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Local Students Will Compete in Regional Literary Examinations
The Lexington High School will send a full delegation of student representatives to the literary contests of the Big Black Region to be held in Durant Saturday, March .28, according to announcemade today by Mrs. Effie Swittenberg, principal of the Lexington school. In the list of students selected for tests in the various examinations, the following will enter: Physics, Bennie Beall; Typing, Mary Ella Farmer; Ancient History, Alice Byrd; Modern History, Lucille Johnson; American History, Raford Herbert; Current History, William Gulledge: English Literature, Gladys Tate; American Literrature, Elma Heffner; Grammar, Louise Jordan: Composition, Lucille Gulledge; First Year Algebra, Juanita Terry; Second Year Algebra, Edrie Stewart; Geometry, Kerl Trull. The dates for the tennis matches will also be played this year. Selection of representatives, both boys and girls, in the divisions of singles and doubles, will find Lexington represented, stated Mrs. Swittenberg. Relative to the field and track meet of the Big Black Region that will be held in Durant, Saturday, April 4, Coach L. R. Thompson states that several entrants will be made from the various boys who are now out for track. Among them James Henley, Robert White, Ernest Huffstatler, Clarence Holloman, Dick Barrett and Herman Flowers. the officials of the Merchants and Farmers Bank and Trust Co., that they would agree to work for fifty percent of their former salarise and Morris Lewis, president would give his service as president without renumeration until the period outlined ended. Cards were passed out to depositors and the willingness to cooperate was pronounced as hundreds swarmed to the center desk and handed in the signed agreements. As soon as all cards are received the Merchants and Farmers Bank and Trust Co. will re-open and assume its place in the community where it has served for over twenty-six years as one of the leading financial institutions of Holmes county. Definite announcements of re-opening can not be made until the cards are all signed and placed in the hands of the department. This is expected to be soon and from present indications will be accomplished within a short time. Depositor's meetings were held at Goodman for the Commercial State Bank Wednesday afternoon, also by depositors of the Bank of West. They were largely attended and indications point to re-opening of these two banks at any early date. Both were identified with the Merchants and Farmers Bank and Trust Co. and have remained closed since the bank here suspended business.
