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LOCAL ...AND... PERSONAL, Mr. D. E. Rainey a prominent and illu< ntial citizen and an en terprising merchant, of Sturgis, was transacting business here Wednesday. Col. and Mrs. J. A. Wiggs were here Wednesday shopping and returned home in their new, beautiful carriage. Chief Justice A. H. Whitfield was a distinguished personage upon our streets Wednesday. -- ♦ • Mr Tom Shropshire the ac commodating and efficient drug gist of the Richardson Drug Store at Sturgis was here Tues day on Lusmess. ♦ ■ ■■■ Mr. Jud Spraggins of Sessums was transacting business here Tuesday. Mr. L. A. Dawkins, of Sturgis, was transacting business here yesterda of his friends were u to identify him at first r /t, never having seen him shaven before. It is very becoming and makes him look quite youthful. Mrs. J. R. Cannon and little daughier were shopping here yesterday. ♦ > —' Miss Minnie. Washington re turned from Louisville, Ky., last Wednesday. The celebrated Sacks La dies Shoes at Blumen feld & Fried. The merchants are getting ready for a large Fall trade. Business will soon be on a boom. Cotton is opening rapidly and if she weather continues fair it is pi- dieted that it will all be gathereu by Nov. Ist. Mrs. J. S. Lander departed for West Point Monday where she is under treatment of Doctor Unger. She will be there for a month probably returning every Saturday. Rev. R. H. B. Gladney is con ducting a protracted meeting at Crawford this week. He depart ed Monday morning. He will no doubt have a most successful week. < Mr. T. M. Vaughan has re modeled and painted his neat cottage at Bradley and it is most attractive. Mr. Vaughan is'a successful merchant there and does a splendid business. ■ • Mrs. W. W. Nye. of Longview, spent Sunday with her sister here, Mrs. Herris Maxwell. Mrs. S. M. Mclivaney spent Sunday with relatives at Bradley. m —• — Wo had a nice shower Monday evening. .. > Mr. B. R. Henry has been at home for the past week ceiling several unfinished rooms. . • Call and inspect the new Grocer ry warehouse of Blumenfeld and Fried. Look out for the latest novelties in Ladies Dress Goods and Trim mings at Blu meuteld & Fried. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Woodson and little daughter Maud, came up Sunday and spent the day with their daughter Mrs. J. C. Wood. # • —- Rev. Tom Tomlinson was a visitor to our town Monday. Messrs. Clint Hunt and W. M. Dabbs, of Sturgis, were here on Monday evening looking after business. Mrs. T. J. Wood spent Mon day with relatives at Ackerman. She returned home accompanied by Master Kellis who had been visiting relatives at New Albany and Ackerman. Mr. T. W. Woodward and Lawyer G. Odie Daniel spent Monday at Sturgis. Mrs. Walter Shropshire, of Sturgis, visited relatives and friends here this week. — Mr. J. P. Castles, of Sessums neighborhood, was looking after business here Tuesday. ♦ * It is the most unreasonable personage who is so thoughtless and presumptions as to take liberties in criticising their fel lows uncomplimentiarily and most uncharitably and expect courtesies and respect from them in return. ' # • Mrs. W. D. Askew and her in teresting daughter Miss Pattie Will were here Tuesday shop ping. ■ <i ■ - Mr. A. C. Ervin is having the David A. Bardwell old quarters remodeled and will occupy same himself. The improvement is one of enterprise and progress. T. E. Alexander, Sr., who has been visiting in his old home in Winston Cos., for several weeks, Pugh Mill neighborhood, passed through Tuesday en-route to Macon where he has employ ment. T. E. Alexander, Jr. who has been spending some time in South Miss, passed through Tuesday morning on his way home south of Longview in Winston Cos. % •• Mr. J. T. Bobbitt, of Newton, who worked here several years ago spent a portion of Wednes day and Thursday here. He is a splendid sheet iron worker and withal a first class young gentle man. He left here for Mont gomery and Louisville and will be absent for thirty days before returning home. We appreciate his visit very much and wish him much happiness and pros perity. Rev. E. C. Newburn preached at Sessums Sunday for Rev. J. N. Hall and that evening depart ed for Longview where he will be engaged in a Union meeting for a week or more. He and Revs. Tom Tomlinson and J. N. Hall will conduct the meeting and probably with the assistance of Mr. W. V Shearer. It is hoped that a good meeting will be the result OKTIBBEHA COUNTY FAIR! STARKSVILLE, MISS., Oetoktr i, 9 aid 10.1107. Fine agricultural and live stock exhibits. Three days of racing by fastest horses in the State. Liberal premiums awarded on all exhibits. Let everybody attend. IlSlHEM'interi. Gossett's Cele brated Shoes for Men at Blumen feld & Fried* Prof. J. S. Weir and family, of College Station, Texas, are on a visit to relatives here. We are pleased to see Stewart looking as himself, natural. Prof. Weir is of the faculty of the Agricul tural & Mechanical College of Texas and most efficient. We are reminded of the magnitude of this institution when we con sider that Texas is about seren times as large as our state. Mr. W. W. Blake, of Sturgis, spent several days here last week looking after business. Mr. Blake is engaged \u the laying of a tramway into the