The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-03-26
Brief News Of Mississippi


Water valley.-The wi.ter theolog
ical school for preachers Is in session
here.
Tupelo.-Plans are maturing to put
In big curing house for sweet pota
1 toes at Tupelo.
| Hattiesb burg. - Three white men
| broke jail here last night and two OF
them made good their escape.
Smithburg.-The B. Y. P. u. OF Sill
yer Springs Baptist Church has elected
| officers for the ensuing six months.
Neridian--The mem bers of the Me-
ridian Bar Association attended the
funeral OF Thomas G. Fewell in body.
Meridian.-The Meridian Theatrical
Stage Employees Union has been or
ganized here with a charter member
ship OF %.
Blue Mountain.-S. L. Goodwin of
Blue Mountain shipped another CON
signment of more than 100 select swine
TO the Memphis market.
Natchez-While here on his first
visit as bishop coadjutor, Rt Rev VIM
Mercer Green confirmed a class of &c
at Trinity Episcopal church
Meridian.-A cooperative shipment
Of nitrate of soda has been received
here to be distributed to farmers by
County Agent J. D. Howerton.
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Vaiden-Preston Peary, young
man who lived few miles east of this
city. was drowned in the high waters
Of Black river while boat riding with
neighbor friends.
Natchez-One OF the few Mormon
funerals ever held in Natchez took
place here when William A Jackson,
aged 81 years and a Confederate vet
eran, was laid to rest
Jackson.-Rev. John Mcneil of Biz
Ala. who wears the sobri-
quet, the Scotch Sturgeon" opened
his one weeks mission at the First
church.
Meridian.-A special train will take
the Meridian delegation to Newton on
Thursday March 25. to attend the Mis-.
sissippi Baptist Sunday school and B. |
Y. P. U. convention
Coefeeville-The weekly shipment |
Tor Yalobusha county made from Cot |
'eeville by County Agent A. Y. Hamil- |
ION, consisted of four cars of hogs. or
1T head, and represented $50 shippers
Greenwood.-A meeting of &c repre- |
of the Yazoo River counties |
south and including Leflore county,
vas held in Greenwood to consider the
proposed drainage measures affecting
hese counties.
Jackson.-Lieut. e. w Maynard, the
flying parson" who established his
seat in the hall of fame by winning the
'reat cross-country flight from the At
Tuesday in this city.
Meridian.-The Mississippi Funeral
Directors Association and the Missis-
ippi' State Board of Embalmers will
lold their annual convention in Merid-
an. the first named June IA and Is
nd the embalmers June 16.
Jackson-It is expected by the COM
ng midsummer that the community
ecreation park. which has been pro-
-ided for by a $4,000 bond issue, au-
horned by the qualified electors at
pecial election held in the summer of
919, will be operating.
Bl1e Mountain Preliminary to
lanting their crops, Tippah farmers.
Tho are becoming more scientific III
heir methods of tillage. are laying in
beral supplies of commercial fertil-
ger, much of which is being secured
Or them through County Agent W. T.
'ollard.
reenwood.-Realizing that Green
Tocd's prosperity and growth is being
indered by the failure of the city to
rovide sufficient housing accommoda-
ions, the Greenwood Rotary Club has
AIKEN up the matter with the Chamber
Commerce and efforts are being
lade to solve the problem.
Jacksons-Shipment into Mississ.p-
of lint seed or any form of cotton
lat might be Infected is prohibited
xcept by special permit by a decision
nnounced at a meeting of the state
liant board here. the measure being
ken to guard against the Introduction
I the pink boil worm, proving so dis
strous in Texas and recently discov- .
red in Louisiana.
Amory.-At a recent meeting of the I
ortheass Mississippi Schoolmasters' I
lub the date of the annual field meet
as moved back one week so as not TO
,nflict with the state meet to be
cid at A and NJ College on April %. 4
he Northeast Mississippi meet will I
e held at Tupclo on April 16. The
gh school examinations will be held
ls week earlier, April 8. I
Canton.-Business men and planters.
Fought together in a great coopera- :
We moveme nt at the recent Chamber
! Commerce banquet. are displaying
zen interest in the organization and
'sure ample support for the 1920 pro ;
anime of the organization.