Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-05-11
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
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Happenings Over
| Comm onwealth
as Cleaned from
| Various Places

Gloster.-Amite county is preparing
to answer the call of the nation to
prepare along the food iine"
McComb.-This city is leading the
entire state in furnishing recruits for
the army and navy the McComb board
OF trade has been advised.
Jackson.-Waste oil caused an ex-
plosion at the well of the Atlas Oil
company. near here, which resulted in
the painful burning of five men.
Fernwood-Effective May /, the
Fernwood Lumber Company will in
crease the wages of their employees
now receiving less than 81 per day.
Biloxi-Henry True and Glenwood
Achorn, Biloxians, have signed as the
first local citizens to go to the officers
training quarters at Camp Logan H.
Roots.
Utica,-The Utica normal and indus
trial institute, of which William H.
Holtzclaw is principal, held its thir-
teenth annual commencement exer-
cises.
University.-The war fever has per-
vaded the entire student body of the
university, and students are leaving ON
every train for Fort Logan H. Roots
to begin training.
Hattiesburg. strawberry crop
around Sanford, Miss, where about 75O
acres are in cultivation. is about rs
per cent short of last year, according
to information from the shippers.
Greenwood.-The twenty-first an
nual convention of the Mississippi d.
vision of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy convened here with a
large attendance. Over 200 delegates
enrolled.
Greenville.-Resoluti adopted by
members of the Mississippi Bar asso
citation, in annual convention here,
pledged "unwavering loyalty to Presi'
dent Wilson and hearty Endorsement OF
his policies"
Aberdeen.-The following young
men enlisted and left for Fort Logan
H. Roots to be trained as officers for
the u. S. A.; DR.. A. L. Alexander, Geo.
J. Leftwich, Jr., L L. Broyles. Monroe
county Is sending recruits to the navy
and army every week.
Carthage.-The Choctaw Indians OF
Leake county are very anxious to fight
Germany. Numbers of them want to
join the army They claim that had II
not been for the war with Germany
congress would have passed the act
to pay the Mississippi Choctaws for
their claims in the west.
Starkville.-Despita the fact that
there has been very little rain, corn
and cotton and other crops are look
ing fine. In some parts OF the county
plowing is stopped on account of the
lands being hard. A decrease OF at
least so per cent is noted in the plant.
ing Of cotton.
Winona.-James Hawkins, Mont
gomery county farmer. said that the
boil weevil had attacked the young
plums and peaches on his place. He
exhibited about quart of the fruit
that had been punctured by some in
sect, and said that it had been done
by the boil weevil
Meridian.-A. B. Patterson, general
manager of the Meridian Light aud
Railway company since 1906, has been
transferred by the Dougherty company
to the financial department of the COM
pany, with headquarters in New Or
leans. Mr.. Patterson is succeeded by
H. E. Brandt. formerly manager of the
company's property at Mt. Vernon, Ill.
Ill.
Greenwood.-The actual work oi
building the new $4,000 Y. & NJ. ".
passenger station on the site of the
present building will begin in the near
future. The removal OF the warehouses
at the south end Of the old station. to
make room for the new building has
begun and when completed the worl
on the handsome new station will be
gin.
Gulfport. Prof w. G. Lotion, prin
cipal Of the Wool Market school. was
attacked and stabbed with a pocke,
knife and Peter Scarborough. member
of the Harrison county school board, q
prominent planter. is charged with the
assault. The outer covering OF the
heart was pierced, but physicians at
tending have not yet determined ths
seriousness Of the wound. Scarbor
ough made bond.