The Brookhaven leader., 1891-07-09
GOWN AND COUNTY ITEMS,

"The Fourth" was GLORIOUS" to many
on last Saturday.
Last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
ave us some odd July weather.
Read the big adj. of the entertainment
ut Heuck's Hall tomorrow night.
All candidates who mean business should
ulace their announcements in the LEADER.
Mrs. Sebastian returned to her home in
Tennessee last Thursday accompanied by
Miss Jessie McNair.
Misses Ida Sternberger and Miss Fra
racomo have been guests of Misses Lew
cnthal and Cantoni.
The Moak's Creek Alliance will give
basket dinner next Saturday week, at
which there will be public speaking.
There will be service in the Presbyte-
rian church tomorrow (Friday) night,
preparatory to communion next Sabbath.
The W. C. +. L. will meet tomorrow
afternoon at ) O'Clock at the Methodist
church. Members WiH please bear this in
mind.
Miss Mary Denton is spending the sum-
mcr among friends and relatives IN Iowa
and Illinois. She is greatly missed by
her many friends here.
A miniature cyclone tore off the top of
pine tree and broke down several panels
of fencing in Prof Ricketts, neigbbor-
hood last Monday morning
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. d. Davis, with their
handsome little sou, left for Canada this
week to be absent until September. May
they enjoy a delightful summer cover the
line"
Miss Mary Lomax, daughter of Pastor
Lomax, returned from Blue Mountain
College wearing the gold medal for the
best kept room during the scholastic
term.
Miss Fannie LarKin and mother of
Brookhavcn are visiting Mrs. DR.. Bishop.
Miss Fannie will manipulate the organ at
the S. S. observation-disclosures County
IrcSS.
Most of the reading space on the inside
pages of today's LEADER Is devoted to
one subject, but it is an interesting and
important one to our county readers,
hence no apology is necessary.
Judge G. S. Mcmillan, who has filled
the Office of Justice of the Peace in this
district for the past four years with de-
cided acceptability to the people, an
nounces for reelection in this issue of the
LEADER.
The. county Alliance met last Friday
and was in session all day. Twenty-One
Sub-Allances were represented. The
business of the meeting was unfinished
and the body adjourned TO meet again
next Monday.
Our old friend Alex Davis of Little Ba-
hala, paid us a call last Monday and ex
hbited full grown cotton boil. He says
he saw his first bloom June 18th, and
that he has 30 acres now blooming and
truiting beautifully.
There will be big Alliance picnic at
Monroe Byrd's Mill OH the Brookhaven
and Meadville road near the Lincoln and
Franklin line next Saturday. Judge Cas-
sedy and the editor of the LEADER have
accepted invitations to deliver addresses
ON the accession.
Mrs. L. T. Fitzhugh and Miss Alice left
last Tuesday for Monteagle, Tenn, at
which delightful summer resort they will
spend several weeks. President Fitzhugh
accompanied them as far as Lookout
Mountain, where he goes to attend a
meeting of the Southern Educational AS
ISOLATION
Miss Bessie Hoskins, who has filled the
position of LIST assistant In the public
school here for the past term left for her
home in Brookhaven on Sunday. Miss
Bessie has made host of friends in our
little city, who wish her pleasant vaca-
ton and hope the trustees will be FORUM
ate enough to engage her for the next
tem.-KcComb City Enterprise
An old lady urged her pastor to pray
for rain. He did so, and hail storm soon
came and destroyed all of the old lady Is
garden sass )" whereupon she was heard
to remark that brother Dinkins was a
mighty good man, but she never knew
him to undertake anything that he didn't
overdo the matter. We suspect that that
is what some of our farmer friends are
thinking about those who were praying
so earnestly for rain last week.
We are glad to be able to announce that
Steve McNair of Harriston, brother OF our
worthy countymen, was nominated f2r
Circuit Clerk in the Jefferson county phi
mary last Saturday, beating his competi-
tor two to one and carrying every pre-
cinct In the county except Union Church,
his opponents home, and running him
close there. At his own box, Harriston,
he received every vote cast. Steve is a
clipper and always "gets there" in every
thing he goes at.
The entertainment of the Thursday
night Social Club at Heuck's Hall, was
source of rare enjoyment to those who
participated. The ladies wore elegant
evening costumes and the gentlemen
their most satisfactory smiles as the,
shared with their hostesses the delicious
refreshments SO elegantly served. The
officers of the club are Misses o. Sones