Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-12-02
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lQEElDUE0755
TEACHERS PAY PAST DUE.
Have Received No Checks for Six
Weeks.


had not received their salaries for tn
past six weeks on November %. |
doesn't look like the "ghost will walk
for some time yet. Taxes are beinj
paid slowly-slower than ever before
according to the statement of Sheriff
Williams. All the county officers ar
under the salary law now: the fee
collected by them being turned init
the county strong box; and, according
to a recent ruling obtained from thu
encouragement by the chancery
clerk, it is unlawful for the clerk O.
the board of supervisors to issue {
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 a 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 9kion.
Tupelo.-A dairy and poultry meet
ing was held at Bissell last week. G.
G. Mingee, county agent, talked on
dairying, and J. X. 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 very interesting and in
structive program in the Baptist
church here before large and appre-
ciative audience.
Longview Lumber & Manufacturing
company; domiciled at Longview, Ok
county. Capital stock, &c.,
600. Incorporators: Mrs. Anna L.
Phalin, Mrs. e. L. Anderson, r. H.
Anderson.
Clarksdale.-Reports from an au-
thentic source indicate that the fire
record of the present year will double
hat of last year, ITO runs having
been made to date, against 70 for last
rear.
Yazoo City.-The meeting Of the va
100 County Teachers association,
Which was to have been held Saturday.
GLOWING the Thanksgiving holidays,
vas postponed until Saturday, Deem
YER 4.
Biloxi.-United States District
ourt with Judge Edwin Holman pre-
iding, and all other court attaches
rom throughout the district present,
cyan one of its most important terms.
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Meridian Secretary Joseph w. "a
ones of the Mississippi State Fedora /
on of Labor, issued a formal call {
'r the convention to meet at Vicks,
urg, January II.
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Jackson-In one-sided contest here s
oward College of Birmingham won i
lie Thanksgiving football match from Ii
-illsaps College of jackson by the
,ore of AZ to o.
Valley Development company; dom c
lie, Yazoo City, Miss. Capital stock, J
$1,000. Incorporators A. B. Bar a
'ur, o. G. Ingram, G. M. Dunn ana
hers.
Yazoo City.-An extensive campaign s.
as put on by the churches of Yazoo H
ty to increase the attendance at o.
e Sunday schools.
Olson, ono Of the tt
st known men of Grenada county, W
ed at st. Thomas Hospital Nash cl
lie, Tenn.
the council meeting v
500 was borrowed to run the city's 81
trent expenses to February !, 1921. lin
Crystal Springs.-Mrs. A. Lotterhos
ID at the family residence after an nt
less Of several weeks. CT
w. Bartlett, o8 4
urel, and Miss Elsie Lucille Moody, pr
re married here. 90
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Tylertown.-Henry Jacobs, negro, +,
lie being tried for his life for an pc
ault on a white woman here, last di
elk, was taken from the courtroom SO
| lynched by a mob. Members of or
mob, who had been barred from he
Irtroom during the progress OF the I'M
Il, gained access to the courtroom
breaking down two doors.
sssss Ike
lreenville. - Greenville celebrated I'm
more generally than thl
4 before, Church servicessssweeres / fai
d. Before noon an business houses ga
Jed. &C,