Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08
SOCIAL AND OTHERWISE.

Great reduction in suitings at Shorts
Miss Minnie Ivy is visiting relatives
in Houston this week.
Don't miss the lecture at the Metho-
dist Church Friday night.
Free Tuition to all in Harris BUSH
ness College, Jackson, Miss.
Did you sit down on the sleety side
walk, and feel foolish as well as sore
over it2
Short is long on seasonable and
nobby suitings, let him show you his
SAMPLES.
Miss Lorena Mcintosh made a hur-
ried trip to her home in Holiday,
Thursday last.
MI. Loviok Haley has been on the
sick list the past week, but is well
again and at his office.
Mrs. N. B. Crawford, of Houston,
was a visitor at the home Of MIR. and
Mrs. F. NJ. Elliott over Sufday,
Can make yon a wedding suitbut will
make a big reduction on a seasonable
suit right now. Short, the Tailor,
Didn't shoyelthe snow off your roof
till it was too late-t0 save you from
damage, did your Sometimes it
~ aH . h
pours when it don'train.
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 hem at you too.
One residence next door to Baptist
church and the middle office in Main
Street, for rent.
MRS. JENNIE BUCHANAN.
If it had been the season OF the year
to go fishing probably many of the
merchants of 0kolona would not have
felt so blue over the slow business the
past week.
A brakeman named Powers on the
local between here and Artesia, slip.
ped and fell from the pilot Monday
evening at West Point, and was SER
iously If not fatally injured.
Chet Steinberger, who has been of
duty on account Of sickness nearly a
month, is able to assume his duties as
seal recorder for the Mobile & Ohio
railroad at this division point.
Mr.. Buck Alvarez, the popular NJ. &
0. conductor on the Houston Division,
has been confined to his home a real
sick man for the past week. His
wife and children are also sick.
The grip has seventeen forms, and
when . nan get rid of it in one shape
it comes back in another. 1t is never
safe for him to knock on wood and say
be is cured, for it will hear and come
back.
The past few days of whitening
weather has been tough on big special
sales advertised in the city. But if the
sun comes out and few days exten
ton of time is given, the people will
come in all the same.
The damage to goods in the city
Sunday morning, on account Of defec-
tive roofs on the business houses, and
carelessness in not having the snow
shoveled of Saturday before the rain
came, was something fierce.
The rain following the snow and
sleet Saturday night tested all the tin
roofs and valleys in town, and few OF
them stood the test. The new roofs
were, If anything, worse than some OF
the old ones and much damage re-
suited.
The past week has demonstrated to
every one in Okolona who is not blind
IS a bat, that within the next fifty
years some steps win almost necesssr-
fly have to. be taken to improve the
streets and walks on the principal thor
oughfare of the city.
About the only sunshine this section
bas enjoyed in over two weeks was on
the End Of February, when the ground
hog came out, saw his shadow and
rushed into bis hole for six weeks.
That IS the amount Of winter we are to
have for the ground hog theory never
fails.
Mr. D. Creighton, the popular pro-
prietor Of the Kansas City Meat Mark
ct, has been on the sick list and con-
nned 20 his home the past week.
His business has been well looked
after however during his absence from
e. b. his step son. Master Mitchell
Ward.