Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-11
MISSISSIPPI
Interesting Hap
penings Gathered
From All Sections
of the State = =

Natchez.--It is reported that the out.
break of charbon which occurred in
Adams county short while since is
how fully under control, and there is
10 danger of it spreading further.
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Grenada.-Several cases of Spanish
Influenza have been reported in Gren.
4da during the past weeks Doctors
md city health officers have taken ev-
1ry precaution to prevent the spread
4 this disease.
IL Meridian.--L. l.. Dozier 6S, farmer,
(lying at Aquilla, near Waynesboro.
<iss., attending the fair here, walked
~ a street car trestle breaking his
&eck in the fall. He was accompanied
a two sons when the accident oc-
6rred.
Meridian student army train
hg corps, with large number of en-
rans opened at the Meridian college.
lieut.. Anderson, commandant of the
mp, has been busy arranging for the
@rection of barracks, which will begin
ON the campus of tho
school.
i Washington.-The navy department
&as received the names of 26 reported
missing after the sinking OF the u. 8.
!. Buena Ventura, sunk by an enemy
Dubmarine on Sept 16. off the coast Of
srain. Montague deLauncey, quarter
master, Meridian. Miss. is among the
list Of missing.
Jackson.---Rev. Theodore DuBose
Bratton. bishop of the Episcopal dto-
cese Of Mississippi, has gone to New
York, where. after attending the Cen
oral missionary conference of fitak
riiscn, he wf1l prepare to safl for
France to assume his position of spe-
cial preacher with the Y. M. G. A.
forces. Bishop Bratton expects to sail
about November l.
Greenwood. United States Marshal
vardaman located a wildcat distillery
q few miles from Schlater, near tho
Culver river. He arrested the owner
and operator, Frank Lawrence, me-
gro. and brought him to Greenwood and
placed him in Jail. Later Deputy Mar
shall Anthony took Lawrence to Clarks-
dale for preliminary hearing before ?
United States commissioner.
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 tho
students in turn will teach to their
mothers at home The equipment for
the experiment is to be furnished by
ghe pupils. and the instructions are to
b. under the general direction Of Miss
lore Mitchell, home economies 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 fhis labors and Of
fer up a prayer for the success OF the
allied cause, according to resolutions
adopted at a meeting Of that organi-
xation. 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 cour-
try.
Senatobia.--Major Whitten East, Of
Senatobia, commanding officer at
Mitchell Field, N. ". was killed in an
automobile accident near Mineola, ac-
cortling to a telegram received here By
his parents. State Senator and Mrs.
w. J. East. He was graduated at the
Mississippi A. and M. number of
years ago.
Major East. who was . second lieu-
tenant at the time the United States
entered the war. was appointed 10
West Point from Mississippi, where he
was born 33 years ago. He had seen
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.
d4o was tba frat Tata county. Mina