Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-16
LOCAL

lug vi Tue WEEKS III Ledh''SVllI0.
Mr.. Nat Owen took a spin out on
the NJ & 0 late last week.
No Marriage Licenses have been
issued since our punishment of last
week.
Mr.. Byrd, bookkeeper for the Mil
Ter store, ran up to Mt. Olive, his
home town, and cast ii vote for Pat
Harrison.
Mr.. and Mr.. ]. L. Mills and chill
dren came over from Fruitdale by
buggy yesterday and will remain
over Sunday.
Mr.. G. W. Faulk and son Willie
got back from Tate Springs, Tenn,
this week much improved from their
Stay at that popular mountain resort.
Mr.. Ollie ]. Wexford of Mohoba
was in town Wednesday and has
joined that ever widening circle cal
led for short the Herald Reading
Club. -
The election passed off quietly at
Leakesville, the voters came stream
ing in early and keep trucking in I'M
til the hour OF closing the polls rolled
round,
w. A. Merritt came up to Leakes-
vile Tuesday to look after some mat
tiers at the Court House. He is Sc
rious advocate of the Good Roads
campaign.
j. r. Jones of Byrd community in
the Northwestern part of the county
instructs us to forward his Herald to
Clark Memorial College, where he
has matriculated for the term.
An arrival on Thursday from At
lanta, Ga, Mr.. Jim Bowden, who
comes to visit his first cousins, the
AIIuLuS OIOGu6IS, LIS 1OdGul6S plO
claim the kinship by the Albums fav-
or.
T. r. Byrd, who is a brother of
John and son of Harvey, of Wash
ington, drove jim Taylor out from
that place Monday III time to cast a
ballot here. which is Jlm'S voting
box.
Mrs. Maggie Blair and her two in
telesting daughters, Misses Jessie
and Willie, moved to Bexley last
week, where they 90 to run hOtel,
Leakesviile parts with them reluc-
family.
Mr., a. A.. Skinner of FoXtrap,
Miss, who formerly kept the Vine
gar Bend Hote. is in LeakesvIIIe
this week looking after those lands
which he and his kinsInen own a
cross the river
Mr.. M. L. Griffin, the second old
est son of our j. B, Griffin of Upper
East Side, got to town yes terday
and will remain over day or two.
We acknowledge cordial chat with
this budding young man.
w. w. Heidelberg Jr., a brother
of our Hinkle, was in town in the
midweek circulating a petition in
favor of his home town, Laurel Sc
curing the State Normal School,
He VISITED LeakesvilIe last year.
Webster Valley, who resides in
North Greene, has gone back to the
Brown Academy at Blue Mountain
for another session. The Herald
follows his trail and will keep him
posted on matters current down
this way.
Mr.. Cochran of Lucedale, the con-
tractor for copying that portion OF
Abe records of Greene County which
affects her daughter, George, is in
town busy at the court house in that
respect assisted by d young lady
typewriter.
Billy Beech languishes behind the
bars again. Deputy Jake Green pick
ed him up out on the A. & M. road
this week, and he will answer al the
November Term of Circuit Court on
a charge of Seduction, which is fell
Ony and will probably send him back
to the State Farm where he went g
few years ago.
Wyatt Churchwell returned home
Saturday from teaching the Buffalo
school and fetched in bottle Of
what those who know the bugs pro
nounce as Boil Weevils, which he Sc
cured out of the cotton patch of Viii
Dunnam. Wake up Ed Blakeslet
and tell us if that dread insect has
made it's way into Old Greene.
A homestead contest G. G. Har
rington VS.. Pete Farley, was going
on at the court house last Friday
and Saturday, the following wert
witnesses for contestant: Alb Bre
land. Alex Breland and @. L. Free
man; for contestee: Ed Green, +. K
Daughdrill, Cal Green, Joe Green
S. FL. James and Levi Ii. Hillman Jr
Sheriff d. E. Breland, wife AM
children had a swell time at Gulf
port the first of the week attending
the State Sheriffs' Association. Dal