Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-11-18
MISSISSIPPI
EVENTS
Gathered from All Cor
ners Of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

suggestion made by a committee from
the Vicksburg Board of Trade, the
board OF supervisors of Warren coun-
ty adopted tax levy which is three
quarters OF mill higher than the rev.
enue resolution called for last year
The tax for the city part OF the coun-
ty will be 1875 mills and for the
county outside of the city 1926 mills.
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Laurel.-Experts from the office of
the state entomologist will arrive In
Laurel within the next few days to
make survey for second campaign
against the Argentine ant The first
campaign, conducted two years ago,
eliminated the pest for time, and 1t
Is believed that more intensive carr
paign will be productive of even bet
Ter results.
Coldwater.-Mrs. Mary Lowery, wife
of Ollie Lowery, young farmer OF
the Poagville community, has been
missing for the past 10 days, and her
whereabouts cannot be learned. She
IL said to have carried her two chill
dren to school one morning and left
them. after which she drove to Cold
. water and boarded the southbound
train.
Natchez.-Entries for the pageant
program, which will be one OF the fea-
lures of the Natchez cotton carnival,
have been made by Brookhaven,
Meadville, Waterproof, st. Joseph,
Newellton, woodville, vidalia, Jones'
Vile, Kingston, Washington and a
number of other towns throughout
this section in Louisiana and Missis.
sippi.
jackson The federal grand jury
returned indictments for violations OF
the Harrison narcotic drug law
against DR.. A. s. Applewhite, a promi.
uent physician of this city, and
against A. s. Miller OF Jackson and
e. H. Conner of Brookhaven, negro
physicians.
Greenwood.-The mems Bible class
of the Methodist church here and the
Big Brothers class OF the Methodist
OkAuIC4 IL 0AVOhklAAG noe4 aA 0tIO-A0-
ance contest recently. While Green
Vile beat by 90 members. the Bible
class here broke the record by an at
tendance Of 140.
Water valley.-The Local lie He
Sc" Campfire girls are making box
of warm outing gowns for needy chill
dren for Christmas. Local merchants
are donating the outing to these girls.
They are live crowd, and In many
ways are giving service to our com.
inunity.
Water Valley.-The garage OF ]. w.
Adams, q farmer living five miles
south Of Water Valley on the jeff Da-
Wis highway, was entered recently and
. five.passenger Ford touring car
stolen.
Carthage.-The cleanup squad was
ct the courthouse on Nov. IL, taking
up all matters regarding compensa-
tion and vocational training for dis
abled ex-service men that were
disabled in the late world war.
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Ackerman.-Miss May Russell oi
Port Gibson, state representative OF
the w. G. T. u, has just paid visit
to the local chapter and delivered an
address at the Methodist church to an
appreciative audience.
New Albany.-Dr. B. 8. Guyton, eye
and ear specialist OF Oxford, Miss, has
1ust held a second eye and ear clinic
for the Union county health unit. At
these two clinics about 40 persons
have had defects corrected.
Wyatte.-Cornelius Clanton, Wyatte
farmer, has succeeded in improving Q
certain kind of eating pea by careful
work until today he has one of the
best eating peas in Tate county. Al
present the pea has no name, but Mr.
Clanton had sample in town yester-
day and sold some OF the product.
Coldwater.--Mrs. w. M. PRESLEY
has q flock OF 40 hens that have pro
duced 4,471 eggs the first 10 months
Of this year, or an average Of III
eggs to the hen.
Meridian.-John McDade, roadmas
Ger Of the A., T. & N. railroad, 10 in
= hospital here suffering from injufies
sustained when he fell from box car
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Scooba.-The Kemper county cir
cult court b IN session. with Judge r
Carroll on the bench.
Clarksdale.--A heavy rain which fell
. few days ago broke the long dry
spell here.