The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-03-04
TOWN AND COUNTY
Ash Wednesday.


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Ash Wednesday.
Easter eggs April 10Th.
Mrs. Edgar S. Wilson. of Jack
son, is the guest of Miss Della
Mikell.
Mines. Edgar Green, Henry
Flowers, Rogers and Brewer left
yesterday morning for the carni-
val.
A! masquerade party is being
planned for Friday night with
Misses Edith and Sarah Love as
hostesses.
Messrs. Oscar Newton, N. T..
Tulf and B. I. Hobbs were among
the Brookhavenites who went up
to Jackson Saturday to hear Hon.
W. j. Bryan.
LOST-One medium size black
hand grip on road between Bogue
Chitto and Cold Springs. Finder
please return to K. L. Brent at
BogAe Chitto and receive reward.
Hon. E. F. Brennan spent Mon
dayE Jackson attending the meet
ingkof the State Republican Ex-
ecn Eye Committee. He predicts
thst- The Republican nominee will
be either Taft or Roosevelt.
Mat Roberts, of Magnolia, visit
ed his sisters, the Misses Roberts,
here on Sunday. He was accom-
panied by James Price, the son
of Judge j. Fl. Price, we'll known
throughout Mississippi as an emf
nent member of the bar.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. Sartin visited
Columbia Saturday and Sunday,
where they enjoyed family re-
union at the home of Mr.. Sartin's
brother. Their son, Bennett,
came over from Mississippi Col
Ipge, and the occasion was a very
pleasant one.
John Wright was arrested Mon
day morning by Policeman Blue
charged with selling liquor at his
private boarding house on Chicka-
saw street. The trial is set for
next Monday before Mayor La
nier. Wright was released on a
$500 bond. This is the third time
Wright has been arrested on this
charge, but by one means or
another he has always escaped
punishment before. Policeman
Blue caught him red handed this
time and expects to secure a con
victinn beyond peradventure.
Mrs. Rhodes, sister of Mrs.
Jesse Day and Mrs. Robt. Storm,
was found dead in her bed at
the formers home on yesterday
about noon. The deceased leaves
one child. She had known much
uf trial, mental and physical, and
that rest has come to her troubled
mind and weakened, suffering
body,i should be source of graf
ification to those who knew and
loved Mrs. Rhodes. The funera
took place at 10 o'clock this
morning.
The missionary societies of th {
Presbyterian and Baptist churches
have been invited to have repre-
sentatives at the annual confer
ence of the Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist church
which will convene IN this city
Wednesday evening, March %
Fraternal greetings will be ex
tended by the representatives ant
will, doubtless, help to make glaC
the coming of our visitors and en-
hance the prog ram to be present
ed.
Considerable excitement was
caused at the Inez Hotel las
night over a game of cards, il
which spectacle peddler nameC
Morrison, who has been on th'
streets here a few days, Pau
IPritchard and Oscar Ratcliff were
alleged to be engaged. The ped
lIder charges that Pritchard anC
Ratcliff were attempting to rot
Ihim of several hundred dollars
lin money which he had on his per
lson. The cries of Morrison at
Itracted the attention of a drum
liner IN a nearby room who wen
Ito his rescue and a portion of hi
money was recovered. Affidavit
we're made against Pritcbard AMI
Ratelitf this morning, but it il
STATED that the officers could no
find them and they are believed t
lhqvn Inff fawn