Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-07-20
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS

| Inc Charles Baudry Post, Amer'
can Legion, of Biloxi, have begun their
plans for advertising Biloxi at the Ma.
tional convention of the Legion to be
be held in New Orleans in October
The Post has sent invitations to the
80 posts of st. Louis inviting them TO
stop off at Biloxi while enroute to
the meet on their special train. In.
vitations will also be sent to other
posts travelling on special trains.
| The ex-service men will be taken for
automobile rides and about the city
and given other entertainments. The
local post will also run full page
advertisement in the American Le-
gion weekly, a magazine with circu-
lation of over 100000, inviting the
soldiers to stop off for visit while
enroute to the meet.
DR.. T. w. Hand, state chemist, To-
Gated at A. & NJ. College, has trans
mitted to the office of the state COM
missioner of agriculture during the
specimens of fertilizer taken by the in
| spectors of the department and by
them sent to the college for analysis
to determine whether or not the pur-
chaser is getting full value. Commits
sioner Garner has from DR.. Hand anal
asys that show one specimen deficient
| to an amount representing CONNER
cal value of Sc and another 81, which
| amounts the commissioner is autho-
rized to have rated to the purchaser
of the defective fertilizer.
Reports to A. & M. College coming
in from all parts of the state and OBJ
servations made by the inspectors of
the state plant board for the past
month or two indicate that MISSISSIPPI
pi is now having one of the worst at
tacks of the fall webworm in many
years. PeTsimmons, pecans and hick-
DRY trees all over the state are being
covered with the webs of this pest,
and in many cases the limbs have
been stripped bare. Other trees are
also being attacked, but the injury is
less serious.
Mayor j. J. Hayes of Vicksburg,
appeared before the Mississippi River
Commission in st. Louis today to urge
an allotment of 100000 for Bruins.
wick levee extension, which is design.
ed to fill the gap between Brunswick
and Vicksburg and reclaim a very
large acreage of agricultural land in
The project will cost $1,200,0000 Of
this amount the upper and lower
levee boards have agreed to allot
100000. The project has been APP
proved by the commission.
The city council of Meridian has
adopted motion to an election on
a bond issue of $150,000 and an in.
crease of the tax levy three mills for
school improvement purposes. The
action followed a mass meeting an
the circulating of petitions urging this
course to relieve the schools of fl
nancial difficulties, prevent de-
crease of teachers salaries, build one
additional white and one additional
negro school and repair present build
ings.
Miss Callie VIII Miller has been sc.
lected to work with the malarial
forces in Yazoo County in the interest
of public health Miss Miller will be
with the state board of health and will
be a special nurse to cooperate with
the county health officer, the United
States public health physician and
the state engineer in eliminating all
malaria from the county by destroy
ing the breeding places of the mosqui-
to.
Adjt. Gen. Erie G. Scales and his
secretary, Mrs. Torgerson, Major
Lair and a detachment of troops are
in Vicksburg arranging for the state
encampment and maneuvers of the
Mississippi National Guard to open
Saturday. There are 10 companies
in the State Guard this year, and it
is stated that 1900 men will be pres
ent for the maneuvers.
Since the establishing of a branch
of the Brookhaven Creamery Compa-
ny in Natchez, there has been de-
cided increase in interest in the dairy
industry in that section, both in. Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana. Large ship
ments are being made by Port Gibson
and Roxie and Waterproof. Delta,
Bride and Locust Ridge in Louisiana
are preparing to ship.
Founders Day." thirty-fifth ami
versary of Mound Bayou, settlement
of which the population consists en-
tirely of negroes, was celebrated with
an appropriate programme and with
probably 900 negroes present, from
the territory which is considered as
belonging to the Mound Bayou neigh
borhood.
The Natchez Chamber Of Com