Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-04-30
LOCAL

sUCldblOu III new OlednS tuiS Wtch.
C. Nc Todd has sold out his mer-
camille business ia McLain to a Mr..
Readus, and has moved on the Rich
ton r. being with the Easterling q
Bryant firm.
E. E. Black whose home is near
Leaf has yielded TO the charms Of
the new railroad for making money
and gone up and located at Piave
near its northern end
Misses Ada and LA Platt, daugh-
tiers OF Mr.. and Mrs. Theo Platt, of
the Upper East Side, were shoppers
in Leakesvile Saturday and paid the
Herald Printery u pleasant visit.
Miss Leslie Smith who has taught
in the Leakesvllle High School dur
ing the term just closed as principal
and First Assistant. left the latter
part of the week for her home near
Brookhdven The other teachers al
so dispersed to their homes in vari-
Gus parts of the state.
The board of supervisors meet
next Monday in their regular SEES
sion for May The Circuit Court Of
Greene County Will convene on the
following Monday May 10. The jury
was drawn last Monday and the Ju-
rors are beng summo >ed this week
by the Sheriff and his deputies.
The Arts Pierce family have NOV
ed into what's known as the Law
renee Evans place on the hill this
side of the creek going towards the
Bear Greek mill whore Arts has
gone back towork this week. he hav
ing gained sufficient strength now
from his flu illness to be able to try
to work again.
The closing exercises of TIE Lea
kesville High school were held on
Thursday night April 22nd, and
Friday night April 23rd; there was
only one graduate, namely: Madison
Valley and the graduation part o.
the program took place in the morn
ing while the music class and others
entertained Friday night.
The temporary suspension of the
Herald already spoken Of, while the
editor takes vacation in June with
the National Editorial Party out
from Boston, will not affect the reg
uar appearance of the paper each
week in May, though the last issue
in May will likely appear about the
middle of tdat week. We make this
mention for the assurance Of those
having egals to be run in month OF
May.
The rainfall in the torrential down
pour Monday April 10Th. was B Il
inches. There fell also SO inch Sun
day or the preceding dav making a
total of Alb inches or nearly five
inches which is a heavy rainfall iu-
deed and the streams showed it,.
The river began to jump up at once
and is quite full. The drop IN tenn
perature which followed Tuesday
was likely due to the hail which fell
in other parts of the state. 1t was
down to "a above zero Tuesday night
with fires again comfortable in the
homes.
j. d. Williams was dp from the
mouth of Big Greek settlement Mon
day and reports it hard to get a
stand of corn account the backward
seasons. He as well as other resi-
dents down there are hopeful that
they can secure a mail route or some
better facilities soon for their portion
of the county on mail service as Mer-
ril post Office going dead again re-
Gently has thrown them back on
Bexley which is far off and greatly
announcement to get to as is also the
Leakesville Office. Those people IN
the fork of the rivers surely need
some better mail facilities and the
Herald hopes that the time is not
far off when Uncle Sam will hearken
10 their cry and accord the best rea-
sonable arrangement for them in
that line, whether it be an extension
of the Leakesvllle mail route on the
lower end or a most. nlfina down tharn