The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-02-10
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
TOWN AND COUNTY.

TOWN AND COUNTY.
Mardi Gras, March End.
Leary's cream bread is the best.
Easter is late this year-April 18th.
Leary sells Landreth's Garden seed.
Old papers for sale cheap at this Of
fee. :.
est. Valentine" will claim next Sab
bath.
Mrs. Ellen Hardy is slowly recov-
ering from la grippe.
Miss Isabel Gartman succumbed to
the grippe last week"
Some one remarks, Hell hath no
malady like the grippe"
II. w. Marx paid Brookhaven
friends visit Sunday.
Mrs. Crisler has been training the
young ideas at Whitworth.
Persons wanting garden seed in bulk
should call on Leary for prices.
Miss Henry was able to be removed
to her sisters home on Saturday,
Mrs. Germany has been confined to
her bed for more than two weeks.
A. T. Denton was in town last week
with aparty of Western prospectors.
Rev. w. p. Price was the guest of
Col. and Mrs. E. M. Bee several days.
Joe Van has completed a neat resi-
dence in lieu of the one destroyed by
fire.
TIE LEADER has one of the bes
equipped job printing departments in
the State.
Those are big pumpkins Mr.. Geo.
p. Emswiler, one of our Indiana sub
scribers, writes about.
Rev. B. f. Jones became suddenly
i'll with fever again on Saturday, caus-
ing much anxiety among his friends
and congregation.
We regret to hear of tho failing
health of young Stanley Byrd and
trust. he may yet grow into vigorous
manhood.
Miss Maggie McGrath, accompanied
by Mr.. James McGrath, attended the
grand Summit ball and banquet last
week.
McGrath's Shoe Day drew an i'm
mense crowd who were duly shod at
"half dollar foot" McGrath's is a
progressive establishment.
Louis Zwirn has just had the inte-
rior of his barber shop reprinted and
thoroughly renovated. He also has
first-class new barber in the person of
Hiram Byrd, an experienced tonsorial
artist.
The Lawrence County Press says
that Mr.. Will G. Cannon and his en-
tire family were poisoned last Thurs
day by eating soup made from can of
oysters. They were all very sick for
several hours, but finally recovered
sufficiently to be pronounced out of
danger.
County Superintendent Green re-
quests THE LEADER to say he will not
be in his office next Saturday on ac-
count of enforced absence on official
duties, but that Miss Carrie Terry will
represent him. Prof. Green left Mon
day morning to visit a number of
schools in south Lincoln.
Conductor N. H. Maxwell, of the
/. C.'s Aberdeen branch, was here
Friday and Saturday. to visit his
mother, Mrs. A. G. Maxwell, of Union
Hall, who was seriously i'll last week
with the grippe. The LEADER is in
debted to him for pleasant call and
the renewal of his subscription.
Mr.. j. w. Waterer returned to his
home in Yazoo on Sunday night, leav-
ing Mr.. Smurr in an improved condi-
ton. Mr.. Waterer's handsome face
aud genial disposition greatly COM
mended him to all who had the pleas
ure of meeting him while here.
nC 4uCCnAy hhu Ouni huinS 1Aioo
Maggie McGrath, one of BrookhaveD's
rarest flowers, graced the reception
last night with her wondrous beauty
and great vivacity. She was one of the
bellies of the ball, the honored guest
while here Of Mrs. Eugene Atkinson
Ssmmif Sentinel.
AT best life is not very long, says
philosopher. "A few more signs or
smiles, = few more tears, some pleas
ures, much pain, sunshine and song,
clouds and darkness, hasty greeting,
abrupt farewells- then our little play
will close, aud injurer and injured will
pass away. Is it worth while to hate
each other p
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