The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-06-29
TOWN AND COUNTY.

Mrs. P. z. Jones and children visited
Monticello relatives last week
Mrs. Tint Schaller visited her sister
Mrs. b. d. Bishop, at Monticello las
week.
Mrs. John Mason was the guest of bel
son Sydney A. Mason, of McComb, las
week.
Little Miss Winifred Mason i.
spending vacation with relatives al
McComb.
The lucious watermelon is in evi
dence. They made their first appear
ance on the streets last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Girard, of Match
ez, who have been visiting relative.
here for the past week, will return
home today.
Silas Davis pleasantly entertained a
large number of little friends yester.
day evening, the occasion being his
18th birthday
Misses Maggie McGrath and Aileer
Becker attended the commencement
exercises at st. Marys Institute, Chat
ava, last week.
Miss Alice Davis is now engaged as
assistant book keeper and shipping
clerk at the express office and Perkins
furniture store.
Rev. w. P. Price has been conducting
revival meeting with the Magnolis
Baptist church, assisted by Rev. j. X
Pace, of Hazelhurst.
The postoffice has been repapered
and painted. Postmaster Jobes has also
added As new lock boxes and otherwise
improved the arrangement of the office.
Judge Cassidy has been retained as
leading counsel for j. B. Harrington.
who killed Duke Mock at Roxie last
week. Harrington and Mock were rep
resentatives of two of the wealthiest
families in Franklin county.
Mrs. j. Sachs and Mr.. Leon Fass,
who have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs
h. L. Scherck, left Monday for Green.
vile, where they will attend the wed
ding of Mr.. Nathan Fass and Miss
Lillian Bergamon on the Doth inst.
DIR. G. II. Trotter, of Norfield, was
in the city yesterday, and paid this Of
flee pleasant business call. Just a,
this time our alert society reporter is
unable to decide whether Brookhaver
Is going to gain the genial doctor AS g
permanent resident or lose some one
else.
Mr.. l. w. Hoskins will push the or
ganization of his company in order tc
have it ready to form part of the 3rd
Mississippi Regiment, which will soou
be called. Now is the time for patriot
&c young men to enlist. Address him
at Brookhaven for all information de-
sired.
The Copiah Signal says the salary
of the Wesson postmaster has lately
been increased $4,000 per annum on
account of the increased patronage
The salary of our Brookhaven P. NJ.
has been increased twice for the same
reason within the past four years, the
last increase being in March. 1t is now
$1,000 per annum.
The Annual Fourth of July Picnic
at Cold Springs will be full of interest
this year, as usual, only little more
SO. Read the very attractive program
of the day published in today's LEAD
Err. The person in this locality who
doesn't celebrate the Fourth at Cold
Springs is not in the style. THE
LEADER contingent acknowledges an
appreciated invitation from the man
agement to participate in the festivi
ties.
Mr.. Walter Johnson, business mana
ger of the Jackson Evening News, was
in town yesterday in the interest OF
that excellent and wide awake daily
and favored this Office with pleasant
call. AS an evening paper, the News
now has the run in Brookhaven, get
ting here ahead of all others with the
latest war news, in less than hours
after it leaves the press. 1t is one of
the papers of Mississippi that has met
with phenomenal success.
Summit entertained the Baptist
State Convention in 1893, and the
Summit people were SO well pleased
with their guests that they invited
the convention to come back the fol
lowing year. And the delegates were
all SO well pleased with the hospit
able and whole-souled way Summit en-
tertained them, they would have &C
cepted, had it not looked like showing
partiality to one section of the State
Brookhaven must not be outstripped
By her little neighbor. II We do tbs
Delegates may not only not want t.
come back. but be sorry they ever
came at al.