Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-02-22
LOCAL. NEWS.

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LOCAL NEWS.
Today is washiugton's birth.
day.
al Jack oliver has been appoint.
ed bailin.
Ifyour horse needs shoeing,
20 to X. J. kaight.
Last Saturday was the coolest
day We have had this winter.
Mr.. J. T. Mooney, Of Taylor's
gave us a pleasant call Monday
All kinds of blacksmith work
= done at reasonable rates by X
J. knight.
wASrED-A bright boy to
J learn the printing trade. Apply
at this Office.
We regret To learn OF the seri.
Gus Illness Of the little son Of
. Mr.. John IIarkins.
Mr.. J. N. Mooney. OF Yellow
Leaf neighborhood, 10 quite i'll
/ with pneumonia.
s your buggy or wagon needs
y mending, secure the services of
= x. ). knight.
Mr.. WohllebeD was quite sick
las, week, but we are Cad to
learn he is improving.
Mr.. 4. X. Jones, of Liberty
Hill. was q pleasant caller at
The EAGLk office Thursday.
Mrs. Leila Butler has returned
from q visit TO her daughter,
Mrs. Murray Falkner, at Ripley
u We hear II rumored that mat.
|. 4 rimonial annexation is threat
ening to become epidemic in
= our town.
/ Mr.. A. ID. Patton and sister.
in.law, Mrs. j. 4. Patton we're
pleasant visitors to The EAGLE
}, Tuesday.
i Res. ". W. r. Bacon left Wed.
nesday for Toecopola to con
= duet u protracted meeting nj
that place.
Mrs. Agnes Kershaw left yes
terdsy for the Eastern markets
to buy a stock Of Spring millin-
|, cry goods.
9 MIR. Sam McCorkle was
thrown from HE horse last Fri
. day in front OF J. h. Nelson's
store aad seriously injured.
Mrs. Duncan, Of Yazoo City,
has presented the University
! with Ec -simile of the great
= seal Of the Confederate States.
= MIR. James Stephens and wife
left Saturday for Dublin. to &C.
cept the position 40 manager OF
the Delta plantation OF Mr.. W.
J. v. Sullivan,jr. ]
d There will be no entertain
}. ments at tho Opera House this
week. On Tuesday night DIR.
Grant will lecture, this being
one of the series Of the Stu.
h dents Lyceum Course.
The contest for the junior
= medal of the Hermean Literary
- Society will take place in the
q University chapel Friday night.
= The speakers will be Messrs.
y Rowan, Scale and Robertson.
: Buffaloe & Butler are having
I. their house of business repaper.
i ed, painted and otherwise i'm
u proved. 1t will be one of the
neatest establishments of the
kind in the city, when the work
is completed.
g Mr.. and Mis-. q. X. Smith and
: their interesting family have re.
4, turned from Iad:anola, and will
n contiane to make Oxford their
2. home. The EAGLE and hosts
. Of friends are glad to welcome
them back to our city.
Mr.. Robert J. Knight has
70 opened a blacksmith shop next
,e door to Mr.. Matthe VS. livery
n stable and will be glad to serve
9. customers at any time.
ID Mr.. W.. Goolsby, of the Cen.
y; ter Hill school, was in the city
D. Monday and reported his school
Ill as suspended for Two weeks on
ed account Of small pox among the
~ !, negroes ofthe neighborhood, as
nd some of the pupils had been ex-
r. posed to the disease.
We regret to learn of the
n. death OF Mrs. G.. w. Russell,
N. which occurred on the 10th,
e after y brief illness from measles
All Mrs. Russell was the wife Of G.
~ w. Russell and lived on Mr..
II. Eugene Andeson's place near
College Hill.
Miss Henrietta G. Little, for
several years q resident Of Ok