Piney Woods School Commencement Draws Large Crowds
The fifth annual Piney Wood Country Life School commencement attracted a vast audience. Prof Laurence Jones and staff led a program featuring speeches by notable educators and journalists, student-made crafts, and demonstrations of brick and wagon construction. The school, founded in 1909 under a cedar tree, now spans 1500 acres with 17 faculty and multiple trades, located in Rankin County near Brandon on the Gulf & Ship Island railway.
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Piney Wood Country Life School
Laurence Jones
Jones
Frederick Sullens
Jackson Daily News
Col
Henry
The
Clarion Ledger
Pat Henry
Brandon
James Madison Stifler
First Baptist Church
Evanston
Ill
William F. Shirley
C. W. Winn
Brandon News
T. R. Polk
Monroe McLaurin
Iiwe
Piney Woods School
Rankin County
Jackson
Gulf & Ship Island
Ty Prof. Jones
Beccalatreate Sermon and Civic Event Schedule
The schedule lists events including a 7 00 P ristian Endeavor meeting and various organizations meetings, an inspection, senior class day on Tuesday May 16 with class day exercises at 2 00 P M and an oratorical contest at 1 30 M, commencement day at 12 30 and an Alumni Banquet at 7 30 P M May 17.
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Beccalatreate
Pristian Endeavor
Renort Sicus
Enmey
Wee
Senilar
Appearance of street improved by cleanup efforts
The town cut grass and weeds along walks and cleaned culverts and sewers, removing paper and rubbish. The note urges further small-cost improvements to make the city clear and beautiful, urging action and noting local activity and optimism. It also discusses nitrate use, farm hog production in Rankin County, and potential county income from breeding sows and market hogs, highlighting forage, feed, and regional demand.
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County Avents
Rankin County
Mississippi
Keers
Card of Thanks to Mr G A Harrison for Medal
Katherine Bible sends thanks for the nice medal and for the interest shown by friends. The note expresses appreciation from the writer to Mr G A Harrison and others who supported her.
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G. A. Harrison
Katherine Bible
Berlin Demonstrators Rally for United Front Against Capitalism
In response to appeals by three political labor internationals, 40,000 workers in Berlin and other European cities gathered outside the old Royal Palace in the Lustgarten to hear leaders speak for a united front against capitalism and for recognition of Soviet Russia. In the foreground the Soviet Russia banner bears the hammer and sickle.
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Berlin
Germany
Russia
Lustgarten
Soviet Russia
City News Roundup From Brandon Mississippi
City notes from Brandon detail Mrs Sam McRae of Jackson traveling to Colorado for health, Miss Emma Buchanan hosting Rock Club games with spring blossoms, and a long list of local residents visiting, teaching, or returning home. Reports cover concerts, commencements, church services, clinics for tonsils and adenoids, and community events with regional schools, colleges, and nearby towns referenced.
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Colorado
Sam McRae
Jackson
Emma Buchanan
Mesdames L. H. Wilson
G. A. Harrison
L. ?. Suber
J. T. Berry
S. L. McLaurin
B. Jackson, Jr
Schooler
J. C. White
Dr. Foulks
Amite
Tesse
Verna Owens
Trix Maxer
Annie Robinson
Josephine Geche
Health clinic to survey county children May 29
The Surgical clinic at the Agricultural High School serves Rankin County, with Drs Watson Russell and Jones operating on several children for removal of diseased tonsils and adenoids. If enough are registered by Thursday May 29, the unit will stay. the program runs through June with exams, vaccinations, and clinics aided by Mr. St John.
