The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-12-30
A ISSISSIPPI
1 STATE NEWS


the rolls for final approval, and have
Just gotten the books back for the
sheriff's clerical force to make out the
tax lists and receipts.
a. D. Simmons, contractor, is now
at work building steel and concrete
bridges on the Burlington highway,
which begins at the Monroe county
line and runs through West Point the
entire district TO LOwndes county.
When this work shall have been COM
pleetd this will be one Of the most
complete highways IN the state.
Considerable interest is being maDi-
tested in the trucking industry in the
Newton locality and already about 100
acres in cabbage have been subscribed
in that vicinity for the ensuing season.
and it is likely that a larger acreage
than that will be planted. Growers OF
truck in this community have in the
past been successful, but for the past
few years. there has not been much
grown, due partly to high freight rates.
The city books of West Point have
just undergone a thorough audit by
Metz & Jay of Memphis. Mayor Young
reports a very successful year. The
water and light plant owned by the
city and managed by J. II. Smith,
superintendent, shows a net profit OF
$4,000.
The Copiah county jail is being fast
cleared Of prisoners, according to Jail
er Dan T. Lowe, who has made every
preparation for sending away all SEN
fenced prisoners, most of them having
been sent away already, or have been
released on bail pending appeals to the
supreme court.
The First National Bank Of Meridisn
has presented each Of its employees
with one months salary as cash bo-
: nus for a Christmas present. The gifts
were distributed following brief talks
Z by officers 70 the bank, each paying
tribute to the employees for their faith
full service during the past year
Hon. Suggs S. Mathews, the local
postmaster, has the largest turkey that
ever came to Hazlehurst, according to
the oldest resident here. The bird
the one that was shipped to President
Harding by a Crystal Springs man
some four weeks ago.
A new school house has just been
erected on the eastern edge of Blue
Mountain for the Sand Springs dis
trict 1t was put up by the people of
the community to provide ampler qu2r-
tiers for the boys and girls there.
w. d. Parker, the road supervisor, is |
having the graveled road between
Moorhead and the LefIore county line
repaired, putting on new gravel and
filling up all the holes and bad places,
much to the qualification Of the people |
who have occasion to travel this road |
J. V. Boring, a mere boy, who is in /
the mercantile business at Houston, |
several years ago began to encourage |
the farmers to diversity, promising |
them that he would give them mar
ket for anything they raised. and since |
that time has lived up to his promise. |
Tate county got its first touch of
winter the past week, and farmers
have been killing hogs. This is the
first weather this fall that has stopped
the flowers from blooming and the
gardens from growing
The school building for negroes OF
Shelby has been completed, and dedi-
cation services were held. This is the
finest and most modern school build
ing that has yet been built for negroes
in all this section OF the country.
Charles A. Jones, aged 70 years, who
entered the Jefferson Davis Home
from Stone county. died at that insti-
tuition During the civil war he was a
member of Company I, Twenty-ninth
Alabama infantry.
Sheriff Frank Rogers states that Tip
pah taxpayers are very slow in meet
ing their tax obligations. He believes
that most of them will wait till the
opening of the new year to begin to
pay off their assessment.
Sheriff Evans paid a visit to a ba-
mana car at Meridian. en- route from
Mobile to ST. Louis, and found 35 gal
Ions OF hootch cached beneath the piles
OF bananas. He is still seeking the
owner.
Sheriff Kornegay at West Point re-
ports that the people there are paying
their taxes more slowly than usual, at
Lributable to the fact that no penalty |
will be put on them until after Feb :
ruary.
Blue Mountain Citizen-Teachers' as
ISOLATION. Mrs. Mamie NJ. Bryson, pres
dent, Is procuring funds for the in (
stallation of waterworks in the local {
high school by holding progressive par 9
les where each of the guests is asked
10 contribute % cents to the fund S
Charles ]. Cargile. an engineer for
ner major league ball player, all-south-
srn baseball and football player. has
leen elected commander of Indianola t
Post No. 2 OF the American Legion for a
he new year to succeed Forrest G. Il
Cooper t
Discovery Of the destructive cam
,hor scale along the Mississippi coast
It two cities was made. by the plant {
,oard inspectors, who are making ev-
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