The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1895-09-17
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Public School next Monday.
Miss Ella Jones is i'll with fever.
Hunters say the bird crop is fine.
The pea and hay crop is immense.
Cotton picking is lively in the coun-
try.
Rradshaw's new hardware store is a
beauty.
Mrs. Bullitt has been confinedto her
bed by illness.
The Populists are still planning to
have an organ.
MANY Lincoln county farmers raise
their own tobacco.
Miss Henry McCsndonis quite sick
with continued fever.
Mrs. Will McGrath left for avisit to
New Orleans Saturday.
Miss BERTHE Womack visited friends
in Hazlehurst last week.
DR.. Will Penn spent Sunday with
the home-folks and friends.
Mr.. &c. Davis, of Canton, has been
visiting relatives and friends here.
Everybody should act on DR.. Flow
ers recommendation and vaccinate at
once.
Cotton is coming in freely. 1t is
selling in town today for ~ to "a
cents.
There we're ninety in attendance at
the Methodist Sabbath School last
Sunday.
Miss Dosia Williams, of Durant, has
been the charming guest of Miss Mat
tie Penn.
The Bogue Chitto Association meets
at Mt Pleasant church, near Norfield,
next Friday.
Judge Conn arrived Sunday and is
now holding the scales of justice at
the court house.
We regret to hear of the death of
Mrs. Daughtry's brother-in-law, Mr..
Mason, of Canton.
Mrs. Fur is spending some time
with her daughter, Mrs. Crawford, who
is still ill with fever.
The weather has been intensely hot
during the past week, some days the
thermometer going to 100.
Mrs. Thos. W. East has grateful
thanks for box of handsome pears
from her hospitable home.
The next thing for Brookhaven after
the compress ought to be public cot
ton weigher. Let's have it.
Mrs. Ada Conn Brown, of New Or
leans, is the guest of her sister-in-law,
Miss Blanche Brown, at DR.. BARRIERS.
Mrs. DR.. Sessions departed for her
home in Natchez last Tuesday night,
after pleasant visit to relatives here.
Rev. w. F. Marlborough, by invita-
ton, addressed the Kings Daughters
at the Presbyterian church last We'd
nesday evening.
The side walk has been raised and
greatly improved in front of Mrs. VIM.
Hoskins' property on the east side of
Railroad Avenue.
We regret to hear of the illness of
our friend Oscar C. Green, who is con-
fined with typhoid fever at the home
OF Prof. Ricketts, in Jackson. @
The Brookhaven and Monticello Tel
ephone Co. is extending it's line from
Silver Creek to Hebron, a distance of
forty miles from Brookhaven.
Mr.. Schwem has completed his
splendid new steam gin and mill, and
is now ready to do the best of work
Bring in your cotton and corn. y
The Scherck- Fass wedding was a
brilliant event in New Orleans society
and was attended by all the Brookha-
ven relatives of the popular groom.
MIR. John Mason and family, have
moved in from Wellman and rented
the residence of Mrs. Floyd Bowen
They are cordially welcomed as citi.
zens.
Miss Ethel Smiths bright talents in
song and story" will be missed at
Whltworth this year. She is attend
ing her home institution, Belhaven
College.
After pleasant vacation spent at
oiarksdale, Miss Lowell has returned
10 resume her duties as Principal Of
the Public School. The school will re
open next Monday.
kobt. Cassidy, reported so critically
II last week, still fingers on the Dor
oer land between life and death, witt
az least chance of ultimate recovery
ne Is making brave struggle.