The Jones County news., 1920-09-16


cryatai Syringe. Probably The most
independent man IN Mississippi and
dne at least with the best record be-
hind him as a farmer. IS George Gates,
living across Pearl river from here.
Mr. Gates IS now 65 years Of age and
.aas accumulated a large tract Of land
cn the river across In Simpson county.
lie seldom comes to town but was
here recently. and in talking to friends
made the remarkable statement that
lie had been farming ever since he was
boy and in all OF that time had never
yet bought an ear of corn or pound
cf meat for his farm or his family. He
has lived at home and always been
able TO grow enough corn for his use
ard enough meat for his family use
and that Of his farm He bought
corn shelter and stated that he would
have ample corn this season and that
his meat was fine and would furnish
h.m plenty OF good hams for the com
iag winter.
senatubia.-Th county pension
board met here and added about a
score Of Confederate soldiers and
widows to the pension roll. The mem
bers Of the board, who must be ex-
Confederate soldiers. are Capt. Daugh-
erty. d. G. Kirkland, B. G. Tucker, j.
II. Murphy and W. j. Veazy. The last
legislature materially increased the
amount paid each soldier the lowest
now paid q pensioner is $3.50 per year,
and this amount IS paid quarterly. 1t
is now necessary that soldier own
more than $4,000 before he is excluded
from drawing a pension; heretofore if
hs owned els much as 5000 he was eX-
cluded.
hatcher Patitions have been cir
cuIated hare asking that a special cleo
tion be called IN order chat the appli-
cation OF the compulsory education law
III Adams County may be put to Q
referendum vote A sufficient num-
ber have already signed the petition
30 insure the election. 1t is stated by
those circulating the petition that there
are certain features of the law OBJ
ietcionable to taxpayers. An election
en- the compulsory law was recently
held in Jefferson County and it was
rejected by a vote Of over 500 to eight.
Rosedale.-City Marshal Crawford,
with Deputies Bryant, Rosenfield, Ford
snd Poletti. made a raid on several
kouses in the south part of town in an
effcrt to capture bootleggers that have
neen selling white mule" and other
brands Of liquors for some time. The
searching party did not accomplish
much in the way of securing liquor,
as the eleggers" had evidently been
clipped off beforehand, and had made
themselves scarce"
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Blue Mountains Mississippi has a
large death rate among Nits babies, ac-
cording to information collected by
Miss Bonnie Bess Tillman, formerly
on the faculty Of Blue Mountain col
lege, now in charge of the child's well
fare work in the Grenada county
health unit. Miss Tillman, who has
JUS left here for Grenada, found that
SO babies out Of only 115 families had
died in Grenada county under one yeaJ
Of age.
Clarksdale.-A lone hold-up man en-
tered the Clarksdale Delicatessen and
at the point of a pistol forced the own.
er to open the cash drawer and hand
over all the money. The robbery oc
Cured shortly after o'clock on one
Of the most prominent thoroughfares
Of the city After relieving the owner
of s75 in cash and two rings, the thief
backed through the door and made his
escape.
Tupelo.-Dr. G. C. Hampton has been
ordered to report to New York BY the
international health board He goes
to Ceylon, near the coast Of India, one
OF the worst hoolworm infested places
in the world.
Meridian. THE city council has or.
dered an election on a $4,000 bond
issue for the purpose Of making Ger
tain badly needed Improvements at
the Matty Tersee Charity Hospital
pcntotoc. The Pontotoc County Red
Gross. of wh:ch Mrs. W. L. Wilson is
csa'rman, is assisting in the relief work
re resulting from the S25O,O00 fire at this
place recently.
shelby.-This section was visited py
severe electrical storm last week.
The lightning struck mule belonging
to a negro living on w. J. Taylor's
Place.
Kilmichael- ninth annual ses'
sion of the Montgomery County Agri-
cultural Eigh School opened here with
al unusually large attendance.
.wiler.-The public school at thls
nlace opened with an attendance OF
| i5o and prospects Of totaling 20o be-
fcre the year ends.
Baldwvn.-Hugh Norton, of Gun.
town. aged As, died on the operating
table while two doctors were removing
his tonsils.
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