The leader., 1905-08-02
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Wednesday, August 1905.
TOWN AND COUNTY


Cotton is towering near 1870
today
A Jolly picnic was that Of yes
terday
We regret I'd hear Of the poor
health Of Mr.. G. w. Chapman, of
this county
Conant Il Company will write
your Fire and Tornado Insurance.
Phone No. ~.
The City Fathers adopted some
rigid sanitary regulations last
night. Clean up.
John Fl. Williams has opened a
meat market on Monticello street
in rear Of Perkins Furniture
Store.
The stone wall of The Perkins
Furniture Company's new build
ling is beginning to rise from the
ground.
Estus Smith is up in Sunfower
county this week, assisting in
placing machinery on one of DIR.
Walkers plantations.
James East and Jesse Smith are
now serving as the city's night
policemen. They are fine, reIia-
BILE men for this responsible duty.
Our friends continue to be ex-
ceedingly kind in giving us local
news. This is appreciated more
and more as the temperature rises.
/ The Board of Supervisors meets
1next Monday, for the purpose of
going over the assessment rolls
and the transaction of other busi-
nesss.
/ Hon. Luther Manship says,
Il accept the mosquito theory
without winking. | am prepared
to believe anything bad about the
mosquito. 2
Wallace Magee returned Tues
day from a weeks vacation spent
with relatives in HolmesviIle and
Tylertewn.
| Miss Myra Smith, of the Union
Hall neighborhood, has recovered
| from fever. At the same home
Miss Sybil Russell is now smit-
ten with the same disease.
The Bank of BrookhaVen will
have temporary quarters at VIM.
Abshagen's old stand. After Nov.
1st. it expects to return to its old
corner in handsome new build
ing.
i DR.. S. g. Wilson has moved
his Office into the Pfeifer Build
| ing, upstairs. on the same floor
with Fosby's photograph gallery.
| He will remain here until the new
two-story Millsaps Building is
completed.
4 The monument of Sovereign G.
IL. Gleason was unveiled in Rose
! Hill Cemetery last Sunday after
moon by the Woodmen of Norfeld,
assisted By members Of the Brook
haven Camp. The monument is
lqmite a handsome one.
/ M. R. Leary and family we're
so deIlghted with their stay at
/ the Crystal Springs Chautauqua,
/ that they are remaining over and
camping on the shores of Lake
EChautauqua, not expecting to re-
| turn here until Sept. /.
Mr.. C. p. Reed, of Canton, has
accepted the position of travelling
salesman for the Progressive Cot
j ton-Seed Oil Co., and arrived yes
terday to begin his duties. Mr..
Reed comes to US highly COM
mended and we are pleased to have
lhim among our good people.
1 Mrs. W. T. Campbell and her
daughter, Miss Ruby, arrived in
Jour city this morning from Ben
Hur, Texas, where they have re-
sided for three years. They are
guests of Mrs. CampbelI's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hamons, who
live three miles east Of Brookha-
Even. They expect II spend a
month in this vicinity.
Mr.. Tom Butler, Of jefferson
county, came in to town yester-
day to sell his cotton, and incl
/ dentally met his old army friend,
! Capt. j. N. Cooke, who at once
took him to his beautiful home
and entertained him ioyfully.
i These comrades Of many we'll
i fought battle had not met for
4 twenty years.
While Mr.. and Mrs. j. M.
4 Wood were away at Chautauqua
1.-TWO rascally negro boys broke in
| to their. hen-house and stole about
80 of their beautiful white Ply
mouth Rock chickens. Fortu-
nately, the rogues were caught
land sentenced by Justice Daugh-
TRY to the county farm, where
they won't say chicken for six
ty days.
Our Presbyterian friends are
much disappointed on being in
/ formed that Rev. Mr.. Fifer whom
they called to FIJI their pulpit
i here, had finally decided not to ac-
cept. 1t had been announced that
The would begin his ministry next
Sabbath We trust the congrega-