Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-07-06

Joe Thomas was ell villa Tuesday.
Watermelon season is on.
Lee Rounsaville was in town Mon
day.
G. G. Faulk had business in Mo-
bile in the mid-week.
Sheriff Breland cried off couple
of bridge contracts at the Court
house door Monday.
L. w. james came down Thursday
of last week bringing in large a
mount of wool for marketing.
A number of Leakesville folks went
to the services held at Sweetwater
Church Sunday.
A car load of wool was shipped out
from Leakesville Thursday of last
week.
A.. !. Bradley of Janet was in
Leakesville Monday and he became
a liner to the HERALD before leav-
ing.
c. L. Eubanks came up to Chan
Gerry Court Monday and met with the
disappointment common to all on
like business.
Mrs. Garretson and the children
were over from Escatawpa Sunday
spending the day with their husband
and father, Mr. H. T. Garretson.
Hugh McInnis was another habi-
tant9of LeakeSvllle who repaired to
the Gulf City in the middle of the
week.
Quite a crowd from Silver Hill
boarded the outbound train Tuesday
for Mobile, they to take in the Git
rOnelle picnic on return
B. 2. Harrison, District Attorney.
snatched a respite from his duties at
Scranton and ran up Wednesday
to this town.
Mrs. H T. Allen, her daughters,
Misses Nellie and Katie Allen, and
Miss Pearl Dent are visiting the
Pool family.
The first brick kiln of the T4eakes-
vile Brick and Thing Company was
burnt last week. Its now cooling.
Several days are required for that
part of the process.
Mr.. Prince, a lawyer from Mobile
was in our city two days last week,
looking after legal business for his
clients, the Davis Lumber Co, of
Oak Grove, Ala.
g. E. Todd. Justice of the Peace
Eert from Beat 3, by special Elec-
tion, was before the Board of Super
Visors Monday making his official
bond and being sworn in.
Chancery Court was pretermitted.
The order for such pretermitment
reached Clerk Mckay Saturday. Sev-
eral people having business with the
court came up Monday, but were
disappointed.
DrummerS numerous have inclu-
ded the Capital City of Greene in
their pi1grimages this week, we be
1icve we have noted the familiar fea-
lures of about ten of the knights of
the road twixt this and last issue
day
Mr. J, e. Alderman is having his
residence remodeled Two rooms are
added in the change and double
chimney built. Stone aud Sumner
are doing the carpenter work, while
L. NJ. Baldwin will sling the trowell
and mortar over the brick part of it.
Providence seems to have smiled
layishly on this garden spot of Amer.
lea this season. Z Weather conditions
have all been so fixed as to make
corn, potatoes and other products of
the farm thrive with almost tropical
inxuriance. The horny hand sons of
toll are going about with broad
smiles over their faces
The story is told of certain wo-
man who was reading the matrimoni-
al columns of a paper, she remarked
to her husoand: Here's a strange
coincidence William Strange mar
iied to Martha Stranger strange
indeed, replied her husband, but
l expect the next news will be a
little stranger.
Bauer s. Strodreher, two colonists
of the Burbank settlement. have
come to Leakesville and entered the
building business. They are now
busy erecting a cottage for ]. j. Nc
Innis. Mr., Strodreher informs us
he desires to secure board for himself
and wife here till he can build him
self and wife house.
Mr. A. L. Mason showed himself
in town Monday AS chronicled last
week, Leslie has entered the matri-
monial estate He got in with his
bride Thursday June %. He gave
the maiden name of his lady as Lot
tie Lee Smith. Our readers will call
to mind that we had to omit her
name in writing up this marriage
last week, because we knew it not
Send or bring news to this Office
we were put to our wits end this
week awhile to get up news enough
to keep the Office force busy. We
will always welcome items of news
from subscribers II each one of our
large list of readers would furnish us
each week one item apiece, and we
daresay they could do it easily, what
grand local paper we could produce.
Tlric ay,a vvac haa,.1 ~, . e,t,.<,,,t ,,x>4
a million miles away recently A
man who claimed to be too poor to
take the county home paper, but all
the SAME heread notice ia one of the
county papers, telling him how to
prevent horse from SOLDERING.
Having a beast With such q falling be