Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-29
FAVOR ECONOMICS BILL.
Home Director Issues Statement on
Fess Amendment.

Fess home economics amendment to
be considered at this session of cong.
ress:
"The woman runs the home and
brings up the child. Children grow
up to be men and women. Men and
women are the nation. Any educa.
tional opportunity which teaches the
woman to do her job better means a
better nation. This is the substance
for the passage of the Fess home eco
nomics amendment, which had a good
running start at the last congress and
which will be one of the first pieces
Of legislation brought up at this pres
ent congress"
Vicksburg.-There is a very strong
probability that housekeepers Of
Vicksburg will be able to buy milk
at the rate of Is cents a quart. A
proposition has been submitted for
the consideration of the Vicksburg
Civic League to the effect that IL 400
patrons agree to take quart day
each, or If 100 gallons are purchased
each day, the milk will be sold at the
rate of Is cents per quart. The ruling
price is 20 cents per quart.
Vicksburg.-If the suit Of ]. H.
Cashin VS.. Humphreys county for q
$3,500 fee, alleged to be due plaintiff
as attorney for the county in effecting
settlements with Yazoo, Sunflower,
Sharkey, Washington and Holmes
counties in matter of collection OF
taxes by these counties on lands taken
over to form Humphreys county,
ended in peremptory instructions by
Chancellor Thomas in favor Of the
plaintiff.
Blue Mountain.-Rev. S. v. Gullett,
of this place, has just succeeded in his
purpose to get the Baptists OF Horns
by. Tenn, to erect new house Of
worship in the recently established
town on the new lap of the G., NJ. &
N. railway between Middiston and
Jackson. This congregation, in spite
Of financial depression, has put up q
nice house of worship and has just
held its initial service In 1t.
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Meridian.-Arthur Wesson and Co
Ion Roberts, white boys, aged about
Is. have been arrested here In connec-
tion with the alleged appropriation TO
their own use of an automobile be-
longing to e. A. Morrison, who had
left 1t parked in front Of local the
atre. The boys claim. according to
Chief Of Police L. C. Monette, that
they took the car merely for a Joy
ride.
Derma.-County Superintendent H.
w. Hanniford has Just received notice
from Hon. w. F. Bond, state superin-
tendent of education, that he will be
In this county and wants to meet the
parents and the school children at the
various places and discuss the general
educational welfare. the need for
happy homes. orderly communities,
noble charities and free governments.
Macon.-The cotton planters OF
Noxubee county are in quandary over
the crop situation. The recent frosts
have killed the crop that has been
planted to a very great extent and
while many farmers are replanting,
more are undecided as to what course
to take-whether to put in more cot
ton or abandon that crop and plant
something else in its stead.
Blue Mountain.-Only a small por-
tion of the fields of this section of the
country have been planted by the far
mers. In many cases where corn has
been planted the stand Is spotted and
uncertain, and it is probable that
there will have to be a good deal of
replanting for an adequate yield.
Ellisville.-The Ellisyille and Lau-
rel chapters of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy have arranged fol
a picnic to be given on the courthouse
lawn at Ellisville for the benefit of the
Jones county Confederate veterans. Il
Hazlehurst.-The.R Rev. J. Lloyd De
Cell. Copiah county boy and one OF
the younger men in the Methodist
conference, has been appointed to fill
the vacancy caused by the death Oh
the Rev. w. d. Watkins. at Meridian
Hazlehurst.--J. e. Robertson, who
killed the three Boutwell, men here in
May, 1919, and who was sentenced to !.
10 years in the penitentiary, left fol
the penitentiary to begin his sentence
Meridian.-The Lauderdale Cotton
Mills, which have been shut down fol-
several months. have reopened and
are now RAINING full time. giving EN-
ployment to 800 men and women.
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Booneville.-Constable w. T. Crouch
and Jim Williams of the Fourth Dis
trict, captured and destroyed a so.