The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-08-01
BoGUE cHITTO NEWS.

BUdVE CnITIO NEWS.
Bogue Chitto is a good town
morally, though the sightless tiger
does show his tracks upon oul
gravel.
The Baptist people closed their
meeting with an addition of up
wards of twenty. Some nineteen
were immersed last week in the
creek at Bluff Springs. A crowd
of sight-seers were in attendance.
The Methodist congregation
will begin their protracted ser
vice in few days. In the alb
sence of DR.. Cooper last Sunday,
Rev. Mr.. Jones, of Flora, occu-
! pied the. pulpit and gave two
thoughtful sermons.
To make an open secret, If the
people of this burg are proud of
one man, that Man is Mayor V ern-
on. He is cool and level-headed,
patriotic and clean, ardent for an
educational uplifting, sturdy
patron of public and private
honesty, the most polished speaker
in the. county. Candidate Vernon
has hardly asked man to vote for
him, while there are none who
know him but would like to see
him in the largest place the peo-
pie could make. Suffice it to say,
Mayor Vernon's public life is as
wholesome and stainless as his pri-
vate career, and in Bogue Chitto
no man could black-b ball him.
Speaking of the Bogue Chitto
school, the need today is more
money, more teachers, nj n e
months term and a thorough
grading.
Crops never looked better since
that wonderful period before the
war;
The farmer is whistling rag
weed time; the merchant keeps
hopping, the new editor devotes
his space between Office and Hotel
Goss, wehre his wife and baby are
domiciled picks up locals en-
route, and the lumber men hardly
have time to clean up. No one
but the festive negro has time to
rest and enjoy himself. That re-
minds us-the Brister saw mills
ale humming stopping for moth
ing but the change of saws. They
are filling two immenes bills, one
demanding 50-foot timber for the
St. Louis Exposition. The I'M
mense timber looks like dead
giants lying in state. They will
be shipped as fast as possible.
Anent the mill business comes a
word from the old keystone plant,
east of Bogue Chitto. This plant
has been in operation almost a
quarter of a century. They have
reached the end, as all Southern
mills must do sooner or later.
Now they are cleaning up, saving
what scattering timber is left,
shipping from their stack sheds
here and slowly preparing to go
out of business. They have sold
most of their machinery, while
the j. j. White R. r. Go. has pur-
chased the rails that made the east
spur-most of them having been
shipped to McComb, where they
viii be used in the McComb and
Liberty railroad. Families are
moving away from the Keystone
settlement and DR.. Horton, though
kept pretty busy with the pain
struck remnant of population, is
looking for a new location and
some other locality will be blessed
with a bright, efficient physician.
1t is rumored the Keystone prop
erty will pass into the hands of a
Michigan syndicate that proposes
establishing an immense truck
farm and breeding barns.
Mr.. J. S. Scutt and family are
undecided what move they will
make several tempting offers
having been made Mr.. Scutt. A
man of Seutt's ability is always
fished after with silver hooks.
Society is quiet not much do
ing.
Misses Ollie, Ophelia and Mat
tie McKneeley, sisters Of the
bridge contractor, and their
guest, Miss Sallie Powell, Of
Jackson, keep the boys guessing.
They reside in the boarding car
and being very charming young
ladies, have no end Of admirers;
but the house-car is always on the
move. When the young men
call at s p. M, they never know
where they're at at 10, nor just
where they will find the young la
dies at The next call. One Of the
boys called the other evening,
when they were at the south end
of town and when he told them
goodbye, he was a mile north.
Chantauqua last Sunday de-
handed the presence of Hugh and
Ben Brister and John McLaurin,
also Misses Louise Mackey and
Tet Mckinney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ghas. Gates took
in the Chautauqua last week.
Mrs. Gates has been quite i'll, fol-
lowed BY the illness Of her hus-
band, but both are doing well
now.
DR.. E. II. Thompson was call
led to Brookhaven BY business this
week.
E. A. Meadows, representing
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