Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-05-13

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A country girl writing to her
friends, says Of a polka that ''the
dancing does not amount to much,
but the hugging is heavenly"
Married on the 18th inst, by
Joseph P. Norwood, Esq, Mr..
William Trailer to Miss Gather.
Inc Patrick, all Of Ruskin county.
Married, on the 18th ult., by
Rev. NJ. s. Jones, Mr.. John Cur.
~, Of Tuscumbia, Ala, to Miss
Mary A. Thompson, Of Chickasaw
County, Miss.
See the call on the members Of
the OkOlOna Agricultural Society
to meet at OkolOna on the LIST Sat-
urday Of next month. A full at
tendance is desired.
DIR. John Fee will lecture on
Homeopathy, in the Methodist
church Of Okolona, next Monday
evening, 18th inst, at early can.
delight. All are respectfully in
vited to attend.
The Hon. JAS. B. Clay has writ
ten a letter in which he denies
that his father, Henry Clay, was
the author of the compromise bill.
He ought to write one now deny.
ing that Henry Clay was his ia.
Their.
We regret to learn that Jas. P.
DOdridge, who was shot by Win
ston in Macon last fall, lies dan
gerously i'll from effects Of the
wound he then received, which is
said to have broken out airesh.-
Mercury.
On Wednesday the 9th inst,
Rev. Jas. A. Lyon performed the
marriage ceremony OF Henry B.
Whitfield, Esq, and Miss Laura
Young, the youngest daughter of
Col. A. F. Young, all Of Colum-
bus, Miss.
Married, on the 18th ult., by
the Rev. JAS. StOvall, Miss Ma
tilda Baker to Nj. George Evans.
The Columbus Enquirer says this
marriage was brought about by an
advertisement which appeared in
that paper.
We ask the attention of our
readers in the counties round
about, to the advertisement of r.
Bolton, Of POntOtOc, in reference
to his -four mills. He has good
mills, and makes an excellent ar
tiGle Of -four, a lot Of which can
be found at the shop Of Mr.. J. T.
Grow Of this place, for sale.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
We learn from Mr.. Cole, mail
agent on the M. & o. railroad,
that a lamentable accident Oc-
CURED near the Gainesville juno
ton at about 8 o'clock on Thurs.
day night, the 28th ult. While
the gravel train was backing down
TO the gravel pit, it ran over two
cows, by which three or four cars
we're thrown of the track, killing
Mr.. D. Hughes, the conductor,
and a negro boy belonging to Mr..
Thorpe, Of Mobile.-MObile Even
ing News.
It is evident the Memphis edi-
tors want to fight something or
somebody. The ire-eating editor
OF the Avalanche, Mat. Galloway,
styled Stickney Of the Eagle & En-
quirer ga vile abolition adder"
Mr.. s. replied, "The language is
so grossly PERSONAL be would dis
miss it with the author frem fur
ther notice. MI. g. retorted that
Mr.. s. was ga cOwardly paltrOon
and common swindler." There
must be gunpOwder in the atmOs.
phere that surrounds Memphis.
It's q fighting place beyant a
WoMAN's ADVANTAGE.
A woman may say what she
likes to you without danger Of be-
ing knocked down for it. She can
take a snOoze after dinner, while
her husband has to go to work.
She can dress in neat and tidy cali
Goes for a dollar, which her hus-
band has TO earn and fork over.
She can 60 forth in the STREETS
without being invited to treat at
every cOifee-hOuse. She can paint
herself If she is too pale and -four
too red. She can wear corsets
if too thick, other fxings If too
thin. She can eat, drink and be
merry, without it costing her a
cent. She can be divorced from
her husband when she sees one
abe likes better. And aha can Oat