Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-01-14

When is the Eleventh Hour9 Thurs-
day night at half past eight.
Goods sold by ne engraved free.
G. F. RICHARDS & 90.
Harris Miller left a few days ago to
attend school at the State University.
Miss Annie Laurie Marable is the
guest OF her sister. Mrs. Raymond Lic-
on.
Go to the Model Bakery, or to Azwell
& KcKinney's Grocery Store, for your
pies, cakes, or bread.
The G. L. s. G. Circle bad a most
enjoyable and profitable meeting at
the home of Mrs. T L. Bramlitt on
last Monday night.
Mrs. F. g. Millette has returned
from Memphis, where she went to
enter her son, Meredith, In the
School OF the Brothers.
The roads are in q worse condition
than they have been for years. A
new system for road building is err
tainly needed in this county.
E. s. Elliott Jr. while out hunting
last week succeeded in killing q wild
turkey gobler which weighed twenty
Ave pounds after it was dressed.
The Model Bakery bread is what
you want. At the bakery or at Azwell
& McKinney's Grocery Store.
The contractor for the new railroad
has arrived in Okolona and expects to
have a large force begin right away
to push the road into Houston.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal Of
last Sunday contained a handsome
picture Of Miss Lulie Cappleman, Of
this city, who has recently been a Wis
itor to friends there.
The handsome home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
H L. Morrison is about completed,
and is pretty and convenient In all its
details, as we'll as one OF the most i'm
posing residences in our city.
It is reported that Mr.. A. Martin
has sold his interest In the grocery
house Of Dulaney & Martin to, his
partner, and that the business viii be
continued by Mr.. J. N. Dulsney.
A school teacher, . few years ago,
married q man who chewed plug to.
bacco and used bad grammar. She is
quoted as saying that the bad gram
mar lie the more Objectionable habit
Of the two.
A man really never knows what II
Is to be ''torn by conflicting emo.
tions," as Ella Wheeler Wilcox would
say, until he Is married to z woman
who lie hated by al the other women
folks In his family.
John whitaker, of Tuscola, Illinois,
who bought the J. o. Whiteside farm.
four miles northwest Of this city re-
Gently, arrived on Wednesday OF last
week and will make Okolona bis home
His family will be here in q few days.
After all, what's the use of making
a fuss because men like Rockefellel
and Carnegie have so much money
They can't take it out of the world
with them, and it doesn't increase
their capacity for eating, drinking o.
sleeping.
The Okolona high school has NOR
pretty young ladies for teachers thar
any other school in the state. N,
wonder the big boys like to suspen,
business and stand in the front door
OF the stores when school breaks VI
every afternoon.
Lincoln J. Carter's Eleventh Houl
Company, billed for the opera hOusp
in this city Thursday night, is one o
the best attractions our people are like
" to have an. opportunity to see thi
season, and the Okolona public is for
tunate to have this attraction come
The citizens IN the eastern part Q
the city are making grevious complain
about the terrible noise that come
from the Compress. The women haV
made np their minds to see that ever
member on the city board will be do
/ feated in the next election If this nOil
) Is not abated ct once. They say 4
promises win be taken in the matter
3 Rev. D. h. Ogden, Of Columbu
who gave such an able charge TO u
! pastor and members of the Presb!
z terrain church Of this city last week, {
i the occasion Of the installation Of Re
Jno. w. MOseley as pastor Of q
church here, is spending this wet
lecturing to the young men ct q
9 State University In Oxford.
The OkoIona Chapter Of the Unit
n Daughters Of the ConfedeFacy ha'
Just published 3 handsome leanst col
tanning an accurate list Of the nam
the Confederate dead, whose renal
q sleep beneath the evergreens u q
+ Citizens Cemetery ct this place. III
precious spot contains the remains
% 40 Confederate dead, according
d the best data obtainable, yet the
gre only 4O2 Of the names known, q
,t these the Daughters have fsd neat
II printed and Z selling the hsts 90
cents each to aid in the raising 3 ful
J. with which to erect q suitable mon
ment to the memory Of these her'
p patriots Of 20 years ago.