Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-08-19
MISSISSIPPI
EVENTS
GatheredfrOmAnCor-
ners Of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

LLA- laA4ISl ~ Imam Handy. col
gred farmer, has outstripped all 9TH
srs ia The melon business this season.
First he produced the largest. melon
seen here weighing 10 pounds Then,
% go one notch better, he brought into
town two melons that grew on the
same stem, something that the Oldest
farmers says is a rare occurrence.
Yagoo City.-The entire student
body and faculty. of the s.ate, Normal
at Yaz0o County Agricultural High
school spent the day on VOL Lake at
q big fish fry.
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Williston-Having been advised that
cattle In this community Leaka coun.
tyl we're infested with ticks, a. II.
Chadwick Of Jackson, state sanitary
Inspector came here to make an inyes-
tigalon. It is said he found ticks
on cattle belonging to one man.
It.a neutrality-suspicious. here report
many cases OF malarial fever and
chills, In and about Itta Bena. There
Is not much pellagra in evidence, only
= very few cases having been reported
Derma-R, wv Howell, superntend-
Pnt of the Calhoun County Agricultural
High school here, authorizes the an
nounoement thai the twelfth session
OF the school viii open its 192l-l922
session September 6.
Ripley.-An annual revival meeting
Of the Ripley Baptist church is in
progress here.
Scooba.-The largest watermelon Of
the season, weighing So pounds was
brought in to DeKaIb by J e. Clark,
Of the Centerville community It was
presented to the editor of the Kemper
Herald Star.
AckermaD.-Hon. John H. Johnson,
grand master Of Mississippi Masons, is
leaving for a few days and will visit
Boston on business, as well as other
eastern cities, while out Of the state.
Na2oo City.-A meeting Of property
owners whose lands will be included
n the proposed extension Of the Atcha-
ialaya draining district has been called
for Saturday August 13, at the court
house in Yazoo City
Blue M0untain.-To give all taXpay.
ers q fair chance to protest against
any material raise in their assess
ments, the board OF supervisors of Tip
pah county has had each property.
holder whose assessment was adyanc-
ed as much as $500 personally notified
of the raise and has left the revised |
tax rolls Of the county open to the
public for inspection by any protesting
or Otherwise interested taxpayer.
Blue Mouutain-Tippah board Of SUI
peryisors has ruled that county con
victs may be worked on the public f.
roads Of District 2. this county at the /.
rate Of $l25 a day to be paid out Of
the funds ow the roads of the district
and to be applied to the lquidating Of
,. 4o '' ts $50 ai'I Oo'-'u "L 'Ne con-
" ''' wa ~. 49,.
HazIehurst-Rav G.. C. Evans mas.
Tor of the First Methodist church has
returned from a six weeks, vacation
g9ted him bv +he church authorities ON
account NJ the ~ beeltb of t4s Dastof
rtssr
scooba.-George p. Sanford. So, a
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ct BIS residence. 0au4~-. '.
once and Wouadea 'hrr7'
times. Tie sa" heavy action 10 the
siege " TirEshurg and oil the battle /.
of Franklin. Tenn. and al Spanish
Fo- Ala
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Rulevle.-Hon R. R. Green Of The
Green Planting company Of this cit,
shipped by express to the Spears Gin
e.rr1ary Narnbfe Tenn the first
hale n, cotton ra1or+ad from the delta
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Crystal Springs invitations have
been sen. out by A. Lotterh0s of this
city to citizens to attend a meeting to
be held at the Truck Growers associ-
alton building to hear an address by
t1o nav oT,Ls - he sta+s, Who viii
sfress +bs ,rnortsnco NJ the 7gor,, n