Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-06-06
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OF the Mohoba community. He left
here with the Battery f bunch in
summer of 1917 and saw active SER
vice on the front.
w. w. Henderson was among the
court attendants Supervisors Day,
this week. Willis is cousin to our
old friend, Rich Henderson. He
dwells ia that part of Northwest
Greene County. served by Richton,
R.5.
Mrs. Ralph Mills. nee Virgie Up
church, arrived Sunday from Drew,
Miss, to visit the family of her dead
husband S mother, Mrs. A. G. Lind
quist. She has along the two chill
dren Ralph Upchurch and Mary
Kate Mills.
Tom r. Byrd was over to the
county-seat Monday. He tells us
that they will soon have "a post-of-
fee established in his community
and it will bear the same name as
the station on the new railroad which
is Reba, Miss.
Tyra Beard is being transferred
from Tulane University to the Miss.
A. Il M. College IN the vocational
training provided by the Govt. He
passed through Leakesville recently
on that trip, having stopped off with
the folks in Upper East Side a few
days.
Geo. Henry Faux, son of Mr. and
Mrs. II. M. Faux got home Friday
from Clarksville, Tenn, where he
spent the term in the Presby terean
University He tells US that the
student body numbered about 800
and they expect something like 1900
next session.
Homer Beard got in from Ft.
Ringgold, Tex. where he has been
an the hospital service almost since
enlistlng In April 1917 He is visit
ing the folks in Upper East Side I'M
til Saturday when he goes back into
service being transferred to one of
The Carolina military posts.
His folks are in receipt of letters
from Vim. Yates which convey the
tidings that he got % foot fall on
the transport coming home and had
to be sent to hospital at Hoboken,
but expects to be transferred nearer
home soon. He escaped unhurt in
the army and got this fall and being
on iron it hurt leg and also burnt
q foot.
Rev. and Mrs. r. A. Albums and
six children arrived on the 18th from
Coleville. near Biloxi, to visit her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. e. Miller.
Albums is saddened over the death
of his sister, Trella, which occurred
IN January from Pneumonia-l ntiuen-
"a. She died at hospital near her
home in Portersville, Ca, where be
and the other two brothers, jim and
Tom Albums went and saw her be-
fore the end came.
Jim McInnis, who got back cou-
pie of weeks or more ago from
France. tells US that he only found
out his brother Virgil McInnis, was
reported killed IN Decem Der 1917, by
reading OF it while over there from
the Army paper, Stars and Stripes.
He got a shrapnel flesh wound him
self in charge OF his company "a
gainst machine..guns in which his
bunch got badly shot up and many
were hospitaled for awhile.
w. p. Rhinehart was in receipt of
q letter from his mother, Mrs. N. A.
Rnlnehart, the nrSt OF the week and
1T stated that she was in Atlanta
with three OF her sisters and intend
ed to undergo an operation to have a
cataract taken off OF an eye. She
had one taken OF of the other eye
since she went up there last fall
which restored her vision in part
and this second removal is believed
will further help her eyesight.
0. E. Baird came down Wednes-
day from Houston, Miss, to join for
a few days his wife and children 10
their visit to Mrs. BIS mother, Mrs.
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