The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-06
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Shorthand Chronicle OF Mississippi
and The Doinss Of Her People.

Oxford is to have new $50, 900
oil mill.
Rev. A. Althoff visited Wesson
last Friday.
Sam Jones will lecture in Jack
son May 10th.
Greenville had big political
barbecue yesterday.
The first rain in five weeks fell
at Magnolia on the 30th.
Gen. Jake Sharpe will make the
race for State Treasurer.
Mrs. E. G. Womack, aged "A,
died at McComb last week.
Miss Lou Mason began the
Rocky Bluff school Monday.
A. S. Kyle has withdrawn from
the race for State Treasurer.
The Dental Association will
meet in Vickbsurg May 10Th.
The fire department of Summit
has been thoroughly reorganized.
Beauvoir has been opened as
a home for INDECENT ex-Confeder-
ates.
The young men of Magnolia are
trying to organize military
company.
Wesley Hayman, one of Pike
county's best citizens, died last
Thursday.
Meridian will be the next place
of meeting for the State Teachers
Association.
The new Elks' Club building at
Vicksburg has been completed.
1t is colonial style.
Mrs. S. A. Thames died at Ma
gee last week. She leaves a hus-
band and several children.
The special edition of the Co.
Iumbus Commercial was issued
on the 22nd. 1t is exceedingly
creditable to the editor, j. T. Sen
ter, the compilers, the Lyons
Bros, and the city of Columbus.
The capitol commissioners were
the first State officers to get into
their new quarters at the new
State capitol.
Rev. Pinkney Matthews, a ne
gro preacher, was arrested at
West Point for using cancelled
postage stamps.
DR.. Charles Hillman Brough
will deliver the annual address for
the Newton High School at
Newton, May 18th.
JIG Siebe, of Crystal Springs,
will demolish his frame building
and erect brick store house with
modern equipments.
May term of court has been.pre-
termitted at Pass Christian. A
special term for Harrison county
may be held in June.
Blountville's postofice will be
known after July LIST as Prentiss
postofice, and a money order de-
partment will be added.
P. H. Weathers, of Biloxi, has
secured the contract for the cree
tion of the new two story brick
bank building at Hazlehurst.
A coco-coIa factory for the pur-
pose of bottling the drink will
soon be opened at Greenwood.
The building is about completed.
Congressman McLain has been
requested by the Secretary of the
Navy to nominate a midshipman
for the United States naval acad-
envy.
Ben S. Medley, of Anding, has
violin which was made in I'LL.
1t bears the inscription: "Gio:
Batta Rugeri, Fecit in Mantua,
1711."
DR.. j. M. Barrier, another dis
tinguished alumnus of Mississip
pi College, was elected president
of the State Medical Association
of Louisiana last week.
DR.. W. w. Payne was serious
Iy injured at Meridian last Thurs
day. He was knocked down by a
passing train as he hurried across
the track to attend a patient.
Miss Cora Terry Ray and NAL
colin Written Robinson will be
married at Malmaison today.
Miss Ray is great granddaugh-
ter of Greenwood Lefiore.
A negro chicken thief had a
part of his shoulder shot off at
Hattiesburg last week. There
is no temptation for chicken
thieves in Broolhaven and vicin-
ity.
The Episcopalians of the State
are having an interesting time
electing bishop to succeed the
late Bishop Thompson. -Four
elections have been held and at