The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-09
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.

Hazlehurst will have a baby
show November II.
"A truck and fruit growers as
Isociation has been organized at
Chatawa.
Near 30 gins have been destroy
ed IN the State, since the ginning
season opened.
Miss Fannie Hines, a grand
daughter of Congressman Nc
Lain, died at GIoster.
Clinton has held a meeting look
ing toward the erection of a laun-
dry and bottling works.
Electric cars are now operated
on the new line from the depot
to the pier at Gulfport.
Congressman Bowers will make
speeches in West Virginia for the
National Democratic ticket.
Capt. Guy Jack, of Scooba. has
sold 8, 900 acres Of timber land to
the Sumpter Lumber Company.
W. B. Byrd died at Crystal
Springs, after twenty months of
suffering with acute rheumatism.
Edgar Smith, a negro, was NOR
tally wounded over crap game
at Mendenhall on Saturday night.
Laurel is numbering its houses
and marking its streets, prepare
tory to free delivery of the mails.
The Jones county fair at Ellis
vile was as great a success as the
county fairs Of Columbus and Nc
Comb.
The residence of FL. A. Dorr, at
Hattiesburg, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $1,000. The family
awoke barely in time to save their
lives.
At Vicksburg a team SHE'D at
an automobile, took fright, and
ran over two men. that attempted
to stop it. The men we're serious
ly injured.
Oscar Watson, of Flora, and
Miss Fannie Beasley, of Crystal
Springs, were married, the cere-
mony being performed by Rev.
w. E. Ellis.
The First National Bank, of
Met Comb, has opened up. j. Fl.
Fulton, of New Orleans, is presi-
dent and J. L. Moyse, of Summit,
yice-president.
b. w. Griffith was elected May
or of Vicksburg by a large ma
| iority. The vote stood 801 for
Griffith and 457 for Trowbridge,
the present incumbent.
Samuel II. McMaster, aged 80,
died at BeauVolr, after seven
months residence there. His SER
vices to the Confederacy were in
the paymaster's department of the
navy.
E. R. Manning, manager Of the
jackson Fertilizer Company, has
donated one ton of fertilizer to
the BeauYoir Home, for use in
fall and spring truck gardening at
| the home.
A truck grower near Laurel has
cleared $76.58 per acre on eight
acres of Irish potatoes this season.
He will make another crop on the
same land. This shows what can
be done in this State.
Plans have been completed for
a modern apartment house at
jackson. A stock company Of To-
cal capitalists has been formed for
the launching Of the enterprise.
$50, 900 will be invested.
The fine gin of James e. Lee,
lat Huron, Amite county, togeth-
er with forty bales of cotton and
a large quantity Of cotton seed,
was burned down Sunday morn
ing. Loss, SIS 900 with no insur-
lance.
The merchants and business men
of Yazoo City are contemplating
taking a trip over the Belzoni
Branch Of the Yazoo and Missis-
sippi Valley Road for the purpose
of getting acquainted with the
people along the line.
An association of farmers has
been folmed in jackson county
fol the purpose of raising the
celebrated Rocky Ford cante-
Ioupes on a large scale. 100 acres
will be devoted TO the cultivation
of the cantelonpe and shipment
will be made in carload lots.
The father of young Will James
who disappeared last April, after
purchasing a ticket from Lumber
ton to Hattiesburg, is having the
bodies Of unknown men who have.
been killed ii that part Of the
State, exhumed in the hope of
finding his son. Heidelberg was