Brandon graded school curriculum and grade list
The Brandon graded school catalog lists reading spelling writing and drawing books by grade from first through tenth, naming Baldwin Reed Southworth Hunt Frye and other publishers. It then shifts to a Jackson Clarion Ledger report noting widespread yellow fever epidemics along the Atlantic coast and Mississippi in 1798 through 1878, with heavy tolls in New Orleans and several Mississippi towns including Jackson Meridian Grenada and Holly Springs.
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Baldwin
Reed
Hunt
Jackson Clarion-Ledger
Mississippi
South
Atlantic Coast
New York City
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New Orleans
United States
Chicago
Westville Restored as Simpson County Capital
Simp son county supervisors have returned to the Westville courthouse after years at Mendenhall. A prior move backed by election rulings was reversed by court decisions and the Supreme Court, which gave six months to relocate back. Restored residents cheer while former movers face crestfallen prospects.
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Board of Supervisors
Simps 00 County
Westville
Simpson County
Gulf and Ship Island
Mendenhall
Mayes
Supreme Court
Simpson
Church Statistics From 1904 Year Book Show Denominational Strength
Josiah Strong Year Book 1905 provides 1904 data for Baptist South Methodist South Disciples of Christ Campbellite Presbyterians South Episcopal United States with counts of ministers churches and members and the 1904 increases. Southern Baptists sent $293,415.89 to Foreign Missions and $169,988.92 to Home Missions. The piece also notes Shelby Neely’s trip and a case of black water fever in New York and Mississippi resident’s travel to Africa.
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United States
Josiah Strong
Baptist
South
Methodist
Disciples of Christ
Presbyterians
Episcopal
Baptists
Disciples
Southern Baptists
Rankinite Shelby Neely Dies in Africa
Mrs Harriet Raines of Jackson received a telegram from her brother Austin Neely of Washington county: Shelby Neely died in Africa on August 31 at about thirty years old. Born in Rankin county, he was from a long established local family and had spent years in East Africa teaching natives to grow cotton while employed by the English government.
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Harriet Raines
Jackson
Austin Neely
Washington County
Shelby Neely
Africa
Rankin County
East Africa
Harperville School Postpones Opening to Oct 3 1905
State Board of Health order forces Harperville School to delay starting date to October 3, 1905. The letter signed by CHAS A. & W. S. HUDDLESTON suggests staff adjustments while noting a brother, John Neely, recently returned from Africa refuses reform. James McCaskill takes a manager position on a plantation amid tense race context.
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State Board of Health
Chas. A
W. S. Huddleston
Weather for September Forecast by DeVoe
DeVoe's forecast predicts continuing heat in early September, cooler in northern states. Thunderstorms early, then hot and sultry midmonth, with violent thunder on the 8th and 9th. A cyclone near the Gulf on the 14th moves northwest over the Mississippi Valley. Showers and cool waves follow, ending with heavy rains in the Ohio Valley.
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DeVoe
Charleston
Boston
Mass
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi Valley
Missouri Valley
Ohio Valley
School opening deferred in Columbus Mississippi
August 81 1905 Columbus Mississippi announces that the next session of the I I C is postponed until Tuesday October 3 1905 Acting upon advice from the Governor and State Board of Health A A Kincannon urges students and friends to spread the word about the delay.
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Columbus
Miss
R. Myers
Brandon
State Board of Health
A. A
Kincannon
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Brandon Mercantile Co
Brandon, Miss
Brandon Bank
Brandon, Mississippi
Sidney L. McLaurin
D. J. Slenker
W. H. Barnes
L. S. May, R. L. McLaurin
GO & Ghe
J. L Tanner, Pelahatchie
Star High School
Star
R. Lawler
Star, Mississippi
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