Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-12
FRIDAY
LOCAL

Arthur Clark was another return
er from Moss Point Saturday, back
from marketing some logs.
Departed for Hot Springs, Ark,
last Saturday, Mrs. Minnie Beard
She will spend several weeks up
there.
Mack Fountain got Que of his hands
cut up in the gin last Saturday. He
is carrying it in bandage this week
in consequence.
Nicely had a representative at the
County Capital Monday in the per
son of VIM. S. Lambert, who was
here looking after homestead con-
test under way in which he is the
principal on the contending side.
Justice Court convened Saturday
in the regular monthly grind for this
Beat O. The Honorable Frederic
graced the judicial chair, dispensing
Justice fore and aft despite weakness
from a recent spell of sickness.
Among the Moss Point gOers last
week whom we missed mentioning,
were Messrs S. F. Simmons, S. w,
Ball and Lawrence c. Williams.
Lawrence is a son of portly Put,
who dwells out several miles West.
Linwood Breland, not Linfield as
We egregiously wrote him dcwn in q
local lately, was taken to Mobile Sat
urday for Hospital treatment. Dir.
Sam Pool accompanied him to ad-
minister medical attention on the
journey.
Another of the young men to make
it b.sk from Moss Point late last
week. was W. II. Brock. His home
is really at State Line. A son Of j.
H. Brock. He has been down in this
vicinity a good while off and on in
logging works.
An initial remittance Of $4,000 from
the State Treasury reached the Bank
of Leakesville last week, as it's first
allotment as a Depositary of the
State of Mississippi. More of course
follow as the funds and order of as
signations develop.
Joe Thomas over at ROUnsaville
got a pretty sickening lick on the
head Tuesday from a post set up TO
stretch some wire in erecting some
fence of that kind He had to have
medical attention, but the blow was
not considered other than painful.
The Graham Briscoe family moved
on Wednesday out of the Pool house
into the one recently erected by John
ME NcInnis in portion of town look
ing toward the river from Owen
dwelling. On the next day the Grouse
family domicilcd into the house thus
vasated by the Briscoes.
Leakesville enjoyed one of those
frequent incursions Monday from
Mr.. and Mrs. J. K. BOX of EXsho.
Jim is staunch friend of tie HER
AID and prompt each year about
handing us over one of those dollars
which are necessary to the proper
conducting of a newspaper.
The wish in concluding paragraph
that this do not escape waste-bas-
ket, of letter by Red Violet OF Graf
ton, was abortlve because that writ
er failed in the chiefest requirement
for entry into these columns: to sign
real name. How oft, O how oft dc
we have to inform more it seems O
the uniformed of our determined
purpose to adhere to this rule.
Henry Grouse got bad fall Mon
day while at work on the Franl
Green building. He stepped onto ;
phosphate loosely nailed in above ;
door opening, and one side OF thu
seantling giving down precipltate(
him onto the floor sleepers some sew
en- feet below, he striking on tx
lever part of the back. He is able t.
be out new, but the hurt is still felt
About one of the staunchest sup
porters of this paper in Quiet way
is Mrs. Ellen Green Of Leaf. She al
ways RENTS voluntarily and with he
letter this year sending along III
much appreciated amount: I an
well pleased with your valuable pa
per-" Such an elect lady as this i
one of a great number, who annual.
cheer us with their encouraging we
wishes and either psy themselves o
stir up their forgetful bubbles t
settle with the editor.
A letter from A. L, Mason of Mu
lett directs our attention to the fac
that a grand mistake was made j
publishing his name in Beat as
delinquent poll-tax payer as he hold
tax-receipt dated Jany. %. Shf
Brelsnd confirms Nason's statemeT
but, explains the situation by ST.
ting that there were tro~A. L. Nj;
sons on the Personal-Roll for Beat
and under the law he had no othe
alternative but to advertise the OF
remaining unpaid. It's really beyon