The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-04-23
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Brookhaven Star, the &c. cigar.

Go to Parsons, Moreton, wentworth
Co. to get ladies' hats.
Hello, there! Give me a Brookhaven
Star, for there is none better.
Mrs. w. A. Towns spent yesterday
with Mrs. Isaac Smith, of Montgomery.
Mrs. T. p Scott and little boys went
to Crystal Springs yesterday for visit
Parsons, Moreton, Wentworth Co.
sell the best and cheapest shoes in
town.
Mrs. Will Hoskins has returned from
a protracted visit to her daughter, Mrs.
Bolton, at Biloxi.
Sixty. six tickets to the grand Con-
federate Reunion at Dallas, Texas, were
sold at this place.
Try Chamberlain's Stomach & Liver
Tablets, the best physic, For sale by
C. b. Grafton Drug Co.
How about it? s10OOin gold if lucky!
4 pair of shoes bought at McGraths
gets your name on the guessing book.
The machinery has been placed in
position and boring will commence in
day or two for arteslan water at the
|. C's pumping house.
VIM Maxwell is succeeding adj
mirably with the Union Hall Sunday
School, of which he has been superin-
| =
Mrs. S. f. Smurr and Mrs. Minnie
Waterer took passage Sunday for
Texas. They will visit relatives at
Trenton and return about May l.
Miss Lou Mason left with the crowd
bound for the Lone Star State and will
visit Mrs J. NJ. Dunn, her sister at
Fort Worth, Texas. We wish her a
pleasant visit.
Churches Of the Fair River Asso-
citation which have not contributed to
the delegates expense to the S. B.
Convention are urged to forward the
amount to the Associational treasurer
at once.
M. T. Flood spent the first of the
week at Hazlehurst illustrating what
natural talent, aided by experience,
can do in window decoration. The
Hubbard McGrath Co., of that city,
have their first big opening to-day, and
Mr.. Flood is the artist that brought
about the handsome effects in the
show windows of the new firm.
Mr.. Davis Magee and Miss Carrie
Dawen, Made and Fannie Neal and
Maude Stevens, of Wesson, came down
Sunday evening to hear their former
pastor, Rev. r. II. Purser, preach. We
regret that they were disappointed.
The Baptists that night worshipped
with the Methodists, protracted meet
ing being in progress at the latters
church.
A. Greenwood, colored, who lately
sold out his stock of merchandise and
went to truck farming, has one of the
very finest truck patches to be found
anywhere about Brookhaven. He also
has one of the handsomest and most
attractive homes of any colored man
of the county, situated on the hill east
of the court house.
Rev. Geo. T. Chandler will fill his
pulpit at the Presbyterian church next
Sabbath. Mr.. Chandler enjoyed a
pleasant visit at Port Gibson attend
ing the meeting of Presbytery, from
which he was summoned home by news
of the death of Tom Mccormick. He
faithfully answered the call of distress
and arrived in this city just in time tC
officiate at the funeral ceremonies.
DR.. C. l. Burford the expert op
tician, who has been in Brookhaver
several weeks, has left to enjoy the
: Dallas Reunion, but expects to return
1 to this city. The Doctor is so well
S pleased with Brookhaven and her PEG
f pie, that he may locate here perma
= nently; and, judging from brief &C
S quaintance, we take pleasure in saying
D that we believe he would be welcome
and valuable citizen.
We regret to hear of the heavy loss
: of the Messrs. Smith, sons of the la
mented Vernon Smith, during the re
cent flood. The day before the rain
they had fortified and planted in corr
and cotton large tract of land, all Of
which was swept as clean as floor by
the torrents. Carroll Bardwell says he
: would estimate their loss at $500. We
: venture to say that "the Smith boys
y will try it over and we wish them better
luck next time.
S J. H. Willoughby, who was compelled
e to make an assignment in January on
S account of short collections, and has
/ recently effected satisfactory adjust
ment of his Indebtedness with his
creditors, can now be found at his OLD
stand, ready to serve former patrons
and the public generally. He has q
, full stock of general merchandise, to
= which he invites attention, and will
: sell at prices that cannot be dis
counted Mr.. Willoughby has long
. been identified with Brookhaven and
. is cordially welcomed back to hel
S mercantile circles after his brief vaca
. ton
Death of ii. h. Evans
: Mrs. Emma Penn received a tele