Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS

L. M. Threefoot, Of the Meridian
firm of Threefoot Brothers & Co., has
just returned from Europe, where ne
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
war. He says the return to nor
malcey is steady but sure. and that
Belgium is actually already back. AS
to Germany Mr.. Threefoot says bus1-
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 Itlays but slower ar
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 nnmistakable signs OF betterfcon-
ditions. #
County Registrar Clardy of Oktibbe-
ha county has just completed his
rounds visiting the different precincts
| to register men and women eligible
to vote in the coming primaries. The
| following is his ta5ulation: Starkville
men COS, ladies 200; Lengview, men
1 1877, ladies j27; Edaton, men "a, laores
! H. Osborn, men SO. ladies IL: Hick-
ory Grove, men "a, ladies 2; Maben,
men, 17S, ladies 124; Double Springs,
men 1877, ladies', 3S; Bell School House
men "a, ladies' 6; Sturges, men 275,
ladies 1876; Bradley, As ladies II:
Sessums, men "A, ladies %; Agency,
men as, ndies l7 Total men 1s74S,
ladies 737.
Quite good deal OF satisfaction is
being expressed over the recent agree
ment reached by the superlntendents
of the county schools of Clay and
Chickasaw in regard to the CONSOLE
| dation of the Treblock and McCondy
| schools. This will make one extra
/ good high school and will give to the
people of those respective commune
ties school facilities which they are
| justly entitled to- Bonds to the
4 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 Holmes of the federal court
at Greenwood has signed decree or
dering the sale of the Webb and
Percy branches of the Columbus &
Greenville Railroad, permission for
the Abandonment of which was grant
ed recently by the Interstate Com
merce and the state railroad commits
j sions, and on which trains have not
been running for several weeks. The
two branch roads under the terms OF
the decree will be sold at Greenwood
at public auction on the fourth Mon
4 day In July.
w. F. Bond, state superintendent
of education has returned to his Of
flee at Jackson after a tour of the
state and reports them better tina q
ever before, both in point of number,
4 and In the seriousness of the spirit
i in which the attendants approach tn cir
4 work At three or the normals, Mil
saps, Blue Mountain and Hattiesburg,
! college credits are given for courses
J satisfactorily completed the remain
i der of the normals giving high school
credits.
/ I,1dO dOn tNf11fo~~, A 10
ton, has postponed the meeting of
i the Tippah County circuit court until
! Monday, Aug l. The midsummer
4 term was scheduled to begin on Mon
Eday, July 10, but Judge Roane is
now in Hot Springs and has asked
4 the people of Tippah to accept his
temporary permission of the court
A until August.
4 Announcement made by Mr.. r. S.
Wilson, director of extension at the
i a.. q 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 Il. M. Graham, re-
signed. some time since.
It 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 1t 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
i dato ba..rat haan cot for tho sfa rt Ia O