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! April 6, 1893 We acknowledge the receipt of several gushing April fools. The Board of Supervisors were in session last Monday and Tuesday. Tomorrow and next day the hearts of the young teacher will beat anxiously. The editor of the PRESS visited Brookhaven and Wesson last week on business. Mr. J. D. Self, of Meridian, proprietor of Self's medicines, was in our city this week. Mr. W. A. Selman and wife, of near Tryus, visited relatives in our town this week. For all the latest styles in ladies dress goods go to L. Cohn & Bros, at Brookhaven. Mrs. Dr. T. H. Butler returned last Sunday from a delightful visit to friends at Brookhaven. You can get anything you want at I. Cohn & Bros, Brookhaven, and at rock bottom figures. Rev. L. J. Jones will fill his regular appointment at the Presbyterian church next Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The April fool from Tryus intended for us was opened through mistake by another party in our absence, but it was appreciated just the same. Messrs, T. R. Ratliff, S. W. May and Joseph Dale, desire to tender their most grateful thanks to Misses Mamie and Rose Teunisson for a basket of delicious strawberries. We stated on the first page of this paper that Hobgood had escaped. We have since leanred that the report is unture, and that the man who started it is, unfortunately, still at large. Last Saturday night Mr. Frank Bennett, living about two miles from Silver Creek, had the misfortune to lose a good deal of fencing through the work of an incendiary. Suspicion at once pointed to John Robbins, a young white man living in the neighborhood, and on Monday morning he was brought before Justice J. J. Denson at Silver Creek and given a hearing. The evidence deduced sustained the State in its charge, and he was, accordingly, fined $56 and cost and sentenced to three months imprisonment in the county jail. He is now here serving out his sentence. Hooker Notes Easter Sunday brings forth the glad tidings of gentle spring again. Fine weather on young cotton, little chicks, etc. We are glad to welcome Dr. S. C. Culpepper back in our midst again. He has just taken a course of lectures at Mobile, Ala. The Dr. States that he will locate at or near Perkiston, in Harrison county. Success to him.