The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-30
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.

Copiah complains of a scarcity
of labor.
Mrs. D. E. Pegram, aged 81, died
at Vicksburg on the 22nd.
The snow broke up the excur.
sion of the Legislature to Vicks,
burg.
/ L. A. Walters, of Pike county.
was kicked by a mule and his jaw
broken.
Francis Marion Lee, of Pike
county, died at Walkers Bridge al
the age of II.
Methodist ladies' of Fayette are
preparing to hold a bazaar for
their church fund.
A new mercantile company has
been organized at Summit, with q
capital of $780,
A Syrian pedGler was held up
and robbed of $35 by three high.
waymen at Vicksbulg.
Worlds Fair Commissioner r.
II. Henry is inspecting the States
buildings at the Worlds Fair.
For the first time in over thirty
years, cotton sold in Hazlehurst
on Monday last for fifteen cents a
pound.
Clinton has voted for water
works and an electric light plant
at a special election. It carried
by a large majority.
Barney Fitzpatrick, sexton of
Greenwood Cemetery at jackson,
was found dead in a room over
the Jackson Bank building.
Lauderdale county's treasurer,
Mr.. Keane, residing at Meri-
dian, fell down stairway last
Friday and broke bis right leg.
At Vicksburg the Biedenham
Bros. lost by fire their bottling
house, with a large stock of goods.
Loss, $4,000, with $4,000 insur-
ance.
Mrs. Sarah A. W. Davis was
buried at Liberty on the 18th.
She was 81 years of age, having
been born in Amite county, July
6, 1916.
The press generally reports the
inaugural ceremonies as "a mod
est affair" This is to the credit
of Governor Vardaman; but hardly
what many expected.
Governor Vardaman has APP
pointed Captain Arthur Fridge,
of Ellisville, Adjutant- General of
the State National Guard, vice
General VIM. Henry.
The snow was fourteen inches
deep on a dead level at Jackson
and other points in Central Mis-
sissippi. In the Northern portion
of the State it. was deeper.
Mayor W. R. Easterling has re-
signed and the board of aldermen
have ordered an election for Sat
urday, February 9th, to fill the
vacancy. -Fayette Chronicle.
The following justices of the
peace have been appointed by
Governor Vardaman: j. NJ.
Jayne, Ellisvile; j. H. Selby,
Laurel. and r. E. Order, TupeIo.
Mrs. George A. Anderson, a
prominent lady of Copiah county,
died at her home near Gallatin
last Sunday night. She was the
daughter of B. +. johnson, of Ha-
zlehurst.
1t is learned that Governor Var
daman, in appointing the new
dental board, will DO largely
guided by the recommendation of
the Dental Association, which
will, no doubt, meet shortly
AtPort Gibson on the 9th Sam
uel L. Lamkin, superintendent of
the Port Gibson compress, loaded
a thirty-foot box car of the Hi
nois Central Railroad with 1872
compressed bales of cotton, aggre-
eating in weight 1898 pounds,
and averaging Al 12 pounds per
bale.
A Golden Rule. encampment
has been organized at Magnolia
with the following officers: Sam
Wolfe, C. p; X. A. Kramer,
Fl. P; Wallace Carlett, senior
warden; j. G. BoWles, junior war
den; John w. Lamkin, scribe;
George Carlett, treasurer; w. M.
Wroten guide; Lee Travis inside
sentinel; j. E. Wolfe, outside SEN
tinel.