Officer Metts badly hurt in pursuit of suspected whiskey car
Officer Tom Metts and Sheriff J Hartsfield chased a suspected whiskey car about nine o clock Thursday night two miles north of town. Metts was knocked down and run over by the fleeing vehicle after firing five shots as the car sped away. He is reported to be recovering but not able to sit up. Byron Shipp and Ed Howry were later arrested on assault and battery with intent to murder charges. bonds set at 750 dollars each. The trial was scheduled for the following Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Metts
Hartsfield
Metts
Messrs
Huggins
Hugh Wiley
Byron Shipp
Ed Howry
Mile
Agricultural High School Commencement Next Week
The Lafayette County Agricultural High School will hold its commencement exercises next Sunday April 17. Rev. W. D. Holder of Holly Springs will preach the commencement sermon. The graduating class combines 28 young men and women. Dr. Murphy of the State University will deliver the commencement address.
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Lafayette County Agricultural High School
W. D. Holder
Holly Springs
Murphy
The
State University
Office Closed Next Week for Mississippi Dental Association Meeting
The office will be closed next week until Friday while Dr. J. E. Hargis attends the meeting of the Mississippi Dental Association in Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Mississippi Dental Association
J. E. Hargis
Lafayette Springs Consolidated School Commencement Honors
The Lafayette Springs Consolidated School held commencement exercises with ten Grammar School graduates: Velma Walker Annie Rea Clarence Russell Herman Foust Van Stewart Orman Clements Dyle Smith Claudie Jackson Duke Jackson and Ellen Samuels. High School graduates were Alta Foust and Guy Lancaster. Dr Murphy of the University of Mississippi delivered the address. Prof. E S Samuels presided as principal, but will not seek re election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette Springs
Hardeman
Henderson
Tenn
Murphy
University of Mississippi
Velma Walker
Annie Rea
Clarence Russell
Herman Foust
van Stewart
Orman Clements
Dyle Smith
Claudie Jackson
Duke Jackson
Ellen Samuels
Alta Foust
Guy Lancaster
E. S. Samuels
Samuels
Cornish
Edna Grisham
Murlonusk
Ora Hodge
Center Hill
Nona Singleton
Nannie Wolf
Lottye Fudge
Woodleigh
Elizabeth Mitchell
Rebecca Smith
Lola Butler
Mary Butley Paris
Ora Harvey
Gayton Wilson
Living Malone
Cain
Clida Mae Cain
New Hope
Birdie Perkins
Vardaman Perkins
Indian Mound
Bessie Gean
Lillian Meggs
Lillie Purvis
Abbeville
Willian Livingston
Carolyn Lewis
Walker Downs
Clifton Roy
Dorothy Gillespie
Myrtle Mansell
Elizabeth Wimbush
Good Roads Convention Weekend in Greensboro Planned
Greensboro hosts the U S Good Roads Show and joint meetings of the Good Roads Association and Bankhead National Highway Association April 18 23 with delegates from every state and reduced rail rates. The program features addresses by Gov Cameron Morrison Sen Heflin Gov Brough and other officials, plus committee appointments and discussions on interstate road needs and road system development.
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Greensboro
N. C
Bankhead National Highway Association
U. S. Good Roads Show
United States
Union
Monay
Farmers’ Warehouse
Bellemeade and
N. Greene Streets
U. S
R. Murphy Williams
A.L. Brooks
North Carolina
Cameron Morrison
Bennehan Cameron
Chas. H. Brough
United States Good Roads Association
J. Clyde Turner
U. S. Good Roads Association
J. A. Rountree
J. Thos. Heflin
Alabama
Good
Missouri
Lee F. Overman
W. F. Pollard
Lafayette County Field Meet Concludes With Rain Affected Events
The Lafayette County annual field meet in Oxford closed after rain hindered events. Highlights include 117 8th grade graduates, Declamation winners Winfred Mooney and Cleveland Peacock, and a county basketball final won by Lafayette Springs Consolidated School 19 to 10.
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Oxford
Lyric Theatre
America
Winfred Mooney
Ted
Cleveland Peacock
Forrest Hill
Kentucky
Lucy May Black
Denmark
Uncle Joe
Emily Taylor
Taylor School
L. M. Lipscomb
Prof. Murphey
R. W. Rogers
Agricultural High School
Harold Erreerr
Ters
Cs Lock
Burgess
Forrest
Eugene Dewease
Bedenbaugh
Miss Shands
Saunders
Burgess School
Myrtle Mansel
Abbeville School
Henry Hartsfield
Kingdom School
Hale
Susie Evans
Cleveland Sparks
Altus School
C. Weeks
Taylor High School
Lafayette Springs Consolidated School
Parent Teachers Social at School Auditorium
The Parent Teachers Association invites all members and Playground Fund contributors to an informal social in the school auditorium Friday from eight to ten. Come and get acquainted.
Oxford Engineer Leads Jefferson County Road Gangs
Hubert McElroy an engineer for the state highway department arrived in Jackson from Jefferson county where he had directed road gangs constructing 36 miles of gravel highway from the Copiah line to the Adams county line. Jefferson county values road building at about 300000 dollars.
