Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
LOCAL

AN arrival on Mondays train, was
Miss Mary Metzger of Mobile, who
comes a visiting her Brother George
and WIFE
Sunday the Batsons returned home
from Mobile, the condition of Mrs.
Batson being deemed favorable to
leaving the lnfirmary.
Mark and BERTHE Mcleod and a
younger brother, padded up from
their home in a large skiff through
the overhown Chickasawhay to Lea
kesxille, Tuesday.
A communication from Avera and
another which presume was intended
for the Peoples Forum column, are
carried oyer till another week. They
class that way to our mind.
Miss Bertha Green, youngest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Green of this place, got back Tues
day from visit to her sister, Mrs.
]. L. Mills, Jr. at Fruitdale.
4 Richmond Miller got back home
today from Mississippi College at
Clinton, he staying through Com
nencement exercises, which were
pulled off in the mid-week.
: Undeterred by rain and high wa
tiers, Bob Mcleod and a young man
from down his way travelled up to
Leakesville Monday, walking tie
railroad trestle into town across the
river.
!: Toney Turner, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
JAS. II. Turner, was operated upon
recently in Mobile for some kind OF
liberated condition of his chin. Hence
the cloth bandages he has been wear
ing over lower part of his face since
return home.
A visitor the first portion of the
week, was Rich Flournoy in Leakes-
vile. He left the University the
same day Carl Pool did, but stopped
over at the parental home in Craw-
ford. a little while before journeying
on down to this magnetic town.
The Lunar Eclipse thursday night
was indeed beautiful sight; the red
covering enshrowed almost the en-
tire face of the moon for nearly an
hour, showing an assembly of beau
tiful coEors, enough to make poet
or painter go mad over its radiant
charms.
A homecomer Saturday, was W,
Carl Pool from the University at
Oxford. At this is his first year
there, he did not have to stay till
the commencement exercises. The
higher classes only in most all edu
cational institutions are the ones to
stick it out to the full close of the
term.
Hinkle P. Heidelberg and Gordon
Rounsaville landed in Leakesville
Sunday. They ran over to the great
convention town, Ashville, n. c.,
before coming home from 7 e
Springs, Tenn. Heidelberg also took
a spin down to Gulfport to see his
eonferee, B. P Harrison, in some
chancery suits.
There are. Still few of those free
subscriptions to the Southern Agri-
culturalist left. Who wants them?
The only requirements as fully set
forth on our front page, is the pay
raent of 81 on subscription to the
herald. Only one wheel on your
account with US to secure this gift
stretching out over twelve months.
Miss Katie L. Allen about whom
we wrote last week as graduating at
the Hattiesbure High School, has
stepped right into position of re-
sponsibility, as she has been given
charge of the social columns of the
Hattiesburg Daily News, and the
matter she is putting into that feat
ure shows talent and thought. She
is a niece of our DIR. Sam Pool.
Wednesday Rev. A. Dock Brsland
circulated about Leakesville for a
few hours, and then drove away ca
ger to make his way back to Eden,
Kinds Co.. to join his family, whose
welfare he feared was being leopard
lied by the rising Pearl river. He
is serving a pasterate there this
year a previously stated in these
columns. Dock is lovable fellow
and is always welcome figure IN
these parts.
Despite the dripping heavens, Rev.
w. A. Hays, pastor of the NJ. L.
Church, South, in Leakesville, hied
to Lucedale early in the week to JOIN
the pastor of the same denomination
there in a. Revival Meeting. Hays
and Baptist preacher, who sermon
lied here Sunday night, were pu'
across the river at Miller's Brldg'
byAlex Miller in a skiff. Their voy
age through tie waters was about
two miles long.
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