Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-01-06
MISSISSIPPI
EVENTS
Cathered Cor
ners Of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

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Fire caused heavy damage at the
plant Of the Clarksdale Machinery Co.
Tools valued at $4,000 were destroyed.
A part time school was opened In
connection with the Meridian High
School Monday.
Pleasant Ridge is putting up a new
three-room school building and com.
pleting a large new house Of worship.
Postmaster T. H. Sharp has wired
MS resignation as postmaster at Co
lumbus to the p~ostoffice department in
Washington, effective at once.
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Ten chamber of commerce teams at
Jackson are out selling bonds to insure
the beginning Of construction work on
Jackson & Eastern railroad.
Every shut-in In Blue Mountain was
sent a well-heaped basket of good
things by the ladies of the w. M. U.
OF Lowrey Memorial Baptist church.
The shortage Of rainfall for the past
two months has necessitated the stop
page Of work on the largest drainage
ditch in the Shaw section.
The earlist gardner in Coldwater is
A. B. Presley of Progress Farm, who
has already put out a large number
OF cabbage plants ordered from South
Carolina.
Coal at $31.25 per hundred pounds.
This high level was reached in Green
wood when Mayor Hughston taxed a
negro caught stealing from an open
car at one Of the local yards.
A big hog slaughtered ON Progress
farm ear Coldwater last week yielded
100 pounds OF lard. He was Of the
Duroc-Jersey breed and weighed 416
pounds dressed.
The annual meeting Of district stew
ards Of the Jackson district, Missis.
sippi conference NJ. E. church, was
held at Jackson last week at the Cap
atol street church.
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Andrew G. Carney, executive officer
OF the state department of education,
has made requisition on the treasury
for payment of the fall distribution of
the floating fund for school purposes.
Hon. W. j. East, who represents
Tate and Benton counties in the state
senate, will be a candidate for the DO
sition OF president pro tenn of that
body when IL convenes.
Gen. Robt. X. Evans, retired, from
the United States army in 1918, now
citizen of the world, was In Jackson,
the city Of his birth, on the eve of his
departure for Europe, Africa and the
Orient.
The eighth biennial report OF DR.. e.
N. Lowe, director Of the state geolog.
ical survey, is a valuable contribution
to the records Of the department and
an interesting and suggestive work on
the Of the state from the
point Of view of the geologist.
The recent cold weather disclosed
the fact that the delta Is rapidly be-
coming a pork producing section, as a
large number of fine hogs have been
butchered, and on every hand one
hears planters discussing the oppor-
tune time to save their meat.
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The Meridian city council is engaged
In the preparation Of a rather extern
sive street paving programme for the
coming year. The streets to be paved
are in the residence districts and will
include cross connections with streets
centrally located which extend from
the business district to the corporate
limits.
Records of raw oyster shipments
from the Biloxi express office were
scattered this last week. Statistics
completed and announced showed that
q total of 1898 cases or boxes Of iced
raw oysters left here Christmas week
for various parts of the south. The
1886 boxes contained, 3,455. 900 oysters
and are valued at over $40, 900.
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Owing to machine trouble on the
rad from Memphis to Clarksdale, the
'%ashington Syncopaters, engaged for
annual ball OF the Catalpa dancing
b, did not reach Clarksdale until
VI IL o'clock, and as a result the
a.gest dance" Of the year was de,
layed In starting for several hours. De-
spite the bad beginning, however, the
dance proved a big success and did not
break up until 6 o'clock next morning.
$50
! In answer to a pressing need ai
Ahoorhead. a number of prominent bust.
less men launched plans for a building
Md loan association and the stock
Mes soon sold, the Issue being over.
ibscribed. !
The special committee OF the cham
Of commerce ch<<ged with placing
$4,000 quota Of bonds Of the Jack
Z Eastern railroad are determined
N ,leep ap me fight, though they are
tng difficulty in getting suhscrip-
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