The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-02-11

the united states circuit court OF ap
peals at New Orleans in the case o.
Stokes VS.. Robertson. state revenue
agent, against Jordan River Lumber
COMPANY, wherein the revenue agent
sued the lumber company for cutting
/ timber on sixteenth section lands il
Hancock county. Mississippi. and
lands in said county taken in lieu oil
sixteenth sections. and belonging tC
Monroe county. The district court de
cided the case against the revenue
agent; an appeal was taken to the
circuit court of appeals. and there
the case was reversed; the court hold
| ing that the state is not merely
nominal party. and that its interest
| in the litigation is such that the fed
eral court did not get jurisdiction of
the cause on the petition to remove.
Natchez.-Following the announte-
ment of the Natchez city council that
it would not oppose Sunday moving
pictures in the event that the theaters
are operated more than one block
from any church, formal statement
has been issued by ministers of the
Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and
Episcopal churches of the city which
says in part: There must be limit
somewhere to open violation of the
law and this bold action of the alder
men is certainly the limit. AS cIti-
zens we appeal to the city fathers to
reconsider this matter and give Sc
rious and sober thought to all that
is involved
Greenwood.-E. Gallon. an aviator
and ex-member of the British flying
corps. was convicted in the circuit
court here of manufacturing intoxi-
eating liquors. His sentence has not
yet been imposed by the judge. Gal
lion with two negroes were arrested
in Leflore county in August near
Berclair, when the sheriff and dep
uties raided a cabin and captured an
illicit still with a capacity of IS gal
Ions. Gallon was armed and resist
ed arrest, but was overpowered.
Crystal Springs.-The advocates of
the plan TO create and enlarge the
municipal separate school district as
pertaining that the cost of transport
ing the children to the school in town
would impose too great an expense
upon the taxpayers of the town, pro-
pose now TO extend the present sepa-
rate municipal school district only
so far as to include children who can
attend the school in town without
having to be transported by auto or
wagon.
Blue Observation-Disclosures Palmer,
aged about six, adopted daughter Of
the late DR.. o. P. Palmer OF this
place, whose family now resides in
New Albany, was crushed by a truck.
her stomach and head being badly
by the machine The little
girl and another child We're playing
on the street, and it is understood
that Agnes was run over while trying
10 rise from the ground where she had
allen at play.
Mantee.-At a meeting of stock
holders. directors as follows were
elected: T. J. Springer, A. J. We
mack, G. B. Pepper, w. A. Scott, j.
H. Salmon, ". T. George, H. W.
George. They reelected the same Of
ieers as were given the care of the |
bank at its opening on Oct. 1, 1907. |
A. NJ. Marley is president, J. +. Lo- |
gan. vice-president, H. W. George, |
cashier.
Yazoo City.-County Chairman Miss /
:. F. Kellogg of the European relief
und has turned over to the treasurer
8
If $635.10, which will be forwarded
or the relief of the. starving chill
lren of Eastern and Central Europe.
All reports have not come in as yet,
,ut it is not expected that this sum
will be very much larger.
Meridian.-One of the most impor-
ant deals consummated in Meridian
4 some time has just been closed with
he purchase by J. w. Sanders from
:. ". and Mrs. L. S. Cochran of the
ive-story Cochran office and store
uilding on the corner of Twenty-third
venue and Eighth street. The con-
liberation is given as $4,000.
Jacksonville Mississippi state
and office is still being kept open.
ince the death of Land Commissioner
[. A. Brown, by his son, Frank Brown,
-ho was deputy and assistant land
r. d. Moore of Liber-
y Miss, who was appointed land
by the governor. has
OF yet qualified.
Marks.-Entering one of the smaller
afes at the Riverside Bank, robbers
gently secured $3.50 in Liberty bonds
nd war savings stamps which had
cen entrusted with the bank by Gus
,mers for safekeeping. The cOmbina-
on on the safe was knocked off
Starkville.-A shocking tragedy oc-
lrred recently in the Bethelin commu-
Ity, a hamlet in the southeastern
art of Winston county. in which the
x-year-old son of DR.. and Mrs. S%t-
e was so horribly burned that death
lsued in short time.
Yazoo City.-According TO figures
iven out from the offices of Sheriff
H. Regan and City Clerk E. G.