Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-23
Mississippi
EVENTS
Principal Happenings
Over the State Told
in Short Paragraphs

The highest honor that Webb school
at Bell Buckle has to bestow upon
her graduates has just been handed
10 Andrew FAINT, a Macon boy. This
IL being elected one Of the four who
ARE to deliver the final debate at the
close Of the school. The two Joclet-
ies OF the institution, the Platonic
and the Hamilton, each year choose
two from among their number to this
position and in so doing confer upon
these the highest honor and praise
chat It is the schools give, for the
Requirments are that the debaters be
students who have made q splendid
record throughout their time at Webb.
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Modern sciences solved the prob
Sem in the Trimcane community. The
weather and the impossible condi-
ton OF the public roads made it i'm
possible for the trustees OF the Bell
school-house to assemble at any
given place Each trustee was in-
0tructed to stand at his telephone
Auu Wy ILLS AiOduS puoAhOo0 "a AAn7
portance and the election of a school
teacher was transacted.
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The citizens along the lines of the
Delta Southern and the Webb branch
and from Greenwood held meeting
with the attorney and receiver of
c. & G. railroad and the railroad
commissioners at Schlater with ref
erence to deyising some means OF
operating the Webb branch, which is
TO be sold as junk some time in
May according to an order Of the
court.
The farmers in the vicinity Of
Winona are planting number of acres
IN cabbage under the direction of
County Agent Mengee. He has re-
ceived about 100000 plants for distri-
button. Other shipments will come in
3a.er and when all have been set, be-
tween 20 and 80 acres will be in cab
bage, thus enabling the growers to
ship in car lots.
In order to raise funds for the
general fund of the Biloxi City Hos
pital, the Women's Auxiliary of that
institution has decided upon some
thing never held in Biloxi before.
An elaborate style show, accompanied
7 by musical program with the best
local talent, will be given on the
night of March "a.
Trial of the antitrust suit Of the
State OF Mississippi against the
Mobile & Ohio, the Southern and
other railways, which has been going
on for nearly three weeks in the
chancery court of Lauderdale county,
mas been adjusted by Chancellor
George C. Tam, to be resumed on
three weeks notice to the litigants.
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More than 300 of the best farmers
OF AHa1a County at a meeting at
Kosciusco, recently, voted a standard
tor cotton acreage in that county
CHS year. The farmers agreed to
plant from five to seven acres of cot
ten per mule after having granted
food and feed crops full acreage.
Owners OF the Meridian Chair and
Furniture Company and the Rogers
Candy Company, whose buildings
were destroyed by. fire recently at
Meridian, have announced that they
will rebuild. It is said that these
two concerns sustained total loss
of over 100000 by the fire.
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Mr.. Allen w. Stone of Washington,
D, C. recently visited Marks working
with R. w. Mckee, county demon
stration agent, with view of placing
some Of tie government supply of
micric. acid with the planters of Quit
man county.
J. s. Davis, town clerk Of Waynes-
hOro, announces that he has a new set
Of registration books, and is now ready
to begin a new registration OF the
ECteFs Of the town. In order to vote
IN the town elections it will be necces-
nary to register in the new books.
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A mothers and daughters banquet !
was celebrated on the evening Of |
March II. by the older Girls Hi-Y |
Glab Of Blue Mountain High School,
.Which is one Of the large. and active
units OF this order in this section
u the state.
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The antitrust case against the fire
insurance companies, which was
appealed to the supreme court from
Chancellor Stricker's decision, has
been set for hearing on June IA next,
NJ Jackson.
J. l. Hebron, whose fine pecan.
groves are near Leland. has shipped
q, 900 pounds OF the luscious nuts dur
ing the year 1921. His groves include
200 trees. but only one hundred trees
lre bearing the Others being too young.
The Baptist Church Of Standing
Pine has called DR.. A. M. Barnett to
.erVe this year as its pastor DR.. Bar
naff A. well known throughout the