Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-07-04
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ed teachers for the city schools for
the coming year. ~
Blue Mountain.-Oapt Jno. III. Buch-
anan, who recently arrived here from
France, has accepted call to the
pastorate of a Baptist church near
Louisville, KY.
Jackson.-PearI River county has
voted to issue .$450,OOO of bonds for
good roads, and will receive $150,000
Federal aid, the state highway depart
ment announces.
Gulfport.-The Gulf Pitch Pine Co.,
whose purpose it will be to promote
export trade and for other purposes,
has been organized at Gulfport with a
capital stock of 81 100000 -r<e
Clarksdale-Th first cotton bloom
reported for Coahoma county this sea-
son was brought in from the North
End plantation, consisting of 700 acres
planted to corn, cotton and alfalfa
Jacksonville final report of the
Kinds county grand jury submitted to
Judge Potter was devoid of sensation
al features. The report states that
S2 true bills were found during the
session.
Yazoo City.-Dates and model pro-
gram for a series of meetings through
out the county were adopted at a meet
ing of the officers and the executive
committee of the Yazoo County Well
fare Association.
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Yazoo City.--Yazoo county's school
board will meet at the office of the su-
perintendent of education in Yazoo
City July IA, for the purpose of max
ing changes In the scbooss and dis-
tricts OF the county.
Jackson.-Ninetesn passed tho state
medical examinations here and nine
passed in the first SIX branches. sc-
cording to announcement by DR.. W. 8
Leathers, executive officer Of the
state board OF health.
! Coldwater. er.-Blackberries are now
getting ripe, and the present crop is
one of the best ever produced in this
section. The berries are plentiful in
the fields and along the roadside, and
are much larger than usual M
Meridian.-Dave Thomas, held here
for Poplarville authorities on a charge
Of wife murder; Dock Brothers, who is
charged with burglary. and negro,
Ernest Bennett, charged. with burg
larry, escaped from the county jail.
I vicksburg.-George H. Johnson, op-
orator for the Y. & Nj. ". railroad at
Cedars, small station eight miles
south of vicksburg, is held in the War
rem county jail charged with the muir
der Of his wife, Elsie McNair Johnson.
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Yazoo -Mississippi's state pris-
on farms this year have produced &c.
900 bushels of wheat, which has been
cut and threshed and stored in bins
preparatory to shipment to the Parch-
man farm, where flour mill is ope-
rated.
Scooba-The board of supervisors
has asked the state highway depart
ment for five of the war trucks for
use on the roads. In this Immediate
section of the county most of the
roads have been sraveled and are kept
up by regular dragging.
I Jackson.-M -Mississippi's, first triple
hanging in many years took place at
Tylertowh. Walthall county, last F'rf-
day. when Eugene Moseley, Win Lang
and Carrie McCarter paid the death
penalty for the murder of ethe fatter's
husband on March 20. 1913. Il.
Columbus.--Automobile dealers in
Mississippi and Louisiana have decid'
ed to form bi-state organization for
the protection and promotion of theii
interests. and initiatory steps, in this
dierction. will be taken at a meeting to
be held at New Orleans July 1e-11..
! Ellisville. John fairfield. negfu.
confessed 'assailant of young white
woman. was lynched by = mob here.
fairfield was takenztus4hH<ra railroasi
trestle. where he 'committsds the crif6p
to which he confessed, and was hang.
| ed to sgirder. His body was: then
burned. ..:
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