Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-11-18
LOCAL

time in quite whet. Mud was
once more in evidence as against
that awful and all invading dust for
weeks past.
Complying with the request OF
Rev. G. G. Griffin pastor of the
Methodist church. we announce a
Union Thanksgiving service to be
held at the Baptist Church in Lea
kesville on next Thursday Novem
Der "a.
Richmond Heathcock who lives up
in the Northern part of the county
was doing transfer work with car
from his community to court this
week. 1t takes good many cars
going and coming to bring the folks
to court and set them back home
when ready to return, and proves a
much quicker and more satisfactory
way than the old horse and buggy
method
Justice r. H. Hinton of North
Greene was down Monday listening
to the Grand Jury charge as required
by Statute. He recently had an at
tack of appendicitis but delayed the
operation for a few days and the
trouble passed off temporarily. He
lost his father. A. g. Hinton, last
March. 1t was an attack of pneu
monia that took the father out, he
being already in poor health from a
kidney trouble.
Monday brought fairly good
sized crowd to Circuit Court open
ing, but not so large a crowd as came
last court. as then everybody was
curious to get peep at those pris-
oners charged with the killing of ].
F. Green and Lawrence Dunnam.
There are several murder cases to
come up at this term as will be
brought out as the court progresses
with its work.
d. w. Mashburn came down from
Boutwell,. where he is living, as a
juror in the special venire of rs sum-
noned for Thursday morning in the
Hard Mcleod murder trial Dennis
was right glad they found full pan
ell in that case before reaching him
In view of his having been caught
at last court as a juror in the Henry
Bond murder case and gong through
DAYS siege, counting time he
waited while they picked the jury.
T. J. Jones was down to Circuit
Court this week. summoned as a
witness in the civil case of Alex
Smith VS. Carter. Tom is one
of those happy souls who manages
to hardly ever owe his fellowman
anything and lives at home. He
made our mouth water telling about
acellar full of canned goods which
the folks put up this year consisting
of tomatoes, blackberries, vegetables
etc. to the number of about five hun
dred cans lining the cellar from end
to end, and top to bottom.
A. f. Amsler presented US with
two fine specimen of red potatoes a
few days ago. One of them weighed
AZ pounds and the two of them about
two-thirds filed IL 10. flour sack.
They were raised on new ground and
both in the same hill where there
was bank of oak ashes. He tells
US that in making syrup this year
he found it hard to keep from cook
ing the juice too much as the cane
showed such heavy proportion OF
sugar due to the long drouth keep
ing the water out.
Walter Mckay came over to Cir
cult Court Monday as juror and
got excused as he has very impor-
tant public work to perform at pres
ent time in rushing the McLain new
School building to completion, the
trustees being anxious to get the
school into it by the first OF the year
Its to be brick structure and Wal
ter already has the concrete founda-
tion down and expecting a carload
or so of brick the day be was here,
which will likely get them in shape
to string out this week laying the
brick and bringing the walls up
This hnilding was delayed long