Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-03-24
Mississippi
EVENTS
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in b o Paragraphs

bounds OF the Mississippi and North
Mississippi annual conferences, will
be held as follows: Grenada district.
Rev. A. r. Tucker, presiding elder, at
Walden, April 1927; Greenville dis.
trict. Rev. James H. Felts, presiding
elder, at Tunica, March 29-April 2;
Corinth district, Rev. J.. B. Randolph,
presiding elder, at Sherman, June 49,
IL; Columbus district, Rev. A. T. Nc
Twain, presiding elder, at Macon,
April 1880; Meridian district. Rev.
Paul D. Hardin, presiding elder, at
Scooba, May "a; Vicksburg district,
Rev. ]. R. Jones, presiding elder, at
Anguilla, April 10; Newton district,
Rev. A. ]. Moore, presiding elder, at
Forest, April 26; Hattiesburg district,
Rev. w. w. Graves, presiding elder, at
Main Street church, Hattiesburg, April
1928; Brookhaven district, Rev. H. M.
Ellis, presiding elder, at Centenary
church, McComb; Seashore district,
Rev. w. NJ. Sullivan, presiding elder,
at Poplarville, April 1920.
The highest honor that Webb school
at Bell Buckle has to bestow upon
her graduates has just been handed
to Andrew FAINT, a Macon boy. This
Is being elected one OF the four who
are to deliver the final debate at the
close OF the school. The two Joclet-
les of the institution, the Platonic
and the Hamilton, each year choose
two from among their number to this
position and in so doing confer upon
these the highest honor and praise
that 1t is the schools give, for the
requirments are that the debaters be
students who have made a splendid
record throughout their time at Webb.
A series Of Presbyterial meetings
will be held throughout the state, be-
ginning April II. The first meeting
will be held at Yazoo City April II to
April 10. The Mississippi Presbyte-
rial will meet at Natchez April 10 to
81; the auxiliary Of the Meridian Pres
byterial at Laurel, April "a to rs;
East Mississippi at Okolona, April 26
to %, and North Mississippi at Holly
Springs from May l to May 3.
The citizens along the lines OF the
Delta Southern and the Webb branch
and from Greenwood held a meeting
with the attorney and receiver of
G. & G. railroad and the railroad
commissioners at Schlater with ref.
erence to devising some means Of
operating the Webb branch, which is
to be sold as junk some time in
May, according to an order OF the
court.
Trial Of the antitrust suit OF the
State Of Mississippi against the
Mobile & Ohio, the Southern and
other railways, which has been going
on for nearly three weeks in the
chancery court Of Lauderdale county.
has been adjusted by Chancellor
George C. Tam, to be resumed on
three weeks notice to the litigants.
In order to raise funds for the
general fund of the Biloxi City Hos
pital, the Women's Auxiliary of that
institution has decided upon some
thing never held in Biloxi before.
An elaborate style show, accompanied
by a musical program with the best
local talent, will be given on the
night Of March "a.
A tabernacle which viii seat 5000
people was completed in three days.
The work was done by volunteer
workers, carpenters and others. and
the tabernacle being erected for a
Methodist revival meeting to be con-
Quoted by the Rev. John Brown, evan
gelist Of Sloan Springs, Ark.
Mr.. Allen w. Stone of Washington,
D. C. recently visited Marks working
with r. ". Mckee, county demon
stration agent, with a view OF placing
some Of the government supply Of
picric acid with the planters of Quit
man county.
A mothers and daughters banquet
was celebrated on the evening Of
March II. by the Older Girls Hi-Y
club of Blue Mountain High School,
which is one Of the large and active
units OF this order in this section
Of the state.
The Baptist Church Of Standing
Pine has called DR.. A. NJ. Barnett to
erv this year as its pastor. DR.. Bar
nett is we'll known throughout the
state and is a forcible exponent Of
the gospel.
Because OF a shortage OF funds, TIP
pah public schools will run only five
and one-half months, according to an
announcement made by county super.
intendent John E. Pearce.
The Gu situation In Copiah county
has grown to such an extent that
Franklin Consolidated, school at
Hazlehurst has closed its sessions for
two weeks.
A special election will be held