Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-09-16

Osborne Harper left Monday tor
school at Greensboro, Ala.
Mrs. Dale SAMSON has been visiting
her sister Mrs. Allen in Meridian.
Miss Mary Belle Pugh has gone to
McLcomb City to visit her sister and
study music,
MIR. B. F. Jamison has joined his
wife and children in Kockluseumco,
where they are visiting relatives.
Miss Lou Ella Boone was visiting
homefolks Saturday and Sunday re-
turning to Meridian Monday morning.
Mrs. Maggie Baskin Caruthers left
for Meridian Tuesday, where she will
spend the winter with her daughter,
Mrs. Sans.
Mrs. T. j. Hulsey, Mrs. Foster, and
Mrs. Matte Davis we're in Prairie
last week called there by the death
Of their aged father, Mr.. Gatlings.
Mr.. Clint Steinberger is in Baldwin
this week attending the County Fair,
and assisting the band in giving sweet
music for the enjoyment OF the Gro Nd.
You and all the town will laugh, if you
90 to the Old Time Spelling Match at
the court house on the night Of Sep
TENDER 22nd, Watch for the posters
they'll explain it to you.
Mr.. A. B. Gernon, who has been
one Of Okolonas most liberal and ag-
eressive cotton buyers for several sea-
sons, returned after his summer vaca-
ton, and will be found in the Cox &
HarrelI building on Main street.
The Old Folks" concert and lawn
party given on the large and beautiful
lawn Of Mrs. E. S. Elliott, Sr. by the
b. Sharps" MUSICAL Club for the
benefit Of the pipe organ for the new
Presbyterian church, proved to be
both socially and financially success.
The club realized about hfty-6ve dol
lars.
Old Time Spelling Match at the
court house, Tuesday night, Sept, e.
All the good and bad spoilers will be
in it. lherell be enough laughs in it
to make you FIVE years younger.
The w. F. Tucker Chapter from
now on will have Saturday Ex-
change" held in Mrs. Buchanan S
Office, where the ladies can get every
thing nice for Sunday dinner. They
make specially of delicious cake and
home made bread, made by some of
the best housekeepers in the town.
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WEEKLY COMMERCIAL APP.
PEAL, Memphis, Tenn.
The local editor is in RECEIPT Of the
Eastern Star Magazine. 1t is indeed a
very nice and creditable little journal,
and too, Okolonioners, as we'll as the
Eastern Stars should feel proud to
know that it is the only one Of the
kind published in the South. Its edi-
torial staff is composed Of our home
people and speaks for itself, may
Star Light" meet with success.
Miss Mania Darden who spent her
vacation with her home folks in Spar.
tonburg, S. c. has returned to resume
her school duties in the graded school
here. She was accompanied here bv
little Francis Harris granddaughter Of
| Mr.. and Mrs. Dowd McCarley ST..
Miss Manic many friends are delight.
ed welcome her here again.
The Methodist Sunday school gave
a very enjoyable picnic last Friday in
the beautiful groove Of Mr.. Sherman
Adams. The Baptist and Presbyter.
ian Sunday schools we're. invited to
join them. The day was an ideal one
for an outing. and every one was in a
mood to enjoy it. The old and young
enjoyed the many games INDUCED in,
and prove Of the digni6ed m1trons
welded the bat like professional ball
players.