Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-06-09
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS

sold, met with a number or business
men OF Greenwood for the purpose
OF talking over the situation and
agreeing. II possible on some course
to pursue which will lead to a con-
~tlnuation OF the service to people In
the territory which for years has been
served by the railroad.
The Eunomian Literary Society OF
Blue Mountain College, the Oldest unit
OF this kind in the school, has just
presented formally to the institution
a beautiful drinking fountain located
in the center OF the collegiate cam
pns and erected as a memorial TO the
Lowery and Berry families, which
have done so much for the develop
ment OF Christian education during
the last so years among the girls and
women OF the south.
Quite an honor has been conferred
on Miss Bessie Suite OF Louisville,
who has been connected with govern
mental work when "a was declared
with Germany. During all this time
she was stationed in Washington and
Atlanta, Ga. Recently she was APP
pointed director OF education, one OF
the most important and responsible
positions, with headquarters at Gulf
port, connected with the government
hospital for disabled ex-service men.
During the civil war and for some
time afterward the Sacred Harp was
the most popular song book in South
Mississippi. Many of the old people
who learned to sing from that book Of
ten get together and spend the day
singing from the old book. This is Sc
pecially the case in Jones county. Such
an occasion will be the third Sunday
in June at the First Baptist church in
Laurel.
People who came from adjourning
counties to the Jersey cattle show at
Starksville were surprised to see sucn
q beautiful display Of cattle. Directly
to the west of the courthouse a lot
fenced with plank was the space de-
voted to the exhibition of the stock.
The type and conformation Of the cat
tie was the best seen here in many
years.
The League Of Women Voters OF
Covington County at their last regu-
lar meeting adopted strong resolu-
tons advocating more stringent en-
forcement of the prohibition laws OF
the state and nation and deplorlng
the laxity of some Of the courts and
juries in Furnishing those found guilty
Of violation of these laws.
Mrs. Una Johnson. residing with
her father, A. ID. Johnson, five miles
south Of C~arrollton, broke her arm
while trying to crank her car, and as
there vas no one to drive her to q
doctor she held the wheel with her
left hand and came in town to have
the arm dressed, after which someone
again cranked it up, and she drove
home.
DR.. Goldberg, pellagra expert of the
United States public health service
spoke at their regular weekly lunch
con recently. Me warned the planters
of that section about the rations they
we're issuing to their tenants, saying
that they would cause diseases il
proper thought was not given to them
Chief among which would be scurvy
and pellagra.
Arguments have just been conclud
ed in the supreme court in the case o.
the Columbus & Greenville and thu
Delta Southern railroads. These were
the cases in which Attorney|Genera
Robertson brought suit for taxes due
against each of these roads after thu
roads went into receivership.
John y. Clover gets the palm thi!
season of achieving a distinction
never before reached in the long years
of vegetable growing and shipping a
Crystal Springs. Mr.. Clover loade,
from his own farm a solid carload o
carrots, containing 750 hampers in on
day.
Prof. John T.. PearCe, county super
intendent of education, in Tippa
County. has arranged to co-operat
with a number of other counties !
his territory in pitting on a summe
normal to be held this vacation /
Pontotoc.
The trucking industry at Prentis
has sprung fun grown into life. TIL
is the first year of any organize
truck interest, and so far there ha
/, been shipped over 80 cars of veget'
bles.
The financial institutions OF Okti'
heha county in their quarterly r
port just issued, show ~considerao
increase in all branches Of their bus
: ness.