The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-22
and General Mention.

Local and General Mention.
Hon. J. M. Allen has returned after
q ten days trip East.
Mrs. Col. Clayton visited her broth
er, DR.. Orr, at Verona this week.
The first boil of cotton Of the season
was brought to this office from the
farm of Mr.. j. Y. Cummings. The boil
had not quite reached maturity.
There will be an all day singing at
Liberty on Saturday before the Third
Sunday in August. Everybody invited
to come and bring a well filled basket.
Mr.. Sidney Gilly of New Orleans,
representing the Simpson Computing
| Scale Co., has been the guest OF Mr.
and Mrs. G. A. Hassenfratz during the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Goodlett, Mas
ter Elford and little Frances, have re-
turned from a pleasant outing at Knox
vile, Chattanooga and other points OF
interest in East Tennessee.
Chancellor j. @. Robins reached home
Monday from Colorado where he spent
the past month r~ecuperating. He left
the following day for Aberdeen where
he is holding Chancery Court.
The local market has been flooded
with Elberta peaches of the finest
quality. The streets were crowded
several days with wagons and the price
has run down to fifty cents per bushel.
DR.. w. H. Hough left Sunday fol
the eastern markets where he expects
to obtain for his trade the usual wei
selected stock of up-to-date goods. He
will be absent from the city a week OF
ten days.
Allen Wells, the popular clerk at the
Hotel Reed, is the guest of relatives
in Louisvilly, KY. Aliens many friends
here hope that no inducements may be
held out that would make him leave
Tupelo permanently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Watt Leslie and daugh'
tiers spent the past week with Mr.
Leslie's parents at Birmingham. Mr.
Leslie, who is on the run betweeI
Union City and Tupelo as mail Clerk
is now enjoying his annual vacation.
The Masonic School of instruction
advertised in our columns has been il
session the past three days with a gooc
attendance. Grand Master Walter
Bonner, of Hattiesburg, and Crane
Lecturer Hicks. Of Yazoo City, will
the District Deputies were present
The work has been exemplifed in thu
several degrees and those in attendance
have been repaid for the time spen
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Trice have re
turned from Louisiana. where the,
were the guests of DR.. Lilly and wife
and their son Sale Trice. The latter
has located in Louisiana and begun the
practice of medicine. His friends il
Tupelo feel assured that his successes
will mature as he is known by the PEG
pie among whom he has cast his lot ant
that he will gain honors in his profes
sion.
Mrs. Gates, the mother of Mrs. r
w. Carmen, died at the home of hel
daughter in Verona on Tuesday after
a long illness. The deceased was fo
many years a resident of Pontotot
county, and was one of the most be-
loved women of the community II
which she lived. The inte-ment tool
place Wednesday at White Zion church
where a large number of Borrowing
friends gathered.
An assistant to the cashier of thu
Peoples Bank and Trust Co., arrived
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. S. ]
High Tuesday morning and the foDt
parents are receiving congratulations
upon their good fortune. The new ar
rival has been christened "Jamcs AL
lem" The friends of the family sin
cerely hope that the brightest expecta
tions of the parents will be realized il
his future life.
Mr.. ]. X. Mothershed, who wal
carried to Meridian to the East Mis-
sissippi Insane Hospital ten days age
J for treatment for pellagra, died there
Wednesday. Mr.. Mothershed hac
been III for sometime and his condition