Prize Offered for Best Essay on Illiteracy in Mississippi
A Thursday Club prize offers fifteen year old pupils in Mississippi counties a chance to win for the best essay on illiteracy. The club discussed illiteracy abolition at the Teachers Institute and outlined a countywide effort needing community and church support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missis
Teachers' Institute
Court House
Tishomingo County
Mississippi
Howard
Teachers’ Institute
Burnsville
Thanksgiving Day Mississippi Day at Providence Grove
A Mississippi Day event at Providence Grove featured locally grown and handmade items. Participants included Mrs Fannie Miller and daughter Frances, Mrs Gertrude Underwood, and Misses Maud and Minnie Murphy. Clyde Rryman supplied the best corn, Turner Murphy the finest popcorn, Frances Miller displayed a quilt block, and speeches were held in the morning and afternoon. The day ended with attendees satisfied and returning home happy.
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Mississippi
Providence Grove
Fannie Miller
Frances
Gertrude Underwood
Maud
Minnie Murphy
Gare Mississippi
Clyderryman
Turner Murphy
Frances Miller
Maup Murray
Mississippi counties released from cattle fever tick quarantine
From the offices of information of the U S Department of Agriculture we note that the following territory in Mississippi will be released from quarantine on account of the cattle fever tick December Ulth: The entire counties of Amite, Carroll, Forrest, Lee, Neshoba, Pike, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tippah, Union and Walthinall, a total area of 5814 square miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Mississippi
Amite, Carroll,Forrest, Lee
Neshoba
Pike, Sunflower
Tallahatchie
Tippah
Union and
Walthall
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Parks and Sparks
Iuka
Miss
Mme Ee Eye
J Smith
Walter Brown
Brown
Martin
C. R. Hicks
C. R. Hickshop
Mineral Springs Hotel
T. G. Riley
B. Massey
G. T .Carmichael
I. N. Reed
Jourdan’s
Bingham
Madison Ave
Memphis
Tennessee
White & CO
Louisville, KY
Jourdan
Romer Baths
L. E. King
McPeters Furniture Co
Corinth
Brug
Frult
J.B. Williams
Sylvania Woods
Clifton Mills
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