Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-09-07
Domestic

G. G. Hudson, Jr., 10, Jacksonville,
Fla, is facing trial on a forgery
charge.
Aerial attack against the cotton boil
weevil was recently made at SCOTS,
Miss, in a test undertaken by the gov
eminent supervision to demonstrate the
probability of the airplane as poison
distributor to rid infected fields of the
pest.
The Canadian dollar touched par
in New York City the other day for
the first time since August, 1915.
Governor Hardwick, of Georgia, who
has been considering the appeal of
Frank B. DuPre, under sentence of
death, whether or not to commute his
sentence to life imprisonment, after
thorough investigation, has declined
to commute the sentence.
Twenty per cent increase in the pay
of more than 1000 employees was an
nounced by Sloss Sheffield Steel and
Iron company of Birmingham, Ala.
VIII M. jerks, As, of Lottie, Baldwin
county Alabama, was arrested at the
bedside Of his wife, Lemma jerks, at
Mobile hospital, and charged with
inflicting what physicians say is a
fatal wound
Directors of the Coco-Cola company
yesterday declared, regular quarterly
dividend Of $40 share on the capital
stock, payable October /, to stock Of
record September IA.
Advancing the date of the national
S'Forget1Me-Not day" from Armistice
day to Saturday. November 4, Nation.
al Commander c. Hamilton Cook, of
the Disabled American Veterans of
the World War, made public recently.
The spectacle of a race across the
country between an army dirigible
and reconstructed De Haviland air.
plane will be witness on September S
and 6, according to dispatches from
San Deigo, Calf.
Michigan police are stationed at the
state reformatory at Iona, Mich, as
the result of an outbreak among the
inmates.
Seventy-five men, comprising the en-.
tire night force Of the Argonaut mine,
Jackson, Amador county, California,
are entombed in the mine as the re.
suit Of fire which recently broke out
in the mine. .
Two of the thirty-five men jailed
in the wholesale roundup of alleged
confidence men at Denver, Colo, have
been identified by investigates from
the district attorneys office. They
al9 Eddie Schultz of Knoxville, Tenn,
and c. v. Wilson Of Toledo, Ohio
One man was killed outright and "a
persons injured, some believed seri-
ously, when an auto truck carrying a
strawride party was ditched over a
steep embankment near Baltimore, Ma.
ryland.
Nine men are IN custody and four Of
them have been implicated in an al.
legged plot declared to have been in
spired by radicals in connection with
a wreck of Michigan Central ex.
press train at Gary, Ind, several days
ago. Further arrests are expected.
A tornado which swirled through
Henry county Kentucky, did property
damage estimated at 100000, not in.
GLIDING the destruction of the tobac.
co crop valued at 100000.
A daring plot to escape from the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kans., by dynamiting gates and shoot
ing down the guards was frustrated
by the confession of trusty.
County police questioned Mrs. George
Cline in an effort to obtain more in.
formation concerning the killing Of
John Bergen, a motion picture actor,
by George Cline, the woman's husband,
lust as duel was to have taken place
in their home at Edgewater, N. J.
Twenty three additional warrants
calling for total of forty arrests, in.
Guiding five women, were issued in con.
nection with the Communist conven-
ton by federal officers at Bridgman.
Mich.
DR.. 3. j. Mcguire, weighing 40,
proved at Warren, Ohio, that
3 man can maintain normal on fifty
cents Of food day.
A big crowd marched through the
city Of Chicago the other day demand
ing referendum on the manufacture
Of light wines and beer.
Lila and Madeline Wells, 8 and 8,
set out to meet their father, on his
way home from a quarry Hail
nile away they saw their father, who
Jaw them. He saw fast napproaching |
rain and ran to save them. He lost
The race, and all three we're killed.