Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-06-08

Yazoo City.-A Council OF Defense
was organized here at the courthouse.
Hazlehurst.-The Wise company
shipped from here a carload of Irish
potatoes. which are selling around 81
per bushel.
Bay st. Louis.-The spring term of
chancery court for Hancock county
convened here with Judge Denny. of
Pascagoula, on the bench.
Greenwood.-A carload of hogs was
shipped from Leflore county by Dr.
w. T.. Johnson, which were sold on
the East st. Louis market for $2,043.
Hattiesburg-About 600 members
are enrolled for the six weeks sum-
mer normal at the local normal col
lege. Sixty of the students are men.
Biloxi.-Prof. Homer E. Warren has
been elected superintendent of the
Ocean Springs public schools by the
board of trustees, for the ensuing
year.
Columbus.-At a special election to
decide whether or not Lowndes coun-
| ty should have farm demonstration.
the proposition was defeated by de-
cisive majority.
| Fernwood.-Rev. c. c. Jones, Bap.
tist minister, of Texas, is conducting
revival meetings at the local Baptist
church. He is brother of the local
minister, Rev. r. R. Jones.
Newton.-Glover Gordy, a young
man who was badly injured when he
fell in attempting to jump on train
near Morton, succumbed to his IL.
juries in the Newton sanitarium.
| Toccopola are being made
by L. A. Olson, county farm agent of
Lafayette county to ship co-opera-
tive car of Irish potatoes for the farm.
ers of the county about the middle OF
June.
rg.-Tuberculosis contin.
ues to be the chief weapon of death
! in Forrest county. according to the
vital statistics report for 1916, just re-
ceived by DR.. Robert Donald, county
health officer.
Greenville.-Plans have been COM
pleted for the holding of baby week
in Greenville under the auspices of
Miss Babb. the visiting nurse, to be
held at the Greenville high school au-
ditorium, June 13 and Ia
Scooba-Much excitement was oc.
casioned here when an immense water
moccasin was discovered under the
side of an abandoned repair shop on
the bank of Big Scooba creek. in the
| edge of town. 1t was several inches
In diameter and six feet long.
Meridian-W. M. Robertson, per.
sonal injury agent for the Alabama &
vicksbsrg railroad, was elected presi-
dent of the Meridian rotary club, sue
ceeding Dr. r. H. Foster, who was
called to the colors, in the naval re-
serve, now stationed at New Orleans.
! Macon.-Prof. J. L. McMillin, super
intendent of the Macon high school,
has been chosen director over 25 ap-
plicants, of the Inter-County normal.
county agricultural high school at
Wessca, beginning Monday, July 2S.
Vicksburg.-A decrease of 25 per
cent in the cotton acreage is the es.
innate of Yazoo county, furnished by
M. Faulkner, prominent planter of the
Delta. Mr.. Faulkner thinks that there
has been an increase of so per cent
in food and grain crops throughout the
Delta.
Belzoni.-As the Yazoo river falls
from the overflowed lands in this Sec
ton. planters and overseers are buy
ing hogs and turning them into the
fields that they may fatten on the
crayfish the water leves behind. The
hogs root in the mud, and, according
to H. A. Carpenter. Of this place,
quickly fatten on the crayfish.
Clinton.-The ninetieth annual com.
mencement of Mississippi college was
celebrated with the graduation of 81
men and one young woman. The in
stitution is not co-educational insti-
tuition. but by special dispensation
Miss Ele Steele, sister of Prof. Steele,
was granted the privileges of the col
lege, and the degree of bachelor OF
arts was given her.
Jackson-Canning club girls and
house keepers throughout Mississippi
will welcome the announcement made
by Miss Susie ". Powell state home
economics. agent. that the threatened
loss of large portions Of the fruit and
vegetable crops on account Of the
shortage of tins cans, has been avoid
ed through ARRANGEMENTS lust CON-