Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-09-15
MISSISSIPPI
EVENTS
Catheredfr All Cor
ners Of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

Flora An election will be held in
this district of Madison county for the
purpose of seeing if the taxpayers are
willing to gravel public road snort
distance west of Flora. And 1t VIII
be the first time in the history OF the
voters from this precinct that the
election will be held with women as
officers. The chairman, Sid Powell,
has named the following women 10
hold this election, with the men as
sisting: Mrs. r. B. Crisler, Mrs. Y.
3. Graves, Mrs. E. B. Childress, and
Messrs. w. L. Ross Hal ]. Jones and
E. Collum. The vote polled at this
election will not be heavy, as the
farmers are very busy gathering ana
marketing their crops, and as usuai
the high prices now prevailing Will
keep them very busy until they nave
finished.
Jackson.-Articles Of association OF
the new Magnolia Life Insurance COM
pany have been filed with the secre-
tary of state. The capital stock IS
fixed at 100000, divided into 10000
shares of $40 par value each. These
shares are not to be sold at less than
s25 per share, for the purpose or Cd
tanning a sufficient working surplus
10 the capital stock. The corporation
Is permitted to begin business when
$4,000 of the capital and $4,000 OF
the surplus shall be fully paid in. The
domicile is to be at or near the city OF
Jackson.
Jackson.-A. D. Campbell, promi-
nent real estate man of this city, mas
received from W. F. M. Smith, member
Of the federal loan board at Washing
ton, notice of his appointment, at the
request of T. F. Davis, head OF the
farm loan bank at New Orleans, to the
post of appraiser for this district. MI
Campbell has accepted the appoint
ment with the understanding that mis-
work be limited to this territory. Hav-
ing formerly served as appraiser Tor
The state he is thoroughly conversant
with the work.
Meridian. -Armistice Day, Nov. IL,
Is to be celebrated in this city Dy
Hamasa Temple with Shrine cere-
monial. The plans are well under way.
One of the number of distinguished
guests who will be here for the occa-
sion Will be Past Imperial Potentate
Elias ]. Jacoby. of Indianapolis, who
was Manassas guest the day the arm
stice was signed. While the class that
took the Shrine here was large one,
numbering about 100, it is stated the
one to be put over the hot sands on
armistice day will be much larger,
probably reaching as high as 2oo
Or 300.
West Point.-Cotton buyers in this
and adjacent cities have gone wlid
pver the purchase. of cotton and cotton
reed. A neighboring town was report
I'd as paying two cents per pound 1or
cotton over the Memphis market On
account of the wide publication given
many bales of the fleecy staple were
carried from this county there. NOW
: come the West Point buyers, wide
!. awake and hustling, paying top prices
and sending buyers into other coun-
ties, buying all the cotton they can
get.
Indianola. = Circait court opened
here with Judge S. F. Davis presiding,
who delivered a leng charge to the
grand jury, making special mention OF
The Sunday law statute and that bear
ing on whisky peddling and making.
He asked the jury to make diligent IN
puiry as to the disbursement OF pubic
funds. Twenty composed the grand
Jury, with ]. c. Daily as foreman. The
court will continue four weeks, begin
ming with $50 civil cases on docket.
Hazlehurst.- county is FUR
n.shing dozens of expert truck grow
ars to other counties who are to enter
The vegetable business another year
Emmett Marchetti and j. c. Miller
have been employed in eastern Mis-
sissippi to manage truckers assocla-
tons there and to sell vegetables after
they are grown. Now comes along
Claiborne county and takes five farm
ers in bunch to help the beginners
there to grow and market truck crops,
Marks.-All Quitman county gins are
running and cotton picking is in full
swing. P. M. B. Self of Marks, who
Is large plantation owner In this
county, has shipped one carload from
his Posey Mound plantation at Essex
and another from Marks, while A. N
Love shipped a carload from his plan
tation at Darling One hundred and
fifty bales were contained in the three
eonsignments, which went to Clarks
dale and Memphis.
Meridian. Richard Johnson, negro
20, arrested in connection with the
robbery Of the Alabama railway com
pany' supply store here several days
ago. and who the officers state has
made full confession, appears to bt
the only one connected with the affair