The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-02-18

/ tiOns requesting that the governor OF
Mississippi be requested TO secure a
final adjudication of the insurance
case in the courts as speedily as pos
sible;" but the association further
went on record as .condemning the
action of the insurance companies in
attempting to coerce the officers
charged with the duty OF enforcing
the law in the state" by spreading
! propaganda" against the suit and
threatening to withdraw from bust
ness.
Natchez-Although the recent bad
weather has retarded construction rap
id progress is being made in building
/ the Adams county link of the Prentiss
4 Highway The Adams county unit
viii extend from Natchez to the Viii
kinson county line and thence on to
Mobile. A membership campaign in
the interest of the Lone Star Trail,
which is to be projected from Los An
geles, Cal. to st. Augustine, Fla, is
being conducted here by ]. G. Hughes,
special representative of the national
association, which was organized q
short while since at Winfield, La.
Hattiesburg.-W breakfast was
being prepared in the home of NJ D.
Shows at Sanford, near here. recently,
the roof of the house took fire. and
before anything was noticed the build
ins was well ablaze. Though the cook
notified the family, which still was
sleeping. that the house was burning,
the flames were we'll under way, and
Mr. and Mrs. Shows. with their three
children, barely escaped with their
lives.
Blue Mountain.-Blue Mountain was
flooded recently by a tremendous
downpour Of rain which overflowed
the local streams and temporarily Gre
ated an inland lake right in the mid
die of Blue Mountain. For a time it
was next TO impossible to pass from
the east 10 the west side of town, but
the natural drainage soon carried off
the flood Of water, leaving the town
washed clean by the deluge.
Ashland.-.Benton county, along with
many other counties of the state,
live stock for the beginning of the
year 1921, according to figures com
piled by ]. A. Ramey, agricultural stat
istician for the United States Bureau
of Crop Estimates. The report shows
that Benton has 2,400 head of horses, |
a decrease of little less than 2 per |
cent from last year.
Hernando.-The records in the Of |
flee OF Sheriff and Tax Collector E. S. |
Nichols show that the number of tax |
receipts issued up to February 1 is |
much larger than had been expected. |
Although financial depression and |
business reverses have hit DeSoto |
county hard, most of the taxpayers
to pay their taxes before the
penalty was imposed.
Natchez.-The Adams county board
of supervisors, recognizing the heavy
burden of taxation on the people of
the county, has adopted a policy of re-
and steps have been taken
to raduce expenditures. This action
has been taken without awaiting de-
mand from the taxpayers such as has
been made in many counties of the
state.
Ellisville.-The board of supervisors
Of Jones county has received an order
from the Mississippi live stock sani-
Iary board, signed by H. Chadwick,
live stock sanitary inspector, declaring
that the cattle tick still infests certain
parts of the county and calling for the
dipping of cattle in arsenic solution
once every IA days.
Lula-Mrs E c. Lee was in Lula
contributions for the Old
aides home in Jackson, and after a
short stay left for Coahoma and
She worked all of the
owns from Lake Cormorant south and
net with very gratifying results. In
,luding the Lula contribution she has
secured about s315.
Blue Mountain.-Blue Mountain Hi
Z Club has arranged TO have an Of {
icial visit soon by DR.. H. r. Hayes of s
he state health department of Missis-
ippi.
Ellisville.-Under the direction of
Walton I. Smith. field secretary of
he Y M c. A., Hi-Y club has been /;
rgauized in the Moselle high school ;
Blue Mountain.-The three literary
ocieties OF Blue Mountain college. the ;
suzelians, Modenians and Eunomians, I
re preparing programs for their forth
oming anniversaries. which will be ;
cid during the closing weeks of the
urrent session. IL
Corinth.-General Manager Jack c.
wilson of the Mississippi Valley Higa-
ray association. who is working his =
ray 10 the north, was in Corinth con- :
erring with NJ T. Sharp. secretary of
ne Mississippi and Tennessee division
t the highway r
Neutrality-suspicious. of this city
altered at First Baptist church and b
ecided to hold a series of '.get-to- 4
ether meetings to aid in bringing {,
p to date the contributions pledged y
NO years ago toward the five-year h
md of $4,000. 900 for general prop II
cation OF the faith. :,