The north Mississippi herald., 1919-04-11
OAKLAND NEWS

ern Yalobusha County, is located on
the Main line of the l. C. Railroad.
1t is in the center of the best farm
lands in tn county. The = ACouatv
Agricultural High School is located at
Oakland. It also has bank, several
OF the finest stores to be found in the
county, express office, several church.
es and a fine town school.
The North Mississippi Herald is the
principal and popular local paper Of
Oakland. Rev. James Porter is the
local editor and authorized represen-
tative of the paper 1t is the local
EDITORS desire to make the Oakland
News worth while and he earnestly
asks the assistance of all to help
boost Oakland and her interests. He
will appreciate all news items given
him as well as all and any orders for
Job printing and advertising.
Prof. 7. C. Bradford one time Sn-
perintendent of Yalobusha County
Agricultural High School but now Of
ssIeenville Military Academy was here
tsls week. Mr.. Bradford Is Ii fsae
health and fine spirit. He gives a
splendid report of the school with
which he is connected. More than
one hundred young men and boys in
the school and not a cigarette smoker
in the whole lot, and more he saws
that not one Of them uses profane
language. This is the more wonder
full for it "has been supposed" that
everybody in the Delta used Ugly
words. In this school he boys are
kept so busy that they have no time
for anything only to do right. We
think the people there are fortunate
to have Mr.. Bradford with them. We
are always glad for him to visit Us
and do hope the time soon comes chen
he and his family will be permanent.
ly located in this town.
Miss Vida Gilleyan, Domestic sci
ence teacher in the High School here
spent Saturday and Sunday of last
week In Hernando and Memphis with
friends and to do some shopping.
Prof. Walton of the High School
here went up to fernando Saturday.
OF course he just wanted to see that
good town and it may be to hear some
good music while he is there. The
music teacher of fernando is from
this town.
Mr.. r. P. Taylor, our postmaster,
is seriously i'll. We know that every
thing is being done for him that can
be done and we do trust that in a
short time he will be much better.
DR.. Thos. j. Crawford of Charles
ton has been here several times in thu
past week. We are always glad ty
see DIR. Crawford. He has a great
many friends here, having lived here
for several years and by his skill as
a physician and his kindness of spirit
he endeared himself to he people of
this vicinity.
Mr.. c. l.. McCullar bought and
shipped two cars of hogs from this
place last week. The amount paid for
them was more than five thousand
dollars. This for the farmers living
near here is a good little sum and It
seems that the hogs can hardly be
missed. In addition to this Mr.. Nc
Cullar has a big lot of hickory logs
on the yard that he has bought and
paid the farmers for. There is no
doubt but that he is doing favor to
the people of the surrounding coun-
try in buying what they have to sell.
Just anything that has value can be
sold here, and the way the people are
taking advantage of it shows how
they appreciate it.
Mr.. w. J. Johnson of Dallas, Texas
is here spending few weeks with his
sister, Mrs. r. p. Taylor. Mr.. Taylor
is real sick but we learn that he is
likely to improve real soon.
Mr.. Euclid Hughes of Sylvia Rena
this County, was here this week with
his daughter and spending the time
with his brother, Carson Hughes.
Mr.. Albert X. Burt of Como came
home Sunday to spend a while with
his homefolks.
We met gentleman on the street
recently that suggested to us that a
stunt of considerable Importance was
about to be pulled off and he sand, if
it IS a great success write it up, but
IL things don't come up to top notch,
you can Just tell one of these little
ones that don't hurt. Well SO here
goes. The RT. Hon. Rev. Highpole