Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-03-31
MISSISSIPPI
luSTATE NEWS

broken leg. A log falling from car
rier caused the accident. Mr.. Giles il
being cared for In q local hospital
Laurel.-The Laurel Kiwanis club,
with a membership OF nearly 100, has
accepted an Invitation to be the guests
OF the Hattiesburg club. The Laurel
Kiwanians have passed resolutions
pIedging each member to work I'M
ceasingly for better public roads.
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Jonestown.-The spirit Of improve
ment has struck the town. On every
side thewomen are planting rSowers
and shrubs. Thousands Of bulbs and
other plants, such as roses, spires,
ohrysanthemums, mock orange, sy-
ringa, violets, golden glow and lilac,
were placed in nearly every front
yard in4Jonestown.
Blue Congressman B. G..
Lowrey said good-by to the faculty ana
students of Blue Mountain College in
his final address to them before set
ting out for Washington City to begin
his initial session in the house of rep
resentatives. For most of his active
life Congressman bowrey has been di-
rectly identified with the local college,
having been Its presiding officer for
IS years.
Waynesbo-o. - Waynesboro has
started this year upon new era in
the trucking industry. Wayne county
has formed an association known as
the Wayne County Truck Growers as
ISOLATION and has $50 acres in vegeta-
bles, namely, tomatoes, beans, cab
bage, Irish potatoes and carrots. The
weather has been ideal and the fields
are green everywhere with growing
vegetables.
Pontotoc.-A double wedding of
much local interest occurred at the
Presbyterian manse at this place when
Walter Owen, son Of H. B. Owen, OF
the H. B. Owen Tie company. and
Miss Montye Window, daughter of DR..
Window, a member of the state board
Of health, Ecru, Miss, and Buford
Bost and Wrininilee Collins were
united in marriage, Rev. w. A. Down
ing officiating.
Booneville.-Sheriff S. F. Windham,
accompanied by Deputy w. G. Ander-
SON, Marshal w. G. Weems and Bailiff
J. F. Smith, visited the home Of D. w.
Nicholson, who resides about 10 miles
east of Bonneville, and found cleverly
concealed about 800 yards from the
house a still set up ready for opera
ton. No whisky was found, but four
barrels Of beer, or about 200 gallons,
were destroyed.
Blue Mountain.-A sawmill estab-
lishment located west Of this place is
offering to supply lumber at the rate
Of from $3.50 to $3.50 thousand, fig
ures which obtained in pre-war times.
While these prices apply, of course, to
only undressed lumber, the local mill
men are offering first-rate dressed
lumber at the rate of around $50
thousand for grades which for while
sold here for more than 800 thou
sand.
Hazlehurst-Farmer report that
they are catching up with their field
work for this season of the year. All
peas have been stuck and are bloom.
ing nicely. Tomatoes have about all
been put in their last growing place in
the fields and are growing as well as
ever. Rains have come in Just enough
frequency to push the plants on to
growth, and the tomatoes have not
been attacked by any disease as yet.
Cabbage are growing and are heading
ia many fields.
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Meridian. Garrett of the
local office Of the Cumberland Tele-
phone and Telegraph company assert
ed following the recent action of At
Frank Robertson in Sc
curing a writ of certiorari setting
aside the increased telephone rates
granted by the state railroad commits
sion, that he had received Instructions
from the headquarters of the company
tc accept no amount from telephone
other than that fixed by
the railroad commission.
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Greenville.-Co Cotton planting time in
the delta has arrived and from every
section cones the statement from the
planters that the cotton acreage will
be reduced from 40 to so per cent
this year from last. Considerable |
acreage to oats and alfalfa was plant |
ed last falh and in the early spring
and now corn is being planted and
Held peas will be planted later IN
the meantime more interest is being |
shown in hogs, cattle. sheep and chick
sns than ever before. while everybody |
planted garden. The delta people |
have at last decided to raise feed and |
1ood crops-to live at home--and pro.
iuce cotton as the surplus crop.