The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-04-15
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Shorthand Chronicle Of Mississippi
and the DoinSs OF Her People.
Laurel has a music club.

AouI VI Has ~ IIIuSIC C1uDs
The Laurel Ledger is one year
old.
Rain is now needed in many
parts of the State.
Gentry's dog and pony show is
again in the State.
81 barrels of shrimp were pack
ed at Pass Christian on the 10th.
Collins building for a canning
factory will be completed by
May 1.
Booth Lowrey Is on a Lyceum
trip in southeast Mississippi this
week.
The Presbyterian church at
Greenwood was destroyed by fire
last Sunday.
West Jackson Lodge of Odd
Fellows celebrated their first an
niversary on Monday night.
F. M. Payne, of Tupelo, was
killed by train Tuesday, while
walking on railroad trestle.
W. B. Mathis, of Copiah coun-
ty, is said to be the most extern
sive truck farmer in the South.
Will Wallace, a negro robber,
held up the city marshal of CIarks-
dale and escaped, last Saturday.
The beautiful new home of Mr..
and Mr.. j. N. Patton, of Laurel,
was destroyed by fire last week.
John R. Young, of Aberdeen,
filled an order from Lewiston,
Maine, for a lot of Buff ellington
eggs.
The annual convention of the
Daughters of the Confederacy
will be held at Water Valley June
3rd.
The coast oyster reefs have suf-
fered little from the great fresh
water outpour of the Mississippi
this spring.
Whitney Gordon and Miss Adj
die Mackey, a sister of Mrs. T.
+. Ford, were married at Mead
vile last week.
Charles Robert Steiner, of
Bristol, Tenn, and Miss Helen
Grace Loveless, of Brandon, were
married on the 10th.
County papers in the office of
the sheriff of Neshoba county
were destroyed by an unknown
depredator last week.
The Y. NJ. G. A., of Laurel,
held an Easter song service which
was enjoyed by both ladies and
gentlemen of the town.
Alfred Hanrahan was drowned
while bathing at the railroad cul-
vert near Summit, on, the 18th.
He was Is years of age.
At Poplar Springs, Rev. L. F.
Afford, formerly of Pike county,
but now of Plaquemine, La, was
married to Miss Carrie Curtis.
Judge Sykes has pretermitted
the April term of circuit court at
Okolona, in behalf of the farmers
who are backward in their work.
John Thorn, prominent young
man of Iuka, had his leg mangled
by a passenger train on the 18th,
and it. was amputated below the
knee.
Judge Niles has little considera-
ton for the illicit whisky people
who testify in their own defense
and generally add perjury to
their defect table budgets.
F. &. Harwood chastised his
son-in-law, M. ". Wilkerson,
with raw hide on the streets of
Vickbsurg last week. The in
side facts are not yet known.
Jackson has been appealed to
by the Entertainment Committee
of the Confederate Reunion to
contribute 81, 200 to entertain the
Confederate Veterans of the State.
Rosie Bell Cowart, aged a, shot
and killed her mother near Aber-
deem last week, with a double
barreled shot gun and then blew
her own brains out. 1t is thought
she was insane. The mother was
deaf.
Harlan Smith, jr,, the mail rid
er on the Cooksville star route,
near Macon, his son and several
members of the family, were ar
rested for robbing the mail on the
18th. More than a wagon load
of stuff was found on the Smith
premises, including a number of
watches.
The Lamar Literary Society
celebrated its eleventh anniver-
sary on Friday night. Congress
man John Sharpe Williams deliv
cred an able address. M. S. Split
man Of Rosedale, the orator of
the occasion, spoke on Problems
Of Prohibition D. G. Enochs,
of Brandon, anniyersarian, spoke
of 1.-The Commercial South. y
Nearly all the members of the