December 10, 1891 The Board of Supervisor were in session this week. Christmas is fast approaching. Remember the editor. Mesdames Lee and Wylie are attending the Methodist Conference at Brookhaven this week. Mr. John Carter of Silver Creek is in town this week building chimneys for some of our people. Rev. R. W. Hall preached in the Baptist church last Saturday and Sunday to attentive congregations. Mr. J. W. Burkett of Beat 5 spent one or two days this week with his daughter, Mrs. A. W. Cooper, in our town. We would like to know what is the matter with our Hebron, Silver Creek and Whitesand correspondents? They seem to be on a strike. Mr. J. L. Hall of Silver Creek passed through town last Tuesday en route to new Orleans on business. We are indebted to him for a pleasant call. Mr. Miller, representing the grocery house of Price and Lucas, of Louisville, Ky., and Mr. Primo, representing the wholesale drug house of E. J. Hart and co., of New Orleans, were in town this week. The editor of the Press leaves today for the railroad on a trip of business and pleasure. We expect to attend the Methodist Conference at Brookhaven a day or two. Another room will be added to the Press office in the near future, the material for which is already on the ground. Other improvements will also be made about the building which will render it more comfortable. Mr. A. W. Jones, living three miles south of this place, will remove his family to Stockdale, Tex., this week, where he has bought land and will engage in farming. Mr. Jones is one of our best men, and we regret to lose him from our midst. We desire to tender thanks for the invitation given us to attend the nuptials last Wednesday of Mr. L. L. Polk and Miss Ella Hickman and Mr. J. L. Catt and Amanda Hickman, and regret very much that we were denied the pleasure of attending. It will not be long before the Legislature meets, and the propsed stock law has not been discussed at all in the county. Do the people want it? If so, they had better commence agitating the question. If they think it impracticable, let them say so. Supposed burglars entered Mr. A. W. Cooper's house last Friday night, got what victuals they wanted form the pantry and left. We would advise our people to keep shotguns in their houses and use them extensively on such occasions as these, or burglarism will be practiced on a larger scale. (Eddie note - Good man!) This town should have a Christmas tree. Although we expect to spend the holidays elsewhere, yet, we have a feeling for those who do expect to stay ehre Christmas, and we want everybody to have the best time possible. Therefore, we urge the people here to take an interest in the movement, and gladden the hearts of the children by getting up something nice. MARRIED. Polk-Hickman at the residence of the bride's father. Mr. Joshua Hickman, in this county, Dec 2d, 1891, by Rev. R. W. Hall, Mr. L. L. Polk to Miss Ella V. Hickman, both of Lawrence county. Catt - Hickman - At the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Joshua Hickman, in this county, Dec 2d, 1891, by Rev. R. W. Hall, Mr. J. L. Catt to miss Amanda Hickman both of Lawrence county. Bourn - Boozer - At the residence of the bride's father Dr. J. D. Boozer, in this county, December 3rd, 1891, by Supervisor A. W. Stringer, Mr. Quitman Bourn to Miss Ida Boozer, both of Lawrence county. We trust the happty couples will live lives of usefulness and happiness, and to each we extend our hearty congratulations. Rodyism in Beat Five Bournham, Miss, Dec 7, 1891 Editor Lawrence County Press I take the privilege of sending you a few lines for publication in regard to the ill behavior of a large majority of the young men and boys in the neighborhood of Bournham, and not only the young men and bosy, but some of the older men are laying the example. It has got to be regular thing every Sunday for a crowd to get together, with their pockets full of whisky, and be drinking and cutting up in general, some getting drunk and wallowing and spewing like a gang of buzzards over the carcus of a dead horse. At a wedding in this neighborhood a few days ago there were not less than a dozen boys and some middle-aged men staggering around with bottles sticking out of thei pockets for everybody to look at. One young man about seventeen years old and a member of the Baptist church, though he would show out a little smarter than the rest, and right in the midst of a large crowd of ladies and gentlemen pulled tow large empty bottles out of his pockets and said: "I have drunk both of these bottles empty this morning." At the same time he hardly knew which end was up. They are getting to such a pass drinking whiskey that they have lost all interesting society, Sundays Schoos, preaching and everything else but their bottles of whisky. A Citizen of Lawrence County. Mr. Rudolph Garrett found the camp of the burglers last Tuesday about one mile north of town. It is supposed they camped there one or tow nights before blowing open the safes here in town. Rudolph found a tin bucket, a large lump of salt and pieces of newspapers which had been used in wrapping up their vicuals. The papers were pieces of the Daily Times Democrat and Bookhaven Leader, both showing dates of Nov 26th, 1891. Homestead Notice Anderson Smith, wit: Abram Moore, henry Bryant, Wesly Webster, Paul Allen, all of Hooker. Cascilla Tyrone, wit: C. N. Wilson, J. J. Denson, Levi Holloway, I. I. Lucas, all of Silver Creek. Frank A. Ainsworth, wit: J. W. Ross, J. A. Evans, G. W. Evans, all of Monticello, Nola White of Fair River.