The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-07-22

ent enjoyed a pleasant evening.
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Miss Lilly Kay, of Whistler, Ala, is visit
ing the family of Mr.. F. NJ. Apperson.
They are putting on style lately. Wonde
If they expect to he admitted into society?
Miss Nora Nix, of Orange Grove, is the CUES
of Mr.. +. NJ. Apperson's family, on Silk Stock
ing avenue.
Miss Josie V. Allen is convalescing from Al
attack of malarial fever, and has returned t,
her home at Ocean Springs.
Master yalsin De Jean, the talented son o.
our thoroughgoing merchant, Mr.. l.. P. d,
Jean, is visiting friends IN New Orleans.
Mrs. Judge C.E Chidsey and mother, Mrs
X. L. Allen, returned home from Edholm
Neb., after a visit of nearly two months t.
Mrs. Aliens father.
The man who "walks by night" says he sees
very little OF the certain ladies since the shoul
der straps and uniforms have become such al
attraction to their female companions.
Mr.. Thos. Bowles, wife and two children
after a pleasant %sojourn at Pascagoula with
the family of Mr.. JAS. McFaul, left for Pensa'
cola Thursday.
The road in front of Gibbon & Sons resi-.
dence, Pascagoula, is in an impossible condi.
ton. The street commissioner had better
look after it at once.
Mr.. W. s. Meriwether, war correspondent OF
the New York Herald, stopped of here Thurs
day to visit his brother and family, and lett on
the late train tor New York.
The many friends of Mr.. Coen Higgins will
be proud and glad to learn that he has enlisted
in The First Regiment U. s. Volunteer En-
gineers. Coen writes us that his regiment is
the finest in the Union, and is fully equipped
and ready to leave for Porto Rico in about ten
days.
After a short illness Catherine Gibbons,
| wife of Mr.. j. II. Hardh, died at her home on
Pascagoula street at 2 O'Clock a. m. Saturday
last. Interment took place at p. m. the same
day at the Pascagoula Catholic cemetery, Rev.
Father Ten Brink, who attended her In her
last moments, officiating.
Last Sunday night five prisoners, one white
and four negroes, made a successful escape
from the county Jail by breaking the bar OF
one of the windows. The escape of these
transgressors is a misfortune, as the county
is full of crooks who need combining and ulti-
mately punished ion their misdeeds. The Jail
needs repairing bad aud otherwise made more
secure.
Lieut.. G.. B. Harper, of the First Mississippi
Regiment stationed at C~hickamauga, was in
Scranton last week seeking recruits, but he
never got a single soul who consented to 20
with him. lie thinks the mullet eaters n. e.,
and left with a big disgust on.
The county assessment roll is now on file in
the clerks office. Every tax payer Of the
county has a right to call and examine tie
roll; aud at the August term of the Board of
Supervisors, assessments can be changed by
the TAXPAYER making application, at the dis
erection Of the Board.
Capt. F., Clinton, managing owner of the
big schooner nearing completion at Gandy's
ship-yard, extends an invitation to all to wit
ness the launching of iihe1 essel Saturday at
ternoon. The dimensions of the schooner are
1872 feet long BY 81 feet beam and 10 feet depth
of hold.
DR.. Roger Post Ames, U. S. army surgeon,
Nineteenth U. s. Infantry, lamp, Fla, has
been detached from the regiment aud ordered
by the Secretary of War to proceed to San
tiago de Cuba, and report to Gen. Shalter for
duty. DR.. Ames is well known here, his faith
er Is an old summer resident of Pascagoula.
At a regular meeting of Mississippi Lodge
No. 50, X. of p, held July lith, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing term,
ending December 81, 1898; G.. D. Moore, G.. c.;
Will P. Ramsay, V. c.; W. D. Billiard, Pre-
late; Frank T.. Foster, NJ. Of W.; Robert
Walker, NJ. at A.; B. F. Browne, X. of R.&
$. and NJ. of F.. J. Y. Morgan, NJ. Of E.; j..
p. Fox, |. G.; Henry c. Uric, o. G.
Section 1907 of the dram-shop law Of this
State, reads as follows: at shall be a INSIDE
meanor for any licensed dram shop keeper to
use or permit about the premises any screen, or
screen door, or any other thing or device by
which persons in the dramp-shop may be hid
den from public view; or to carry on the dram
shop business except in the front part Of the
building, in which it is conducted; to permit
any minor to come into and remain in the
dram shop. And in case of conviction he shall
be fined not less than $25 nor more than $500,
and be imprisoned not less than one day nor
more than three MONTHS
For sometime past our enterprising aud
genial boniface, Mr.. J. A. Miller, whose first
thought has always been for the comfort of
his guests, has felt the time was ripe for a
general change in the arrangement and mass
agement Of his hotel. Less than a year ago
he built an elegant addition to his hosiery
and furnished his bedrooms op-to-date. His
latest Improvement is in his spacious dining
room. The walls are decorated beautifully
with the latest design 10 wall paper. A mag
nifcent side board filed with cut glass and
silverware. New tables, chairs and tableware.
Fine dsmask linen cloths and napkins, display
the determination Of our landlord to spare no
expense in making his house the very finest
on the Coast. The new butler is the right
man in the right place, add Scranton has rea-
son to be proud Of her hotel and its very cap.
able proprietor.
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