The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-11-19
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

rent Happenings.
A pickle factory is announced
for Quitman.
Winona Baptists will build a
$40, 900 church.
IIazlehurst has numerous cases
Of typhoid fever.
At Ellisville, james Pierce lost
an arm in log train accident.
Meridian negroes have organ
lied a savings bank at Meridian.
Alabama defeated Mississippi
at football at Tuscaloosa last week.
+. O. Brown and Alice King,
both of GalIman, were married
last week.
Scott county planters are offer
ing IS cents per hundred pounds
for cotton pickers.
Bishop III. M. Thompson has
become weaker since his return
to his home at Jackson.
W. w. Holmes, jeweler, has
made a voluntary assignment at
Canton. Liabilities, 81 800.
Gen. Evander McNair, prom
inent citizen of Chatawa, died on
the 18th. He was 80 years of age.
A sensational attempt, by their
step-mother, to kidnap two chill
dren was made at Biloxi last week.
A. G. B. Martin, of Copiah,
gathered 200 bushels of pump
kin yam potat oes from 81 of an
acre.
The Mississippi Valley Bottling
Co., domiciled at Vicksburg, has
been Incorporated with a capital
of $4,000.
Miss Lizzie Cook, of Crystal
Springs, and r. III. Jones, only
son of DR.. R. Z. Jones, were
married last Wednesday.
Work has begun on the Third
Methodist church of Jackson. 1t
is being built in Duttoville on a
lot contributed by Major r. W.
Millsaps.
Bob Williams, farmer living
near Flora, dropped his pistol
from his pocket and was instantly
killed from the discharged load,
on the 18th.
Two black bears were re-
Gently killed in Greene
county. They seem to have had
no ambition to die at the Presi-
dents hands.
A Prentiss county farmer sold
1000 bushels of corn for export,
at 40 cents per bushel. Prentiss
is one of the most progressive
counties in the State.
Cabbage, beans, tomatoes, flow
ers and Chautauqua combined,
have made Crystal Springs ia
nous. That is a good deal more
than can be said of some towns we
know.
1t is reported that a party of
Northern capitalists contemplate
the establishment of a paper mill
at some point in the Delta. The
paper is to be manufactured from
cane pulp.
Oktibbeha county has adopted
the road law and has appointed
J. H. Welborn road commission
er. 1t is confidently expected
that the roads will be great Y i'm
proved under his management.
A company has been organized
at Gulfport to manufacture press
ed sandstone brick out of the or
binary white sand that can be
found in abundance on the beach.
The company is capitalized at
$50, 900.
The railroads operating in Mis-
sissippi have all announced a rate
of one and one-third fare for the
round trip for the conferences of
the Methodist cehurch to be held
at Natchez and Tupelo during
the month of December.
James Nichols, formerly of
Scott county, committed suicide
by shooting at Waco, Texas,
last week. He had bad luck in
financial matters, and his wife
died a few days before his death.
Two small sons are left orphans.
d. c. Bennett, of Winston
county, raised 100 bushels of
yam potatoes this year on q an
acre; the largest weighing seven
pounds. r. 6. Hammill, of the
same county, raised a fine lot of
pears, one of which weighed two
pounds.
Miss Olive Sproles, daughter
of Rev. HI. F. Sproles, of Vicks-
burg, and John H. Venable, of
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