The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-10-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
News Items Of Interest Gathered From
Various Sources.

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The drought has been broken.
Several beneficial showers fell herr
this week.
Our store keepers are doing q lucra'
tive business.
The dummy makes regular trips tt
Scranton for freight.
Hon. M. N. Evans and MI. Robert
W. Cowan came into town last week,
Dame rumor says the tlrst musicale
Of the season will be held next week
Mr.. q. H. Wood went on a hunting
expedition on the steamer Valeda last
week.
Mr.. s. X. Kouns, a prominent mer.
chant OF Orange Grove, was 10 town
Tuesday.
Telegraph Operator John f. P. Blu.
mer Is kept quite busy receiving and
sending dispatches.
1t is now limited that some one is
trying to induce Bro. Dees to write
another newspaper article.
The schooner Eleanor, A. Voss,
captain, from Havana, arrived at
Dantzler's wharf Saturday.
Much-needed rains fell here OF Sun
day and Monday morning. We trust
that frOsts may follow soon.
The L. N. D. mill of the Dantzler
Lumber Co. has been closed down for
repairs for several days past.
Some Of our young men are much
worried" by the existing quarantine
between this place and Mobile.
There is a great deal Of resemblance
between politics and quarantine.
They make strange bed fellows.
The schooners II. j. Powell and
Eleanor are loading at the L. N. Dant-
zler Lumber Cos mills this week.
Rev. d. o. Byers preached to a
small congregation in the Presbyte-
rian church last Sunday morning.
There will be regular morning ser.
vice and Sunday.school at the Baptist
church next Sunday at the usual hours.
State Quarantine Officer Hon. NJ. A.
Dees is surely doing effective work SO
far as quarantine restrictions are con-
cerned.
He has been getting a good many
letters at Dantzler's Office, but he
can't find out who writes them.
The long looked for schooner Bertha
Louise, which was reported as lost, ar.
rived at Dantzler's wharf Monday
night.
The store Of Mr.. r. D. Rider was
entered on Saturday night and most Of
It's contents carried away. No clew
to the robbery.
Mr.. ]. A. Vanderwall and family
returned home this week, after refu-
geeing for a while with MI. w. How
ell at Three Rivers.
Some thief stole Mr.. L. A. Morris
bicycle of the front gallery Of his
home some night last week. He has
as yet heard nothing from it.
Our local observer Of the Weather
Bureau states that his report for last
year shows the first frost on Nov. 8th.
We hope we may have an earlier one
this year.
The Moss Point & Pascagoula r. r.
Is doing a fine business. They brought
up seven car loads OF freight one after
noon last week.
We are glad to chronicle that Miss
Isabel Lienhard, one OF our charming
young ladies, is entirely well, after be-
Ing slightly indisposed a few days last
week.
The schooner Bertha Louise Is load
ing for Kingston, Jamaica, with 2OO,-
600 feet OF lumber at the L. N. Dantz-
Ter Lumber Co.'S mills this week.
We learned with regret on Saturday
OF the sickness of the editor with the
prevailing fever" We trust sim
cerely that he may ''prevail" over the
microbes and soon be out.
Miss Louise Weeks, an aged North
ern lady who has been residing 10
Moss Point for some little time, died
Saturday last of heart failure. She
was a sister to Mrs. ]. N. Rowland, Of
Orange Grove.
Mr.. Frank G.. Robinson left last
Saturday for Ohio, where he will Join
his family, who have been spending
the summer there. He with his fam.
lily will return to their home here
shortly.
The sad, news OF the death Of Mrs.
Maud Perkins (nee Coulson) was re.
ceived Tuesday noon by relatives here.
Mrs. Perkins was a lOveable lady from
our town, and the entire community
extend their sympathy to the bereaved
relatives.
To an outsider 1t looks as II our
coast towns, depending as they do
largely, for their prosperity upon WIS.,
it0rs, and anxious to attract settlers
from other sections, are getting them
selves into the middle Of a bad Fix In
their persistent denial Of the pres
epce Of yellow fever. Were l looking
for a place of residence, l should much
prefer u NATURALLY healthy locality,
even though II WERE afflicted once
In twenty years with yellow fever,
to one that was 50 malariOus as to be
subject TO YEARLY visitatjons Of
den que and bilious fever.
The DEMocRAr-SrAR's Moss Point
correspondent OF last week has, thr0'
some inadvertence, fallen Into several
mistakes, some Of which need to be
corrected. The statement Is made
that "the preachers are having a
much-needed rest" &c. The fact Is
! that there has been but one Sabbath
since the yellow fever epidemic began
that there has not been services In
one or more of the churches. Our
ministers are all on the ground, visit.
ing their people and preaching regu.
larly every Sunday. There IL also no
foundation whatever for the state.
ment In regard to Mrs. Mollle MCGEE
Hall. The pastor OF the Methodist
church has neither expressed any pur.
pose Of inviting Mrs. Hall to hold
meeting, nor has IL been suggested BY
any OF his members.
John Thomas, aged about q years
captain OF one OF the L. N. Dantxler't
Lumber Co.'S barges, was drowned Of
his barge Monday night. The steameI
kFOx had landed alongside the barge Il
tow her out TO the shipping and OF