The leader., 1897-03-24
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
TOWN AND COUNTY.

last wednesday. |
If you can't do anything else, keep
your mouth shut.
Last Saturday was the ideal spring
day Of the season.
Robert Jordan is winning fame as a
first class photographer.
Rev. w. p. Price was the recent
guest of DIR. and Mrs. Barber.
Il. w. Davis was warmly greeted by
old friends several days last week.
The protracted rains are interfering
with gardening and farming operations.
Miss Sherman, lovely Grenada
belle, is the guest of Mrs. u. d. Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Anderson. of
Wesson, spent Sunday with relatives
here.
Mrs. Will McGrath has returned
after enjoying weeks visit to New
Orleans
We hear of another prominent citi-
zen and his family who will soon re-
move to Jackson.
Remember the Lincoln County Sun.
day School Convention-April 18th
and 10th at Caseyville.
DIR. John T. Longino, of Silver
Creek, returned from the Louisville
Medical College last week.
All the aching teeth in town sus-
pended last Friday while Dentists
Watts and McNair were consolidating.
The Package Party at the elegant
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. F. II. Hart
man was an immense success, Friday
night
The LEADER has just received fresh
lot of pretty visiting cards of the lat
est style. They are cheap, too. Send
in your order.
Tornado insurance is too CHEAP for
property owners to be without policy.
For particulars, call on J. f. Miazza,
Insurance Agent.
A number of ladies have been made
happy over their flowers - splendid
plants and bulbs-received from w.
II. Cassell. of Canton
DR.. E, H. Mounger, Presiding Elder
of this district, will fill the pulpit at
the Methodist church next Sunday at
IL a. m. and I BOP m.
There are some things "past find
ing out !" and one is how printer can
spoil copy so that the writer can hard
ly recognize his own sfist"
Bennett Chandler, one of the coun-
tvs most estimable young men, left
last week for Montgomery, Ala, where
he is attending business college.
'The new spring bonnet" is marring
the dreams of many a benedict as the
Hamilton and McGrath millinery OPP
enings approach. But then-they are
so cheap
|. M. G. Smith (''Mack"), postmaster
at blacksmith, Lawrence county, was
in town Monday. Mr.. Smith has re-
Gently moved his family to Bogue
Chitto and opened hotel near the de-
pot.
Zuia Parsons, one of the city's sweet
est little girls, charmingly entertained
at her home on Monday evening, a !
large number of her young friends, the
occasion celebrating her eleventh
birthday.
Mr.. Chas Hamilton and Misses AID |
die McNair and Lee Crutcher have
been elected delegates from the Pres
byterian Sabbath school to the CON
vention which meets at CaseyviIle. |
Let all schools send delegates.
The wet weather has kept many gar
dens from being planted while the
'early birds" who sowed at the first |
dawn of the season have been prosper
ing. No freeze yet and everything
as lovely as spring time can make it.
The LEADERS job printing depart
ment is gaining reputation away
from home, as we'll as here. Dur.
ing the past ten days it has done print
ing for customers in three other Mis- |
sissippi towns, one of them 70 miles
distant.
Mr.. j. b. Nalty is still confined to
his room on account of injuries re-
ceived in the recent run away accident.
Though no bones were broken, the
shock to his spine and hip was very Sc
we're and painful. He hopes to be at
his post again in a week or two more.
Miss Mary Henry is again presiding
over the preparatory department at
Whitworth, after very serious illness.
DIR. Wesley Martin is a physician of
long experience but he must feel a
just pride in the several dangerous
cases through which he has brought |
his patients successfully during this
term. Whitworth sings his praises.
THE LEADER learns that Martin Nal
ty will probably be an applicant for
the postmastership at this place under
the new Administration. Mr.. Nalty
has long and consistent record as a
aud many friends who are
influential in Republican councils, and
II ne decides to seek the position, viii
stand an excellent chance of securing
he plum. /