The Southern herald., 1922-07-21
Mississippi
EVENTS
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in Short Paragraphs

Under the direction Of the Rev.
Walton E. Lee, of Como, a religious
census will be taken of the Wyatte
community at an early date.
The remains Of DR.. John B. Drake,
Confederate veteran reached North ,
Carrollton. He died at the age Of 81
at the soldiers home at Beauyoir.
Rsss
Nearly 100 members of the eight
troops of Boy Scouts are now en-
camped at Beach Lake, several miles
from Vicksburg, and will remain in
camp for 10 days.
The two Laurel Companies of the
Mississippi National Guard, Second ,
Battalion Headquarters Co., and Com
pany 0, of the 115th Infantry, are in |
Vicksburg, where the annual encamp-
ment will be held.
The Natchez Chamber of Com
merce is assisting the farmers who !
wish to enter the dairy business in
the purchase of COWS and within the
past few weeks a number Of car
loads of pure bred Jerseys have been
received.
Publication Of the charter Of the
Hattiesburg Pine Oil Company reveal
ed the organization of new indus
try, capitalized at S45O0OO in that
city for the purpose of manufacturing
turpentine and kindred products from
pine stumps. Organized by promi-
nent local business men.
The Peoples Warehouse Company
Of Yazoo City, after being in the hands
of a receiver for two years, during
which time there has been considera-
BILE litigation over damaged cotton,
by the levee around the plant break
Ing in the spring of 1919. was turned
back in the hands of the directors to-
day.
The patrons of the A. & NJ. college
cooperative creamery have for the
last two months received as high as
"a cents per pound for their butter fat
The majority of them who are farm
ers, were greatly benefited as the
ready money enabled them to get sup
plies and other necessities to operate
their crops.
That the vote in the primary and
general election in Madison County
on August is going to be heavy is
indicated by the registration of over
1900 in the supplemental registration
which Just closed. The Democratic
women are interested as never before
and large numbers of them registered.
Founders Day" thirty-fifth ami
versary of Mound Bayou, a settlement
of which the population consists en-
tirely of negroes, was celebrated with
an appropriate programme and with
probably 500 negroes present from
the territory which is considered as
belonging to the Mound Bayou neigh
borhood.
Two escaped conYicts from Oak
ley Farm recently reported to the
office of secretary J. J. Conan. Two
white boys, each 20 years old, botl
from Laurel convicted in the Circui
Court of Jones County of grand larce
ny. who were serving as TRUSTEES il
Sergt. IHowerton's home, took French
leava recertly.
Since the establishing Of brancl
OF ,..z. D.oJNIu'eu OrUameI! CChpa
ny III Natchez, there has been a de
,cided increase in interest in the dair.
industry in that section, both in Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana. Large ship
ments are being made by Port Gibson
and Roxie and Waterproof. Delta
Bride and Locust Ridge in Louisian
are preparing to ship.
Miss Callle Will Miller has been Sc
lected to work with the malaria
forces in Yazoo County in the interes
of public health. Miss Miller will b
with the state board of health and wi
be a special nurse to cooperate wit
the county health officer, the Unite
States public health physician an
the state engineer in eliminating a
malaria from the county by destro!
ing the breeding places of the mosqu
to.
The city council Of Meridian ha
adopted a motion to an election o
a bond issue of $150,O0O and an Ii
crease Of the tax levy three mills fc
school improvement purposes. Th
action followed a mass meeting a
the circulating of petitions urging tn
course to relieve the schools OF
nancial difficulties, prevent a d
crease Of teachers salaries, build OF
additional white and one additions
negro school and repair present bull
ings.
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