The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-03-29
BoeUE CHITro DOTS.
BY JEEMs.

We are "behind with our haulin'."
We are going rabbit hunting before
long.
And the tongue is fire, world of
iniquity." (Jas. 3:6.)
Have your picture taken before it is
everlastingly too late.
The ladies of the Baptist church or
ganized an aid society recently.
We notice many carloads of ferti-
liZer going out over the Keystone line.
This scribe has few seed peas for
sale. Don't everybody speak at once.
R.Q. Easterling is in low state of
health at his brother Dunk's of this
city.
We note several new residences GO
ing up at Thayer, our little neighbor-
in-law.
"For where envy and strife is, there
is confusion and every evil work. +"
JAS. 3:16.)
Dunk Easterling says the county
couldn't do better than to elect him
treasurer.
Justice Albritton, after wrestling
several weeks with the grip, is able to
come to town again.
Boys, if you have failed to get job
at the mill, we can tell you where you
can get good job on the farm. o.
Miss Bessie Brister, the charming
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. B. E. Brister,
came home from Columbus for few
days.
Drs. Charley Thompson and Emmett
Brister have returned from Atlanta,
where they have taken course in
dentistry.
Mr.. Ed. Brent, our clever racket
store man, expects to go to Memphis
in the near future where he will take a
course in dentistry.
Quite lot of our colored people are
in the lumber business, that is they
are numbering up and down the creek
with their fishing tackle.
The Keystone Lumber Company are
RELAXING their railroad track with
heavy railing preparatory to pushing
their road through to Monticello.
Little Emmett Hurst, while placing
lumber in the top of one of Brister's
lnmber stalls, fell twenty feet and re-
ceived injuries that may result in his
death.
We looked in ON Judge Truly's
court in Magnolia recently and saw
good deal of smoking going ON in the
court house yard. Everyone speaks in
the highest terms of the new Judge.
In his prayer, we once heard a good
deacon ask the Lord to give us God
fearing men to rule over us and the
next day while talking politics he re-
marked that if his party were to nom
mate ''yaller dog" he would vote for
him. Prayer is serious matter, but
politics is funny, very funny.
Monday evening, the Goth, was JOY
full time at the home of Rev. and Mrs.
j. A. Scarborough. They invited their
near neighbors in to partake of
sumptuous supper given in honor of
the recent return of their soldier boy,
Lonnie. 1t also being the birth day
of their daughter, Miss Laura. Lonnie
is in perfect health and speaks in the
highest terms of Uncle Sans deport
ment toward him.
On hearing that we were threatening
to go into the farming business to some
extent. our true and tried friend, Geo.
W. Reeves of McComb City, sent us a
nice lot of his fine seed corn and fur
thermore his noble wife and sweet
spirited, charming daughters, Misses
Isabel and Ella, whole ears are ever
open to the cries Of the distressed,
sent us nice mess of green's, and with
gratitude in our heart we were per-
mitted to eat of the fruit of their do
ings. They were an odor of sweet
smell, good ladies. May you be re-
warded according to your works.