The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-24
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into
Few Lines.
Hattiesburg wants fine hotel.

Hattiesburg wants fine hotel.
Copiah county reports the cot
ton crop going from bad to worse.
The railroad operated by the
Fernwood Lumber Co, has beer
made a standard.
John Gibbs, the oldest resident
of Hazlehurst, died on the goth.
He was 81 years of age and had
resided at Hazlehurst 40 years.
Rev. j. X. Comfort, negro
preacher, has purchased land near
Hattiesbulg for the building Of
an industrial school and orphan
age for negroes.
Policeman A. D. Smith was kill.
ed in the railroad yards at Gulf
port by passenger train. He
was 36 years old and leaves a wife
and three children.
Carthage has organized a bust,
ness league, with officers as fol
lows: L. M. Garrett, president;
O. H. Howard, secretary; D. F.
Cadenhead, treasurer,
'I'm awfully thirsty" said the
farmers lad. "Then get busy"
said the father, "the good Book
says 'Ho, all ye that thirsteth' ~"
and the poor boy hoed.
Mrs. Nancy Rushing, aged Is.
died at Tylertown. She left an
aged husband, three sons, six
daughters, 100 grandchildren and
l01 great-grandchildren.
The Republican organization OF
Mississippi is actively at work
raising a campaign fund among
the faithful in this State, and ex-
poets to turn over a handsome sum
to the national committee.
The Kinds county grand jury
returned an Indictment against
Frank Chiles, son of Hon. L. f.
Chiles, on the charge of forgery,
while the young man was employ
ed in the chancery clerks Office
several years ago.
Nj. S. f. Smurr, one of our
most revered citizens, passed his
10Th birthday on Wednesday and
was presented, with a gift full of
prophetic good and usefulness
through years to come-a grand
son, born to Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Green.
Mississippi's generous ofer of
its State building, Beauvoir, for
receptions and entertainments that
are given BY the Commissioners
of those Southern States which
have no special edifces at the
Worlds Fair is a marx of the
brotherliness which exists among
American commonwealth. By
inference it calls attention to the
complete representation which ex-
ploits the whole South and South
west in the Exposition. st. Louis
Republic.
A -Natchez report says that a
large plantation owner of Frog
more, La, j. G. Purvis by name,
expresses satisfaction at work
done in his cotton fields by i'm
ported Mexicans. He made a re-
cord on cotton picking and found
that with men, women and chill
dren, the Mexicans averaged 96
pounds day, and the negroes on
lly So pounds. He has 36 Mexi-
cans on his place and states that
the single men are too trifing to
be a success.
The Board of Control has de.
cided to lease only one farm next
year upon which to work the State
convicts, in addition to those be.
longing to the State, of which
there are three one in Sunfower.
lone in Holmes and one in Rankin
i The farm to be leased is Hon. H,
III. McLaurin's in Issaquena coun
Ety, upon which number of tht
convicts are now being worked
.lGov. Vardaman favored cancellins
all of the leases and putting tht
convicts upon the State farms
which will no doubt be done aftel
next year.