Oxford eagle., 1921-09-22

Gathered from All Cor
ners Of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

New Albany.-The New Albany high
school has just received four cars Of
tiling to be used in draining properly
the playground at the New Albany
high school. which is to be graded at
once to be put into shape so that all
the football and baseball games can
be played this year on this ground.
With the material on hand they are
confidently expecting to bring the
championship to New Albany high
school for both the football and base
ball games. When completed this will
be one Of the best athletic fields in
north Mississippi, and, being centrally
located in Union county, will be most
excellent meeting place for all of the
schools of the county to have their
tie,d day exercises.
Clarksdale. Editor Joe a. Richard
son of the Sunflower Tocsin of Indi
anola was in Clarksdale en- route to
Montreal, Canada, where he will spend
4 few weeks as the guest OF Col. Geo.
Il. Hamm, who is known as the Mark
Twain of Canada" and who is an OF,
ticial OF the Canadian Pacific railroad.
The editor and the railroad official
will hunt and fish in Canada until a
few days before Oct. s, when Mr.. Rlch-
radson will go to Vancouver, B. c.,
from which point he win sail on Oct
3 for Honolulu, Hawaii, to attend the
Wnpid A
gention OF the newspaper men Editor
Richardson will tour the Hawaiian
islands.
Hazlehurst-Two carloads of cattle
we're shipped from Hazlehurst by farm
ars and dealers. One car was loaded
by farmers and sold on the co-opera-
tive plan, no profits to go to any one.
Prices were from 4 cents to cents
per pound on foot. This is practically
losing proposition, say the farmers,
but is better than feeding the stock all
winter than to take the same price
next spring. One hundred head COM
prised the shipments in the cars just
received. They went to New Orleans,
some few being milch cows, bringing
slightly better prices than beef stock
shipped.
Blue Mountain.-Dr. r. A. Kim
brough, of this place, field secretary of
the Baptist state mission board OF Mis-
sissippi, announces that the Is coun-
ties at this end of the state composing
his district will hold convention in
New Albany. The object of this gath.
ering is to get together representatives
Of every church of this faith in these
Is counties for the purpose OF rounding
up the Baptist $75,0O0,000 campaign in
these congregations and TO induce as
many Baptists as possible to adopt sys-
tematic tithing in this territory.
Horn Lake.-The community fair
at Horn Lake was a decided success.
1t was strictly an agricultural fair and
practically every farm in the commu-
nifty furnished some creditable exhibit
of stock, crops or produce. The great
variety and the surprising excellence
of the field and garden crops thorough
ly demonstrated that diyersification is
going rapidly forward In this commu-
nifty. Around the exhibit tables farm
ers discussed and argued about vari-
eties of corn, sorghum, soy beans, hay
crops and forage crops. Not much
was heard about cotton. The deprada-
tions of the boil weevil in this vicinity
have made it sore subject with many
| Of the farmers.
Agricultural College.-All persons
Interested in sweet potato growing and
curing are urged by the Mississippi
state plant board to attend a meeting
of sweet potato growers and storage
house owners to be held at Jackson
Miss, on Oct. 5, at 8 am, in the Cham
| Der OF Commerce offices. P. G. Garner
state commissioners of agriculture, will
| preside. The purpose of the meeting. is
| to assist the growers and storage
house owners in preventing the enor
nous loss dnused every year to stored
potatoes by the various potato dis
eases, as black rot, stem rot, and stor
| age rots.
Blue Mountain.-J. ]. Hudspeth an
nounces that warrants for the Confed'
| crate pensions OF the third quarter are
ready for the Benton pensioners. After
the state legislature incorporates the
recent constitutional amendment al
| soldiers and sailors OF the Civil wal
and their WIDOWS will be eligible to ap
ply for pensions without any regard
| TO the amount OF property they own.
Biloxi William Jennings Bryan has
! stated that he will be unable to CONS
TO the Mississippi coast at this time
/ to deliver an address at the Jefferson
Davis soldiers home at Beauvoir. neal
/ Biloxi, but will come at : later date.
Meridian. State Inspector Lyon D
the Mississippi board OF health depart
ment, has just concluded an inspection
In this city, In company with DR.. r.
Wilson, county health officer. don
demning 4 number Of places which 1
was alleged were conducted IN viola
tion OF the state health regulations.
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Columbus. DR.. W. a. Evans, OF Chi
cago. the noted authority and the edi
tor OF the health department OF mum
ber OF newspapers, is enjoying camp
Ing trip in Lowndes coilnssy. north q
Columbus.