Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-01-13
LOCAL

Mrs. Moses Nixon is spending d
few weeks with relatives ofthe fam
Ily at Beaumont 10 Perry County.
Fletcher Courtney, who has been
making Canton, Ohio, bis headquar-
tiers in late months, spent the holt
days in this section visiting while
here the family of his maternal uncle
Mr.. 0. K. Rounsaville.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Flournoy came
down from Crawford. Miss. Sunday
to visit Mrs. RS parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh McInnis. Rich has been
merchandising in the Noxubee Coun
ty city since they moved up there
about two years ago.
a This has been very wet as well
as cold week. In fact the rain came
kdown in torrents last Saturday and
&continued oh and Oh through We'd
Knesday. The river is now up to
very good running stage. Roads
got pretty sloppy with mud but are
now drying out fast.
Mrs. G. w. Valley of Clara, Miss.
wife of our good preacher-friend,
Columbus Valley. is at Magee in the
State Sanitorium for tuberculosis
patients, trying out the treatment
there for her health. Columbus is
teaching at home and has some
churches nearby which he pastors.
Sherman Powell is feeling happy
these DAYS as he hopes ere long to
get his arm out OF the plaster paris
cast and he is able TO work all his
fingers now, which is fortunate
condition for him considering the
<gliness OF the wound at the time
$'hen he got caught in the flying
%heel at the mill
e. E. Ball has been busy man
lately seeing 10 getting off eleven
RATS On the present water They
we're turned loose the first Of the
week and got safely into the Pasca-
geila az Merrill. Ed is logging the
aoating stun on of the Nj. O. MaIn-
mis- lands near Vernal. the stampage
ofwLich he and others bought awhile
back.
DR.. S. A. Steel of Mansfield, La,
arrived last Saturday and began
preaching Sunday as announced at
the Southern Methodist Church,
there being two services day held
and so far despite the unfavorabe
weather portions of the day, no SER
vices have been omitted as the
weather lifted before the hours of
worship.
The editor had the pleasure of
chatting with II. ]. Byrd the day he
came over tor his marriage license,
accompanied by his future father-in-
law, Mr.. Tully, whom we met and
iound to be very pleasant gentle
man, who holds the job of running a
Jog engine at which work he is vet
eran OF years service and has trained
up several good men at it.
Through some agreed arrangement
with the Chancellor. officers and at
torneys, Chancery Court was opened
Monday but adjourned Immediately
till Thursday this week, which turn
ed out as perhaps best even farther
than calculated, as the exceeding wet
weather would have made it hard on
litigants and witnesses to get to the
court the first part OF the week.
Albert McLendon, son OF Mr.. and
IRIS. ]. McLendon of Pine Level, got
4 home Saturday after an absence OF q
year spent in the army, most of the
time Of which was at Camp Jackson,
S. G. He was in the famous 500
mile hike from that camp to d camp
ia the North, but being in the ar
tilIery, he was among those who rode
on the army trucks, BY which meth
cd their big guns were also trans
ported.
In a letter renewing his subscrip-
ION, II. G.. Breland informs US that
be is now working at Prichard. Ala
which is suburban town to the