The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-12-03
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News of Mississippi
Interesting Happenings Cleaned
From All Sections of The
State Specially Written
For This Paper.
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TEACHERS PAY PAST DUE.

past six weeks on November %.
doesn't look like the ghost will walk
for some time yet. Taxes are beint
paid slowly-slower than ever before
according to the statement OF Sheriff
Williams. All the county officers ar,
under the salary law now: the fees
collected by them being turned int
the county strong box; and, according
to a recent ruling obtained from the
encouragement by the chancery
clerk, it is unlawful for the clerk Of
the board of supervisors to issue 9
warrant unless there is money or
hand in that particular fund with
which to pay the warrant
No warrants have been drawn by
| the clerk of the board for more than
a month. The encouragement also
held that an officer could not retain
his fees and settle with the treasurer
by turning in his SALARY warrant as
cash. Neither can warrant be is
sued to a holder TO be used in paying
| taxes unless there is money on hand
to pay it. So there is no way around ;
the long green" must be actually in
the bag before there's anything doing.
Yazoo City.-Funeral services for
Private Dan Guion were held here I'M
der the direction of the Roy Lannon's
Post of the American Legion. N. A.
Mott, Jr., post commander. appointed
| an escort to accompany the remains to
| the family burying lot near Benton.
| Private Dan Guion volunteered and
went over among the first and was
killed in France while in action.
Tupelo.-A dairy and poultry meet
Ing was held at Bissell last week. G.
G. Mingee, county agent, talked on
dairying, and J. K Morrison, on poul-
try. Eddie Folger and T. w. Tate CO.
operated in the campaign.
Magnolia-The members Of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union of Sum
nit gave a very interesting and in
structive program in the Baptist
church here before a large and appre-
ciative audience.
Longview Lumber & Manufacturing
company; domiciled at Longview, Ok
tibbeha county Capital stock, $780,
600. Incorporators: Mrs. Anna L.
Phalin, Mrs. E. L. Anderson, R. H.
Andersen.
larksdale.-Reports from an au-
thentic source Indicate that the fire
record Of the present year will double
that of last year, ITO runs having
been made to date, against ~ for last
year.
Yazoo City-The meeting of the va
zoo County Teachers association.
which was to have been held Saturday. |
following the Thanksgiving holidays, |
was postponed until Saturday, Deem |
Der 4.
Biloxi.-United States District |
court, with Judge Edwin Holman pre-
siding. and all other court attaches
from throughput the district present,
began one of its most important terms.
Meridian-Secretary Joseph w.
Jones of the Mississippi State Fedora
tion of Labor. issued a formal call
for the convention to meet at Vicks.
burg, January IT.
Jackson-In a one-sfded contest here
Howard College of Birmingham won
the Thanksgiving football match from
Millsaps College of Jackson by the
score of ~ to o.
Valley Development company; dom
icile, Yazeo City, Miss. Capital stock,
$4,000. Incorporators: A. B. Bar
bour, o. C. Ingram, G. NJ. Dunn and
others.
Yazoo City.-An extensive campaign
was put on by the churches Of Yazoo
City to increase the attendance at
the Sunday schools.
Esliott-August Olson, one OF the
best known men of Grenada county.
died at st. Thomas Hospital Nash {
yille, Tenn.
Hazlehurst.-At the council meeting J
1880 was borrowed to run the city's :
current expenses to February 1, 1921. 1
Crystal Springs.-Mrs. A. Lotterhos
lied at the family resid snce after an I
illness Of several weeks. Z
Ellisville.-George w Bartlett, of
laurel, and Miss Elsie Lucille Moody, I
we're married here.
Tylertown.-HenTy Jacobs, negro,
While being tried for his life for an I
assault on white woman here, last q
week, was taken from the courtroom $
md lynched by a mob Members of e
he mob, who had been barred from /
during the progress of the i
rial. gained access to the courtroom
Nv breaking down two doors.
Greenvi1ie. - Greenville celebrated Il
more generally than {
yer before. Church services were t
ED. Before noon all business houses e
losed. a
Jackson.-Gov. Russell instructed
is private secretary to wire to the z
fexican authorities his inability to at II
end the Inauguration ceremonies OF e
len. Obregon as president OF Mexico r
he governor designated Maj. j. e. Il
fotIow as his personal and official G
representative to attend the ceremo- n
l.