Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-10-03
LOCAL

Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Landrum of Lau-
rel bad born to them some three
months ago Boy, who is proving a
great Joy in their home.
Miss Ruby Naples left few days
ago for Roy, Ala, which is in Mon
roe County, to teach music7in their
school. She taught in the Vinegar
Bend School two terms and has now
secured this position farther over in
our sister state.
w. z. Rhinehart got his young
daughter, Joanna Rhinehart. home
from Mobile Wednesday, the sur
geon having successfully removed
the abcess which had formed near
the hip bone and had SO distressed
her for awhile.
Mrs. Albert Mlzell was taken to
Mobile the middle of last week and
for awhile was near death S door.
She was better Monday, so that her
husband could return home, and
from later reports her condition is
rapidly improving.
Miss Alma Williams, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Williams, who
had an abcess operated upon in her
throat in Mobile recently, was only
obliged to stay down there few
days. The trouble was from the
tonsils and was quickly relieved
Walter Pierce, son of Barney
Pierce OF the st. Ellen community,
Is one of those who got back from
France in the first part of August.
He was over there ten months he
says, and that the time slipped of
mighty fast, there was so much 10
do in the soldier-life.
The County Fair is to be held in
the School House in Leakesville next
FRIDAY and Saturday Oc. 1911.
The programs will be handled in the
auditorium upstairs. The exhibits
in the class-rooms down stairs and
the livestock and poultry out ON
campus. See article dealing with
this 10 this issue.
The board Of supervisors meet next
Monday in regular session, 1T being
the October term. They held two
or three special sessions in Septem-
Der to get together with the State
lax Commission on values on the
realty roll and Will al this ses sion
hx the levy so that the sheriff may
proceed with making up his tax-re-
ceipts.
@. b. Williams left recently for
Memphis, Tenn, where he goes to
join his sister and her husband IN
the res taurant business. They got
such good offer that they sold out
their business in Jackson. Tenn, 1
and moved to the Bluff City Bruce
is the oldest son of Mr. ana. Mrs. Pc.
leon Williams, up until LACEY OF st.
Ellen but now of McLain, Miss.
John Gordon, colored. is being
held IN the county Jail to await ac-
tion of the grand jury fer the killing
OF Dan Cunningham, mother darkey,
which occurred in the Turner mill
quarters at new A vera recently. The
deed Was done with a pistol and the
defendant aimed it accidental but
the evidence was not sufficient to
convince Justice Brisicoe last Satur-
day before whom the preliminary
was had, that Gordon was not crimi-
nally liable, hence the bind over to
Grand Jury.
Mr.. kila Platt was down from the
Upper East Side last Saturday. He
conversed interestingly with us of
his trip last summer to Tulsa, Okla,
attending the Confederate Veterans
Reunion which proved about one of
tho biggest they have had He was
struck with the great number of oil |
tank car trains running in and Out
OF that city, and also the pyramids |
or mounds OF white earth dumpings
from the lead and zinc mines as he
travelled through Missouri. They
spread such dumpings also on their
good roads and they make white
streaks for miles in different direc-