The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-01
S0L0NS ON TOUR
 OF MISSISSIPPI
Holiday Atmosphere Prevails As Legislators Leave
 Jackson

JACKSON, Miss. Feb. 29.-(Spe- cial. IA special train left Jackson shortly after daylight this morning bearing the Mississippi legislature on a weekend tour of south Mississippi during which several institutions sup ported by the state will; be inspected.
 Confident that week of hard work entities them to an outing the law makers will combine official business with pleasure and there will be plenty of free feasting during the visiting tour of the piney woods section of the com monwealth.
 Much more than a quorum of both houses reported for the trip and there was a holiday atmosphere aboard the special train when it pulled out of the Union station over the Gulf, Ship Island road. Some of the members, however, left the capital for their homes Thursday night to give attention for the next few days to personal business mat ters.
 The lawmakers are to be entertained at McGee, Laurel, Hattiesburg, Ellis vile, Gulfport, Biloxi and Columbia during the trip and the institutions to be visited are the tuberculosis sani- tarium, the South Mississippi Charity hospital, the Colony for the Feeble Minded, the State College for Teachers, the Confederate home at Beauvoir and state aid hospitals along the coast and the Boys Industrial school. Unless the special train schedule goes awry the party will return to Jackson Sunday night about o'clock. @
 Governor Whitfield, Lieutenant Governor Murphree and several state officials, together with employees of house and senate, even unto the pages and porters, accompanied the legisla- tors.
 Lumber Firm Sold
 Purchase of the Central Lumber com pany of Jackson by Hugh White, promi- rent lumberman of Columbia, was com pleted here today and company will be Capitalized at $100,000 and will be known as the White Central Lumber company. The Central Lumber com pany, capitalized at $40,000, was a re- tail and wholesale firm. T. K. Currie, former owner, will remain as manager. The business will be enlarged in every respect and will be supplied by the four White sawmills of south Mississippi.
 FavOrs Veterans
 Adjutant General Curtis Green an nounces as one of the new policies of his department that only ex-service men will be employed for clerical work in the sffice. Il feel this is simple duty to the ex-service men," says General Green, land it is an easy matter to find men who are fully qualified for the work"
 Officers Return
 Officials of the southern district re- turned Thursday and Thursday night from Biloxi, where they have been at tending federal court for that division.
 Tree Kills Child
 W. J. Blount of Copiah county, who has homesteaded tract of land to make his home, was felling a tree on his farm yesterday when his little 2-year-old son got into the path of the falling tree and was instantly killed.
 HATTIESBURG, Miss, Feb. 29.- Amid the shrieking of whistles and ringing of bells the special Gulf and Ship Island train bearing members of the Mississippi legislature arrived this afternoon at o'clock from Laurel over the Southern railroad and was met by delegation of the civic clubs and the State College for Teachers formerly the State Normal college.