Oxford eagle., 1922-06-29
Mississippi
E V E Mt S
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
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american Legion, is planning gaia
day with picnic and barbecue for
Water Valley on July 4.
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b. L. Myers has been installed as
postmaster at West Point, supplanting
B. Y. Rhodes, Democrat, whose term
expired in February.
John w. Leary of Meridian, loco
motive engineer on the Mobile & Ohio
Railroad, died suddenly in the rail-
road yards at Meridian of acute in
digestion.
Announcement made by Mr.. r. s.
Wilson, director of extension at the
A. & NJ. 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 Missis.
sippi, to succeed e. NJ. Graham, re-
signed some time since.
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 is
now in Hot Springs and has asked
the people of Tppah to accept his
temporary permission of the court
until August.
w. F. Bond, state superintendent
of education has returned to his Of
fice at Jackson after 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
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 a decree or
dering the sale of the Webb and
Percy branches of the Columbus &
Greenville Railroad permission for
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.
County Registrar Clardy of Oktibbs-
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 $50; Longview, men
127, ladies 27 Adaton, men 64, ladies'
IL: Osborn, men So, ladies -: Hick- |
ory Grove, men "a, ladies q Maben, |
men, 17S, ladies 1874; Double Springs, |
men 167, ladies, 3S; Bell School House
men "a, ladies 6; lSturges, men 275,
ladies 1856; Bradley, 49, ladies II;
Sessums, men A, ladies %; Agency,
men As, ladies II. Total men 1,743, !
ladies 737.
= Quite a good deal of satisfaction IS
being expressed over the recent agree
ment reached by the superlntendents
of the county schools of Clay and
Chickasaw in regard to the consoli-
dation of the Treblock and McCondy
schools, This will make one extra
good high school and will give to the
people of those respective communl'
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 q
teachers home and equipping the
school. p. G. Wright has been SO.
Rected.
l.. M. Threefoot, of the Meridian
firm of Threefoot Brothers & Co., has
Sust returned from Europe, where ne
went in the interest of the firms Dig
Foreign cotton export business. he
reports all countries visited across
fhe 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 pusl-
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
rrue, 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-
Szitions.
Mrs. C. Ed Allen, about 80 years
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