The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-22
ToWy AND COUNTY ITEMS,

Sim Roberts is again on the commons
Look ont
The Canning factory has temporarily
shut down.
Ar Vim. Abshagen has one of the hand
.,,,est turnouts in town.
Hon. ". P. Cassidy. of Summit, was
n town Tuesday evening.
The Confederate Reunion promises to
mark day OF unusual enjoyment.
Miss Fannie Larkin and Mrs. Bridges
ara attending camp meeting at China
Grove.
.Johnny Reb" aud BILLY Yank" will
.,ake hands across the bloodly chasm on
the 29th.
Rev. X. J. Booue is assisting Bro. Lo-
max this week in u protracted meeting at
Little Babala.
Miss Julia Cunning, SUBMITS popu-
lar operater, visited her mother here
Sunday evening.
All of our merchants will close their
stores on next Thursday, the day of the
soldiers reunion.
Miss Bette Hardy is visiting friends in
Brookhaven this week preparatory to re-
turning to New Orleans.
Our brass band, led by Will Penn, jr.,
and the Bogue Chitto baud have been en-
gagged for the reunion on the ssth.
Mr.. R. b. May, editor of the sIississip-
nj Enterprise, was in town on business
connected with his paper last Thursday.
Blue Mountain stands among the lead
ing female colleges of the South. Don't
fail tonotice their card in another column
Mr.. and Mrs C. S. Butterfeld have re-
turned from their bridal tour looking the
very picture of health and happiness.
President Fitzhugh returned from
south Louisiana last Friday. The pros
pects for Whtworth are decidedly bright.
Mrs. Ed. scballer left Monday night on
visit to Bastrop, La. We wish Mrs. s.
pleasant visit after hGr recent trying
illness.
Miss Mary aud Lottie Fox, of Brook
haven, are visiting friends in our town,
and are the guests of Mrs. Waring Lib
-rty Herald.
Capt Geo. s. Lacey, the saw mill king
of Bogue Chitto, and Miss Grace Osborn,
popular young lady of that town, were
here Tuesday evening.
Rev. W. c. Friley, who has been en-
gagged in protraeted meeting at McComb
City, spent last Monday in town, the
guest of Mr.. Gambrell.
Miss Anna McCloud, an alumna OF
Whitworth College, is now boarding at
Mrs. Strickland's and learning book
keeping under Prof. Ricketts,.
The Woman's Missionary Society ofths
Baptist church will hold public meeting
'on Monday evening, September 9Th, at 4
o'clock at the Baptist church.
Miss Annie Fitzgerald returned to her
home in Jackson last Saturday evening,
after delightful visit to Miss Mary Con-
nelly, one of our incest young ladies'.
Misses Annie Heuck, Maggie Deu-
chart and Blanche Magee report having
had aniee time>on their recent flying
visit to the Mississippi Mills at Wesson.
We venture to say Brookhaven has
more goods singers than any town in the
State, and the way the Brass Band echoes
over hill and dale every night portends
something in the future.
Rev. J. II. Lane, of the Louisville Theo-
logical Seminary, and C. NJ. Morris, of
Mississippi College, took the train for
Magnolia last Friday evening after a
weeks preaching at Union Hail.
The congregational meeting in the
Presbyterian church after service next
Sunday morning will be moderated by
Rev. w. b. Bingham, of Hazlehurst.
Mr.. Bingham will preach morning and
evening of that day.
Norman Craig left last Sunday evening
for months visit to his old home IN
Manchester, Iowa. About the 1st of
October he expects to enter school at
Fayette, Iowa. Norman is bright boy
and we wish him success.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will give an entertainment on
september 9th. A universally gifted
and popular speaker has been secured
TOT tho occasion and the public may ,ex-
peet something of interest.
A mispriut slipped into the advertise
ment of Whitworth College last week
saying the next session would begin Sept.
s'n' 1t should have been Sept. 18th. In
THIS connection we are glad to announce
mat the prospects of fine opening are
very bright.
Farmer Lewis II. White has been elect
ed delegate to represent the Lincoln
county Alliance in the State Alliance
which meets in jackson next We'd
"esday. He is one of our best.
most successful and progressive farmers,
anu betterselection could not have been
made.
nro ID. M. Huff of the Magnolia Ga
N0''e, who publishes one of the best
tOun'fy papers in the State, paid our
'own a lying visit last Thursday after
uooh' We were glad to learn from him