The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-01-28

Wednesday Evening, Jan. 26, 'O3.
IT o w N
COUNTY

The Board of Supervisors
meets next Monday.
Mrs. DR.. Walter Weathersby is
visiting relatives in this city.
James McGrath, of Canton,
was visitor last Friday.
Leon Pevey returned Monday
from Jackson, where he visited
his brother.
Mrs. D. S. Richardson was the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. W.
G. Schwem, last week.
Mr.. Julius Bowsky, of New
Orleans, was visitor Monday to
his brother, Geo. Bowsky.
Mrs. Sam Milton has returned
from several days visit to hel
son, J. j. Milton, at Magnolia.
Ramsey Organs are the best.
Sold by I. Pierre Ramsey, Brook
haven, Miss. Write to him fol
catalogue.
Look for DIR. Van Watts big ad
in next weeks paper. Office over
Brookhaven Drug Co., Storm
Building.
How about big fine Ramsey
Organ for $50 and freight.
shipped direct. $50 cash; $50 this
fall, with 6 per cent.
Photographer Fosby, after
careful investigation, refused tc
return on the excursion train.
He arrived home Monday. There
were others.
Rev. II. II. Messenger will
hold service in the Episcopal
church next Sunday at 3 p. m.
Service every first Sunday here.
after till further notice.
T. Pierre Ramsey, agent of the
Ramsey Piano Co., delivered foul
Ramsey Pianos in Lawrence coun
ty last week and expects to deliv.
er another big lot this week.
Miss Emma McKenna, of Nc.
Comb, and Miss Nellie Tenant
of Natchez, visited Miss Mamie
Hoskins last week, and attended
the "Singin' Skule Beginment. ,
County Treasurer D. L. Easter.
ling visited relatives in this city
Monday and left yesterday for
Abbeville, La, where he goes to
spend a month in rest and recrea-
ton.
Hon. T. Brady and wife left
yesterday evening bound south
ward. Mrs. Brady will visit in
Louisiana and Mr.. Brady will try
the new road from Hattiesburg
out to Prentiss.
John l. Marsahll, proprietor
of the Farmers Hardware Store,
made an assignment in bankruptcy
Monday and closed his store. j.
0. Boadwee was appointed tenn
porary trustee.
Rev. J. A. Scarborough was
in town Monday on the way home
from a visit to sick daughter in
north Lincoln. He sticks to it
that it is no joke about his being
a candidate for Representative.
Oscar Schwem had the misfor-
tune to shoot, accidentally, his
friend, Marion McRee, while out
hunting last Thursday. 1t is
thought McRee will recover, al
though he was seriously shot in
the thighs with about 80 bird shot.
H. Brill, we are glad to state,
was able to 60 to his shop yester-
day, after suffering sudden at
tack on Sunday. He was not
paraIyzed as at first reported;
and will, in all probability, be
soon restored to his accustomed
health.
Passengers on the excursion to
New Orleans had an excellent OBJ
ject lesson from the car windows
of what happens when two trains
try to pass one another on
the same track. There are
three badly wrecked engines be-
tween McComb and Lake Point
chatraine.
Our young friend, Wade L.
Summers, breaks the ice" for
county candidates by formally an
nouncing as candidate for treas
urer ind The Leader. Mr.. Sum-
mers is a worthy member of the
large and influential Summers
family of Lincoln county, who are
numbered among our best and
most substantial citizens, and is a
young man in every way qualified
to acceptably discharge the duties
of the Office which he seeks at the
hands of the people.
Tonight at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Chrisman, Miss Kathleen Chris
man will be married to Albert
McFadden, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. R. H. Purser.
The wedding will be a quiet one.
Mr.. and Mrs. McFadden will be at
home to their friends at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Mont
vile, the latter of whom is sis
ter of the groom. The Leader
extends its congratulations and
best wishes to the happy young
couple.