Rankin County Board Awards Bridges and School Funding
The Rankin county board authorizes G W White to issue a $244 warrant for a Richland creek bridge and A B Miles to issue a $194 warrant for a Hog Creek bridge upon completion. It approves bond maintenance for five years and sets an October adjournment, with tax levies and repairs for 1903 and 1904. William R Hearst extols public schools and urges strong support and fair pay for teachers amid agricultural and industrial costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. White
J. B. Lowther
Richland Creek
A. B.iles
A. B. Stubbheld
Auditor of Public Accounts
Chancery Clerk’s Office
Rankin County
W. 8
Crook
John Gill
Beat
William R. Hearst
The
New York Journal
America
Remarkable wartime poem from Charleston 1823 era
A captured poem printed on satin during the war at Charleston South Carolina, with religious text invoking the Lord’s Prayer. The fragmentary piece records later recovery by A. P reen of Auburn Indiana in Corinth Mississippi on May 30, 1762, and includes invocation of forgiveness and divine protection. The tone is devotional with flourishes of archaic phrasing and mentions of eternal themes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
S.C
Kore
A. P.reen
Auburn
Ind
Corinth
Miss
Value of an Education preached at Brandon Methodist
The piece reflects on the worth of education with quotations from Wilmott Franklin Ruskin and Channing. Next Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Rev W B Lewis of Jackson presiding elder will preach at the Brandon Methodist church. Quarterly conference Monday at 8 a.m. R D Norsworthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmott
Franklin
Ruskin
Channing
W. B. Lewis
Jackson
Methodist Church
Brandon
D. Norsworthy
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