Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-05-11
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GEO. A. METzGER.
]. E. MILLER.
LEAKEsyILLE MERcANTHE Co.

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er way if all who this appeals to will
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you do yours please.
Married, on Sunday May 6, 1906, Mr.
Chas c. Ball to Miss Monte Young
at the Brides home, near Betty. In
a few hours another marriage cere-
mony was performed in the same com
munity, wherein the lifes of Jimmie
Ball and Mary And Breland were
linked in twain. Rev. Y. D. Wester7
field solemnized both. Both the brides
erooms are sons of Mr.. Fl. c. Ball
Miss Breland is daughter of Mr..
Alb Breland.
Died. Monday May 18th, 1906, Mr..
James S. Turner. at Janet. Miss, the
remains were Inferred Tuesday in
the Turner plot of Sweetwater Church
Cemetery. Mr. Turner was a very
aged gentleman, being in the neigh
borhood of eighty years old, the
structures OF his years causing his
demise. He leaves ten living chill
dren, all prominent and well known
over in that part of the county. At
distance we can give no better
chronicling, for lack of definite data.
When staunch and true good men
and old citizens like W. r. Mcleod of
Vernal approach the editor unsolici-
telly and fix for the HERALD S vista
ton. say, when this and SINH
lar incidents occurs why then the
paper is getting the very best en-
dorsement that we could receive for
tho hard work and heavy expense we
are entailing to make it q more read
able sheet from week to week.
When Joe w. Daughdrill comes
to town Leaf suffers for the lack of
his beaming presence. Joe has one Of
those happy sunshinev dispositions
that constantly emits kindness and
cheeriness on all about him. He
could in easy consistency be dubbed
Sunshine Joe. Leaf still claims
him as one of her adopted sons.
Put this one in your cocoanut, and
let it soak. The man who went out
to milk and sat down on a boulder in
the middle of the pasture, and serene
ly waited for the COW to back, was q
brother to the fellow who kept a
store and wouldn't advertise because
he reasoned that the purchasing pub
lie would back up to his place of bust
ness when it stood in need of wants.