The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-03-17
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Eat I,earv's Cream Bread.

Walter Magee has closed his market
Mr.. Ed. Nicholson, of Shaw, Miss,
is the guest of Mrs. Pope.
Mrs. NJ. L. Herring enjoyed de-
lightful stay in New Orleans last week.
Miss Pauline Watts entertained de-
lightfully the Jolly Quartette last week.
Miss Ehrman, McGrath's hat trim
mer from st. Louis, arrived the early
part of the week.
Miss Stevens, of Washington county,
is visiting her sisters, Mrs. Pope and
Miss Jennie Stevens.
Misses Bessie Hoskins and Pauline
Watts spent Sunday with Miss Fannie
Maxwell at johnson Station.
Mrs. M. E. Strickland arrived on
Saturday night to spend some time
with Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. Roos.
Miss McMillin, of Louisiana, and
Miss jamie Howard Govan, of McComb,
have been guests of Miss Edith Sher-
man.
Mrs Josie Perkins was taken sud
denly and seriously ill on yesterday af-
ternoon, suffering from acute nervous
ness.
Geo. Bowsky, who returned from
visit to Northern and Western cities
Friday, has an important announce
ment in today's paper.
NJ. d. McGrath returned from st.
Louis last Tuesday, where he bought
lots of handsome and substantial new
goods for the big house of John Nc
Grath & Sons. These goods are now
arriving and are we'll worth inspect
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mason entertain
ed at an elegant dinner last Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Mason and son,
Mrs. Converse and little Bertha, Mrs.
Hull and Mrs. Fugua, of Wellman,
Mrs. E. III. Crutcher, Misses Bibbins,
Chellis, Bonnell and Hunt.
State Superintendent of Education
Kincannon was in town yesterday,
the guest of County Superintendent
Green. He was much pleased with
Brookhaven and the new court house,
and also Prof. Green's administration
of the County superintendent office.
Brookhaven's cotton compress has
made a good record the present sea-
son. The total number of bales COM
pressed up to the LIST of March, from
Sept l, was 23,S07, with 724 bales in
the store-rooms impressed. Within
the same period last year there were
only II, 800 compressed.
The Variety Works, lately inaugur-
ated near the old Fair grounds by
Messrs. Chas. B. Perkins, Eugene Nc
Cormick and Frank Parsons, raised
steam last Wednesday, and are getting
in good shape for business. This
promises to be one of the future insti-
. buttons of our growing little city.
The Ediscopic views are produced
by continuous photographs, hundreds
being required to give the picture eff.
feet of one scene. We wish that all
the school children could see this pan
oramic display-it beats the circus.
Take them out and go yourself, and
our word for it-you will be glad you
went.
During the past week our enter
prising townsman, M. r. Leary, has
been lighting his establishment by
electricity, having put in for his pri-
vate use one of Powers gasoline en-
gines and an electric motor. AS might
have been expected, Mr.. Leary's spirit
of enterprise is Catching" and now
everybody wants electric lights.
Mr.. Cassell, of Canton, the oldest
nurseryman in the State, and one of
the most reliable and genial, has been
spending several days in our town and
receiving many orders from our flower
loving ladies. He will remain at the
Magee Hotel until tomorrow and as
his plants are already acclimated and
as cheap as you can get elsewhere, or,
der from him by all means.
Of all the wonderful, surprising, en-
chanting "shows" that were ever put
on the boards, the Ediscope stakes the
cake" Last night large house, com
posed of preachers, lawyers, farmers
"butchers and bakers and candlesticl
makers" greeted the shifting, vivid ant
life-like scenes presented to view by
this wonderful invention. If you
haven't seen it, go, by all means, at
this afternoon, or tonight.
Mr.. L. B. Rogers, manager of the Ed
iscope attraction now on exhibition a
Heuck's Opera House, with his assist
ants, Mr.. P. G. Pannell, pianoist, anC
Messrs. Oscar Beason and S. G. Tetens
electricians, were pleasant callers a
THE LEADER Office this morning Mr.
Rogers is thoroughly at home in {
newspaper office, being the son of Capt
G. B. Rogers, for years one of the pro
II prietors of the Vicksburg Daily Com
mercial- Herald.
-, By an inadvertence last week in al
luding to the insurance on Mr.. Henr
- Lewenthal's residence and the promp
payment of his claim of $1,000, tn
Of name Globe Insurance Company, O
IS New York, was used, when it shout,
have read the Home, of New York
The Home is entitled to the credit TO
the clever treatment received by MI
Lewenthal, and it's Brookhaven agen
\ is Mr.. Jas. f. Miazza, of the CONNER
cial Bank, who wrote Mr.. Lewenthal'
policy.
: Mr.. Eugene Bee, of Brookhaven. tn