Macon beacon., 1917-06-08
MISSISSIPPI
Epitome of Interest.
ing Events That Are
Transpiring Over
the State - = =

made for a big flag raising in Scooba
Crystal Springs-The first ripe to
matoes of the season were brought Il
by S. r. Evans.
Starkville.-"A Womanless Wed
ding" was staged at the opera house
under the management of the Ridgel!
Rebekah Lodge.
Coldwater.-The Woman's Mission
ary conference of the Sardis distric
met at the Methodist church here fol
q session of two days.
Bay st. Louis.-The spring term o.
chancery court for Hancock county
convened here with Judge Denny, o.
Pascagoula, on the bench.
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Greenwood-A carload of hogs was
shipped from Leflore county by DR.
W. T. Johnson, which were sold or
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.
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
foil in attempting to Jump on a train
near Morton. succumbed to his in.
juries in the Newton sanitarium.
Toccopola.-Plans are being made
by L. A. Olson, county farm agent of
Lafayette county to ship a co-opera-
tive car OF Irish potatoes for the farm
ers Of the county about the middle of
June.
Observation-Disclosures 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.
Meridian.-Dr. w. D. Franklin, ar
rested on a federal indictment at the
last term of federal court here, was
surrendered by his bondsmen and re-
committed to jail by United States
Commissioner ]. A. Gulley.
Fayette.-A number of the women
OF Fayette and adjoining community
met and organized a Red Cross auxil-
larry. Mrs. B. c. Knapp was elected
chairman, Mrs. w. H. H. Lewis, Sec
retary, and Miss Malley Strass, treas
urer.
Clinton.-The ninetieth annual com.
mencement of Mississippi college was
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.
Vicksburg. w. Beard, corporal
Of the detachment doing guard duty on
the V. S. & P. Railroad company's
transfer boat, and member of Com
pany H, Mississippi National Guard,
under the command of Capt. O. H.
Heiss, In an effort to force a passen-
ger Of eastbound train No. 2 to 20
backk on the train, fell under the train
as 1t was pulling off the boat, and suf-
fered the loss of his left arm, Just be-
low the elbow.
Biloxi.-James E. Mizelle, a Green
county farmer, was brought to Biloxi
and taken before U. S. Commissioner
J. c. Tyler on charge Of perjury in
connection with homestead entry.
q. s. Deputy Marshal J. D. Money,
who arrested Mizelle, informed the
that he would have to
hurry and dispose of Mizelle's case, as
the defendant had left little boy and
girl at home without anything to eat,
and that they would probably have to
fast until Mizelle got back. Commits
sioner Tyler's heart was touched and
le placed Mizelle under a $500 bond
and then assisted him In getting It
signed.
Crystal Springs.-An audit of the
books Of the water and light plant,
made by D, H. Miller, chairman of the
waterworks and light plant,
shows that the town has collected
funds this month to pay the current
expenses of the plant and pass an
amount to the credit of the improve.
ment fund.
Vicksburg.-Curtis Byrne, of the
firm of Byrne & Rodgers, while work.
ng at the top of 100-fC5: stack, at