Okolona messenger., 1921-08-04
M ISSISSIPPI
VlSTATE NEWS

| broWnEelQ.-H0v.O o. Gy Davis, Pres
bytsrian. and Rev. w. @. BurEs, Meth
odist, both OF Blue Mountain. have
completed q good union revival here
Greenwood Considerable pellagrs
Is prevalent in Leflore county, accord
ing to statement made by Dr.. C. N
d. Campbell, county health officer.
Corinth.-The proposed change OF
the schedule Of the Memphis Special
on the Southern railway, to become
effective August IA, strikes most ia
Vorable chord in this section.
Yazoo City.-A number of property
owners here arrived in the city to pro-
test against having their taxes raised
BY the proposed extension Of the Atch-
AfalAya drainage district.
Corinth.-Two hundred North Mis-
assippi school teachers are visiting
he Shiloh battlefield as a courtesy
3tOnded them by the chamber Of
QmmOrOe of this city.
/ 0Onatobia. - Anthrax among the
horses and mules at Sarah, in the
western part Of the county, Is giving
the people of that community and the
eastern part Of Tunica county concern.
Oxford.-Hon. L. e. Oldham, whose
appointment as United States attor-
I ney for the northern district Of Missis-
sippi to succeed the late Shed Hill
was recently confirmed by the United
States Senate, has just announced
that his private secretary will be Miss
Bessie Storer Of Kosciusko.
Brookhaven.-Dr. and Mrs. l. w.
Cooper, who were married in June and
sailed for Europe from New York, are
now in Egypt. They will return to
Brookhaven after attending the Ecu
menical conference of the Methodist
denomination.
North Carrollton.-North Carrollton
is enjoying a revival meeting In the
Methodist church. Rev. James Nc
Cafety from Minter City Is doing the
preaching. The weather Is extremely
not but there are big crowds at each
sCevice.
North Carrollton.-At least three
girls from this county will attend the
short course for girls and women to be
held at Normal college, August 1919,
according to reports from Mrs. d. B.
Alley, district homo demonstration
agent.
Blue Mountain.-Mrs. Emma Fair
| Armstrong, Louisville, Miss. has just
been named member Of the board of
trustees Of Blue Mountain College in
place of Mrs. D. H. Hall, Of New Al
bany, who died in office only few
months ago.
Observation-Disclosures examinations to
state college will be given August II
at Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Me-
ridian, Brookhaven, Grenada, Holly
Springs, Clarksdale, Moorhead, Tupelo
and Ackerman. The announcement is
made by H. M. Ivy, state supervisor Of
| secondary education.
Blue Mountain.-Freigh traffic on
this division of the Gulf, Mobile and
Northern railroad is steadily climbing
back UP toward the pre-slump maxi
mum when this division was put to 1t
to handle the volume Of its business
because of its recent constructed road
bed from Middleton to Jackson Tenn.
Blue Mountain.-The personally as
sessment In Tippah have fallen off
about 100000 from the previous Off
cial record, according to the estimate
| of some Of the board Of supervisors
who have just completed the readjust.
ment of taxable values in the county
in their review of the rolls of the coun-
| ~ tax assessor.
Senatobia.-The county school board
met here and transacted business con-
neeted with the interest of the schools
OF the county. There is only one new
school building in course of construc-
tion, the one at Thyatira. This, when
completed, will be one Of the most
spacious and handsome buildings in
the county.
Greenwood.-T. q. Croutz, in charge
of the Atlanta, Ca, office of the Unit
ed States warehouse act, will arrive
In Greenwood soon and will meet the
various superintendents of the COM
presses in the delta here in order to
discuss The various duties of the IL
ccnsed w1rehousemen under the ware
house act.
Blue Mountain.-John Ed Brown,
Jr, aged IL, son OF President J. e.
Brown, Of Mississippi Heights Acad-
emy, this place, who made an average
Of 80 in his medical work this summer
Of 80 in medical work this summer In
Tulane University, New Orleans, will
sity Of Mississippi, completing both
the literary and medical training there.
He will probably be the youngest per-
son ever to achieve this double dis
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