Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-20
LOCAL

q w. taulk Is TeSutllluS lOSRlpS
Cor the Oak Grove mill down in Ala
bama.
+ W. Backstrom, attorney, atten-
ded TO professional business in No
bile in the mid week.
The Webb Turner family are domi-
cIed in the Miller house, erstwhile
known as the McEachern place.
in. Dunnam of Old Grafton was
down yesterday. He frequently
shops in Leakesville these days.
The G. W. Faux family are NOV
ing into the Pool house on West side
of railroad near old planer mill site.
0. E. Rounsaville and Nat Owen
we're Leakesvillians who rode out on
the M. & o. the middle of last week.
D. NJ. Bearry and J. j. Mclnnis
are putting quite a bunch of cross
ties in the river below here on this
side.
Mr.. Browning of Whistler, Ala.
visited his son in this town last week,
accompanied by his wife and three
children.
Messrs J. E. Alderman and Nat
Owen took in the Meridian Fair
Tuesday, going by the excursion ont
from here that day
Tyra D. Roberts OF Nicely had
some business at the County Seat
Monday and remembered we editor
before leaving town.
Two of our local attorneys, viz: }.
E. Alderman and E. w. Breland at
tended Justice Court at Leaf Satur-
day, travelling by buggy overland.
S. A. Denmark of Mohoba was in
town Thursday of last week and tells
us that he is making a trip to Biloxi
this week as witness III Federal
Court.
Will Deuitt and Tom Naples to-
gether looked in on our print-shop
Thursday the 18th, inst. This was
Wills first peep-in but Tom is an
oldtime caller as he used to act as
surgeon to our lame gasoline engine.
Jodie Perry stopped over a few
hours in Leakesville Thursday en-
route for the old homestead up in
Adamsyille community, where he is
moving his family from the Bearry
place at Roundtop over in Alabama.
Mrs E. H. Durch and Elizabeth
left last Sunday for Jackson where
they will visit the Luther Burch
family. Ernest will join them next
Sunday and take his vacation of
some 10 days, enjoying the State
Fair and other pleasures.
Mr. W. G. Ball and son Russell
passed through Leakesville last Fri
day on the return from Big Greek
with a wagon-load of hogs which
they had bought of Phil James and
were taking down to their home
place at Ball to fatten for Winter
killing.
W. |. Smith and w. T. Pope were
two Old Grafton citizens in Leakes-
vile last Friday. Isaiah used to Wis
it Leakesville frequently account OF
team work, but is not quite such a
steady conner these days. Pope is
the Justice of the Peace-Elect from
Beat 3 this time.
Aunt Sookie Mccain, au aged ne
gress Of portly beams, she weighs
about 300 pounds, was over from the
Lower East Side Thursday of last
week drawing her pension money
She was left in INDECENT circumstan
ces by her husband the late and &c
centric Pet Mccain, Col.
Mr.. J. T. Albums, brother of ou
Rev. r. A. Albums, arrived last Fri
day from McDonough, Ca, where h'
has been farming on shares Sine
leaving here. They gathered eigh
bales of cotton before he left which
is somewhat forward in Georgi
this year. Our readers will remem
Der him from sojourn here in 1910
In the wreck on the Kaysee rail
road at Little's Creek above McLai
Tuesday, we notice that Sam Isaac
son and D. B. Mcqueen both well
known IN Greene County, were q
mong the injured. The former sui
ticent so to be taken to the hOSplta
in Mobile, but the latter not quite S
much as that. We tender symps
thies to these friends and are gla
they Jared no worse in that shakin
up.
Nose Nixon, Foreman of the COpr
ty Convict Gang, which by the wa
is about dwindled out, there bein
but four men now counting hlmsel
was in town yesterday. Possib
Circuit Court will revive the strengt
of that road working crew by r
cruits from enlister (Judgc) Buc
ley's quarters. On the return
carried Joe Runnels, who will wo1
out the days imposed in Thomson
court. from which he ran away.