The Semi-weekly leader., 1908-05-06

AuS ~ ~ euO GaptAat Clhl.
Commodious and desirable
house for rent. See Kohlman.
Brookhaven will decorate in
honor of the Bankers Convention.
Clean up and be quick about it
before the city officials get after
you.
81. Mex Fulgham left Saturday
to join his wife at Yazoo City on
a visit.
Field Day will be celebrated by
the Copiah schools at Hazlehurst
next Friday.
Mayor J. g. Osborne and Chas.
Buttrefieid, of NorGeld, were in
the city today.
Mrs. j. o. Fairman left Satur-
day to visit her neice, Mrs.
Voight, of jackson.
Mrs. Harvey Cunning and little
daughter, of Gloster, are guests
of Mrs. Ellen McGrath.
p. Z. Thompson, Of jackson,
spent Sunday with bis brother,
DR.. N. r. Thompson and wife.
The meat man, the bread man,
the ice man, the wood man, etc.,
have added TO their ranks the mail
man.
Furnished Room Two blocks
from Union Depot. Connected
with shower bath, hot and cold
water. House screened. Address
Box 143.
Rev. G. w. Rachman, the vet
eran Methodist Colporteur from
the State at large, was in town
this morning, en- route to the
Methodist District Conference at
Tylertown.
L. M. Brinson is digging a
storm pit. That was a fad here
in the SOS. Mr.. Brinson went
through the Monticello cyclone of
'82 and knows a bad thing when
he has seen it.
Everything will come out all
right if you just wait long
enough, . says Mrs Wigs.
There is great virtue, as we'll as
reward, in just waiting sometimes.
And, frequently, it is most diff
cult thing to do.
We are Indebted to College au-
thorities for an invitation to at
tend the annual picnic at Smiths
Ferry, which took place yester-
day. Barbeeued meats and fresh
fish made the day an unusual one
at the dinner hour.
The Merchants Grocery Co,
who are now occupying the old
Connolly machine shop building,
are making an addition to their
hay warehouse, which was not
burned in the recent fire, SO as to
secure more storage room.
City Marshal j. B. Davis made
a trip to Clinton, La, last week
and brought back Charley Robert
son, an escaped prisoner from the
county farm. The expense Of re-
capturing and bringing Robertson
back will add nearly year to bis
term.
The weekly weather report
from Brookhayen by the q. S.
Government Weather Bureau,
says: Lincoln, Brookhaven:
Light frost formed Friday morn
ing when the temperature was SO
degrees; As inch of rain fell We'd
nesday. j. w. Bee. "
Prof GiImer, the erstwhile- pop
uIar assistant principal of the
Graded High School, was a last
Saturdays visitor, having run
down from the State Teachers
Meeting at jackson. Prof. Gil
mer was the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wiley G. Mawxell.
Mr.. Carloss Smith, for years
one of the best outfelders and.
hitters on the Southern League of
baseball clubs, declares that he.
has permanently retired from
professional ball. Mr.. Smith was
reared near Brookhaven, Miss. /
and is successful farmer and
saw mill man of that sec tion.
Greenville Democrat.
If such small courtesies as the
Leader editor showed our absent
delegates to the Federation con-
vention at West Point were all
ways as approximately acknowi-I
edged we'll, perhaps there would
be an early return to the almost
forgotten time When Knighthood
was in Flower. z We lift our
chapeau in passing to Reporter 3
for the Peripatetics,
Mr.. j. 9. Cupit. Of Nannye,
was in Br0okhaven last Friday on
business and gave The Leader
short account Of his experience
with The January cyclone which
passed through a portion Of bis
place in its destructive course
from Union Church to Murtins.
vile. He had several outbuiId
ings and d good deal of fencing
and timber destroyed.
Mr.. Vince Mason, who for four
weeks has been pr0strated with
typhoid fever, is now reported
better. His son, Ed, from Fort
Worth, Texas, has been at his
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