The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-07-25
MISSISSIPPI
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE STATE

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e pend $4,000 in paving the streets il
the business district of the city.
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| Belzoni.-Sheriff O. G. Turner veri
fled the reported lynching of a negro
scene.
Charleston.-A meeting was held al
the mayors office to formulate plans
for the esta blishment of a creamery in
! Charleston
Newton.-The board of trustees OF
the Newton public school has just fin.
ished electing the faculty for the en-.
suing session
Crystal Springs. Much prepare
ton is being made by the management
of the approaching session Of the Mis-
sissippi chautauqua
Yazoo City,. A. McGraw has an
nounced his withdrawal from the race
in Yazoo county because of the press
OF personal business.
Jacksonville sheriffs' association
OF Mississippi has been called to meet
at the house OF representatives hall
here Wednesday, July %.
Senatobia-One hundred and TWEEN
ty-five shippers OF Tate county formed
this week the Tate County Co-opera-
tive Shippers asst citation.
Columbus. Lowndes county Is to
secure five of the several thousand
motor trucks which the federal gov
eminent is to distribute.
Jackson.-Reports reaching head
quarters of the Mississippi Memorial
association indicate that county chair
men in all sections are active.
Ripley. - County Demonstration
Agent w. t. Pollard, of this county,
shipped a car of sheep for the farm
ers of the lower part of the county.
Yazoo City.-The Pickens County
Cooperative Shippers association
has offered a total of $3.50 in prizes
to the shippers Of poultry of all kinds
Greenwood. = No arrests have been
made in Greenwood for drunkenness
or bootlegging since July 1, when the
national prohibition law went into eff
feet.
Blue Mountain Blue Vista farm,
which supplies Blue Mountain college
with much of it's foodstuff, and which
contains the famous college dairy has
been sold.
Meridian. - The county assessment
rolls. after revision of the supervisors,
shows an assessment for Lauderdale
of $19,402475 against S1S,564,-
$50 in 1918.
Kosciusko.-D. G. Jordan, formerly
q prominent furniture dealer of Kos
ciusko, was found dead in the field
Of his brother-in-law, j. d. Sanders,
ut Rocky Point.
vicksburg-Cotton in the past thir-
ty days has shown a wonderful i'm
provement along the lines of the Y. &
NJ. v. railroad through Mississippi and
the crop is looking fine.
Macon-The election for or against |
the issuance of $4,000 city bonds for
the purpose of repairing the rock and |
asphalt streets within the city limits |
carried almost unanimously.
Jackson Antitrust probes have |
finally ended in Jackson, with indict-
nents returned against the laundry
men by the Kinds county grand jury
price-fixing.
Columbus The appearance OF
Homer Clark, said to be the worlds
greatest trap shot, was a feature OF
he regular weekly shooting match OF
he Magowah Gun club.
Hattiesburg. During a political
ally held Tuesday near Moselle.
Miss, Mr.. Rawls, a prominent farmer
If Jones county and candidate for
Justice OF the peace, was struck by
ightning.4
Natchez. A campaign has been
opened by the Natchez Chamber of
Commerce for the requirement. of the
business section of the city and the
extension of sidewalks in the residen-
ial section.
Meridian. The supervisors will
ell on August z, $4,000 consolidated
chool bonds These bonds were re-
emily voted by the Long Creek, VIM
lille and Center Hill school districts
nd the money will be used in con-
tructing school buildintI.
Columbus.-S. w. Pegram, member
Il the board of supervisors of Tippah
ounty, was convicted and fined $3.50
nd costs in the circuit court here,
N a charge of paying out money to
Dad contractors when the roads were
lot worked up to specifications.
Scott.-Over a thousand delegates
O the world cotton conference to be
eld in New Orleans next October will
pend one day on the big plantation OF
>. X Salisbury This will be on Oc-
ober II and IS, just after the big con-
at New Orleans has closed.
Brookhaven.-The dairymen Of the
nuutv who have heeu nafrouiziup fho |