Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-02-08
LOCAL

week from out of the r. o. McInnis
place into the dwelling owned by the
bank near the Old Masonic lodge
building.
Miss Puss Mills is up from Goose
Pond this week, visiting Mrs. M.
X. Lindquiss and her niece Miss
Laura Mills, Miss Puss still makes
her home with her brother, ALI
at the Goose Pond.
Mr.. A. c. James, the matchmaker,
his wife and little boy. A. G. Jr., of
Mobile came up from that city in
their car-recently purchased--in
the mid week to spend a few days
with her people. the G.. W. Church
we'll family.
T. Thomas had the misfortune
to break an arm Wednesday after
noon in a playful tussle with Bruner
Beard, they slipped and Bruner fell
on the arm which broke about the
old broken place of years ago when
Joe got shot accidentally and suffer
ed much from the hurt.
Theron Campbell who has been
down in Mobile quite sick from an
attack of pneumonia, got home We'd
nesday. His mother, Mrs. D. T.
Campbell of this city went down
there to be with him and returned
home with him. She also has had a
light attack of pneumonia.
Houston Brewer, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Han mon Brewer of the Williams
community in the Upper East Side.
and who has been attending the Ag-
ricultural High School at Pine Level
this session. left Wednesday for
Moss Point to work in the shipbuild-
ing down there at 81 so per day for
a start.
j. G. Williams of the Upper East
Side, who had such severe attack
of Pleurisy last week was down to
the county capital Monday looking
after some business at the court
house. He showed us his chest an d
the skin showed shrivelled some
from that Plenrisy's inroads. He
thinks he is getting along very we'll
now.
]. j. McInns has contract tor
getting out some good wood for the
paper mill at Moss Point. They cut
into about four feet lengths and the
polls have to be skinned and where
too big also split. Several are help
ing him furnish it. They prefer the
saplings of course and old field tim
Der goes right along as well as the
loblolly pines.
Mr.. ]. d. Webb of our city is an
other who has wrestled this winter
with carbuncle. 1t came on the
back of his head to one side, but he
thinks he has it on the subsiding or
der now but it has caused him good
deal of Inconvenience especially at
night about sleeping. it being diff
cult to lay so as not to hurt it and
start it to hurting.
Ralph Cooley came up from Moss
Point in his car Wednesday bring
ing along Mark Pipkins on the re-
turn from a river trip. Ralph has
bought out the Peoples Restaurant
down there from j. W. Thomson and
is running it, having Hardy Prem
tice helping him. They have II
boarders so far and can take care of
30 men he says and hope to get a
full house soon.
Mr.. Jno. w. Blodgett of Grand
Rapids. Mich, passed through
Leakesville in the car with his resi-
dent agent, Mr.. E. p. Stone, last
Saturday enroute for Mobile. having
come in up by the Blodgett branch
railroad above here in the West set
Element. Mr.. Blodgett informs us
that the severity OF the winter in
the North goes about ahead of any
thing that be has seen. That the
railroads are pretty well all cuts
about four feet through that much
snow, and that the snow has not fro
zen much and with nearly every
wind.storm and there have been
many, that IL banks back and fills up
the cuts and impedes railroad travel.