Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-22

Great reduction in suitings at Shorts
Miss Bette Marable left Sunday for
st. Louis.
See Betsy at the Opera house Mon
day night.
Mr.. Frank Herndon left for Boone
vile Sunday.
Mr. slayter OF South Carolina visited
in this city last week.
Mrs. Clara Mabry entertained the
Lanier Club last Friday.
Free Tuition to all in Harris Bust
ness College, Jackson, Miss.
Postmaster Mrs. Irene Elliott paid
a friendly visit to Houston Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Huffman of St.
Louis are visiting A Dahmer this
week.
Mr.. Charles Fleck, of Sedalia, Mis-
souri,, is visiting ]. ]. Reilly and
family.
Short is long on s~easonable aud
nobby suitings, let him show you his
SAMPLES.
Don't allow anything to keep you
away from the Betsy Hamilton lecture
Monday night.
Can make you a wedding suit but will
make a big reduction on a %seasonable
suit right now. Short, the Tailor,
Today is Washington's birthday,
nationalized by all government depart
ments, and the postofice will be closed
from 10 to 4 O'Clock in honor of the
Father Of Our Country.
Short, the Tailor, is making suits in
the latest cuts and goods, at prices that
will make you want one. Prices re-
duced to the limit, and he'n fit you too,
One residence next door to Baptist
church and the middle Office in Main
Street, for rent.
MRS. JENNIE BUCHANAN.
On accoun5 of a hole In one Of the
boilers at the power house, the city
has been without electric lights severe.
nights Of late, but the agony is said to
be o. now.
Mr.. and Mrs. r, B. Snowden, OIL
Seattle, Washington, have been in the
city several days, the guests at the
elegant home of Mr.. and Mrs. O NJ
Savage.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Burnley, o.
McComb City, stopped over Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. c. R. King, while
on their way to Houston, where they
will make their future home.
The W. G. T, U. will have a callet
meeting at the residence of Mrs
Houseman Thursday afternoon at
O'Clock Feb. 83, to make arrangement
for survives on the following Sunday
The Betsy Hamilton lecture at tn.
Opera house, next Monday night, vii
be a treat none can afford to miss
Betsy is all right, aud all should hea
her. Then the cause is one near to a.
Southern hearts.
The Alert Handle Factory is putin.
! in a new boiler, not in place of tn
; old one, but adding it to secure great
or power and enable them to Away
. have sufficient power to drive thei
rapidly increasing business.
Mr.. J. c. Whitesids, the real estat
man, was booked to leave for Beevill'
and other points in Texas, accompaine
by MI. @. E. Glideweu, Mr.. d. 7
Shell, Mr.. Jim Rowe and probably tW
or three others, yesterday.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is planning
visit to Mississippi, and if her heali
permits will leave New York with
the next three or four weeks for a tr
to thfs section. She win spend a fe
days with friends in Greenwood, Nlck
burg, jackson, Natchez and Biloxi.
OkoloDa Chapter q. D. O. has q
cured to lecture for the benefit Of q
Confederate Monument, Fred Emers0
Brooks, for March 18th, aud Bet
Hamilton for February 9th. 4
lectures will be In the opera house Al
everyone should attend.
There is no county in Mississippi
better form on organization under &
direction Of the Southern Cotton ASS
ciativn, than is our own Chickasa
The men selected to lead On il 4
noble work are all wool and ma
yards Of cotton vide.