The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-11-24
TOWN N COUNTY
Thanksgiving Day.

Time TO o up your IHdlnels anu
overcoat.
The ''sere and yellow leaf'' is GER
tainly in evidence.
Mrs. e. G. Dawson is the guest of
Mrs. Annie Wilbourne.
Carload of Hickman wagons
lust received at DUKES.
A lot of Wagons for boys, at
JAS. H. DUKES.
Tom Lamon now has fresh meats
on hand pretty much all the time.
Large shipments of turkeys We're
made from this point the past week.
We will sell a scholarship in the
Georgia-Alabama Business College,
at Macon, Ga, cheap for cash.
The big Duke store has just re-
ceived two carloads of F1our-one
of the celebrated "Sylph' brand.
Mr.. NJ. L.. Collifower, of Diver
non, ILL.,, spent several days of the
past week here looking after prop
erty interests.
1900 gallons of Beaumont oil, in
50-gallon iron tanks, in slock at Jas.
H. Dukes Cheap Cash Store; will
be sold at a low price.
Next Sabbath is preaching day
for our Baptist friends, and services
will be held by them, in the Metho-
dist Church, morning and night.
There will be a Union Thanksgiv-
ing Service in the Presbyterian
Church this morning at 10 o'clock,
to which all are cordially invited.
Weather like that of the past few
days evidences only too plainly the
need of improvement to the side
walks in the business part of town.
We have a couple of first-class
sewing machines we would like to
dispose of at reasonable figures
both standard machines with full
sets of attachments.
Mr.. G. B. Dorroh's family have
moved to- Macon and occupy the
Buck cottage. Their friends here
have been expecting them for some
time.-Macon Beacon.
Misses Eula Hammack, of Fort
Worth, Texas, and Miss Cora Giles,
of Wahalak, were guests of the fam
lily of Mr.. A. A. Hammack several
days of the past week.
If you want a good buggy or hack,
a set of harness, a horse or mule for
driving or work purposes, call on
w. H. Stuart & Co. They can sup
ply you at short notice.
Just received, carload of Avery
farming implements-plows, Guilt
yators, plow-points, etc. Anything
and everything ouneed in that line
to make a crop. Will be sold low.
DUKES CHEAP CASH STORE.
We are thankful for many things
health, strength, a happy home
and its concomitants, s5aA friends,
and over and above all, our faith in
Him who rules the universe, Who
t'doeth all things we'll"
At a meeting of the Scooba Truck
growers Association, one day last
week, Mr.. J. w. Carter was elected
as delegate to the Mississippi Truck
growers League, which meets in
Newton tomorrow and Saturday.
W. understand that, at the sup
per at Mrs. R. M Quarles' residence
last Fridaynight, the ladies realized
about $500. The crowd was not a
very large one, but a most liberal
spirit prevailed. "A very enjoyable
time was had.
Among those who were here Tues
day in attendance at the funeral of
Mrs. James H. Duke, we noticed
Judge James Neville, of Gulfport;
Messrs. j. P. Lipscomb and Ed.
Hart, of Meridian, and Messrs. jim
and Tom Tom Jenkins, of Wahalak.
All that was mortal of Mrs. Leah
Rhinehart, formerly a Miss Laven-
der of the Evansville neighborhood,
were brought to Scooba on Sunday
evening from her late home near
New Orleans, La, and inferred at
the local cemetery. We failed to
learn the particulars of the lady's
death.
At a meeting of Jefferson Lodge
No. 146, A. B. & A. M, last Thurs
day night. the Apprentice Degree
was conferred upon Mr.. j. G. Ross,
ard DR.. J. =. Tinsley was raised to
the Sublime Degree of Master Ma
son. This is n organization which
doesn't let the goat get rusty for
want of practice.
Rev. E. B. Witherspoon, who some
years ago was in charge of the Pres
byterian Church at this place and
now pastor of the church at Dublin,
Ga, spent the past week with the
family of Col. James III. Duke, and
has proven a stower Of strength in
the afiiction which has come upon
these dear friends 81 ours. God
moves in q mysterious way, and