forest for the large saw mill now being erected near Philadelphia. It is being laid with standard Steel rails and when completed will be 30 o* v 4O miles in length and will eventually reach Meridian it is thought. Mr. Blake is in search of more laborers. We wish Mr. Blake much success and pros perity. Mesdaraes W. F. DeMiller and W. H. Leslie, of Mobile, who were pleasant visitors in the hospitable home of Mr. F. E. Gottseelig, their brother, several days, departed for West Point Monday morning where they will visit other relatives before returning home. The newest styles of Laces, Ribbons and Cor sets at Blumen teld & Fried. V Judge Holloman, of the Brad ley neighborhood, was here yes terday looking after business. Mr. A. Magolis is in New York buying his Fall and Winter stock. He proposes to satisfy his pat rons and the general public. Look for his Ad. later on. Hon. J. Q. Robbins presided at the September term of the Chan ery Court in his usually digin fied manner and dispatched quite an amount of business. We are quite fortunate in having such an able and paintaking Chancellor. Pay up your subscription to the News, We have indulged you at a great personal and fin ancial sacrifice. r# > Mr. D. W. Outlaw, Jr., was transacting business here Wed nesday. Visiting Attorneys to our Chancery Court this week: Gould and McKegney, Eupora; S. H. Harrington, Maben and Hon. J. G. Millsaps, West Point. Mr. F. G. Hawkins, a popular and prominent business man of West Point, was an appreciated guest in the hospitable home of his brother-in-law, Hon.*' J. W. Norment, Sunday, 2 miles north west of Starkville. Mr. James Edwards, of Stur ges, was here on business Wed nesday. jj. ; + , Miss Mary Colclough return ed from the Jamestown Exposi tion, Washington, D. C., and other points of interest last week after several weeks absents. A car of Lion Buggies Just to hand. Turner & Fierce. - # ' Goodman Bros, are getting ready for the fall trade and will have one of the most ' inviting stores in the city. ■ # • Mr. H. J. Livingstein. when completed will have one£ of the most attractive stores upon Main Street. ■ ■ The Dixie Bargain Honse peo ple are begining to look as if at home in their new quarters on Main Street. Prof, and Mrs. J. S. Wallace ard Master Hams ate visiting relatives at Corinth tils week and part of last. , Mr. Jonas P. McManus, of the Longview neighborhood, m old Confederate vetern, was here Wednesday. ■<> i—- Mr. M. Rossoff is still absent, but new goods are piling In by the wagon loads. Blumenfeld & Fried are now re ceiving an entire new stock of fall and winter goods. Chancery Court adjoraed at noon Wednesday. • Merchants at Sturgis are get ting in a large stock of goods for the Fall and Winter business. # ■ ■■■ Mrs. LaUra Bridges, of Stark ville, and Mrs. Charlie Denham, and little children, Mildred, Elizabeth and Loula, of Laurel, are the guests of Mrs. Lizzie Miles, this week.—Eupora Pro gress. Mr. S. Gary, one of Koscius ko’s prominent citizens and large merchants, spent several days here this week visiting his dau ghter, Mrs. M. Block. Mr. Ga ry is most favorably impressed with our city and with what he saw of its surroundings. Miss Minnie Washington de parted for Louisville, Ky., last Friday where she will purchase her fall and winter stock of mil linery and will occupy her new quarters heretofore occupied by Mr. Tom Katz, a most desireable location. Her stock will be full and complete and such as to please her costumers and the public generally. Mrs. Cordelia Cornnell and grand son, Mr. W. E. Ward, af ter six or eight weeks’ visit to Prof. J. T. Connell’s home at Gulfport returned home Sunday evening. Will E. reports a most delightful time and pleasant vis. it. Messrs. Benton Daugherty, of Hickorp Grove and J- E. Daugh tery. of Lowndes County, were here attending Chancery Court this week. Dr. T. C. Wier, after a most successful meeting at Sturgis last week returned home Friday morning. We are glad to see the Doctor looking so well and vig orous and hope that he will be spared many years of usefulness and happiness. ♦ ■ ■ Mr. W. H. N. Seitz, one of Longveiw’s popular and enter prising citizens, was here look ing after buisnes, Wednesday. Mr. J. H. McKinnon, a promi nent citizen and' merchant of Weir, spent Tuesday and part of Wednesday in our town on busi ness. Most every town reports its first bale of new cotton. Good man Bros, purchased it and Mr. A. W, Reynolds the seed. Starkville has about the best Cotton Warehouse within the State and complete in all its ap pointments. Mr. T. H. Cox returned from Ackerman where he has been visiting for several days Tuesday night. His little niece, Miss Minnie Marton, accompanied him and will be a pleasant guest for a while in his home. Mr. D. C. Johnston section foreman of the Ills. Cent, spent Monday at Kosciusko on busi ness. The Chancery Court brought in quite a number of people from all sections of the county this week. Mr. J. N. Hamill, of the firm of Robt, L. Hannah A Cos., gen eral merchants, of Sturgis, spent a portion of yesterday at the A. & M. C. and here. He accompan ied several boys who came up tw- enter college. ' Mr, J Hamill was a student some years ago ot that institution. NOTICE;—Ei*r copies of the NEWS way he had at this office.