The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-05-11

A card just received from the Reunion
Committee at Louisville secures good
board and lodging for fifteen of us at
the Reunion. II any of you wish to go
bestir yourselves and be down here on
Wednesday, 18th inst, at 3 p. m. to con-
fer in the matter. Fail not if you are
vets yet. Yours,
JOS. II. KREBs,
Commander l.. N. Dantzler Camp.
Scranton, May s, 1900.
Mullet are still jumping into the fry
ing pan. We still live.
Frying size chickens are awful scarce
-broilers are bringing % cents.
Mr.. w. ID. Billiard attended the Grand
LodsA Knights Of Pythias this week at
Columbus.
Mr.. r. A. Farnsworth and family re-
moxc4 to Pascagoula Tuesday for the
sunpler season.
Miss Matte Foxworth, of Columbia,
is visiting her relatives here, Mr.. j. I.
Ford and family on Pascagoula street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Y. Swartwout, of Swart-
won't, visited the EDITORS family on Pas
goula street this week.
Next Wednesday evening a garden
party will be held at the residence of
Mr.. Joseph T. Johnson for the benefit of
st. Peters chapel.
Miss Nelsena Nelson returned from
New Orleans Wednesday. She was ac-
companied home by Miss Clara Peters,
| who will remain for sometime.
Rey. Father Y. Slcvin, s. j., delivered
an eloquent cture on education We'd
uesday night an appreciative audience
at the church Of Our Lady Of Victories.
Miss Jessie Lynn, third assistant teach
| er in the public school here left last week
to join her parents at Prescott, Ark.
During her stay Miss Lynn made a host
of admiring friends in Scranton who re-
gret her departure.
At a meeting of the Pascagoula Com
mercial Club a committee was appointed
to consider the proprietyo of booming our
deep water port and the advent of the
Pascagoula and Northern Railroad by
holding a basket picnic OH the bay shore
on about July 4th.
Mrs. T.. Frank Griffin with her infant
left Wednesday for Meridian on a visit
to her parents, Dir. and Mrs. A. A. Ollie
hay. She was accompanied rs far as
Mobile by her husband, who attended
the Alabama Dental Association meet
ing held in that city.
The woods are ~resounling with shouts
from the children, ripping laughter
from the pretty maids, and the heartier
bursts of merriment from the men and
matrons, as they picnic beneath the
shade of the iuxufiant and sweet-scent-
ed magnolias on the shores Of Pasca-
gonla bay.
Bridge Foreman A.. j. Davis, who SUI
perviscd the work Of repairing the break
in the l.. & n. bridge at West Pasca-
goula, is entitled to great credit for the
manner in which the task was perform
ed. 1t is the intention of the Company
to rebuild the bridges over the three
rivers in so secure a way that there will
he little danger Of them being carried
away by any flood in the future.
Mr.. Walter M. Denny, Jr., has been APP
pointed a clerk in the census department
at Washington and will leave about the
18th inst. to assume the duties of his pc.
sition. Young Denny is eminently quail
flied for the place, and we join his many
friends in wishing him a profitable and
pleasant s%ojourn in tho National Capital.
The summer weather has set in and
brought in its train a large number of
sports, such as boating, fishing, bathing,
etc. The silvery waters Of the bay of
Pascagoula are dotted here and there
with white sails that are waited over
waves by the cool, delightful breezes
that render Pascagoula a fenown sum
mcr resort affording to its visitors com
forts and pleasures that are not found
at more fashionable and distant places.
Our postmaster, Miss r. Il. Delmas
has received a lot of stamp books. Books
with Il two-cent stamps sell for % cents
"a tw0-cent stamps, 40 cents; AZ two-cent
stamps, 81 cents. Between the stamps are
oiled sheets Of paper which prevent them
from sticking together, the books being of
such convenient size they can be carried
in the vest pocket. They are bound in
pa~ste-board covers, rates Of postage be-
ing printed on one cover-sheet, and reg
istry system on the other.
/ The schooner yacht Mclean from lit
tie River, Ala, tied up for several hours
at Mitchell's wharf Tuesday morning to
take aboard ice and water, and then con
tinued her cruise to the islands. The
following composed the party: A. B.
, Ragsdale, w. ]. Brown, j. j. Ashton,
w. II. Nevins, M. w. Allen, w. J. Bell,
: r. F. Bell, b. #. Moore, W. M. Mabrey,
: G. M. Porter, w. b. C%atchings, Paul G.
Edmonds, Jr., Frank Thorn, Charles
: Cromwell, J. A. Hendricks, w. G. Orme,
+. G. G. Vaughan and b. W. Schumacher,
: The gentlemen hail from Chicago, Ten
nessee and Alabama. NJ
A colored detective Of the American
Detective Association Of Indianapolis,
: Ind, who has been In town several days
located and caused to be arrested John
Rafael, alias Page Barco, q negro wanted
in Jessup, Ga, for murder committed
thirteen years ago. Barco had the rep
utation Of being handy with his knife,
and was pretty much always in trouble
during his residence here. Sheriff w
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