Rotary Club Sponsors City Clean-up Week in Lexington
The Rotary Club featured a Clean-up Campaign plan with remarks from Dr. Blackwelder on disease dangers from flies and mosquitoes. City officials and civic leaders pledged broad female organization support and urged citizens to aid in a June Clean-up Week, with Mayor J. Neilson pushing for weed and rubbish removal and budgetful cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
City
Ladies Pledge Aid
Lexington
H. L. Nichols
Blackwelder
Fhealth Department
George Beall, Jr
Edna Lowe
City Beautiful
T. Neilson
Marshall
Allan Ramsey
W. A. Rathell
B. B. Hooker
G. S
Free Band Concerts Planned By Se ton Boys Band
Morris Lewis Jr announced that the Se ton Boys Band will give free concerts every Thursday afternoon on the courthouse lawn at 6 45 until further notice Lighting facilities are to be added and a night performance is hoped for to accommodate both the band and the public Citizens of Lexington and nearby areas are invited to attend and enjoy the performances
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Lewis, Jr
Seton Boys
Court House
Mr. Lewis
Lexington
Prize Winners At Joint Music Recital In Lexington
Mrs Alice Martin Vincent and Miss Goldie Lundy presented pupils at a Lexington Theatre recital. A capacity audience heard Jamita Terry Clara Shipp Mary Harris Roberts Margaret Sheehan and Meta Moore win prizes for playing and general averages. Mrs Hardy McKie sang with Miss Katherine Yarborough accompanying. Local officials Beall Jr Edna Lowe Henri P Watson and others attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Martin Vincent
Goldie Lundy
Lexington Theatre
Lexington
Hardy McKie
Pickens
Katherine Yarborough
Felows
Miss Lundy
Jamita Terry
Clara Shipp
Mrs. Vincent
Mary Harris Roberts
Margaret Sheehan
Meta Moore
Health Unit Offers Free Typhoid Serum Dates Announced
Holmes County Health Department urges vaccination ahead of vacation season. Locations in Lexington Durant West Goodman Pickens Tehula Cruger host clinics June 18 19 and 22 with nurses and toxin antitoxin supply for immunizations including diphtheria.
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Johnny
Mary
Ole
Holmes County Health Department
Lexington
Toy
Durant
Chamber of Commerce
West
Goodman
Pickens
Tehula
Cruger
Cruger Citizen Ends Life by Drinking Acid
Edgar Veree aged 38 died in Cruger Monday after consuming carbolic acid by accident, living five minutes. He was interred at Sidon. Survived by brothers and sisters in Greenwood and Cruger, including Mesdames Stevenson Prophet Lehman Watt and J W DeFoe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Veree
Cruger
Sidon
Mesdames A. ‘T. Stevenson
Lewis Prophet
T. Lehman
J. M. Watt
Greenwood
J.W. DeFoe
Carr seeks locate 110000 volt substation near Durant
Holmes county residents track negotiations between Mississippi Power and local landowners for a 110000 volt substation near Durant. Owen A. Carr & Sons of Durant are among candidates, with Carr pushing to place the plant on his property along the S C Railroad and State Highway 51. A railroad spur would serve industrial plants, boosting local development and supplying energy to farms and homes along the Lexington route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holmes County
Mississippi Power & Light Company
Durant
Cit
Owen A. Carr & Sons
Carr
S. C. Railroad
Lexington
Mississippi Students Seek Virginia Degrees at UVa Graduation
Twelve Mississippi candidates for degrees at the University of Virginia graduation exercises on June 12. For the 1927-28 session, 37 Mississippi students are enrolled at UVa. The article notes added interest from the overall Mississippi attendance and mentions James Raiford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
University of Virginia
James Raiford
Local Boy Scouts seek funds and training support
A committee led by B F Rose A Jacobson Noel White and Dr B D Blackwelder is soliciting donations to raise about 800 dollars needed for Lexington Troop to qualify in the Sunflower River Council and access a scout executive for training lectures and program outlines. J B Nicklin Greenwood scout executive will visit Lexington to plan summer activities. Camp Tallulah near Charleston draws several local scouts for two weeks of lessons led by a council official.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Rose
A. Jacobson
Noel White
B. D. Blackwelder
Lexington
Sunflower River Council
J. B. Nicklin
Greenwood
Boy Scouts
Camp Tallulah
Charleston
Bennie Beall
R. P. Ellis, Jr
Manuel Applebaum
William Gulledge
Berthol Bernheim
Bud Moore
Robert Swittenberg
Epworth Leaguers Headed to Assembly
Mr. George Patterson Rev Ra per Miss Dennis Norquist Inez Trull Hadys Drennan and Frances Hammett depart Monday for the Epworth League Assembly at Grenada College Grenada Mississippi to represent local leagues and bring back information and inspiration for city youth organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Patterson
Mr. Raper
Dennis Norquist
Inez Trull
Hadys Drennan
Frances Hammett
Epworth League Assembly
Grenada College
Grenada
Watson to Receive Bachelor of Laws at Esteemed University
Watson son of Hon and Mrs J B Watson of this city will receive the degree of bachelor of laws after completing the prescribed course of study. The article lauds his brilliant student career and vast knowledge, promising a bright future in Ole Miss Mississippi.
Cruger Plans $8000 Bond Vote for School Improvement
Holmes county election commissioners set Friday June 29 as the vote date on issuing up to 8000 dollars in bonds for Crugar Consolidated School District to modernize the white public school building equip the annex and install a heating plant. Principal J T Garland notes the district's record year and growing educational needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Cruger
E. T. Neilson
Goldie Howell
Ed Atkinson
Holmes County
J. T. Garland
City Drug Store to Host Martha Lee Toiletries Demo
City Drug Store announces a free demonstration of Martha Lee Toiletries from Waco Texas. The beauty specialist will offer 30 minute facial treatments by appointment at a future date to be announced in this paper. The event follows a similar local demonstration and will include details in the advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Stigler
Martha Lee Toiletries
Waco
Texas
Martha Lee
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Just
Old Style Packers
Sanitary Packers
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the Fincher CO
Raineton
White’s Corner Grocery
Epworth
Mestine Stewart
Coxbury
Lexington, Mississippi
City Drug Store
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