Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-05-04
FRIDAY. M
May A, 1917.
LOCAL

visited her sister here, Mrs. o. X.
Etheredge last week.
p. c. Daughdrill was out from
Leaf river last Friday lie has NOV
ed near McLain has where he been
engaged in some logging for the
Bounds people of Moss Point.
Miss Willie Deane Ravesies left for
her home at McLaurln few days a
go her father having coming over af-
ter her in his auto. She spend the
winter with her aunt, Mrs. j. t. Nc
Rae, and attended the Leakesville
High School.
Leonard Briscoe got home Wed
nesday from the A Il M College.
He has been away over two years.
Has one more year vet before grad
uating. He aims to take work down
here this summer to make expense
money against the last term in
school.
Joe Merritt is living on this side OF
the river these days, having leased
the w. J. Neel place, after Billy
moved his family down to Pine Level,
when he purchased the Put Williams
place, in order to get his family near
the Agricultural school. Joe had
been living upon the old Powell A
vera place on the other side of the
river IN Upper East Side
l.. G. Williams was down from
D'Lo this week. Lawrence has "a
bout closed trade for forty acre
farm up there. Ills father, Put Will
liams is getting along fine. with the
dairy, both he and Mrs. Williams be-
aing pleased with their new surroun-
dings. Clayton is at home. just
having gotten in from his work of
teaching school through the scholas-
tic season expired.
g. T. Y Churchwel has taken his
black smith back over from from Jack
Daughdril who is preparing to move
his family up to Beaumont where his
wife has come into the Inheritance of
a nice farm place and they will farm
this year. Jack went up there few
DAYS ago, and will move his family
as soon as they can get possession
of their house up there, the pres
ent renter finding 1t hard to find a
place to move out into.
The Town Board of Leakesville
held their regular monthly meeting
Tuesday They usual meet the day
after the supervisors get in session
but as their time is the first Tuesday
of each month it sometimes comes
before the first Monday The super
visors meet next Monday and on the
following Monday we have Circuit
court. Justice Briscoe holds the reg
ular monthly term of his court here
Saturday next. that is May 9Th.
The rainfall for April was 38 in
ches, making the rainfall for 1917
thus far 49, 81 inches. The average
rainfall for April is q inches. The
average Tor the aggregate months OF
January, February, March and April
is 20. 65 so it can be seen despite the
dry spsll during latter part OF April
that we are only about an inch I'M
der normal for rainfall for 1917.
The lowest rainfall for April of any
year was in 1903 when it was Ia in
ches, the next greatest was in 1912
when the month of April alone show
ed Is. 80 inches.
The public speaking last Saturday
at the Agricultural High School by
Lieut.. Gov. Lee Russell and District
Attorney Martin Miller attracted a
great many people out that way, as
we'll as the other exercises by day
and night. Owing to making cen
nection with the afternoon train for
the return, Mr.. Russell got them to
change the time aud put him on in
the morning. He came via the Kay
see, Miller came via Vinegar Bend
and spoke 10 the afternoon. Primer
pal Webb Valley is to stay on with
the school and is retaining some of
the boys to help with the crop of
which we are told they have nice
growing prospect.