The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-01-04
BOGUE CHITTO DOTS.
BY JEEMS.

Public school opened up in a lively
manner Monday.
Mrs. Bertha Wooten has retured
from visit to McComb City.
City officers were duly installed
Monday, Justice Albritton officiating.
House rent has taken a sudden jump
in this city. We are on boom
Head us!'
Quite a number of our young people
were "entertained" at Norfield last
Friday night.
One of our Bogue Chitto boys ate SC
much "candy and things" during
Xmas it made him sick.
1t looked mighty Railroads.&c. to see a
train load of cotton coming from the
east over the Keystone line this week
I. w. Tyler is frequent visitor to
our city. We sorter believe you want
to come back and live with us again
Ira.
Rev. j. A. Scarborough has just re-
turned from trip to Tangipahoa par
ish, La. He reports everything "quiet
along the Potomac"
A second class man is one who bor-
rows his neighbors newspaper rather
than subscribe for ii. Do you know of
anyone here who borrows THE LEADER?
Master Tallie Martin, little son of
Jno. o. Martin, of this city, had the
misfortune to get his hand badly
mangled by the explosion of a "Christ-
mas gun"
Our town officers are getting some
what in the condition that man said
of his wife's bonnet after he had pour
ed quart of molasses into it"a ID
of mess"
The trial of our city election contest
is set for next Thursday in Brookha-
ven before Judge Powell. May the
good Lord smile on everybody. Oh,
my! my head.
Our old time friend, E. B. White, of
Tryus, spent few days in our city re-
Gently, visiting his sister, Mrs. Ben
Bullock, and has our thanks for cash
favors for THE LEADER. Call again,
"Zeke."
Capt. e. B. Harris, our all-round,
clever depot agent, desires to keep
posted in county affairs and so ex-
pressed himself by turning in the
shining metal for THE LEADER, for
which he has thanks.
We never did claim to have had
wooden-legged chickens hatched out
on sawdust, but we are impressed that
you can compress SawduSt into the
shape of human head and stick it on
a man, after which he calls himself
"S-a-w-d-u-s-t."
So you took advantage of what little
popularity we have at Wellman and
treated yourself to a square Xmas
dinner, did you, Bro. Sawdust9 And
yet you claim that your telaphib
doesn't Operate" What's the matter
with you, anyhow?
Mr.. Thos. Burns, of the Indian Ter
ritory, spent the holidays with his
brothers, Arthur and "Dock," of the
Pleasant Hill community. Mr.. Burns
says the whites and the Indians are
getting nightly mixed out there by
intermarrying.
We shouldn't wonder if it isn't easier
for all the women in Alabama to kiss
Hobson than for Hobson to kiss all the
women. 1t would be heroic deed in
some of our old bachelors to volunteer
their services as Hobson's assistantants
and thus expedite business.
Those working bee hogs that swarm
ed at Wellman some time ago seem to
have settled in Mr.. Ryals' field, where
the corn is knee deep on the ground.
How did Mr.. Ryals manage to hive
them, Bro. Sawdust9 Do they sting?
And yet you say that the instrument
is not operated" at Wellman.
Mr.. Thos. Williams, of this city, who
has been inthe rice culture business at
Crowley, La, during the past year, has
returned, and has now made perma-
nent move to that point by taking his
family with him. Tom says it has been
a hard year on him, but he is convinced
bthat there is more money in rice cul-
ture than in saw milling and 4-cent
cotton.
Mr.. James Raiford, who lived in the
Topisaw vicinity, took trip to Louis
lana during Christmas, visiting his
wife's people, and was found dead on
the road during his stay in that section.
1t is question as to whether he was
killed by being thrown from his horse
or was foully dealt with. He is said to
have had $4,000 on him, but only
twenty could be found He was
| brought home for burial