The vidette., 1922-03-23
Mississippi
e v E N T S
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in Short Paragraphs


at Bell Buckle has to bestow upon
her graduates has just teen handed
to Andrew FAINT, a Macon boy. This
Is being elected one OF the four who
are to deliver the final debate at the
close of the school. The two socIet-
les of the institution, the Platonic
and the Hamilton, each year choose
two from among their number to this
position and in so doing curser upon
these the highest honor and praise
that it is the schools give, for the
requirments are that the debaters be
students who have made a splendid
record throughout their time at Webb.
Modern sciences solved the prob
lem in the Trimcane community. The
weather and the impossible condi-
tion of the public roads made it i'm
possible for the trustees of the Bell
school-house to assemble at any
given place. Each trustee was in
structed to stand at his telephone
and by this means business uf i'm
portance and the election Of a school
teacl6r was TRANSACTED.
The citizens along the lines of the
Delta Southern and the Webb branch
and from Greenwood held a meeting
with the attorney and receiver OF
C. & G. railroad and the railroad
commissioners at Schlater with ref
erence to devising some means Of
operating the Webb branch, which is
to be sold as junk some time in
May, according to an order of the
court.
The farmers in the vicinity of
Winona are planting number of acres
in cabbage under the direction OF
| County Agent Mengee. He has re-
| ceived about 100000 plants for distri-
button. Other shipments will come in
later and when all have been set, be-
| tween 20 and 30 acres will be in cab
bage, thus enabling the growers to
chip in oai lots.
In order to raise funds for the
general fund of the Biloxi City Hos
pital, the Women's Auxiliary of that
institution has decided upon some
thing never held in Biloxi before.
An elaborate style show, accompanied
by a musical program with the best
local talent, will be given on the
night of March "a.
Trial of the antitrust suit of the
State OF Mississippi against the
Mobile & Ohio, the Southern and
other railways, which has been going
on for nearly three weeks in the
chancery court OF Lauderdale county,
has been adjusted by Chancellor
| George G. Tam, to be resumed on
| three weeks notice to the litigants.
More than 300 of the best farmers
Of At.ala County at meeting at
Kosciusco, recently, voted a standard
| for cotton acreage in that county
this year. The farmers agreed to
plant from five to seven acres of, cot
ton per mule after having granted
| food and feed crops full acreage.
Owners of the Meridian Chair and
Furniture Company and the Rogers
| Candy Company, ewhose buildings
were destroyed by fire recently at
Meridian, have announced that they
will rebuild. 1t is said that these
| two concerns SUSTAINED a total loss
of over 100000 bys the fire.
Mr.. Allen w. Stone of Washington,
D. c. recently visited Marks working
with R. w. Mckee, county demon
stration agent, with view of placing
some of the government supply of
picric acid with the planters of Quit
man county.
J. S. Davis, town clerk of Waynes-
boro, announces thai he has new set
Of registration books and is now ready
to begin a new registration OF the
voters OF the town. In order to vote
In the town elections it will be necces-
sary to register in the new books.
A mothers and daughters banquet
was celebrated on the evening of
March II, by the Older Girls Hi-Y
club of Blue Mountain High School,
which is one of the large and active
units of this order in this section
of the state.
The antitrust case against the fire
insurance companies, which was
appealed to the supreme court from
Chancellor Stricker's decision, has
been set for hearing on June IA next,
at Jackson.
J. L. Hebron, whose fine pecan
groves are near Leland, has shipped
32, GOO pounds Of the luscious nuts dur.
ing the year 1921. His groves include
200 trees, but only one hundred trees
are bearing the others being too young.
The Baptist Church of Standing
Pine has called Dr. A. M. Barnett to
serve this year as its pastor. Dr. Bar
nett is we'll known throughout the
state and is forcible exponent of
the go pei.
The FLU situation in Copiah county
has grown to such an extent that
Franklin Consolidated school al
Haz,ehurst has closed its sessions for
two weeks.
According to reports the farmers
,f Il norton Of I.eake county will II