Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-03-18
LOCAL
Very pretty Easter Cards now on
sale at Geo. a. Metzger.


Albert Davis was an ncursionist
TO Leakesville yesterday.
B. W. Mcleod spent Sunday and
Monday out on the NJ. & @.
Ice and frost were plentiful We'd
nesday morning in these parts
Mr. S. W. Avera was down last
week from the town which wears his
family name.
6. S. Henderson was down from
North Greene last Saturday and gave
us a pleasant call.
An Obituary of the late Justice Ed
Box prepared by his pastor, Rev. a.
G. Ferguson, will he presented in our
next issue.
c. w. BreIand got snake-bit last
week in one foot, but the wound did
not seem so bad, causing only local
swelling.
Sheriff D. E, Breland mGde an
an official trip up into Knobtown in
the mid-week That is the negro
suburb to State Line.
The Delinquent Poll Tax List has
been handed US by the sheriff and We
are getting it ready for insertion IN
our next edition. Its pretty lengthy.
Our Panama letter is omitted this
week in order to get in some left
over matter from last week. We
dislike to carry matter oyer in type
more than one week.
Mr.. Phillips, special agent OF the
Census Bureau drove into town Tues
day from Lucedale Intercepted those
of our townspeople engaged III man
ufactures OF any kind.
Off from this column or rather on
this the local page can be seen the
big display ad of the Leakesville
Mercantile Co. who are pulling off
another sacrifical price sale.
l.. n. Childs took in the Chatauqua
at Chronicle at the converging of the
weeks, hearing and enjoying i'm
mensely G.. r. Stuart and others of
the strong platformists then on.
Jim Miller lives across river near
James Beard Sr, instead of in the
Forks of the river as we lately wrote
him down. We had not then learnt
that he had built and moved up into
this part of the county.
A postal received by some one in
town gives Tylertown as the address
of Sam A. Avera who left here lew
days back. I. G. Briscoe now has the
job of overseeing the county con
victs on public works.
Our columns are rather short on
original reading matter and long on
advertising this week. 1t has gone
the other for such long spell since
the panic struck, our readers can
surely bear with us as we attempt TO
make back some of the hard money
we had to put up or find during those
strenuous days.
In the article last week showing
the costs of Circuit Court q figure 9
too many under the item of State
witnesses fees made that item appear
1897. 80 when the correct amount was
$3.50. The total or footings show
ed up all right and the 9 we speak Of
got into type in place of 5 mark IN
front of the $3.50.
That line of Spring and Summer
Suits for which J. E, Miller has taken
a block of display space in these col
umns to tell about, is really some
thing hobby. Ye scribe was SO taken
with them that he bought one before
they got marked up They are real
ly dressy wearing apparel embody-
ing correct lines of fashionable and
comfortable build.
Jodie Perry surprised US by bob
bling up in LeakesviIle Saturday last.
He and his family came from Tori
cellas, Texas few days before then
to his fathers over across the Ala
bama line near Burbank. Jodie de
cided that the old diggings suited
him better than the Lone Star
state and very wisely harked back to
it.
From Geo. H. Smith who was in
town early in the week we learn of a
freak the lightning played at his
place Thursday of last week, the
evening of the ugly looking cloud
and heavy rain. 1t struck into a
team of oxen stopped there while tue
owner J. E. Kittreli got in out Of
the weather. One OK was killed out
right and another stunned. The
folks in the house were slightly
shocked.