Macon beacon., 1917-06-29
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Biloxi-H. H. Roof of this city has
been made general manager for large
| shipbuilding interests in Pascagoula.
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Hattiesburg. - The local marine
corps recruiting station was closed by
Sergt L. B. Grant, who had been in
charge.
Meridian-A. l.. Stewart of Energy
is the only white man that has been
arraigned in this section on charges
of failing to register.
Jackson.-W. W. Magee, one of
Jackson's oldest and most popular po-
licemen, was shot and seriously
wounded by an assassin.
Belzoni. - Nearly every eligible
young man in the town of Belzoni has
Joined the field hospital corps organ
lied at Belzoni by DR.. E. l.. Robertson.
Biloxi.-BiloXi housewives are up in
arms on account of an advance in the
price of ice and declare there will be
much suffering among children of the
poor
Toccopola.-At a mass meeting Of
the citizens of Pontotoc a company
of home guards for the town was
formed and about sixty men were en-
rolled.
Starkville.-Dr. F. L. Kicks, a we'll
known young physician of Starkville,
and 1915 graduate of the University
of Tennessee, has been accepted as a
member of the medical reserve corps
Of the U. S. army.
agnolia.-Another step forward in
the building of the McComb Magnolia
electric light and railway company was
taken when it closed options for rights
Of way between the two towns and pur-
chased the lands outright from the
owners.
Biloxi.-Biloxi's mayor and board of
aldermen have decided not to enforce
the ordinances as to the amount of
water which may be turned on gordens
in Biloxi and that there need not be
any limit to the amount used while
the drouth continues.
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Brookhaven.-There may be some
boil weevil in Lincoln county, but i!
there are they have concealed them
selves 80 we'll that no one can find
them. Not a single farmer coming
into Brookhaven this season has re-
ported having seen a weevil.
Belzoni.-At meeting of the Bel
zoni business mems league it was de-
cided to increase the pay of County
Demonstration H. A. Carpenter and to
retain him at this place, despite an
effort to induce him to move to the
county seat of Washington county.
Columbus.-The annual conference
OF the Epworth League of the North |
Mississippi conference of the Method
list Episcopal church, South, will be
held in Columbus instead of Stark.
Vile, as had originally been planned.
The conference will convene July 3.
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Jackson.-For the first time in sew
eral years the women of Jackson will
hold knitting parties. The revival of |
this almost lost art of the household
Is due to the patriotism of the women
who would knit necessities for the sol.
diers.
Jackson.-More than 25 cases of an
thrax among cattle are reported from
near Pass Christian. Two veterans Of
the federal tick eradication staff have
been rushed to the scene and were
Joined by DR.. H. Chadwick, secretary
Of the Mississippi live stock and sani-
tary board, who will make a strong eff.
fort to check the outbreak of the dis.
ease.
Yazoo City.-When he failed to obey
the sharp command to halt, three
times repeated, an unidentified negro
was shot through the heart and in
stantly killed by Sib Berry, a Yazoo
soldier, detailed from the Yazoo com.
pany at Camp Taylor in Jackson to
guard the railroad bridge across Big
Black river, about half way between
Yazoo City and Jackson.
Jackson,-Miss Frances Hogg. a
.rained nurse, so far as known is the
,irst Mississippi woman to depart for
service in France. Miss Hogg, who
was formerly superintendent of the
Matty Hersee charity hospital in Meri.
lian and visiting nurse of Jackson.
las been ordered to report at Bir.
ningham with a Red Cross hospital
init which expects to leave for France
soon.
Meridian-Col. Conway C. Wyatt,
veil known throughout Mississippi.
prominent officer in the
rational guard and a member of for. {
ner Gov. James K. Vardaman's staff, !
S in grave danger of losing his life as {
! result of taking Is grains of bichlor.
de of mercury by mistake for asperin.
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Natche2.-One of the largest real
state transfers made in this county
ecently was the sale of Somerset
,lantation owned by Miss Mary ,