The leader., 1902-05-07
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-IIand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

sonic temple on the 22nd.
The Hazlehurst Courier will be all
home print after June lst.
\ contract has been let for a new
Baptist church at Braxton.
Braxton's new Methodist church is
said to be a thing of beauty.
Fred Roth, of Greenville, lost bis
residence by fire May l. Loss, s3,OOo.
Amite county has adopted the con-
tract system of working her public
roads.
Madison Station shipped seven car
loads of strawberries on the 22nd-a
record breaker.
Meridian has nearly 5000 white
church members out of total popula.
ton of over 10000.
Rev. r. NJ. Cook, one of the holiness
ministers, is tenting at Wesson ION the
old camp ground.
George C. Remington and Miss
Adine Poursine we're married at Yazoo
City the last day of April.
May l was Bryan Day at Crystal
Springs. Mr.. Bryan's subject was:
"The Conquering Nation"
Thirty-seven bushels of peas Melted
l. T. Riser, of Crystal Springs, 1915.
They were sold in Kansas City.
j. Pryor, of Raleigh, is a respected
citizen SO years of age. He has been a
Mississippi resident for 6s years.
Editor Geiger says the high prices
asked for lots at the capital of Simpson
are "retarding the growth of the
town..
Joe r. Lilly, the we'll known engi-
neer on the |. c., and Miss Jennie
Riegger, of McComb, we're married on
April 80.
Marshal Lee, of McComb, captured
Dago there last week, selling rotten
booze. The Mayor fined him $50 and
the trimmings.
The Merchants & Farmers Bank
has been organized at Columbus. 1t
has paid up capital of $4,000, all sub
scribed by Columbus men.
Mrs. Anna Gardner died at Yazoo
City May 1st., in the ORD year of her
age In all her long life Mrs. Gardner
never had a spell of sickness.
"a billion dollar beef trust is the
menace of the near future" 1t should
make no difference to Mississippi.
She can raise her own cattle.
While resisting arrest, Lee Morgan,
a negro, was shot last Wednesday at
Yazoo City. He ran into deep water
and it is believed was drowned.
Henry Clay, of Lexington, bride
groom of ten days, drowned himself
because of disappointment in the con-
nubial state. Clay was negro.
Mrs. Agatha Dabney Lockwood died
at Crystal Springs on the 18th ult.
She was the wife of VIM. B. Lockwood
and had been married only short
time.
The fifth annual meeting of the Mis-
sissippi Federation of Women's Clubs
took place in Okolona last week. Mrs.
Josie Frazee Cappleman is president
of the organization.
Mrs. Blewett, of Yazoo City, has
offered four handsome prizes to be
competed for by girls who will write
compositions of 1000 words or less.
The best gets the handsomest prize.
Prof. Charles F. Webb, formerly of
Whitworth College, will have charge
of the department of Latin in the
Monteagle Assembly this summer.
This will be his second term.
Greenville had May Day fete and
flower parade. Over 200 decorated
floats and vehicles were in the parade
Prizes were awarded the best decora-
ted. Five thousand strangers were in
the city.
After securing a reversal from the
Supreme Court, Antonio Dukes, of Co
piah, thought he was free, and con-
fessed to some friends that he did kill
the old peddler at Martinsville. He was
afterward tried at Hazlehurst and SEN
fenced to hang.
John Denton, foreman of a levee
camp at Rosedale, had some words with
his cook, a negro, regarding the meals.
He anticipated no further trouble, but
the negro slipped up behind him and
struck him with a stick of wood and
fled. He has not been captured.
Henry II. Rodgers, of Neshoba, who
killed Tom Byrd last September, is re-
leased from custody on $4,000 bond.
The grounds for the writ of habeas
corpus was the debilitated condition of
the prisoner. His case will come up
in the circuit court next August.
Work is soon to begin on the John M.
obohC CottOH ulllI DUdIhNll
mill is named in honor of the late Gov
ernor Stone, who, at the time of his
demise, was President Of the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College, and who,
though dead in life, lives in fame.
John HARDWOOD, of McGomb, who has
reached the age of 70 and has served
the |. c. for 40 years, has been retired
on the pension system. Other en-
ployes presented him on his retirement
with handsome gold-headed walking
cane and richly upholstered reclining
chair.
Last Thursday at Jackson pick
pockets touched Mr.. j. M. Shelton, of
Raymond, for $500, Mr.. Williams, of
Steens' Creek for S040 and Mr. Stronse