The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-05-05
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
TOWN AND COUNTY.

LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Judge /. w. East lies very ill.
Carry your crippled bicycles to Ed.
Penn.
Winter has been crawling in the lap
of Spring again.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Anderson spent
Sunday in town.
Mrs. A. Scherck was taken alarming
ly i'll on Sunday.
For SALE.-A lot of old papers cheap.
Call at this Office.
J. w. McMaster returned from st.
Louis on last Friday.
Little Margie Marshall is ill again
with continued fever.
Mr.. Ed. Schaller has been critically
ill, but is now improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baugh, of Wellman,
spent Sunday with relatives.
The number of new bicycles in town
is constantly on the increase.
John Dale was taken very i'll on Sun
day morning, but is recovering.
Hon. R. H. Thompson spent the
past week with his family and friends.
Mrs. Bert Perkins Girard, of Match
ez, arrived on Monday.
Bring your jobs to THE LEADER. 1t
does the finest work at New Orleans
prices.
Little Miss Meta Smith is entertain
ing a number of little friends at her
home this afternoon.
"Jake" w. Boone was in town few
days last week with crippled finger
incident to his experience with new
bicycle.
Miss Mary McCloskey and Mrs. Robt.
Atwood, of Wesson, were welcome Wis
itors to Mrs. John McGrath and Mrs.
S. N. Storm on Sunday last.
Mr.. w. R. Williams, of Caseyvllle
who has been great sufferer from cry.
sipelas, was able to be in town last
Friday, for the second time this year
Misses Maggie McGrath and Edna
Anding and Messrs. James McGrath
and Martin Flood enjoyed a delight
full day at Norfield last Sabbath, with
Miss Elicit.
Tomorrow the wedding bells will
ring and Mr.. Sam. Moreton will lead
to the altar the charming Miss Zula
Perkins. Our very best wishes abide
with the happy young people.
The teachers of the Presbyterian
Sunday School have organized them
selves into club and met with Mrs.
Heuck on Wednesday last. On this
evening they convene at Mrs. Crutch-
er's home.
Mrs. Richard Latting left on Sun
day morning for her home in Houston,
Texas. She was accompanied as far
as New Orleans by her brother, L. H.
Baggett, who returned on Sunday
nights train.
A Westminster League was organ
lied at the Presbyterian church on
yesterday evening. This organization
corresponds with the Epworth League
of the Methodist church or the B. Y. P
U. of the Baptist church.
DR.. Toombs greatly appreciated a
delightful serenade one night last
week from some of our musical young
people unknown to him, and wishes to
return his cordial thanks for the
pleasure the occasion afforded him
DIR. 7. is great lover of music.
The news from Sheriff Chas. McNair.
now in California, continues to be
most encouraging. The last letter re-
ceived from him by his brother, Depu-
ty Sheriff r. w. McNair, stated that
he had been free from fever over Is
days, an experience not enjoyed since
last summer. His host of friends will
be glad to welcome him back home
restored to perfect health.
We regret to chronicle the early
death of Mrs. Ben Heidenreich, of Nc
Comb, which sad event occurred May
Bird. She was formerly Miss Lula
Watts, of jackson, and had admirine
friends in this city. She was happily
married last January and her death
seems untimely" to human vision
but some time we may know and un
derstand that it was best.
Rev. j. A. Scarborough, inventor Of
the Scarborough Adjustable Vehicle
Shaft, dressed like a well-to-do Boston
business man, passed through Brook
haven Monday, en- route to the South
ern Baptist Convention, which con-
venes at Wilmington, N. c., on Thurs
day. He will be absent several weeks
visiting Northern and Western cities
introducing his valuable invention.
Little Thad. Montgomery aged five
years, son of Supervisor G. 7. Mont
gomery. of beat 4, had the misfortune
to get his right thigh broken one day
last week. He was playing around his
fathers barn, when one of the stable
doors, from some unexplained cause,
fell from its fastenings upon the little
fellow with the above result. A few
years AGO while Mr.. Montgomery was