Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-06-01
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS

| Ttppah county Will cooperate with
other counties and have five weeks
session OF the normal for teachers
The normal will be held at Pontotoc
beginning on July IL.
Because Of big increase in the vol
ume of freight traffic over their line
the Gulf, Mobile & Northern railroad
the only railway in Tppah county,
has doubled the number of regular
through freight trains passing over
this division, finding this necessary
to handle the amount Of business
being dispatcher through the terri
tory traversed by the G., M. & N.
Juanita Gibbs, negro woman at
Okolona shot Will Baker, negro man,
in the head, but he is not seriously
wounded. She also shot at her own
child but missed it. She then shot
herself twice, one bullet piercing the
heart. jealousy over another negro
woman is said to be the cause of the
affair.
Revs. J. f. Measel, L. r. Gregory
and Messrs wv e Gray and Charles
S. SIoom of Shelby have returned
from Jacksonville, Fla, where they
attended a meeting of the Southern
Baptist Convention The party made
the round trip in Ford car, a dis.
lance OF 1900 miles, with no injury to
the car to speak of and they are none
the worse for wear.
Wednesday will be q half holiday
in Greenwood during the months Of
June, July and August, according to
an announcement made by a commit
tee appointed some time ago to can
vass the city and request the mer.
chants to grant the afternoon off on
Wednesday to their employees
The Masonic fraternity at Grenada
has been dreaming and planning for
a long while that it would some time
in the future erect for its uses a
handsome temple. The dream is
about to come true as committee
which has been appointed reports it
has an option on three lots.
Mr.. M. G. McNair, cashier of the
Bank of Gulfport and president of
the Bank of Waynesboro, MISS, rs
in receipt of communication FROM
Gov. Russell re-appointing him for
a period, Of four years a member OF
the Mississippi Bank Commission.
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A wind storm which lacked little
of being a tornado, struck Natchez
recently leaving in it's wake many un-
rooted buildings, electric wires torn
down and streets blocked with num-
erous trees blown across them.
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Will Maxwell, negro serving life
term in the state penitentiary for as.
sault committed in Yazoo county has
escaped from Camp A, Lambert farm,
penitentiary headquarters at jackson
has been informed.
Planning to make Water Valley
and the surrounding section a poul-
try center, R. G. Snipe, poultry spe-
cialist of Starkville has formed the
Yalobusha County Poultry Associa-
ton.
The board of trustees of universe
ties and colleges have left Jackson
on a visit to all Of the educational
institutions of the state to attend COM
mencement exercises, deliver dip1o-
mas, etc.
]. Stein, proprietor of Hotel Irving
of Greenwood, is receiving bids for
erection Of a 100000 annex to the
Hotel Irving and expects to start
building within the next thirty or six
ty days.
After a hunting excursion in Flor
d1a, Captain Paul J. Rainey, Of this
community, who has killed many
lions, has returned to his Tippah
Lodge near Cotton Plant, where he
rusticates a good portion Of each year.
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About 26 postmasters Of Mississippi
met in their annual state convention
at the Great Southern Hotel at Gulf
port last week.
It is said Biloxi and other places
along the Mississippi coast has .
bumper fig crop dn store for it this
season.
Cotton chopping is well under way
ii the vicinity Of Wyatte. Farmers
here are aware of the fact that thick
spacing of cotton pays and are there
fore leaving it thick in the drill. La
borers are plentiful and can be So
cured at a very reasonable fee.
Attended by more than 5000 per-
sons every night for the two weeks
and both Sundays by more than T..
600, the Gypsy Smith, Jr., revival at
Jackson has been pronounced the
most successful series Of religious
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