The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-08-13
MISSISSIPPI
EVENTS
Gathered from All Cor
ners of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

Starkville--As result of mass
meeting Of 200 citizens of Oktibbeha
county, Aug. Is has been set as the
day when all business and farming
win be stopped and when every able
bodied man in the county viii don ov-
erals and work the roads Of the coun-
ty The mass meeting Monday was
called Monday to get some action on
the roads, which are VIGOROUSLY bad.
The board of supervisors was called
in and reported that they were help
less on account of the scarcity of la
Dor and then the road day" was de
cided upon
Blue Northumberland of the
great increase in the volume of traf-
fic over the G., NJ & n. Railroad since
its recent Mobile, Ala, to Jackson,
Tenn, the railway has found it neces-
sary to lease a number of locomotives
for this division from the Illinois Cen
trail using these engines on passenger
runs. The entire equipment of the
G.. NJ. & n. it is understood is being
taxed to its limit by the Unprecedented
amount of business now being handled
by the line.
Blue MOuntain.-While in Rome re-
Gently en- her way to Paris, where she
IS studying French and literature, Miss
Mary Ruth Whittle Of this place hat
the pleasure of a presentation to the
Pope.
Jackson. Miss. A. Ramey. agricuI-
tural statistician for the United
States bureau Of crop estimate, reports
very substantial improvement in the
condition Of the Mississippi cotton
crop.
Blue Mountain.-An old-fashioneG
singing school. intended to promote
community singing. began at Dean |
town, or the outskirts OF Blue Noun |
tain, on Aug. and will continue II
days.
Starkville.-The race for treasurer
o. Oktibbeha county was finished with 7
Norris Cohen the winner by a plural I
fly Of 90 votes over his nearest oppo-
nent
Senatobia-AlI kinds of crops have
mad splendid progress the past week.
The boil weevi has not appeared as
rapidly as was thought a few weeks
ago.
Shaw f. Frazier and Miss Bes-
sic Evers were married at the brides
home in Sunflower county, six miles
east OF this place.
ed sweet potatoes are shipping them
daily to the out of town merchants
and receiving very satisfactory returns
for the shipments.
northumberland report crop
prospects in Alabama the best in
years. Corn is maturing fast and the :
crop is abundant.
Water valey.sjohn c. Chapman.
an aged Confederate veteran, died al
his home after a long illness. at the
age of II years.
Greenville.-Miss Kathryn S. San
ford of Covington, Tenn. and Fl. r. /
Written of Hillhouse were united iu I
/
Blue Mountain.-After remaining in
active many weeks, real estate here is
to resume it's former ac- r
tivity. Il
BalGwyn.-In the municipal election
held here Hon. H S. Phillips dereared i;
his opponent, w. A Stocks. a
Greenville.-At the regular monthly
meeting of the Washington county b
board of supervisors an order was
passed authorizing tne purchase of s
to be trained and kept p
under the charge of the sheriff, to be e
Used to capture criminals. p
Crystal Springs. A campaign
aunched here by the finance commit a
ee Of the new $4,000 Methodist y
.hurch, now under course of constIuc- Il
ion. resulted in a net gain of $1,000, a.
according to a report submitted to the ST
building committee. W
Crystal Springs.-On account of the
,rohibitive price OF mine-run coal, al
Williams. of the mu- II
iicinal power plant, uses slabs pur- m
hased from neaEby sawmills with a NJ
aving TO the plant of about $500 per W
Month. TO
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Jacksonville Mississippi Railroad
Commission assembled for the regular
august session, with George R. Ed he
7ards of McCool, president: VIM. B. CO
wilson Of Corinth and NJ c. Morgan
T Hattiesburg, district commission 90
rs. al