Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-04-03


& Lee, was looking after freight mat
tiers at the train Tuesday
Yrs Lama Hillman, Messrs J d.
Byrd and Fl. ]. Breland made up a
party of Homesteaders here Tuesday
to prove out the claim of the first
named person, they hail from Kit
trcll.
We have just gotten in stock Par
ker's Zoe size. concentrated fruit Va
nilla flayoring extract Try it and be
satisfied For sale by Faux Drug Co.
A Meat Market would be q well
come acquisition to Leakesyille's list
of marts of trade Why don't some
enterprising Knight of tho Butcher
Knife and Scales step forward and
supply the badly needed want.
Messrs t. G. and l.. p. Peaster,
father and son, we'll known State
Linites, drove through town Monday
bound for we know not where, prob
ably some still setting job, they being
skillful handlers of the Bob Line and
Trowel
Among the regular Itinerants of
the road, we caught our old friend
Horton in the village Monday, still
talking shoes for the same concern,
that of Craddock- Terry & Co, of
Lynchb,rg, Va As promptly as the
seasons go and come. SO does this glib
talkcr
Faux Christian Lbr. Co., shipped
their initial Car Load OF Lumber over
A s. NJ. r. R. last Friday, this was al
so the first Car OF this Commodity
to be billed from this way over the
road. This Company are now in run
ming shapeand will make regular ship
ments each freight day hereafter.
Whether was attributable 10 the
charms of its facina:ing white dotted
sand banks coupled with the wierd
and never ceasing moan OF her turb;d
waters drifting out into the river, or
to the moving Of the Dantzlcr logs.
It's hard to tell, but anyway the fact
remains that for the two last past
weeks Leakesville has missed the &c
NAL face of Mr. Jas. H. Turner, while
he has hied himself away to the Mouth
of Big Creek.
Busy are the farmers now turning
up the sod, preparatory to planting.
Now that the Harvest of Shillings
are coming into the pockets of our
citizens from the marketing of their
logs, we hope that they'll remember
the editor as we'll as Their other
friends, A little Mon now and then
is acceptable to all class of men 1t
takes the hard old coin of the realm
to run newspaper as well as wind
and brains Help us out when you
can. The chatter of the cash dropping
in our till. spurs us onward to better
efforts.
The clank of the chains.s clatter of
the cables, thud of the pile hammer.
resounded in the air this week, for
all of which Mr.. J. A. Wilson and his
crew were responsible, they have re-
sumed the driving of the false works
for the Railroad Bridge. They will
finish the driving late this week and
begin putting up the bridge next. 1t
will take several weeks TO have the
work advanced enough for the trains
to come over. Everyth ing being ia
vorably / will only be the matter of a
short tir1e when the twanging of the
bell and footing of the whistle of the
locomotive will be heard in actual re-
atty right in old Leakesville.
That prominent Lucedalian, Mr..
Geo. Mallett, came up to Leakesvilie
Monday to take charge of the differ
ent mail routes eminating from this
office, hat upon his arrival found
that the contractor who let the Job
to him was some what mixed in his
calculations, as the present sub-con-
tractors have not yet filled out their
contract by several months, this of
course placed Mr.. Mallet in some
what an awkward predicament, but
we feel certain that the different par
ties viii soon bring order out of cha
os in the matter. He returned home
Wednesday.
Mr.. Clark decided this week that
it would be an acceptable diversion
to his patrons to have beautiful
back ground OF gorgeously tinted wall
rapering to feast their eyes upon.
while the snip of his scissors, or the
sizzling of delicious cold drinks kept
their appetites and tonsorial want
supplied, as did our clever attorneys
Alderman & Harrison argue that har-
moniously florally decorated walls
would catch and rest the straggliug
eye of their clients, while their brains
were trying to absorb the puzzling
and pointed technicalities of Law.
Messrs Galloway and Landy contrac-
ted the work and will OF course give