This entire section of the county was dreadfully shocked on last Saturday evening, December 26th to learn of the sudden death of Mr. Herbert M. JOHNSTON, which occured on that afternoon at his home six miles east of Woodville. On the morning of his death, Mrs. JOHNSTON and their two daughters went down to Baton Rouge for the day and Mr. JOHNSTON had drove over to Centerville, returning about noon. He complained to a friend that he was not feeling well and so evidently after attending to certain things around the home, he went to bed in the early afternoon. Here he was found when his wife and daughters returned. Physicians were summoned and they pronounced him dead due to natural causes, death having come to him without a struggle. The funeral services, which were held at the home at 4 0’clock and conducted by Rev. M. M. BLANK, of the Woodville Methodist Church, his remains were interred in Evergreen Cemetery at Woodville. Mr. JOHNSTON was born in Ripley, Tenn., on June 22, 1879. After attending schools in that town, he engaged in the mecantile business and in farming for several years. On October 23, 1907, he married Miss May BAIN, of Brownsville and two children were born, Misses Mary and Ethel JOHNSTON, both of whom with their mother survive him. This family moved to Wilkerson County in December 1911, where Mr. JOHNSTON had purchased large land interests and took up residence in the home in which he died. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary Dunavant JOHNSTON; two brothers, O. B. JOHNSTON, of Halliesburg and J. H. JOHNSTON, of Yemassee, S. C.