The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
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at 80 This announcement was made
by superintendent E. l.. Bailey More
than hundred teachers and five thou
sand pupils will report at the schoo
buildings in Jackson ready for the
years work.
| West Point.-Clay county citizens
will vote on Sept. 80 on the question Of
adding an extra three mill school tai
| for the purpose of lengthening the
regular school terms and to supplement
the teachers salaries, which have al
ready been materially advanced
Observation-Disclosures by the Starkville
| improvement club and some fifty OF
| the most prominent citizens of the
| city, an up-to-date newspaper plant
will soon be installed here with tTo
practical newspaper men at the helm
Hattiesburg. = County Superintend-
ent of Education j. C. Gay reports that
all of the public schools of the county
opened with a good attendance except
two, both in good communities, for
Jackson.-Official notice has been
given to I'll aspiring pharmacists of
the halfyearly meeting of the state
board of pharmaceutical examiners, to
be held in the state capitol building on
Tuesday, October Z.
Hattiesburg. = An unknown cotton
bug, about three times the size of the
ordinary cotton boil weevil, has APP
peared on the farm OF NJ. O. Drew,
near Green's creek, a short distance
from Hattiesburg.
Agricultural College.-"Cotton exper,
iments, 1915" a new experiment sta
ton bulletin prepared by DR.. H. B.
Brown, plant breeder for the Missis-
sippi experiment station, is now ready
for distribution.
Meridian-J F. Craig, who recently
bought $4,000 acres of land. including
the town of Meehan, for a stock farm,
will soon begin stocking his ranch The
initial stocking will be 1000 Angora
goats.
Corinth.-Corinth looks forward to
the coming of the Burlington highway
officials, who will hold a convention
here September Is, when they will be-
guests of the Chamber of Commerce.
ttiesburg.-Efforts to patch up the
differences between the employees of
the Tatum lumber company, big lum-
ber plant at Bonhomie, Hattiesburg
suburb, have resulted in failure so far.
Vicksburg de Valera, pres
fdent of the republic of Ireland, VIII
visit Vicks burg on his southern tour
He will deliver an address here, the
date being some time in November
Louisville.-The mass meeting for the
erection of a soldiers monument in
honor of the ex Confederate, Spanish
American and the veterans of the late
war, resulted in much success.
Blue Mountain.-Wilson McKinstry.
Of this place. has just entered upon his
official duties of state publicity direc
tor for the Mississippi Y. NJ. c. A,
with headquarters in Jackson.
Agricultural College.-W ]. Jen.
nings, secretary and purchasing agent
of the A. and NJ. college, has resigned
his work here to accept management of
large plantation at Snarkey.
Port Gibson.-The election on the
question of whether the county school
levv should ho ipcreocad from, A r. EIZ
mills, resulted in a victory for the adj
vocates of the increase.
Senatobia.-The consolidated schools
of the county began their terms Mon
day. There are now five consolidated
schools in the county in operation and
two under construction
Greenville. The city of GreenvilIe
is completing all arrangements, legal
and financial, for the construction CT
six miles of street paving on several
of the principal streets
Charlottesville establishing OF a
creamery in Charleston not later than
Dec. 1 is regarded as practically a Ger
tainty, as $4,000 In capital stock has
been subscribed.
Shelby.-Only one of the eight con-
victs escaped last Thursday at Shelly
has been apprehended.
Ripley.-The Ripley high school
opened Monday with an attendance of
more than $50.
Clinton.-A season Of prosperity has
as last struck the little city of Clinton |
1t seems that everybody wants to move
to this delightful residence town.
Corinth-The 1890 term of the
city schools opened under favora BILE
The enrolment showed q
total of 772.
Columbus.-The work of paving the |
streets in the business section OF Co. |
lumbus will start within the next two |
weeks.
Purvis.-Elections for September
30 have been ordered by the board of |