Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-12-04

Gene Rounsaville was en- vile
today.
The Board of Supervisors of
Greene County )neet next Monday,
Dec. 7th.
See display ad of Geo. A. Metz
ger elsewhere. He wishes your ear
anent Xmas goods.
Returned from a visit with her
sister, Mrs. P. Castleberry IN Mo-
bile, did Mrs. Geo. B. McRae
this week.
Came down to be in the Meeting
here last Sunday, did Mrs. Emma
C. Platt a sister of Rev. E. I.
Breland, one of the preachers.
Left on tuesdays train for her
home at Wesson. did Mrs. Cordia
Chappelle accompanied by her little
neice Cecil Mcleod, who goes for
a short visit to her grandparents
mother, Mrs. Montroy.
John W. Backstrom arrived in
the county-seat town today from
Merrill. He comes this time to
stay, as he is to hang out his shin
gle here for the practice of law.
From the effects of a collision on
Thanksgiving Day with baseball
on the Leakesville diamond Tyra
Roberts is wearing this week
couple of dark rings under his two
respective eyes.
Displayed his grizzled face in our
city Thursday, did that aged gentle
man of Merrill, Geo. w. Young.
Prior to last July, he appeared here
daily, being the mail rider twixt
his town and the county burg.
A couple of Hardwood capitalists
Germans have recently been max
ing PURCHASERS of stumpage in these
parts which probably means the
opening up at an early date of
another industry in our thriving
section.
The sawmill here is getting down
to business with vim. They res
sumed work Monday of last week
and are making cuts ranging up
close to $4,000 per day, which goal
they ambitiously mean to reach in
short as daily output.
Shoppers in town Thursday, were
j. A. Smith and Rufe Breland.
Evidently these gentlemen are doing
some of their trading here regular
ly, as hardly a week passes now,
but what we espy their faces scme
day or other on the street of thus
little city.
A hunk of venison from the Pool
home came our way early in the
week. The Doctor and his Good
Lady certainly know how to cheer a
poor town scribbler. Deer meat
is getting to be quite rarity
these days even in Leakesville,
hence its greater appreciation.
E. M. Ball and little daughter
were over to the Comfy CAPITAL
Tuesday. Elex as his Christian
name runs chooses to spell his
name with "e, Instead of "a" as
the great Macedonian world-con-
querer Alexander spelled his. The
&c" fetches the phonetic sound,
blu is not good English usage.
J. w. Robertson got in from
Detroit, Mich, Saturday He tells
us that when the snow begin tr
drift down in thick showers, that
he sighs for and soon hikes to the
Sunny South. He is the foreman
for the LeakesvilIe Single Co.,
when they run, and his presence
here indicates speedy beginning
From a letter received last week
of DIR. Ward at Shubuta, we reac
that Il have been quite i'll of Pneu-
monia, was taken sick shortly after
my return from Leakesvil,e, in
Sept, am just getting so can
work now" This accounts fol
the Doctor not making his regular
month trips to Leakesvlle in Oc
tober and November.
A dinner sent round to a hungr.
editor last Tuesday by Mrs. Tob'
Churcnwell consisting of Turnil
Greens, Yellow Vans and wild tur
key Gobbler, was highly apprecia
ted and quickly disappeared. Tha
kind of eating makes US glad "
are country newspaper man. Tn
turkey was brought down in tn
woods the day before by the gun 0
Geo. Fletcher. Thanks many.
If there be any subscribers t
this paper whose time has expired
and they still continue to receive
but do not want it longer, pleas
to sing out, either by writing US
postal to that effect or advising tn
postmaster to notify US. We d
not want to force the HERALl
upon anyone, but still we do no
wish to offend by cutting off whe
perhaps your desire is to have tn
paper come right on.
Spent a couple of days in Leakes
vile last week visiting the G. W
Faux family, did Mr. H. M. Ston
of Memphis, Tenn. He is travel
ing man, having charge of tn
Southern territory for the oil
North State Tobacco c.. Work
all the drummels on this line unde
him. Is the father of Mrs. Dr.