The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-08-15
MISSISSIPPI
GLEANINGS

Farm Mechanics School for Mississ-
ippi club boys, to be held at y. and NJ.
College. August 1927, is arousing un-
usual enthusiasm
Columbus. = The woman's club,
which was recently organized here, has
leased from t. c. Owen the handsome
residence on South Market street
known as the Bradford home. and will
use the building as club house.
Jackson-Much apprehension is felt
over the condition of N P. Bonney, ed
itor and publisher of the Summit Sen
tinel. in Pike county, who has been
brought to a local private medical in
stitution for treatment for a cancerous
trouble.
Aberdeen.-That Mississippi is the
ing is the opinion expressed by Lin
coin Harbold. noted Iowa breeder in
letter to E. L. Sykes, prominent cit
izen of Aberdeen, where he keeps 5000
Of his animals.
University-Prof J. w. Bell, who
has been in practically nearly every
county in North Mississippi during
the last few weeks in the interest OF
better schools. is very much encour-
aged over the outlook in Mississippi
Tor better schools.
Blue Mointain.-Booth Lowrey of the
School of Expression of BAle MountaiB
College and one of the premier at.
fractions of the American platform.
will leave here this week for perhaps
the last leg of his summer chautauqua
work for this vacation.
Blue Mountain.-Lowrey Memorial
Baptist church has just unanimously
granted to its pastor, DR.. R. A. Kim
brough, permission to serve on the
faculty of Mississippi Heights Acad-
envy for a part of the forenoon during
the coming session.
Gulfport-Shipbuil employees of
Biloxi and other coast citIes, of the In
ternational Shipbuilding Corporation,
have been furnished with a non-trans-
ferable ticket book which can also be
purchased by others desiring to use
the Pascagoula- Biloxi workingman's
train
Tupelo.-At a meeting of the school
board Of the Tupelo city schools T. II.
Milan was unanimously elected as SUI
perintendent of the Tupelo public
schools at salary of $500 per an
mum for the session of 1920. Mr.
Milan has been superintendent of
county schools for the past five years
and went across the seas last August
in the service of the Y. NJ. c. A.
Observation-Disclosures General Scales
of the Mississippi state troops, who
has given the subject much considera-
ton, is of the opinoon that the ruling
of the secretary of war on the number
of units or files acceptable to the war
department for the formation of in
fantry companies is impracticable and
unfair The orders sent out are that
the minimum strength of infantry or
CARNATIONS shall be not less than 100
men, acceptable to the department.
Crystal Springs-The citizens of the
town were thrown into fever of ex-
element when Sheriff Shelton of Ha-
zlehurst telephonet City Marshal
Terry that a posse of $50 citizens of
Brookhaven and Lincoln county were
passing through Hazlehurst on their
way to Crystal Springs to take from
the CITY Jail here one Winfield Hud
son. a negro man who was charged
with having committed a murderous
assault on George James, the night po-
Iiceman of Brookhaven- The town
marshal spirited the negro away in a
high powered automobile and landed
him safely in jail at Jackson.
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Yazoo City-Planters In Yazoo coun-
ty are exceptionally well pleased with
the result of the use of nitrate in the
growing of cotton this year and W. T.
Clark of the Delta section near Yazoo
City, has brought to the office of the
county agent at the Commercial club
samples of cotton which illustrate the
use and non-use of nitrate on cotton
land The cotton was pulled in rows
which run side by side in the same
fields through the delta fields. some
of the rows having nitrate of soda and
the others being without the fertilizer.
From row of cotton on which nitrate
of soda had been placed IL the amount
of about 100 pounds to the acre, comes
a stalk of cotton containing II bolls
From the adjoining row Mr.. Clark
brought an average cotton plant which
had not had the advantage of the nj
trate which contained eight very much
smaller bolls of cotton.
Jackson. The state board of peni-
Tertiary trustees met in adjourned
session. Among the matters brought
to the attention Of the trustees was a
formal notice by Supt. J w William
son of his intention to transfer all the
white convicts now at Rankin farm to
Oakley, and will instead introduce col
ored men entirely as the Rankin popu-
lation. The number of white convicts
is so small, relatively speaking, that
Supt. Williamson has decided to put
all under one management He is OF
the opinion that better results can be
obtained this way.