Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-01-28
oKoLoNA, MISS, JAN. Is, 1908.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

T. W. HAMILTON as a candidate for Chan
Gerry Clerk OF Chickasaw county, subject 70
the decision Of the Democratic Primary.
If your watch needs doctoring, OF
your clock is ~dyspeptic, bring it, send
Il or railroad 1t in and let us cure it for
you. That is our business. MAIER's
JEwELRY STORE,
Aberdene, Miss.
Wanted, men to learn barber trade.
Practical course given by free work,
expert instructions, lectures etc. Tools
presented, wages Saturdays, board
provided, catalogue mailed free. Mol
or Barber College, New Orleans, La.
Ihave for sale at a bargain, a nice
set of upholstered parlor furniture, IS
good as new, two Brussels carpets,
some nice rugs, n drop head Stan
dard sewing machine, one baby bug
IN, several nice rockers, several wa
tSt sets, crockery ware, bedding, etc.
Goods are at O. R. Kings house in
Okolona, whore they can be seen.
R. ". KING.
Go and Q the fine Watches and
JeWelry at G.. F. Richards & Co.'s.
Same building With Miss Alice Dukes
Millinery store.
The Newburger Cotton Company,
through their district Office In this
CITY have, up to the present time,
handled q little the rise Of 1900 bales
of cotton. They estimate that they
will handle here before the close Of
this season "a, 1000 bales, &c against
$4,000 bales last year.
The Recital given Friday afternoon
by Miss Bertha Hurlbert and pupils
was indeed q rare musical treat to the
lovers Of progress and Improvement
in the domain Of music. The large
and attentive audience vas enthusi-
astic in its plaudits and praises OF Miss
Hurlbert and her many promising
pupils, and the community as whole
IL very proud of Miss Bertha and the
marked success she lie making.
Died, at the residence Of N. B.Craw-
ford In Atlanta, Ohickasaw County,
Mississippi, January 10Th 1908, Miss
Tfla g. Frazse. She was born jan
nary 8th 1865, and was daughter Of
Col. ]. s. and Anna E. Frazee. She
graduated at the Okolona High School
h June, 1885, and afterward taught
school in Chickasaw and Webster
counties about twelve years, and was
loved by pupils and patrons. She YVES
member Of the Baptist church "
Pleasant Grove wheresh now sleeps.
She Was useful and beloved member
OF this church, also q true friend and q
charitable woman. She Was In feeble
health for about two years prior to
her death, and Was convinced that
her time in this life was fast coming
to q close. She often expressed a
desire and claimed that she was not
afraid to die. She died an easy death
and seemed after death to be only
sleeping. HER FRIEND, q.
One of the best actors that ever
stood upon the stage in Okolona, was
8 gentleman who came here a year
ago with one of the best companies
that has ever shown in 3 country
town. About fifty people, who were
readers and happened to know his
fame, we're out to hear him. He was
so disguised that he made a little
speech from the stage in which he
said: "Don't be fooled by the shows
that come to you unknown, because
they have no merit among their per-
formers, and have nothing to COM
mend them but q brass band, to pa
rade for them. No arst,elass theat-
ricel troop carries q brass band,
When you hear q good band play on
the street, be satisfied that you have
heard the best part of the show 1t Ii
with, and 90 to bed without any fear
that you have missed anything worth
hearing at the performance thai
night.O This gentleman's words
were fully bOurn out 10 this city Mon
dav night. The Elmdale Farm com
pany put q fairly good band on th'
streets at noon, and made g noisy
parade. The play Elmdale Farm Is
nice piece, well written and provides
for some excellent acting, but thu
wav the "ham-phats" that attempted
to put It on Monday night butchereS
e was enough to make g backwoodl
Mississippi negro sick. Not q charac
ter was represented by any one witt
the slightest conception OF the hope
and dreams Of the author. It look
sometimes as though OkOlona must
at some time, have committed SOM
awful onense against God or nature
from the manner in which its Peopl
are being punished lately BY barn
stormiDg gangs and wild cat show
that ought to be prohibited by la'
from imposing upon q conhding pub
lie, no matter how far out In th
backwoods It may be located. Tn
Judgment Of the best judges In tow.
was that Monday nights performanc
was rotton. But so long as q tow
must be content with unmodern Oper
house accommodations, and tbs
under the most u~nscrupulous and rot
ton management, the people mui
expect to be iollied into attending To
most rotten class Of shows.