Macon beacon., 1917-08-03


Gently started here.
Clinton.-The Red Cross first aid
class has finished its work and passed
on the final examination.
Utica.-Alex Yates, local mer
chant, shot G. w. Simmons, manager
Of the Utica drug company.
Oxford. : Saturday was Chicken
day" in Oxford. Over four thousand
were sold to Memphis firm.
Cleveland.-The opening services in
Cleveland's new Baptist church will
be held on Sunday, Aug. g.
Clarksdale.-R H. Clement, Al years
old, whose home is in Memphis,
dropped dead at Rena Lara Miss.
Cleveland.-The Bolivar County Red
Cross association gave a Red Cross
dance in the courthouse in Rosedale.
Biloxi.-Capt. John R. Meunier, oil
Troop B, Biloxi, has been overwhelmed
with offers to enlist since the first
draft.
Yazoo City.-A general rain has
fallen in Yazoo county and the farm
ers are in fine spirits over the crop
outlook.
Oxford.-The Oxford Red Cross SO
ciety, branch of the society at large,
is thoroughly organized and equipped
for patriotic work.
Kosciusko.-N. w, Grow, a longtime
resident of Dossville, and a highly re-
spected citizen, ended his life by
jumping in a well.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are under
way at the circuit clerks office for
the criminal term of circuit court,
which convenes on Monday, Aug. g.
Biloxi. - City authorities have
warned swimmers not to venture out
into the Mississippi channel on &C.
count of the swiftness Of the current.
Biloxi.-Jake Stojicich, of Biloxi,
brakeman on the l.. & N. railroad,
was struck by water crane while on
a freight train and knocked under the
moving train.
Vicksburg.-An attempt is being
made by local business organizations
of the city to have one Of the U. S.
army aviation training schools located
in Vicksburg.
Natchez-Adams county veterans or
the Spanish-American war recently
volunteered their services to the gov
ernment in any capacity they may be
deemed most fit.
olumbus.-According to an analy.
sis by State Chemist w. F. Hand, OF
the A. & M. college, the Columbus city
water is of exceptional quality for
drinking purposes.
Baldwin F. C. Flowers has
resigned from the pastorate OF the
Baptist church in Baldwin, to accept
call from the church he formerly
served in New Orleans.
Liberty.-The cooperative shipment
of cattle, hogs and sheep, which was
started about two months ago by the
= new county agent E. F. White, con-
tinues to grow in popularity.
< West Point.-R. L. Betty, secretary
. Of the Merchants association, requests
, that every farmer in Clay county visit
the dairy instruction cars" which are
to be in West Point Aug. l.. (
s Natchez-Two aliens, who give their
d names as Anton Wallstrom and Sol
n helm Sverre and claim to be Swedes.
S are held in Jail here for failing to reg
= lister under the selective draft.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT naval recruits
q who were accepted here several weeks
l. ago and sent home to await their cali
; have been ordered to report at once to
8 the naval station at Norfolk, Va.
S Pachuta-Tobacco buyers from
e North Carolina bright leaf tobacco dis
trict, have arrived at Pachuta for the
purpose of handling the seasons crop
e in this and neighboring counties.
p
q Water Valley-A serious and unfor-
q tunate difficulty occurred near Delay.
a. Lafayette county, in which Major
, Thweat was inflicted with a severe
J knife wound by his hsother-fn1aw,
Jesse Wray.
Columhus-News has been received
u here from Bigbee Valley small
,r town, several mics south of Columbus
n stating that Rufus Patty, a prominent
a citizen of that section, has been shot
% and seriously wounded by an unknown
- negro. Mr.. Patty, who received q
n. wound in the left side, pulled his re
IN volver and shot three times at his as
Al sailant, one of the bullets piercing the
negro's heart, killing him instantly.
Enterprlse.-LeeT Taylor, a prosper
IN1V., 50 xr-t,rN il .