The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-04-02
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Hand Chronicle of Chr
rent Happenings.


ing bazaar this week.
Waynesboro's new bank is incorpora-
ted with a capital stock of $4,000.
Gov. Longino has arp inted Allison
H. Foster notary public for Na;chez.
Laure's Bottling Works plant has
started up. 1t represents an outlay OF
$4,000.
DR.. Jenkyn Lloyd Jones lectured on
LES Miserables" at Vicksburg last
week.
Mrs Callie H. Howe, a representa-
tive of the National w. C. T. u, is lee
turing in the State.
Thieves broke into a drug store at
Laurel and stole about $50 worth of
medicines last week.
The Chronicle says Laurel needs
theatre or opera house as much as any
thing else it can think of.
The warehouse of the Columbus
chair factory was damaged by fire to
the extent of 81 500 on the Goth.
Mack Kendrick was killed at Magee
last Wednesday by the falling of brick
wall He was buried at Hazlehurst.
The ladies of Jackson's Presbyterian
lchurch held bazaar last week, con
sisting of an immense amount of needle
work.
John w. Nelson, a well known engi-
neer of the Valley road, died of pneu
monia at Vicksburg last week at the
age of As.
Walter White, of Stems Creek or
Florence, has clerkship now in the
office of the State Superintendent of
Education.
A "blind tiger" negro, John Hews,
was shot and killed at Beaumont by
the deputy sheriff who was trying to
arrest him.
The Mississippi Hospital for the
Insane has purchased a switch engine
to be used in hauling freight. The en-
CINE cost $3.50.
Young society folk of Meridian will
present the pretty little opera,
Dorothy" at the Century in jackson
next Wednesday night.
At a church supper near Raymond,
last Wednesday, Dutch Devine shot
and killed Vernon Scott and wounded
William Epps. All colored.
Rev. DR.. J. B. Fitzpatrick, of I'm
manuel Episcopal church of Winona,
died and was buried on the oath,
Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson officiat-
ing.
Val M. Brooke, painter, was ar
rested at Holly Springs for stealing
regalia from secret societies, while en-
gagged in painting scenery in the Ma
sonic Hall
The Schubert Symphony Club, the
ladies quartette, will appear at Laurel
on the 18th, the proceeds of the enter
tainment to be contributed towards
the cancellation of the debt on the
Catholic church.
Rev. H B. Watkins, former jackson
boy, and who is now stationed as a
Methodist minister at YaZoo City, has
been selected by the alumni association
of Millsaps College to deliver the
al umni address during the commence
ment exercises.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has formally
announced her intention of dsposing
of Beauvoir to the United Sons of
Confederate Veterans at $4,000 as
soon as the fund now being raised by
the organization for this purpose is
completed.
Laurel has relief society which or
ganized two years ago for the purpose
of aiding the needy, who are rendered
so because of sickness or other misfor-
tune. During the past year, ending in
March, the society had expended 1921.
The organization is supported by dona-
tions from citizens.
Hugh Tull, of Kentwood, and Miss
May Bailey, daughter of the editor of
The Baptist at jackson, we're married
last Thursday in the First Baptist
church of the Capital City, the GER
emony being performed by DR.. w. T.
Lowrey, President of Mississippi Col
lege.
On March 26 Treasurer Carlisle hon
ored the draft of President Hardy, of
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, for $4,000, being the amount APP
propriated by the last Legislature to
pay the excess expense incurred by
the Board of Trustees in the compile
ton of the textile school building at
the college. The money was borrowed
by the Board of Trustees.
The Mississippi institution for the
deaf and dumb will commence work
within the next three weeks on a
series of cottages at the old site
which will he used for temporary
quarters during the next scholastic
term. The institution was recently
closed on account of fire which de-
stroyed the main building. The sum
of $4,000 will he spent on the tenn
porary buildings, and 1t is the inten-
| tion to sell them after a permanent
structure is erected.
Brigadier General T. NJ Henry, of
| the Sons of Veterans, continues to re
ceive letters from all over the State, as
surfing him that the movement started
by that organization for the purchase
of Beauvoir is meeting with great sue
cess. The people all over the State are
taking great deal of interest in the