Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-08-02
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
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Happenings Over
| Comm onwealth
as Cleaned from
Various Places

plsted.
Yazoo City.-The Yazoo City cream
cry is now taking care of 1,200 gal
Ions of cream a week, churning six to
seven hundred gallons of milk twice q
week.
Meridian.-An ordinance has been
prepared and is ready for introduction
in the city council proposing $4,000
bond issue for municipal ice plant
Purvis.--Lamar County Self-Preser.
vation and Loyalty league was organ
ized here as the result of a visit OF
w. L. Scott. representing the depart.
ment of labor.
Biloxi.-Dr Sanhope Bayne Jones,
SON Of Mrs. George Denegre of New
Orleans, who is occupying her Biloxi
home on the beach. has been honored
with the British war medal.
Chalybeate-Sanford B. Mauldin has
been appointed mess sergeant by Cap
tain Julian B. Sanford. commanding
officer of the A. and M. college mile
tary detachment at Starkville.
Carrollton. Harley L. WIFI
liams. poultry expert from A. and M.
college. gave a very interesting and
instructive lecture to the club girls
and others at the court house in Car.
rollton.
Grenada.--A specral election was
held in Grenada last week to fill the
offices of marshal and alderman, these
places having been made vacant by
the designations of Marshal A. Ger.
ard and r. Horton, who resigned al
alderman.
Wesson.-The tri-county norma!
was held at the Copiah-Lincoln Agri
cultural high school, of this place,
under the direction of Prof. W. l.
Thames, with an overflow attendance
of teachers from the counties of Law
rance, Lincoln and Copiah.
80
enatobia.-County agent of home
economics, Miss Louise Allen. assist
ed by Misses Sullivant and Johns, of
the A. and M. college, held commun,
ity short courses at several places in
the county last week. Food conserva
tion. canning, drying and preserving
were taught.
Meridian-Angry posses are in pur
suit of J. N. Horn, who killed his wife
at Hickory, by holding her head in
o tub of water, then dragging her
into the back yard. where he held her
head in a muddy pool until she died,
! The tub of water was upset by the
| 12-year-old daughter Of Mrs. Horn in
an effort to save her mother. Horn
was declared dangerous by expert
alienists. but on an appeal the su
preme court ruled against his con
| finement.
Meridian.-Former Court Stenog.
rapher Fred Donnelly now in France,
has cabled District Attorney Martin
Miller that he has Transcribed the
stenographic record in the John
Brady case and that 1t is en- route to
America.
John Brady was convicted of the
murder of his father-in-law. pink"
Herden, who was knocked on the head
with an ak in his store in the Liberty
neighborhood. He was sentenced to
be hanged Oct 8, 1917. but appealed
the case to the supreme court. Be.
fore his notes were transcribed. Court
Stenographer Donnelly joined the
army and was sent to France.
Memphis.-A lightless night order
became effective in Memphis July
90. Under the new order, each Mon.
day and Tuesday night of every week
become lightless nights. All lights
produced by the use or consumption
Of coal, gas, oil or other fuel for II.
Illuminating streets. displaying of ad.
vertising and announcements. or
signs or for external ornamentation
Of buildings must be turned out. Bona
fide roof gardens and outdoor res
/ taurants, and outdoor moving picture
theaters have been exempted under
the order, which applies to all cities.
towns and villages in the state.
4 Street illuminations in cities will
be restricted to the hours between
sunset and sunrise and the amount
Of public lighting in any city will be
reduced to that necessary for safety.
In the retail district. show windows
can use lights when necessary, only
between sunrise and sunset. They
must be entirely dark on lightlesa
nights.