The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-17
Mississippi
E V EN- I S
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in Short Paragraphs

DR.. c. NJ. Ship of the state board
Of health has been in Greenwood for
the past week making = malaria sur
vey Of Leflore Count 60 connection
with the fight that A93eing waged
| by the state board seeking che e1imi-
J nation Of malaria in the delta coun-
ties.
J. c. Lyons of Jackson, state sani-
itary inspector together with Dr.
Frank L. Summers, city health Off
Ger has just completed three days
I work at Hattiesburg and states that
the city is improving along sanitary
lines.
/ At the regular monthly meeting of
! the board of supervisors of Madison
7 county it was decided to again estab-
/ fish the office OF county home demon
/ stration agent for the next nine
months of the year.
H. c. (Dick) Rather of Memphis
failed to prove to the satisfaction OF
/ the court at Holly Springs that own.
SfSIlp VI LWO dubOliiODilCS tcihC~4 III a
whisky raid was legally vested in
/ him.
One person was injured and prop
| erty damage estimated at $4,000 was
caused by a tornado which struck Pic
| ayune during the past week, most of
the loss occurring in the business sec
! ton.
Houlka's still-hunting mayor, A A
Newell, brought in another kettle, his
third capture in as many days, this
having been made with the assistance
of Sheriff ]. c. Beasley.
The first of a series Of group meet
ings conducted by the Mississippi
Hardware and Improvement Associa-
ton was held in Greenwood the past
week.
The Wayne County farm bureau
has loaded and shipped another CO
operative car of hogs for the farmers
of Wayne to the northern markets
The Monroe county board of super
visors, at their regular monthly meet
bonds for the erection of a consoli-
dated school at SpIunge.
Rabbi Samuel s. Kaplan, chairman
of the Jewish war relief fund cam
paign in Meridian, announces that
$4,000 of the city's allotment of ST.
500 has been subscribed.
Visited by the hardest rainfall in the
history of this section the Columbus
territory is in the throes of a flood
situation which threatens to assume
alarming proportions.
The CIarksdale civic hospital com
mittee met here at the library and
adopted a charter of incorporation
which has been approved by commit
tee of attorneys.
The churches of Tupelo are uniting
in revival campaign to begin Sun
day, March &c, and continuing through
Easter. The services will be held at
the Methodist church.
Another heavy rainfall has put low
lands of the Senatobia territory under
water for the third time within the
past week. Much damage will be done
the roads and bridges.
The Holy Springs Refrigerating
Company has decided to take over
the operation of the ice factory at
that place this year.
Lieut.. A. T. Callicot is organizing the |
motor transportation company at Sen |
atobia, which is a unit of the Missis- |
sippi national guard.
NJ. H. Ivy, of Jackson, state high |
school supervisor, has been making
tour during the present week in north
Mississippi.
About SIS more men 70 the large mum.
Der laid off at the New Orleans and |
Northeastern shops at Meridian in De-
cember, have returned to work.
A wholesale grocery will soon be
opened in Senatobia by Memphis
firm.
The Newton district of the NJ. z.
church, South, has organized to collect
the centenary pledges.
W. D. Fleming's home at Rockport,
in Eastern Sopiah, was destroyed by
fire last week.
The Starkville branch of the NJ. &
o. railroad was washed out near Art
esia, during the recent rains.
Corinth Lodge of Elks has elected I.
J. Schorff exalted ruler.