Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-03-15
LOCAL

ana is proving quick catcher-on at
twirling the steering wheel.
The little son Hubert f. of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. L. Green of this city, who
has had an attack of pneumonia is
pulling through same pretty well
now.
W. G. Smith of Nicely who mar
ried a daughter of Mr.. w. G. Rob-
erts and sister to Mrs. J. Il. Green.
was over to the county capital re-
Gently. viii is son of G. W.Smith
of old Jonathan community.
Mr.. Jas. Hillman has decided to
put up a building on that lot of his
purchased from T. X. Turner which
lies in our town between the Bank
building and the Turner & Dorsett
store. 1t is for carrying Ford parts
etc.
The first quarterly conference of
Leakesville charge of the M. E..
Church, south was held at Leakes-
vile. church Saturday afternoon.
Presiding elder w. B. Jones came
in by auto from Richton and held
such conference, and preached Sat-
urday night, Sunday morning and
left Monday morning for his Hat
tiesburg home.
Rev. EFT. Ireland wishes us to an
nounce that there will be preaching
here at M. p. Church on next Sab
bath in afternoon at o'clock and in
evening at 1880 o'clock. He wishes
S as further to say that he is expect
ing Rev. G, M. Rainey, a young
preacher from Meridian College and
his wife's sister, Miss Mabel Downey
for the Sabbath and that services
will perhaps continue through the
week at tile same hours.
Mrs. M. r. Rhinehart has returned
to her home in the Hillman comma
nifty. w. Z. Rhinehart. her son
was in town Saturday and tells us
that she saw cotton still unpicked In
the fields of Georgia in the dead of
winter. The labor question and ex-
treme cold weather interfering with
harvesting. Her sister, whose Sc
riOus sickness stretched out her Wis
it beyond planned period, had got
ten better so that she could leave.
The falkland Sales are encroach-
ing heavily on our space this month.
The Sheriff has one some larger than
last and the preceding year, and the
Tax-Collector of State Line as we'll
Ss Leakesville has had to resort 20
the distress method to make a final
cleanup on the duties of Matthew.
These are necessary matters for the
atten tion In the conduct of the bus
iness of government and we are but
doing our part in yielding the space
for such purpose.
w. J. Turner has wound up his
school out at Bradley and is home a.
gain to look after his farm, now that
the planting season is on. Jonathan
tells us that his brother, Chester
Turner. is down at Pascagoula,
working in the shipbuildlng yards,
that in few minutes shapes wooden
benches for ships, thus saving the
work OF hours at hand AIDING in these
days when time is such great OBJ
ject in building ships to hedge a.
gainst the submarine peril to the
worlds shipping.
From their father we learn the fol-
lowing points of interest to their
Leakesville friends about Tyra and
Writ Roberts. Tyra is in Arizona
and was married to Miss Tatum who
taught in the LeakesyilIe High
School and at the Ag- High School
the preceding years to this in order
named. She joined him out there
and they were married Christmas.
They have Tyra's boy with them
Writ. and his good lady have fine
boy which was born in December.
Writ is in the military age, but Ty-
ra is not. Writ still lives in Kansas
City. Mo.