Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-10-08
And Local Affairs.


Mr.. L. P. Haley is attending court
in Houston.
Mr.. Edward Savage went to Aber-
deem the first Of the week.
Mr.. Howell Burkitt was at home
Sunday from Birmingham.
Miss Addie Haley is teaching school
a short distance from the city.
Registered Pharmacists at Brown
& Bearden's. Oldest in the city, too,
Judge Frazee and Miss Matte
Chandler spent Saturday in Nettleton.
Mrs. Paul Bean Is the guest of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 7. NJ. Walton.
Misses Mabel Foster and Ethel
Steinberger spent Monday In Tupelo.
Lawyers Stovall, Lyons and Buch-
anan are attending court in Houston
this week.
Died, at his home west OF this city,
Sunday night, Nj. ]. E. Morris Of
consumption.
T. @. Hartley arrived home Sunday
from an extensive business trip in
Iowa and Illinois.
Mrs. Leila Hawkins aud SON Craw-
ford spent the first of the week visit
ing in Aberdeen.
No substitute goes at Brown & Bear
denis. Your prescriptions filled as
your M. d. writes them.
Beginning Friday, October 10, at 6
D. M, ]. Rubel & Co. will be closed
until Saturday afternoon at 6p. m.
Saturday, October 10th, we will
close our place of business on account
Of holiday. L. RosENBAUM.
Remember we always I'll your pre-
scriptions correctly.
BROWN & BEARDEN.
Ben and Jessie Collins, whose home
is in Houston, went through our city
Monday, enroute to Kansas City, Mo-,
where they both have positions.
Married ct the home of the brides
parents, at Salona, Texas, Thursday,
October End, 1902, DR.. 7. L. Kur to
Miss Mary Aston, Rev. s. A. Ashburn
officiating.
Mr.. W. A. Stevens and wife and
Rev. Rogers, of AmOry, passed
through the city this morning on
their way to the Baptist convention
at Pleasant Grove.
These are happy days for Russell
Sage. Men with actual cash to loan
in New York City last week can
double It in four or five days. And
Sage has got the actual cash.
Frank and Edgar Elliott, Frank
Clopton, Eugene Martin, Ton
Cheairs, Will Murphy, Adam GasI
and George Shelton we're among
those who attended the circus al
Tupelo Monday morning.
Rev. John W. Mosely, Jr., of Bran.
don, Miss, has accepted the call from
the Okolona Presbyterian church
and will probably enter upon the
duties OF his new station about thu
first of November. Rev. MOsely is
native M~ississippian, a gentleman o
fine Judgment and good sense, Away
popular with his church and the pub.
lie generally, and will be welcomed
to our city.
The enthusiasm evinced by on
people when they went up agains
the real thing at the court house
week ago, and got q move on them Il
secure the building of the railroad
they want extended from this point Il
the west, ought to be a start for unit
ed action on other matters. All thI
, railroads In the country will not max
our city grow unless the people inter
ested in its future pull together an
do the pushing.
The time is certainly suspicious 70
the people of OkOlona to NOV
!, together nov for q greater CONNER
cial and industrial Importance. Ever
new industry possible to be obtaine
should be encouraged, and the tim
J will soon arrive when there will b
little need for Offering any encourage
,tment to new corners. They will jus
pile over each other for q footing
IT'S yer thus in q live town, Wher
the people are all united.
Frank Sopter, former mayor {
, POntOtOc, and one Of the most sue
cessful business men Of the county
died there Sunday, aged %. he We
3 native Of Lawrence District, s. {
. he came to that county IN 1848, an
after honorable service In the wa
engaged IN business &C PontOtoc en-
1 at Toccopola. He has been 3 membC
OF the Baptist church for forty yoal
and bad filed almost every poaltio
IN the church open to laymen. =
was widely known for bic chariti'
and honesty, and was an inhuentla
wealthy and much loved citizen. =
I leaves 3 wife and & number Of chi
Z dren and grandchildren. Burii
; occurred Monday ct Toccopola, b
Rormer home.