Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-03-31
Mississippi
EV ENTS
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in Short Paragraphs

A petition Is being circulated IN
YaZoo county by the IaZoo County
Taxpayers league asking that the
county board of supervisors be pre-
vented from borrowing 100000 for
expenses as stated in q notice pub
lished for the first time two weeks
ago. The petition is gaining many
signatures, and it Is regarded as
probable that the board will not be
allowed to borrow the money, as it
Is not thought that there would be a
majority in favor of the loan should
an election be called.
Modern sciences solved the prob
lem in the Trimcane community. The
weather and the impossible condl-
ton of the public roads made it i'm
possible for the trustees Of the Bell
school house to assemble at any
given place. Each trustee was III
structed to stand at his telephone
and by this means business vi i'm
portance and the election of a school
teacher was transacted.
Judge Robert B. Anderson, of Port
Gibson, and James d. Thames, OF
Vicksburg, district attorney, repre-
senting George c. Rogers, OF Pattison,
Claiborne county, have filed suit
against the Yazoo & Mississippi Val
ley railroad for $4,000 damages al,
leging that Rogers was pushed from
a passenger train at Pattsion, Dec,
q, 1921. The suit was filed in The
Warren county circuit court.
At a regular luncheon recently the
Aberdeen Rotary Club had as its
guest j. T. ~Covington, president and
owner of the Covington Broom Works
of Aberdeen. Mr.. Covington said thai
he was very anxious to get the
farmers of Monroe county interested
in raising broom corn, that his plant
would buy all that the county woulc
raise. 1t is necessary now for him tt
ship his broom corn from Oklahoma
The farmers in the vicinity O.
Winona are planting a number Of acre.
in cabbage under the direction o
County Agent Mengee. He has re
ceived about 100, 900 plants for distri
button. Other shipments will come IL
later and when all have been set, be
tween 20 and 80 acres will be in cab
bage, thus enabling the growers II
ship in car lots.
More than 300 of the best farmer
of Alfalfa County at a meeting a
Kosciusco, recently, voted a standart
for cotton acreage in that count
this year. The farmers agreed t
plant from five to seven acres of col
ton per mule aftIp having granite
food and feed crops full acreage.
Captain William T. Rigby, Chairman
Of the park commission Of the Nation
al Military Park at Vicksburg, ha
obtained permission from the war de
partment in Washington to have fou
gravel bumpers about one foot ing
built across the parks highway t
protect the automobile speed enthl
siasts against themselves.
1890
Owners of the Meridian Chair an
Furniture Company and the Roger
Candy Company, whose building
were destroyed by fire recently q
Meridian, have announced that the
will rebuild. 1t is said that thes
two sustained a total los
OF over 100000 by the fire.
Corn prices have been steady a.
vancing in the vicinity of Coldwate
for several weeks as the demand b
came stronger and the bulk Of receI
sales was made at rs cents a bushe
At harvest time the price was only I
cents, that being the lowest mar
reached in many years.
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]. S. Davis, town clerk of Wayne
boro, announces that he has a new 81
of registration books, and is now read
to begin a new registration Of th
voters of the town. In order to vol
In the town elections it will be necce
sary to register in the new books.
DR.. Chadwick, county health office
at Carthage has announced that thel
are seven cases Of influenza in tn
Agricultural High School. Howevt
the epidemic is light
The antitrust a against the fiji
insurance companies, which VI;
appealed to the supreme court fro.
Chancellor Stricker's decision, hi
been set for hearing on June IA mex
at Jackson.
Peter Lamargue, age %, Is dead