Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-07-18


Mrs. j. o. Tomlinson and little
daughter Vestann, have returned az
ter several months visit with relatives
in Alabama.
The prettiest line of Buggies Rama
bouts and carriages always on display,
ADAMS & NEUBERT
Mr.. and Mrs. J. ]. Wofford, of Gle
burne, Texas, have returned from
Houston and are again the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Shell.
See the latest fad-the Peter Pan
Coin Purse. All colors, 35c at
MRS. M. SHORT.
Miss Annie Miller entertained the
Social Club Thursday afternoon Mrs.
Annie Glass was winner of the guest
prize and Miss Margaret Walton won
the club prize.
Georgia and Mississippi have always
striven to outraise each other in cot
ton, but this year Mississippi will like
ly beat the former by 100000 bales.
This weeks rain was all that was
needed.
Miss Mollie Trimmer, accompanied
by Mrs. D. McCarly and son Randolph,
is again in Okolona after spending the
past few months in Spartanburg, N. G.
Miss TRIMMER Is still an instructor in
mnsic at the famous Converse College.
Miss Ida Miller, Mrs. Joe Hobson,
Miss Stella Beatty and W.. Conner.
of Okolona, and R. s. Westbrook, of
McCondy, left Monday evening for
Dallas and other points in Texas to
spend the Summer.
Much more domestic trouble comes
from taking men boarders than from
taking women boarders. Is there any
reason for this? Nothing but ga wom-
ans reason perhaps.
You take considerable medicine but
really what good does it do you?
There are only about two kinds-one
puts you to sleep and one physics you
all the rest of them are fads.
The wedding season is not over yet.
Come in and see our new Cut Glass
Just received. All beautiful patterns.
WALTER SMITH.
Miss Adele Miller entertained the
o. F. CPS, Friday night, several invit-
ed guests also being in attendance.
Miss Evelyn Shell won the ladies
prize and Mamie Rubel the gentle
mans. It was truly an enjoyable en-
tertainment.
Revival services will begin on Lords
Day, July 22nd, at Blackwell, miles
east of Okolona. Fl. K. Coleson, min
lister of the Church of Christ will con-
duct the services, Mrs. H. K. Coleson
will preside at the organ. Let every
one attend the opening service at II
O'Clock a. m.
FRITZ Scheff belts and bags to match
in the new Persian effects. All sizes.
MRS. M. SHORT.
With each succeeding year we find
ourselves having more respect for the
gray. haired old fellow who wears that
little cross of honor on the lapel of
his coat. We hear the orators tell
again what he did at Man assas, Gettys-
burg, Vicksburg and against the many
northern invasions, ami we wonder
that so many of them are here now,
more than forty years later, to hear
generation since born sing of their
glories in poetry, song and prose. We
read of the late sufferings Of the sol.
diers on the frozen hills around Muk- |
den and by Port Arthur, and shudder.
But these old boys in gray went
through the same thing, only worse.
Port Arthur had Its horrows, but it
had no Vicksburg. Mukden field ran
red with blood, but it had not the
fevers and disease that etalked out
from the Wilderness to drink to the
death the lives spared by Saber and
bullet. We know that some of the old
fellows are cranky and hard to get
along with, and some of them proba-
bly, have done things that wouldn't
look well in print, but heavens, I'M
bottle little patriotism look on the
stars and stripes, run your eye back |
forty years and witness them in action
in charging phalanxes Of solid gray
and then forget the faiIings Of old age. |
Do you wonder the old veteran looks |
solemn as he listens to the orator.
Maybe he is thinking Of the brother
and boyhood chums who fell when
Gettysburg was stormed. Grand
mother is seen to wipe tear from the
eye. Perhaps she recalls the
last parting with the sweetheart who
has slept beneath the Palmettos since
Chickamauga. Did you but realize it,
there are very few hearts that beat
beneath that bronze badge that do not
carry a tragedy. And what Of the
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