The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1901-12-06
Christmas is coming.

Christmas Is COIHlHS'
scranto has not struck oil yet.
Good fishing every day in the week.
The supply of fish continues to be very
Nuntiful.
The leg shows have given Scranton
wide berth of late.
silence is gold, speech is brass, who
brays too loud is an ass.
The matrimonial market is rather
quiet just now in this city.
Miss Jennie Northup is on a visit to
friends and relatives at Pensacola.
Miss Bell Conkling, of Galena, Ill. is
registered al the Lindinger House.
Rev. L. E. Hall preached in the Baptist
church last Sunday at Hattiesburg.
Some of our town boys dislike Judge
Neville. They think he is too strict.
Home consumption absorbs most of
the truck farm products of this vicinity.
Those entitled to consideration and
praise receive it from the DEMOCRAT
STAR.
The Firemen's Hall, adjoining the
DEMocRAT-STAR office has been repaired
from roof to foundation.
The city council should have the
main thoroughfares kept in proper con.
dition by grading and Smelling.
Don't hold your real estate at imagin.
airy values. If you can't improve it, sell
at n market price to those who can
Mr. VIM. Martin from Vancleave was
in town Monday on business. He says
everything in his section is lovely.
Mr.. A. T.. Lee, of the Ocean Springs
Progress paid the DEMooRAT-STAR office
pleasant visit Monday.
Mr.. Otis Cooper, who has been per-
forming mechanical work here for some
time has located at Harvey, La.
Aiorward project would be the ex-
tention of the Moss Point Il Pascagoula
Railroad to Merrill or Lucedale, Miss.
There is an effort being made to open
another red liquor saloon at East Side,
avillage with less than 100 inhabitants.
The increased activity in ship build
ing and repairing is contributing m i'm
portant share to the prosperity of our
city.
Strangers are in our city almost every
day in the week prospecting with a view
of purchasing either homes or wild
lands.
1t is almost time for the secondhand
coffin man to strike Scranton. Some
people will bite at every fake that comes
along.
Miss Ruby Thornton, of Gulfport who
spent Friday at Pascagoula, the guest
of Miss Laura Billiard, returned home
Saturday evening.
S. B. Burr, Jr., of Meridian, represent.
ing the National Casket Co., of Nash
vile, Tenn. was here Saturday supply
ing our undertakers.
The frequent visits Of n young and
handsome M. d. from Wiggin to the
residence of a rose bud on Pascagoula
river means something.
Miss Marguerite Bowie, of Freetown,
Warren county, this State has taken
charge of the Basin public school in the
northern part of this county.
The stores of Scranton are filled with
Christmas goods, in variety and quality
equal to any in the south, at prices as
reasonable as anywhere else.
There is a great lack of attention to
the condition of The sidewalks IN some
places. They are delapidated and dan.
serous and a disgrace to our city.
The Thanksgiving turkeys have COB.
oled their last gobble. The Christmas
turkeys are the next birds to get it in
the neck. Their days are numbered.
The Mysterious Music of the Pasca.
goula" is still heard calm nights. The
spirits of the dead Indians do not rise
from their watery graves at any other
time.
MISS Ella Krebs. accompanied by Miss
Minnie DePriest spent Saturday ant
sunday with home folks here, returning
to her school ,o,r yr,ool,,o A.. l.lAa,
evening.
The schooner Olga, Capt. Ed. Gunder
son. after being put into first-class sea
worthy condition has cleared for Sabine
lexas, where she will load with a cargo
otlumber for Mexico.
A party of six discharged volunteer.
from the English army in South Afrlci
reached here via Ship Island last week
lhey were cavalrymen and were sub
'ec'ed to severe active military service
''o' Steele, general deputy for tn,
southern States of the American Wood
man, a fraternal organization whicl
writes life policies for both white ant
oAack Is canvassing this section and or
sahizing branch camps.
Mr. Lou Taylor has petitioned tn
"oaro OF Supervisors to prevent the us
"oras nets in the fishing grounds nea
orange Grove. He claims that it is
obstructive method and will soon de
Pme .ne stream of its flnny inhabitants
me farnsworth Lumber Co.'S. River
sue saw mill has been closed down TO
wan OF logs, owing to the low waite
eonaition Of the tributaries of the Pas
,,asoula river. Orders for several mil
a'ons OF feet of lumber are held in abey
ance. ~
W.T.. Miles p. Hand, Of ~Pascagoula wa
ncensed by the Government local in
1pec.ors OF hulls and boilers, at Mobil
iast Saturday chief enpineer for stoo ~