Macon beacon., 1917-08-03
FROM ALL PARTS
OF MISSISSIPPI
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

board OF trustees or Nood consolluo.0u
schools a faculty was chosen, WIN
Prof. C. H. Allen principal.
Columbus.-Rey w, S. Slack, rector
of st. Paul's Episcopal church, in TINS
city, has received call from the
Episcopal church at Alexandria, La.
Jacksonville Mississippi Cream
erymens association will meet in TINS
city Aug. s, to discuss marketing PROB
lens and to discuss grading OF cream
Jackson.-R. o. Edwards was ap-
pointed clerk of the United States cir
cult court to succeed l.. B. Moseley,
deceased All deputies are reap
pointed.
Senatobia - The recent general
rains that have fallen over the county
insure the largest yield of all kinds
of food crops that Tate county has had
for many years.
Jacksonville second battalion OF
the First Mississippi, ordered to Hat
tiesburg for duty in connection with
the national guard cantonment there,
will have about 400 in line.
Corinth.-Taylor Barker was found
guilty on a charge of murder in the
killing of Joe Holman, which occurred
in Corinth last fall, when Barker
struck the latter with heavy piece
Of timber.
Greenwood.-Ar Jacks, young
white man about 10 years of age, was
shot and probably mortally wounded,
by Jim Smith, another young white
man, as the elimination of quarrel
over stolen watermelon.
enatobia,-State Revenue Agent
Robertson is making clean sweep
of Tate county for back taxes. All
property that has escaped taxation for
the past six years has been taxed.
Several thousand dollars will be col
lected
Columbus has reached here
of the lynching Of Poe Hibbler, ne
gro, in Pickens county, Alabama, just
across the state line from here, for
an attempted crime against the daugh
ter of prominent citizen OF that
county
Meridian.-The blowing of railroad
engine whistles in the corporate lin
It's of Meridian has been a cause Of
complaint to city officials, and Mayor
Dabney has addressed letter to the
superntendents of railroads, asking
for its dscontinuanc.
Lexington-CountyD Demonstration c
NJ. Rose has received returns from the
cooperative car of sheep and hogs
that he shipped to National Stool
Yards, H., and the returns were quite
satisfactory, The 145 head of sheel
and 10 head of hogs brought $1,0S0.
Baldwyn-While returning from ;
: hunting trip near Alpine, f2 mile
west of here, the two sons of Redmond
Cox were trudging along path, whel
the gun carried by the first boy wa
accidentally discharged, and fnstantl
killed the older boy
= Biloxi.-Owing to the fact that ther
Is a shortage of men in the church
permission for Father Car F. SchaI
pert, pastor of the Mother of Sorrow
I Church of this city, to join the Unite
3 States army on the first draft ha
r been withheld by his superiors in tn
9 church at Baltimore.
; Lexington meeting of tn
q Holmes county chapter of the Amer
T ican Red Cross, held in the chapter
workroom in the Masonic temple, tn
, following officers were elected: Sen,
=, tor H H. Elmore, chairman; Mrs. F
q H. Elmore, vice chairman; Mrs. G. +
McMorrough, secretary; Stephen L
, Burwell, treasurer.
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New Albany.-The departmnt {
home economics in Union county unde
the leadership Of Mrs. H. B, Wisemal
:. county worker has been given quit
: boost and a great stimulus to tn
y interest of the women and girls of tn
: county by a short course Of demon
- strations and lectures by experts
the employ Of the state and feder,
governments.
q Pontotoc-The new courthouse hel
s has been formally accepted by IL
d board of supervisors, after arrangir
J. to have few finishing touches addt
ii to the interior of the building, whit
le will be done Immediately. The stru
If ture is one of the handsomest al
l. most commodious buildings of its XII
N In the state, and will be completed
q q cost of about 100000.
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4 McComb City.-William Hainer, t
!. l6.yeae.old son of NJ. Hainer, who 81
:. cessfully passed all examinations al
a will enter the naval academy at
- Eapolis, received his training at t
McComb City high school, where
had completed only the third yea