The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-07-12
1OCHL NEWS.

We told you so.
Girls, don't whistle.
Laugh and grow fat.
Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.
Crap shooters get left sometimes.
Life is not altogether a jar of honey.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
The s'"'''s" liars occupation fe"s.
The second primary promisesto bs red hot.
Scranton is improving morally and relig-
iously.
Jerry Cook is building a shop on Delmas
avenue.
The doctors say our town is distressingly
healthy.
There was PRAYER meeting at the Methodist
church Sunday night.
The candidates have quit shaking hands and
gone to work.
We can conceive of nothing meaner in man
than ingratitude.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is a handle
which cts them all.
1t was certainly "blue Monday" with the
defeated candidates.
We truly sympathizc with defeated candi-
dates. II was ever thus.
BY the very constitution of our nature,
moral evil is its own curse.
The ladies Of the Methodist church have
organized a xoman's aid society.
Mr.. J. II. Rolls visited friends and relatives
at Grand Bay, Ala, last Friday.
The tickets for the second primary will be
printed in this Office next Saturday.
whatsoever keepeth his mouth aud his
tongue, keepeth his soul from troubles.
The same managers Of the first primary
election will have control of the second.
Mrs. P. X. Mayors returned home Saturday
from a visit to her old home at Crawford.
Mr.. V. l.. Boyer, of Ocean Springs, paid
our sanctum a pleasant visit last Saturday.
Grow is not considered a very palatabie
dish, but we all have to gulph It down occa-
s%ionally, you know.
A complaint reaches this Office of the sus-
picions actions of two Mobile policemen at
Pascagoula last Tuesday.
The schooner Spy was launched from Smith
Bros ways OH Monday, after undergoing a
general cleaning and painting.
Miss Mary Davis and brothers, Harry and
Louis, of Morgan City, La, are visiting the
family of Mr.. II. X. Grant at Pascagoula.
Miss Emeline Bowman and Messrs. Harrison
Miller, Horace and Elijah Bowman united with
the Presbyterian church last Sunday after
noon.
Masters John and Durnev Buckner, OF
i"akum, Texas, are spending the summer at
Pascagoulr, guests of their aunt, Mrs. A. G.
Bradford. ~
Mr.. Thomas &. Ruble, one of vanclcavc's
thrifty merchants dropped in Monday and re-
ncwcd his subscription to the old reliable
DXMoCRAT-STAR.
Judge Jas. b. McRae, of vancleavc was at
the courthouse Monday to hear the result of
the primary election. The Judge was re-
elected without opposition.
We don't believe there will be any "monkey
business" about the examination of the two
candidates for Superintendent of Education
for this county this week.f(
Mrs. Jas. Martin aud Mrs. Glenn. of Bark
ley, accompanied by their pretty daughters,
Misses Annie and Pheba, were visitors to
Scranton last week, the guests of Mrs. Beck.
Girls, in riding the bicycle, you should see
that your clothing is properly arranged. Do
nothing that would cause a blush to mantle
your fair cheeks or call forth adverse criti-
cisms.
Merchants and business men generally who
know what an article of good job printing is
when they see it, will find that the DEMOCRAT
STAR office turns out no other. Give us a
trial aud be convinced.
Opposite the DENocRAr-STAR Office will be
found the Bijou Ice-cream Parlor and Lunch
Room recently opened by Miss Nina Smith, of
Mobile. 1t is neatly arranged ami well sup
piled with delicious ediblcs.
Mr.. II. F. Russell, the wideawake agent of
the DEMOCRAT-STAR at Ocean Springs, was
here Monday to hcar election news. He was
cheerful and happy aud said he did not have
much crow to eat over the result.
Next Sunday in the Scranton Baptist church
Rev. l.. N. Brock, the pastor will hold divine
services morning and evening at the usual
hours. Also at PascaSoula at A p. m. The
attendance of all is respectfully solicited.
The primary election at.this place was un-
usually quiet. The bar rooms we're all closed
and consequently very httlc, il any, drunken
ness prevailed, or dist urbance Of whatever
character occurred.
Miss Hattie Shaw, Of Cottage Hill, Ala,
who spent a fortnight here the guest Of Miss
Laura Toussell, tooR%ff departure for home
last Monday. Miss Hattie made many friends
while here who regret that her stay was not
of a longer period.
Capt. G. 7. Irving has sold his stock in the
New Venice Manufacturing Co.. to Capt. Jonas
ureen, who will hereafter have the manage
ment OF the plant. Capt. Irving, owing 70
failing health, will sh ortly leave on a two
months absence in Canada.
The garden party given for the benefit Of
the Union church at Pasca goula last week on
the beautiful grounds Of Mrs. L. w. O'Con :
nelFs villa, the "Osks" was a most ENJOYABLE
AFFAIR, and proved a financial success, the nice
little sum Of $27 10 was realized.
The negro excursion from Mobile here last
Monday was, in the main, composed Of orderly
and wsll.behsved people. The brass band Of
Mobile Fire Co. II visited The DEMOCRAT
srAH office and discoursed some sweet music,
after which the assembled crowd gave three
iusty cheers for the "Old Reliable, for all Of