Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-09

Co.inth.-Corinth has located en-
aviation landing field for Park and
Payne Field aviators.
Yazoo City.-Yazoo county farmers
have pledged themselves to raise 1000
acres of wheat the coming season.
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~ToCcopola. - Twelve young white
men of Pontotoc county entrained for
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, to enter the
training camp.
Hattiesburg-Street care fare on
all lines In Hattiesburg were raised
from s cents to I cents. Twenty tick
cts are sold for $l.25.
MISUNDERSTANDING August l, the
entire state of Mississippi went on a
reduced sugar ration. Only two pounds
per person for the month Of August
will be allowed.
Greenwood.-A big real estate deal
was closed in Leflore county when
Capt. Walter Pillow sold 500 acres
five miles northeast OF Greenwood, to
Sarah l.. Loggins for $4,000.
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Clarksdale The first bale Of cot
ton to be reported in the state this
year was received from c. l., Nunnery.
manager of the Sunflower plantation.
near Merigold. Bale weighs $50 lbs.
Aberdeen.-Faul S. Cakes, daredevil
shipster Of Payne Field, and Lieut..
Pickup stopped at Aberdeen to see
some friends before leaving for Wash
ington. Lieut. Pickup accompanied
Cakes as far as Corinth, returning to
tho field with the ship.
Meridian.-The United States en-
ployment service here has requested
department of justice officials to inves-
tigate what is believed to be German
propaganda that has disorganized two
large parties ready to leave to engage
In government work at Nashville.
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Water Valley.-Eugene Walters, al
legged moonshiner, was shot and killed
and Deputy Sheriff Sam Hyde was
wounded in a battle near here between
Walters and a force OF deputies or
dered to raid an Illicit distillery said
to have been operated by Walters.
Tchula.-On Albino plantation, sev-
en- miles north OF Tchula, a Ford car.
driven by young Buck Hale, plunged
from a bridge which spans an inlet
to Tchula Lake, 20 feet to the bottom.
Mr.. Hale was found by the rescuers
lying beneath the upturned car. He
had been instantly killed.
Se~natobia.-A mass meeting OF the
citizens Of Tate county was held here
to perfect the labor organization in
tho county and devise mean for the
wheat-growing campaign. II. M. Cot
trell, of Memphis, and c. T. Aimes, Of
the experiment station at Holly
Springs, made interesting talks.
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OCtOUDI lt |OiioDDld W. ". w.
camp, No. 212, unveiled a monument
to Sovereign Avis T. Shirley, at the
Thaxton cemetery. Young Shirley was
drafted early last fall and contracted
q severe case of measles and pneumo-
mia, from which he died soon after
reaching the camp at Little Rock.
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COMMUNICATION Krouse, engineer OF
the Columbus Ice Works, was killed
here while he was repairing a bearing
on an engine. A negro fireman, un.
aware that Mr.. Krouse was about the
engine, turned on the steam and the
body Of the unfortunate man was
hurled back and forth across the big
flywheel. Before the engine could be
stopped life was extinct.
Acknowledgements Of the Mlssis.
sippi branch of the bureau OF animal
industry are engaged in retestlng cat
tie shipped into this state for ticks
and tuberculosis, according to DR.. ].
A. Barger, inspector in charge. Mis-.
sissippi farmers and dairymen are tax.
ing no chances Of getting ticky or tu-
bercular cattle from out-Oftown SELL
ers, and the animal industry bureau Of
the state is lending its cooperation in
seeing that the cattle shipped into
Mississippi are all sound and healthy.
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Gre9nwood.-W. l.. Anthony, United
States federal deputy, took f. NJ.
Georg, Of Clarksdale, a German alien.
to oxford to be informed until after
the war. A Clarksdale committee is
said to have asked Georg to assist in
the war savings campaign by invest.
ing in stamps. At the bottom OF q
circular which was handed him was a
statement which read: "Buy stamps
and help win the war" That's the
reason I won't buy stamps" said
Georg. "My sympathies are with Ger
many" He was promptly arrested.
Okolona.-Two officers from Payne
Field came here and completed az
rangements for a landing place for
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