The leader., 1904-11-09
MAGNOLIA Gazette New.

MI. w Las ley has secured
che contract for the construction
Of q fine residence for NH. Hugh
Craft, at McComb.
Mr.. w. A. Daniel catches the
willy o'possum without even going
to Che woods. Thursday night be
succeeded ID capturing one Ia his
f0wI-house.
Congressman McLain and
daughter, Mrs. John Hines, re-
turned to their home In Chester,
Tuesday night, after having spent
several days very pleasantly here
as the guests Of Mrs. M. 4. Ball.
AIT d mass meeting held Id Osy-
ka Monday night, the following
well known citizens we're nomi-
mated for the different municipal
Offices: For Mayor, ID. G. Wright
land Jos. Nixon; Marshal, Z. Al.
Spears; Treasurer, John Rehorst;
Aldermen, j. r.. Barremore, B.
+. Owen, w. M. OFT, NJ. g.
Grubb, w. 81. Bates, j. NJ. For
rest, D. E. Newman, S. Al. Bacot,
3. Il. Webb and George Nixon.
Magnolia is rapidly growing to
be newspaper center. Beside
| the News and the Gazette, no less
than three other papers are pub
lished here. One is called the
Negro Herald, and it is published
by the teachers Of the negro col
llege; another is the Letter, edited
and published by j. a. Mitchell,
a colored Baptist preacher, and
the third is the Peoples Search
light, with /. w. Crawford, edi-
tor and publisher.
"A sad accident occurred near
Tylertown Wednesday afternoon,
when Mr.. Fred Simmons was
struck by a falling tree and in
lstantly killed. Mr.. Simmons was
cutting cane and all of his five
children we're in the field with
him. One of the children was
struck by at branch of the falling
tree and had its arm broken. Mr..
Simmons was only thirty years Of
age, happily married and respect
| ed by the entire community in
which he lived.
The hampton Mercantile Co.
has installed a large boiler in the
basement Of its store and will heat
| its building and also the bank
building with steam radiators.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Hampton,
after spending their honeymoon
with Kentucky relatives, returned
Thursday night and are domiciled
for the present at the Victoria
Hotel.
A negro was killed on the Fern
wood & GulfR. r. Monday morn
ing by the falling of a burning
tree. A squad of men was engag-
| ed in cleaning up the right-of-Way
and had set fire to a number OF
trees. Without moments warn
ing one of them fell killing one
negro and slightly injuring anoth-
Ter.
The case of the Mississippi
Railroad Commission against the
Illinois Central, involving the stop
ping Of certain trains at Magno-
liza, comes up in New Orleans be-
fore the United States Court Of
Appeals sometime this month.
| It will be remembered that Fed
eral Judge Niles sustained the or
der of the Commission ordering
trains Nos. ] and 8 stopped, and
| it is from this decision that the
railroad company has appealed.
Ed. j. Ell. Lane was called to
hold a memorial service at Mars
Hill church last Sunday in memo
ry Of Mrs. Mary M. Parker. who
died at her son-in-laW's home,
Mr.. Walter johnson, near Tyler
town, July Is, 1904. Mrs. Par
ker was born near Zion Hill,
Amite county, in 1921. Was the
mother OF eight children, and was
left widow fortY-two years ago.
She had been member of Mars
Hill Baptist church for sixty
| years.
DR.. G.. w. Robertson left We'd
nesday for Hot Springs, accompa-
MED BY his mother, who goes
there for treatment.
Miss Cherrie Wright. of Osyka,
was the guest Of her sister, Mrs.
lC. d. Miller, Monday.
Judge Chrisman, of Brookha-
ven, was on our streets Friday
morning.
The Leader regrets that Judge
Chrisman is not now a resident OF
this city. His postoAice is at Can
| ton