Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-05-14
MISSISSIPPI
EVENTS
Gathered from All Cor
ners Of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

mother OF Confederate veteran, who
resides with her daughter, Mrs. w. A.
Hays. Walthall, Miss, was presented
Judge T. l.. Lamb of Eupora, Miss, in
behalf OF the Confederate Memorial
Association Mrs. Harvey will have at
tained her Goth year the 10th of Au-
gust.
Grenada.-The board of trustees Of
the city public schools, acting upon the
advice of DR.. J. w. Young, the county
health officer, and DR.. P. G. Pope.
county health director; has ordered
the public schools of Grenada closed
for an indefinite period of time, owing
to the fact that there are several cases
of scarlet fever in Grenada among the
school children.
Natchez.-With the exception of the
districts flooded by back water of trib.
utaries of the Mississippi river, the
danger from flood conditions in this
district has been greatly reduced, al
though an element of danger will re-
main until the water of the Mississippi
is no longer against the levees.
Ashland.-H. L. Smith, county agent,
and Miss Anise Browning, home agent,
in charge of club work among the
women and girls of the county, visited
the Liberty community, where they
were met by large crowd of the citi-
zens of that community to talk over
home problems.
Me1 iiian-The resignation of DR..
d. G.. Hull as superintendent for the
past ten years of the Meridian city
schools has been accepted by the trus
tee board. and Prof. w. c. Williams
superintendent OF the public schools of
McComb City, has been elected his
successor.
Gloster.-After two of the most sue.
cessful years of work of any pastor
that Galilee Baptist church has ever
had, DR.. w. 2. Farr has resigned, eff
fective in September. at which time
he goes west to be with his sick wife.
Blue Mountain.-W. r. Alvis & Son,
! one of the leading live stock concerns
of this county, has shipped out of Tip
pah during recent weeks 30 solid cars
.nf hogs. containing approximately 1900
head, and six solid cars of cattle.
Sturgis-The greatest agricultural
rally in the history of Oktibbeha coup-
ty was held here, when between 5000
and 1000 people gathered for an ALI
day consideration of topics of COM
munity development.
Marks.-The Sunflower Baptist AS
sociation closed most interesting and
successful Sunday school convention
here. Delegates from Tunica, Coaho-
ma, Tallahatchie and Sunflower -coun-
ties were present.
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Starkville. consolidated school
at Self creek, in this county, was de-
molished by the cyclone a-few days
ago, and the people OF that community
are preparing to rebuild on the same
site.
Tupelo.-Tupelo High School has ac-
cepted the challenge issued by West
Point High School for dual track
meet and has named Okolona for the
place Of the meet and the, e,date May IA.
Amory.-The prospects for anything
like q crop of corn or cotton lis very
gloomy in this part of the country be-
cause OF the excessive rains.
Lambert.-A wind and rainstorm OF
terrific force struck Lambert. Several
negro houses were blown completely
away, fences and trees were blown
down in every section Of the town.
Greenville-The Greenville Savings
Bank & Trust Company has awarded
q contract for enlarging and remodel
ing its bank building.
Senatobia. - The entire faculty OF
the city school was reelected by the
directors at recent meeting, with an
increase in salary.
Hattiesburg.-The revival services
at the First Baptist Church, conducted
by the pastor, DIR. w. E. Marlborough,
have ended.
Coldwater. Teachers have been
elected here for another session. Sal
aries have been raised from rs to 40
| per cent.
Crystal Springs. The most serious
situation confronting the truck grow
hers at this time is the matter Of labor.
Shannon.-Rain again has broken
Etnto the farmsss: wsrk IN this vicintty.