The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-01
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A ShOrt-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Mt. Olive is suffering with typhoid
fever.
jackson is to have an $4,000 up
town hotel.
Mrs. Anna H. Montieih, aged 50, died
at Viclxsburg last week.
The Methodists of Greenville are
building $4,000 church.
Mississippi Sous of Veterans will
meet at jackson October 16.
George Warren shot and killed John
King at Benton on the 25th.
Rev. S. w. Sibley has moved his
family from McComb to Summit.
Kinds county's new $4,000 court
house at Jackson is nearly completed.
H.F. Moore, an aged ex- Confederate
veteran, died at Kosciusko on the 23rd.
Miss Althea Ainsworth and G. G.
Stuart were married at Wesson on the
14th.
The Synod of Mississippi will hold
its annual session at Columbus Octo-
Der IS.
VIM. H. Turner, aged II, died near
Summit on the 2lst. He was never
married.
Mrs. Lillian Lyle Powers, of Durant,
died last week. She was bride of
five months.
We understand that the work is
progressing rapidly upon the United
States fish hatchery at Tupelo.
The Meridian Star says that "The
Newton Record is the moralist and
philosopher of the State press"
The Bogue Chitto Baptist Associa-
ton met last Friday at Bala Chitto
church, six miles east of Magnolia.
w. Y. Gohlson, druggist of Aber-
deem, filed petition in voluntary
bankruptcy last week. Liabilities, S.
600; assets, $4,000.
Lumberton had a moonlight corn
shocking last week. The affair was
one of genuine, old-time enjoyment,
says the Headblock.
Large numbers of wolves are re-
ported in the swamps of Yazoo. Cat
tie, hogs and domestic stock have been
carried away by them.
j. A. Anderson, one of the charter
members of Hazlehurst's Presbyterian
church, died at Gallman last Thurs
day. He was Sc years of age.
In Yazoo City M. Stubblefeld sold
two bales of cotton. For one he re-
ceived IA cents pound and the other
-. The cotton was extra long staple.
Mrs Josie Norman Settoon, former
ly of Hazlehurst, but now of Spring
field, La, lost two sons, aged 6 and 4,
with diphtheria in the past fortnight.
The work will commence on the cot
ton factory buildings at Magnolia o.
tober Is 1t will cost S150,O00 and be
ready for operations about the 1st of
July.
Rev. Abner P. Sage, a superannuate
IA years of age, married Mrs. Shell,
aged So, last week at Houston. This is
the groom's fourth attempt at matri-
mony.
Secretary Webb, of the Mississippi
Railroad Commission, says the value of
all telephone property in this State is
S375, 1920. The total railroad mileage is
2,995.5.
Copiah county protests against leas-
ing convicts to work on farms, and
fayors the county's buying its own
farm and utilizing their labor on them.
Pamela county has tried both.
Will Barnes, negro, was called to
his gate at Mendenhall and shot to
death by unknown persons on the
night of the Goth. Sixteen pistol balls
entered his chest and mouth.
Judge Lowrey, during the term OF
court held at Sardis, fined three ne
gro crap shooters, slOO, $500 and $3.50
respectively. The judge believes that
much of murder and crime grows out
of crap shooting.
The new cotton picking machine is
to receive another trial about October
l. The experiment will be made near
Greenville, where the company owning
the device have several large contracts
for picking cotton.
The Girls State Industrial Institute
and College opened its session last
week with more than 800 girls in at
tendance, representing every county in
the Commonwealth. Many applications
-;esion had to be refused.
lor aol4~~ =, Trevilion and
Miss Ethel Loveoa zion
James L. Morris were married at Una
church on the 25th. Mr.. Morris is a
graduate of the A. & M. College and is
one of the most prominent merchants
and planters of Wilkinson county.
H. M. Grifing, formerly editor of the
Lexington Progress, and then editor of
the Progress Advertiser after the con-
solidation, has sold his interest in the
lease of the paper to his partner, J. F.
Grist, and will cast his lot in South
Mississippi.
The Board of Supervisors of Lafay
cite county were compelled to raise the
tax levy of that county from IL to
1319 mills, on account of the heavy
court expenses incurred in the trials
Of Owens, Mathis and Lester. The