The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-04-06
GRAND BAY, ALABAMA.
MARCH q, 1900.
Life Is not all.

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Bad rainy weather here this week.
but it Is an ill wind that blows no
body good" More rain the faster the
grass grows and the happier the poor
cattle will be. for they are poor, so
poor that it seems strange how they
live.
The farmers and truck gardeners are
getting a move on them. and all seem
tO he in good hope for linc crop.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. N. Howland, OF
Orange Grove were visitors to Mr.. and
Mrs. J. W. Schcl last week. What a
pity it Is that this country is not peo.
pied entirely with citizens of the kind
of "Jim" IIowIand and his wife.
Well. now there was another birth.
day In the Hamilton family, and we
celebrated IL in great shape. We had
IA dinner, and such a dinner! l cannot
tell yon all there was good to eat, but
there was chicken fixings and cake,
aud wine world without end. Mr.. Ellis
Hamilton celebrated his twenty.Afth
birthday. and this Iribe wishes him
a repetition OF that day for many
years to come. The Hamilton family
Is a large one, but not quite large
enough to furnish birthday each week
during the year. and I reckon 1t Is a
good thing. for II 1t was so it would
be a kind of a happy "land Of Canaan
affair, all eating and drinking. l don't
know about the singing unless OLD
man Bob would sing. l hayn't heard
him sing, but III tell you what he can
do. Hc can make a "stir-ab0ut In
a "yaller bowl all serene, and to
stand by and watch him manipulating
that spoon one Is reminded ut once OF
what DIR. Holmes said about Miles
Standish when tile latter stirred the
punch with his sword:
He stirred the iery Hollands In
The man who never feared
HI took n long and and solemn draught
And ~ipcd his yellow beard.
And one by one the Muskectera,
The men who fought and prayed.
Each drank as twas his mothers milk
And not y man afraid"
On Wednesday, the 2lst inst, the
election Of c0lrnty Officers for Mobile
county occurred. John F. Powers wins
for sheriff, and Dorian for tax cOllcc-
tor. There was some tall wire pulling
going on, but the results showed that
the most popular candidate won. Ger.
tainly one good deed was the re-elec-
tim OF h. L. Hamilton for road and
revenue commissioner. He has been
good and faithful 0ffic;al, and his
work on the county roads shows for
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During the high.watcr large quan.
tity OF saw.lOgs floated dawn D0g
river and Big Creek. All of this means
business and good times for the mill
men and lah0rcrs OF Moss Point and
Scranton. Let the good work W on ;
the more lumber manufactured the
better times fOr US all. For one u
stand and lmk into these juniper
brakes would, " unacQuainted with
THAR value, ask himself what they
were gooh fur besides raising mecca
sins and rattlesnakes. Now, II you
tlisten you will hear the sound NJ the
axe away In the midst os that uyl,
swamp. What * the meaning NJ II
A man Ia getting jumper knees 10 bt
nnsted tO the Scranton ship yards. and
there TO be used In the building 0l
vessels. Tie man who cuts these
knees gets we'll paid for his labor.
This ID al. am "A hearty a. a fOuI
time winner. Tho dogs are all alive
yet and 70 h the cat,
EAGLES NEST,
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