The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27

Okolona was here on business Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Mooreland are
the proud parents Of a nine pound baby
girl.
Mrs. George McLaurin of Middleton,
Tenn, is here the guest of her son., Gus
McLaurin.
Mr.. Lilbern Davis of Okolona spent
Tuesday here the guest of his brother
n-law. M. M. Lewis.
Nh. Jack Yates is improving his prop
ertv on Main street in building a stone
wall around his lawn.
DR.. and Mrs. Jones of Birmingham,
Miss. were here Monday attending the
funeral services of Mrs. H. c. McNutt
at Saltillo.
Miss Maggie Riley has returned
home after a pleas ant..visit to friends
in New Albany.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. J.. High have return
ed home after a delightful trip to Den
der and Colorado Springs.
Street and Stanley Kinds are in
Boonville this week where they repre-
sent the Home Comfort Air Pump.
After a pleasant visit to Denver and
other cities of interest out west, Mr..
and Mrs. j. J. Rogers have returned
home.
Prof. Manly B. Potter, principal of
the schools at Decatur. Miss, was here
Monday. He was returning home from
a visit to his parents at Nettleton.
Mr.. G. H. Strange, of Boonyille was in
Tupelo Friday and called On the Jour-
nal Office. He left his address for 81
issues of the best paper IN North Miss
issippi.
Mr.. H. F. Lumpkin spent Sunday in
Guntown, returning Sunday night &C
companied by.Mrs. Lumpkin and little
son, Elford, who have been there with
relatives since Wednesday of last week.
DR.. E. R. Sharpe of Verona spent
Monday in Tupelo. DR.. Sharpe was
recently connected with the ST. Clair
Drug Co., at this place and has many
friends here who are always glad to
welcome him.
Mr.. Lomax, of the law firm of Lomax
& Tyson, of Greenwood, Miss, stop
ped off here this week to visit his
brother-in-law, r. L.. Kinds. Mr.. Lo-
max was enroute home from a visit to
New York City.
Itawamba County News-Mr. John l.
Green, of Deihart, Texas. who has
been mingling with k%inspeople and
friends here several days, returned to
his parents in Tupelo last Friday, ac-
companied by his cousin, Mrs. W. B.
Green.
Miss Blanche Reynolds, the efficient
stenographer of Kinds Bros, is expect
ed to return as so on as she can secure
her release from the coal mines in Ala
bama. Her many friends will be glad
to learn that che will soon be with
them again.
Mrs. S. A. Ford returned from Mem
phis Saturday where she has been
nursing her sister, Mrs. George Harris,
who is down with typhoid fever. While
Mrs Harris is not we'll, she accompani-
ed Mrs. Ford home, and latest reports
are that she is better.
The Amory Times-Miss C%orrinne
Kincannon of Tupelo is spending sew
eral days in Amory the guest of Mrs.
Geo. w. Boyett. No n has been to
Amory who is more universally admir-
ed than Miss Kincanaon and we are
glad to have her back.
Mr.. Ballard. recent banker of
Waynesboro. and brother of our towns
man, D. S. Ballard. will move here
about the first of September and take
the building now occupied by the
He will put in a full line
of either groceries or merchandise.
Mr.. A. C. Hambrick, the popular
young travelling salesman for Murray
DibbrelI Shoe Co., Nashville. was
home first of the week. MI. Hambrick
is known all over the state. being with
one of the best shoe houses of the
south, he commands a large trade, and
his honest jovial manner of doing bust
ness has won HIM many friends.
Mr.. Ernest F. Birdsong, of Medina,
Tenn, has been here the past week In
charge of the Cumberland Telephone
and Telegraph gompauy's exchange.
Mr.. Birdseng is one Of the best men in
the company's service, and during his
stay here made many friends, who hope
that he may again visit Tupelo. He
left here Sunday for Brownsville. Tenn.
where he goes to take charge of the
exchange al that place.
Mr.. John Rankin. q prominent young
of Nettleton. is in fupele this
week seeing his many friends. Mr.
z ankin has been recently admitted to
the bar, is a young man of character
and ambition, and his future success is
predicted by all who know him. From
! youth he has been full of sound