Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-08-25
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS

steering gear broke and the auto. car
wing several Of her companions. went
down an embankment. Mrs. Singletary
died in the DLJ Hospital. Mr.. and
Mrs. A.. S. Davis and two other mem.
bsrs Of the family and Miss Pearl FL
lott We're occupants of the car, all re
ceiyed more or less painful injuries.
They were thrown clear Of the hurt
ling automobile.
The f~our-year-old daughter Of Luns
ford Davis, Of Blue Mountain, is dead
from the effects Of a rifle wound in
the head accidentally inflicted by her
little brother Of eight, who fired the
bullet into his baby sister from a %.
rifle which he did not know was load.
ed. The lad, playing with the gun,
iokingly said to the little tot that he
was going to shoot her, and pulling the
trigger, SEN the bullet into her skull.
It lodged in the back of her head.
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Bud CARING, a farmer residing in
the eastern part of the county, near
Blue Mountain, was killed by a tree
which fell on his body while he was
telling timber in his pasture along
with n of his sons. Noting that
some Of his cattle were about to be
killed by a falling tree, Garland rushed
toward the COW to run them away,
and the falling tree crushing down
upon him.
The first bale of 1922 new cotton
was brought into Summit by T. H..
Nunnery Of Amite County, 20 miles
west Of Summit. The bale weighed
800 pounds and was sold to the Hy-
man Mercantile company, which paid
20 cents per pound, and, as usual in
the case Of a first bale, presented to
Nunnery a barrel Of flour as a pre-
MUM.
Supervisor Williams Of the bureau
OF vocational education is authority
for the statement that there has never
been a greater demand for the estab-
lishment of departments of vocational
agricultural in the schools Of Missis-
sippi than at the present time, Pref
creme is given the rural consolidated
school in the placing of these depart
ments about 20 new ones will be cdded
this year.
Seven large alligator gars, each
about five feet in length, were caught
by New Orleans and Biloxi fishermen
of the Back Bay bridge last week.
The fishermen had some sport with
the big fighters and automobile and
other traffic was stopped at times to
give the men room to pull EN- up.
About Is CARS made their escape by
bending the hooks. =.
Some Of the leading farmers and
other forward looking citizens Of Blue
Mountain are championing a move
ment for the restoration Of the serv-
ices of both n county farm agent and
home economics demonstration for Tip
pah, Both of these officials were dis
continued by the board of supervisors
as a part Of a policy of retrenchment.
NH ...Ia. nAx - Ca,l,lo It'll
begin the erection Of a modern bank
building 1t will be a one-story struct-
ure with a 40.foot ornate stone front
and the interior equipped with all mod
ern convenieces - ladies' reception
room, directors room, presidents Of
flee and ample facilities for the trans
aston Of the banks business,
As the result Vt the election, lIarri-
son county will now have an all-time
county demonstration agent to aid the
farmers. At each precinct in the
county a special box was for ballots
for the agent, and he gets a job by a
landslide. Biloxi and Gulfport alone
went better than 20 to I in his favor.
$500.
Estes Mill.-The thirteenth annual
session of the Leake county fair will
be held at Estes Mil Aug, 1925. Ev.
cry year the people of this county
gather at this beautiful spot, with dis,
plays Of their products and show to
tho world the progress they are max
ing in all lines.
Leaving an electric iron with the
current on to watch the election re-
turns caused a small blaze at the Y.
w. c. 4. Hatticsburg election night.
The fire department responded and
~extinguished the fire with little dam
age,
]. L. Speaks, IS, farmer of near
Louisville, took his life by jumping
jumping from a tree with Il rope tied
about a high limb and his neck. His
body was found some hours later by "a
searching party in a deep woods near
his home.
The English language is due to be
assassinated in a most barbarous man.
ner on August %, when % contestants
each from the Rotary club and HI.
wants club will meet in IN old-time
spelling match at Gulfport.