Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-03-22
LOCAL

Carley Coaker got back from the
A. & M. College the fore part of the
week.
lack Smith and son Cam, were
Old Grafton visitors in the capital
burg Monday.
w. j. Williams Jr. OF the Upper
East Side was greeting old friends
IN Leakesville Saturday with usual
CHEEKY grace.
Two frosts visited this section last
week. The last one was on Satur-
day morning, March l6, 1912, and a
very heavy one.
F. NJ. Baldwin IS no longer work
ing at Vinegar Bend and has liked
back to Nicely where he will proba
bly, anchor once again.
DR.. Pool, reports that the U. S.
Weather guage shows a rainfall in
March of rs inches to date, over ?
inches of which fell during last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. S. Pipkins Of
Hillman, were callers at the Herald S
place of publication last Friday eve
They are uncle and aunt to our ]. w.
Gibson.
Dave West was down Saturday
from Old Grafton shopping. He
informs us he has carried oyer about
dozen head of cattle by feeding
through the rigours of this winter.
Ira Byrd was making his presence
felt in Leakesville Monday Ira has
long since come to be recognized as
a character quite in a class to himself,
and a past grand master in the art
Of good-natured badinage.
Mr.. G. W. Faux got back home
Saturday from Oak Grove, Ala,
where he has been for the past month
personally experimenting the log
haul he has down there, which will
not be fully cleaned up till early
Summer.
Our erstwhile journahst-friend.
R. E. Smith, Familiarity known here
as Ned, surprised us Saturday by
dropping in after the arrival OF the
train. He is still with the Tribune
at Quitman and likes the 100. He
returned Sunday.
Coley Mills paid Leakesville an
other visit last Saturday. He is
really living on his homestead near
Magnolia place in the Upper East
Side instead of at Fruitdale, as We
lately wrote him down. He has
dwelling at each place, however.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. L. Griffin have
rented the Anne Belle Naples old
place and are going to farm it this
year. This makes them next neigh
bors to Mrs. Gaifin S parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. K. Mcleod. They
have an interesting heir which keeps
them company
L. p. Peaster has moved his fami-
~ into the Pool houses lately vaca-
ted by the Perkins, and will run the
Central for the Aylesworth Phone
system as soon as the change can be
made. Aylesworth bas a lease of
these two buildings from DIR. Pool
opad Gu blot fhapo 70
Mesdames Billy Williams and Nancy,
Rhinehart called at the Herald print
cry Monday. Mrs. Rhinehart made
inquiries about Marion Briscoe from
whom she knew we had heard, He
is az old family friend, being an ac-
qualntance formed back in the days
of North Alabama residency.
Nose Nixon was in town Monday
and informs US that he has about
finished working the swamp ut Mil
lers Bridge and is now doing up al
piece of road close thereto, which
will hold him there awhile. The rlY-
err remaining up prevents his coming
here to dig the cutoff ditch, as llan-
ned few weeks back.
Mrs.V. d. George of Mobile, lately
came up from Mobile to visit her
daughter, Mrs. d. T. Campbell, and
was accompanied by her young
grands 0 n, Ray mon d George,
who was the baby when his mother,
Mrs. Fl. +. Moody, died while dwell
ing near Leakesville about six years
ago. He is now fast racing for the
long pants stage.
S. T. Churchwell tells us that the
severeness of the Winter made it ne
cessary for him to carry over his cat
tie by feeding The cane and other
green growth in the river swamp ex-
hausted this Winter for the first
time in years, that the cattle have
been able to eat it out before Spring
arrived He hash Il lost a single head