The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-06-02
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Blackberries are ripe.

Blackberries are ripe.
The Stonewall Guards drilled Mon
day night.
Mrs. J. F. Sessions left last week
for visit to Browns Well.
Go to tho polls next Monday and
vote for Brookhaven's improvement
Mrs. Z. P. Neville, Of McComb City,
visited with Miss Sallie Sesvey this
week.
Robt. Jordan has resumed his old
position at the express office and
looks "at home"
Mrs. DIR. Flowers, Of Auburn, Is
spending delightful visit with her
sister, Mrs. Walter Buie, this week.
F. +. Becker has harvested six acres
of oats that could not be beaten in
Illinois or the Dakotas. Make May
cut them with his self-binding Nc
Cormick reaper, and did the work
well.
Mr.. A. Menelas arrived yesterday,
and will spend month or so with his
brother at the well-known Menelas
plantation near town. Mr.. Menelas
expressed himself as greatly pleased
at Brookhaven's many evidences Of
growth, and says the town is to be
congratulated on its prospects for
soon securing water works and electric
lights.
Mrs. B. F. Jones was suddenly
called to jackson last Saturday in re-
ponse to a telegram, announcing the
sudden death of her sister, Miss Matte
Linfield, mentioned by our jackson
correspondent. Miss Linfield was
buried in the family burying ground
at Hazlehurst Sunday. The tenderest
sympathy of large circle Of friends
goes out to the bereaved relatives.
The following members Of Winnie
Davis Chapter No. l, Order Of Eastern
Star, visited Wesson Saturday night
and organized Chapter there, viz
Messrs. Jno. Mason, Geo. Barnes,
E. NJ. Bee, latham Pfeifer, Mesdsmes
Converse and Barnes, Misses Sallie
and Rosa Seavey, Francis Mason,
Florence Atkins and Cora Parsons.
They all speak in the highest Terms of
the splendid reception that awaited
them.
| The Jones Hotel is interested to the
amount of about $500 in knowing
the present whereabouts of NJ. c..
McGrath, who departed from town
Monday night without saying farewell,
leaving a board bill to the above
amount unsettled. Mr.. McGrath had
been very busy for a week or more
projecting an independent electric
light system here, and throwing all the
cold water he could on the PROPOSE
ton for the city to own it's own system,
creating the impression incidentally
that he was man of capital or the
commander of capital. 1t seems that
he was only wind mill or something
worse.
This community was greatly shocked
last Wednesday afternoon by the an
nouncement that Mr.. Chas. Heuck,
ST., had been stricken with apoplexy,
followed by paralysis of his left side.
His condition has not since changed
very materially, and while there is
little likelihood Of Immediately fatal
results, it is seriously feared by his
physician that he will be permanently
disabled by paralysis. The interest
and sympathy of our entire community
has been enlisted in his behalf by this
sudden and sorrowful atfiiction.
Strange to say, the shock came on
while he was resting quietly, taking an
afternoon nap.
The ice cream festival at the Rail
road Park on last Thursday evening
was decided success in every partic.
ular. The ladies of the town, with one
accord, united regardless of all earthly
distinctions, and more pleasant fellow
ship could not exist anywhere than
was evident on this occasion. A score
or more Of tables under the pretty To-
liage of the trees, hung with gay Ian
terms and lamps and the merry, laugh
ing crowd made scene of interest and
delight. The sum of s5125 was raised
and the noble women of our town feel
compensated for their efforts. Ere
quent gatherings at the Park are an
ticipated when it is furnished.