Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-21
LOCAL

to the Gulf City Saturday evening.
Wyatt Churchwell is teaching the
school in Dave Williams neighbor-
hood.
G. &. Faulk and Webb Denmark
drove in late Friday evening from
Richton.
Baptist Ladies Aid will meet
with Mrs. Thornwell McRae We'd
nesday Eve.
4 Jimmie Davis, whose geograph-
zeal association is Exsho, perambu-
lated in Leakesville Wednesday.
D w. Knoll, the genial pho
tographer of Fruitdale, spent part
of this week in Leakesvillc and
vicinage.
J. E. Alderman took advantage
of the low excursion rate to Chlca-
go last Friday, to make a trip to
that the metropolis of the West.
A visitor to the capital of Greene
on Tuesday was Mr.. Rufe Back
strom, a dweller in Washington
bailiwick and a good citizen withal.
inform this sheet Of every vest
ige of news straying about, that you
think may possibly escape its news
gather. Will appreciate and print
it.
Making some purchases in the
shops of our city Wednesday, were
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Avera of Jona-
than. Their little ores was also
along.
Walking over the streets of
Leakevsille Tuesday was Jim K.
Box of Exsho, who still wears both
that perennial smile and ubiquit-
ious chin whiskers.
Mrs. Katie Courtney and Son FLEET
cher, who live near Escatawpa,
Ala, visited the o. E. Rounsaville
family last week. Mrs. Courtney
is sister to Oscar.
On a trip made to Leakesville
Wednesday, the much wrote OF w.
D. or Dan Ball, was accompanied
by his madam. She does not often
get over to the county capital.
Mrs. l.. R. Priester left on Tues
days train for Biloxi to join her
husband in an outing there. She
has been visiting her mother, Mrs.
C. w. Faulk for several weeks.
Tom Steed, the popular and we'll
known representative of Dantzler
Lbr. Co. of Moss Point, passed
through Leakesville yesterday stop
ping off awhile. He was bound for
Mobile.
Lawrence Clark and Ennis Neel
took out a raft of logs to Moss
Point late last week. He got a
good price; $40 for these and they
old. Evidently the log market is
looking up sure enough.
On Wednesday LIT. Hathorn and
nephew, Alden Byrd came over from
Nicely to the county-seat. The ed
itor acknowledges a very pleasant
chat with these young gentlemen.
Hathorn has enlisted as HERALD
subscriber.
There was an ourganizer in
Leakesville in tie early week for
the Farmers Union. He made a
speech at the Courthouse Monday
night, and organized thereafter a
local lodge here. with charter
membership of thirteen.
The Leakesville Lbr. Co., has
sixty days to clear up their lumber
ward and the odds and ends of their
mill-plant business before tur-
ming over to the new Owners,
Leeselle and McKern. They have
about forty cars of lumber and it
all sold, which is to be put f. o. b..
Wilse Breland, contractor for
carrying the mail between this
town and Merrill via Vernal, has
received a favorable report from
the postal department at Washing
ton, D. C. on his petition to be-
gin the days journey from Leakes-
Vile instead of Merrill as is now
the practice.
1t aoffrds the HERALD pleasure
to be able to announce that Mrs.
Launa. the wife of Leake V. Hill
man of Nicely, is recovering from
what was thought last week would
prove fatal spell of sickness. Mrs
Hillman is a daughter of Mrs
Baldwin of that community. Was
an issue of the marriage of thai
lady with the late Ham.
Our McLain friend, DR.. G. M
Lackey came to the county-seat las
Friday, accompanied by his daugh
ter, Miss Cecile, who took the |
&C. examination as an arpli
cant for entry in that institution
of learning from Greene County
She has spent two terms at Hill
man College, the Baptist Fentl
institution at Clinton, Miss.
bright looking young lady.
The election passed off quietly i
Leakesville yesterday. There wef
Sc votes polled, all of which excep
two were cast for Bowers. Othe
boxes heard from unofficially ]
the county show Bowers runnln
wav ahead with Barber dropping !