The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-11-05
The hens are on a strike.

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The hens are on a strike.
Town taxes are now due and payable.
Coal dealers are putting in their work aow.
Oh, that The trans would run regular again
See the conquoring hero come-Col. Jacl
Frost.
Miss Annie Addicks has a light attack o
fever.
No services at any Of the Protestant churche,
last Sunday.
The doctors say we must have deaths. Tha
is hard on the sick.
No Sabbath school at the Baptist church las
Sunday morning.
Where there is much sickness there are
bound to be some deaths.
The steamer Nellie is the ~prettiest tug on
the Pascagoula river.
The present indications are that the coming
Christmas will be a dull one.
Services will be held in the Lutheran church
next Sunday Afternoon at 4 o'clock.
by their action at times some girls show
very plainly their desire to marry.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Apperson has added a commo-
dious kitchen to his residence.
Partridge and turkey are very plentiful in
the "siicks" north of Moss Point.
The EDITORS pecan crop this year amounted
to about a peck and a half.
The hogs, horses, goats and cattle have full
sway in Scranton these times.
whatsoever makes GGd a creature will IN
dulge in soPhisms about His providence.
Ed. L. N. Brock will preach in the Baptist
church next Sunday morning at II o'clock.
1t does seem a waste of time to enact ordi.
nances for the town as they are seldom en-
forced.
Our refugees will be returning home soon
Some Of them, we presume, are longing to be
here now.
These frosty feeling mornings makes those
who wish for the wheels of industry to start
again, happy.
Hikes are not much in use here now as for
merly. They, like everything else, have had
their day.
We have not heard from our Thanksgivi ING
turkey up to date. We fear il is roasting too
high for our reach.
The friends Of Mr.. 7. G. Gatti will be glad
Ia know that he is recovering from M attack
of the prevailing fever.
Sheriff Moore is ready to receive dues for
taxes, hut it seems that not many of the tax
payers are ready to pay just NOW.
Scranton has three government doctors on
duty. They think their work awful labor ious
far the small pay-only S25 Il day.
Next Sunday morning at 1880 mass will be
celebrated IN st. Peters chapel, and at $3.50 in
the church of Our Lady Of victory.
Miss Susie Foster, the charming daughter
of Capt. John Foster, has p%roffered her seryi.
ces to the Relief Committee as a nurse.
In a few days more quarantine will be a
thing Of the past "A sad day for the mar
clothed with a little brief authority.
Capt. 3. F. Pickett has completed the new
wharf Of Mrs. II. Collie, on Pascagoula river
Its a substantial and fine piece OF work.
Mr.. Jos. s. Portls, the popular bridge ten
der, who was taken with the prevailing fevel
last week is on the list Of convslescents.
This is the season for the dropping Of acorn'
and great is the joy and delight Of those phi
l~osophers who % to the roots of things.
Last Friday evening a large gang of bay
men arrived from Ship Island on the schoone
Ann Eliza in tow Of tug WIN. Orion.
Mr.. j. r. Labuzan r~eopened his genera
merchandise store Monday morning, having
recovered from a cold which laid him up fo
several days.
The annual hunt and supper Of the Pasca
goula Gun Club has been indefinitely post
poned on account Of existing quarantine regu
l%ations.
Messrs. D. W. Walters 4 Bro, the popula1
Nverymen Of ~Pascagoula, are carrying on
successful livery business between the old re
sort and this place.
Miss Josie Drysdale, one Of Biloxi's mos
popular young ladies', came over last Saturda
night on u brief visit to her sister, Mrs. Chas
L.. Johnson, at P%ascagoula.
Messrs. Chris. Christensen and Ed. Swails
boat builders are arranging for the lsunchin
of the tug hull and schooner just completed .
their ship yard on Krebs lake.
An isolation hospital has been established b.
the Relief Committee, at the Bourge house o.
Pasca9oula river, near Scranton. There ar
i've or six patients being treated there.
Mr.. Jim Byrd Pickett is serving his nume'
Gus friends and the public generally with e'
hlleratinz stiff and soft drinks at the Algor
saloon, on Delmas avenue aud Ket street.
The correspondents Of the Times emocrl
and Picayune, at this place, get their share
'euss'ne" as weNAas some other people. A
angel from heaven, in quarantine and panick
times, could not please the public.
The Federal Government Camp, at Fontai'
o'eau, has busted up and the big soup pot HI
been removed to Camp Hutton, in L%ouisian'
we hope this is the last camp Of the kind TIL
will ever be established In this county.
Mt. 3. ". du Mont, the clever and eAicie'
Secretary Of the Farnsworth Lumber Co., su
c0mb to the fever Sunday evening. Mr.. {
Mont had 4 mild case and is already cauv'
lescing.
Oart. 8. R. Thompson returned home Thur
Jay of last week from Camp Fontaineblca
Nnsre De Chat been employed in the u. y. N
.ae Hospital service. The Captains maj
friends gave him q hearty welcome.
W. W. A. Coz welcomed last week as CUES
!" ne family Surgeon r. D. Murrsy's fami'
s"ns'st'ng of his four children, Misses Gill
sno Keeah and Masters Fulwood and Arbc