Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-06-29
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS

went In the interest Of the firms big
foreign cotton export business. He
reports all countries visited across
the sea as coming back" after the
war. He says the return to nor
malcey Is steady but sure, and that
Belgium is actually already back. AS
to Germany Mr.. Threefoot says bust
ness was much better than he had ex-
pected to find and that the people
were very much In earnest about re-
storing their country to its financial
and economic standing. The same was
true, he said, of Itlay, but slower, al
though very noticeable. France, he
said, WAS slower, but even in that
country where the devastation as q
result of the war was greatest, there
are unmistakable signs Of better con.
ditions.
Quite a good deal Of satisfaction Is
being expressed over the recent agree
ment reached by the superintendent
of the county schools Of Clay and
Chickasaw in regard to the CONSOLE
dalton of the Treblock and McCondy
schools. This will make one extra
good high school and will give to the
people of those respective communi-
ties school facilities which they are
Justly entitled to. Bonds to the
amount of $4,000 have recently been
sold for the purpose of building
teachers home and eQuipping the
school. P. G. Wright has been Be-
lected.
County Registrar Clardy of Oktibbe.
ha county has just completed his
rounds visiting the different precincts
to register men and women eligible
to vote in the coming primaries. The
following is his tabulation: Starkville
men COS, ladies 200; Longview, men
1877, ladies 81; Adaton, men GA, LADIES'
IL: Osborn, men SO, ladies' 70: Hick-
DRY Grove, men "a, ladies q; Maben,
men, 178, ladies 1874; Double Springs,
men 1877, ladies', SO; Bell School House
men "a, ladies 6; Sturges, men 275,
ladies 1856; Bradley, 40, ladies II;
Sessums, men A, ladies %; Agency,
men As, ladies' II. Total men 1,74S,
ladies 1877.
w. F. Bond, state superintendent
Of education has returned to his Of
flee at Jackson after a tour Of the
state and reports them better than
ever before, both in point of numbers
and in the seriousness Of the spirit
in which the attendants approach their
work. At three of the normals, Mil
saps, Blue Mountain and Hattiesburg,
college credits are given for courses
satisfactorily completed the remain
der of the normals giving high school
credits.
Judge Holmes of the federal court
at Greenwood has signed decree or
dering the sale of the Webb and
Percy branches of the Columbus &
Greenville Railroad, permission for
the Abandonment of which was grant
ed recently by the Interstate Com
merce and the state railroad commits
sions. and on which trains have not
been running for several weeks. The
two branch roads under the terms OF
the decree will be sold at Greenwood
at public auction on the fourth Mon
day in July.
Judge William A. Roane, Of Hous'
ton, has postponed the meeting Of
the Tippah County circuit court until
Monday, Aug. Z. The midsummer
term was scheduled to begin on Mon
day, July 10, but Judge Roane II
now in Hot Springs and has asked
the people Of Tippah to accept his
temporary permission Of the court
until August.
| Announcement made by Mr.. r. s
Wilson. director Of extension at the
A. & M. college is that H w. Fristoe
former county agent and instructor
in agricultural high schools, in Mary
land and Virginia, has been appointed
state vegetable specialist in Mfssis
sippi. to succeed e. M. Graham, re
signed, some time since.
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Orders have been received from
washington to resume work, which
was suspended recently, on the i'm
provements being made at the Gulf
port Veterans Bureau Hospital. NJ
date has yet been set for the starting
Of the erection of the new 100000
| hospital which was awarded Gulfpor
by the veterans bureau.
It is rumored that a number o
planters along the right Of way be
tween Itta Bena and Minter City ma!
purchass the Webb and Percy branch
Of the G. & q. railroad which has beef
ordered to be sold at auction at Green
wood on July "a, with the intention
Of operating it in connection with tn
Itta Bena & Belzonia road.
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Greenville last week was host t