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Court House
Olive Watson
Jackson Sanitarium
Walter Harp
John Overstreet
Clarksburg School
Mize
R. B. Steen
Tillman
Scho
Forest
E.K. Jones, Jr
Clinton
Daisy Phillips
I. C. Brown
Fannin
Mr. Brown
R. F. Brown
Maude Washburn
Meridian
Florence Gay
Tom Gay
Will Till
J. S
Mercred
Jackson
Robert Gilbert
Emma Gray
A. H. Oo
B. Posey
DY Pevey
Botter
Rankin County Ric Service
Agricultural High School
Coun
Avil
Watson
Russell
Jones
Truelove
Criss
Lloyd
St. John
A.H.S
Revival call on parental duty at public dances
A reader letter from Emporia denounces a public dance where several 16 year old girls danced with much older men. The piece condemns neglectful parenting, warns of social costs and rising crime, and urges guardianship to prevent undermining youth and town morals. The author likens parental laziness to hell.
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Emporis
Brandon School Ends Term With Commencement Exercises
Brandon’s school term closes after months of diligent study. Dr J Reese Linn addresses graduates Joseph Barnes Merle Lindsey Grave Dobson and Lucile Gray as Maj Pat Henry recalls Civil War era. Faculty re elected with Miss Josephine Cowie added. Knox Broom to teach summer normals. Emma Buchanan to Normal at Knoxville. others to Tulane and a trip to Cuba afterward.
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Brandon
Cone
J. Reese Linn
Selemiae
Joseph Barnes
Merle Lindsey
Grave Dobson
Lucile Gray
Pat Henry
Rankin County
Josephie Cowie
Knox Broom
Emma Buchanan
Knoxville
Tena
Balanc
Tulane
New Orleans
Cuba
Red Cross Raise Aid for Flood Victims in Mississippi Valley
Harry L. Hopkins announced a prompt response to a five million dollar appeal to aid 75 000 flood victims in the Mississippi Valley. Local Red Cross chapters report growing donations nationwide with funds directed to relief work in camps near the flooded areas. Special committees supervise distribution of tents blankets clothing and fuel while food for refugees and livestock runs short. Thousands endured near starvation upon arrival at Red Cross camps, prompting urgent further contributions.
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Mississippi Valley
Harry L. Hopkins
Monet
American Red Cross
Saturn
Red Cross
Joseph C. Logan
Belle Pike
Mississippi
Luisians
Kei
Emporia As. Gazette
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Piney Woods
E Will
Rankin County Bank
McLaurin
W. H. Barnes
Roy L. Fox
Cashier
Europe
City News 1
Miriam Shields
A. M. Shields
Belhaven College
Irene Hutchinson
Houlka
Blanche Melvin
Shuqualak
Bertha Pope
Brandon High School
Delta
Mendenhall
Miss
Tulane Normal
Susie May Barnes
Whitworth College
Brookhaven
Ed Lee Martin
Indianola
Presbyterian Church
Miss Breland
Lakesville
Jeanie Sims
Claries
Ledgeroy
Jhanita Cunningham
Brandon High
Canton
J. T. Gray
Emma
Pelahatchie
Dr. McWhorter
Burns, Smith Co
J. D. MeWhorter
C. J. Foulks
Amite, la
Serintha McCaskill
Margaret Foulks
Mrs. J. Foulks
Jesse Owens
Belton
Cites
Robert Burns
Col. Burns
Atten
Robert
Burns
Edwards
Episcopal Church
Zada Gray
Newton, Miss
E. A. Gray
Jenison Hall
Reese Lin
Millsap College
Jackson Miss
Me Eleas
Piscissions Press Association
Mississippi A. M., College
Starkville
Edgar G. Harris
Laurel
Bessie Donnell
Bessie Hughes
P.W. Huey
Monroe
Peter Oleson
United States
Minnsota
Geneva
Dickie Oleson
Pelahatchie Post
Taylor-Tanner Post American Legion
Post Carrees
Paul Purvis
Post
Sheely Hotel
Preesent
Elasgy
M. EB
C. E. Harris
Charlotte Emily
Harris
Emma Bell
Fanner
Tom Shots
Tom, Jr
Teras
Joe Spann
Val Sessions
Vesta May
Conservatory of Music
Cincinnati
E. E. Pe
W. D. Ragand
K. M. Broom
Atlanta
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Beall
Ars
City
Kansas
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