The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-07-16

Macon.-Prof j. c. Hardin of Nc
Cool was married TO Miss Lucy Shell
ton by Rev. Oliver Ray of the Meth
odist church.
New Albany-A program in coop
erative extension work in agriculture
and home economics is being held al
the courthouse here.
Gulfport.-The election in Beat 2 of
Harrison county decided by three to
one that 800. 900 in bonds be sold TO
finish road work in the beat.
Biloxi-George Grayson, II years of
age, son of Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Gray
son, of this city, dove from a local
/ pier into shallow water and broke his
| neck.
Clarksdale. - Several ClarksdaIians
prominent in local and state Christian
/ Endeavor societies attended the ALI
| South convention of Endeavorers in
New Orleans.
Biloxi.-George Russell, 33S years
cid, Of Biloxi, was drowned during the
second day of the twenty-first annual
regatta given under the auspices OF
the Biloxi yacht club.
Meridian.-J. T. Pope of Toomsuba.
prominent lumber man, was instantly
killed in Meridian as a result of COM
ing into contact with a live wire on
one Of the principal residence streets
Of the city.
Jackson.-Lapsed government in
surance may be reinstated up to Jan
uary 1, 1921, according to the terms of
an official order just issued by the
bureau of war risk insurance at Wash
ington, copy of which was received
here.
Holly Springs.-The board Of super
visors of Marshall county appropri-
ated $4,000 to be used for procuring
a health officer and trained nurse to
fight contagious disease in this county
on the condition that the United States
government put up like amount
TWO-GISS- 10 Nc3o
Grenada.-A summer school. which
includes the public school teachers
from the counties of Grenada. YaIo-
busha, Webster, Montgomery, Carroll.
LefIore, Calhoun and Sunflower. is
holding a session of six weeks at the
high school building at Grenada.
Blue Mountain-Blue Mountain Col
Iege has had to run up its rates for
the coming session because of the
large increase in the cost of operating
the institution. The literary tuition
has been placed at one hundred dol
lars, and the tuition for the extra
courses in the fine arts has also been
considerably raised.
Amory. IT The Memphis-Aberdeen
train ran over and killed
Cal GOA and Jessie Walden at Becker,
three miles south Of Amory The men
had been loading lumber all day and
had purchased tickets to Aberdeen and
were waiting for the train. 1t is pre-
sumed they lay down and went to
sleep on the railroad track.
superintendent of Ed !
scation John w. McCulloch has just |
accomplished one of his most highly |
cherished aims in his consolidation
Of six small schools surrounding Cas-
ella into the Cascilla consolidated |
high school. The six schools forming
The consolidation are Cascilla, Stone
field. Harris, Young's Creek, Paul and
Walnut Ridge.
New Albany.-At an election held in
he Ingomar school district Of Union
county the proposition of the board
If supervisors to issue $4,000 in
ponds for the erection and equipment
If a modern schOolhouse building was
passed by vote of 81 to 80 The
ormer schoOlhouse was destroyed in
he severe cyclone which struck In
coma April 20.
Yazoo ty.-Mississippi and her
United States federal Judge, Edwin r.
Holmes of Yazoo City, have been sig
rally honored by the selection of Judge
Holmes to go to New York to hold
curt in the United States District of
Jew York. This court is presided
ver by Federal Judge Larned Hand
nd the docket has become so con-
-ested that it became necessary for
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elp Gear the docket.
Jackson.-After more than four
nonths from the date of adjournment
f the legislature, which was on April
SECRETARY of State Power has re-
eived from the contracting printers
he first specimen copy of the volume
f acts of 1920. 1t is a bulky volume
740 pages, of which zoe
re straight reading matter, and the
smainder devoted to index. The book
arries $50 chapters. of which 329 I
re general laws. including appropria-
on and revenue bills, a little more {
nan 500 local and private relief acts {
nd some three dozen concurrent and
,int resolutions of sundry kinds.
Fayette.-A. r. Gwinn of the devel-
pment bureau of the l. c. railroad,
nd Miss Melissa Johnston, home dem
nstration agent of Jefferson county. I
i'll hold in the near future a series OF
lettings in thescounty for the purpose