Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-05-25
Domestic

Domestic
The new bishops elected at the 10Th
quadrennial conference of the Method
ist Episcopal church, South, In ses-
sion at Dallas, Texas, are DR.. ]. q.
Dickey of Griffin, Ca; DR.. w. H.
Beauchamp of Nashville, Tenn; DR..
Sam R. Hay OF Houston, Texas; DR.. HI.
M. Dobbs of Admission, Ala, and DR..
Hiram A. Boaz Of Dallas, Texas.
A warrant from Oklahoma, charging
Ludie E. Kinney with bigamy, was
served by by former Sheriff Buck
Garrett Of Carter county, Oklahoma, at
Houston, Texas. His wife, Mrs. Opal
Delana Kinney-nee, Opal Roxroat,
heiress-who mysteriously disappeared
last January, was unable to stand when
the warrant was served. She was suf'
fering from injuries received in an au-
tomobile wreck about two weeks ago.
Returns received recently on the
vote cast at recent primary for the
republican nomination for governor,
gave Clifford Pinchot lead Of 9,456,
with 2S4 districts missing. Alter
carried Philadelphia and Allegheny
counties, Pa.
The general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, south, in ses-
sion at Hot Springs, Ark, voted, after
sharp debate, to Ego all the way" in
the matter Of proposed unificatiOn
with the Methodist Episcopal church,
and authorized appointment Of com.
mission, with liberty of action, to ne
gotiate with a similar commission of
the northern branch.
Every husband is entitled to his
his breakfast, and it is his wife's
duty to get it. 1--WE were married in
| 1917" Harry Shringler told Supreme
Court Justice Benedict, land she has
not got breakfast for me more than
twenty times since then" Shringler
was given separation.
Mrs. Jane Bowly, who served the
confederacy during the civil war as
dispatch bearer, died at her sum-
mer home at Asbury Park, N. j., in
her 93d year.
Those who hate to get out of bed in
the morning needn't do 1t. The latest
thing in beds, described at Atlantic
City, N. J., at the National Electric
Light association convention, has at
tachments for heat pads, lights, a fan
and for 6 grill to cook breakfast or
heat baby's bottle.
After taking five ballots which re-
suited in the election of four OF the
five bishops to be named at this time,
the nineteenth Quadrennial confer.
ence Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, at Hot Springs, Ark.
recessed. The next ballot OF the epis-
copal elections will take place at q
later time. The men elected bishops
are DR.. J. E. Dickey Of Griffin, Ca;
DR.. w. B. Beauchamp of Nashville,
Tenn; DR.. Sam R. Hay Of Houston,
Texas, and DR.. H. M. Dobbs of An
niston, Ala.
-Four persons are known to have
been drowned and four others re-
ported missing following the collapse
of the Marlin-Belton (Texas) bridge,
five miles west of Marlin over the
Brazos river.
The new high prices of cotton show
an advance of more than So a bale
over the close of a week ago and from
SCI to $25 a bale over the low levels
of last March.
An even dozen pretty models-live
ones-are to be star attractions at the
annual convention of the Tri-State Fun
eral Directors Association at Mem.
phis.
Director Forbes of the veterans bu-
reau announces that President Hard
ing has approved bureau plans for for
mer service men.
It Is announced at Memphis, Tenn,
that plans for purchase by the gov.
eminent Of the Methodist hospital have
been approved by President Harding.
Two painters were seriously burned
and property loss Of $4,000 resulted
at Birmingham, Ala, when explosion
Of gasoline tank set fire to the plant
Of the Birmingham Buggy company.
Charges Of accepting bride during
his term of office against Gov. Sid
ney Cats of Florida, returned more
than year ago, were dismissed when
Circuit Judge Long, sitting at Lake
Butler, Fla, sustained a defense mo
ton that the indictment be quashed.
Lady Aastor caused the ears Of some
Chicago society women to burn when
she had her say in that city about
women who attend prize fights and
keep their husbands working overtime
to keep up social overhead"
The Durham Coal and Iron com.
pany announced that the mines at
Graysville, Tenn, which had been idle
for the past year, would be. placed
In operation at once in order to meet
demands for coal from northern and
eastern points. 2a
Probably 5000 homeless refugees
will be added to the 10000 already
made homeless, or otherwise seriously
affected by the floods, as q result Of
the breaks in the levee on Bayou Des