Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-02-19
Magnolia State
Happenings
Brief Neuos Notes
Gathered from HI
Sections OF theState

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y Yazoo City.-The Yazoo Semi-Week
8 ly Sentinel. after a career of As year.
\ as one of the leading papers of Yazoo
Z CIty and Yazoo county, changed to a
daily parer The paper will be an
y afternoon edition and will have Inter
? national News Service. Associated
= Press membership has also been ap
4 piled for f. r. Bird all editor of the
Seni-Weekly Sentinel-for good por
= ton of its career, is to be the editor
of the Daily Sentinel.
Blue Mountail-ThouGA the cleo
tors of Tippah in a sfeolal election
voted by good majority TO continue
the services Of home economics
agent in the county, til hoard CT su-
peryi5or3 at its Ia est SIT ~ fai'cd tc
make an appro riqtion sufficient t.
secure the ad li.,onal gore-nn3"t fnnl
provided for thu ruipose, and T.pplh
club girls end wnnen are therefore
still without an official leader.
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StGrkVilie.-The organization OF the
Dixie Yam Potato Curing Compang
at Sturgi3 has been compile ed. All CT
the stock was reported subscribed.
That the affair viii be success Is
assured by the company having as It's
marager 6. f. Turner, the live and
hustling farm agent who has done SO
much for the boys and girls and farm
ers of Mississippi.
BlIe Mountain.-IFa c. Hanks, pro.
kressive farmer and live stock man
living Just south of this place during
1919 established a splendid dairy rec
ord for himself by marketing from
only five milch cows cream amounting
to $741.95. Besides the cash received
for the butter fat, he had the SKINNED
milk for home consumption and fol-
feeding -fo~his pigs and poultry.
Meridian-An auditorium for Me
ridian, which has been the dream Of
many citizens for the past several
years, is no longer to be a dream
but a reality, for definite plans are
now taking shape that are predicted
to be practical and thoroughly work
able it has been announced by gen
tleman who has long taken an interest
in the undertaking.
Meridian-The first of series Of
lectures was delivered in Meridian by
DR.. Dunbar H. Ogden pastor of tht
Second Presbyterian church of Louis
Vile, KY, to a large audience. DR.
Ogden is here under the auspices O.
the Meridian Ministerial Association
Senatobia.-M r. Moore, exsConfed
crate soldier, entertained the ex-Con
federate soldiers of Senatobia at hi:
palatial>home on College street. Th'
occasion being the 7Sd birthday o
Mr. Moore.
Clarksdale.-N. Atkinson, house de
tectiye of the Alcazar Hotel, was ar
rested by Policemen Dugger and Glib
son as he was leaving the passenge
station at 4 o'clock with IL quarts
whisky.
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Blue Mountain.-Rey. w. w. Mitch
ell. presiding elder of the Corinth dis
trict. has Just held his initial quarteFl,
conference in Blue Mountain Method
ist church since being assigned to thi
particular field.
Starkville.-The fifteen days cours
IN home nursing, given under the aus
pices of the Oktfbbeha County Re
Cross Auxiliary, was concluded wit
a ouizz covering the entire course,
CRYSTAL Springs.-The board Of 81
pervisors of the county have ordereI
the Illinois Central Railroad Compsn
to reopen the crossing at Coker plaC'
about one mile north Of town.
New Albany.--The public schools c
Sherman. this county, have bee
closed indefinitely by the board G
health, on account Of the widesprea
prevalence of influenza.
Newton.-A number Of fine Jerse
COWS nave DeSh SOiu AZ ShAS SOAAiiAA0
fly during the past week. The count
farm agent went to Tennessee recenti
and bought carload
Natchez.-The Natchez Rotary clu
has adopted program to assist tn
Boy Scout movement. 1t is propose
to secure the services Of trained d
rector for work here.
Hattiesburg.-An appeal will b
taken to the supreme court in the cas
of Eugene Clark, convicted of KILN
Bramer Boles and sentenced to III
Imprisonment.
Cheneshaw.-The Stanley Sanfor
Post No. 54 Of the American Legic
,o-Feotad organization and elected O