Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-03-24
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Jun W TeTcy II. RlcnaruSon, sent III
from Washington county in 1915 TO
life on charge of murder.
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Jacksop.-It is reported here tina
a suit has been filed against the Pal
metto Insurance company, as tes
case. by the advisory rating bureau O
Vicksburg This suit, it is stated, ha.
been brought in Lincoln county.
Ellisville.-A civic league has beer
organized in Ellisville with the follow
ing officers: President, Mrs. A. E
Shoemaker; vice-president, Mrs. A. J.
Carter; secretary, Miss Maude Her
rington; treasurer, Mrs. w. H. Ellis
worth.
West Observation-Disclosures of City
Schools Baily Schumpert~is making
great efforts to win many contests at
the North Mississippi field meet here
in April. The boys are practicing
hard in all lines of athletics and are
determined to win.
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University of ississippi-Lightning
struck the steel flagpole that stands
100 feet high in the center of the cam
pus and created quite a bit of excite
ment on the campus for few minutes.
No one happened to be passing near
the flagpole at the time.
Meridian.-W. w. Venable, former
| congressman from this district. who
was defeated by former Attorney-G Gen.
eral Ross Collins, will move from this
city to Clarksdale, where he will re-
turn to the practice of law, having
associated himself with the law firm
Iof Maynard & Fitzgerald of Clarks-
dale.
Starkville.-A new feature of the
dairy agricultural campaign will soon
be staged by the chamber of com
merce. Several dairies have been
started, and hundreds of pure-bred |
eggs for settings have been applied |
for by the children of the county as
result of the Peoples Savings Bank
and the Bank of Sturgis to furnish
such settings.
Vaiden.-The citizens met here and
passed resolutions protesting the raise.
of the telephone toll rate, condemned
the action of the railroad commission
In granting such raise, and elected F.
NJ. Glass as delegate to the state meet
ing to be held in Jackson. J. w. Con
ger was elected alternate and William
Miner, president of the merchants
league, was elected second alternate.
Hattiesburg Following some argu-
ment over the verbiage Of the only bid
received, We'll, Roth and Marx & Co.,
from Cincinnati and Birmingham,
bought the $365,0OO bond issue for '
building school buildings and a new I
city hall, paying par and accrued in {
.erest, and standing all expense in :
with the issuance OF the
bonds. These bonds will bear per
tent interest
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Booneville.-Sheliff S. F. Windham, Il
MARSHAL w. C. Weems and Bailiff Jim a
smith went to the home OF Frank b
Presley, who resides about two miles u
rom Bconville, on the Carolina road, 4
nd found 4O-gallon capacity copper s
till. This, however. was not set up in v
peratfon, but on a search of the prem il
ses a small amount of whisky was
ound. About 100 gallons of mash was
ound in the smoke-house.
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Water Valley.-The Yalobusha link O.
( the great trunk line highway from 81
Iemphis to Grenada, which was Ia
warded Messrs. Hicks & Jackson by ii
lie board of supervisors of Yalo- IL
usha county about two weeks ago, al
ill soon be in course Of construc- OF
on. The large road building outfit tt
w. A. Hicks of Pontotoc, Miss, ell
assed through this city this morn
lg on the way to Oakland, where
ie work will begin at once. NJ
arksdale.-Assistant Cashier C. T. P,
'hnson, in charge of the Delta Bank fr
Trust company here, called the spe- to
al attention of depositors to the fact II
at under the rules of the state guar Gi
ltee act, the bank would pay dollar tn
r dollar to all depositors. This spe- 70
al notice was the result Of q rumor st,
nicb was current here today that A.
any of the old depositors Of the bank err
ere attempting to sell their accounts tr,
tn the bank at a discount.
Yazoo City.-The Roy Lannon's Ez
st OF the American Legion passed ini
solutions at their regular monthly a
setting 70 the effect that the United tai
ates is asked not to make peace sit
tn Germany until Grover C. Berg wa
II is returned to this country to me
we the remainder of his sentence fie
d also asking for the release OF tai
rgts. Neat and thinner, who are SIX
" in German prison for their at Of
npted eTrest Of Bergdoil in Ger ne,
ny. AMI
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Older Girls Chris. S
a Council, under the auspices of the M.
ing Women's Christian association. cou
ich holds its fourth annual conven- Der
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