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Hubert §. McElroy
Oxford
State Highway Department
Jackson
Jefferson County
Copiah Line
Adams County
Jefferson ‘County
Clarion-Ledger
Choctaw Mien Visit Oxford To View Farm Bureau Efforts
A twelve member Choctaw county delegation led by J K R Bradshaw visited Oxford to study Lafayette County Farm Bureau practices. They toured C N Baird’s Woodson Ridge farm and heard talks by Farm Bureau leaders at Bank of Oxford. The visitors left determined to organize a Choctaw County Farm Bureau on return.
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J. KR. Bradshay
Choctaw County
Board of Supervisors
That County
Farm Bureau
Lafayette County Farm Bureau
I. R. Bradshaw
B. L. Collier
W. G Thompson
H. B. Pierce
D. H. Bradberry
J. D. Fulcher
Farmers Co-operative Shippers Association
A. E. Fox
C. R B. Bright
First National Bank
H. O. Fancher
Peoples Bank
W. B. Ray
Woodson Ridge
Baird
Oxford
Bank of Oxford
Hedleston
Turner
Auto Train Collision Kills 16 Year Old in Belleville
In Hattiesburg Mississippi on April 7 Willard Loveland 16 died when a Gulf Mobile and Northern train struck an automobile carrying him, his mother Mrs C A Loveland and younger brother Randall 3 who were seriously injured. Another son 12 escaped injury by jumping free. The bodies and injured were brought to Hattiesburg.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Willard Loveland
C. A. Loveland
Randall
Gulf, Mobile & Northern
Belleville
Cream Vermifuge Advertisement for Worms
An 19th century ad promises White's Cream Vermifuge will cure worms in children. It claims pale sickly looks and peevish behavior will improve after a dose or two. Price 35 cents. Sold by A. H. Kendel.
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A. H. Kendel
Adv
Fire damages county jail. inmates contained at dawn
Fire discovered in an upstairs room of the county jail around 1 am Sunday. Jailor Ike Patterson did not report it, but alerted Sheriff Hartsfield and, with aid from Mr. Van Hiler, extinguished the blaze between the wall and ceiling on the south end. Water from the hose damaged lower south rooms. three prisoners remained under supervision and none escaped.
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Ike Patterson
Hartsfield
van Hiler
Bigerstaff
Patterson
Poultry Culling Program Announced for May
A Home Demonstration Agent will lead May poultry culling instruction. Farmers should notify by May 1 if they want their flocks culled, and prepare hens for handling when the agent visits.
In Memoriam Lillie J Gamble Two Years On
In sad remembrance of Lillie J Gamble who departed this life April 13 1921 A precious one from us has gone A voice we loved is stilled A place is vacant in our home She is not dead but like the roe She blossoms on the other side Heaven’s jewel crown Bright in Heaven she will shine forevermore R G Gamble and Children
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie J. Gamble
R. G. Gamble and Children
Lafayette County Agricultural High School Holds Spring Commencement
The eighth session closing exercises run Friday April 15 to Wednesday April 20 with a music recital, a Miss Cherry Blossom operetta, and It Pays to Advertise. Dr Murphey delivers the annual address April 20. Prof Bush and wife praised for building one of north Mississippi’s best schools. twenty eight graduates to receive diplomas.
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Lafayette County Agricultural High School
J. H. Holder
Murphey
Labor Is the Only Prayer That Is Truly Answered
A compact reflection on labor as the sole force that yields outcomes, suggesting work and collective effort as the path to fulfillment and change. Placed in a historical or editorial voice, it frames labor as essential and determinative.
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Mit
U. 5
Lee M. Russell
J. H. Earnhardt
T. W. Bickett
U. S. Good Roads Ass’n
Thos. W. Hardwick
Georgia
A. G. Batchelder
Washington, D. C
Lafayette County
Laws
Peaschelles
Lucy Mae
Threlkeld
Lafayette
Springs
Lohr Agricultural High School
M. P. Bush
Moody Downs
May Arnold
Cornish School
Brown
Jimmie Brown
Edith Harris
Abbeiville
Inez Briscoe
Massie
Opal Royal
Vera Royal
Bertha Moore
Lillie May Waller
Dorothy Shipp
Harold Lee Lock
Mary Louise Lock
Young Waller
Thomas Dudley Isom
Edward Briscoe
Gladys Waller
Raiford Landreth
Mattie Horne
Alton Horne
Frank Jones
Cathey M. Isom
Piera
Arthur Rials
Artie Rials
Lottie Riales
Livia DeShazo
Howard Newton
Josie Lee Maples
Della Mae
Free Springs
Grace Huston
Lowell Howell
Ezra Cook
Rubye Huston
Naomi Bedenbaugh
Lida Shepherd
New York
Mattie _Lou Carwile
Assar Keel
Live Oak
Maude Brown
Pearltown
Cordge West
Union Grove
Oza May Thweatt
Vardaman Tarver
Ethel Thweatt
Ollie Thweatt
Elbern McGonagill
Ernest Thweatt
Clara McGonagill
Pine Flat
Evie White
Durango
Myrtie Pruitt
Kingdom
Mabel Franklin
Lawmee Fraziey
Spring Hill
Mary Card
Ruby Ons
Parent Teachers’ Social
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