The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-03-30

the dry weather last week hav
changed their tune.
Thad. Magee left for Washingto
City last week to accept a position wit
his brother, T. A. Magee, as trainer {
his string of horses.
Mrs. Josephine Martin, John Martin
Mrs. Ida Richards and Miss Davis hav
returned to Brookhaven to live. The
are cordially welcomed back.
The most engrossing attraction t
children that ever visited Brookhaver
will be Gentry's Dog and Pony Shov
which exhibits here next Friday.
Capt. and Mrs. Moreton and thei
daughter Miss Mary went to New Or
leans Tuesday evening, where Mis-
Mary goes to have her eyes treat ed b.
an oculist.
All juvenile Brookhaven is on tip
toe over the coming of Gentry's Dot
and Pony Show, which is billed to b,
here next Friday. The street parade
will be immense"
Where can you invest money more proftabl,
than by buying bottle of Prickly Ash Bitters,
You get four for one. A kidney medicine,
liver tonic, stomach strengthened and bowe
cleanser. -Four medicines for one dollar. Sole
by C. E. Grafton.
The lower part of the Court House
and the Jail are now illuminated night
ly with electric lights. There will be
two chandeliers in the court room up
stairs and two drop lights behind the
bar, and in the jury rooms, but these
have not been put in yet.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Henry and Capt
and Mrs. r. F. McGill, of Jackson,
came down last Friday afternoon to
attend the funeral of Mr.. Martin
Nalty. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry we're old
friends of the deceased and his family
during their residence here years ago,
and Capt. McGill is a brother of Mrs.
Nalty.
Geo. G. McClendon last week sold
his restaurant business to his partner,
W. L. Powell, who assumes all the liza
bilities of the firm and will carry on
The business at the same stand. Nc
Clendon & Powell have won an en-
7iable reputation in the restaurant
line, and Mr.. Powell proposes to keep
It fully up to the old standard, which
he is amply capable of doing.
All churches of the Fair River Bap-
list Association which have not al
ready contributed the $500 requested
If each church by the Association to
lefray the expenses of its delegate to
The Southern Baptist Convention, are
to do so without further
lelay. The Convention meets early in
May. Send the money to A. J. Martin,
Bogue Chitto, or to Rev.
E. P. Douglass, Clerk, Wesson.
Mr.. ]. M. May, jr., of Lincoln, and
Miss Maggie Seal, Of Copiah ounty
we're married on last Sunday at the
home of the BRIDES parents, Rev. r. j
Boone officiating. Mr.. May is one Of
our most worthy young countymen, ant
his fair bride, we are told, one in every
way deserving of the love of such {
man. The LEADER extends its sincere
and best wishes the
young couple the fullest measure o
Sheriff w. T. Ratcliff, of Kinds, wa
here Friday and Saturday, visiting hi
kinsman, Mayor j. B. Daughtry
The LEADER is indebted to him TO
an appreciated friendly call Saturda!
morning. For quarter of centur.
Capt. Ratcliff has faithfully servet
the Baptist denomination as Presi
dent of the Board of Trustees of Mis-
sissippi College, and is making Hind
one of the best Sheriff's she ever had
Assessor Cosnahan was in tow
Friday. Besides being one of the bes
Assessors in Mississippi, Mr.. Cosnahal
is fine farmer. He has ten acres O.
land on which he raised 80 bushels o.
corn to the acre last year. This yea
he has increased it's fertility and i!
going to plant for rs bushels per acre
He killed a Poland China hog thi.
winter that weighed 600 pounds
He has an established reputation il
and Wesson for raising
fine watermelons, and, as "a judge o.
horse flesh," is tout of sight"
If you have not seen them you ough
to call at Grafton's Drug Store anG
examine one of those pretty sets o
Paurs Writing Fluid. 1t consists of |
decanter-shaped bottle of fine blue
black ink, small ink-stand full of tn
same fluid, small stand of carmin'
ink and a mucilage stand filed will
the finest muciiage. The ink and mu
cilage stands are automatic, non-evap
Grating, absolutely non-spillable ant
the whole thing the neatest and mos
satisfactory small convenience we hav'
seen in many q day. If you accident
ally turn your ink stand over, yol
needn't get Hurried or alarmed or sa.
ugly words-it is all there when yo'
pick it up and you don't spill q drop
And moreover, the idle, meddlesom
flies that will be buzzing around you
desk all this summer, can't slip into i
The whole set complete sells for el.o(
and you will get 500 worth Of salts
faction out Of II in 90 days.