The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-20
.,wN AND COUNTY

TOWN AND COoN I <
Business is quiet.
Who will bring in the first new oaie
u.rtman's store front is great inn
provement'
romorrow will be big day fol
Brookhaven.
NJ Robt d. Lanier visited McComt
City Sunday.
1ororance and prejudice make q
stubborn enemy.
DR.. R. D. Noteworthy filled the Meth
odist pulpit Sunday.
There was a 'side show" to the base
hall Wednesday evening.
Judpe Cassidy went down to Mag
nolia yesterday afternoon.
Premature grayness is OVERCOME by
usiug Halls Hair Remover.
Mrs. Hobbs and children spent sew
eral days in Clinton last week.
Womack & Foltz are furnishing their
customers with some fine meat.
Mrs. Lily Buie Reed, of Yazoo City,
;s here on a visit to her mother.
MIR. R. S. Newman, of Veto, paid THE
LEADER pleasant call last Friday.
Presiding Elder Noteworthy went
down to McComb City last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Sessions and Mrs.
J.J. PROXY, of Natchez, are in town.
Rev. W. F. Marlborough is conduct
ing meeting with his Gallman church.
Robt. Cassidy suffered relapse last
week and has been quite i'll with fever
since.
Laxol is Castor Oil made as sweet as
honey by new process. Children
like it.
There has been too much rain for
cotton, and too much for saving fodder
and hay.
The complaint of too much rain is
becoming quite general thr oughout
this section.
We call it "the new woman" because
we wouldn't offend by speaking of "the
old woman"
Mesdames Strickland and Bennett
spent last Wednesday with Mrs. Smith
at Montgomery.
good many LIE Conte pears are be.
ing brought to town by persons whose
trees escaped the blight.
Mosquitoes are worse hereabout than
ever known, persistently presenting
their bills, day and night.
Messrs Pfeifer & Dreyfus and Max
Priebatsch have had their store roofs
treated to fresh coat of roof paint.
The Senatorial Conventions of the
Prohibition and Peoples parties meet
at Fair Civer School House Thursday
Mr.. Alfred Smith, of West Lincoln
carried out new stationary engine
yesterday for his steam gin and mill.
Miss Luna Hoskins entertained tn G
Baptist W. M. S. at Birthday Party
yesterday afternoon at the residence
OF Mrs. Chrisman.
President L. T. Fitzhugh, of Bella
ven College, was a visitor to Brookha-
ven last Thursday and cor daily greet
ed by many old friends.
Mr.. D. Schwem is reb uilding his
steam grist mill and cotton gin which
has been twice destroyed by fire, and
Will have everything in readiness for
the new crop. The LEADER wishes
him better luck this time.
The hair, when not properly cared
lor, loses it's lustre, becomes crisp
harsh, and dry, and falls out freely
with every combing. To prevent this
the best dressing In the market is Az
ers Hair Vigor. 1t imparts that silky
gloss SO essential to perfect beauty.
The following named persons went
toChicago on the excursion the 18th
MRS. Wilson, Miss Hetty Levy and
sady, Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Perkins, Jul.
Ian Willoughby, Sam Abrams, Miss
nenry, Miss Carrie Dunn, Mr.. and Mrs
Mike Lorden, Alias Bowsky, Mrs. Oh
sen.
IN the series of three games played
last week by the aBaton Rouge Reds
ana Brookhaven's base ball team, the
nard luck of the Brookhaven boys fol
lowed them. In the three games, al
won by Baton Rouge, the scores stood
as follows: First, Is to 5; second, 8 tc
y third, to 5. The last game was
stopped by heavy rain, when Bator
nouge had played six innings and
prookhaven only five, and the Brook
maven boys believe they would have
scored victory If the game had beer