Copied from the History of Lawrence and Jefferson Davis County, by Eddie Mikell, all rights reserved. Now available on CD and hard copy. E-mail mikell@virginia.edu for purchasing information. You can also bid for this cd on e-bay! (Eddie Note.. Happy birthday to me....!) July 14, 1892 Pearl River is booming. Mr. H. M. Smith of Grange was a visitor yesterday. Assessor Polk is not stationed at his place, where hs is at work on the land roll. The preaching by Rev. L. J. Jones last Sunday evening was pretermitted on account of inclement weather. Messrs Z. P. Jones, T. J. Andrews and A. H. McGuffie attended the Confederate Vetereans Reunion at Jackson this week. Mr. Henry Carlisle of Wesson, accompanied by his daughter Miss Janie, and son Willie, visited relatives and friends in our town this week. Mr. Wade Polk last Monday presented us with an Irish potato weighing one pound and seven ounces. Mr. Polk is a successful farmer. There will be preaching in the Presbyterian church at this place on the 5th Sunday in this month by Rev. E. D. McDougall of Brookhaven. Everybody cordially invited. Elliot Henderson of Pass Christian was a welcome visitor to our town this week, making the acquaintance of our people and ascertaining the extent of the Stockdale sentiment. No says that Colonel Stockdale lines this county are absolutely impregnable. A TRIP TO WHITESAND. Last Saturday morning when we geared up, donned our protracted meeting's smile and turned the head of our critter eastward, we had no idea that we would finally bring up at Whitesand church not that we had aught against the church or people, but our objective spot was in another direction, and Crooked Creek churchn was that point. It will be remembered that the Pearl River Singing Association was to have met at that church last Sunday, but when we arrived there were only about fifteen or twenty persons present, and they seemed at a loss for lack of a President and other leading members. There was clearly a misunderstanding on the part of the absent ones, as they were laboring under the impression that the Association was to have met on the Saturday before. This was unfortunate and we regreat that the meeting could not have been attended with greater success. The next meeting will be held at Silver Creek church on the first Sunday in October and the Saturday before; and we hope the attendance and interst will be sufficiently large to insure its permanency. Hearing that a protracted meeting was in progress at Whitesand church, and naturally having a weakness for such affairs, we concluded to lend to the light of our countenance for one day at least. Leaving the Singing Association in the care of Mr. Wade Polk, who promised to care for it as best he could, we again started, and with Miss Cora Dale as a companion and guide, reached Mr. S. S. Dale's about sunset. We were fortunately just in time for supper and having driven a long distance, did the meal full justice. The next morning we felt refereshed and repaired to the church at an early hour. By 11 o'clock the hour for preaching the house was filled to its fullest seating capacity, and not a few were compelled to remain on the outside. When Rev. J. R. Carter ascended the pulpit, every heart felt quickened and every pulse beat fastor. A grand sermon was expected and veryily, the people were not disappointed. The walls rung with his eloquence, and for nearly an hour he portrayed the truths that held his confregation spellbound from start to finish. It was a sermon on the promises of the New Covenant, and was ablto to point of conception and admirable in point of construction. Homestead Notice John T. Elliott, wit: J. M. Roberts, D. J. Holmes, Simeon Garnet, John W. Willoughby, all of Bismarck. Allen Haynes, wit: Green Watts, W. T. Loftin, T. A. Loftin, J. I. Ward, all of Blountville.