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! July 21, 1892 Circuit court week after next. A great many interesting locals absolutely crowded out this week for want of space. Stop at Fox?s hotel when you come to court week after next. You will be well fed, a good bed given you and your horse will receive the best attention. The Carlisle old stand is the place. SILVER CREEK DOTS by Slide Silver Creek, July 18th, 1892 ?When will the rain cease?? is the question issuing from the lips of the farmers now a days, and we are almost ready to join them and utter the same cry. Dr. L. D. Dickerson has had some lumber hauled of late, which denotes a new office we suppose: But where is the lot? The ladies of our town deserve much credit for their earnest endeavors to get the Methodist church ceiled. They have collected sufficient money for the purchase of the lumber but can not get any one to go after it, which is not saying much for the men. A FEW WORDS ABOUT HEBRON Hebron, Miss, July 18, 1892 Mr. Editor, Please say to the people, through your paper, that we expect a grand time at the Hebron picnic, Thursday, july 28th. Pres. R. A. Venable, D. D.of Mississippi College will deliver a lecture on ?Christian Education? and other noted men will be on hand to help entertain the people. No one can afford to miss the intellectual treat in store for that occasion. Hebron is still in the line of progress and all of her citizens are so busy that even your correspondent has not found time to send in the ?dots? for some months past. The song of the hammer and the saw is now heard throughout our village from ?early morn? till dewy eve. Our enterprising citizen Mr. A. G. Walker will soon complete his fine large residence, boarding house and hotel combined. He will as soon as possible put a livery stable and keep horses and buggies to hire. Rev. J. C. Buckley will soon being the erection of his new residence. We will soon be incorporated, under the constitution and will thereafter be known as the Village of Hebron.? With our own officers in the persons of the ?Board of Mayoe and aldermen?. HOMESTEAD NOTICE: Annie E. Lee, wit: S. S. Dale, W J McNease all of Mt. Carmel, M. F. Griffith of Hebron Benjamin E. Cowart, wit: J. M. White, T. D. White, W. T J Bass, A B Ratcliff all of Silver Creek William M Ross, wit: J E Armstrong, J E Hedepeth, A A Turnage, N H Sharp, all of Silver Creek. Amanda A Sauls formerly Amanda A. Smith, wit: A. P. Smith, of Monticello, G. M. Reid, John Bozeman, of Tilton, W. B. Foreman of Bismarck of Lawrence County George W. Mikell, wit: D. A. Allen, Archy Fairly, H. T. Griffith, G. W. Hartzog, all of Whitesand.