Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
xsNNNS CONDENSED NxxxSl
happenings Over
/ Commonwealth
as Cleaned from
Various Places

of so many cases Of Spanish influenza
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EllisyilIe.-A large crowd of people
visited the war relics train here. The
Fourth Liberty loan bond sales were
$11,5O0.
Natchez. -Natchez pasesd its quota
Of s766,300 in the Fourth Liberty loan
according to an announcement by the
campaign committee.
Minter City.--Charles l.. Townes, oi
this place, state fuel administrator
died last week in Memphis. He had
been i'll only a few days of pneumonia.
Natchez.-Jefferson Military Col
lege, six miles from Natchez, now has
clean bill of health. and classes have
been resumed, after close of ten days
to guard against the FLU"
Enterprise.-Th Meridian Presby'
terry of the Presbyterian Church
which was to have convened here last
week. was called off on account OF thu
prevailing epidemic of "flu."
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Blue Mountain.--The Gulf, Mobile &
Northern depot, local postoffice and
several business houses were broker
irto and ransacked for cash and othei
valuables. Very little money was OBJ
tained.
University.--In accordance with in
structions from the superintendent ol
the West Point Military Academy, tho
university held examinations for ap
plicants for entrance into that insti
tuition
Hattiesburg. The influenza siti@
ton in Hattiesburg is improving rap
IDLY. according to reports of DR.. Har
rington, of the United States Health
Service, and Dr. Mounger, county
health officer.
Biloxi--Albert Hardy, Biloxian who
joined the Rainbow Division about a
year ago and who has been on the fir.
ing line for some time, has been seri,
ously wounded, according to informa'
ton received here.
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Greenwood call for 21 white
men to be sent from Greenwood Oct
Fl was cancelled according to instruc
tions to the local draft board. The
call for rs negroes to entrain for Camp
Shelby, Miss, was also suspended.
Newton.-Thomas Mynor Merchant
died of influenza after being i'll less
than a week. He was we'll known
throughout Newton and adjoining
counties, being one of the proprietors
OF Merchant brothers hotel and res
taurant
Jackson.--Willam West Cole, Of
this place, son of w. @. Cole, died In
Nashville. Tenn, of pneumonia, follow
ing an attack of Influenza. Burial took
place in Water Valley. Cole was the
United States accountant in charge Of
the Southern district ordnance depart
ment at the nitrate plant near Nash
vile.
Hattiesburg DR. Joseph ]. Stevens
one Of the prominent members Of the
medical profession of Forrest county
died at his home here. Dr. Stevens
was born at Augusta, Miss. Sept 26
1867; Received his education in the
public schools and at the University
Of Mississippi, and afterwards gradu
ated from the Tulane Medical School
Greenwood. Chief OF Police Bonner
has donated to the Kings Daughters
hospital eight pints of whisky recently
ccnfiscated in a raid here. On account
Of the large number of patients at the
hospital. whisky has been needed
there as medicine. The chief said he
could not vouch for the quality of the
whisky.
jackson. South Mississippi has 131
Boys Community clubs, with total
enrolment of 1889, according to in
formation given out here by H. L. Hop
per, assistant United States district
farm agent for South Mississippi
These clubs have as their purpose the
encouraging. of liYe stock raising and
growing OF farm products among thu
youngsters.
Aberdeen.-Li Jasper Joseph
French of Chicago, ILL.,, was burned t
death when the gasoline tank Of hi
airplane exploded, destroying the ship
Lieut. French's flying companion wal
rescued by Crawford, Miss, citizens
where the accident occurred. He wat
solid blaze when they tore his cloth
Ing Off and smothered out the flames
II Il thought he has . ch1nce 70 re
cover