Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-12-25


Returned last Friday from visit
with relatives at Quitman, extend
ing over several weeks, did Miss
Willie McRae.
A visi tor to the county-seat on
bOth Saturday and Tuesday, was that
sturdy good citizen of the Upper East
Side, Mr.. L heo. Platt.
An obituary of Mrs. Mary f. Beard
reaches US too late to appear in thl
somewhat curtailed issue, but twill
have place in our next,
Making delivery of some fruit
trees, for which line he is an agent,
was Rev. G.. W. Rainier OF McLain,
In Leakesville early this week.
A conner to the County Capital from
Grafton parts Tuesday, was A. L.
West. Lee gave US call, whereby
our pocketbook bulgeth with another
dollar.
Tom L. Naples begun to take his
Annual Christmastide Holidays ear
ly this year. He vamoosed last Fri
day, we presume to the paren tai
roof over near Mohoba.
Miss Florence Miller came to
Leakesvllle at the converging of the
weeks, to spend part of the vacation
She is a teacher in the Richton
school, which suspended last Friday
for the Holidays.
Amongst the faces of out-of- town
ers on the streets of our thriving
burg last Saturday, we observed that
of Chester L. Avera. It's hardly ne
cessary to add that his residenny is
at the town of his family name.
Occasionally these days we glimpse
the form of W. ]. Williams, Jr. of
the Upper East Side, passing
through the marts of our city trad
ing. On such an expedition was he
:. here Saturday in company with his
good lady.
+; About one of the best of those re
miniscent letters yet received from
Mr.. Wulff reaches US too late for this
issue hurried up to press, account of
Christmas. Look for it in edition
for Jany. 9th. It's rich and racy.
It's not our liking to present our
FIRST local column interspersed with
advertising readers as we had to do
last week in order to get to press,
account of being confused for day or
two by removal of the type-settlng
machine.
E. F. Horton, the clever and pi-
Gus commercial emissary for shoe
line, was shaking hands with friends
in Leakesvllle Tuesday. Horton is
an old acquaintance of this editor
and one we esteem highly. He anew
us, when but knee pants urchin.
In Leakesville tuesday, attending
to some clerical matters connected
with the final adjusting of the corpo-
rate matters of the Bear Greek Mill
Co., for domicile in Mississippi, was
Jas. T. McKeon, who is the other
heavy stakeholder, than Mr.. W. H.
Louisell.
Four of the Leakesville boys who
have been away at College, to alight
from Saturdays train, were Wyatt
Churchwell from Millsaps; Rich Mil
Ter from Clinton; and Cecil Mcleod
and Bert Green from the A. & M.
They will spend the Holidays under
the respective parental roofs.
Mr.. S. A. Carr informs us this
week that his address will be Hill
man till further notice. He is tenn
porarily swinging the turpentine in
terest there for the Union Naval
Stores Co., run till now in the name
of The Greene County Turpentine Co.
under Mr.. w. l.. Currie. Currie
left.
A couple of Upper East Siders to
yepair to the countryside down last
Saturday, we're j. G. Williams and
Henry Hovetter. They came to dis
charge their fiscal obligations to the
county and state. As result of their
call the cash bookshelf tax-collector
D. E. Breland, shows swell and his
tax-receipt book for Beat 2 is minus
two of it's consecutive numbers re-
ceipts. ]. C. is commonly supposed
to reside somewhere in the domain OF
Old Nig's quarters.
M. B. Carr is back in these parts
His wife is visiting parents. Mr. ana
Mrs. G. FL. Hillman at Nicely, while
he is at Hillman looking after the
turpentine plant there, which the
Greene Co. Turpt. Co. are turning O
yer to their commission merchants,
the Union Naval Stores. Carr tells
ne that he has wound up the propo-
sition at Choctaw Bluff, Ala. About
January. 1st he viii decide where he
will locate for another year. He is
from the tar-heel state of North Car
DINA and knows nothing but turpen-
timing, and evidently knows that
well, as the naval stores people put
him IN charge of hard places to work
out.