Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-04-21
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS

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Mrs. j. 3. Estes and Mrs. J. w
Gregory are making a campaign Of
Yazoo City to raise $4,000 to purchase
a street sprinkler for the city's use.
The Mattson postoffice, Of which
Mrs. j. A, William Is postmistress
was recently robbed OF 1880 in stamps
and $40 in cash money.
For the first time women particl
pated in the election in Columbus, the
biennial municipal primary, in which
Mayor A. Y. Glover was reelected.
The |. c. railroad Is erecting a berry
house on the platform at Batesville Ia
take are OF the strawberry crop which
will be handled from that point.
An election has been ordered to de
termine a bond issue for the town OF
Durant, to establish a municipal wa
terworks and sewerage system and
other improvements.
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Elaborate preparations are being
made for the series Of revival services
appointed to begin in the Methodist
church at Cleveland, Sunday morning,
April 30.
Attorney General Frank Robertson
has just received a letter requesting
him to serve on a special committee
to consider the amendment to section
1921 United States revised statutes,
as to bank taxation.
Hon, jeff Busby of Houston, candi
date for congress from the Fourth dis
trict OF Mississippi, has been in Du
rant comforting with friends and ar.
ranging for some speaking dates in
Alfalfa county.
The Queen theater was destroyed by
fire at Leland recently. The entire
business section OF the town was
threatened by the fire, but was saved
only by the efficient work OF the fire
department.
Prof. Calhoun delivered his address
at Shuqualak In the interest of a con.
solidated school district. Opportunity
will be given the people to express
themselves for consolidation in the
immediate future.
The woman's auxiliary OF the Pros
byterian church of Okolona Is eagerly
anticipating the fifteenth annual
meeting OF the east Mississippi Pres
byterial auxiliary, which will be held
in the Presbyterian church April rs,
II and 20.
While the mother was out attending
to her domestic duties, the one-year
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Gam,
mill, at North Carrollton, was drowned
in about Il inches Of water left in a
large size bucket on the kitchen floor
Arrangements are being made in Me
ridian for the spring reunion Of the
Scottish Rite Masons to be held at the
Scottish Rite Cathedral May s, 9 and
10, when a large class will take tie
degrees from the fourth to the thirty.
second.
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Encouraged by the fact that pecans
have proved profitable in their section
Tippah people are beginning to set
out pecan trees in larger and larger
quantities. In the upper part Of this
county, just below the Tennessee line.
pecans have proved q valuable crop.
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The qualified voters OF Batesville, on
May LIST, will vote on the question OF
the mayor and board of aldermen au,
thorizing an issue Of $4,000 in bonds
to equip and install an electric light
plant, Light is now being supplied
from Sardis.
Weather conditions are ideal and
farmers, in the vicinity OF Walthall,
are stirring the ground with wonderful
rapidity. Much corn has been planted
and an unusual crop Of lespedeza is ex.
peCted to be harvested. SO far, little
has been said or done about cotton.
While OF a deserted spot, after hav.
ing left Olive Branch, NJ. j. O. Ingram
was robbed OF his car, which was
driven by a young man he had hired.
The young mar pressed a pistol
against lngram's side and ordered him
to get out and walk in the opposite
direction while the car was driven on.
Circuit Clerk Charles G.. Jacobs of
Bolivar county announces that he will
begin on May | to make a tour OF the
county with his registration books to
enable the people who have not regis
tered to get their names enrolled with.
out having to call at the circuit clerks
office.
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While the acreage to strawberries
is not what II has been in the Durant
territory. the fruit crop is far above
the average and numbers OF truck
farmers are planning for the best sea
o in several years Tor the shipment
of fruits, vegetables, such as beans.
cantaloupes, cabbage and tomatoes.
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