The leader., 1902-05-21
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

rent Happenings.
Chrysanthemums are blooming in
Copiah.
Elks of Aberdeen will build club
house to cost 5000.
Sam Cain has been appointed no.
tary public for Grenada.
Last week Crystal Springs shipped
three cars of cabbage daily.
The Lindsey Wagon Factory has en-
larged its capacity at Laurel.
Hazlehurst laid the corner stone of
her new court house yesterday.
A large amount of goods was stolen
from hardware store at Meridian last
week.
Citizens of West Jackson are re-
joicing over their newly acquired postal
station.
John Galloway lost his residence by
fire at Laurel. Loss, $1,000; no in
surance.
The next meeting of the State Sun
day School Convention will be held at
Winona August rs to %.
Cam Smith, of Copiah, was offered
$3.50 for his cabbage patch of six
acres-and refused to sell.
Fish are easily caught just at the
mouth of Jackson's sanitary sewer,
hence the people eat no fish.
DR.. J. Fl. Rhodes, of Jackson, has
found valuable deposits of iron ore on
his place ten miles from Brandon.
The State Board of Health, at its an
nual meeting last week, examined Isl
applicants for license to practice med
icine.
The Meridian Holiness Camp Meet
ing incorporators are L. P. Brown, T.
G. Harmon, John A. Lewis, J. E. Watts
and others.
The Governor has approved the
charter of the Wesson Cotton Oil and
Fertilizer Company, with capital
stock of $4,000.
Mrs. FL. FL. Butt, after retirement
of three weeks from the editorial chair
of the Clarksdale Challenge, has re-
turned to the harness.
Rev. J. e. Thomas, of Greenwood, is
assisting the pastor of the NJ. e.
church at Sardis in meeting. Mr..
Thomas is very eloquent preacher.
Mrs. Amanda Marshall, of Vicksburg,
attempted suicide by shooting on the
18th. She is Ga and has been in bad
health. She is not expected to re-
cover.
Two wife murderers are scheduled
to hang the latter part of this month.
Emanuel Webster at Indianola, on the
Both, and Perry Beckwith on the 26th,
at Columbus. Both are negroes.
The Grand Lodge K. of P. donated
$3.50 toward the purchase of Beauvoir,
at their recent meeting at Vicksburg.
The Protestant Orphans Asylum at
Natchez also received $3.50 from the
knightly order.
The marriage OF Miss Maysie Wins
low and Mr.. w. w. Simonton, of Jack
son, is announced. The bride-to-be is
a sister of Lieut. Winslow and the
groom is a son of the late Col. J, M.
Simonton.
Hazlehurst has received one of the
white summer normals. Ell. B. Hughes,
of McComb, will be the director.
A. sSsssanSaals will ha.tQeated at
OCner SGate AcT nfssS - S4As-sEsa
West Point, Sardis, Mt. Olive, Lake
Como, Durant, Bay st. Louis and Blue
Mountain.
The trustee for the State Hospital
for the Insane rejected all bids for
building the new kitchen, laundry and
storeroom, and decided to build the
same under the supervision of W. J.
McGehee as far as possible. The labor
OF the patients will be utilized.
| Arnold Smith, of Madison Station.
who has been in charge of oonstruc-
ton gang on the I. G., near Gallman,
was accidentally shot last Thursday.
He was taken to Canton and placed in
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Hospital. He is not expected to
recover,
4 The Board of Supervisors of Talla
hatchie county at their next regular
meeting will select the temporary
courthouse at Sumner, the newly
chosen seat. A site for the perma-
nent structure will also be chosen. and
bids be invited for the construction of
a $4,000 building.
The Governor has appointed A. W.
Mcdonald to be notary public for the
town of parant and N. M. Everett.
notary public for the town of Hickory;
also r. D. Sessions, a member of the
State Board of Health from the Sixth
Congressional District, vice DR.. B. D..
| Watkins, resigned.
The citizens of Lumberton have
given 1000 acres of land to be used as
a site for the Lumberton Manuel La
Dor School. Rev. S. A. Steele, of Rus.
sellville, KY, a noted Methodist divine,
is at the head of the school and he
expects to make it an Industrial col
lege where poor boys and girls may
get thorough education.
At meeting of tie stockholders of
the Bank of OsJka the following Off
GERS and directors were elected to serve
| one year: Dr. G. III Ratas rrasidant.