The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-10-28
State News Boiled Down.

summit has a new bank.
Woodville's fair was perfect.
Ripley has a nightwatchman.
Ellisville yearns for a town clock.
Vicksburg has a Columbian Club.
Schools are the life of S%hnqnalak.
Scnatobia Baptlsts enj y u revival.
Clarksdale boasts of good schools.
%Shuqualak Baptists are REVEALING.
Now is the time to clean ont eisterns.
Durant will retain her wagon factory.
Tate county circnit court is in session.
Gin burnipgs are every day happenings,
Madison county cattle fatten Meridian
people.
Detective iiues are getting in Their
work.
Aberdeen has 400 pupils IN her public
school.
Now is the time for the opening ball of
the season.
Lexington Presby,erians will build a
new church.
jasper county grand jury found thir-
teen true bills.
A horticultural society has been organ
lied at Oxford.
Greenwood will soon have a foundry
and machine shops.
The colored Masons OF Oxford have just
finished II new hall.
More new business houses are being
built in Water Valley.
Columbus Day was literally observed
throughout the State.
Quail hunters around Jackson complain
of a scarcity OF birds.
The New Orleans Presbytery meets
next April in Magnolia.
New buildings are going mp in Mag
nolia, and the town grows.
The municipal contest is lively among
Jacksuu's ward politicians.
Macon mourns the loss Ct three bust.
ness houses, recently burned.
Grecnville will have a flower show for
the benefit Of her graveyard.
A Young Mems Christian Association
has been organized in Tylertown.
A new dress Of type will soon adcru
uhe pages of the Fayette Chronicle.
Columbia has been made a money Or
der office by the postal authorities.
Water Valley pays special attention to
street and sidewalk improvements.
Hon. E.. J. Bowers has been invited to
Louisiana to make political speeches.
Since the big fire West Point people are
talking fire engines with IA vengeance.
The Columbus Day celebrations and
the election monopolize most Of the news.
Maj. Ethel Barksdale has been making
several campaign speeches for Democracy.
A negro festival at Meridian Saturday
night ended By one negro killing another.
Perry county will have a new court
house. Contract to be let November LIST.
Wednesday night Grenada had a grand
Democratic blow out and torchlight pre-.
cessiOn.
In many towns the merchants complain
of the slowness in which cotton is being
marketed.
According to her local papers the town
of Ellisville has been on u ''boOm" for
about ten years
George Alberts, a respectable citizen of
Holly Springs suicided the other day by
hanging himself,
The West Point Leader energies from
the fire as ncwsy aud bright us ever,
though redU ced in size.'
Every few days brings to light Il newly
patened cotton picker. As yet Mr.. Ma.
pickers have full swing.
An Aberdeen man has a curiosity in the
shape of an apple tree that every year
and natures two crops of apples.
The Brandon News, one of thu best pa
,ers in the State, has enlarged to an g.
page form, and added u Palahatchie de-
partment.
An 100 year old man named Gleenhaw
lives near Cornth, and he generally |
walks to and from town, a distance of
light miles.
1t is charged in Chickasaw county that
}nrkitt's public career has cost that
county enough to run all the schools
here for three years.
Bay st. Lonis complains of tough beef.
t seems to us that we have heard of
imilar complaints elsewhere aud at
|ivers times in our life.
Tue following was written by
udue i. w Starr. formerly a resi-.