The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-02-21
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
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Happenings Over
Commonwealth
as Cleaned from
Various Places

here of the death in Del Rio. Tex, of
Hugh R. Enochs. The deceased was
in military service, having entered the
army last June. Death was caused by
influenza-pneumonia.
Agricultural College. DR.. Brad
ford Knapp, chief of the extension
work of the south, has just issued
through the extension department of
the Mississippi A. and VI. College, a
call to the farmers of this state to
hold down their cotton acreases and
increase the production of food crops
| New Albany-In accordance with
the program of the United States de-
partment of agriculture and the proc
lamation of Gov. Bilbo. the farmers OF
Union county met in this city Feb. Is
to hear discussed the topics to be pre-
scented on Safe and Sane Farming
! Day, a movement primarily in the in
terest of reduction OF cotton acreage
and an increase in food production.
Columbu While the United
! States department of agriculture anu
| the governors of several states have
urged southern growers of cotton 10
reduce their acreage for the coming
season, no concerted action with this
end in view has as yet been taken by
the farmers of Lowndes county. The
matter is being freely discussed, and
different views are expressed.
Scooba Carriers of rural route
mail have been having a bad time en-
deavoring to make it around their
routes in one day on account of the
condition of the roads. Routes one
and two are both long, being over 90
miles each, and as no part of the lat
ter is graveled and extremely billy, so
Carrie George Kim brough, especially,
has been having a hard time.
Agricultural College. = Mississippi
must grow five million acres of corn
in 1919" says C. A Cobb, assistant di-
rector of extension of the Mississippi
A and NJ College, and the United
States government, who holds that
this is the answer to the questions
arising in the minds of the farmers
when they are told to cut the cotton
acreage.
Vicksburg. by agreement OF
counsel for state and defense in the
case of Cameron Cade, at Rayville,
La, for the murder of Lieut.. Fred G
Reichert, of Evansville, Ind, last
month, on the eve of the date set for
the wedding of the lieutenant and
Miss Mabel Langford, of Rayville, the |
defendant was permitted to withdraw |
his plea of not guilty, enter a plea OF /
guilty, and was sentenced to a life |
term in the penitentiary. Cade was |
placed upon a train by Sheriff Cooper |
and taken to Baton Rouge.
Meridian. - Seven persons pleading /
guilty to crimes have been sentenced |
in circuit court here. Lamar Thomp-
son, a 17-year-old white boy, was sen
fenced to serve two years in the peni-
Tertiary for forgery.
Johnny Mack, a negro boy, Is, was
sentenced to serve four years on a
charge of robbery.
Charles Roberts and Joseph Brad
ley, both white, were sentenced to
serve four years each for the theft OF
an automobile
fenced to serve five years on a charge
of burglary.
For the theft of mule, Percy Wood
ard, negro, was sentenced to serve
two years.
Hamilton Brunson, negro, admitting
he was a deserter from Camp Fun
ston. pleaded guilty to robbing the
railroad supply company, and was sen
fenced TO five years.
Meridian = Secretary w. H BRAY.
ers, of the Mississippi Dental Associa-
ton, has announced that DR.. W. c
Dennis. of Jackson, vice-president OF
the association. has been named to
succeed DR.. NJ B. Varnado, resigned
DR.. Varnado moved out of the state.
DR.. Drawers also announces that tbs
state meeting will be held in Clarks,
dale, April Is, Is and II
Hflrie NJ Quin, district governor,
OF the Fourteenth district {
Rotary clubs, to be held in Alexa1- {
dria. La, Feb. II and Is. O. H. Crock {
EFT, president of the Alexandria club '
delivered the address OF welcome and l
the response was by Sam w Mason, '
past governor of the Shreveport club
The criminal grand jury after exam s
ming 122 witnesses and returning So c
true bills of Indictment, adjourned ]
Yazoo City. = To the town OF Ben.
tonia. in this county, has come the
sum of s44,61964 since Dec l of last
year for cooperative shipments of live q,
stock In the one month, from Jan. p
) to Feb. 5 there was shipped cooper, p
atively from Bentonia stock to the .
amount of s17.915.S2. In the entire 7
county there has been cooperative :,
shipments in the time from Dec So
20 Feb 9Th amounting to S61, 3097S.
4 record shipment of six cars from va
100 City and three cars from Bentonia e
he first of this month brought $780, Z
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Chica OF the Western