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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1922
Page
6
The Railroad Labor Board orders new wage reductions totaling 135 million, effective July 1, affecting 1.2 million clerks signalmen stationary firemen and other rail employees. Clerks and station workers face 2 to 6 cent hourly cuts with a July 1 start
Advertising copy claims Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills ease suffering from headache neuralgia backache toothache and sciatica without bad after effects. It notes over thirty five years of use and urges readers to ask their druggist for relief.
Delta Laboratory researchers B. R. Coad and G. A. Maloney report a larger than normal overwintered boll weevil population across cotton states. They warn that early, aggressive calcium arsenate poisoning will be needed as heavy infestations threaten rapid square destruction and earlier migration to treated fields, with higher per acre costs but greater potential profits when managed.
Washington says Congress will take no final action this session on bills approving the Ford offer for the Muscle Shoals nitrate and power project in Alabama. Administration leaders plan to pass only the $7.5 million Army appropriation to finish Dam No. 2 and stop, with the Senate already having approved the appropriation.
Willie Dundren 12 an employee at a potato packing plant was instantly killed and foreman Bill Hardy was probably fatally injured when Louisville and Nashville passenger train No 4 split a switch at Hilberta Alabama. Several train crew members were slightly injured and George Carter a black fireman was seriously scalded.
Hazard Kentucky Easel Pass, 16, is under arrest for killing her father John Pass, 56, after he reprimanded her for affection toward a local young mother. She fired one shot from an automatic pistol, the bullet penetrating the brain.
A mysterious figure known as Leopold perished in the New York slums after living in poverty. Police report 35,000 dollars concealed in his shack, details unclear.
President Harding has sent to the Senate the names of appointees to registrarships in nine land offices. Included are George J. Beiley of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Wm. O. Ligon of Jackson, Mississippi.
A coroner jury in Jacksonville, Florida, finds justifiable homicide after John Sadler surrendered following the shooting of David T. Bell Jr. The verdict supports Sadler's claimed defensive action.
Notice invites all to a picnic at Ed Clarke Spring four miles north of Oxford on July 4. Attendees are asked to bring a well filled basket, with J. H. Lassiter noted as the contact.
An advertisement offers an unlimited scholarship for Macon andrews Business Colleges in Memphis. Apply to the Oxford Eagle for details and submission.
Sunday afternoon shower pleased residents. Cleo Reaves visited friends at College Hill Sunday evening. Miss Mary Reaves, a College Hill normal student, spent weekend with family with friend Miss Eunice Ford. Mrs. B. M. Reaves is back on her feet.
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