Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-09-03
LOCAL

Mrs. A. Fl. HARRISON was over
from Washington for few hours
last Friday accompanied by her bro
Their, Rev. W. e. Blackwell. pastor
of the Vancleave charge OF the South
srn methodist church. He was pas
tor uf Leakesville charge for three
years some dozen years ago.
DIR. Sam Pool shown us well de
veloped specimen of wild apple
sent him by his nieces the misses
Allen from West Virginia where
they are summerng. They wrote
that wild apples were very common
in that country. the Blue mountains
yielding soil suitable to apple grow
tn.
Through an oversight we overlook
ed mentioning Brooks Gatlln in the
local mention of his mother, Mrs
j. M. Gatlin going over to Pollard,
]. a la, last week to visit her parents.
Brooks of course went along, and as
he is an appreciative reader of the
Herald we take this means of supply
the overlooked mention.
The house owned by ]. E. Miller
and rented by the Crawford family
is beng given a new covering OF
shingles. That house was erected
by Mr.. r. e. Sheehy about 10 years
ago, which shows about the life time
OF sawn shingles in this climate
/, which is very hard on sawn wood
where exposed TO the weather.
Julius Hilman laid the flesh part
OF his left heel nearly off few days
ago by stepping against an ak in
dragging a telephone pole to posi-
tlon. which gave him limp. Twas
Achilles whose Vulnerable spot was
ils the heel, oat evidently julius diff
fels in that from the Greek man OF
renown as he got round right on af-
ter the wound.
AT the request OF Clerk Mckay we
make mention that next Monday
September lst is the tune for the
Pension board of Greene County to
meet. Let the business of the old
Civil war heroes be zealously atten-
ded to in the way of granting pub
lie donations to those in need,
which is but small expression OF
the state for their noble patriotic
services ia the struggle for the
rights of the minority in free amer
lea.
Geo. Moore of Betty tells us about
killlno a large rattlesnake this week
in pasture near front of his house.
They had been picking peas in the
field and his boy came near stepping
on the snake in trip to the house.
They shot it and it had never coiled
being stretched out straight. 1t
was five feet two inches long and
had " rattles. So goodbye to one
more OF that enemy to the children
! OF men.
Louiey Ball, our Leakesville
Louiey, was another who figured IN
the rattesnake killing last week
near Bud Young's place, but whose
name we didn't work into that item,
Louey frequently yields to the
charms that WOO him back to the
hills and hollows of Betty community
where he was raised and wandered
during the palmy days of youth,
hence his presence out there at the
finish of Mr.. Rather, which is not
the FIRST occasion of that kind he has
been at in those parts.
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