Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-07-20

the Red Cross has made splendid
showing.
Osyka.-The business men of Osyka
met at the town hall and organized a
board of trade, with 40 active mem
bers.
! Biloxi-Constable Louis Largelliere
of this city was waylaid and unmerci.
fully beaten by Dan Turner, Biloxi
negro.
Pontotoc.--A Red Crosa society was
organized here with an encouraging
enrolment, and with the election OF
officers.
Hazlehurst The work Of repainting
and rewiring the court house here is
being pushed by workmen as fast az
possible.
Hattiesburg Sixty thousand cans
were received in Hattiesburg through
the efforts of B. c. McWhorter, coun
ty agent
Hattiesburg.-C. B. Firth has been
named court stenographer by Judge
Paul B. Johnson, to succeed the late
Mr.. Ellison.
Jackson.-A midsummer reunion
and ceremonial of Masonic bodies of
the state will be held in this city on
July "a and 27.
Oxford.-Basil l.. Mayes has been
appointed U. S. commissioner for the
western division of the northern dis
trict of Mississippi.
Jackson.-Mayor Scott announce,
that he has instructed the police de.
partment to clean out the gambling
places in Jackson.
Biloxi-For the first time in forty
years the Seashore campground camp
meetings have been postponed ant
will not be held this year.
savN-s
Vicks3urg. The Red Cross fund IL
steadily growing and is is now an as
will be sent from this city.
Starkville.--A peculiar incident oc,
Cured recently, in which man and
his wife were buried together the ma,
dying some forty-six years ago
-sdst<ffI,U .----r urvIaeC Vi SsustftrUfifsy
land by the Gulf Coast Military acad.
eny for which $4,000 was paid, will en-.
able the school to enlarge its facilities
Forest.-At a meeting of the board
of supervisors an $4,000 road bond is.
sue was granted in Beat to complete
the road between Morton and Forest
Biloxi.-The National Nut Growers
association which is composed Of lead
ing pecan growers of the south. will
meet in convention in Biloxi. Oct. II
to IL.
Biloxi.-Biloxi packing plants hav
expended $4,000 to $4,000 during the
last few months in the construction of
new schooners to be used in the shrimp
and oyster trade.
Jackson.-Navy recruits from Mis-.
sissippi will be limited to 18 men a
week for first enlistments, according
to orders received here by Lieut.. ]. B.
Goldman, recruiting officer in charge
of the state.
West Point.-Stephen Ivy. negro.
who prided himself upon being called
bad negro, and whose trouble record
is said to have been a lengthy one.
was shot and instantly killed on a
plantation here by James p. Dean, a
planter.
.Jackson.-W. c. Trotter, promi
nent young attorney of Winona, is a!
work organizing a Mississippi branch
of the working boys reserve, under
the direction of the department Of la.
bor. All boys between the ages of 10
and 10 are eligible.
Meridian.-Every train from st.
Louis and other points brings home
negroes who went north and are max
ing just as rapid strides back home
since the outbreak at East st. Louis,
Ill. They tell terrifying tales of how
the negroes are treated, and declare
that the south is the negroes home
and the southern white man his best
| friend.
vicksburg All infected parts OF
Warren county from which the anthrax
scourge was reported, have been quar-
antined by the board of supervisors.
which was in session during the week.
The board also made thorough In
vestigation of the fever tick situation
as 1t was reported to them that sew.
eral cows had died in the county from
tick fover.
Corinth. The construction OF tho
Joint freight station of the Southern