Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-04-08

Oo4lcSNlltc'--A4Icf preliminary
trial here for the killing of Lee Tierce
R. C. Melton is now out on a bond OF
$4,000.
starkville.-The> new well for the
city, now being bored, is down SO2
feet. In seyenty-fiye more feet there
is water.
Jackscn.-With clearer skies and
slightly cooler temperature, Easter
Day in this section was made the more
enjoyable.
Waynesboro--- w. Saxon was
drowned during a heavy rain, while
attempting to raise the flood gates to
his water mill.
Hattiesburg.,- The merchants of Hat
tiesburg have formed Merchants
Bureau in connection with the cham.
Der Of commerce.
Blue Mountain.--Dr l.. E. Barton,
who has just concluded a highly sue
cessful revival in Manila, Ark, has left
Blue Mountain again for Little Rock.
Yazoo City--Yazoo City is expert
encing a shortage of brick and otha
building material which is very ma
terially checking the building program
in this city, it is said
Natchez-All bids for the construc
tion of Federal Aid Project No. 81, as
the jefferson County link of the Match
ez-Jackson trunk line highway is call
ed, have been rejected.
vicksburg.-An early start on the
work of grading the former Reid tract
Of nearly so acres, recently purchased
for the MississippiLo Fair As
ISOLATION will be made.
Ellisville.-At the request of the
Jones County Board of Supervisors pc
titions are in circulation asking Gov
Russell to appoint an auditor to audit
the books of the county.
Crystal Springs.-The Harmony
School, a consolidated school in one
Of the best communities Of the county,
closed after one of the most success
full sessions in its history.
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ElIisville.-The cost Of the recent
term of circuit court in the second dis
trict was s2,155.40. Court was in ses-
sion 1S days Sixty six indictments
were returned and nine were sent to
the panitentiary, two for life.
Greenwood. torrential rain, to
falling $40 inches, fell in Greenwood
and vicinity, flooding the streams,
pavements, sewers and sidewalks,
washing out newly mAde gardens and
doing much damage generally.
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Aberdeen.-Charley Marshall and
his father, John e. Marshall, who were
convicted at Tupelo OF the murder of
Burley, infant son Of Fannie Green
Miller, were brought to Aberdeen and
placed in the Monroe county jail.
Sardis.-The Jury in the case Of the
state against w. T. Dye charged with
the murder OF r. M. Short on the fifth
day Of last August, in the courthouse
here, after deliberating for more than
40 hours, was discharged by the court,
after announcing that it was unable
to agree. 3
Ellisville. There was heavy hall
storm Saturday morning in the john
son neighborhood, seven miles south
Of Ellisville. Fred Anderson, who owns
sawmill there, brought some Of the
hailstones that were, after being
brought that distance, as large as hen
eggs. Serious damage was done to
fruit trees.
Shannon section has just
been visited by another terrific rain,
which fell in torrents for hours. For
a while it looked as though the com
munity would be visited by a cyclone.
Coonewah and Chiwhappa are on
rampage, hundreds Of acres are inun-
dated for the second time in the last
three weeks.
Yazoo City.-The Roy Lannon's
Post Of the American Legion, at
meeting at the courthouse in this city,
accepted proposition submitted to
the post by Gov. Bowen, former end
man for the All @. Field Minstrels, for
a minstrel show in this city some time
in the near future for, the benefit OF
the local legion post.
Blue Mountain John d
Pearce, superintendent of education Of
Tippah county, under whose admins
tration the past four years rural edu
cation has been greatly promoted, has
been forced to go to Memphis for spe'
cial treatment for his eyes and will
probably have to remain there under
the care Of specialists for some time.
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Blue Mountain. 4Tippah has Just
been, swept by one Of the worst rain
storms in years Under the incessant
downpour, freshly titled fields. have
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