Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-10-08
LOCAL

Work has commenced on the build
ing of the New Baptist Church il
Leakesville.
n. G. Hillman of the town bear
ing the same prosaic name was II
this village Tuesday.
4 Before buying your Winter Suit
look over the handsome Perlbere
tailor. made line of samples at Clark
Barber Shop.
W. J, Scanlan has evidently gone
to teaching somewhere near Richton
as he writes us to forward his
Herald up there.
Solomon Ball has taken work at
chs Bear Greek Mill Co., and he and
his wife are renting rooms from the
L. N. Ball family.
We trust that it will be so that we
can present shortly list showing
the various assignment of teachers
in the county for the Winter term.
Prof. NJ. G, Ferguson was in from
Hillman Saturday and tells us he is
getting along fine with the Pine Lev
.el School, of which he is Principal.
Misses Daisy Bowman, First As
sistant; and Lucy McCargo, Music
Teacher of the Leakesville High
School, are boarding at the Simmons
home.
Delbert Landlord paid another
visit TO the County Capital Monday,
appearing once more before the
Board in the matter of Road Open
ing petition.
Kerney Kittrell was down Monday
looking after matters with the Board
bearing on bridge contract he bid
i'll a month ago. He keeps the Coun-
ty Line Post-Ofice.
Charley Hunt has given up his job
at the Bear Greek Mill and gone
: down to New Orleans to the practi-
cal Barber School there. He will be
away about month.
=. Tyra d. Roberts was over from
McLain Saturday, a witness in one
of the cases in Justice Court. Tyra
spends his time now mostly across
the line in Wayne County logging.
Marcus Mcleod will not lose his
eye which got injured badly recently
from an explosion of shotgun. The
treatment he received in Mobile I'M
der specialists at Inirmary probably
saved the optical member from loss.
Justice Court was grinding away
Saturday at accustomed rate. Part
of the business of Beat 3 comes to
Judge Amsler's court now, as they
have no justice at all in that baili-
wick.
Osma Baird is building a nice
dwelling for Mrs. Lizzie McInnis just
beyond the B. W. Mcleod residence
1t will have six large rooms hall and
bathroom. She will move in about
Feb 1st.
Miss Eugenia Naples left at the
converging of the weeks for Wash
lngton Co., Ala, where she will
teach this winter. The school is
called Shiloh and is on the old Deer
Park road.
Alex Smith was down from Upper
Greene Saturday accompanied by his
wife and two children. We we're glad
to gee personally acquainted with
his bright housekeeper and the two
little home Jewels.
The Town Board had to readopt
the'Bond ordinance and have it run
over account some technical Difficult
ties with the purchasers of the
bonds. They also equalized the town
assessment and made the tax levy.
eJs# b. Griffin was another promi-
nent citizen from up IN the settle
ment contiguous to State Line, who
came before the Board Monday in the
interest of the Petition pending for
opening up new public road, The
petition was granted, that is for a
portion of the road asked for.
DIR. Walton, an Ear, Eye, Nose
and Throat Specialist, of Meridian,
came down with DR.. c. E. Ward OF
this trip and remained over till We'd
nesday. He contemplates making
LeakesviIle regularly hereafter. He
looks after this kind of practice at
the two Beeson Colleges at Meridian.
The Peerless Pressing Club has
passed out of the management of j.
K. Kelly into that of R. c. Mcleod.
They are prepared better than ever
now to handle all work in that and
correlated lines as more fully set forth
in their big ad in this issue. They
have added dyeing to the cleaning
and pressing category.
Recently Mr.. G. b. Blalack went
down to Leaf to take his wife on a
visit to her parents, the Brannans
there. She remained over for sew
eral days while he returned to his
work. He tells us that Miss Nancy