The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-04-22
M ISSISSIPPI
Ul STATE NEWS


/ for Central Mississippi presDytery,
/ held at Forest, Miss. And on the same
day o. P. Kimbrough left for Corinth,
Miss, where the East Mississippi pres
bytery convened.
Meridian.-Two automobiles, one
belonging to A. E. Morrison and the
other to Iraenus Lloyd, prominent
business men of Meridian, stolen from
in front of a local picture theatre,
have been recovered.
Hazlehurst-A petition has been
published legally by friends Of J. E.
Robertson to get a pardon for him in
order to save him from serving the
10 years sentence for killing the
Boutwells near Hazlehurst in 1919.
Seminary-Mack Graham, sheriff of
Covington county, and a. L. Herrin,
marshall of Sumrall, Miss, raided and
captured a whisky still 10 miles west
Of this place, and arrested Walter
Stapleton, Ohio Miller and Grover
Miller.
Calhoun City.-County Agent R. S.
Mitchell shipped five carloads of
choice hogs to market for the farmers
of this county. These hogs were ship
ped to East st. Louis, and, according
to Mr. Mitchells statement, Will bring
a very low price due to the surplus of
live sotck being rushed on the market.
YaZOO City.-Gus Davis, negro, who
confessed to the killing of four other
negroes near Holly Bluff last Novem-
Der, was arrraigned in circuit court
here. Davis entered a plea of mot
guilty" in the face of a confession
signed last January. Hon. J. G.
Holmes was appointed by Judge Pot
ter to defend Davis
Crystal Springs.-G. w. Chambers,
president of the Crystal Springs Ice
Company, went to Magnolia, where he
is negotiating with the citizens there
with view of putting in a storage
room for ice this summer to be ship
ped from the plant here. Work on
the plant here is progressing rapidly
and will be manufacturing ice by the
first of June.
Winona.-Rev. w. NJ. BOstwick, who
has accepted the pastorate of the
Bellevue Baptist church of Memphis,
preached his farewell sermon Sunday
evening to one Of the largest congre-
cations that ever assembled in the
city. DR.. Bostwick has been pastor
Of the First Baptist church here for
the past two years and has many
friends among the various denOmina-
tions.
Auguilla.-Revenue Agents J. L.
Boyd and T. j. Phillips, operating in
this vicinity, located and destroyed
two whisky stills on the Refuge plan
tation, in the Fifth Supervisors Dis
trict of this (Sharkey) county. Both
stills were crude Affairs, being made
Of gasoline drums and gas pipe Both
were operated by negroes, Ollie Per
kins and John Preston, who were ar
rested.
West Point-On the night of April
2 Frank Dichiaro's store was broken
into and robbed of So in pennies. Chief
Cromwell and Policeman Neyman took
up the case promptly and have landed
George Perry. The only clew which
they had to work on was a button
which they found on the floor The
person guilty of every theft committed
here in the last II months has been
captured.
Hazlehurst.-The national negro
health week is being observed by all
Hazlehurst, whites as we'll as blacks
taking a part in the work The whites
realize that they cannot have a health |
full town unless the negroes also keep
their yards and homes in sanitary con-
dftiOn. The white parent-teacher as |
sociation has offered a prize of So to |
the negro child that brings in the most |
old tin cans picked up in the streets, |
in the yard or anywhere. One child |
already has piled up about 5000, and |
there is strong competition among the |
black children to win this prize.
Observation-Disclosures of Choctaw |
county have gotten the idea. Three |
automobile loads of farmers, bankers, |
merchants, board Of supervisors and |
others interested in the welfare of the |
farmers industries motored the first |
of this week across three counties to |
Oxford, Miss, to make a special study /
OF the 1aIay0IIS county IaTm bureau. |
This delegation of interested, far
seeing men, led by County Agent /
Bradshaw, are all reporting in Choc- |
taw county that special courtesies |
were shown them by County Agent |
Turner, farm bureau directors, bank
ers, farmers, county home economics
agent and ladies of Lafayette county. |
Meridian.-The state library asso-
citation will meet in Meridian during /
the convention of the Mississippi /
teachers association, May 4, 5, 6 and
z, according to the president Mrs. J.
X. Hamm of Meridian, librarian of the
Carnegie library here.
Booneville.-The petition to Hon.
Lee NJ. Russell, governor of Missis-
sippi, asking that he call the legisla-
ture in extra session to consider the
fire insurance shortage in the state,
is being signed here and finding favor
generally throughout the county.
Itta Bena.-The setting-up meeting