Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-09-01
M ISSISSIPPI
luSTATE NEWS

rested mere on charge OF being i'm
plicated in three burglaries here. Mar
shall Mcleod declares a coat he wor,
was stolen from the home OF Mrs. e
A. Humphrey and that SilYerman had
several cans Of preserves in his pos
session
Clarksdale-Gerald Fitzgerald, attor
ney and president Of the Mississippi
delta cotton exporting and trading cor.
pOration, will speak on general bust.
ness conditions in the United States
and Abroad. and the situation which di-
a rectly affects the cotton markets ct
the Rotary club luncheon here. To
make and work out contracts with the
h mills of Germany and Czecho-Slovakia
Mr.. Fitzgerald made recent trip to
foreign lands and has been home but
! q few weeks.
Aberdeen.-M Monroe county land is
still in big demand. The j. M. Morgan,
Jr., real estate company of Aberdeen
has sold for w. L. Watkins his noted
prairie plantation of 2,24O acres to
company of substantial business men
of Gainesboro. Tenn. for $225,OOO.
Crystal Springs. congregation
of the Methodist church was treated to
one of the most magnificent sermons
ever delivered to a congregation in this
section of Mississippi. The surprise
was furnished by Mrs. J. w. Liddell,
who arranged for DIR. Charlie Crisler,
pastor in charge of the Galloway Me
mortal at Jackson, Miss, to fill the pull
pit at the service.
Forest .-Alton Page, white, As years
old, was murdered here in the house of
Pattie Perdue, q negro woman, his body
cut to pieces and the smaller parts
burned in the stove. The trunk, which
was too large to burn entirely, was
charred TO crisp and buried on top
OF the body of negro recently inter
red in negro cemetery, a mile from
where the atrocious crime was COM
mitted
Aberdeen-The pretty little two
months-old baby left on the front porch
of Miss Lou lannon's continues to at
tract large crowds. This baby was
seen by Frank G. Whitaker at Prairie,
Miss, before it was left ON the Jarmon
porch. Mr.. Whitaker identified the |
baby and says that young man was
driving tho car which hod n uronnonnor~ |
license number and that an elderly |
woman had the baby. They told Mr.. |
Whitaker that they we're from Mem
phis
Waynesboro.-The first section of
Mobile and Ohio through freight train
No. SS was wrecked just south of Buck
atunna, turning IL cars into the ditch.
a negro hobo was seriously hurt and
brought here for treatment.
Hazlehurst.-T Hazlehurst truck
RS association met in the court house
md heard the reports of the manage
nent and secretary of the past sea-
on's business. 1t was unanimously
greed that the association has had a
uccessful year, and with few minor
inks ironed out the trucker next year
will have perfect machine organized
or handling his products and saving
II profits, to himself. II
Canton.-A city park and county fair
owned and occupied by the
which has been long
cit need, Is now virtually a reality,
|. w. Mosby, chairman of the cham
err of commerce fair committee, an
ounced. A deal win be completed :
thereby the city acquires EOS acres Of
Ind two blocks from the courthouse
t nominal sum from owners who are l
taking sacrifices in order to permit {
lie deal to go through.
Ashland.-A double wedding took
lace at the Cottrell hotel. The con-
acting parties were Vernon S. Hogan 7
ld Miss Julia Dobson and William>J 1
!. Evans and Miss Kate Dobson. The +
Dung people came to Ashland from :
oscow, Tenn, and they were married +
= Rev. J. l., Courson, recently or !
lined minister. /,
Jackson. Gov. Russell has announc- 9
the appointment of J. R. East OF
-andon as judge Of the eighth court 6
strict, to succeed Judge A. J. Nc 2
lurin. Judge East will take up his
tiles on Sept. I. Judge McLaurin :,
II move to Jackson and enter the law !,
m of May & Sanders as junior mem. 3
r Of the firm. n
y
Moore, negro, ?
abbed and seriously wounded James
Ikinton. agent for the M. e o. rail. f.
ad at Yellow Pine, Ala, small sta 5
n % miles south of Waynesboro. Tho q
gro became enraged because the !,
emit .gould not let him have a sack 8
ice ordered for another party, the !.
gro having ordered two and only q
. came. u
Max Moss, who was for
my years with the Delta Grocery ~
d Cotton company Of this city, has ~
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