Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-09-06
FROM ALLPARTS
OF MISSISSIPPI
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

sons cotton TO be delivered here wal
brought in by Miles Savannah, a col
ored tenant on ]. l.. Redfield's Most
place.
Hazlehurst.-Walter l.. C~ovington
Of this place has received notice to 70
| port at once in New York, where ne
will go into training for Y. NJ. {. A
work for a week or ten days, after
which he will go to France,
Ellisville.-Sam Imbragulio will in
stall an ice plant in Ellisvile within
the next few weeks. The machinery
has been ordered. Since the burning
| of the ice plant here several years ago
Ellisville has been getting its supply
Of ice from Laurel.
Charleston, w. V.-Dr. B. F. knight
of Spring Creek, w. Va. and J. ?
| Caperton of Hattiesburg, Miss, an am
bulance, driver, were killed at Nitro
near here, when a freight train backed
into the ambulance, demolishing the
car. The victims we're attached to the
emergency munitions plant settlement
Ellisville-Prof. c. w. jenkins, su
perintendent Of education in Jones
county, will hold the fall examinations
OF teachers as follows: White teach
ers, at Laurel, Sept. 81; at Ellisyillei
| Sept. 1921. Colored teachers, at Lau
rel, Sept. 1914; at Ellisyille, Sept.
27.2S.
Columbus.-Prof. C. L. Crawley, fer
merly Of McCool, who recently was
elected principal Of the Stephen D. Lee
High School, has arrived here. Prof.
Crawley Is a graduate of Mississippi
College, and for the past five years
has been teaching in Attala county.
The schools will open Sept. 2.
Natchez.-A Self-preservation 10y
atty League has been formed here
with a colored auxiliary, for the pur.
pose of assisting in the campaign to
place everyone at work and transfer
men from non-essential industries to
those which will aid the government
in the successful prosecution of the
war. Organization was perfected at a
mass meeting which wal addressed by
w. II. Weir, assistant federal labor di.
rector of the state.
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Meridian.-After a separation OF
forty. years, Capt. w. A. Brown, for.
merly Of this city, now in the Old Sol.
diers' Home at Beauvoir. has found his
brother, F. N. Brown, who he last saw
in 1878, when he left Choctaw county,
Alabama, and migrated to Copiah
county, Mississippi. All trace of him
was lost and the family, after vain eff
forts, finally decided that he had been
murdered In the then isolated sections
Of the Louisiana swsmps.
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Hattiesburg.-Mrs. Mary Thompson,
aged 81, mother Of eight children, q
grandchildren and 20 great grandchil.
dren, died at the family residence. The
deceased was one Of the oldest and
highly esteemed residents of this city.
The surviving children are: Mrs. J. X,
Murphy, Lumberton, Miss; Mrs. C.
Allen, Rawls Springs, Miss; D. 3,
Thompson, Misses Lila, Mamie and
Lena Thompson, Of this city.
Days.. H. Hudson, 45. Of this
place. lost his right leg and the left
was broken when he was struck by a
Memphis Street Railway construction
car in Memphis one day last week.
The victim died later at the General
Hospital. 1t is reported he did not
see the car until he had stepped in its
path. The wheels passed over the
mans right leg and the left was brok.
90. He received deep cuts on the
right arm and a slight fracture Of the
left arm.
Jackson.-Thers will be but two dis.
tricts represented in the second pri-
maries in Mississippi, according to
complete returns from congressional
primaries held in the state last week.
In the Sixth Gov. Bilbo will be in
the runoff with Judge Paul R. John.
son of Hattiesburg.
In the First district Ezekiel Can.
aler, incumbent, will contest with Jno.
e. Rankin. Congressman Gambler has
held office for many years.
The majority Of B. Pat Harrison.
senator'elect over his opponents, Sen.
ator James X. vardaman and former
Gov. E. F. Noel, is more than soon
votes, and Senator-elect Harrison's
plurality over Senator Vardaman is
more than 10000. Senator.elect Har.
rlson has publicly pledged his full sup
port to the Wilson administration.
News has been received in Jackson
that the farmers of Kinds and adioin.
Ing counties are actively engaged in
the selection Of their wheat lands and
the securing of seed wheat for fall
planting.
The wonderful morale Of the French
people who, though pressed down for