The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-27
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Short Hand Chronicle OF Mississippi
and The DoinSs Of Her People.
Candidates are hustlino.

Greenwood has organized a
League of Elks.
Judge Powell is holding court
this week at Canton.
Joe Storm was a welcome Sun
day visitor from Summit.
Mrs. w. F. Parsons is con-
fined to her bed by illness.
Real estate men from the north
are again touring the State.
The Greenville Times is red hot
for Vardaman and paved streets.
j. H. Redding has been quite
under the weather for some days.
Maj. R. w. Millsaps, OF Jack
son, was a distinguished Sunday
visitor.
Mrs. j. &. Siebe, of Crytsal
Springs, is the guest of Mrs. L.
H. Baggett.
10000 visitors are expected to
attend the laying of the corner
stone at jackson.
Mrs. J. E. Thomas, wife of the
pastor of Greenwood's Methodist
church, died last week.
Miss Mary Ramsey pleasantly
entertained a number of Whit
worth girls last Thursday.
Skilled, practical accountants
ale employed to teach in Harris
Business College, Jackson, Miss.
The counterfeiter was again in
Jackson last Friday. He escaped,
after passing bad col n among mer-
chants.
| Natchez's street railways net
earnings for year amounted to
lS2,O11; 5 per cent. of which the
city receives:
| At Hattiesbulg the residence of
D. B. Holmes, just completed at
a cost of several thousand dollars,
was destroyed.
Mrs. Elizabeth L. Panko died at
Natchez on the Goth. She had
taught in the public schools of
that city since 1859.
At Woodyiile on June 9Th,
Bishop Galloway will deliver his
lecture, "The Observations of an
Optimist in the Orient"
Rev. J. W. Crisler and two
daughters, of Newton. are guests
of his brother, the pastor of the
Methodist church at this place,
Natchez paid $3.50, 900 for their
water works plant. 1t will be op,
Grated by commission composed
of three prominent business men.
J. M. McBroom, county survey
or of Bolivar, married Miss Rosa
A. Hackett, of Baton Rouge, on
the Dist, after an acquaintance of
4S hours.
/ Rev. r. H. Purser returned
/ yesterday from Kentwood, where
he has been conducting a meeting,
assisted by Rev. J-.@H. Lane, of
Magnolia. j.. j. i-"' -
| Reys. ". B. Lewis, II. N. Ellis
and 2. Howard, are among visit
ing ministers Intent on enjoying
| Whitworth's commenqcse li2 IF exer-
clses.
Antonio Dukes was hanged al
Hazlehurst on the 18th for the
murder of peddler, committed
nearly two years ago. The hang
ing was private.
Miss Lizzie Purser returned last
Thursday morning from Martin,
Tenn, where, for two successive
sessions she has been teaching the
School of fs&PresssiilQahn:: CASTE
The teachers of the various Sab
bath schools of our city are re-
quested to meet at the Baptist
church at 5 o'clock on next Sun
day afternoon for the purpose of
organizing county convention.
We return thanks to Prof. j.
NJ. Girauit for an urgent invita-
tion to attend the closing exercises
of Good Water Graded School,
which take place Friday. We
regret that it will be impossi BILE
for us to attend; but we hope the
Professor will send in a report of
The COMMENCEMENT o1ee Il cslm1n'en exercises.
Pres. |. W, Cooper failed to no
tify the public that the lecture
Gov. Bob Taylor gave on the 18th
took the place Of the one on his
commencement program for last
Saturday night, so there was an
audience without a speaker there
was a vast concourse of people,
going they Knew not whittier or
Why-and there were telephones
The alarming growth of tAe,eo-
caine habit among the negroes of
| Mississippi has suggested the
necessity of the next legislature
making change in the law pro-
viding that the sale ofthe deadly
drugs without the prescription Of a
physician, shall constitute felony
Instead of a misdemeanor as at
present provided BY the statutes t!l
Hon. A. @. May, member Of the
Mississippi Railroad commission,
and close observer of crop condi-
lions, has returned from tour of
Texas. and reports the crop out