Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-08-05

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hollis Of cotton were plucked on
Saturday last, from the farm Of
! Maj. B. II. Sheppard, pear this
place. The hollis are well matured
and the staple excellent. Who can
beat IT.
We are informed that the Hon.
W. ID. Bradford and the Hon. j.
NJ. Thompson, candidates for Dis
trict Attorney and Circuit Judge
will address the citizens Of OkO.
liza on the Goth instant. Those
desiring t rhear these able gentle
men would do we'll to be in attend.
ance.
EDITOR MARRIED Daniel W.
LangdOn, of the Mobile Adver-
tiser, has married. Yes, one Of
Alabama's fairest daughters has
married one of the craft. Well,
abe is the smaTtest woman we've
read of in some time. Her name
was Emma @. Nelson.
Col. Kinney, the Quixotic fill
buster, is in IndianOls, Texas, ar
ranging his plans it is supposed
for a descent somewhere. He is so
busily engaged he was prevented
from eating a supper rendered him
by the citizens.
LARGE PREMIUM LIsT.-The
premium list for the next OkOlOna
Agricultural Fair is perhaps the
largest aud most liberal one ever
offered in the Southern States.
The number OF Premiums are 2O4,
amounting to 1882. The next
Fair comes of on the 14th, 10Th
and 10Th of October, next.
A HARD ONE.-SOme editor has
been abusing Col. Adams, the vet
eran editor of the Eastern Olar-
ion. The Colonel closes a reply
las follows: "I defy his malice and
doubt his power to iDiure me or
my paper. "The viper gnaws a
fle."
One OF our fair contributors (she
is fair we know, or modesty would
not tell her to seek shelter behind
the ''nOmme de plume'' Of Geo.
has lost her pet Billy-goat, and
pours fourth a warning lamenta-
tiOn, to be found on our first page.
We offer our heartfelt sympathy,
and say ''requies goat in Fat Saun.
der's paunch."
The CROPS IN THIS LOCALITY.
We are informed on all hands
that the corn and cotton crop was
never better in this locality than
it is the present season. In a con-
versatiOn with an old and success
full farmer of this county q few
days since, he said that he had a
better cotton crop this year than
he has had for ten years, and that
bis corn crop was equally as good
as the best he had ever raised. In
deed the accounts from all sections
OF the country arr Of the most fiat
tering order.
NEWS FROM JUDGE BROWN
Yesterday we saw a letter from the
Secretary of the Directory of the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad, to Col.
Eli Abbott, one of the Directors
living near this place. Judge B,
writes that he has arranged the
English debt with the sterling
bonds at 20 ccnts-thus arranging
a matter that has given u~neasiness
to the company for years. He
seems confident Of his ability TO
secure all the iron needed. The
debt referred to, amounts to $780,,
900.
HORSE THIEvEs.-Two bold
acts of DEMONSTRATING were COM
mitted in Grenada last week.
About noon, two scamps took a
couple of horses from a public
hitching place, and quickly rode
off. One OF the animals was a dark
horse with a blase on his forehead,
the other was a mouse cOlored
mare, with a black streak down
her back. Verify, the "merrie
days. Of auld lang syne are being
held in remembrance by these
modern Claudes. "Sixteen String
Jack, in his palmiest days, could
not have stolen a horse so cody.
THE MALE SCHOoL.-We under
stand the teachers OF this school
wish the citizens Of Okolona and
the patrons Of the school to con-
tribute means to repair the house.
It is in q very diIapidated condi-
tion, and must be repaired to make
it a fitting place for a school. Fix
it up-if we can't have rail and
plank roads, handsome streets and