit articles of comfort fol
the soldiers at the front. Nuts are
abundant in the section visited by the
party.
Columbus.-Students Of the Missis
sippi Industrial Institute and College
presented the sparkling Scotch comedy
kitty Mackay.'