1909 Year of Notable Deaths and Public Figures
The 1909 death list spans finance, literature, politics, and theater. Ed ward Harriman Henry H Rogers John Crosby Brown and many bankers state leaders and authors are noted as passing. The women and men of culture, science and religion are named with their prominent works and roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Finance
Edward H. Harriman
Henry H. Rogers
Standard Oil
John J. Banningan
Rubber King
John Crosby Brown
Silas B. Dutcher
Frederick P. Olcott
John R. van Wormser
Francis Marion Crawford
Italy
Chas. Algernon Swinburn
George Meredith
England
William Clyde Fitch
Edward Everett Hale
Richard Watson Gilder
Hinton Rowan Helper
Augusta Evans Wilson
Caesar Lombroso
Russell Sturgis
Simon Newcomb
John William Jones
Eleanor McCarthy Lane
Nancy Stair
Sara Orne Jewett
Rosa Nouchette Carey
Olive Logan
Martha Finley
Captain P B Berry Celebrates Seventieth Birthday in Florence
Local notes from Florence Mississippi for January 5 1910 report Captain P B Berry turning 70 with a family reunion of 28 at his home. They note his Confederate service in the 6th Mississippi Regiment, his wife’s aging, and praise his family’s devotion. The column also mentions pastors moving in, school resuming, and weather, with agricultural tips from government expert G H Alford.
Sand Hill Community News Highlights Christmas and Local Moves
Health in Sand Hill is largely good with J J Kersh and Mrs R L Davis ill but improving. Local festive events include a Christmas visit by D L Walters and family to D Lo and Langford, and a Monday night home entertainment at Mr and Mrs J A Robinsons. Several Leesburg youths visited for Christmas, including Annie May Bilbro Louis and Willie Walsh Bryant and Johnnie Kate Worley Monroe Webb. Two friends Miss Annie Slade and Rebel Martin wed Sunday at Mrs Willies Denson’s home. A hunting trip to Funnygusha swamp yielded scaley barks and two deer. School reopened after a two week break with new pupil Walter Robinson from Canton. Others visiting included H Boyd Lena and family, Miss Mary Robinson returning home, Claud and Tom Moore Jackson and Louis Finley Gulfport. Many youths hunted over the holidays. The House members seek an inquiry into high living costs. The President plans to merge interstate commerce and anti trust recommendations into a single message. Col Gordon was not sworn in as U S Senator from Mississippi but expected today. Congress met after recess and paid respects to Senator Mc Laurin. Taft aides signal fighting insurgents, and Representative Mann filed a bill to overhaul interstate commerce laws.
Profitable corn culture guidance for better yields
The article outlines eight farming steps for profitable corn: prepare warm, well drained land with deep seed bed. plant high quality seed. use balanced fertilizers including cotton seed meal and acid phosphate. interplant two bushels of peas per acre and apply nitrate of soda. harrow and cultivate to maintain a dust mulch. avoid deep plowing after six inches. thin to one stalk per hill with 2-3 feet spacing. and remove tassels on weak ears to boost yield.
Rankin New Year greetings and holiday notes
A Mississippi community page prints New Year wishes from Claude Hall of Montgomery and holiday visits by Mary Speer Leila Speer Nelie Harding Grace Adams and others. Local church notice invites worship at Mt Carmel at 8 a m. The column mentions emigrant grants and reports the death of French aviator Leon De Lagrange after his plane failed at Bordeaux.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon de Lagrange
Bordeaux
Thriving Pelahatchie Town Grows in New Year
Reporter visits Pelahatchie as J. E. Moore moves to a new brick corner, J. L. Tanner and D. B. Ward form a grocers and dry goods team, S. S. Rhodes adds a brick drug store, L. H. Mashburn plans office space, and the Pelahatchie Bank elects A. G. Purvis cashier with directors J. A. Spann Sr and others. Depot yards bustle with logs and seed cotton business boosts revenue and growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pelahatchie Bank
J. A. Spann
A. G. Purvis
Pp. B. Summer
I. W. Shields
J. G. Patrick
R. G. King
W. H. Bark
Ostend rabbit trade and assorted notices
A fragmentary page lists odd classified items and notices including fine Ostend rabbits with skinning while you wait, a furnished room wanted for a single gentlewoman, a competent undertaker to sell a lucrative medicine, a boy to open oysters, and a bulldog for sale. It also reports a lost pig near Tipperary, a plea to Lewis J. Smith for address, two women charged in sleepers trunks smuggling, a deadly cereal-mill explosion in Buffalo killing three and injuring nine, Dr. Nolan Stewart named superintendent of the Mississippi Insane Asylum, Southern spinners meeting in Charlotte to push prices down, and LSU semi-centennial addresses closing in Louisiana.
