Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-08-10
Domestic

Domestic
Estimated daily average gross
crude oil production increased 1851
barrels, totaling 1,50O,15O barrels fol
the week ended, July 20, compared
with 1,49S,5OO barrels for the previous
week, according to the weekly sum
mary of the American Petroleum In
stitute.
The Standard Oil company, Of New
Jersey, announced reduction OF two
cents a gallon lin the price of gaso
line.
One of the largest sprees in his
tory was attributed to former bar
tender, August lettering, by his wife
Rose, who told a Brooklyn magistrate
her husband got drunk the day pro-
hibition went into effect and had been
drunk ever since.
Mrs. Mary Catherine Clark who,
according to police announcement,
has confessed that she shot and fatal.
ly wounder her husband, Edward
Clark, policeman, will be called to
answer to charge of murder in pc.
lice court, Memphis, Tenn, is was
announced.
With all peace efforts apparently
halted, the third day of street car
strike found Chicago's erstwhile strap.
hangers still good naturally perched
on packing boxes in solid tired motor
trucks, crowded into "jitneys" or walk.
ing long distances to steam trains.
The crowding, waiting and inconven.
fence seemed to grow less as the pub.
lie became more and more accustomed
to doing without electric transporta.
ton.
Seven secreta indictment involving
six residents of Jackson county were
returned in the circuit court at Jack.
sonville by the special grand jury Sc.
lected to investigate alleged Ku Klux
Khan outrages in southern Oregon.
Middle and northwest states will be
practically without coal within thirty
days unless prevailing conditions
change. This is the gist of reports
to the United States News from Min.
nesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, India ma,
Illinois and Iowa.
The controlling interest in the Stutz
Motor Car company was obtained by
George L. Burr Of the Guaranty Trust
when he bought 111,614, 1/3
shares at 500 share at the auction
Of Allen A. Ryan company's collateral.
Business failures for July totalled
1858, drop Of 5.3 per cent from the
June figures and AZ per cent from
those for the peak month Of January,
1922, Bradstreet's reported
United States Senator William E.
Crow died at his country home in the
near Uniontown, Pa, re.
Gently.
The American Telephone and Tele.
graph company announced that every
one Of its 100000 telephones in the
United States and Canada would cease
Tor one minute, when the body OF
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of
The telephone, will be lowered into
he grave he selected on the crest Of
Benin BREACH mountain, Nova Scotia.
Heavy price reduction on Stude.
baker, Chandler, and Nash motor cars
have been announced.
The New York Masonic grand lodge
has sent representatives to Finland to
the first Masonic lodge in
he republic of Finland.
Enoch w, Hansen and family of AZ
children, grandchildren and great
srandchildren-from Blackfoot, Idaho.
ire camping in Yellowstone National
bark. 1t took eight automobiles to
convey the family.
Railway executives Of the nation
n secession in New York City courte-
lusly and firmly rejected the presi-
Tents plan OF settling the railroad shop
Itrike. After listening to Secretary
Hoover, the presidents representative,
hey voted, practically unanimously, to
eject the plan, adjourned and went
lone. they said. to run the railroads
Full acceptance o. the peace pro
,osals submitted by President Harding
vas voted by leaders Of the striking
'ailway shopmen, who, however gave
heir own Interpretation Of each Of
he three suggestions.
John Taylor, claim agent for the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
abroad is dead. and DR.. B. A. Deak-
ms, former county physician, and Billy
PARKS, well-known citizen, are at the
hospitals in serious condition, as the
esult Of a sensational gun battle in
Cast Chattanooga,
with only tiny photograph to back
Ter great determination, Miss Mary
Stapleton, from Liverpool, ENGLAND.
g years old, has started to comb the
Jnited States IN an effort to locate
lar father wnO has been m'ssing tou,
'eara