The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-02-03

Nos. ! and do not stop al nag stauOns. NOS rs
and "a stop at all stations. Trains Nos. and
with vestibule cars) stop only at Hammond,
McComb City, Brookhaven Haziehurst, Crystal
SPRINGS .n s99 esr snd
not 20 north OF Memphis, Tenn.
~ Trains both ways make clsse connection
with all OF the l. C. branch roads.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Where is the "Jolly Quartette"
Little Mary Leary has been quite
sick.
Many were "down on the snow" last
week
Mrs. S. A. Cook was quite ill last
week.
Mr.. Jordan's name is added to the
list of the sick.
"Old beautiful snow'-"Win-
ter-lap-Spring."
Hunting was great sport to a number
Of Nimrods last week.
"When the roses come again"-mean-
time, push up the fire!
Mrs. T. G. Maxwell has been quite
ill for number Of days.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. B. King are now
boarding at the Jones Hotel.
Don't think that your leisure is a
valid claim to another's time.
Rev. w. P. Price will occupy the
Baptist pulpit next Sabbath.
John Willoughby, of Summit, visited
Brookhaven friends Sunday.
A little Of the sleet and ice Of a
week ago was visible yesterday morn
ing.
Miss Jane Linton had the misfortune
to fall and dislocate her shoulder last
Friday.
The LEADER has one of the best
equipped job printing departments in
the State.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. II. Chandler have
been struggling with long siege of
the grippe.
Mrs. Crutcher and Misses Lee and
Annie Lee have all been quite SICK
very recently.
Mr.. Leigh Watkins, of McComt
City, was a recent visitor to Mrs. A. G
Seavey and family.
j. F. Greer Is gradually recovering
from his recent injuries and yesterday
made trip to Monticello.
Mr.. lack Hoskins has been keeping
up with the procession and the onward
tread of King La Grippe.
Mr.. and Mrs. McMaster, Mr.. an(
Mrs. Redding moved into Judge Gas
sedy's newly purchased residence OIL
Monday.
The funny man of the Picayune says
that some people think the new fash
toned trousers are a "fit"; but hi
thinks they are more like "convul-
sion"
Ira Parsons, faithful son to de
voted mother, came to her sick bed
side from Tulane University last week
Mrs. Parsons is reported to be i'm
proving.
Let us take courage amid the raya
ges Of disease and the frownine
weather-god-"the lizards will crawl
and the birds sing and the flowers
bloom again."
Bro. Hobbs, Of the Brookhaven
LEADER, is getting up an excellent
local paper. But then, Bro. Hobbs is
a newspaper man ITO the manor born u
-Wesson Mirror.
Tom Moore, who still stands at the
throttle on Moreton & Helms dummy
line, WIS in town Sunday. We regret
to learn Tn, Mrs. Moore's health con-
tinues very pr,> earious.
President Cham bers has been ad-
vertising in adjoinin,s county papers
the Faculty Recital for 'eA' mofaas
evening. 1t will doubtless b. sft"'
rious and f,rds III, the
College Library.
Mrs. L. T. McRee, who succeeded
her husband, s. P. McRee, in the mer-
camille business at Caseyville, made
an assignment for the benefit of her
creditors yesterday, with L. C. Apple
white as assignee. Liabilities are re-.
ported to be about 81 400, with assets
considerably below these figures.
There were none on last Sabbath
morning to whom the sad tidines
came, whose hearts failed to respond in |
tenderest sympathy to the sudden
sorrow that had visited the home of
Conductor and Mrs. John G. Ford
turing the night previous. Their in
ant child, John Griffith, was found
lead In its mothers arms, who's a |
Warmth and love had no power to st,4y
he relentless hand of Death.
Quite q fattering congregation az.
embed at the Baptist Church last
'sbbath morning to hear the ir ,itial
ermon Of the new pastor, Rev. Wv. p
'rice, who made q fine impr ession
pom his attentive listeners WI lille he
arnestiy proclaimed the truths of
70 Gospel and exhorted all Chris tsans
, endure hardness as a good sold ierr
ne evening service was again pre-
snted by q steady rain "a ,..,thI