The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-06-06
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
NENNNN CONDENSED NxXAN
Happenings Over
| Commonwealth
as Cleaned from
Various Places

| Blue MOuntain.-A new building &c
house the conservatory of music OF
Blue Mountain college will be erected
this summer on the campus just west
OF the college auditorium.
Jacksonville Mississippi branch
Of the National League of Postmast
ers, representing offices OF the third
and fourth class, held its annual con-
vention here, with about 100 members
present
| Observation-Disclosures In the MissiS-
sippi state penitentiary number 1,164
month, according to the May report
of Mrs. C. NJ. Spickard, registrar and
assistant secretary.
Columbus-Prof Frederick D. Mel
len. president of the Mississippi
| Teachers Association, is lecturing
over the state in behalf of the move
ment to secure increased salaries for
pedagogues of the state.
Yazoo City-Tangible increase in
wealth in Yazoo county last year mako
every man, woman and child in the
county, figured on a per capita basis,
worth something like $500 more now
than they were a year ago.
J2ckson-Mississipp now is having
the greatest road building boom in her
history, according to Xavier A. kra-
mer, state highway engineer, who has
just completed a tour OF northern Mis-
sissippi in the interest OF road i'm
provement.
Yazoo City.-Battaile Noble. OF va
zoo county, purchased from George w.
Stigler, of Lexington, twelve head OF
registered Hereford cattle. Mr.. Stig-
Ter has specialized on Hereford stock
for several years, and Mr.. Noble ex-
poets to build up a herd in Yazoo
county which will be q credit to the
county and a profitable investment to
himself.
Yazoo City-An interurban electric
line connecting every large town in
Mississippi, built by the state to carry
passengers without cost, maintained
by taxation and operated at cost OF
about one-half cent passenger to the
state, is suggested IN a letter to the
Yazoo City Commercial club. by W.
d. Collins. formerly a travelling man
IN Mississippi.
Agricultural College-In a report to
the plant board OF Mississippi. State
Entomologist r. w. Harmed states
the Is workers n citrus canker Grad
ication visited during april total OF
952,067 nursery trees and 26,21S grove
trees but no new property was found
infected. More than half the proper
ties which have been infected are now
classed as safe.
Jacksonville Right Rev. D. S. Tut
tie, bishop OF Missouri, and presiding
bishop of the Episcopal church in the
United States, officiated at the conse-
Grafton of Dr. William Mercer Green
as bishop-coadjuto of the diocese OF
Mississippi, at ST. Andrews church.
The new bishop-coadjutor is the sec
ond member of the clergy to be &C
corded this honor in the Mississippi
diocese, which has been in existence |
76 years.
Blue Mountain. - Frank Spencer, |
aged s, son OF James Spencer, farm |
err living four miles north OF here, has |
slept almost without interruption for |
nearly three months. According to DIR. |
O. p Palmer, the child's physician, tho
lad became i'll early in March, being |
attacked by something like meningitis.
Later on typhoid symptoms appeared.
but in a week or ten days the boy
Iapsed into a deep sleep, only rousing
Tor a moment at time for water or
bit Of medicine or nourishment, and
going back to sleep.
Jackson-Of the SIS, 900 600 to be
-aised by the Southern Baptists for
aand benevolent work.
members of that denomination in this
state hope to get s250.000 for enlarg-
ng and eQuipping the State Baptist
hospital at Jackson, making that insti-
ution the largest and best equipped in
Jackson-J T. Thomas, of Grenada,
las DSon Sel0ClcQ DIS CIdAl lllehh VI LILO
,etter schools committee of the State
Teachers association, succeeding the
ate L. c. Enochs, of Jackson.
Gulfport-After remaining in ses-
ion for a week and examining 131
witnesses, the Harrison county grand
ury has adjourned. Twenty-Five true
ills were returned, none of which
we're of extraordinarily sensational
eatures.
Agricultural College. = Mississippi
ed all southern states and most Of the
crth in the increase in the number of
airy COWS in 1918, according to infor-
nation sent by Director Bradford
Knapp, of the Extension Work South,
0 Assistan. State Director G. A. Cobb.
Brookhaven-The fifth annual meet
1g of the South Mississippi Dairy
len's association was held in Brook
aven. Among those present were
umbered many distinguished dairy
len from various sections of MisssiS-