Okolona messenger., 1920-01-29

Senatobia.-A number Of important
changes in business here will take
place before Feb. 1.
Vicksburg. Capt VIM. T. Rigby,
vice chairman of the Vicksburg Memo
rial Arch Commission, has addressed
circulars to four granite firms, advis.
ing them that sealed proposals for the
erection of the memorial arch will be
received at his office, to be opened on
Feb. Z.
Philadelphia.-Cole Bros, wholesaL
ers, have become interested in opening
another wholesale house at Canton.
The business at Canton will be under
the name of Cole & Hester A char
ter has just been granted.
Agricultural College. - Exceptional
opportunities IN the Irish potato are
now open to the Mississippi farmer, ac-
cording to Marketing Specialists Pat
terson and Mckay, of the extension
force. The price is already much
higher than the fancy values obtain
ing in 1917, when the farmer of this
state received $3.50 bushel net, and
as the stored supply in the West is
much less than usual there will be
little of the old crop to compete with
the new potatoes from the South.
Carrollton.-E. B. Evans and ]. b
Kozlove have been appointed as com
mittee to solicit funds in this section
to help swell the 100000 drive which
is being made to erect Jewish hospl'
tai at Memphis. The citizens of this
neighborhood, irrespective of creed,
are unanimously in favor of assisting
this worthy cause, and it is expected
that the committee will experience lit
tie or no trouble in their charitable
work.
Yazoo City.--A new state law, one
Of the first to be passed by the pres
ent session of the state legislature and
signed by Gov. Bilbo before his term
of office expired, refunds tax penalties
to the payers Of taxes in the period
between Jan. and Feb 2, and places
the second day of February of each
year as the day on which the tax pen
atty for delinquent taxes will be az
fixed In the future.
Blue Without a single
dissenting vote the faculty and stu
dent body Of Mississippi Heights Mill
tary Academy, at this place, represent
ing perhaps $50 different communities
Of this territory, have just gone on rec
ord for the immediate ratification OF
the peace treaty and the league of ma
tions covenant without amendments OF
reservations.
Blue Mountain.-Rev. John Jennings
Of Blue Springs, a promising young
Baptist minister who lost his eyesight
few months ago following a severe
attack of Spanish influenza, has gone
to the Mississippi state institution for
the blind, at Jackson, to learn the
touch system of reading, and will con-
tinue his ministerial profession.
Canton.-Mr Thomas F. Ewton, OF
Dallas, Texas, president Of the Great
Southern Preserving Co, Inc, has
been in Canton with a view to estab
fishing large sweet potato curing and
storage company in Canton. Elk
Sheriff Noble and others are encour
aging the movement to build and equip
this house.
Senatobia.-It is estimated that more
than 1000 bales of cotton remains un
picked in the cotton fields of Tate
county. The farmers are still trying
to gather the crop. They are paying
pickers SO per hundred, and even al
this price the negroes cannot be In
duced to help gather the crop.
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Cleveland.-At a conference attend
I'd by the entire congregation, the
First Methodist church in Cleveland
raised the salary of the pastor, Rev.
T. NJ. Bradley, from $1,S00 to $4,000.