The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
FROM ALL PARTS
OF MISSISSIPPI
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.<

have proven of immense benefit TO gar
| dens and all crops, except cotton. Soll
| weevil that has been quite numerous
| il different localities, have multiplied
at an alarming rate; but greater evil
| than that has made its appearance in
tie form of the army work, which all
| farmers know to be the most destruc.
| tive enemy to the cotton crop, when ii
! comes too early
| Vicksburg. - It would seem that 1t
was by little more than a chance that
Lieut. Noel Amis, young Vicksburg
| aviator. was not one of those captured
| by Mexican bandits two weeks ago,
| for Lieutenant Peterson and Wavis,
the two young airmen captured, were
! a part of his squadron and has just
flown from Fort Bliss with him to do
border patrol duty.
Senatobia. - The contract for con-
etructing the sewerage system of Sem
atobia was continued by the mayor and
board of aldermen. The cost of the
system exceeded the amount Of the
bond issue and it was thought best to
continue the matter until some other
plans for raising the funds could be
perfected.
Jackson At the city hall Mayor
w A. Scott and his colleagues on the
city commission were in good spirits
over the satisfactory adjustment of the
differences which have existed be-
tween the city and the management of
the local traction company, operating
the lighting. gas-making and transpor-
tation utilities maintained in Jackson.
Greenville. The Greenville Hous-
ing Corporation has been formed here
to provide at the earliest possible
dates homes at moderate rentals
Yazoo City-.Humphreys county is
usIne new tractor on the road lead
ing south from Belzoni along the Y.
& NJ. " railroad toward Yazoo City,
and finds that
Blue Mountain. Representative
of the Sunday schools of the Baptist
faith in the Tippah Baptist Assocla-
ton, embracing all of Tippah and
part of Benton county, met at Chaly-
beate Bautist church in the northern
section OF the county and organized
the Tippah Baptist Sunday School con-
vention.
Shelby-The Sunflower Association
convenes with the Baptist church at
Drew. Miss, Sept 10, at o'clock p. m.
The date OF the meeting was changed
at the request of the pastor of the
church, Dr. Webb Brame.
heZ-Considerable damage was
sustained at the plant of the Missis-
sippi Packing plant here Sunday when
large flywheel in the engine room
broke to pieces as it was going at full
speed.
Jacksin = State Supt. of Education
Bond and Assistant superintendent
Broome, with Bura Hilbun, of the rural
school division, left for the gulf coast
in advance of the forward march of a
battalion of county superintendent.
Hattiesburg. = A meeting of the
committees appointed to make ar
rangements for the Forrest county fair
was held in the Chamber of Commerce
with good attendance of citizens. The
fair will be held Sept. IA and 10.
Coahoma-A large crowd of negroes
met at the Baptist church to listen to
speech delivered by j. NJ William
son, who is travelling under the au-
spices OF the Mississippi Rural Assoc
citation.
Natchez.-Lee Worley ,patrolman Of
the Natchez police force, was exon
Grated at coroner's inquest held here,
following the death of Leon Landers,
a negro. who had bene shot by the Of
ficer.
Jackson. The penitentiary head
quarters here was notified by the po-
ice department of Earle, Ark, of the
capture of one of their runaway con-
yicts at that point.
MISUNDERSTANDING agents found
a still located on the old Murrah place
about eisht miles east of this place
Monday and destroyed it.
Natchez-Extensive improvements
on the buildings of Duncan Park have
been authorized by the Natchez park
commissioners.
Kilmichael The Tri-County Nor
NAL closed recently and was one of the
best ever held here.
MAGNOLIA. County Superintendent |
II w. Kenna announces that the first
of white applicants for IL
censes to teach in the public schools |
Of Pike county will be held in the court
house here on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, Sept. 4, 5 and 6.
Columbus-That IIowndes county Is |
tie coming stock-raising section of this |
state was shown when ninety-six head |
II cattle, and many wagons loaded with |
hogs, were driven through the streets |
Of Columbus to be shipped to the East |
ST. Louis stock market
Yazoo City For the first time in |
the history Of the Yazoo Yarn Mill, the |
of the stock passed into the |
hands of a single person, when deal |
noe cop,pIetad nv Wise and Bridge