Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-01-30
LOCAL

Iudugural OF Gov. IL. M. Russell of
whom he was warm supporter dur
ing the campaign last year.
Mrs. w. r. Rush, whose health
has been very poor of late, is spend
ing awhile in town with the family
OF her brother, o. K. Rounsaville,
coming for bit for the change. She
is able to sit up most of the time.
}. T.. Jenkins was in I,eakesville
Saturday. Joe looks well foraa man
who was laid up for 100 days with
typhoid fever. Says he has got his
weight back pretty well, but not his
strength yet. He is working about
Nicely these days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert Afford came
down from Shaw, Miss, in response
10 telegram informing them OF the
serious automobile accident to little
Jack Bearry, whose mother is Ell
berts niece. They are to return the
latter part of this week.
Miss Geneva Churchwel, who has
been teaching music at Bexley, came
up this week to attend the funeral of
her brother Gabes little one and
may remain as the weather is so bad
it interferes with the chlldren's reg
ular attendance on classes.
This wet cold weather is bad on
travelling, getting the roads in IL
sloppy slick condition. With no
sunshine hours at all for several
days the ground becomes soaked and
mud abounds especially when the
rain and mists persists as it has done
lately.
Miss Dixie May, attended meet
ing last week in Hattiesburg at the
Normal College, of the Home Demon
stration Agents of the State. From
the newspaper reports from up there
it appears that they had stirring
convention of much profit as well as
pleasure to the attendants.
Several former Normal College
str dents are among the visiting
ZONE Demonstration Agents They
are Misses Katie Hall, Nellie May
Wells, Lillian Doris, Dixie May,
Mrs Holmes, Mrs. Dilworth, Misses
Sarah Cralganu Mary Knight. Nor
NAL College News. Jany. 23rd.
Mrs. A.C. Turner, came over from
Leakesville Monday night for visit
Of several weeks with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Hazard. She went
to Mobile Wednesday night and will
be the guest of her brothers. Dr. Fl.
Hazard and Fritz Hazard and fami-
lies for few days. Chronicle Gail,
Jany. 23rd.
Eldredge Williams worked this
month with the road crew, but is GO
ing back by the first to his farm
work. He and his brothers now
have 80 acres all told, having recent
ly bought the Preston and Elliott
places and added this to their cleared
grounds on which there are no
stumps. They are gradually turning
to raising high grade hogs in which
there is good money these days.
VIM. Yates got in from Baltimore,
Nd, the first of the week. He is
visiting the folks here and at Vernal
He thinks of returning to Baltimore
\ to take educational training under
the provision of the army He has
received his discharge at last but is
Il entitled to the Govt. training in
school, account the injury TO his
shoulder which has never gotten full
\ ly well though otherwise he believes
he has recovered from that fall on
the transports which came so near
H proving disastrous to his life.
\ The bridge crew has about wound
llup their part OF the work to fixing
the highway in the swamp across
1.-THE river here. They have been de-
Mayed at times account of getting
lumber. The big difficulty now in
getting the road finally passably on
lkhe highway surface, is getting open
sweather enough for the grading
lerews to work and sunshine enough
ITO dry out the fresh dirt to the new
sIy, completed bridge approaches, but
Hhssume this will be managed some