Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-03-31
Mississippi
EVE. Mt S
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in Short Paragraphs

A petition is being circulated In
Yazoo county by the Yazoo County
Taxpayers league asking that the
county board of supervisors be pre-
vented from borrowing 100000 for
1ished for the first time two weeks
agooo The petition is gaining, many
signatures, and 1t is regarded as
probable that the board will not be
allowed to borrow the money, as IT
is not thought that there would be q
majority in favor of the loan should
an election be called.
Modern sciences solved the prob
lem in the Trimcane community The
weather and the impossible condi-
tion of the public roads made 1t i'm
possible for the trustees Of the Bell
school-house to assemble at any
given place. Each trustee was in
structed to stand at his telephone
and by this means business of i'm
portance and the election of school
teacher was transacted.
Judge Robert sB! Anderson, Of Port
Gibson, and James d. Thames, Of
Vicksburg, district attorney, repre-.
sentihg' Geofse C. Rogers, OF Pattison.
ClaiBofne county, have filed 'suft
against the 'Yazoo ,& Mississippi Val
ley Qraalroad for $25,OOO damages al
aegfng that Rogers was pushed front
a passengeft train at Pattsion, Dec
81, lis2- The suit was filed IN The
Warren codhsy circuit court. :, :, +" /"
Afis'a. regular luncheon recently the
Aberdeen Rotary, Club. had as, its
guest ,. T. ,,Covington, president and
owner of the Covipgton Broom Works
of Aberdeen,' Mr.. EoYington said that
ne ewas very anxious Ito, get the
fssl leSsIizrof Monroe, county intfreste4
in raising broom corn, that his plant
would .buy All that the county would
raise, 1T is necessary now for him to
ship his broom corn from Oklahoma,
TIE sc ra,rmars - 'n' Il the CT Vicinity Of
Winona are planting number of acres
in cabbage under the direction of
County Agent Mengee. He has rer
ceived about 100000 plants for distrir
butiQnr QtheT shipments will come IL
later and when all have been set be,
tween 20 and 80 acres will be in cabr
bage, thus enabling the growers to
shiRin7car lOtsg ate fr . ~ ar q
10 I oi s',As' | II
More than 300 of the best farmers
of ,Attala Gpunty.xat Az meeting at
Koaciuseo, recentlya voted, standard
for s,eotton sacreaga fin that aqounty
thisoyear. oThe farmers agreed To-
plant from five to seven acres of cot
ton per mule after having granted
food-and- feed crops full acreage.
Captain William T. Rigby, chairman
Of the park commission of the Nation
al Military Park at Vicksburg, has
obtained permission from the war de-
partment in Washington to have four
gravel bumpers about one foot high
built across the parks highway to
protect the automobile speed enthu-
siasts against themsetv es. .nfrosie ~,
Owners of the Meridian Chair and
Furniture Company and the Rogers
Candy Company, whose buildings
were destroyed by fire recently at
will rebuild. 1t is said that these
two concerns sustained a total loss
of over 100000 by the fire.
Corn prices have been steady ads
vancing in the vicinity of Coldwater
for several weeks as the demand be
came stronger and the bulk of recent
sales was made at rs cents bushel
At harvest time the price was only 80
cents, that being the lowest mark
reached in many years.
J. S. Davis, town clerk of Waynes-
bort; anhounc4s that he has ANEW set
of registration books, and Is now ready
to begin a new registration of the
voters of the town, In order to vote
in the tdwt elections 1t will be necces-
sary to register Ill the new books.
Dr. Chadwick, county AeaIth officer
at Carthage has announced that there.
are seven eases or fnflueiixa hifthe
Agricultural High School. However
the ~spsdemic IL Light ghts~---.4.---~-.--.-.a.
The antitrust case against the file
insurance cqmpanasS, ~hidh wkS-
appealed to the supreme court frrm
Chancellor Stricker's decisfon.i has