The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-07-04
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
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Happenings Over
| Commonwealth
as Cleaned from
| Various Places


Blue Mountain.-Oapt. Jno. H. Buch-
anan, who recently arrived here from
France, has accepted a call to the
oastorate of a Baptist church near
Louisville, Ky.
Jackson-Pearl River county has
voted to issue S450,O0O of bonds for
good roads, and will receive $4,000
! Federal aid, the state highway depart
nent 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
capital stock of $1,0O0,000.
Clarksdale.-The first cotton bloom
reported for Ccahoma 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
Y true bills were found during the
Iession.
YaZoo City-Dates and model pro-
gram for series of meetings through
nut the county were adopted at a meet
ng of the officers and the executive
committee of the Yazoo County We'll
ARE Association.
Yazoo City.-Yazoo county's school
BOARD will meet at the office of the SUI
9erintendent of education in Yazoo
City July IA, for the purpose OF max
ing changes in the schools and dis
tricts of the county.
Jackson.-Nineteen passed the state
medical examinations here and nine \
passed in the first SIX branches. ac-
cording to announcement by DR.. w. S
feathers, executive officer of the
state board of health.
Observation-Disclosures 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.
Meridian.-Dave Thomas, held here
nor Poplarville authorities on charge
Of wife murder; Dock Brothers, who is
charged with burglary, and a negro,
Ernest Bennett, charged with burg
larry. escaped from the county jail.
Vicksburg.-George H. Johnson, op-
orator for the Y. & NJ. ". railroad at
Cedars. a small station eight miles
south Of Vicksburg. is held in the War
zen county jail charged with the muir
Ter of his wife, Elsie McNair Johnson.
Yazoo ty.-Mississippi's state pris-
IN farms this year have produced &c.
100 bushels of wheat which has been
tut and threshed and stored in bins
to shipment to the Parch-
nan farm, where flour mill is ope-
ated.
Scooba.-The board OF supervisors
las asked the state highway depart
nent for five of the war trucks for
Use on the roads. In this immediate
ection of the county most of the
Dads have been graveled and are kept
p by regular dragging.
MissiSsippi's first triple
angling in many years took place at
'ylertown, Walthall county, last Fri
ay, when Eugene Moseley, Will Lang
nd Carrie McCarter paid the death
enalty for the murder OF the latter's
usbanf on March %, 1919
Colum dealers in {
Mississippi and Louisiana have decid-
TO form a bi-state organization for
lie protection and promotion of their
lterests, and initiatory steps in this
ierction will be taken at meeting to
g held at New Orleans July 10-11
Ellisville. John fairfield, negro,
assailant of a young white
oman, was lynched by mob here.
artfield was taken to the railroad s
which he confessed, and was hang c
to a girder. His body was then t
armed Z
acknowledgements to call from r
rs. Florence Spencer Duryea, OF New +
ork, sent out from that city to organ
e the CluDS OF business ana pTOito'
onal women into a federation, a num-
IT of representatives met in this city :
Id formally organized a state fedora 4
On of business and professional |;
omen. a
Gulfport-The crew of the French
Gamer Ranches refused to go to sea
hen the vessel cleared because the ;,
of one fireman was Ger :.
an. Hans Miller. who was signed \,
her in place of one paid off. claimed ;,
had served three years in the Amer ;.
IN army. but he spoke German, and =
Q crew would not have him aboard.
a meeting OF the
siness woman's club Of Greenwood HI
= members voted to join the state D,
d national federation Of the bust al
IS and professional women. CT
Blue Observation-Disclosures has col
ted about 80 per cent OF the funds r.
edged for the support OF the army Y. :.
c. A. during the closing months Of -
, war and therefore leads all OF the