The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
WahaIak Letter.

IVY OSShiys VI oCilii hhOheiA'J ;
letter was pretermitted on 40
count of pressing business. | was
detained as Que OF the sundry We
hires summoned to select a jury
to- try Irwin Henderson. / was
finally discharged, after getting
thoroughly .branded' with the
marks OF the average juror. They
incarcerated us, during my brief
sojourn in the capital city, in the
court house, keeping us there all
night. While in "duranoe vile'
parts OF Wendell Philips article
III the North American Review
Tread several years ago) on the
Jury System, occurred to NE. lie
took up this iniquitous portion
of the Magma Charter, extorted
at Runnymede by the English
Barons from King John, and
dubbed it one of the sstwin relics
OF barbarism."' 1t certainly seems
a travesty on justice to take the
most important element in the
dispensing of it and imprison
them until a verdict is reached
in some place where hardship
and discomfort are the predomi
nant features.
Holly Giles went as far as Mer-
idian with his mother and aunt,
on their way to Texas. He has
just RETURNED from Michigan, at
ter a %sojourn oil one year.
Rev. j. Frank Turner, our pop
ular Presbyterian minister, tailed
to keep his appointment last Sun
day on account Of rain.
Mrs. Mollie Brown, relic of G.
B. Brown, living near Wahalak,
has been very il, indeed, tor sew
eral weeks, with pneumonia, sup,
plementeo by heart trouble, but
is better, thanks to the ministra-
tions of Dir. L. T Chiles.
Mrs. III. III. Floy d, alter her re-
turn from the st. Louis Exposi-
ton to her home in Evergreen,
Ala, died of typhoid pneum. nj
contracted t exposure during
the trip.
"Nick" Neal and wife were
visitors to the formers sister,
Mrs. G. B. Brown, during her
illness.
Miss Mayes Lampley was q
guest of Miss Matte Peden last
week tor several days.
Miss Ruth Thomas is visiting
her uncle, John Thomas, in oul
little city.
Mr.. Boyd, railroad section mas.
ter here, has been on the sick list
the past fortnight, but is conval
esclng.
The Misses O'Brien, Edna ant
Lucille, have gone to Columbu:
to reside with relatives there
They will be greatly missed, a.
they arc very intelligent, fasci
mating young ladies.
Everybody and his grand aun'
have finished picking cotton.
A. G. Adams has sold out, it il
reported, to Mrs. Bounds, who
will sell goods at the old stand.
Miss Matte Peden teaches oui
school and gives general satisfac.
ton.
Miss Thomas, daughter of Hal
Thomas OF Noxubee county, paiC
US a visit yesterday and remained
until today. She travels in thu
interest OF a book firm and ha'
been quite successful from hel
account, having sold and deliv
cred $4,000 worth OF books a
Macon and another place. Plucl
and industry will always be win
ming cards, with integrity as al
auxiliary.
Mrs. 7. III. Giles, accompanied
by her four smallest children, re
turned with Miss Eula Hammack
her sister, to Fort Worth, Texas
to visit their mother, whom Mrs
Giles has not seen in nearly TWEEN
ty years. 1t is the program TO.
Mrs. Hammack, the mother, t,
return to Mississippi with Mrs
Giles. Madam Rumor bruits i
around that the young lady will
marry Xmas a Baptist minister
in the Lone Star State.
JUNIUs.