SCHOOLS TO OPEN
A record enrollment is expected
Wednesday when Grand Bay schools
open for the fall term. D. D. Hud
gens, formerly with the vocational
training school at Pascagoula will
bo principal.
SCHOOLS ARE CROWDED
Grove II til Enrollment Grrntly Ex
ceeds That Of Last Year
GROVE HILL, Ala., Sept. .15.—(Spe
cial Leased Wire.)—Both the Clarke
County High school and the Grove
Hill grammar school are crowded to
capacity as the enrollment greatly
exceeds the attendance of the year
before. Thhigh school is housing i:<
while the grammar pupils number 128.
E. B. Calhoun is principal of the high
school, assisted by F. P. Hammond, O.
L. Edwards, Misses Kathleen Brown,
Marguerite Ayers and Irma Jones.
Miss Kling Dacy is principal of the
grammar school, assisted by Misses
Gladys Kimbrell, Clara McQueen and
Louise Owens.
Because of the overcrowded condi
tion plans are already under way for
the construction of a new high
school, which would allow the present
building to be used as a grammar
school.
DROWNED WHILE SWIMMING
Bert Williamson. residing four
miles north of this place , was
drowned In the Tombigbee river
while swimming, according to infor
mation reaching here. The drowning
took place at Demopolis. Williamson,
who was a good swimmer, is believed
to have been caught in an undertow
and sucked under a government
barge as he swam alongside. The
body was not recovered until two
days after the drowning. He leaves
a mother, Mrs. Steve Williamson and
other relatives.
JL IIOIIS ARE DRAWN
The list of Jurors for the October
term of circuit court has been drawn.
The list contains well over 160 names.
