The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-11

Sunday.
C. b. Scarborough left last week for
Franklin county, where he goes to visit
relatives.
Miss Minnie and Miss Daisy Hoskins
left last Saturday on a visit to relatives
at Forest.
Our Young friend Edgar Harris, of the
Delta, paid flying visit TO friends here
last Sunday.
Miss Susie Powell returned last Tues
tlay evening from a vsit to friends in
Copiah county.
Miss Fruza Terry, of New Orleans, is
attending the bedside of her aunt, Mrs.
Wesley Martin.
One of the hardest rains of the season
fell here last Monday. 1t was regular
"chunk floater."
a Rev. J. A, Scarborough will preach es
pecally TO the young people at Union
Hall next Sabbath.
A pleasant time was had by all who at
tended the mite meeting Mt Mr.. Henry
Schaller's last Friday night.
There will be a mite meeting at Mr..
Denton's tomorrow night for the benefit
of the Presbyterian church.
WIN. Abshagen's $500 and S2.25 La
dies Dongola Button are handsome. Just
to hand. Don't fail to get pair.
Mr.. Irving Magee left Monday for a
visit to his brother and son at Terrell,
Texas. Bon voyage, good friend.
LewenthaPs ice-cream parlor is now
open to the public every afternoon. and
his popular soda-w water fount all the
time.
Mr.. N Eitel, who has the contract for
the erection of the public school bnildIng
at Grenada, visited his family here last
week.
Anyone wishing strawberry plants can
get all he wants free by calling at Mr.
Irving Magae's place within the next
two weeks.
Capt. W. H. Dudley, editor of the Can
ton Citizen, paid us IA flying call while in
Cameron man.
A good many of our truck men say they
will plant largely of tomatoes next year
for the canning factory and agree to sell
them for 90 cents per bnshel.
The Methodists will hold mite meet
ing and ice-cream party at Mrs. enry
Schaller's tomorrow night, A good time
is in store for all who attend.
Rev. j.. II. Lane, late of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, and a
very popular young minister, will assist
Rev. J. A. Scarborough in the protract-
ed meeting at Union Hall this year.
Miss DAISY Hoskins, our ohliging and
efficient postoffice deputy, is taking two
weeks vacation with relatives at Forest.
She hasn't lost day off of duty for two
years, aud has richly earned this short
respite.
Less than half of the Democratic vote
was polled in the primary in Brookhaven
last Tuesday. The vote for Cleveland
at these two boxes last fall was 235. The
vote of both buxes in Tuesdays primary
only %.
Sunday, July 14th, will be celebrated
as 'the children's day" at Mt. Zion
church. Every body is invited to come
and bring a basket, and a nickel for the
contribution box. Let all come and en-
JOY themselves.
The Young Folks Comedy Compan!
ale rehearsing some new plays and i'll
few weeks will favor the public with on'
oftheir best comedies, entitled, "Heroes,
with very interesting after piece, "a
cure for the fidgets."
Not more than half of the Democratic
voters of Brookhaven turned ont at TIN
primary last Tuesday, and yet some mel
complain when nominations don't sui
them and say the hoodlums are running
The politics of the country.
Postmaster V. L. Ter received a tel
egram from Washington yesterday an
nouncing his reappointment as postmas
Ter at this place. Thus the question
over which so much sleep has been los
oy divers eager applicants, is settled TO
'he next four years.
There win DO social gathering a
Judge Baggett's on Friday evening, th
l9th, for the benefit of the Baptist church
Inc young people choose to call it
iacky Party" and request each perso
70 come IN the "tacl lest" apparel poss
Oie' prize will be given for the be-
costume.
at Mr., Thad. Montgomery's in beat
last Monday night, a lamp exploded i
sne sick room where his little nephe'
inolnas Hollinshead was lying and burr
81 the little sufferer SO badly that he die
u few hours. Mrs. Montgomery wa
siSo painfully burnt about the hands an
S9ay In trying to extinguish the fame
0nt will recover.