The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-02-24
Mississippi
EVEN 7 S
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in Short Paragraphs

Mrs. Mary Ann Holmes, one of 40
erdeen's oldest residents, is dead.
Nominations have been sent to the
Senate for the following postmasters:
Three new and stringent prohibition
bills passed by the senate in one, two
and three order.
A carload of fancy Bliss Irish potato
seed from Maine has been received
by the farmers bureau at Brookhaven.
Within two weeks the highway be-
tween Laurel and Ellisyille will be
closed and work Of resurfacing viii
be started.
Tate county celebrated Washing
toms birthday with the planting Of
shade trees at homes, school buildings
and puslic parks.
A petition is being circulated at
Batesville asking the board Of mayor
and aldermen to call for an election
for light pI1nt.
III health caused Norman F. Dorr,
aged "A, of Sardis, to end his life, ac-
cording TO relatives. He died from
bullet wound.
Miss Estelle Long started on a trip
TO Atlanta. but was met at the depot
at StarkyiIle by her fiance. Thomas
HarpoIe. Postponed the trip long
enough to get married.
Two negro preachers said to live
near Alexandria, La, charged with
preaching social equality, were com
PEELED to leave Natchez by the police
department
Hon. b Franklin Bell, district at
torney for the sixteenth judicial dis
trict, is being urged by newspapers
and friends throughout the state to
enter the race for governor.
After having been separated but
living in the same county for more
than q years. John King. Sr., and
his wife cf near COffeeviIle. have
Just reunited.
Preston c. Lewis. Aberdeen; Rich
ard X Haxd3n, Greenville; Edward
A. Kernaghan, Hattisburgh; Elisa
beth Connolly. Lexington; Walter w.
Weldy McLain.
The anti-tuberculOsis association Of
Coahoma county has made arrange
ments to purchase a portable cottage,
which viii be loaned for treatment to
victims of the white plague.
r. F. Becker, president Of the
Brookhaven Creamery Company, will
make a survey of the dairying inter
ests OF Adams County during this
week, with a view of putting in
cream stations.
The Written ]. East, local post OF
the American Legion, has secured the
passage Of a bill in the present Iegis- |
lature authorizing SenatObia to donate
a lot upon whcih viii be erected a !
home for the legion.
The Joseph J. Wilson post of the |
American Legion organized at Cold |
water several months ago has just |
established a library of about 500 |
books for the benefit of bOoklovers |
throughout that section.
Superintendent E. T. Crawford has |
resigned as head of the Leland con- |
solidated school. The board Of school |
trustees have elected JrOf. James G. |
Chastain, Jr., of Europa, as superin- |
tendent fro tbs session of 1922-1923.
Judge William A. Acorn, Jr., who |
lives at Clarksdale, and who is now
judge of the eleventh circuit court
district, has been endorsed for this
position again by the lawyers of the
Bolivar county bar.
n Df "a Iaac Of /
en- voters of Okolona letters were sent
to the representative and senator OF
this district urging them to support
the bill requiring health certificates
for marriage licenses
The Nickle hotel at Tutwiler valued
at about $4,000, and the Z. o. Brad
ley residence. an adjoining building
valued at $4,000. were destroyed BY a
fire which was reported to have orig
mated in the hotel.
Mrs Kelley Eoff, of Tyro, small
town south of Wyatte, is recovering
from the effects of drinking a bottle
of carbolic acid, and according to the
physicians who are treating her, she
viii recover.
The February term of circuit court
has been in session at fernando since
Feb. Is. and has disposed of mucn
business. A number of cases, both
civil and criminal, have been settled.
The John M. Stone Camp Of the
Confederate Veterns of Tupelo, will
meet the first Saturday Of March
at the courthouse for the purpose of
electing officers for the ensuing year
and to pay their annual dues.
Prof. A. M. Maxwell, one of the most
prominent and influential citizens of
Starkville. died Monday night at his !
home after an illness of only a few a
days. For a period of % years he i
taught bookkeeping at the Mississippi
A. & NJ. college.
The truck growers association is
making much progress in the Water
Valley section, preparing the lands, b
setting cabbage, fertilizing and getting v
he cold frames ready for the several a
hundred acres of vegetables to be F
'aised.