The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-06-10
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Shorthand Chronicle OF Mississippi
and the DoinSs Of Her People.

GRENADA has opened handsome
public park.
Yazoo will have new addition
to her county Jail.
There were $4,000 people in
Jackson on the glorious 3rd.
Crystal Springs Methodist
church will be renovated and i'm
proved.
Laurel has a fair association;
organized with a capital stock of
5000
| P. A. lotteries, of Crystal
Springs, left Monday on tour
of Europe.
Centreville's oil mill has in
creased its stock from $4,000
to $4,000.
Edgar G. Harris is now assist
ing in the editorial work on the
Yazoo Sentinel.
The University Summer Nor
NAL opens on the 18th. Fully 600
teachers are expected.
Luther Manship is out on a lee
ture tour, giving From the Big
House to the Cabin, in fine style.
The Klondyke Farm, near Mag
nolia, contains 500 peach trees.
Shipments of value are being
made.
Be sure to write to Harris
Business College, Jackson, Miss,
if you are interested in business
course.
A printing company has been
incorporated at Quitman, Clarke
county, with capitol stock of
$4,000.
Editor Balance, of the Centre
vile Jeffersonian, doesn't enjoy
such "tomfoolery" as press asso-
Citations.
The State University has estab-
lished two new schools-a training
school fol teachers and a School
of Medicine.
Ida Winfield and Sallie Aus
tin, colored, were arrested at
Jackson for robbing woman ped
dler of roll of bills.
A white fisherman at Natchez,
shot and killed 'Bully'' Grandi-
son, a nergo. He had beaten the
fisherman's ten-year-old son.
The subject of DR.. W. f.
Thompson's literary address at
Belhaven College was, Being a
Woman, and What's the Use of
IT,"
The Water Valley Band, Lloyd
Wagner, leader, furnished the
music at Jackson the End and Sid.
The band is one of the best in the
State.
The first week of June may be
remembered because of its fires
and wraps, as we'll as the corner
stone laying of the million dollar
capitol.
L. B. Sojourner, of GaIlman,
boasts of a COW that averages 81
pounds of strained milk each day
and II pounds of butter for sew
en- day period.
Prof. W. c.. Welborn, of the A.
& NJ. College, has been rendered
the position of Secretary of Agri-
culture of the Philippine Islands
at salary of $4,000.
Miss Mauree Harrison and C.
E. Saunders married in Jackson
on the 3rd. The wedding was ex-
pected to take place at Crystal
Springs on the 10th.
B. W. Mathis, of Crystal
Springs, will ship seven car loads
of beans this season. record
without a precedent in the annals
of truck farming in the South
for one man.
The Ministries of the Universe
ty of Mississippi will give a per-
Torrance at the Century in Jack
son tonight. The students carry
their own band and are said to be
strictly original.
Joe johnson, aged IA, escaped
from Jail at Natchez, while the
iailer's wife was admitting two
negro women through the door.
johnson was held on the charge
of train wrecking.
Sam Miller, the noted criminal
who escaped from Imprisonment
at Jackson, Tenn, last week, was
in Yazoo City on the 3rd. He
was spotted; but escaped from a
train at water tank.
Clarence Stern, son of S. G.
Stern, of Woodville, was drown
ed on University Lake at Baton
Rouge, La, ON the last day of
May. The body was recovered
after much effort and delay.
Robert Dennis, a negro, at
tempted an assault on Miss Bish-
OPP, telephone operator at Green
vile. He was captured and after
ward taken from the Jail and
lynched by mob of citizens.
Bertrand Moser, aged 4, stole a
ride from Port Gibson, where he
resided with his parents, to Vicks-
burg, where he was located, after
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