Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-08-22
,,.owN AND COUNTY

Met TrHIIES htn ollON nluuOW VIII
make corner" on quick sales.
The right of way must now be. givel
the goat and cart!
Rev. 4. A. Lomax is assisting Rev
IL Green in a meeting this week.
Miss Beulah Anding, of Hazlehurst
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. j. Green.
Since the money panic, the number
Of drummers has grown noticeably less
An attractive entertainment is being
prepared for the benefit of the Metho
dist church.
Mrs. Chrisman's choir will furnish
music at the Demorest medal contest
Friday night
Mr.. Heuck, with his two attractive
daughters, will leave for the Worlds
Fair this week.
Will the Demorest class please meet
at the Baptist church Thursday even
ing promptly at 5.
We are glad to learn that Miss Ger
trude Magee is recovering from Sc
we're spell of fever.
F.F. Becker, accompanied by Miss
Aileen and Ferdinand, will leave next
Sunday for Chicago.
Messrs. John Marshall and |. w.
East have become partners in the
meat market business.
Rev. j. NJ Weems was taken quite
i'll last Friday evening. being throat
ened with congestive chill.
Mr. and Mrs. r. H. Hamilton leave
for New York this week and will take
in the sights at the Fair again.
Miss Matte Penn and Mr.. Ed. Evans
have been engaged as cornetists at the
Crystal Springs camp-meeting.
Mr. OLeary, an expert salesman
from Meridian, is now behind the
counters at McGrath's.
Mrs Will McGrath has returned
from Biloxi, accompanied by her moth
er, Mrs. Benson, of New Orleans.
Mr.. Carroll Maxwell will represent
Lincoln county in the State Alliance
which meets at the A. & NJ. College to-
day.
Rev. r. S. Woodward is again con
fined to his bed, as the result of cold
contracted at Camp Meeting ON the
coast.
lsaacs' Emporium, the only place
where the choicest fruit. is kept. \
choice lot of apples and pears just re-
ceiyed.
"Taffy the Welshman" stole a piece
of beef from the market house Sun
day night. Messrs. Marshall & East
we're the losers.
Rev. j. II. Gambrell is conducting
protracted meeting at Shady Grove,
Pike county. this week. The Topisaw
meeting will begin next Saturday.
One of our most eligible bachelors
has ornamented with beautiful pot
of ferns one of the depot windows
the one nearest Miss Addie Harvey's
desk.
4 small admission fee of ten cents
will be charged to the Demorest Med
al Contest on Friday evening at the
Baptist Church. There are nine con-
testantS.
\ catamount is said to be roaming
the wildwood DER, near our city. A
party went out in search yesterday 1t
is reported that he has devoured sew
eral dogs. Let the good work 60 on.
Mr. w. G.. Maxwell, of Fair River,
has unique Masonic emblem left him
by his father, made of silver in 1871.
Brookhaven Mason offered Mr.. Max
we'll $1,000 for it, which was refused.
The Baptist Church was filled last
sabbath morning at the regular servic-
es and again at night when President
Venable, of Mississippi College, ably
held forth the Gospel in all ''the beau
'y of the holiness.
Our clever neighbor. Joe Dale, of the
Lawrence County Press, passed
through Brookhaven yesterday en-
route to take in the State press excur-
sion to the Worlds Fair. Joe will
come as near seeing "the elephant" as
The next one.
Misses Mary and Annie Strickland
VIII leave early in September for Leb-
anon Ohio. where they will attend the
celebrated Normal College of that
CITY, These young ladies are both
graduates of Whitworth College and
Doth talented and ambitious.
The fire bells Justify rang out on
last Sunday evening, when it was dis
covered that one of the cottages east
VI the City Hotel owned by Hyman
Mlrn, was ablaze. The prompt
assistance of the firemen and others
eACihguished the flames after small
damage to roof and ceiling. 1t was
occupied by colored family.
Dr. 4. A. Venable, who, as most of
our readers know, is the able and hon
pred President of Mississippi College,
W special request delivered an address
ou Christian Educatiop at tho RaptiSt