Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-11-14
LOCAL


10 the county capital OF Greene
Thursday shak ing hands with
friends.
The excessive and long continued
rain Monday Nov. 10 showed pre-
cipitatlon, according to the weather
guage here. of 1896 inches with cool
weather following.
Mr.. and Mrs. Poleon Williams and
family are over from McLain for a
few days making syrup down at
their old place in the st. Ellen COM
munity butwill return to McLain IN
short.
FL. G. Lister is one OF those driv-
ing new Ford these days. Its a
touring car equipped with a self
starter and makes Clay happy in
that he does not have to use the
crank anymore.
Ed Lewis was up from Edith coli
muDity last Saturday. He is a son
OF Mrs. g. e. Lewis and returned
about month ago from the navy;
has been doing transport service
and says he crossed 10 times and was
consequently kept pretty busy.
OF those who had the best success
raising fall Irish potatoes this sea-
son we guess Graham Briscoe is en-
titled to first place in way of men,
ton. He brought us a nice mess
showing what they were and they
were well developed Triumphs aver
aging along about the size of three
eggs pressed together.
r. p. pipkins was in town Thurs
day hauling out tombstone for his
fathers grave Rob has not been
seen about Leakesville in many
moons, account being steady at work
with the Cowan Mill concern..at Re-
ba. He got this week off to come to
his old home place at Betty and
make syrup, and has moved his fam
lily back there, but will continue to
work for the mill at Reba.
The G. G. Harrington family of
old Betty community are leaving
this week for Brewton, Ala, unless
g. c. s plans as stated to US last
Saturday, miscarry temporarily. He
is going back over there to the old
home digeings for the second time
to engage in farming and Escam bia
county is good place for it. They
were to go via Merrill and the
Herald follows to keep them posted
on Greene County news.
Mr.. L. c. Miller, real estate man
of Sparta, Ca, was in Leakesville
the latter part of the week seeing
after closing up the deal whereby he
has purchased the entire cutover
land holdings of the Vinegar Bend
Lbr. Co.. in Greene County, consist
ing of some 1900 acres. He asks
us to state tina. he'll subdivide same
into small tracts and sell to settlers
to be brought in from the North.
East and West and will open up an
Office in this section ia the near flu
ture.
Mr.. Kila Platt was down from the
Upper East Side last week and talk
ed entertainingly of a second trip
which he had made out into Oklaho-
ma and the new oil fields of Texas at
Des,lamona near Fort Worth. For
tunes are being made out there fast
these days of great boom and ex-
element over the gushers being
brought In and he said it was no
uncommon sight to see depressions
10 the ground flooded with oil.--the
overshot before the we'll could be
capped.
The paper shell pecan trees which
were set out over the county at. the
beginning OF that movement some
six and seven years ago are begin
ming to bear fruit. In discussing
this with Eugene Rounsaville about
the time of the County FAIR after
looking at some specimens that some
one had brought over from McLain
too late to place ON Exhibit, Gsne
told US he believed he could match
them and handed US bag OF fine