Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-11
June IL, 1919
FRIDAY
LOCAL

The John Tolbert family have NOV
ed into the new house Pete Mcleod S
in Pool addition.
Watch for the Sun eclipse next
Thursday June II, which is reckoned
to be visible in this latitude.
Mayors Court was held Thursday
to try some darkies who had been
transgressing the municipal laws.
Miss Ruth Ball recently visited O.
yer IN Fruitdale. She is eldest
daughter of our townman, S. W. Ball.
Saturday Murdoc and Lazarus
Valley were down from Grafton com
munity, attending the Masonic Chap
ter.
Cecil Mcleod is another of the
College boys to get home. He came
in from the A. & M several days
back.
Mr.. O. H. Hillman lies quite i'll
with fever at his home near Betty.
He has been in its grip for over
two weeks.
Syd Odom was down Monday from
the Upper East Side and succeeded
in corralling the bridge contract for
Byrd Creek.
Accompanied by his wife and little
grandchild, Mr.. j NJ. Miller, of the
Fork of the Rivers, spent Sunday
and Monday in LeakesYille.
J. N. Ezell was down Monday a
long with others, goodnaturedly
taking a crack at the brige contract
being auctioneered off to lowest bid
der.
A town mass meeting is to be held
in July to decide whether to declare
for Separate School District or not.
Also election of teachers for another
year.
Tuesdays train brought and car
ried back, Mrs. L. i. ROunsaville,
the young hopeful of their home, and
little brother of hers, to the coun-
ty capital.
firing o. those attacks of ague
John W. Backstrom has gone to
Tate Springs, Tenn, to try the vir-
tues of those chalbeate waters on his
malarial laden system.
In tussle on the building of MI.
McRae, Sam Green and John Tolbert
pitched off to the ground, and the
former broke bone in his foot which
required surgical attention,
Webster Valley was down from
Byrd Saturday, looking well physic-
ally after having ploughed through
hard term at school in Blue Noun
lin. He got back home on the 18th
Ult.
Miss Annie McInnis, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh McInnis, return
ed home Sunday from the Coast,
where she has been visiting her sis
ter. Mrs. B. P Harrison, since
school closed here.
AS a result of stumble while run
niug some stock in field, Mr.. Jepsy
Clark is carrying one arm in sling
He fell and broke it. He came to
town Saturday, accompanied by wife,
and had it set and bandaged.
Tommie Naples took advantage
of a lull in work at the blacks NTH
shop, ocsasioned by the rise in river
and constant rains cuttings off Gus
toners, to pay a visit to the old home
diggings in Mohoba vicinage.
Justice Court here last Saturday
under His Honor, Fred Amsler, was
Gvelier than usual, there being sew
eral defendants before the bar. Two
figheers, several road defaulters, and
one blind tigerist. The judge attend
ed to all in his usual affable manner.
Supt. Oscar Backstrom went up to
Jackson the first part of the week to
attend the Commencement exercises
of Millsaps College, his Alma Mater.
Heidelberg thinks a girl figured in
the visit, but then H. has the girl
weakness himself, SO we hardly know
how to receive his suggestion.
Among the Monday strollers a
bout the court-yards was Hon. j.
Andrew Smith of Jonathan. He says
he loves to farm, but his neither
limbs won t hold out for long plough
ing stunts. Formerly his fellowcoun
tymen used him to help frame the
stateslaws, he representing Greene
two terms in the Legislature.
Simon Isaacson got caught on thu
West side of Chickasawhay by thu
food waters with a bunch OF horses
and after spending a few days il
Leakesville waiting for it to subsid
that he might cross and journey t.
Lucedale, decided to go out OF
another tour in the Upper end OF tn
county, and so left Wednesday.
Nat Owen got caught behind tn
flood waters at Meridian for severa
days. He was on return from car