Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
LOCAL

The Mississippi State Baptist Con-
venton is holding its annual session
at Hattieshurg this week. Rev.
Tom Tomlinson, the Leakesville pas
tor is in attendance.
The Lark Pierce family have NOV
ed into the Pool-Turner house IN
Pool addition. Lark IS helping his
brother along these days in the
blacksmith shop and shingle mill.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. b. Ross are NOV
ing to Vernal this week where Mr.
Ross goes to take the prlncipalship
of the Vernal consolidated school,
succeeding the man. there who lost
out.
L. w. VALLEY was down Monday
and Tuesday "looker-on" at cir
cult court grinding. Lazarus usu
ally gets down from Grafton during
the court tide; in fact they use him
Oft as a juror and he makes good
one.
The election passed off quitely all O.
yer the county, the vote was slim but
enough to preserve party organiza-
ton and carry out the legal form.
There were 70 ballots cast at Leakes-
vile, of these 10 for the socialist
candidate Tor goveronor.
N. r. Keeton left Tuesday VIA Nc
Lain for his old home town OF Gren-
ada, having decided to cast in his
fortunes up that way once more as
all his family had gone back but him.
He retains bis place out on Big
Creek, but has sold the timber off
a
ar. q. a Faux was down at the
converging OF the weeks from Shu-
buta to visit bis mother, Mrs. G. W.
Faux who is here for the winter
from North Carolina. The Brownlee
Lbr. Co for which he works has
their mill plant operating again af-
ter being rebuilt since the disas
trous fire of last June.
M. V. B. Miller, the district at
torney-elect, came down from his
Meridian home Monday to meet his
constituency at circuit court and
drop little onto the hang of things
IN Greene county just at this juno
ture in a court way. He had TO
leave the same afternoon to get back
to meet some pressing engagements,
but first got to mingle considerably
with the people up to the assizes.
District Attorney Jno. L. Buckley
brought US box of nice pecans on
this trip down from Enterprise He
calls pecan culture his fad and has
one of the best groves in his part of
the state which was attested by his
easily winning first prize at the state
faia at Jackson this fall. They are
grated stock onto trees some eight
wears old before he decided to have
the graft applied and they certainly
yield meaty nut of splendi flavor
The rainfall for the month of Octo-
tober was 5. IL inches. The average
for saat month is 261 inches SO we
got back some of the lacking precip-
itation then though the latter part
of the month was very dry, which
drouth is still holding on as we
write. The temperature dropped
down to 80 above zero Wednesday
oil last week, that is on Nov. Bird
inst. This was the same registra-
ton as the cold snap during the first
OF October.
The annual meeting of the MISS
issippi Conference of the M. e.
Church, South, viii begin Wednes-
dav November Oath. at Laurel with
Bishop Atkins of North Carolina
presiding. Ye editor is thinking
somewhat of journeying up there
and seeing some Of our old friends
in the Methodist ministry as well as
some OF the prominent laymen of the
church, as no better opportunity
will come likely come to those in
this part of the state wanting to at.