The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-03-12


spring commences.
There was n man in our office the other day
who told us how to run the DEmOCRAr-STAR.
OF course we thanked him, but we will run our
paper to suit %ourself,
Mr.. Ora =. Rolls has accepted a position
with his father in Mobile, at which city his
wife will join him in few weeks, where they
will permanently reside.
Our Jackson county people ought to quit
burying their gold and silver in fence corners,
aud put it in the Scranton State Bank, where
it will be safe until called for.
The fun and frolic people are now clothed in
sackcloth aud ashes. Forty DAYS seem a long
time to fast and praS and abstain from all
worldly pleasures and %enjoyments.
Mr.. P. X. McBryde, who has been teaching
the public school at Basin, the term being out,
has left for New Orleans. He will probably
return aud teach the summer term.
The life and speeches of the late Col. l.. Q.
C.. Lamar ought to be in the home Of every
Jackson county family. A.. MCGREGOR, Moss
Point, is the agent for this county.
Every citizen Of Jackson county ought to be
a regular subscriber to the DEMoCRAr-STAR
in order to keep posted on the affairs of the
county. Only 81 a year in advance. All home
print.
The cash in charge Of the treasurer of the
Shell Road Fund is getting very low in the
barrel. In order to complete the shell road
more money will have to be collected by the
committee.
When the Scranton State Bank building is
completed Scranton can then boast of having
three fine, commodious brick building. We
hope other such buildings will 60 up in the
near future.
Mr.. NJ. f. McBryde, principal of the Van
cleave public school, left for his home at Edin-
burg, Leake county, last week, as the winter
term of the school Is out. He will return and
teach the summer term.
Mrs. Lena Gu.rcro and fascinating
daughter, Miss Josephine Valce, OF Hous-
ton, Texas, are visiting Mrs. +. Morlet on
Pascagoull street. MS. Gurrero is a Sis
Ter of the late Edw. Morlet.
Mr.. and Mrs. 7, A. Ledbetter, prominent
people of Columbus, Ga, stopped here last
Friday on a visit to their friends, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. Mitchell. They were en- route home from
the Carnival at New Orleans.
Mrs. W. 7. Patterson, Of Shubuta, accom-
panied by MISS Annie Beard, was ii recent Wis
itor to her nephew, DR.. A. c. Timer, on Pas
cagoula street. Miss Beard, who still fingers,
will leave for home Saturday.
The property holders of Scranton are i'm
patiently waiting for our City Fathers to pro-
vide water for fire purposes. The town is at
the mercy of the fre.bugs. Something ought
to be done at once. Delays are dangerous.
We observe that Messrs. Mead Bros. are
manufacturing ~ciStcrns at their mill on the
Pascagoula river. As rain water is the purest
that Scranton will soon he well supplied with
many of their c%islerns.
Those enterprising merchants Messrs. Davis
Bros, of Ocean Springs, being apprehensive
OF our welfare during the absence of our wife,
sent us wi.li their compliments a loaf Of de-
llcious creamery bread made at their bakery
by Eugene Hing, baker. Thanks.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Pelham went to New Or
leans last week with their little son Walter,
where DR.. Matas performed a successful OPP
Grafton on Walter for a deformity of his right
foot. Mrs. Pelham will remain in that city I'M
til her little son is entirely recovered.
The Life and and Speeches Of the Late Col.
l.. Q. c. Lamar, a handsome volume of several
hundred pages, published By Judge Il. Mayes,
ought to be in the hands of every Mississip-
plan. Price So. ANDREW MCGREGoR,
Moss Point, Miss.
Last FRIDAY night at about II o'clock the
store of Mr.. A. Soderstrom at Pascagoula was
entirely DESTROYED by fire. The building and
stock was insured in the Hartford and London
and Liverpool and Globe Insurance Com
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known.
DR.. A. c. Smith, L, s. marine surgeon at
Ship Island, was here Tuesday for the pur-
pose of inspecting the quarantine station at
Round Island, and also looking after the quar-
antine boat now undergoing repairs at the Moss
Point foundry. DR.. Smith was well pleased
with his visit.
The brick supplied for the new Scranton
State Bank building were manufactured at
Moss poiut by Mr.. 4. 3lumer and prove TO be
of the best quality. 1t is Of the first import
ance that home made material completes sue
c~essfully with any that can be supplied by
other places.
Messrs. Geo. 7. Rossou & Co., in connection
with their oyster business are engaged in
shipping dressed cat fish, principally to the
West. The fish are caught in the upper Pas
cagoula river and are brought to the packing
house, where they are prepared for market.
1t is proving TO be a profitable branch.
On Monday Mr.. W. J.. Piper left for Monet,
Mo-, his former home, in a freight car which
he had chartered for the trip. He took with
him all his possessions, consisting of two
horses, one COW, furniture and a quantity of
lumber. His wife will remain here for some
time yet, closing out her millinery business.
There was an interesting sight on the river
front Tuesday when the following tugs were
moored at Mitchel's, Flanagan's and Coles
wharves, viz: Leo, Fox, Nellie, Victor, Eva,
Native, L. S. Grant, Ned Robinson, William
Orion, steamboat Naleda and the schooners
Lillian A. and Bessie. These vessels run TO
and fro in the island and river trade, and are
engaged in towing lumber, freishts aud ocean
schooners.
Mr.. John Alexander, Of Mobile, who was
5 employed on the dredge Jumbo, now en-
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