The leader., 1899-11-01
TOWN AND COUNTY.


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brief rain Saturday barely laid the
dust.
Buy tickets for the Baptist Oyster
supper.
Hon. P. z. Jones visited Topisaw last
Friday.
The Board of Supervisors will meet
next Monday.
Mrs. Henry Alcus was a welcome
visitor on Monday.
Mrs jamie Linton is entertaining her
new niece at Mrs Leary's home.
Silence is golden except in the case of
the merchant who will not advertise.
Advertising is usually worth what it
costs In THE LEBDER it is worth more.
Mrs. r. T. Scherck, who has been
visiting Chicago, arrived home last
Friday.
Houston Maxwell was jumping the
counter at Chas. Heuck & Sons last
Saturday.
WI. Parsons will erect a cottage
that is already rented near Mr.. Peet's
residence.
Mrs. Becky Lowell, of Fair River, is
now plving the needle and thread at
McGrath's.
Oyster supper next Tuesday night
for the benefit of the Baptist church
AT J. L. Storms.
Misses Theresa Mendle and Bertha
Berger visited Mrs S. Kemp of Halle
hurst last Sunday.
Mrs. Emma Lanier Hennis has been
kept away from McGrath's counters
for week by illness.
Mr.. Keen, the assistant barber of j.
O. Spence, is improving after siege
of 80 days with fever.
Last Saturday was one of Brookha-
vens busiest days large crowds In
town and buyer and seller made happy.
Mrs. Jas. Mccormick was summoned
to Moreton & Helms on Sunday, by
the illness of her brother, Mr.. Ham
Easterling.
Thos. D. Evans and family have
moved into one of the two cottages be
ing erected by Mrs. Dixon above Hon.
P. z. Jones' property
Blind tigers were abroad last Satur-
day and came near causing some serl-
Gus difficulties Why is it that our of
fcers with both eyes open can't cap
ture the animals
The remains of Conductor James
Mabry, who died at Brookhaven, Oct.
oath, from injuries received in train
collision. we're taken to Kosciusko and
and there laid to rest on the Goth.
Rev. Chas. Oberschmidt and family
were the recipients of voluntary gifts
for the ''inner man" on Monday night.
Their store room was bountifully
supplied by the Presbyterian congre-
cation.
Miss Jessie McNair will give Recital
at Heuck's Opera House on Thursday
night, Nov. 18th Miss McNair will be
assisted by Misses Hunt and Seavey
and the occasion promises to be brill
liant and interesting one.
S. F. Smurr, one of our most con
scientionus and worthy merchants, who
has passed his three-s score and ten, is
getting his business In shape to close
up by Jan. lst. We regret to see him
placed upon the retired list
The W. NJ. S.. of the Baptist church
after piecing their autograph quilt at
Mrs. Parsons last Wednesday, pre-
sented it to their president, Mrs. Vance
The quilt has already brought about
$4,000 with some blanks for names
still remaining.
Misses Emma and Carrie Hubener
and Julia Hoskins spent last Sabbath
IN Crystal Springs with Mrs. Annie
Hubener Appel. Miss Carrie had the
misfortune to be attacked again while
There with rheumatism of the spine and
brain and her condition causes ap-
prehension.
Misses Stella and Bennie Dunn, Josie
hurst, Fannie Cox and Messrs. Ben
Larkin, Milton Spurlock, Brooks New
man and Charlie Jordan were all visi
tors to Bogue Chitto last week, the in
Vltlng occasion being a delightful en-
tertainment at the home of Mrs. Allie
Martin of that place.
Mrs. Jordan was summoned home
from the sick bedside of Mrs. Robt
Jordan, at McComb, to attend heI
daughter, Mrs. ]. o. Spence. whose life
was despaired of Monday night. Mrs
Jordan has the sympathy of many warm
friends in her repeated trials through
serious illness in her family.
Christmas box was shipped from
brookhaven to Manila last week, via
oan Francisco, to A. M. Williams, Co
u 18th U, s. Volunteers, the edible
contents of which were purchased from
our enterprising groceryman, j. M
wood, by the young soldiers father, A
Williams, Of Wellman, We trust ole
Santa Claus will survive his ocean triT
and return with a sack full of little
Fillipinos" for our little Christian
children to play with.