Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-10-07
LOCAL

day.
Tom Heathcock of State Line VII
cinage was done to Justice Court
Saturday.
Pleasant L. Mills and Bob Prime
were two Beat 3 fellows in the Coun-
ty Capital Monday.
DIR. w. W. Eley of LucedaIe atten-
ded the stockholders meeting of Bank
of Leakesville Tuesday.
Our young typo, Mr., Jno. w. Glib
son, paid his FOLKS d visit Sunday.
They dwell near Luceda!e.
Mr.. ]. E. Miller has improved the
external appearance of his dwelling
by having the roof reshingled.
e. 5. Jackson. the prescriptionist
for the City Drug Co., lett Saturday
for his home DIT Shuqualak on visit.
Miss Nellie Allen of Hattiesburg
ended her visit with The Pool family
last Saturday, returning home via
Merrill.
J. Ii. Turner succeeds I. q. Bris-
coe as boss OF County ConviLc Road
working gang. Joe Merritt is still
guard.
See ad Barber and Repair shop
Ball & Hunt,-Bud has bought out
Albums and he aud Charley will now
run that business right On.
w. W. Avera uad some business in
justice court here Saturday. Also
Dunk and John Landlord and J. l..
ball of the same neigh 5orhood.
z. A. Mcleod was up from Vernal
Sunday and Monday. Mr.. Pete has
been in i'll health for a couple of
months but is pulling up little
now.
A number of articles on the Dog
Sheep Debate came in the mails this
week, but owing to d heavy crop of
other matter, are being carried over
for another Issue.
Justice Amsler had quite a busy
session of his court Saturday. Hay
ing no justices neither in Beat 2 nor
3, it throws considerable extra work
on Justice Fred. Also on Justice
Writ Thomson of Beat 4.
w. D. Ball made trip over in La
mar County last week. He tells US
that he considers this county far a.
head OF that one IN the character of
the soil, though be had always though
the other way, till be made person
al inspection.
Mrs. Byrd of Blue Mou tain, a
widowed sister of Mesdames Marcus
and BERTHE Mcleod, has taken po
sition as a saleslady with the Leakes
vile Mercantile Co. One lady, in
country store handling all kinds Of
feminine wear, is almost indispensa-
bic.
The post-office address of Rev. r.
a. Breland is now Derby, Miss, in
stead of Meridian as formerly They
moved recently. In postal inform
ing US to that effect he writes: We
think the Herald one of the very
best local papers; always glad to get
it," Alden is the oldest living bro
Their of the Breland family of which
Sheriff Dan and Represen tative Eu-
gene are resident male members.
Rev, Y, D. Westerield and wife,
together with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B.
Billiard went to Bay ST. Louis early
this week to put in the Indian claim
of those two ladies who are direct
descendants of the Choctaws who
once roamed the wilds of this and
adjoining counties, the lords of all
they surveyed. Several have gone
down from Greene County to trace
out their Indian ancestry before At
torney Powell. who is a three-quar
ter Choctaw himself, and who hopes
to get these claims through the In
dian Bureau by some legislation oil
the next Congress.
Prof. A. d. Denmark left Saturday
for Washington, G. c., where be
will teach this Winter Term. Lone
is home grown teacher. and a fine
example of what our county can pro-
duce in the way of rising pedago
que. From mere lad he has APP
piled himself to books and rose from
a'hard plodding student to teacher
of students. Washington has fgur-
ed in laying the foundation for more
than one worthy career. There s
Benz. f. Wulff now of California
Pat Harrison, Congressman-electf for
this district, Jesse Fain of Washing
ton, d. c., DR.. r. H. Coleman Of
McLain and others too numerous tc
mention. Ionic will be equal to any
opening for greatness that may fall