The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-06
MISSISSIPPI
EVENTS
Gathered from All Cor
ners of the State and
Told In Briefest Form

Gently killed hog that weighed near
1000 pounds.
Fer kicking a lad of eight Jackson
police Judge fined VIII Showers. Is.
$500.
Fire caused heavy damage at the
plant of the ClarksdaIe Machinery Co.
Tools valued at SIS, GOO were destroyed
A part time school was opened in
connection with the Meridian High
+ School Monday.
Pleasant Ridge is putting up new
I three-room school building and COM
pleting a large new house of worship.
! Postmaster T. H. Sharp has wired
his resignation as postmaster at Co
lumbus to the postoffice department in
Washington, effective at once.
] Ten chamber Of commerce teams at
Jackson are out selling bonds to insure
the beginning Of construction work on
Jackson & Eastern railroad.
Every shut-in in Blue Mountain was
sent a well-heaped basket of good
things by the ladies of the w. NJ U.
of Lowrey Memorial Baptist church.
The shortage Of rainfall for the past
two months has necessitated the stop
page of work on the largest drainage
ditch in the Shaw section.
The earlist gardner in Coldwater IS
A. B. Presley of Progress Farm, who
has already put out large number
of cabbage plants ordered from South
Carolina
Coal at $31.25 per hundred pounds.
This high level was reached in Green
wood when Mayor Hughston taxed a
negro caught stealing from an open
car at one of the local yards.
A big hog slaughtered on Progress
farm near Coldwater last week yielded
100 pounds of lard. He was of the
Duroc-Jersey breed and weighed 416
pounds dressed.
The annual meeting of district stew
ards of the Jackson district, Missis-
sippi conference NJ. Z. church, was
held at jackson last week at the Cap
itol street church
Andrew G. Gainey, executive officer
Of the state department of education,
has made requisition on the treasury
for payment of the fall distribution of
the floating fund for school purposes. I
Hon. w. J. East. who represents
Tate and Benton counties in the state
senate, viii be candidate for the po-
gition of president pro tenn of that
body when it convenes.
Gen. Robt. X. Evans, retired, from /
the United States army in 1918, now
citizen of the world, was in Jackson, T
the city of his birth, on the eve of his
departure for Europe, Africa and the
Orient.
The eighth biennial report of DR.. E.
n. Lowe, director Of the state geolog-
zeal survey is a valuable contribution
to the records of the department and /
an interesting and susge tive work on
the resources Of the state from the
point of view of the geologist.
The recent cold weather disclosed
the fact that the delta j. rapidly be
coming a pork produci7rese as a
large number Of fine h-gs have been
butchered and or eva-r hand one
hears planters di Gus -ns the Oppor-
tune time to save their meat
The Meridian city council is engaged
in the pr paration of rather extern
sive street paving programme for he
coming year. The streets to be paved
are in the resid nee districts and vii
include cross connections with streets
centrally located which extend from
TIE business district to the corporate
limits
Records of raw oyster shipments
from the BToxi express Office were
scattered this last week. Statistics
completed and announced showed that
a total of 1896 cases or boxes of iced
raw oysters left here Christmas week
f. v"r ports Of the south. The
1895 boxes contained, 8 455 600 oysters
and are valued at over 10000.
Owing to machine trouble on the
road from Memphis to Clarksdale. the
syn icons e~s. eng7gad for
the annual ball Of the Ca+alp7 dancing
club, did not reach ClarksdaIe until
after - o'clock. and. as a result the
biggest DANCE of the YEA was de,
layed in starting for several hours. De-
spite the bad beginning. however, the
dance proved big @uccess and did not
break up until clock next morning.
In answer to pressing need al
Moorhead, number of prominent bust
ness men launched plans for building {
and loan association and the stock
was soon sold, the issue being over
\
The special committee of the cham
Der of commerce charged with placing
the 100000 quota OF bonds OF The JACK
son q Eastern railroad are determined I
to keep up the fight though they are {
having difficulty in getting subscrip- q
lions for the remaining third of the f
ssue.
West Point Is proud of its police Of
'icers. They enjoy the distinction of
act allowing a theft to be perpetrated
here this year without locating the
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