Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-08-12
MISSISSIPPI
EVENTS
GatheredfromANCor-
ners Of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

starkville.-As a result OF mass
meeting of 200 citizens OF Oktibbehs
county, Aug. 13 has been set as the
DAY when all business and farming
wln be stopped and when every able
bodied man in the county will don ov.
erals and work the roads Of the coun.
". The mass meeting Monday was
called Monday to get some action on
the roads, which are VIGOROUSLY bad.
The board Of supervisors was called
An and reported that they were help
less on account Of the scarcity of La,
Dor, and then the road day" was de.
|, cided upon.
Blue Northumberland of the
great increase in the volume of traf-
tic over the G., M & N. Railroad since
dts recent Mobile, Ala, to Jackson,
Tenn. the railway has found 1t neces-
sary to lease a number Of locomotives
for this division from the Illinois Gen.
tral, using. these engines ON passenger
runs, The entire equipment Of the
G., M. & NJ, it is understood, is being
taxed to its limit by the unprecedented
amount Of business now being handled
by the line.
|. - Blue Mountain.-While in Rome re-
Gently on her way to Paris, where she
Is studying French and literature, Miss
Mary Ruth White Of this place hal
the pleasure of presentation to the
Pope.
Jackson, Miss. A. Ramey, agricul-
tural statistician for the United
States bureau of crop estimate, reports
very substantial improvement in the
condition Of the Mississippi cotton
crop.
Blue Mountain.-An old-fashioned
singing school, intended to promote
community singing, began at Dean.
/ town, on the outskirts of Blue Noun
tain, on Aug. and will continue II
days.
Starkville.-The race for treasurer
. Of Oktibbeha county was finished with
Morris Cohen the winner by a plural
ity of 20 votes over his nearest oppo-
nent.
Senatobia~-All kinds Of crops have
made splendid progress the past week.
The boil weevil has not appeared as
rapidly az was thought few weeks
ago.
Shaw. q Frazier and Miss Bes-
ole Evers were married at the brides
! home in Sunflower county, six miles
east of this place.
y ed sweet potatoes are shipping them
daily to the out Of town merchants
and receiving very satisfactory returns
for the shipments.
s'SsS
Meridian.-Farmers report crop
prospects in Alabama the best in
years. Corn is maturing fast and the
J crop il abundant.
Water valley.-john G. Chapman,
! an aged Confederate veteran, died at
his home after long illness, at the
, age OF n years.
II
Y Greenville. -Miss Kathryn s. San.
ford OF Covington, Tenn, and H. r.
Written Of Hillhouse were united in
marriage.
Blue Modntain.-After remaining in
active many weeks, real estate here is
beginning to resume its former ac-
tivity.
Baldwyn.-In the municipal election
held here, Hon. H. s. Phillips defeated
his opponent, w. A. Stocks.
Greenville.-At the regular monthly
meeting of the Washington county
board Of supervisors an order was
passed authorizing the purchase of
blopdhounds to be trained and kept
under the charge Of the sheriff, to be
used to capture criminals.
R2 $50" EES
Crystal Springs. - A campaign
launched here by the finance commit
tee 6of the new $4,000 Methodist
church, now under course Of construc-
ton, resulted in a net gain Of $500,
according to report submitted to the
building committee. 20 &sf
Crystal Springs.-on account Of the
prohibitive price of mine-run coal,
Superintendent Williams, of the ma
nicipal power plant, uses slabs pur-
chased from nearby sawmills with a
saying to the plant Of about $500 per
month. estt
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jackson. Mississippi Railroad
Coumission assembled for the regular
August session, with George R. Ed
wards of McCool, president; VIM. B.
wilson Of .Corinth and M. @. Morgan
Of Hattiesburg, district commissions