Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-06-20
MISSISSIPPI
Epitome of Interest.
ing Events That Are
Transpiring Over
the State - = -

Meridian L. Mckay has been re
elected president OF the Meridian
board of trade
New Albany.-Post war conditions
find New Albany sadly in need Of
real building boom
West Foint-A celebration in honor
Of Clay county's own soldiers will be
held in West Point July A.
Greenwood-It is estimated that
100000 worth of building is now I'm.
der way in the city of Greenwood.
TWO-MISS STATE gcyfgSoof.tafor
in every detail and strictly adequate,
with an approximate cost of $4,000.
Jackson.-Miss Matte Plunkett, for
l6 years state librarian and one of the
best known women of the state, is
dead, following long illness.
Yazoo City.-Prof. H. NJ. Ivy, retir.
ing head of the Yazoo City schools, has
gone to Meridian to take up special
school work for the summer
Kosciusko. - Progressive business
and professional men Of Kosciusko
have organized a stock company for
the purpose of putting in a creamery.
Greenwood.-The members of the
Catholic congregation met at the
church and organized a club for the
mutual benefit and pleasure of the
members.
Blue Mountoin,-Prof B. W. Hamp-
ton, formerly superintendent of Blue
Mountain high school, has accepted
call to be head Of the high school at
Baldwin.
Yazoo City.-Yazoo City Knights of
Columbus are considering the matter
of organizing a council in this city and
the establishment and maintenance
of council rooms.
Greenwood. -Twenty.one blocks Of
paving will be completed in Green
wood within the next few months, the
cost Of which approximately will
amount to $4,000
Jacksonville Jackson Scottish Rite
bodies will hold their midsummer re-
union on Aug 11.12-13, and this will
be followed by a Ceremonial of Wa
habi Temple on Aug, IA,
Blue Mountain.-Miss Harriet Jones,
home economics demonstration in Tip
pah, will hold short course in home
science at Chalybeate, the site of the
Tippah county agricultural high
school, June 1921.
New Albany.-Mrs. Mary Baker, Of
this city, has resigned her position as
teacher in the high school and will
spend six weeks in training at Tusca-
loose, Ala, for service in the Red
Cross peace program.
Agricultural College.-Vigorou &C
ton will be taken in Mississippi as
well as over the entire country to pre-
vent the spread of the dreaded Irish
potato wart disease which has been
found in the United States.
Walthall.--The board of supervisors
has appointed three commissioners,
DR.. T. O. Douglass, G, w. Harrison and
John Jennings, former member of the
boord, to supervise the laying off OF
the public roads in the county.
Cleveland.-The sale of the V. w.
Thomas Skene property, consisting of
421 acres in Bolivar county, to Joe l..
Smith and Fred Evans for 1906 per
acre, is the record price thus far re-
corded for Bolivar county lands.
Blue Mountain.-As q result OF
general exodus. of negroes from this
place during the war period when high
prices paid for labor in the north at
tracted so many negroes to move to
that section, only three or four negro
families are now left in the negro quar-
tiers OF Blue Mountain.
Meridian.-Supt. E. J. Martin OF the
Mississippi Widows and Orphans
Home entertained Mrs. A ]. Weir,
wife of Grand Master Weir of Okla
homa, and Mrs. Sarah Travis of Ell
Reno, who came to inspect the home,
which heads the list of such institu-
lions in the United States.
Agricultural College,. J. Goodell,
live stock leader of the extension
force; P X. Spinks, live stock club
agent, and J. A. Martin, extension
swine husbandman, have been called
to Washington for a conference of all
the swine workers in the United States
who are under the supervision of the
bureau Of animal industry.
tstss