Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-03-03
Mississippi
EVENTS
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in Short Paragraphs

IdVOf OF tHo DOnuS.
Second district will have the W.
NJ. L. meeting In Clarksdale on
March 6 and 7.
The legislature has cut $4,000 off
Of the appropriation for improvement
Of state highways.
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At a mass meeting held recently
at Greenwood $2.07515 was raised for
the relief OF the suffering Jews In
Russia and Poland.
Revenue Agent j. II. Mills has
arrived in Natohez for the purpose OF
assisting corporations in making out
income tax returns.
Ezell Kelly. a negro, charged with
attempted burglary OF a store in
Greenwood was freed by Judge A. W.
Evans.
w. s. II. White, fire department
headquarters captain at Meridian and
Mrs. White celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary recently.
Il. G. Hammer, 76, well known
jeweler and merchant OF Holly
Springs WAS found dead in his apart
ment in the rear of his store.
The contract has beeen let to dig
the drainage canal through Byhalia
Creek bottom. This canal 10 to be
about nine miles long.
Mesdames IT. l.. Quinn and Martha
White have been appointed as a com
mittee to solicit funds for the Wilson
Foundation in West Point.
In q letter addressed to the Laurel
Kiwanis Club Senator Pat Harrison
Of Mississippi states that he is in
favor Of Henry Ford's proposition on
Muscle Shoals, Ala.
Many bad coins are noticed in
circulation at ltta Bena mostly quart
ers, some OF which are made princi-
pally Of lead. Also a good many
foreign coins are in circulation, most
ly francs.
G. b. Barrett, farm demonstration
agent for Oktibbeha County, desires
the people Of the county not to for
get that he will ship a car Of poultry
from Starkvllle and Sturgis between
now and Easter.
Lieut.. Wallace c. Burns OF the
Roma dead, was tho son of Roben
Burns, postmaster of Brandon Miss,
and entered the army through the
second officers training camp at
Leon Springs, Texas in 1917.
A bill has been passed In the
Legis' ature authorizing the issuance
VI $1,000 in bonds for a building for
Auburn Consolidated School attended
by about 235 pupils from Lincoln,
Franklin and Admite counties.
The public schools OF the county
Will hold field day meet at Senatobia
on April IA. Tho contests will be
open TO all the schools, including the
separate schools Of Coldwater and
S~enatobia.
A Avera farmer named G. II. Dun.
ham has raised a monster turnip
weighing 10 pounds and measuring
q inches In circumference, 7la inches
In diameter and S inches in length
The turnip was of the purple TOP
variety.
For the first time In months Tippah
Jail has only one tenant, a negro
hooked up on a charge of assault ant
battery upon another negro. This
solitary black has the whole area tc
himself and finds it lonely enough
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Lincoln County's six months com
mon school term will be completed
as planned, even II teachers have t
70 accept a cut in the last months sal
airy, the teachers agreed at the las
meeting of the Lincoln County Tea
cheers Association.
c. II, Womack, dairyman, living II
Southern Copiah, sustained yer,
heavy losses by a fire which destroy
ed his dairy barn a few nights agC
and so head OF fine cows were caugh
in the burning building, Is OF which
o burned alive.
Contracts for two canals In IN,
Jones.Walton Drainage District in LIE
flore County have been let to
construction company, of Dallas Tex.
The Texas concerns hid was tie low
est OF seven filed with the drainag,
commissioners and was l4.9 cents pc
cubic yard for the excavation work.
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A ballot on the bonus bin by tn
Union County eX-service men show
them to be Overwhelmingly in favo
OF it, With approximately 200 votin
there was only one man votini
against the measure.
Mr.. Barrett, farm agent says Il /
- a fine time right now to p ant oat