The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-03-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
News Items Of Interest Gathered from
Various Sources.

The weather Is surely warm for
March.
Profs. Pate and Evans spent Satur-
day in Mobile.
Mr.. T0ribio Castancra is in Biloxi
visiting friends.
Mrs. Mckay Cowan spent a few days
OF last week in Mobile.
The steam tug Fox was laid up the
first of the week for repairs.
Mr.. Emile Herrin spent Saturday
and Sunday in the Gulf City.
Ladies can find a beautiful stock Of
shirt waist sets at j. W. Stewards.
The O'Leary mill planer is running
night and day ON account OF SO many
orders.
MI. G. W. Jackson has been on the
sick list, Tut we are glad to know lie
Is better.
Mrs. lyon Griffin has returned from
ChicOra, where she has been visiting
relatives.
Mr.. j. w. Stewart, the affable drug
gist Uf this place, visited the Crescent
City Wednesday.
Mrs. Charley Barnett returned home
from Enterprise, Miss, where she has
been visiting relatives.
Hon. M. NJ. Evans left Sunday to
attend the meeting OF the Railroad
Commission at Jackson.
Fran, the little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. l.. Dantzler, has been quite
sick, but she is better now.
After a pleasant visit Of three
months with relatives in Mobile, Miss
Daisy Graham has returned home.
Mrs. (Dr.) W. II. Thompson and
Mrs. G. II. Wood were among the call
ers at the Randall " this week.
Capt. II. T. Erickson attended the
marriage of Miss Kornbeck and Mr..
Latil at Ocean Springs Saturday last.
Little Edna, the daughter Of Capt.
and Mrs. Harrison, has been quiet
sick, but we are glad to know that she
is improving.
A new lot of nrst.class jewclry,
bought from reliable jewelry houses,
Of New York, has just been opened up
at }. W. Stewards drugstore.
The schooners Robt. A. Snyder and
Oscar g., are loading cargoes Of lum-
Der at the L. N. Dantzler Lumber
COmpany's mills this week.
Mr.. A. S. Bonn, of Mobile, of Messrs
Hunter, Behn & Co., the leading ship
pers of timber and lumber Of tho
South, was Il business visitor hert
this week.
1t Is only fair to the two young mer
in Messrs. Hunter, Benn & Cos. office
to state that they both disclaim any
knowledge whatever OF the gallant
rescue recorded in this column lasl
week.
Mr.. Lewis p. Herrin, erstwhile one
of the boys" here, but now connect
ed with ROblnson's Saw and Lumber
Co., at ChicOra, was home to see his
people last Sunday, and returned thai
night.
Mrs. Winnie E. Howe, the beloved
wife of DR.. II. ID. Howe, after a Ions
and lingering illness, died Monday
March q, 1898, aged SO years. A NOR,
extended notice will appear in thu
next issue of the DEMOCRAT-STAR.
Vicksburg Dispatch: Mrs. l.. N
Dantzler, who has been on a delight
full visit to her mother, Mr.. NJ. Z
Hunt, returned home this week, vi;
Meridian. Mrs. Dantzler is expected
to be in Vicksburg again in May, ant
her friends look forward to that tim,
with a great deal Of pleasure.
The present management OF thu
Moss Point and Pascagoula Railroad
are dong all in their power to pleas
the public. They deny the statemen
made last week that their train is no
kept in a clean condition. We ar,
pleased to make the correction.
A call upon the Moss Point publ
school, in charge of Mrs. j. G. Lauren
dine and Miss Hill, displayed a degre
of delapidatiOn beyond all cOmparI
son. Mrs. Laurcndine instructed TIL
caller on the qualifications rcQuisit
for the getting Of a certificate, whic
so interested the caller tina
he read up the statutes, but he failc
to find any section which required
first or second grade teacher to use
Ratchet and saw for the erecting
her own benches for the children
sit on, or a clause which required eac
child to pay ten cents each per mont
for a tumbled down school room.
Biloxi Herald: The p%rOtracted NEE
ing at the Methodist church close
Tuesday night, having been largel
attended throughout and followed b
the most satisfactory results. Thel
were about eighty conversions an
about forty accesSl0ns to the churcl
Rev. DR.. Inman Cooper, of Moss Poin
who preached during tho meeting
made a most favorable impression u
:. on his auditors, both as a fOrcible ar
r effective preacher of the gospel and
a man Of exalted picty. He mat
: many friends during his stay her
and will always have Il warm pla
In their hearts. The benctlcent |
s fluenccs Of the meeting are too apps
ent to be questioned.
1t Is with much regret That Mo
Point society has been forced TO pa
= with Miss Minnie Barnes, Of Dem0l
Il lis, who has been visiting her frieI
Miss Eleanor Beardslee, for the pi
% three weeks. Miss Minnie return
home last Monday morning, leavi
behind her many who will miss
Is and remember her for her winni
ways and sunshiny disposition. COl
n again, Miss Minnie, and you will II
!, the warmeSt kind OF welcome ava
" ing you. No..
" Program for the next meeting OF :
- Hypathcan Society. to be held az u
~ residence of Mr.. G. II. WOODS:
i Essay on Kindness. Prof. M. q. Eva
u Music (vocal) Miss Bertha Beardsl
y, Readinv MI. j. \. 4. Blum
Is Music inst. J.. Miss Isabelle Lienha
= Recitation ...... Mrs. Geo. W. ONE
'r Music ~(vocal) .r~, Miss Bette Blum
n.,Jr Mr. I q Knuudc :