The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-22
LOCAL DEPARTMENT
TOWN AND COUNTY.

The Railroad has suspended work al
the gravel pit.
Gasoline will clean gloves and hats
For sale at Leary's.
Mrs. Linton and her sister, Mrs. Lee
have both been very ill.
mr. Miles Nerve Plasters for Rheumatism.
Ben Wilson is again with s. Alcus
at Summit, as bookkeeper.
The little daughter of Mr.. l. c
Smith was very sick Sunday.
Prof. Green and wife have moved in
to their handsome new home.
Chas. Chrisman's improved residence
is receiving new dress of paint.
Lonnie Schwem treated his patron!
to the finest of mutton and veal Sun
day.
Miss Elsie Bowman has left to take
charge of the public school at Bogue
Chitto.
Miss Mamie Hackney, of Wesson
= was the guest last week of Miss Mamyt
Cruise.
Mrs. w. A. Hoover, of McComb City
has been the guest of Miss Clara
Brewer.
If your me-keeper is out of order
carry it Thos. d. Evans at the Front
Street Drug Store.
Cotton is rolling in at lively rate
The staple is selling in Brookhaven to
day at from 6 to 6.121s.
Mrs. Mccormick, of Union Church
has been the guest of her daughter
Mrs. Chas. Oberschmidt.
Mrs. Mamie Winborne has returned
after spending a week with Mrs. Ell
Easterling at Moreton & Helms.
If there is any thing the matter with
your watch or clock, carry it to Thos.
d. Evans at the Front st. Drug Store
Rev. Chas. Oberschmidt has been
faithfully attending the sick bedside
of Mr.. Everett Smith, who is danger
ously ill.
Thos. D. Evans, the jeweler, can put
your watch in first class order. He
understands his business. Charges
reasonable.
Mr.. and Mrs. McMaster and Capt.
and Mrs. Wright now occupy the PEI
fer residence lately vacated by the
Misses Mikell.
Fire has been comfortable the last
two mornings. The thermometer reg
istered 40 both mornings-just 7 de-
grees above the frost line.
The yellow fever scare has not sub
sssided and all our citizens who have
friends or relatives in the Crescent
City are feeling apprehensive.
Rev. r. j. Boone has been confined
at home by illness since last Saturday
the result of stomach trouble and over
work. May he soon recover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Magee, of Frank
lin, have become next door neighbors
to THE LEADER. Mr.. Magee has Sc
cured position at the compress.
Mrs. z. d. Davis and Silas returned
from Mont Eagle last Thursday. They
had good deal of trouble running the
gauntlet of guarantees north of Jack
son.
eB Harris Practical Business Col
lege, Jackson, Miss, will refund hall
your tuition under their guarantee
plan if they fail to secure you situa.
ton.
Miss Lizzie F. Cruise, after two
months vacation with her parents
has returned to Elizabethton, Tenn,
where she has accepted a position as
principal Of the public school.
a. Mi5ses Maggie Flood, Maggie Nc
Grath, Edna Anding, Messrs. Eugene
Mccormick, Pete Cantoni and Martin
Flood visited Browns Wells last Sab
bath and spent delightful day.
Perhaps it is not generally known
that the principal of Brookhaven's
Graded Public School holds a profess
sional license, being one of only three
in the State who bears this distinction
Miss Sue Stewart Stevens Brookha-
ven friends regret that she will not be
one of Whitworth's faculty this ses-
sion. She has engaged to teach an elo'
cution class at Millsaps College and
has also large private class of pu-
pills in jackson, in all of which she has
the best wishes of many admirers.
The quarantine regulations were so
rigid in Pike that Rev. w. p. Price
was unable to come to Brookhaven last
Sabbath and occupy the Baptist pull
pit. Many of that congregation at
tended services at the Presbyterian
church and heard an earnest appeal
by Rev. Chas. Oberschmidt, from John
Sc.
Felix Wooten. aged 10 years, met
death suddenly last Saturday evening
by being smothered in seed cotton in
which he and number of children had
been playing. On resuming their
work In the field the other children
missed their companion and found him
dead In the cotton house. This was
an awful blow to the family and to his
teacher, Miss Cora Parsons, to whom
hs vas much attached. He was a
bxiGhf. lovable child, and the sympa-