Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-08-10
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
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Happenings Over
Comm
as Cleaned from
Various Places

Lake Cormorant.-Fire originating
from an unknown cause destroyed the
Bedford stock of merchandise.
Natchez.-Final details incident to
the re-opening of the Natchez cotton
mills are expected to be arranged
within a few days.
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Canton.-Miss Gerandine Luckett,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. G.. Luck.
EFT, died at the family residence as a
result of paralysis.
Meridian.-The county school board
set September II for the opening of
the white schools and October l for
the colored schools.
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Biloxi.-Dr. H. N. Lawrence, a BIZ
loxi veterinarian, received his COM
mission as second lieutenant in the
veterinary reserve corps.
Biloxi.-The residence of Mrs. T. H.
Hubble was set on fire after burglars
had robbed her home of about S25
worth of trinkets and other articles.
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Raymond.-John Eldridge DeCell
died here at the family home. He vas
Ga years of age, and a member of an
old and prominent family of South
Mississippi.
Wesson.-John Boyd left for New
York to sail for France to join the
American Ambulance Field Corps. He
will have charge Of the ambulance
auto trucks.
Hattiesburg.-Canteens and conces-
sions will not be permitted within the
limits of Camp Shelby, according to a
bulletin received by Major Weller,
quartermaster.
Biloxi.-Harry Hattlestad, a Biloxi
young man, surprised his friends by
going to New Orleans and having an
operation performed for hernia so that
he may get into the navy.
Hattiesburg.-Charles w. Kagle and
Frank Davis, who has been held in
the local county Jail, charged with de-
N~erton, were returned to their regi-
ment at Fort Oglethorpe.
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Monticello.--Three persons were in
iured in an automobile accident near
ttis place, when the cars of A. L. Gar
Ut, O business man of this place, and
w M. Bass, a farmer, collided head on.
Blloxi.--George Bruce Cortelyou, Jr.,
general manager of the Gulf Cities
Gas company, has enlisted as a private
in company A, Seventh regiment of the
United States railway engineers n
New York city.
BiloXi.-Mississippi coast packing
companies are making preparations TO
open the shrimp season soon, and a
fleet of several hundred schooners
will be sent out into the gulf to search
the waters for shrimp.
Vicksburg The highest structure
in Mississippi, so it is announced, will
q the new reinforced concrete smoke
stack at the Yazoo G Mississippi Val
ley railroad shops in Vicksburg. 1t
is to be 178 feet high.
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Hattiesburg.-The city commission.
ers will offer for sale city bonds in
the sum of $4,000 on Aug. %. unless
20 per cent of the local voters should
petition for a special election to place
the matter before tht people.
Biloxi.-The cooperative shrimp and
oyster plant Of the Biloxi branch of
the International Longshoremen's as
ISOLATION, which has been under con-
struction since June /, will be com.
pleted and ready for operation by
August Is.
Meridian-The city council has pass.
ed a new ordinance covering the PUP
chase Of junk, made necessary because
OF the numerous depredations to Sc
cure brass, The new law prohibits the
purchase by junk dealers of cotton,
Iron and brass from minors.
Biloxi.-Improvements ~aggregating
$4,000 to $4,000 will be completed
by the Gulf Coast Senior and Junior
Military academy, located between BIZ
loxi and Gulfport, within the next two
or three weeks and the academies will
be able to take care of the largest en-
rollment ever secured by the schools
when the next term opens on Sep. IL.
Natchez.-Believing that ferry rates
between Louisiana and Mississippi at
this point are too high and that many
motorists are prevented from cross
Ing the river, the Natchez chamber Of
has again taken up a cam
paign to secure the desired reduction.
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McComb,-A large tent has been
on the Hanford lot under
which religious services are held here
each evening. Rev. Mr.. Carpenter, a
evangelist Of Baton Rouge, is
doing the preaching and Prof. Hoffman
Of Clarke Memorial college has charge
the choir.
Jackson While the Mississippi del.
Ia will produce a good cotton crop, the
cost Of production will be higher than