Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-12-16
Local

off and the holiday season will soon
be at hand with schools suspendings
and other forms of ceaslng from
iabors TO celebrate the Natal Day OF
our Lord.
Miss Mary Churchwell. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam l. Churchwell
Of Edith, returned to the family
home few days ago, alter having
spent the fall over at Brooklyn on
the G & S. l. r. r. visiting her
sister, Mrs. Albert Anderson
G. w! Williams who lives at Nicely
and does transferring with his Ford,
came over Wednesday to bring Tyra
Roberts and Chester Turner Oh a
trip to the county-seat to look after
business matters. 6. w. is to be
distinguished from Big Greek George
- this is younger man and son
o. the what was known as the late
Hrushy Greek Dave Williams.
Albert Davis was over Tuesday
rom the Exsho. Ala. community to
orange for having chimney erect
ID to the new house which he has
built pretty near on the site OF the
old house which burned up last win
ter one night about one o'clock. His
daughter was awakened by the roar
III the fire overhead and the family
&ot out aud saved part of the house
hold effects but could not out the
fife before it assumed beyond con-
troll proportions.
Mr.. T. M. Wilson, who recently
Aoved from Vinegar Bend. Ala. TO
lew Avera, was down from the lat
& Ter place Tuesday to meet his daugh-
er, Miss Essie Wilson who returned
.om visits at V-B with the family
Nj her brother, Oscar Wilson, who is
reman of bridge crew for the A Is
III i. These are both children of Mr.
81 Tilson by his first wife. He has re-
,ntly bought IL acres of land near
10 Krager camps, from the Turner
br. Co. and is opening him up a
&ruck farm there on the highway.
VIVA The store and stock valued at
close to $4,000, located at Nicely,
which has been known under the
oame of Smith & Co., was destroyed
@he fore part OF last week by fire
hitch broke out one night. Recent
w Mr.. A. H. Smith sold out his in
terest in the concern TO Mr.. Weir
|ewho was running it at the. time of
the burn and had the misfortune to
lose In the fire over hundred gall
] lions OF syrup from his farm which be
had brought to the store to sell.
They carried about one-half value ia
insurance.
W The FIRST MAN to pay taxes this
year was A. M. Rayl, the State Line
real estate man, who happened to be
Mn town Wednesday and learning
that the textbooks were open lifted
his receipt There have been sever
al who wanted to pay before now OF
course, but they applied before the
books we're ready and could not be
then served. AS it stands now
Sheriff Valley says he can serve as
many as fifty men day if need be,
taking their tax money and figuring
and delivering their receipts. He
has new calculating machine In his
Office which wonderfully expedltes
the work of figuring the receipts.
IA See the announcement of Sheriff
Il Webb Valley that tax receipts are
II now ready and that statements are
being mailed out as rapidly as posi-
bic and they hope to have them
mailed out to everybody by the lat
| ter part next week. The statements
are on yellow slip in Imitation OF
n the tax receipt but is not tax-re
ceipt, being merely put up in that
form for convenience and dispatch
in preparing them when the original
receipt is made out. They ask US to
call attention to the receipts being
lade out by Road and School dis
I riots and that the taxpayer bring
81 send the statement in paying to
hasten the work in finding your re-
ceipt 10 the books where there are