Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-05-05
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS

appointed postmaster at Sardis, as
sumed duties of the office May l.
A report says, Charles Freeny, resi-
ding near Freeny, took his life by
shooting himself with a shotgun.
Jacksons newest hotel The Heidel.
berg, containing more than 800 rooms.
has been opened to the public.
The Biloxi Democratic executive
committee has set July as the pri-
mary date for holding the municipal
election.
Special work through the club wo-
men of Tupelo has begun on the lawn
of Court Square to make it a beautiful
place.
The Cleveland volunteer fire com.
pany has just installed the latest type
Westinghouse radio receiving station
in their clubroom.
The vegetable movement from Halle
hurst has assumed its natural course
now, and five to 10 cars are going out
every day to the northern markets.
Despite low prices, Blue Mountain
is shipping good deal of lumber, the
production being greatly in excess OF
the local demand.
James Cassidy of Brookhavsn has
received notice of his acceptance for
entrance to the United States Naval
Academy, Annapolis, in June, upon his
college credentials.
The Woman's Clun and all civic
clubs OF Hazlehurst held the annual
Decoration Day exercises wherein
hundreds attended the, programme
which lasted three hours.
As a result of a city beautiful cam.
paign, Greenwood is probably cleaner
today than ever before in its hitsory
but those in charge OF the work de-
clare that 1t has only begun.
Work on the federal aid concrete
| highway between Ruleville and Drew,
which was suspended during the win
ter months on account of the rains
! and severe cold. has been resumed.
| The request Of Mrs. J. r. Jones was
granted that the next marker placed
by the Colonial Danes will be in Tu-
pelo in 1928, commemorating DeSoto's
sojourn OF this historic ground.
| No solution of the murder of Night
Watchman Boteler, who was killed at
the Blind Institute, at Jackson by an
unknown negro whom the watchman
had arrested as burglar, has been
made.
| Prentiss county has a new county
agent in C. G. Smith, who began worn
on May 1. He has recently been EN-
ployed as agricultural and animal hus
bandman in one of the agricultural
schools OF Arkansas.
Repeated heavy rains have fallen
at Shaw, during the past week, great
| ly handicapping all farming interests
and filing the lowlands that are not
drained by lateral bitches into the
system of canals that have been dug
in the last few years. The digging OF
these canals and laterals, have proven
their worth repeatedly.
|
The capture of 100-gallon copper
still, 400 gallons Of mash and small
quantity of first run whisky by Fed
eral Prohibition Agents j. F. Buchanan
and j. p. Owen, near Meehan juno
ton. the place at which they were
charged with the murder of Johnnie
Wilson, negro, in raid near there
has been reported.
The Marks Public Library has beer
moved to the old post office building
The use sof this building has beer
donated for one month by the owner
At the expiration of two months the
members of the Coterie Club, who
maintain the library, hope to be able
to move into permanent quarters
They expect to purchase a lot ant
begin the erection OF library build
ing thereon within in the very near fu
ture.
| The West Mississippi Flood Com
mission has been organized at vicks
burg with representatives from centra
points throughout the Mississippi Ieve,
district. The object and purpose O
the organization is to coordinate tn,
efforts now under way for the relie
of the people who are destitute by thu
reason of the flood, or who may be IL
need of help in case of break in tns
levee in Mississippi.
Crop conditions generally speaking
are much farther advanced than the.
were this time last year in the vicinit.
of Hernandez. Cotton has been plante'
EARLIER than usual and is coming up Il