The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-06-13
MISSISSIPPI
Happenings You
Are Interested In

| awakening for nearly three and a hal
months. Frank Spencer, aged s, sor
of Jarvis Spencer. a farmer living foul
miles north of Blue Mountain, is be
ginning to shake off his protracted
trance. and seems to be on the road
TO recovery.
administration Robertson, 6t
years of age, charged with killing
three tenants on his plantation-Jas
Boutwell, and sons Luther and Lon
/ nie-was remanded to Jill without
bond at the preliminary trial. Mrs
Robertson, charged as accessory to the
I killing, was released under a $500
! bail.
GuIfport.-Grading has started on
the large Dantzler mill at Cedar Lake
north of this city and the work is in
charge of Chas. T. Brown OF this city.
Lumber turned out at this mill will
be shipped by water down the bayou
and Biloxi river and will be loaded
on ships in the Gulfport harbor.
Jackson.-H. NJ X. Smith, campaign
manager for the Mississippi Memo
rial association, is in North MISSISSIPPI
pi, holding a series of meetings in the
interest of the Memorial campaign,
which will be for 100000, and will
be held the week of June 26-JuIy 5.
Meridian.-J. NJ McBeath, chairman
Of the state highway commission, has
received notification from the govern
n-ent that they have turned over eight
passenger automobiles for use of the
officials of the highway commission
Meridian.-The $4,000 good roads
bond issue recently voted by District
will not be sold this month as the
commission is endeavoring to learn
how much supplemental government
bonds they can secure.
Columbus.-The Baptist Woman's
Missionary union of the Fourth dis
trict, of Mississippi will hold its an
nual meeting at Louisville, Thurs
day and Friday. June IL and Is.
Magnolia.-Miss Gladys Huff, coun-
ty home economies agent, will conduct
a short course for club girls and WON
en- of Pike county at the Agricultural
high school from June to IA.
Starkville.-Mrs. R L. Carpenter,
superintendent of the Woman's Mis-
sionary Union of Columbus Baptist
Association, has called a meeting to be
held at Louisville June 1913.
Meridian.-A fifty-foot break in the
dam of the lower grounds big water
reservoir of Meridian dumped millions
of gallons of water into Sowashee
creek, fnundating low lands.
NatcheZ.-At the opening meeting
Of the Adams county board of super
visOrs good roads bonds of the county
for 100000 were sold at par and a
premium of S525.OO.
eenwood.-Twenty-o blocks of
paving will be completed in Green
wood within the next few months, the
cost of which approximately will
amount to 100000
Greenwood.-Newt Carter, an aged |
citizen of Greenwood, who had resid- |
ID here for many years, was run over
md instantly killed by a freight
hahn.
Greenwood.-The board of trustees |
# the North Greenwood school met |
ecently and reelected the same fac
llty for the 1919-192O term.
Yazoo City.-The Rev. Lee B. Spen-
er. newly chosen pastor of the Bap-
ist church in this city, has arrived
nd entered upon his duties
Yazoo City.-The graduating exer-
Uses of the Yazoo high school were
d diplomas.
Senatobia.-The board of supervis-
rs have sold two issues of school
onds
Jackson.-One hundred teachers
re needed for schools in Mississippi
t once. according to a statement is
ued here by w F. Bond, state super
endent of public instruction. Super
ntendent Bond attributes the short
ge of teachers to the fact that scores
ave left the profession during the
asst year on account OF the small sal
ries.
Yazoo City.--W r. Ritch, county
gent, continues to receive reports OF
he success of cooperative wool sales
the sheep growing section
Tennessee and is predicting that
ne sale in Yazoo City on June 13 and
4 will prove interesting to big buy
rs and that the boys and girls who !
elong TO the lamb clubs in the coun-
= will profit by their bids in compe- ,
ton with local buyers.
Yazoo City.-Yazoo county's farm
emonstration~ agents expect to raise
lie price of wool in the county from
) to As cents, when a cooperative I.
he of the product of the boys and
iris lamb clubs is held here June
and IA.
Column bus.-Prof. Carl Leake, who
II many years had been leader and
OF the cadet band at the