Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-02-03
Mississippi
EVENTS
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in Short Paragraphs


Edward Bolton, a negro school teach
or OF Coldwater, taught school Is
years in a school located three miles
from Coldwater.
The G. & C. R. R. Co. has paid the
Carroll county tax collector approx
mately 56 per cent of its 1920 back
taxes and all the 1921 taxes. Other
taxes are being paid.
A movement is on foot to organize a
club for the girls of Fernwood. Mrs.
7. J. Smith is at the head of the prof.
ect, and either Campfire Girls or Girl
Scouts will be the organization chosen.
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The January meeting of the Tippah
County Teachers association will be
held at the county courthouse on Sat
urday, Jan. 2S, with Prof. C. c. Gull
lett, superintendent of Blue Mountain
High school presiding.
Miss Minnie Brewer of C~larksdale,
district secretary Of the League Of Wo-
men Voters, has announced the ap.
pointment of Mrs. R. B Hamilton of
Belen as chairman for Quitman county.
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The bureau of plant industry at
Washington has appointed A. B. Pres
ley OF Co.dwater to serve as collabora-
tor at Coldwater during the present
year.
The town Of Pickens can now boast
of one Of the best artesian wells in the
state. 1t is 1892 feet deep, flows
about 100 gallons per minute; the wa
ter is soft, clear and pure, and no bet
ter drinking water can be obtained.
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Alvin Andrews "a Laurel high school
student, has the distinction of having
made the highest grade in English Of
the 1921 high school students in Amer
lea who took the college examination
for entrance into the Eastern colleges.
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Reports from both the sheriff's office
at Hazlehurst and the clerks office In
town are to the effect that tax collec.
tons are exceedingly slow up to this
date, and it is believed that many
people will be delinquent this year..
Two cars OF miscellaneous vegeta.
bles were loaded at Long Beach for
shipment to northern markets and
truck growers report a decided i'm
provement in the market conditions.
From now on larger shipments will be
made.
Jim Ellis. q good citizen, and promi.
nent farmer OF Tate county, reports
that a huge eagle was captured just
south of his place by a man named
Perkins after the eagle had killed one
Of his goats.
Lawson A. Hill, postmaster at Cleve.
land, has been arrested recently on
a charge Of conspiring to rob the post.
office at that place. He was released
On bond of $4,000, after a preliminary
hearing before the United States com
missioner.
Rain has been falling for the past
three days in succession on the crops
Of the truckers in Hazlehurst district,
and the farmers say that IL the rain
keeps up they will be much set back
In their work OF their early vegetables.
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The board Of trustees OF Newhebron
high school at a recent meeting added
the 18th grade to the course, making 1t
necessary to complete the 18th grade
before graduating from this school, as
the requirements heretofore, we're to
complete the 18th grade.
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Held UP by two masked white men
with revolvers, Grady Bishop. night
man at the E. E. Girault Motor com
pany, H~attiesburg, was forced to open
the cash register, and then, while he
was locked In a closet, the bandits
opened the safe, pried open the inner
uOOlo dlu CONapCu Will OdOu, oLOIhS
and bonds valued by Mr.. Girault at
$4,000
Search for the slayer or slayers oil
Arthur Mitchell, Assyrian merchant,
who was shot to death in his store at
Meridian at night. Jan. 13, has turned
to an effort to locate three ~unidenti.
fled white men, who the investigators
say now are known to have been close
to the scene of the murder a few min
utes before the fatal shot was fired.
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Tunica has been In the throes OF a
cold wave, the coolest OF the season,
the past several days. Ice was plenti.
full and the ground we'll frozen, though
no snow has fallen. More than half OF
the farm lands In Tunica county have
been plowed, 70 the freezing Of this
plowed ground is beneficial to the
planter, as 1t will help to extermi
nate the boil weevil.
In Carroll county in the year 1921
there were 1T marriage licenses is
sued from the clerks office in this dis
trict, IS to whites and 70 to negroes
and the court granted 20 divorces.
The inclement weather for the past