Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-01-16
LOCAL

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was home for the holidays.
Chancery Court convened in Lea
kesville Monday and lasted until
Wednesday afternoon, seeming to be
an unusually quiet session of that a
quiet court.
Writ Prentiss, who is "a son of Mr..
and Mrs. j. l.. Prentiss of the jon
aChan community, was among those
who shopped in the Leakesvile
stores last Saturday.
II. g. Balls house caught on fire
the first part OF last week and a
right smart damage was done to the
roof, the shingles seem to burn over
easy and quick 1t caught out from
the chimney on the outside.
Miss Beatrice Denmark was home
for the holidays. She is teaching as
assistant in English at the Meridian
College which has recently had an
other change in management, coming
( under local direction there.
Chip Turner got home from Ak
ron. OHIO, Wednesday. he having
been working up there the greater
part of the past year in the factories
/ He says it's cold up there and that
possibly the colder part of.the win
ter yet ahead.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. G.. McAlister aud
/ five children came down u few DAYS
( ago, from Abbeville. Lafayette Co,
Miss. to visit the family of A. +.
! Cook, who is Mrs. McAlister's broth
err. They are figuring locally and
may buy and remain here.
T. d. Roberts and W. L. Hillman
recently purchased the standing
/ timber on John Washington land
and they will cut it with Tyra's mill
\ which has been relieved of the bal
ance of cut on the Alfred Smith tim
Der by Hemphill as he has his dunn
my line near enough by to haul it, so
they bought Tyra out on his con
I tract
L. r. White. who formerly dweit
\ out in the Jonathan community but
who removed last fall to Bay MI
nette, Ala, where his parents re-
side, was over tins week attending
| Chancery Court. his wife who lives
at McLain having entered suit for
divorce, and he beng interested only
in the case in matter of maintaining
his right TO the children of which
there are two and he hopes to secure
one of them
The fall-downs on mail service
which continues to occur at frequent
and exasperating intervals, is get
ting the people of Leakesville and
the patronizing routes to that point
where they will demand something
OF the sleeping authorities, IN tones
! which will accept no further denlals
or excuses. We are entitled to daily
| punctual mail service and should get
| it, and wherever the fault lies, it
should be corrected.
Mr.. W. II. Cooper, the federal In
Inspector for Greene County for the
[ past two years in the Tick Eradica
tion campaign, has been assigned TO
| Perry County and will move to
! Richton soon as house can be Sc
| cured of which he has been given
hopes for within next ten days. His
| successor. DR.. ID. L.. Love, who
comes from Louisiana to tins field, is
at present located at Lucedale, but
will probably come to Leakesville
later. He has made two trips up
here recently comforting with Mr..
! Cooper about the work. Love came
originally from Ohio and is gradu-
ate Veterinarian.
I The house belonging to ]. t. Thorn
( as in Rounsaville and occupied by
! the B. w. Beard family, was destroy
ed by fire the latter part OF Novem
Der. The blaze was discovered late
| one afternoon, having caught out
from detective hue which had
caused several previous near-fres,
| but ere anything could be done. it
had burst through out Of the ceiling
4 IN the roof and soon was doing it's