Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20

ed here by the death Of Mr.. L. H
Murphree.
Miss Leona Kimball, the bOokkeep.
er at q. R. Kings, left last week FOL
Mobile and other coast towns for
months vacation.
Mrs. 7. NJ. Dean and children hav,
returned from their visit 10 Cuba
Tehn., accompanied by Miss Lot
Reddet, q cousin Of Mr.. Dean.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White, Of Pen
sacola, Fla, are In the city, the guests
OF Mrs. Emma Murphree. Mrs
White is the daughter Of the late Mr.
Len Murphree.
Warden Parchman predicts thai
when the state convict farms r full
ly cleared and put under cultivation
they will relieve the people Of the
commonwealth Of 25 per cent OF Their
state taxes.
The cotton buyers are beginning to
scan the horizons now in watch for
the appearance OF the great staple,
which will soon commencerolling into
the city from all directions from the
crop of 1902.
Mr.. John r. Laws, the popular CO.
lumbus florist, who has recently &C
cepted a position as travelling sales
man for Hessig- Ellis Drug Company,
of Memphis, was in the city last FRI
day week, calling on the druggists.
Editor Ward, Of the Starksville
Times, was visitor in 0kolona Monday
morning and favored this office with a
pleasant call. Ward is one of the
bright newspaper men of the state, a
good writer, and a popular fellow in
the profession.
Joe N. Dulaney went to Houston on
the 9TH to attend the funeral of bis
grandmother, the widow Of the late
Judge T. N. Martin. Mrs. Martin was
the Oldest woman in the county at the
date of her death, August 9Th, 1902,
being born in 1906.
The governor has announced that he
will not call a special session of the
legislature to consider amendments
to the insurance law. This conclusion
was reached after ascertaining that a
majority of the law makers would not
support the proposed amendment.
Prospective State and county candi-
dates should be warned against the
appearance Of "campaign papersn
that r likely to spring into existence
in time to feather their nests on an
nouncement fees, cts, and then slip
into their holes and draw the holes in
after them.-Aberdeen Examiner.
Married. at the Methodist church in
Houlka, August Z, 1902, Miss Eva
Winter, of Houlka, and Mr.. G. H.
Holley, of Hamilton, Ala. Rev, WIFI
liam Earnest, of Carlean, Ala, per
formed the ceremony. Miss Eva is
the lovely and accomplished daughter
of Hon. j. W. Winter, one of Chicka-
saw county's worthiest citizens. The
groom, though a stranger to us, is a
handsome, refined gentleman in APP
pearance, and is said to possess an
the qualities requisite for making
marriage g success. That their life
barks may glide gently down the cur
rent OF time and many sweet Joys and
fair successes crown their broWs with
garlands is the sincere wish of
the brides many, many friends in this
county,
"Cleanliness is next to goodness"
Dirt and d~epravity 60 hand in hand.
This is just as true of the inside of the
body as of the outside. Constipation
clogs the body and clouds the mind.
Constipation means that corruption is
breeding in the body, poisoning the
blood with it's foul emanations, befog-
ging the brain with its tainted exhala-
tons. Constipation is the cause OF
more diseases, perhaps, than any 9TH
or single disorder. The consequences
Of constipation are legion. Headache,
pain in the side, shortness of breath,
undue fulness after eating, GOODNESS OF
the extremities, nervousness, indecis-
ion, lassitude, dizziness, sallowness,
hatulence and a score of other all
ments are caused by constipation.
Cure constipation and you cure it's
consequences. The quickest cure Of
this evil is obtained by using DR.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They are
small in size but wonderful in result.
They cure permanently. They con-
tain no injurious ingredients. The use
OF them does not beget the pill habit.
Ask your druggist for them.
Send q one-cent stamps, the ex-
pense of mailing only and receive Dr..
Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser, in paper covers. This work
contains zoos pages and 700 illustra-
tiOns. For 81 cents It can be had in
substantial cloth binding. Address
DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, New York.
Bring Us all your old scrap iron,
bones, brass, copper, zinc and rubber
and get the sIot cash for 1t while the
boom in iron is on. We pay 80 cents
per hundred pounds for best at
HAWKINS & HODGES Mill.
Okol0na, Miss.
guarantee every box OF Interna-
tional Poultry and Stock Powders. It
saves feed, and feed costs money now.
Let me show you. WARD DAWSON.
On the night of Saturday last the
spirit of L. II. Murphree, one Of 0kO-
oldest and best citizens, passed
to It's reward. His career both as q
soldier and as q private citizen has
been an honorable one. He vas q
veteran Of two wars, having served
with distinction in the contest with