Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-12-17
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rice OF his own raising cleaned for
home use.
Mr.. Monroe Ball was up from
Lower Greene at the county capital
Thursday on a tax paying trip. He
is the father of Miss Rae Ball, whose
Chicago trip article on seeing the
International Show. etc. Is being
presented in this issue per promise.
From K. w. Breland. attorney,
who attended the Wayne County
term of circuit court we learn that.
Judge Fatherree was taken sick and
had to adjourn the sitting Of the
court. Those negro robbers who
tried to throw the white mar in the
Griffin mill boilers, plead guilty and
we're given penitentiary sentences.
Mr.. A. G. Lindquist, who vas
seized with an attack of appendicitis
the fore part of the week, while at
his place of business in Boutwell, out
on the new railroad. has sufficiently
thrown off the trouble as to avoid
an operation at this time. His wife
went back out there about a fort
night & to assist him through the
busy season. They also have the
two children Albert and Alice with
them.
The wooden floor to the Bank OF
Leakesville's brick building, has
/ given a good deal Of trouble from
time to time account of it being
hard to give sufficient ventilation
and hence rotting out several times
and had to be replaced. They are
o. having same taken out and the
under space filed in with earth and
the floor will then be laid down in
concrete with tile facings OF orna-
mental type.
DIR. ]. G. Williams has bought 10
acres of level land from L. X. Turner
heal the place which he recently
sold to Ernest Girault for his moth
er, Mrs. Henry Brewer. He has
about all the material on the ground
and Mark Pipkins is busy putting
him up a new dwelling. At present
he is living on the Busby place near
by, into which he moved after the
Poleon Williams family vacated it,
as he had to give the Brewer family
possession of the place which he
sold.
Thanks to both Luke Lott and
Anthony Lott for some fine speci-
mems of Doolies and Porto Ricos.
They were raised on one of Eugene
Rounsaville's places and speaks well
for excellency OF both of these spe-
cies of sweet potato both in size. and
shape. There has been an abundant
crop OF Sweet potatoes raised in
Greene County, this year, though
some express the fear that they will
not keep we'll owing to the season
We have had. and suggest the policy
of selling and eating or feeding them
quickly.
The Churchwell Motor Co, which
by the way has new ads this week
Doth on the Fordson Tractor and
the Ford Cars, are having interior
work done to the front of their bull
ding. The partition and overhead
is being papered with the modern
popular yard wide paper strips with
upright narrow board laps, all Of
which after it takes the the paint
will show up not only for greater
utility but beauty as well, giving
hem a ine Office quarters. repair
arts. shelvings and display space
f)r cars.
Miss Dixie May leaves next week
for her home town Of White Bluff
N Marion County, where she will
pend Christmas week with the tam
". taking her vacation, to which
be is entitled, at that time. She
as not quite decided which n OF
several offers OF work to take up
but will likely settle on Forest
County in which there is a vacancy
just created by the transfer of the
Home Demonstration Agent there
to Lauderdale county. Her father,
by the way, is the present member