The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-20
MISSISSIPPI
EVENTS
Gathered from All Cor
ners of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

A. P. Holley was appointed chief
deputy chancery clerk at Waynesboro.
The DeSoto County Bank has re-
elected All the old officers for 1922.
The Bank of Brooksville reports 4
very satisfactory year and has declared
a 10 per cent dividend.
Leading BARRIERS of Hazlehurst have
shaved nickel off their prices aud
go on a strictly cash basis.
Capt. ]. NJ. Dickey. superintendent
of National cemetery at Corinth for 30
years, is dead.
H w Mason, lifelong democrat of
Crystal Springs, is seeking the repub-
lican nomination for governor.
Automobile owners of the territory
surrounding Starkville are filling the
county Golfers with the coin of the
realm by paying their tax early
The Minter City consolidated school
has voted to issue $4,000 additional
tends to aid in the completion of the
school building in that district.
The First Baptist church of Jackson
has been selected as the auditorium in
which "PussyfoOt" Johnson, interna-
tionally famous prohibition lecturer, |
will deliver an address Jan. 20.
The Biloxi school board of trustees !
has ordered Supt. Claude Bennett of
the city school system to enjoy 30 |
day leave to fully recover from his re-
cent illness.
That the Jackson traffic bureau will |
be working reality by Feb. 1 is the |
opinion of members of the chamber of |
commerce committee who have worked |
up the project.
The Meridian BARRIERS union has |
voted to contribute hair cuts anu /
other necessary hair dressing to the ]
inmates of the State Masonic Orphans
home at Meridian.
Actual work of grading the right of /
way for the Jackson & Eastern rail
road began when J. n. Mcleod, con
tractor. located camp near Curran
Crossing and started TO work on a so
team outfit.
II W JODC, OnG VI w dllC , ldiiIeI5
and gardeners, last year produced five
crops from one plot of ground. The
first crop planted was English peas
next radish, bunch beans, corn and
turnips.
]. NJ. Taylor Of Crystal Springs, who
has served District No for a long
time as road commissioner announces
that he will resign the office in order
that he may devote all of his time to
his candidacy for the sheriff's office.
After several days dragging the wa
tiers in the vicinity where Robert Mar
tin, formerly OF Starkville. and Joe
Harper of Wahalak. lost their lives
near Mobile Bay, the body of young
Martin was found
Dave and Egbert Afford. sentenced
in November 1919, to serve life for
murder committed in Leake county,
have been pardOned by the governor
upon recommendation of the pardon
board.
Vema Louise. four-year-old daugh-
ter of DR. and Mrs. B. L. Robinson, OF
Meridian, died from the result of in
juries sustained when she fell. a stick
with which she was playing passing
through her mouth and piercing nerves
at the base Of the skull
According to report of Mayor Scott
it cost S22.46 per capita to run the city
Of Jackson during the last fiscal year
c. P. Warner, justice of the peace at
Senatobia for 81 consecutive years. /,
has just celebrated his eightieth birth
day.
Deputy Yeaman Smith of the sher-
ifs office at Clarksdale. has announc-
ed that only about IS per cent of the
taxpayers of this county has paid up.
and the last minute rush here is ex-
pected to be unusually notable
Bert Clark. 81. was found dead in S
his field at his home near Houston i
Death was probably due to heart fail {
IRE, as he had been in apparently good I
health up until a few minutes before I
his death. I
Comparison of the records for the ;
past few years seem to indicate that ,
Cupid has slowed down a bit in Quit
man county, probably caused by the
stringent times. In 1919. which seems
to be the year in which Cupid did his g
maximum work, there was a total of 9
500 licenses sold OF this number, 20 !
we're issued to the white population, ;
The remainder being taken by the col :
pred. In 1920 As licenses were issued !
20 whites, as against 80 in 1921.
The only murder case on the docket
1t this term of court at Brookhaven
vas settled quickly when Jim Fleming. G
negro, pleaded guilty to the killing of f
/ woman of his race and was sentenc- e
ID TO life imprisonment by the jury. ]
Two Catholic sisters of charity have Z
ust canvassed Blue Mountain for
unds and clothing for orphans OF
heir faith. Though there is not
single person of the Catholic creed a
lere. these sisters were accorded a I
most courteous hearing and were I
,iven both money and clothing. n
The Tate county poultry association
vii hold its first Show on Feb. II and
s. The association was only organ i
zed few weeks ago, but its member 4
hip includes a majority of the poultry :
of fIa