Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-02-02
OVER centennial
Our Special Service
Man Gives an Inter.
esting Report of the
Doings in Mississippi

Biloxi.-The spring term Of federal
court will convene in this city the
third Monday In February.
Hattiesburg. Thirty-five Baptist
ministers attended the annual Bible
conference for South Mississippi,
which was In session all week at the
First Baptist church.
Hickory.-Lee Ingram, who lived
about six miles south of Hickory, died
on a Georgia Central train lear Ope-
lika, Ala, while returning home from
a trip to Columbus, Ga.
Vicksburg.-A. S. Yerger was ar
rested here, charged with the embez.
element of a large sum Of money be-
longing to Swift & Co, by whom he
was employed as city solicitor.
Houlka.-The bank OF Woodland,
under the direction Of l.. B. Bays and
]. T. Thomas, will SOC distribute to
the Woodland Poultry club two hens
and a cockerel for each member.
Carrollton.-J. w. Willis, director
Of farm demonstration work in North
Mississippi, and o. F. Turner, Carroll
county's farm demonstrator, held a
farm and business mems ge%t-together
meeting here.
Yazoo City.-A very remarkable in
cident took place at the Gen. K. ..
Lee memorial exercises at the giving
of the Crosses of Honor. These crosses
were pinned on the veterans by their
granddaughter.
Hattiesburg.-Eight persons mar
rowly escaped death at a grade cross
ing here when a Gulf, Mobile & North
ern freight train crashed into two wag-
ons, smashing one of them to splint-
ers, and damaging the other.
Laurel.-Lost for "a hours in the
swamps, without food except a couple
of ham sandwiches, and a cold, drizzly
rain falling, was the experience which
befell r. D. Macarthur, a prominent
contractor of Meridian, and his young
son.
Columbus.-S. B. Street, Jr., presi.
dent of the chamber of Lowndes coun-
ty, has been named the delegate to
represent this section at a meeting OF
the Meridian Highway association,
which is to be held at Alton, ILL.,, early
In February.
Jackson.-The sidewalks OF Capitol
street must not be INSTRUCTED by any
form Of signs, bicycle racks, peanut
stands, garbage can or movable OBJ
jects, according to recent orders from
the commissioners, and Is being en-
forced by the police.
Yazoo City.-The G. &. M. Packet
company, with headquarters in this
city and branch offices in Greenwood
and Vicksburg, gave out a report thai
they expected to procure a boat from
the government soon, and to continue
their boat service on the Yazoo, Mis-
sissippi and other rivers.
notwithstanding to information
brought to this city by U. S. Deputy
Marshal J. D. Money, who was n o.
| thirty passengers aboard a train ovel
the Alabama & Mississippi railroad
Sunday, the lives of those in the train
were endangered when it was backed
on an embankment at Moss Point anG
prevented from falling by a water pipe
which caught the ear end of the car
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Hattiesburg-The high price of floul
and other bakers materials has caused
the closing here of the Hattiesburt
steam bakery. The proprietor an
nounced that he had struggled to keel
going in the face Of the rise Of ma
terials, but could not without making
considerable increase in the price o
bread.
Okolona.-Samples of the white way
poles of Okolona have been received
here and are on display at a meeting
of the Business Mems club it was de
cided that Okolona should have
white way, and a committee was ap
pointed, with r. E. Buchanan as chair
man, to raise funds for the purchase
of poles, the city agreeing to furnish
the electricity and put up the poles.
Biloxi-The Southern States, schoon
or, was driven ashore by a yer.
heavy southeast gale and almos
totally wrecked when the crew o
Capt. William Mason and five me-
were forced to abandon the vessel AM
wade to Cat Island, a distance of tw'
miles, in water that reached thei
necks. They were forced to remain Of
the island for five days with a scan
supply of food and water.
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Hattiesburg.-The case Of Stanle,
Bennett, son of Chief of Police ]. F
Bennett, against the j. ]. Newman
Lumber company. wherein the plain
tiff asked for $4,000 for injuries re
ceived last August, was settled out o