Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-29
LOCAL
Thanksgiving Tomorrow.

Fair sunshiney weather is once
more a welcome visitor.
Got back from his Georgia home to
these parts did, Frank Brice, saw
mill sawyer, last week.
Rev. Y. D. Westerfeld joined the
delegation that embarked on Tues
day S train for the M. P. Conference.
Mark Pipkins, now of Lucedale
proximity, was circulating among
the business marts of this town Sat
urday last.
Ed James came to town Monday
and ad along a wagon-load o f
Thanksgiving Turkeys, he soon had
them sold out.
Those who have been abroad tell
us that the so-called hard times,
havn't caught LeakesvlIle near like
other places and sections.
A Party was given Monday night
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. A.
Metzger in honor of their guest, his
sister Miss Mary Metzger of Mobile.
The Baptist Ladies Aid Society of
Leakesville asks the HERALD TO say
that it will meet this week on Satur-
day Nov. 3O) at Mrs. Thornwell Nc
Rae's.
The cottage which Grouse Bros,
were building for Mrs. Anna Belle
Naples little West Of her home, has
been completed now some ten days
or more.
About town few days has been
Mr.. G.. W. Faux who is with the M.
L. Davis mill concern of Oak Grove
He tells us that logging has temper
arily suspended with this firm. He
will execute a tie-contract in the in
terum.
If you possibly can do it, you who
are behind we are addressing; kindly !
manage to squeeze up some payment |
on subscription. Checks will do if
coin or currency isn't handy. We are
getting into punching place from
your neglect. s
Pink Smith often makes incursions
to this town. Saturday he did this
thing. He had a number of items to
look up for his nelghbors, in addition
to his own shopping. A kindly gen
tlemen is he, of the Old South's
courtly school.
Accompanied up on his trip to
Sunday at home, was Rev. A. G.
Ferguson by G. P. Eubanks from
Rocky Greek, where Mr.. Ferguson is
teaching a very large and thriving
school. They have separate School
District there.
A ramble in the lower end of the
county last week, was our eccentric
friend, W. S. Childs. From him we
learn that the Eubanks saw-mill was
recently destroyed by fire. AS no in
surance vas carried it was total
loss. So he was informed.
Charley H. Dunnam passed through |
Leakesville from Jonathan Tuesday,
enroute for Meridian where he goes
to take hack out to a church six
miles beyond that city. He goes TO
attend the Annual Convention of the !
Methodist Protestant Mississippi
Conference.
There is gang of stave-gebters
down in the oak thickets on river
flats below this place, making the
woodlands ring with their noisy la
bours. The fine oaks down in there
yield splendid timber for this pur
pose. While this is small industry,
it shows how the resources of our
country are being developed.
Some Thanksgiving Exercises will
be held at the School Auditorium
Thursday Morning at Nine O'Clock.
This is written with tense regard to
time we actually go to press WED
nesday) and not the date (Friday)
this paper bears. Services at the M.
E. Church have also been announced
for the same Morning, this to begin
at IL O. clock.
The gossipy piece, which contained
several good news items, mailed this
Office last week under the signature
of "a McLain Mississippi Girl, Col
den Slippers" went the way all an
onymious articles go--the waste-bas
ket route. Had tbs real name of it's
writer been signed too, we would
have cut out the gossip items and
inserted the letter.
Rev. and Mrs. r. II. NJ. Watson
and the children, arrived last Satur-
day from Uriel, Wayne Co. They
came to visit Mrs. Watson S parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Byrd. Bro.
Watson is quite busy at this season
of the year performing the dual
dutie of editing his paper, the Chris
tian Standard, and winding up the
Conference year of the Mississippi
Methodist Protestant Church OF
which he is the President this year.
DENTAL NOTICE.