The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-21
TOWN AND COUNTY ITEMS.
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Col Hooker, candidate for Congress. adj
dr.ssed n Cair-sized audience ut the Court
House last night.
About thirty or forty colored people left
this place last week for the cotton ana
surar fields of Louisiana.
Messrs. /. w. Hickman and z. p. Jones,
Two of Lawrences representative citizens
were in town last Tuesday.
The music of the hammer and saw
keeps time to the march of Improvement
constantly manifest in our little city.
The protracted meeting at Union Hall
resulted in ten accessions to the church
-four by experience and six by letter.
DIR. J. w. Mclean, an eminent physi-
cian of Union Church, was i'll town last
week. He has two daughters ut the Col
lege.
After selling your cotton to bcst advan-
tage, step down TO Kohlman's Great Cash
House to see how cheap you can get bar
gains.
We are glad to hear that Mrs. Watts,
who has been quite i'll from typhoid fever
for some time, is now on the road to re-
covery.
Mr.. w. Y. Guess is preparing to erect
substantial new residence OH Fair River,
near his gin and mill on the Brookhaven
and Monticello road.
Our young friend John II. Johnson left
last week for New Orleans to attend the
Louisiana Medical College. John is
Young man of bright promise.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. ID. Davis have moved
into their handsome and elegantly finish
ed residence on Railroad Avenue. In
such beautiful home they should feel
n truth, settled for life.
The NJ. L. church holds "Men's prayer
meeting" every Monday night, and a
Ladies' prayer meeting" Friday evening
in addition to the regular prayer meeting
OH Wednesday evenings.
Rev. J. A. Scarborough has decided to
continue in the passionate of Union Hall
church for another year, much to the
qualification of the church and his many
admirers aDd friends in this section.
A fire at Montgomery last Thurdav
night destroyed one of the water tanks of
the Railroad, the wood yard of Mr.. Hub
bard, and two and one-half carloads of
lumber belonging to Mr.. Isaac Smith
Sr.
The Managers of the South Mississippi
Colored Fair Association have our thanks
readiness, and the Fair will open next
Tuesday morning, Goth inst, aud con
tinue days, as previously announced.
THE LEADER is indebted to Messrs.
Will Cannon, A. w. Maxwell and w. }.
Armstrong, of Monticello, for pleasant
call while on a visit to our town one day
last week. We regret to say, they do not
give an encouraging report of crop pros
poets in Lawrence.
Mr.. P. Mikas, 50 we'll known and high
ly esteemed by the people of Brook haven
and vicinity for his intelligence, enter
prise and rare social qualities, left ycster-
day for New York, where he expects for a
time at least to make his home. His
loss to our community will be regretted
by all, and the good wishes of host of
friends follow him.
The w. C. T.U.'s elegant entertainment
under the management of Mrs. Wesley
Martin, will take place tomorrow night.
An attractive miscellaneous program has
been arranged. An interesting farce is
u prominent feature of the evening.
Admission, 25 cents. Children under
twelve years of age, 10 cents. Mrs. }. ".
Bennett, door Keeper.
A eight blaze" and the lively rattle of
the fire bell alarmed the sleeping town at
the unreasonable hour of l Monday
night. A small unoccupied house on the
outskirts of town, owned by Mrs. Bule,
was reduced to ashes. Mrs. Buie desires
us to return her sincere thanks to our
gallant fremen who by their timely
efforts prevented the flames from spread
ing to her residence.
On Monday evening, Nov. 1st at the
Presby terian church, Rev. c. r. Dudley
will commence delivering series of
lectures on. the second coming of Christ.
This is subject of abiding interest to
both Jew and Gentile, and especially to
the Christian church, and every one is
cordially invited to attend. The Leo
lures will be delivered at night, thus af-
fording an opportunity for all our bust
ness men to attend
Rev. Alex Watkins, the popular young
pastor of the Methodist church at this
place, delivered a soul-stirring discourse
ON temperance ON Sunday, which was set
apart at the annual convention of the W..
C. T. U. at Philadelphia, as Temper
ance Sunday. Did all members of the
church throughout the land take their
stand as prominently as he would have
them and as duty demands, soon the evil
of deepest dye would be extirpated.
"Here is good receipt for building up
town and keeping it in fiourishing
condition: Grit. Push. Snap. Vim.
Churches. Colleges. Morality. Enter
prise. Harmony. Advertising. Cordiali-
ty. Cheap property. Healthy location
Good country tributary. Talk about it.
Sneak we'll of IL Helm to improve It,.