Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-10
FRIDAY. :.

bile, was in this burg yesterday.
Paid the county-seat visit for the
first time in about six months, did @.
L. Freeman of Washington, Monday.
G.. w. Williams and w. S. Beard
together landed in Leakesville Tues
day on their return from Moss Point.
The editor has nice letter from
Mr.. Chambers. They got through
home to Iuka all right and are getting
along very nicely.
Mr.. Geo. L. Helm, a saw-mill
operator, in the EXsho vicinity
looked after business matters in
Leakesville Thursday
The "Sweetwater Apple" can get
the article in next week HERALD by
informing the editor of real name
1t will not be published.
That genial spirit, H. A. Baria,
was in Leakesville Monday. He re
ports his initial shipment of turpen-
tine for the season ready.
B. P Harrison got in from Scran-
tor Sunday. He has about five weeks
off now before the next court calls
him back to the states service.
Billie Clark landed in Leakesville
Wednesday on his return from a trip
to Wilmer and Mobile He has rela-
tives at the first named place
W. H. Woods, a young man of good
address hailing from Auburn, is can
vassing our county with Leakesville
as headquarters, in quest of insurance
biz.
d. E. Breland went up to State
Line last week to join his wife there
for little while. There is a new
issue to their family, but we failed to
learn the sex.
A much needed post-office has been
established in Greene county. That
of Hillman, near Sweetwater Church.
S. NJ. McEachern will handle Uncle
Sam business there
w. S. Gilmer, FL. NJ and D. w.
Grouse and Miss Eva Grouse of Fruit
dale we're Sunday evening visitors at
the home of Dr. Grouse. Chronicle
Call of last week.
Tax Assessor w. E. Thomas met
the Board of Supervisors Monday
incidentally we presume he looked
after his political fences up this way,
as he is in the running for sheriff.
The last man to come in on our
special cash offer of four years for
SO is r. T. Henderson of Grafton,
who dropped in on us yesterday and
had his name marked up to Sept. /,
1911.
Wiley Mills was in town yesterday
and reports the arrival of nine
FOUNDER cotton picker at his home on
the night of Wednesday, May s, 1907.
This gives him and his good lady
three boys and one girl all told
J. E. Alderman and B. p. Harrison
were members of the local bar who
attended the Bar Association in
Vicksburg this week Harrison is drop
ping in on his mother at Crystal
Springs before returning.
Mr.. r. E. Sheehy got to town Tues
day but stayed only few hours at a
homestead contest hearing and then
HE'D away again to Mendenhall his
new home. He came and went via
Merrill. Says he is just getting set
tied down good in his new quarters.
Bud Davis went along with DR..
Pool to Hattiesburg Monday. They
travelled via Merrill. Bud thinks he
has an abcess in his lung from which
he coughed the wooden splinter and
wants to have an X-ray machine
turned on his Intervals to reveal the
true situation.
A committee from the Presby terian
Ladies Aid Society called upon us
this week and requested that we
make announcement that they will
serve Ice Cream on the Presbyterian
Church grounds at Leakesville Fri
day, May Ii, from to 10 p. m. This
Society held call meeting at their
church Monday evening.
Mr.. Hunter Cole disappeared from
town last week for a few days and
showed up again on Friday, accom-
panied by fair bride, who he had
captured at Waynesboro, his home
town. The HERALD offers congratu-
lations. We expect to reprint next
week from the Waynesboro paper an
account of the marriage.
Showed his good natured face in
Leakesville Wednesday, did Billy
Durham. He has been with the
Southern Single Company at Vim
egar Bend for several months, but
contemplates getting back to our
town about June 1st. for another
siege of work with the single com
pany at this point.
We glimpsed our good friend Fred
erick Ainsley pointing his horse into