Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-06-22
Domestic


shine special, the Texas and Pacific
train jumped the track at Lake Fork
Texas, injuring Is persons, some of
them seriously.
Five children were born to Mrs.
William Prestage, wife of farmer of
the Old Floyd neighborhood, 60 miles
northeast Of Monroe, La.
Jack Akin, member of the holy Roll
Ter" church near Fackler, Ala, is at
the point of death as the result of
bites from a copper-head snake which
he saw crossing the road and which
he picked up when, as he said, he
''felt the power Of God come on me-"
Organized labor indicated a deter
mination at the American Federation
OF Labor convention in Cincinnati, o.,
that 1t would start drive for a con-
stitutional amendment for a congress
sional veto of supreme court decision.
Arthur E. StillweIl, who says he has
been president of many railroads and
for seven years president Of the Ma
tional Surety company, makes thu
statement that every mile Of the 500
miles of railroad he had built hasHbecn
constructed by following the advice
of Spirits"
Train No. 4 of the fast New Orleans
and New York Limited on the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad, split a
switch three miles north of Canoe
Ala, crashing through a potato pack
ing shed and killing Willie 10 .ndean
small boy, who was in the packing
shed.
Secretary of War Weeks delivered
the baccalaureate address at the West
ern Reserve University the other day.
The university is at Cleveland, Ohio
He declared that the drift of the Unit
ed States government during recent
years was gradually weakening the ma
TONS structure by undermining the
Constitution and sweeping away the
principles Of party responsibility held
so dear by our ancestors of other days
While in bathing at a public pond
near Augusta, Ca, ClaudeB. McEwing,
twenty-four years old, a resident of
Washington, d. c., ventured beyond
the safety rope and was drowned.
Roy Marsden admitted, according to
the police, that he had robbed the poor
boxes in thirty-two Milwauka church.
es recently.
Use of the word "takola" by the Old
nj -
mond, Va, is an infringement of the
trademark OF the Coca-Cola company,
Judge D. Lawrence Groner, Of the
United States district court for east
ern Virginia, has decided, according
to advises received by G. v. Meredith,
counsel for the Coca-Cola company.
Explosion OF an ammonia tank locat.
ed in a tunnel under the boiler room
of the Parker Webb Packing company,
Detroit, Mich, killed four employees
and damaged the plant considerably.
The Illinois chamber of commerce
has asked President Harding to reap
point w. P. g. Harding as governor Of
the federal reserve board.
The production Of commercial peach.
es In Georgia this year probably will
not exceed $500 cars, including ex
press shipments. according to the esti
mate of 2. r. Pettet. agricultural stats.
tician for Georgia Of the United States
bureau Of markets and crop estimates
Former submarine chaser No. 2O5,
owned by e. T. Sulser OF Brooklyn,
N. Y, was burned to the waters edge
and sank OFF Sand K,sy. near Key
West, Fla, Mrs. Sul7er was slightly
burned.
By the vote Of every delegate, the
American Federation OF Labor con-
vention IN Cincinnati Endorsed the
nationwide coal strike that since the
first Of April has kept half q million
miners from work, and also indicated.
by demonstration. its approval Of the
threatened walkout Of more than
million railroad workers