Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-05-02

The customers frequenting Watson &
COS. drug store with their nightly pre-. |
scriptons of DR.. w. A. Hodges and
o,her physicians of reputation and abil>
lty, should rattle the door of Watson g.
hughes brick instead of the drug store
door as before.
Mise Sammy Campbell Witty of Lodi,
Miss, 10 visiting Iuka for her heath,
and Is stopping with her uncle. P. Reid,
of this place.
1t looks as If we were to have a new post
master at this place. Mr.. Il. c. Carter re.
ceived his commission on Tuesday evenings
mail. Mr.. Carter is Republican, native,
we believe. of Alabama, but Tor the last two
or three yeals has been living in Iuka.
Mr.. Shockley and others have gone
into the windsmill bus.pess, il one mus
judge from the samples erected in the
pupllc square. One of them runs two
limber-jacks, and now the question is a
mooted one whether or rot they shall
make mill to run the water from the
springs to the square.
Root. Mcmahon has returned to Iuka
to spend a few weeks with his many
friends here. Robt. is a genial, whole
souled young man, and it 1t was not
that we know of his pronounced bach
elorhood, we should think that there
were other attractions III Iuka more
fascinating for h,m than the fresh air
and pure water.
Good advice. to subscribers: Pay your
! subscriptions promptly and stick to
your local paper first, last and all the
time, A man who will not help sustain
his local paper is fraud and hnmbug
or utterly devoid OF public sp,it. This
is putting it strongly. but it is hittng
mighty close to the truth.
The county boarding house is getting
very popular. The proprietor, q. H.
Woodall, reports that he has two thirty
day boarders, and in August he will!
haye twelve more. At present there
are only two county prisoners in Jail,
both negroes. The United States Court
furnishes the jail with the most of its
prisoners.
John p. Park, our old-time friend and
printer, stopped at our Office on Mon
day. on his way to Memphis. He told
US he was employed by the railroads in
| counting cross-ties, but that .he wages
was not sufficient to maintain HIM, and
intended to resign The old gentleman
looked haggard and worn. Old age is
creeping on him, and not many years
will eispse ere he will go to that home
whore travelling is unknown.
| Eli Honey, former citizen OF this
county. who now lives in Arkansas, is
on visit to his old friends in this sec
ton. He was one Of, our most popular
and thrifty citizens. Tie has been to
the Oklahoma country, and says the
scenes there rival anything ever wit
messed in any country. Indriving over
the country he found an armed mau on
every quarter-section of land.
| A newspaper in Ohio recently brought
| suit against f0rty-three men who would not
pay their subscriptions, and obtained judg-
ment in each case for The amount OF each
claim. Of these twenty-eight Hade affidavit
that they owned no more than the law al
| lowed. thus preventing alta chment. Then
| under the decision of the Supreme Court,
they were arrested for petty larceny and
bound over in the sum of S 800 each. All
but six gave bond while six went to Jail
The new postal law! makes 1t arceny 10
take paper and refuse to pay for it.--Toledo
Blade.