Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-10-15

Our steamer.
E. L. Thomson came up from Leaf
Wednesday.
Jas. Avera was in the county cap
ital Wednesday.
D. H. C. Mclnnis has sold out his
place to Rounsavile Brothers,
Tom Steede made another of those
pop-calls in this village early in the
week.
Wednesday Mr.. and Mrs. j. E..
Alderman and the two children boar
ded the cars bound for Mobile.
See change Patterson ad in this e.
dition. The succulent and juicy BIZ
valve (Mr OYSTER is MS subject
matter this time.
Hon. Jesse Byrd has a petition
bearing the almost unanimous sig
nature of the Leakesvi.le citizens for
his appointment to succeed Rev. Y.
D. Wcsterfeld as postmaster.
Rev. Y. D. Westerfeld is selling
out his home and two buildings in
Leakesville and resigning the post
Office, He states that he will prob
ably remove to Louisiana or Texas.
A well-known Chattanooga adver-
Using house writes US: I'VE are
very much pleased with your paper,
clean, nicely gotten up, breezy, at
the same time its editorials have
pith and strength to them.
H. W. Jones of the extreme North
western corner of Greene County,
came down to the capital village
Tuesday on homestead business bent.
He is a brother Of Joel, who is bet
ter acquainted down this way.
In that portion of the paper devo-
ted to that channel will be found a
mong new ads that of Amsler q
Williams, Liverymen, Leakesville,
Miss. They are doing a general iv-
cry business and want to serve you.
A dainty ladies boudoir has been
fixed Up in the center of the Roberts,
Beard q Co. Store. The room IS
curtained off for toilet purposes, Civ
ing the privacy that ladies want for
retouching their hair and dress etc,
with rockers and dressers and writ
ing material at ready command.
This week has been quite a quiet
one in this mans town Hard rust
ling to get up local showing, but
we have scraped round the best we
could. Sometimes and its nearly al
ways that way, there is more news
locally than we can handle and Sc
lection is make of what can carry.
D. B. Mcqueen, who lives in Hat
tiesburg, and travels this section for
this section for the Dixie Marble
Works of that city, made Leakes
vile last week. Mcqueen formerly
did business in this county, iurpen-
tined near Vernal and lived at Mer-
rill. We found him quite a genia
fellow on Personal acquaintance.
Jno. w. Colbert is at Young Har-
ris, Ca, in the College which bears
that name John is determined tC
have an education and has been dig
ging for it hard the last several years
and is no way deferred by the Cole
giate years of boring that lie out a
head. OF such stuff cometh real edu
Gated American men and women.
The first man to cake up his tax
receipt this year was J. Smith, whC
liouidated with Tax-Collector Dan
Breland at the earliest possible mo
ment as he wished to bear away t.
Texas with him a showing that hi
property holdings behind in Green
Co.. Miss, had not tax charges a
gainst them for the current hsca
year.
In the Mayors Court Monday tn
following parties were arralned upo
the charge of drunkenness: Sam a
vera. Sam Turner and Mack tount
ain. Mack Fountain and Sam Aver
entered pleas of guilty and took ligh
fines. while Turner fought his case
and through some hitch it will hay
to be retired. Its a sad commentar
upon the Office of Marshall of tow
when that official himself has to [
tried in the Court of which he IS tn
balliff. for conduct in associate
with the youth of the town, uno'
coming to sober morals and good b
havior. This is got said TO cast pc
sonal aspersions, but in depreciatio
of such a wretched state of affair
The Sheriff had to make the affad
Wits in order to get this matter
Court at all. When an official oper
ly prostitutes or lays down on tt
functions of his Office, no matter no
good man he has been, his resign
ton or discharge is in order.