Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-01-12

Tad tho pleasure Of i hearty hard
shake from that port'y bundle q
Good Nature, Fix Sheriff. w. II
VALLEY, did the Editor on last Satuy-
day. The Hon. Willis, who we all
know halls from Grafton, has been
making himself scarce round Leakes-
vile for the last SIX months, but as
signs for his reasons, the busy tur-
pentine season on that commodity
which has been an unprecedented fine
one in prices and yield. and as our
worthy old friend is d shrewd and
enterprising manipulation OF a flour
ishing Naval Stores business up
there, we surrender our just resent
ment at Leakesville's slight, but
hope for better behavior from him
this year.
Mr.. E. McLennan, the Hattiesburg
Real Estateman is of truth one of
action. He whirls into town and
out with such rapidity as to almost
elude the vigilant lookout of the local
news-gather for this organ. He came
in Tuesday and was so busy engaged
in the Sheriff S Office till Wednesday
evening as to nearly escape us, but
we caught him long enough to ex-
change greetings just before his
liquidating departure. He was
checking up the tax receipts of the
Blodgett Land Syndicate.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Stephens and
the children were itinerants out Oh
Saturdays train. having for their
destination Salem, Oregon, town
in the extreme Northwestern part
of the United States. Their migra-
tion to that PARKWAY point is occa-
stoned By the famed rich resources
of that State May success attend
their erdeavors in that field of for
tunes.
Coming to look over the lay of the
land, and to enter into bond and con-
tract with the Board of Supervisors
on first Monday in February, for
putting down the Artesian well on
the Courthouse Square in this place,
is Mr.. Jno. Seutter, of Pass Chris
tian, the successessful bidder for this
work.
Some little changes have been
made in the service appointments at
the Churches of Ieakesville for the
year now unfolding, TO make room
for the Baptist Minister, who is
shortly to be called by the newly or
ganized Church of that Denomina-
ton. These will be published in the
HERALD as soon as they can be pro-
cured.
The Countryside Town was visited
last week by one of the celebrities of
this immediate section. Captain
Seabrook has attained unto high re-
gard in this and the adjoining coun-
ties on the North. Through his in
tellectual attainmcnts, which are
considerably above the mediocre.
He claims State Line for his place of
sojourn.
Rev and Mrs D.. Scarborough
have the sympathies of the people of
Leakesville in their loss by prema
ture death of the infant born into
their household January 9th. 'Tis
the sincere hope that :1rs. Scar
borough will safely recover from the
trying ordeal.
This is the particular time when
weather conditions operate to have
the farmer pay little more atten--
ton to his stock than usual, in order
to carry them over its chilling and
death-deaIing rigors.
The HERALD observer has espied
quite numerical representation in
our village this week, of the travelling
gentry 'Tis no idle boast to say
that tho visitation of the CONNER
cial travellers indicates the material
prosperity of a town.
Cent. Mana ger J. T. Turner, of the
A. s. NJ R'y., has been on the streets
of our town nearly every day this
week. The interests of his transpor-
tation Co., have and are expanding so
rapidly as to require close attention.
Mr.. J. I Dixon, who is engaged in
the Land business at Merrill, had oc-
casion to make a trip to the County
Capital to-day.
The frame work of the new School
Building is beginning to overtopple
the obscuring pine-tops and appear
to the town gaze.
Came to town to day, did Mr..
Billy Neel of Adamsville residency,
after wagon-load of feedstuffs.