The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-09-17
OCEAN SPRINGS X. OF p. LODGE, No. CO
Summer visitors still liager in town,

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ter wharf.
Strangers are not visiting eoas,
towns just now.
Second adventism" does not take
here to a paying profit.
Building and other improvement.
are going on in our town.
The stranger en-. D.'s"in town hay,
acted so scared as to terrify some tim
i'd ones.
Read the cont radictory reports In
the dailies II ou.don't want to believe
anything.
Mrs. r. N. Duesbury and Miss
Violet returned to Mobile before thu
fever scare.
Mrs. George Sanchez and her charm
ing children returned to New Orlean!
last week.
Biloxi has one of our prominen,
merchants '~'corralled" and wont leI
him come home.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Jacques Lafltte an(
family returned to their home in New
Orleans recently.
Past Assistant Surgeon Eugene
Wasdin, U. S. Marine Hospital servic,
is down with the dengue.
Not a healthy citizen of.this tow
has died during the last three month
by any form Of fevers.
DR.. s. r. Dunn OF the State Boart
OF Health says the first case of fevel
occurred here on August IS.
Mr.. g. Hanson, Mr.. f. J. Dubosf
and wife. and Mr.. Schuyler Poitevent
left forAtlanta Wednesday night.
Business in town has been unusual.
ly brisk the past week. More cash fol
service and supplies for the needy.
Seeming a quarantine at hand, the
principal OF our public schools, with
his wife, took al overland trip north
ward.
Mrs. A. A. Maginnis returned to
New Orleans last Monday week after
enjoying the summer AT her lovely
home.
Trains, both passenger and freight,
go by at dOuble-Quick speed, propelled
by official humbuggery, that and moth.
ing more.
The unjustifable quarantine can
only be considered an officious out.
rage to every coast town and an intel
ligent public.
Mrs. Thomas Gilmore and family,
who have been summering in our de-
IUlEfhfesai u resort I rstqWygesekk +" ~
HMAY be a wise health regulation
that our fishermen are not allowed to
20 a few rods from shore to catch fish
for themselves and neighbors.
1t Is a pity that 1900" cases OF some
sickness with no deaths resulting
therefrOm should turn the heads OF
young M. DIS sent out as experts.
Since the ''powers that be" declare
1t dangerous tor piney-wOod stock TO
be brought to town our butchers are
making Il pull on dry COWS in town.
The work Of fumigating goes steadi.
ly on, infected places are being looked
after and such things as cannot be
washed or otherwise cleaned are being
burned.
With scarcely an exception our ole
citizens with much genuine yellow
fever experience here aud elsewhere,
do not believe there has been a cast
here this season.
The quarantine caught our frnit
dealer out OF town fora day, anC
there he is kept leaving his wife al N,
and helpless. Almost brutal az wei
as senseless.
While our undertaken O'Keefe i.
smiling over the good health of Oul
citizens, he finds II delicious sitting
around from day to day with little tt
do but feed his stock.
Several residences, hotels AMI board
ing houses where THE fever has pre-
vailed have not received a visit from
the expert" fumigators, microbist!
and germ" exterminat0rs.
Marshal Geo. A. Tardy has a GAM
Of some forty men at work on til,
streets, and Is giving them a thorough
cleaning. All wet places are being
filed with lime and cOpperaS, ant
all grass and weeds being cut dOwl
and burned.
DR.. Ed. r. Bragg, who went from
here from a sick bed to Lookout Noun
tain with his family to recuperate
has been under guard up there. IL
has so far regained his health as to b,
able to return home on Wednesday.
Our executive any crowd procla
nation closed Sunday-schOOls an,
churches, but does not seem to pre-
| vent an almost continuous crowd nea
His Honor's residence and the POST
office corners where the shOo tim /
done. '
Col. r. A.. Vancleave, OF Ocea,
| Springs says: II have been throug
yellow fever epidemics Of 1875 and 1871
and according to my experience an
observation no yellow fever exists q
has existed in Ocean Springs"
The furniture which was located /
the Catchot building, and to whic
attention was called by the death
Mrs. Saunders, after being thorough
fumigated, was taken outside the cit
limits this morning and burned.
was found, on Investigation by I'll
State Board, that the furniture ha
been brought from Pensacola, an
that there had been several suspicion
cases Of fever In that locality. The
is hardly a question but that Il
dread germs were brought here In tl
furniture, and those who were 10 clio,
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