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BARGAINS%We buy, sell and exchange secondhand furniture and household goodsat great bargains. See us and beconvinced. Cash or Credit.♦ IGRAVES TRADING COMPANY* Star Restaurant Bldg.Laurel, Miss.Lightsey.Mr. Editor: I send you a new year’s greeting to you and the many readers of your interesting paper, trusting that this may be a happy and prosperous year.You will pereieve that I am writing from Lightsey, Wayne county, where my youngest son, W. J. Lightsey, and my only daughter,Mrs. J. O. Kelly, are living.We spent a quiet Christmas, though pleasant, owing to the ideal weather and plenty of goodrations, as wo Confeds used to►say, all pretty well able to eat our allowances.- The day after Christmas I made a trip to Sandersvilie to spend a night with each of my last wife’s brothers, John and Will Hinton, and our sister-in-law, Mrs. Julia Thigpen, wife of Ben Thigpen. My time was spent quite plesant-ly with them. I found they had, as usual, made fine crops. During my stay with Ben I went to visit some of his Irish neighbors whom I knew at Paulding some forty years ago. I learned with sorrow that my old friend and comrade, Joel Morgan, had justbeen buried. Thus one by one we old soldiers are answering to the last roll call. If when we answer that call we can but re-cieve the welcome plaudit of “Well done thou good and faithful servant” and with Paul say, “We have fought a good fight, it will be well with us. There are but few of us who are not afflicted with some of the many maladies from which humanity suffers on this mundane sphere. From Ben Thigpen’s home I could see a large magnolia in the grave yard where my grandfather,' John Lender, was buried some sixty-five years ago. As it was so close by I went to view the spot where I was born, seventy-seven years ago the 4th day of last September. There is not a vestage of the house remaining,but as I was there after I was grown I could tell pretty well where the house stood, just this side the line of Jasper and Jones, making ‘me a Jones countian by birth. My father removed some four miles south of Sandersvilie on Bogue-home when I was one year old. There he built a hewed log house, covering it with cypress shingles,.not using a nail but pegs to bold the covering on. That house stood there sixty years. My father, killed several fine bears while at that place. The country was sparsely settled, our neighbors being, in my first recollection, John Lender, his sons, Edward and Thomas, the Trests, McGill, Fergusons, Jim Cooper, Holifields, Walters, Blacklidgesand Smiths.* •When I was four years old my father moved to Paulding, Jasper county, where he lived until 1was married in 1854. As wehauled all our supplies from Mobile, then taking twenty-one days for a trip in ox wagons, we could not indulge in the paper sacktraffic. All the railroads in the»United States have been built within my recollection. Wishing you Success with your paper, I close. J.B. Lightsey.GuLv. i Lv. 1 Ar. CLv. ( Lv. IAr. J COL1For Sale.Lot in Hickory Grove addition.S25 cash. Mrs. Emma Glass.The talk of the county~-THE GREAT SWEEPING SALE JAKE KASTLEWAN.Ten days, starting Saturday. ItPate De Foi Gras at the Laurel Grocery.LOST!Certificate for three shares of the capital stock of Laurel Oil Fertilizer Co, Said certificate being No. 196. If found, the owner will be suitably rewarded by returning same to the undersigned or to the Laurel Oil Fertilizer Co.’s officein this cityetcMRS. G. L. DENHAMBuy a $20, $22.50, $25 and $27.50 suits for $15 at Heidelberg Bros, for the next ten dave.No 7:10 j 2:66]No.2:30 j6:20 jCotiesblinesFoto,• Efl port,IfphaL the IZERState To J.Yot fore teery lt;Jones secon defen LucyfendaThiOnthisthese$22.5Heidonly.An at thlt;W.weektralchar^retur
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Laurel Ledger
Laurel, Mississippi, US
Thu, Jan 14, 1909
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