Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-10-11


influenza have been reported in Gren
ada during the past week. Doctors
and city health officers have taken ev
cry %precaution to prevent the spread
of this disease.
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Meridian.-L. l.. Dozier, IS, farmer,
living at Aquilla, near Waynesboro,
Miss. attending the fair here, walked
Off a street car trestle breaking his
neck in the fall. He was accompanied
by two sons when the accident oc,
CURED.
Meridian.-The student army train,
ing corps, with a large number of en-.
trans opened at the Meridian college.
Lieut.. Anderson, commandant of the
camp, has been busy arranging for the
erection % barracks, which will begin
Immediately on the campus OF tho
school.
Washington.-The navy department
has received the names of 26 reported
missing after the sinking of the U. S.
s. Buena Ventura, sunk by an enemy
submarine on Sept. 16, off the coast of
Spain. Montague ~deLauncey, quarter,
master, Meridian, Miss, is among the
list Of missing.
Jackson.-Rev. Theodore DuBose
Bratton, bishop Of the Episcopal dio.
cese of Mississippi, has gone to New
York, where, after attending the Gen.
eral missionary conference of that
church, he will prepare to sail for
France to assume his position Of spe.
cial preacher with the Y. M. c. A.
forces. Bishop Bratton expects to sail
about November l.
Creenwood.-United States Marshal
Vardaman located a wildcat distillery
a few miles from Schlater, near tho
Culver river. He arrested the owner
and operator, Frank Lawrence, a ne.
gro, and brought him to Greenwood and
placed him in Jail. Later Deputy Mar.
shall Anthony took Lawrence to Clarks.
dale for preliminary heating before a
United States commissioner.
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Blue Mountain.-Plans are on foot
to establish a community kitchen in
the Blue Mountain high school, the
purpose Of which is to give the girl
students instruction in the preparation
Of war dishes, which instruction the
students in turn will teach to their
mothers at home. The equipment for
the experiment is to be furnished by
the pupils, and the instructions are to
be under the general direction of Miss
lone Mitchell, home economics agent
for Tippah county.
Jackson.-When the whistle Of En-.
ochs factory blows at noon, the ladies
of the Federated Church Societies
would have every person in the city
stop in the midst Of his labors and of.
fer up a prayer for the success of the
allied cause, according to resolutions
adopted at a meeting of that organi.
cation. The ladies express the hope
that this custom will be followed. The
custom has been adopted in many OF
the largest cities in the United States
and is spreading throughout the coun.
try. 3
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Senatobia.-Major Written East, of
Senatobia, commanding officer at
Mitchell Field, N. Y. was killed in an
automobile accident near Mineola, &C,
cording to a telegram received here by
his parents, State Senator and Mrs.
w. J. East. He was graduated at the
Mississippi A. and M. a number OF
years ago.
Major East, who was a second lieu.
tenant at the time the United States
entered the war, was appointed to
West Point from Mississippi, where he
was born 3S years ago. He had see
overseas service and was considered
one of the American army's most Ok,
pert flyers.
He had only recently been sent back
to this country to take command Of
Mitchell Field, after serving with tho
first air squadron Of the American
armies in France and having been pro.
NOTED for gallantry.
He was the first Tate county, Miss,
boy to see service in the aero service
The flags at the aviation fields on
Long Island were lowered and a mill,
tary funeral arranged for.
The body of Maj, East had an air.
plane escort when 1t was sent to his
late home in Senatobia. Aviators from
Mitchell Field flew above the train for
some distance, dropping flowers on the
car bearing the casket.
Tupelo.-This place witnessed some
fancy flying when airplanes from Park
and Payne aviation fields came here
with baseball teams representing the
two fields. While the teams were
fighting for supremacy on the grounds
the aviators did trick and fancy flying
over the baseball field.
The Park Field Flyers conquered the
birds from Payne Field here in the
baseball game. The score was 10 to 2.
The Tupelio Military Institute won