The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-31
Mississippi
EV N I S
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in Short Paragraphs

A petition is being circulated in
Yazoo county by the YaZoo County
Taxpayers league asking that the
county board of supervisors be pre-
vented from borrowing 100000 for
expenses as stated in a 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 condi-
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 in
structed to stand at his telephone
and by this means business VI i'm
portance and the election Of 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.
81, 1921 The suit was filed in tAe
Warren county circuit court.
At a regular luncheon recently the
| Aberdeen Rotary Club had as its
! guest ]. T. Covington, president and
| )wner of the CovingtOn Broom Works
| Of Aberdeen. Mr.. Covington said that
he was very anxious to get the
I farmers of Monroe county interested
in raising broom corn, that his plant
would buy all that the county would
-aise 1t is necessary now for him TO
| ship his broom corn from Oklahoma.
The farmers in the vicinity of
Winona are planting number of acres
in cabbage under the direction OF
County Agent Mengee. He has re-
ceived about 100000 plants for distri-
button. Other shipments will come IL
later and when all have been set, be-
tween 20 and 80 acres will De in cab
| bage thus enabling the growers to
ship in car lots.
More than 300 of the best farmers
of Alfalfa County at a meeting at
Kosciusco, recently, voted a standard
this year. The farmers agreed to
plant from five to seven acres of cot
ton per mule after having granted
food and feed crops full acreage.
Captain William T. Rigby, chairman
of the park commission of the Nation
al Military Park at Vicksburg, has
obtained permission from the war de-
partment in Washington to have four
gravel bumpers about one foot high
built across the parks highway TO
protect the automobile speed enthu-
siasts against themselves.
Owners of the Meridian Chair and
Furniture Company and the Rogers
Candy Company, whose buildings
were destroyed by fire recently at
Meridian, have announced that they
will rebuild 1t is said that these
two concerns sustained a total loss
of over 100000 by the fire.
Corn prices have been steady adj
vancing in the vicinity of Coldwater
for several weeks as the demand be
came stronger and the bulk of recent
sales was made at rs cents a bushel.
At harvest time the price was only so
cents, that being the lowest mark
reached in many years.
j. S. Davis, town clerk of Waynes-
boro, announces that he has a new set
IF registration books, and is now ready
to begin a new registration of the
voters of the town. In order to vote
in the town elections it will be necces-
sary to register in the new books.
Dr. Chadwick, county health officer
at Carthage has announced that there
are seven cases of influenza IL the
Agricultural High School However
the epidemic is light
The antitrust case against the fire
insurance companies, which was
appealed to the supreme court from
Chancellor Stricker's decision, has
been set for hearing on June IA next,
at Jackson.
Peter Lamargue, age %, is dead at
Biloxi at the result of being hit on
the head by pitched baseball while
participating in a game between two
school teams.
The 1922 vegetable season was
opened in earnest at Crystal Springs,
when the first carload shipment of
vegetables was made last week. The
car was consigned to Chicago.
Over 100000 barrels of oysters have
been brought into Biloxi since the
first of the year, according to the tax
paid to the Mississippi oyster commits
sion at headquarters here.