Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-19

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citiSens Of this community, is dead.
Biloxi.-Sturgeon are being caught
in small numbers off the Biloxi coast
in the Mississippi channel for the frst
time possibly in history.
Corinth.-The store building and its
contents, and the postoffice of Wena
sega, five miles west of Corinth, were
totally destroyed by fire.
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Laurel.-R. E. Halsell, present city
attorney and former mayor of Laurel
Is dead at his home as the result Of g
self.inflicted gunshot wound,
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Yazoo City.-After an illness Of two
weeks, Capt. J. T. Coulter died. He
had continued his work as a steam.
boat captain until just before Christ.
mas.
NATURALIZATION H. Smith has
closed a deal for 800 acres of land be-
longing to the r. B. Faison estate, get
ting a magnificent property at $50 per
acre.
Agricultural College.-A carload OF
calves, 4 to s months old, weighing 345
pounds each, and bringing $4,000 a
head, was shipped by VIM. Dittman, OF
Pickens.
Vaiden.-The mass meeting held at
the courthouse to discuss building the
link Of the Jefferson Davis highway
that is to pass through Carroll county
was well attended.
Meridian.-The Lauderdale county
board Of supervisors has increased the
appropriation to double the amount
Of last year for the Mississippi-Ala-
bama fair association.
Hattiesburg,-Chester Lewis, twelve
years old, while out hunting, was ac-
%cidentally shot and instantly killed by
the discharge Of a gun in the hands
OF a young companion.
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Ellisville.-S. ]. Grear, a teacher in
the Jones county agricultural high
school the last two and a half years,
has resigned to be farm demonstration
In Pearl River county.
Fernwood.-Hurled against a tele.
phone pole by the impact of an auto
mobile, the 4-year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. A. w. Afford of Bogalusa,
La, was instantly killed.
Corinth.-J. w. Campbell Of Wena-
sega, who lost his store building and
of goods recently, states that he
is convinced that robbers entered the
building and set fire to it.
Columbus.-An order from the post
office department at Washington es-
tablishes a fast mail service between
his city and Caledonia, an inland town
miles north of Columbus.
Meridian.-The announcement from
the state department of education of
distribution of thu school fund is
welcome news to school teachers all
the state. The amount to be dis
.ributed is ST. 45 .18O.67.
Natchez.-A party of twelve, COM
posing a committee seeking a location
or a colony of 200 of the Mennonite
'aith Of Elkhart county, Indiana, ar
lived here for the purpose of looking
'ver Louisiana lands near here.
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Hattiesburg.-The board Of super
'isors Of this county has called an
lection for January 80, for the two
centering in Hattiesburg, to
'ote on the question of issuing one
hundred thousand good road bonds.
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Meridian.-B. j. Mcdonald, govern
lent ginning agent for Lauderdale
ounty, reports that there were 1,441
ales Of cotton ginned in the county
the 1916 crop prior to December
as compared with 3,12S bales up to
he same date last year,
Ellisville.-Alfred Walters, a farmer
wing a few miles from Ellisville, suf-
cred a broken leg from a runaway.
lie was on his way home from town in
two-horse wagon. The breast strap
and the horses @ away, throw.
,g him to the ground.
Starkville.-The board Of supervis.
RS have sold the road bonds for Beat
'wo to a firm Of brokers at Cincinnati,
/ a premium, purchaser to furnish
t~hographed bonds. This issue is in
he sum Of $4,000. The contract for
lie work will be let in the early spring.
nd Beat Two is assured of modern i'm.
roved highways.
Greenwood-The official courthouse
Imily OF Lef1ore county was augment |
] by one in the person of Miss Allen {
NTH Of Hattiesburg, who was select ,
by the board of supervisors to take {
large OF the department of home eco ]
'mics.
Greenville-Yeggmen blew open the c
'fe in the store of c. C. CLANCY at 7
e%tcalre, the first station north of @
reenville on the Yazoo & Mississippi d
alley Railroad, and got away with r