The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-11-12
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle Of Cur
rent happenings.

A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.
Gen. John B. Gordon lectured
in jackson last Friday night.
= f. j. Adam, editor of the Pass
Christian, Beacon is a candidate
for mayor of that city.
Corn is selling in Northeast
Mississippi at 40 and 80 cents a
bushel and is plentiful.
A photographer in Clarksdale
advertises that his gallery will be
open seven days in the week.
F. G. Murrah, of Columbus,
died on the 18th. He was a broth
er of the president of MilIsaps
College.
Boring for oil at Enterprise
will begin at an early date. There
are strong indications there of
oil and gas.
Miss Annie Manning, an excel
lent young lady of Aberdeen, died
while visiting in Denver, Colora-
do, last week.
The Hazlehurst Courier is en-
gagged in the laudable undertaking
of building up public sentiment
in favor of a cotton mill.
Walter N. Hurt has sold his in
terest in the Hattiesburg Prog
ress and retired temporarily from
the ranks because of i'll health.
Rev. DIR. J. II. Alexander cele-
brated at Kosciusko last week, the
fiftieth anniversary of his minis
try in the Presbyterian church.
Clip, of the Picayune, is author
ity for the statement that no CT
garettes are on sale at either Hick-
DRY, Newton, Forest or Brandon.
The Traylor gin house and
blacksmith shop at Rugby, were
totally destroyed by fire last week.
Loss, So, 800, with $500 insurance.
The Southern Farm Gazette
says that more hay has. been saved
in Mississippi this year than ever
before in the history of the State.
S. d. Robinson, one of Co.
piah's oldest citizens, dropped
dead while gathering pine in an
old field near Crystal Springs last
Friday.
Mrs. NJ. B. McGehee, owner
and proprietor of LaurePs Nc
Gehee Hotel, married w. F. Hew-
lit, a young business man of that
place, last week.
Mormon elders made their via
torical debut in Vicksburg last
Sunday. They extended their in
vitation to the public to attend
through the American.
There may be hard times in
Mississippi, but the circuses hay
emit heard of it, for there are three
mammoth ones and several smaller
concerns touring the State.
Miss Mollie Matthews, of Jack
son, was indicted by the Federal
grand jury last week, on eight
separate counts, for sending OBJ
scene letters through the mail.
She will ask a continuance until
May.
S. w. Farmer, for many years
an honored member of the Missis-
sippi press, but recently located
in Louisiana, has returned to this
State, and is now associated with
his brother, w. II. Farmer, Jr.,
in the publication of the Winona
Democrat.
The proprietors of the Column
bus Hosiery Mills are invading
foreign markets. They received
an order last week from a firm in
Amsterdam, Holland, for six
hundred dozen pairs of hose, with
the promise of a liberal share of
their business in the future.
A wholesale Jail delivery was
attempted at Canton a few days
ago. Among the would-be es-
capes, was Mcdonald, the biga-
mist. A fellow prisoner peach
edo and the whole thing was spoil
ed and now each guest of the Jail
hasa separate apartment.
West Point has bad. luck with
her colleges. Miss Minnie Mar
chant, a student of the college, is
dead, the result of poison in can
of oysters sent from home by her
mother. The Mary Holmes Col
Iege, the colored girls school, has
small pox among the students.
Mrs. George Roberts, an indus
trious lady living near Steel, Scott
county, has sold 6S4 dozen eggs
since February 1, 1902, up to No
vember 1st. One-half of them
were sold for 1917 cents per doz-
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