The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-29
TEN GET cLEMENcY.
Russell Pardons Four and Suspenos
Six Sentences.

tiOnS of the state board of pafdons
Gov. Russell Issued papers of pardon
to four inmates of the pentitentiary
and suspensions to six. two of whom
have never been in the penitentiary
and two who are on suspended sen
tence.
The pardons issued were TO Oscar
Sherrard, sent from Sunflower in 1914
on a life sentence for murder; Amos
Simon Newton, from Coyington, sen
fenced for life in 1897 for murder f;
Will Odom, from Leake, in 1919 for
three years for criminal assault; Mar.
celia Williams, woman, sent from
Warren in 1913 for 10 years for forg-
cry. The suspensions were in favor
of Frank Hall of Lauderdale county,
sentenced for manslaughter, based on
Reckless driving of an automobile, and
Robert NJ. Wilson of Itawamba cOun-
ty, convicted in 1921, sentenced to is
months for receiving stolen goods,
neither Of whom have been in the pen.
itentiary; and to John Kelly of Hum
phreys for grand larceny, one year;
Ned Myers, Montgomery county,
grand larceny: Marcus Baker, Chicka-
saw county, murder life, and Roy
Carter, Jones county, two years,
grand larceny.
Meridian-The LauderdaIe Cotton
Mills, which have been shut down for
several months, have reopened and
are now running full time. giving en-
ployment to 800 men and women.
Hazlehurst-J. E. Robertson, who
killed the three Boutwell, men here in
May, 1919, and who was sentenced to
10 years in the penitentiary, left for
the penitentiary to begin his sentence.
Jackson.-Two negro boys named
Peterson, while working in a garden
at Clinton this morning, dug up an
iron pot containing $4,000 in gold, ap-
parently buried during the Civil War
period.
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Hazlehurst.-The Rev ]. Lloyd De-
Cell, a Copiah county boy and one of
the younger men in the Methodist
conference, has been appointed to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
the Rev. w d. Watkins, at Meridian
Starkville.-An important meeting
of the Parent Teacher association was
held at the public school building.
Quite a number of the patrons were
present. Various subjects relating to
the betterment and uplift to the COM
munity were discussed.
MacOn.-The cotton planters of
Noxubee county are in a quandary over
the crop situation. The recent frosts
have killed the crop that has been
planted to a very great extent and
while many farmers are replanting,
more are undecided as to what course
to take-whether TO put in more cot
ton or abandon that crop and plant
something else in its stead.
Derma.-County superintendent II.
w. Hanniford has just received notice
from Hon. w. F. Bond, state superin-
tendent of education, that he will be
in this countZ~And wants to meet the
parents and the school children at the
various places and discuss the general
welfare, the need for
happy homes, orderly communities,
noble charities and free governments.
Meridian.-Arthur Wesson and Co
Ion Roberts, white boys, aged about
IS, have been arrested here in connec-
ton with the alleged appropriation to
their own use of an automobile be-
longing to E. A. Morrison, who had
left it parked in front of local the
al -
Chief of Police L. c. Monette, that
they took the car merely for a joy
ride
Blue Mountain.-Rev. S. V. GulIett,
of this place, has just succeeded in his
to get the Baptists of Horns
by, Tenn, to erect new house of
worship in the recently established
town on the new lap of the G., NJ. &
n. railway between Middleton and
Jackson. This congregation, in spite
Of financial depression, has put up a
nice house of worship and has just
held its initial service in it.
Vicksburg- the suit Of J. H.
Cashin vs.. Humphreys county for
So, 500 fee, alleged to be due plaintiff
as attorney for the county in effecting
with Yazoo, Sunflower,
Sharkey, Washington and Holmes
in matter of collection of
taxes by these counties on lands taken
over to form Humphreys county,
ended in peremptory instructions by
Thomas in favor OF the
plaintiff.
icksburg.-There is a very strong
that housekeepers OF
will be able to buy milk
At the rate of 10 cents a quart. A
has been submitted for
he consideration of the Vicksburg
Civic League to the effect that if 400
patrons agree to take a quart a day
each, or if 100 gallons are purchased
each day, the milk will be sold at the
rate Of Is cents per quart. The ruling
price is 20 cents per quart.
MacOn.-House rent in Macon is at
a premium and every boarding house
IS full to its utmost capacity. There
IS not a vacant house to be found in
he city and new houses are always in
course of construction