Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-05-27
SUE pEFUNcT BANK.
Bank Examiners Seek to Recover for
States Guarantee.

Pelahatchie Bank OF Pelahatchie, Ran
kin county, to recover for the state
bank guaranty fund the amount which
the state stood for as guarantee OF the
depositors. The suit is filed in the
chancery court Of this county. The
bank failed for about 100000, due to
an alleged defaleation of one of the
officers, who is said to be a Fugitive
from Justice. Defendants named in
the suit are: Silas w. Davis and Mrs.
Lynn G. Davis, executors of 2. d.
Davis, who was president of the bank.
The bank examiners closed the instl-
tuition on Oct. 16, 1920 and Mr.. Davis
died in Jackson Oct. 10. Other de-
PENDANTS named are: A. G. Purvis,
vice president; r. e. Patrick. c. K
Jones, ]. P. Sumner members of the
board of directors.
Clarksville.-J. G. Malphurs OF Nash.
Vile, has been engaged by the Church
OF Christ in Montgomery county as an
evangelist.
Columbus.-Presiden ]. c. Fant, Of
the Mississippi State college for wo-
men announced the tentative purchase
of half block of additional land for
the college, the land being the half
square lying Immediately west of the
chapel building and facing on Col
lege street.
afx ho nd ~
the Gulf, Mobile & Northern railroad
are beginning to overflow with lumber
being hauled in from the nearby mills
which are now running again. Some
of this lumber is being shipped to the
foreign markets, but the high cost of
transportation has retarded the nor
NAL flow of the lumber to the con-
sumers.
Jacksonville grand lodge of Odd
Fellows closed its session here with
the selection of Jackson as the next
place Of meeting without opposition,
and the election of grand lodge Off
GERS as follows: w. s. Westbrook, Of
West Point, grand master; w. N. Hut
Crimson, Caledonia, deputy grand mas
ter; Arthur Allen, Pascagoula, grand
warden; H. Katz, Hattiesburg, grand
treasurer; w. S. p. Doty, Grenada,
grand secretary.
Hattiesburg. Announcement was
made of plans for the annual assembly
Of the Baptists of South Mississippi,
which will be held in this city from
July II to July %. This affair is a
yearly get-together of the Baptists OF
this section of the state, and is feat
ured by music and preaching of fine
quality, and classes of instruction in
Bible study. A similar meeting for
Baptists of North Mississippi will be
held this year at Blue Springs.
Macon.-Macon will furnish a cadet
for this district to Annapolis for the
next four years. Harvey Crigler, who
graduated from the high school at
this place last year, received the ap-
pointment from Hon. E. s. Chandler
to the Naval Academy, and lacking
some Of the units required to take the
entrance examination, he entered the
Marion Institute at Marion, Ala. Here
he had a full years course in the re-
quired studies, taking the examination
at the close of the term.
Wyatte-One of the most modern
school buildings in this section is being
constructed in this school district. 1t
will be known as the Wyatte- -Thyatira
consolidated school. located between
the two points. The whole of the Sec
ond floor will be used for an audito-
rum. Heretofore this community has
been Handicapped for lack of space for
large audiencse when prominent edu.
Gators and lecturers came, but on the
completion Of this building, with the
splendid, spacious auditorium, there
will be adequate seating capacity.
Jacksonville town of Osyka, In
Pike county, has awakened to the im-
portance Of its syrup industry, as is
indicated in a letter to F. J. Hurst,
assistant to J. Ed Ruff, federal farm
uohaonotidtiOn ulIcCtOi loE OOutn Mis-
sissippi, asking him to come to assist
them in plans for a blending plant to
be established in their community.
Osyka handled $4,000 gallons of syrup
last year. and with the chamber of
commerce cooperating with the coun.
ty truck growers association in their
agricultural interests this year hun
dred fold advance in prosperity may
be predicted.
Hattiesburg.-Circuit court contin.
ues on its way of cleaning up the re-
cent wave of criminality in this city,
several penitentiary sentences adding
to the long list of those who have been
dealt with at the present term. Bob
Mccoy, negro, was given three years
for forgery. E. ". Denton. white. was