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Brandon News
W. S. May
Prince Hirobumi Ito
Joseph Petrosino
William Hutt Curzon Wyllie
William Jones
Chicago
Philippines
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
George L. Lilly
Connecticut
Patrick H. McCarren
Brooklyn
Rainey
David A. D’armond
Kansas
Senator McLaurin
Mississippi
King Leopold
Belgium
Theodore
Helen Modjeska
Benoit Constant Capuelin
Richard Golden
Chas. Warner
Ben Hurtig
Peter Collier
Alexander McClure
William Laffin
William Tillinghast Bull
Robert Hoe
Hitchcock
Interior
George Washington Moore
Spain
Cevera
France
Marquis de Gallifet
Russia
John Sergiev
Pope
Sinovi Rojesventski
Sporting Enthusiastic
Harry Pulliman
National Baseball League
Tucky Baldwin
John R. Considine
Pat” Sheedy
Florence
P. B. Berry
Department of Agriculture
Florence, Miss
Dear
Lafayette County
Jackson
Norrell
Rankin
Joe Flowers
Florence Weekly
Millsaps College
J. S. Purcell
Methodist
W. S. Allen
Steen’s Creek High School
R. A. Whitfield
R. N. Whitfield
Messrs
Fitz~hugh
Charles Whitfield
Charles
Board of Supervisors
Himself
Lady
Robert
John Berry
E. K. White
P. B. Bridges
Dr. Waller
Berry
Capt. Berry
Greensboro
N. C
Doc Cole
G. H. Alford
Beat One
Alford
Sand Hill
J. J. Kersh
R. L. Davis
D. L. Walters
D’lo and
Langford
J. A. Robinson
Walter Boyd
Ophelia
J. H., Boyd
D. W. Denson
Leesburg
Annie May Bilbro
Mr. Louis
Willie Walsh
Mr. Bryant
Johnnie Kate Worley
Monroe Webb
Annie Slade
Rebel Martin
Willie Denson
J. H. Boyd
Annie Lee Baker
J. H. Lewis
Louis Walsh
Funnygusha Swamp
Walter Robinson
Canton
C. C. Robinson
H. Boyd
Lena
D. P. Edwards
Mary Robinson
Mrs
Charlie Robinson
Claud and
Tom Moore
Louis Finley
Gulfport
House of Representatives
Congress
Col Gordon
United States
Taft
Washington
Mann
House
JC. W. Taylor
Randon Transfer Co
Gayden Hotel
Thompson
Claude Hall
Montgomery, Alt
W. P. Darnall
Louisiana
Mary and
Leila Speer
Roy Buchanan
Alabama
Nelie Harding
Vicksburg
Grace Adams
Mendenhall
Mary Speer
B. B. Parker
Kate Selser
Susie
Luther Fore
Little] Son
Newton
Mr. Fore
Mt. Carmel
Brother Rainey
Immine
Rome
Wade
Walthall
Sackson
Miss Pearl St
Guy Purvis
Pelahatchie
Bank
East Rankin
J. E. Moore
Brooks and
Second Streets
J. L. Tanner
D. B. Ward
Mr. Tanner
Dan B. Ward
Second
Goforth
B. F. Mulhollan
S. Rhodes
T. M. Martin
L. H. Mashburn
Goforth Street
C.W. Taylor
T. M Martin
Miss
Oyster
Tipperary
Lewis J. Smith
Old Home
New York
Buffalo, N.Y
Nolan Stewart
Mississippi Insane Asylum
Charlotte
Louisiana State University
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