The leader., 1905-08-30
TOWN AND COUNTY.

Taking stock" is keeping
clerks busy.
Mr.. ]. S. Scutt was a Jackson
visitor Monday.
Capt. j. L. Storm went up to
Jackson Sunday.
The thermometer is down in the
mouth at this writing.
DR.. John Chisholm was a
Brookhaven visitor Friday.
There was Something doing"
in police circles Saturday night.
Michigan Concord Grapes re-
celved daily by Mills & East Co.
Hon. A. c. McNair and Sher-
man left Monday for a trip to
Chicago.
Mrs. Stokes Allen is improving
her residence and property on the
Union Hall road.
Mr.. w. W. Holiday and his
niece, Miss Kate HIgdon, visited
Hazlehurst relatives Sunday.
Mrs. SalIie j. Hart arrived last
Thursday to be the guest of her
brother, DR.. John III. johnson.
Dr.W. E. Montgomery. Messrs.
Ralph ButterfeId and Joe Still
we'll, of Norfeld, we're Sunday
visitors.
A masquerade party was the
delight of young friends of Miss
Mary McNair at the home of her
parents, last Thursday evening.
There is no paper in Mississip-
pi, outside of the da1Iies, which
gives as much local and State
news every week as The Leader.
Services at the Baptist church
tomorrow night by Rev. j. P.
Williams. The pastor hopes to
see present every available mem
ber.
A great pile of brick on East
Monticello street indicates i'm
provement of the pavement along
Henderson & Turnbough's livery
stable.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Butter
field are both in New Orleans at
Hotel Dieu. They expect to leave
for Chicago as soon as their
health permits.
Tom Decell got overheated dur
ing the extreme hot weather Of
last week and was prostrated sew
eral days in consequence. We
are glad to see him out again.
Miss Eunice Wroten and
Messrs. Weems Hobbs, Percy
Buie and Heard Wimberly attend
ed church at Damascus last Sun
day. Miss Wroten's home is in
that vicinity.
DIR. /. W. Cooper has accepted
an invitation of the Baptist ladies
of PearlhaVen to deliver lecture
at an early day for the benefit of
their church organ. The date
will be announced in a future is
sue of The Leader.
Mr.. Z. y. Laird, of Yazoo City,
and Mr.. j. H. Laird, of Brookha-
ven, were called and arrived here,
at the bedside Of their sick broth
er, Emanuel, who is stricken with
typhoid fever at the home of Mr..
G. P. Matthews on Beatty street.
-Clarion-Ledger. 2Sth.
The Baptists of PearIhaven, un-
der the pastoral charge of Rev. r.
j. Boone, will begin a protracted
meeting in their new church on
the second Sabbath IN September.
The meeting is expected to last
about two weeks, and Rev. j. E..
Wills will assist the pastor in the
good work.
1t is to be regretted that every
parent in Brookhaven was not
present last Sunday at the Baptist
church, to hear Rev. r. II. Pur-
ser's sermon addressed especially
to mothers and fathers. It made
boarded wealth and material pros
perity seem like sounding brass
and tinkling cymbal, /" when
brought face to face with the
higher life in the spirit-reaIm.
This section was visited by
quite a severe wind storm from
the northeast last Friday evening,
accompanied by a light rain fall,
since which time the weather has
been decidedly more pleasant and
bearabIe. Farmers, however, say
the cool northeast wind of the last
few days is having d very hurtful
effect on the cotton crop, checking
the growth and causing il to shed
freely.
We had the length and the
breadth Of 1t ID The Leader Office
last Saturday afternoon. Ray. j.
a.. Scarborough, Of Bogne Chitto,
paid lis sunshiny call On his way
to Union Hall, and he had not
much more than disappeared, be-
fore genial Dune Easterlingl