Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-10-16
LOCAL

There have been no marriage
licenses issued since our publish
ment last week.
Henry Backstrom, prominent in
mercantile circles of McLail, was
in town yesterday.
L. w. James was IN town last
Friday. This is Lloyd. Ed was
also here, he signs l.. E.
The Presbyterian Ladies Aid
Society will meet at the church on
Thursday Oct. % at three P. M.
The Baptist Ladies Aid will meet
with Mrs. Tyra Roberts on Wed
nesday afternoon Oct. 2lst prompt
ly at 8 O'Clock.
Chester Avera dropped into our
printery last press-day and saw
the operation of turning out fresh
ly printed papers.
Joe Daughdrille was over from Leaf
river Monday. This is the young man
famous for urbanity and picknick-
ing propensities.
Ben O'Daniel was in town yester
day and today, he still covers con-
siderable territory for the Ala.
I'D cd nauolOnp4ont Co
w. E. Brewer was out from
Washington Wednesday. He signs
that E. in his name for Ellsworth,
by which handle he is usually ad-
dressed.
A Friday visitor in the county
seat village last week, was @. l..
Freeman, who dwells in what he
calls Them lonesome hills off from
Betty"
Osma E. Baird has moved his
family from out of the Mckay
cottage into the Hugh McInnis
house on extreme edge of the Hugh
McInnis addition.
Wiley Evans went down to
Evanston this week and brought
his wife back Thursday. Mrs.
Evans has been visiting Wiley's
mother there for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newton Brannan
of Leaf arrived last week to visit,
Mr.. Brannan's sister, Mrs. c. B.
Blalack. Brannan is accepting
job with the Vinegar Bend Lbr.
Co.
E. w. Breland left for McLain
yesterday. He is the delegate from
the Leakesville Farmers Union
Lodge to the County Convention at
McLain setting today and to-
morrow.
A beautiful little maiden of some
two or three summers, the daugh-
ter of a dead sister of Mrs. Nc
Innis's, is Frightening the home
these days. of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
E.McInnis.
J. D. Owens, who dwells in the
vicinity of State Line, passed
through town Wednesday enroute
for McLain to attend the county
convention of the Farmers Union.
He gave our office a CHEEKY call.
Another delegate from a local
lodge to the Farmers Union county
convention at McLain, to include
Leakesville in his itinerancy, was
J. A. Davis of Exsho. Thursday
was the day he drove in and out of
the capital burg.
Got back from visiting parents
in Lafayette Co., at Piera, did
Mrs. L. N. Ball and Van Ball,
youngster brother of her husbands,
on yesterday. Lawrence met his
wife here. Mrs. Solomon Ball was
also of the welcoming party from
Betty.
Visitors at the Dave Eubanks
home in Southern part Of the
county, were Mrs. w. E. Bearry,
Earl and the baby, last week. Mrs.
Bearry is a daughter of Eubanks,
who is the present president of
the Board of Supervisors of Greene
County.
A trio over from across Big Creek
in Leakesville Wednesday, was here
making homestead proof. They
were Miss Isabel Eveline Brewer,
Rufe Bradley and Os Turner. The
first named as the claimant and the
other two as deposing witnesses.
Jack Brewer accompanied his sister.
Arrangements have been made
between Cowart Mckay ct al for
Jno. A Seutter of Pass Christin. to
take over the sinking of rhe Arte-
sian well started by Cowart for
them. and Seutter's outfit arrived
here early in the week, with the
big yellow niger in charge, who
handled the digging of the county
well for Seutter.
Billy Durham, the shinele-mill
sawyer land a lightning one at
that, is back from Merrill. luo'.-
ing rather wan. He says ne likes
the town of Merrill and its people,
but can not stand its unfayoraDle
health features. He will engage
here with the Leakesville Single
Co., when their plant resumes,
which is supposed to be in short.
Munroe Sowell. who lives up in
the Grafton community and is
we'll up in years having turned
seventy, was down to Leakesville
1aa< Fridav and looked over our