Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-05
LOCAL

last week, did Miss Emma Green.
Dial Pipkins was among the Mon
day promenaders over the court
boulevards.
Alfred Smith embarked on Tues
days tram for Moss Point, going
down to meet some logs.
Pete A. Mcleod was another
Vernalite to crush gravel over the
highways of the county capital
Monday.
A team belonging to D. H. c. Nc
Innis took fright on the Court yard
Wednesday and ran away breaking
the wagon up badly.
D, E. Breland went down to Mo-
bile in the mid-Week to make some
purchases of furniture for his ele-
giant new dwelling.
The Board of Supervisors con-
sumed all of Monday and part of
Tuesday appointing Road Overseers
and attending to sundry other
business.
Attending to business at the
Court House Saturday, was Mr.,
-Sowell and daughter, Mrs.
Nick Byrd. Sowell is getting we'll
up in years.
r, G. Martin left for Merrill this
week. His wife and boy remains I'M
til they can succeed in renting a
house at Merrill. There are no va
cancies at present,
G, G. Ball was ulI from the hamlet
bearing similar name. Chandler is
known as one of the tallest men in
Greene County. He and Ben Mcleod
would about measure alike.
DIR. and Mrs. NJ. L. Batson went
down to the Gulf City last week.
Mrs. Batson was to be operated
upon, butthe surgeons advised her to
come back later. She goes again in
few days.
Returners from Moss Point Wed
nesday were two Bi!hes, namely W.
A. Coaker and VIM. Neel, They had
marketed some logs. Some of the
neighborhood boys of Adamsville
accompanied them.
L. G. Helms came up to the county
seat Monday accompanied by his
Better Half They drove back the
same day. Their children were away
in Mobile spending Mardi Gras with
the DixOns, their Grandparents.
Miss Pearl Mcleod and LlnAeld
Breland got back from Bay Minette.
Ala, last week the former benefited
from the Campbell treatment. The
latter in very precariOuS condition.
HIS condition remains unimproved.
D. A. Mcleod was circulating a.
mong the grouks observable on the
court square Monday. We learn
that he is fixing to resign the post
mastership at Vernal. Grown tired
of the job, which pays but little and
lis lots of trouble.
Rev. W. A. Hays drove down to
Merrill Monday carrying Rev. NJ. B.
Scarborough, Presiding Elder, back
to the Kay See Railroad. They
dined with Hon. J. G, Dubois and
pronounce him an excellent host and
his wife charming hostess.
D. w. Black was up Monday
from Sixtown, whss ch lieth to the
South of Leaf in the uttermost cor
ner of Greene County. He is a ge-
NAL sort of fellow. He took spin
out to the oil fields in Texas some
time ago, working a while with a
drilling crew,
Jodie Perry came in from Jona-
than Monday to board the train for
Moss Point, jokingly informing US
that he was going down to trade
for some more pocket-knives. as
one of our correspondents had wrote
him up TO that effect some time
since on a previous trip.
Chat Denmark got home Tuesday
from off of Pearl River where he
has been since last fall in the SER
vice of the U. S. Govt. on the snag
boat. He reports they have con-
cluded work on that river. He says
that river had rise of Is feet in
it when he left, and had been high
John McInnis, the young man
who got hurt sometime ago near
Vernal, was in town Monday ano
has nearly got rid of the limp. He
tells us he rarely ever feels any OF
the effects now uf the accident. Il
able and is working right along
John is good quiet, steady, In
dustrious young gentleman.
E. N. Patterson purchased TIT
office building belonging to DR.
Batson, formerly used by the Doc
tor in his yard as drug-shop ant
medical office. Patterson got Dat
Baldwin to move same across on t
street fronting Frank Green's prop
erty near court house and will hav
same converted into a dwelling b.
some slight remodelling and repairs
Among those who glided int
Leakesville Monday, jerking til
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