Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-06-30
Mississippi
EVENTS
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in Short Paragraphs

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firm of Threefoot Brothers & Co, has
just returned from Europe, where he
went in the interest of the firms big
foreign cotton export business. He
reports all countries visited across
the sea as coming back" after the
wal. He says the return to nor
malcey is steady but sure, and that
Belgium is actually already back. AS
to Germany Mr.. Threefoot says bust
ness was much better than he had ex-
pected to find and that the people
were very much in earnest about re-
storing their country to its financial
and economic standing. The same was
true, he said, of ltlay, but slower, al
though very noticeable. France, he
said, was slower, but even in that
country where the devastation as a
result of the war was greatest, there
are unmistakable signs of better con
ditions.
Quite a good deal of satisfaction is
being expressed over the recent agree
ment reached by the superintendent
of the county schools Of Clay and
Chickasaw in regard to the consoli-
dation Of the Treblock and McCondy
schools. This will make one extra
good high school and will give to the
people of those respective communi-
ties school facilities which they are
justly entitled to-. Bonds to the
amount of $4,000 have recently been
sold for the purpose Of building a
teachers home and equipping the
school. p. G. Wright has been Sc
leCted.
Judge William A. Roane. Of Hous-
ton, has postponed the meeting of
the Tippah County circuit court until
Monday, Aug. 7. The midsummer
term was scheduled to begin on Mon
day, July 1C, but Judge Roane Is
10Y in Hot Springs and has asked
the people Of Tippah to accept his
temporary permission Of the court
until August.
Announcement made by Mr.. r. S.
Wilson, director of extension at the
A. & NJ. college is that H w. Fristoe,
former county agent and instructor
in agricultural high schools, in Mary
land and Virginia, has been appointed
state vegetable specialist in Missis-
sippi, to succeed e. M. Graham, re-
signed, some time since.
1t is rumored that a number of
planters along the right of way be-
tween Itta Bena and Minter City may
purchase the Webb and Percy branch
of the C. & G. railroad which has been
ordered to be sold at auction at Green
wood on July "a, with the intention
OF operating it in connection with the
Itta Bena & Belzonia road.
Orders have been received from
Washington to resume work, which
was suspended recently, on the i'm
provements being made at the Gulf
port Veterans Bureau Hospital. No
date has yet been set for the starting
of the erection of the new 100000
hospital which was awarded Gulfport
by the veterans bureau.
Mrs. c. Ed Allen, about 35 years
old, is in a Meridian hospital danger
ously injured, the automobile which
she was driving going into a ditch in
rounding a curve north of Meridian
pinioning her underneath.
John w. Leary of Meridian, loco,
motive engineer on the Mobile & Ohio
Railroad, died suddenly in the rail
road yards at Meridian Of acute in
digestion.
Greenville last week was host to
fully 200 delegates to the convention
OF district No. 2 of the State Baptist
Young Peoples Union, which conven-
ed there for a two day session.
The Lincoln County Pastors Confer
ence was recently organized at the
Brookhaven Baptist Church. Rev. R.
D. Stringer is chairman and Rev. G..
Sandifer is secretary.
The faculty for the Canton High
Sshool has been named for the com.
ing year. H. R. Carte will be superin-
tendent and James NJ. Smyth, princi-
pal.
An election will be held in Canton
on Saturday, July l, to vote on the
S125, 900 bond issue for the erection
OF a modern and up-to-date high
school building.
The Winona Country Club has Just
been organized and within a few
weeks will have one Of the most
complete clubs in the state.
County Agent, C. c. Mingee, Of
| Winona, has just shipped the first car
Of cu%cumberG from the Winona mar
ket.
The state board OF health has an.
nounced a list of As successful appli-
cants in the medical examination just.
closed.
A small bug closely resembling the
beetle bug has been playing havoc
with the gardens near Tishomingo for
the past few days. The people are
spraying with different kinds of poi
sons in hope Of killing the insect
and are having fairly good success.
B. L. Myers has been installed as
postmaster at West Point, s~upplanting