Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-05
LOCAL

Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. McRae and Wy
Wan. visited sister of Mrs. McRae:
at Enterprise Sunday.
Raj James was in town yesterday
He is considering becoming a candi
date for Supervisor from his beat e..
The Lee Peaster family have NOV
ed from out of the Naples cottage in
to the Henry Ball house adjacent to
Lackey residence.
The Board OF Supervisors pressed
the Business of the May term into
one day, winding up late in the af-
ternoon of Monday.
Mr.. and Mis-. D. w. Allen we're
other callers ut our printery We'd
nesday afternoon while the presses
were hot with action.
Jim Dunnam dropped into Leakes-
vile Thursday, which is the first
time we have seen his pleasant face
Oh our streets In several moons.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Backstrom
have gone to housekeeping, having
rented the Hugh McInnis concrete
block house, which is very pretty
one.
Vera, the little daughter of Rey.
R. W. BRYANT had to be taken to
Mobile yesterday for treatment of
blood poison brought on by wound
from tin can.
Writ Roberts came home Monday
after an absence of several months.
He contracted Malaria while at b.
golousa, La, and had to go to the
inirmary for month.
John Landlord, Billie Neel Jim Kit
trel, Jepsey and Lonias Clark, made
up a contingent of residents dwell
ing up on the river who shopped in
Leakesville Saturday.
W. c. Wexford came up from Null
lett Saturday and conveyed his moth
erin-law, Mrs Allen Mason back
with him. Mrs. Mason had visited
relatives here during the week.
Circuit Court convenes next Nor
day. The jurors have already been
summoned and the Judge and other
resident officers of the court will
come in on the train that day we are
told
Wyatt Churchwell is attending the
State Teachers Association at Jack
son this week and also writing up
the examination for County Supt. OF
Education, prereq uisite for candida
cy that office.
Mr.. Jesse Byrd carried his wife TO
Mobile last week for treatment. She
has bad indigestion trouble. She
is at the Southern Infrmary that
city, and the physicians consider her
case rather serious.
If you bring any money for tie
editor while down TO court next week,
hand it in at our prlntery as our Of
fee will be closed after Monday, as
the editor and wife are off to Brook
haven that day for he press conven-
ton.
Thursday of last week and Mon
day of this that is April q and May
l, were days on which the rainfall
was very heavy. Observer Pool has
furnished us the precipitancy in
inches which is 81 in for first, ! in
for End.
Mr.. S. w. Ball doesn't stop for a
little thing like a spell of measles,
which struck him lately just as he
was fixing to turn loose on the river.
He went right on, working all the
time they were broke out and has
suffered no Inconvenience from same
yet.
Tom Steede was up from Moss
Point the fore part of the week look
ing after logging interests on the
creeks for his firm the Dantzlers,
who have had quite a bunch OF logs
marooned in these streams for lack
of water, but they are cleaning them
out now.
Faith VALLEY got some oxen drown
ed in the mill creek Just above Lea
kesville Thursday of last week, the
day of one of the recent big rains.
He himself like to got drowned, some
of the mill people having to rescue
him from his wagon out in the water
by throwing him rope. He couldn't
swim.
Mesdames G. e. Anding, Nat Ow-
en- and Wiley Evans, dropped in al
the Herald p,intery Wednesday as
we were printing the first side o.
this edition and with their respect
i've first. born, namely: Claude Ellis
Crawford and Henrietta, watched
the press machinery awhile. Claude
Ellis one time attracted by the noise
ran away and came in to see thl.
work agoing, but on this secont
trip, seemed to be little timorou'
of it all.