The Greenville times., 1907-09-07

LOCAL AND PERSONAL


Mr.. J. B. Watt was business visl-
tor to Memphis Monday
Mr.. Lewis Smith of the Democrat,
is at present enjoying a trip through
Eastern points of interest.
Mr. Haycraft Finlay. the money or
der clerk at the postoffice is now en-
Joying a fifteen-dav vacation
S5.o8 buys a silk Underskirt that
is worth any time $3.50, at Leyser &
Co.
Dr T. b. Henderson will return
Sunday from a three weeks vaca-
ton in Louisville, KY, and will be in
his dental Office Monday morning.
Mr.. George Clarke. of the Tri-
State Realty Co, returned. last Sun
Gay night from a business trip to
Memphis.
Mr.. H. L. Smith. druggist at the
Delta Drug Co.'S store, returned on
last Monday from a vacation spent
IN the Arkansas Ozark mcmntains
and Memphis. Tenn He reports
Jolly good time
Mr.. ]. T. Casey, of Hollandale, was
in the city last Wednesday explain
ing to the boys that this was his off
political year. for there was not a
man elected that he voted for
Mr.. J H. Bowen recently pur-
chased the Noah Hunt property on
the corner Of Poplar and Belle Aire
streets, and will move into it as
soon as the lease OF Mr. Wallace, the
present occupant of the house ex-
pires
Mrs. Retta Schuman and two at
tractive little daughters who have
been visiting her sister, Mrs Joe
Ill t,a1I r..
her home in Memphis last Wednes-
day.
The city council has been in scs-
sion for several nights this week TAX
ing up the objections raised TO the
in the city and adjusting same The
county board of supervisors has
been doing likewise.
The falling of the trolley wire at
the cossing of Washington avenue
and Walnut street last Thursday
night caused a little excitement and
stopped the streets cars for a short
time. The moving picture attrac-
tions reaped harvest during the de-
lay.
Mr.Wells, formerly connected with
| the Planters Lumber Co, and one of
the best and jollfest of Hoo-Hoo's,
has gone to California where he will
make his future home Mr.. Wells
| had been a resident of Greenville but
| a year or so and made many friends
who regret his departure
| Mr.. II H.Crosby, son of the editor
of this paper, after finishing a course
/ at the Macon & Andrews business
| college at Memphis, accepted po-
| sition as stenographer to Prof. Hardy
/ of the A & NJ College at Starkville,
Miss, and assistant bookkeeper to
+ the secretary and treasurer of the
same institution and left for Stark
vile to assume his duties last SAT-
urday
The work on the levees is progress
/ ing nicely and the engineers feel
/ highly eiated at the smoothness with
which everything is working. If
! tlee contractors get in another four
months work like the last our levees
will be in a strong position to meet
the next spring rise. The treasurer
of the board will pay out about $40
900 this month for work on the le-
wees done in August by the different
contractors.
/ Mr. Reed Dunn. cashier of the
/ Greenville Savings Bank & Trust Co.
returned home last Sunday night
/ from a two weeks vacation spent
| with relatives in Tennesse and Ken
lucky. Reed says that he went away
| to take rest but was on the go sc
much that he was glad to get back te
work so that he might get rested up
| He says, though that he had a glor-
ious time and that he was greatly
benefited by his trip.