Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-12-30
MISSISSIPPI
EVENTS
Gathered from AIlCOr-
ners of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

ing new charter and bylaws.
Although suffering from nine self
inflicted stab wounds, doctors attend !
ing Mrs Claude Pardue, Of Coldwater,
think she will recover.
A large sawmill at Harrison is being
made ready to begin operations Jan.
2. provided the rainfall in the near fu-
ture will be sufficient to fill the saw
log pond.
Discovery Of the destructive cam
phor scale along the Mississippi coast
at two cities was made by the plant
board inspectors, who are making ev
cry effort to keep this plant disease
from this section Of the state.
Sheriff Kornegay at West Point re-
ports that the people there are paying
their taxes more slowly than usual, at
tributable to the fact that no penalty
will be put on them until after Feb
ruary.
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
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
member of Company l. Twenty.ninth
Alabama infantry.
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Sheriff Frank Rogers states that Tip
pah taxpayers are very slow in meet
fng 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 visit to a ba-
mana car az Meridian, en- route from
Mobile to st. Louis, and found S5 gal.
ions of hootch cached beneath the piles
of bananas He is still seeking the
owner,
Blue Mountain Citizen-Teachers' as
sociation, Mrs. Mamie NJ. Bryson, pres.
ident is procuring funds for the in
stallation of waterworks in the local
high school by holding progressive par
ties where each of the guests is asked
60 contribute Is cents to the fund.
Charles ]. Cargile, an engineer, for
mer major league ball player all-south
ern baseball and football player, has
been elected commander Of Indanola
Post No. 2 of the American Legion for
the new year TO succeed Forrest G
Cooper
W. D. Parker, the road supervisor, IS
having the graveled road between
Moorhead and the Leflore 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 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 a mar
ket for anything they raised, and since
that time has lived up to his promise
The Copiah county Jail is being fas
cleared of prisoners, according to Jail
or Dan T. Lowe, who has made ever!
preparation for sending away all sen
fenced prisoners, most Of them having
been sent away already, or have beef
released on bail pending appeals to tn,
supreme court.
The First National Bank OF MeridtsI
has presented each of its employees
with one months salary as a cash be
nus for Christmas present, The gift
we're distributed following brief talk
by officers TO the bank, each paying
tribute to the employees for their faith
sul service during the past year
Hon Suggs S. Mathews, the loca
postmaster has the largest turkey tina
ever came to Hazlehurst, according t
the oldest resident here. The bir
weighs As pounds, and is the mate t
the one that was shipped to Presiden
Harding by Crystal Springs ma
some four weeks ago,
The ginning season at Shannon ha
closed The receipts Of cotton ha
been good deal more than the on
turn of the gins, as the merchants her
have paid from two to three cents
pound more for cotton than the othe
neighboring towns, which attracte
cotton to this point from radius {
rs to 80 miles.
A new school house has just bee
erected on the eastern edge Of Blu
Mountain for the Sand Springs di
trict 1t was put up by the people {
the community to provide ampler qua
ters for the boys and girls there.
The city books OF West Point hay
just undergone a thorough audit
Metz & Jay of Memphis. Mayor Your
reports very successful year. Tt
water and light plant owned by tn
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