Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-04

Banks Turner and Collier Briscoe
left Monday for Clinton where they
go to enter the Miss. College under
the Students Army Training Corps
provision of the Govt.
Miss lduma Turner, who has been
In Mobile for several weeks visiting
relatives and friends down there, got
back home last week, improved in
health from the outing.
Ed Breland of near McLain vicln-
age has Car and is doing transfer
work from his community these days.
He was over to the county capital
the fore part OF the week bringing
some QUESTIONABLE answerers.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. G. Freeman were
out from Janet Monday filing out
his questionnalre. Chalmers tell US
that they recently lost child and
came very near losing the good wife.
but things are better with them
now.
Mr.. John Mcleod of Vernal vicin-
age was up at the converglng OF the
weeks attending the Presbyterian
meeting in progress at the Time I'M
der the preaching of Rev. X. l..
Campbell.
Mr.. 0. +. Johnston. who was SO
dangerously sick "A few days ago, is
rapidly pulnng up again now, being
able TO drive about In his car some,
but looks peeked Yet from that spell
which came SO near carrying him
through death s door.
Jesse Kittrell, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. L. kittreli. who recently return
ed from Hattiesbufg, where be
worked this summer, has gone up TO
the A. q M. College GO enter under
the Students Army Corps provision
OF the new registration law.
4 Stuck Thomas brought us in a
huge sweet potato this week. 1t
weighs about four pounds and De-
tween five and six inches thick,
though only about eight inches long.
1t was OF the Triumph variety and
raised with barnyard fertilizer.
The supervisors meet next Monday
in regular monthly session. There
has been so much politics and sol
der stuff and war matter to be han
dled this summer that we have not
been presenting excerpts from their
proceedings lately but hope to get
back to 1t next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. j. Perry and a
couple of the children were up from
Moss Point at the converging OF the
weeks to look at their crop out at
Jonathan. which Jodie had not seen
since in May when he was last up,
as he has been busy on his job in the
ship yards, being in charge of one of
the crews there.
Mr.. j. P. Carter. logging foreman
for the Bear Creek Mill Co., who got
a couple OF breaks on the pelvic bone,
III an accident last summer when a
timber struck him, is able to drive
about now and walk with but little
limp. though at one time 1T looked
like his injuries might prove very
bad. He has kept up his duties all
the while by directing from his home
the work to be done.
Melvin Thomas, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. G. O. Thomas, is another of our
Leakesville young fellows to go away
to school this term. He left the
same day Guy McInnis did, and went
to Port Gibson. where he entered
Chamberlain Hunt Academy. He
was not old enough to register I'M
der the new an-power act, so does
not come under the scope of the stu
dents Army Corps plan OF the Govt.
towards the colleges of the state.
Rev. e. 7. Breland left in the mid
week via the Upper East Side for
Meridian, after having spent several
days in these parts lately He in
forms US that the DR.. B. Carrad;ne
meeting which he had planned for
this month is off indefinitely. pos
sibly for all time, as the Doctor re-
Gently got burt in q street car acct
dent in Seattle, the effects OF which