Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-17

Mr.. Hugh McTunis made trip to
Mobile early this week.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. w. E.
Beary, Sunday, May II, boy.
Mr.. Ira Williams is lying quite sick
at his home, having been confined to
his bed for several weeks.
Miss Willie McRae has ended her
visit up in Wayne county, having re-
turned home last Saturday.
7. L. Moples and Charles Deuitt
come to town yesterday on business
connected with their mill venture.
On Wednesday Mr.. and Mrs. c. E.
Anding began housekeeping in the
new cottage of Mrs. Lizzie McInnis.
H. p. Heidelburg, attorney, has
been up the country this week to the
towns of Laurel, Heidelburg. ct ais.
Jim Hillman was up from Merrill
last Saturday. He informs us that
he will soon move up to Hillmanville.
Charley Stone got back Tuesday
from Tuscaloosa, his home town,
where he has been attending court as
a witness.
Mrs. Ruby Brewer of Brooklyn,
Ala, is visiting the Sweyn Mcleod
family. She arrived last week Her
husband and child are with her.
Carl Pool went down to Mobile last
week and had surgeon to slit two of
his fingers apart, that were growing
together. In consequence he is car
rying his hand, just now, in a
bandage.
See card of E. E. Roberts, vocal
instructor of Grafton. He has quite
musical talent and has taken con-
siderable trouble and expense to cul-
tivate it for teaching, per his an
nOuncement.
A horse belonging to Tom Turner
took freight at the river Thursday
morning and ran up through town
tearing the buggy up and aloose from
him. Wiley Evans had tied him be-
fore the scare.
Mr.. l. E. Brisco, wife and baby, of
north Alabama, on their return from
a trip to San Angelo, Texas, are
stopping over for few days with
their brother, Mr.. 7, ]. Briscoe of
this place He may conclude to drop
anchor in Leakesville for a while.
A male infant was born to Mrs. L..
R. Priester Sunday and died and was
inferred Monday Mrs. Priester is
at her mothers, Mrs. G. W. Faulk.
Mr.. Priester came up from Lucedale
Monday and is spending the week
here.
Re. R. A. Breland, of Meridian, got
to Leakesville last Saturday He is
spending the week visiting relatives
and friends in this vicinity. Next
week he will conduct meeting for
Rev. r. A. Albums at Avera church.
Bro. Breland was raised at Leakes-
vile. He is brother to Eugene and
Dan Breland He is in the evange-
listical work
Harry Moody writes US from Boga-
lusa, La, requesting that his HER
AID be sent to that point. Quoting
from from his letter as | will stay
here a while. This is the largest saw
mill plant in the world, it cost So,
900, 600 so far and will cost as much
more yet It is going to make large
city here"
Clerk Mckay recorded the biggesi
land deed last week that has come tt
his office since his incumbency. Wher
we say big we refer to the amount o
dollars and cents represented in thu
conveyance. The consideration being
$271, 90372. In form it was just thu
usual short warranty deed. 1t wa
from Frank D. Stoutz, Wisconsin
man, to John T. Porter, of Scranton
Pa. The lands all lie in township
one north, range eight west.
Our crop of anonymous contrib
utors is holding out as doth the fort
shooting spring grass. From Aver
comes the sprig of this week. Whit
Roses is the fanciful name of thi
secretive candidate for newspape
entry. Perhaps by dropping in thi
notice we may succeed in drawin
out of cover this correspondent, a
we have done AN Apple" by such
course. Write us a letter Mr. Whit
Roses signing your real name an
confessing your authorship to th
epistle referred to and we will lam {
in next week.
Geo. L. Helm was in town Sunda.
Since moving his mill out near Roul
saville, on the A. & M. he doesn
make this town as often as while liz
ing just west of here. He recent
closed a contract for cutting ahou