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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1902
Page
2
A mix of literary verse about hope and resilience, obituaries note the passing of Dr. Thomas Englich author of Ben Bolt, and local items report on bonds for water works, a floating theatre plan by Frank H. Rice, the Vicksburg city hall cornerstone ceremony, and the North Mississippi Conference's control of Grenada Female College with staff appointments and campus leadership updates.
Hon. B. E. Henry, editor of the Clarion Ledger, is selected as Mississippi’s State Commissioner for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis next year. The bureau outlines duties, proposes honorary and colored commissioners, and schedules conferring with exposition management. Mississippi faces funding shortfalls but aims to showcase the state’s resources and products.
The life of Rev. Dr. J. W. Harmon is recalled for a Civil War era event in Macon when a bill would draft preachers under sixty. Harmon prayed against the measure, invoking God’s justice. A roused House exempted clergy from service, Sen. Newsmith’s prior question tale closes the excerpt.
Letters and notices discuss sympathy for South African Boers and criticism of imperialism. Items praise W C T U organizers Mrs Clara C Moffain and Mrs Callie H Howe's Mississippi lectures, with May 1 start dates and six weeks of talks. A Jackson meeting and Baptist matters are noted.
Franklin County faces a treasury shortage linked to a December poll tax collection. Treasurer Dr. D P B Butler and Sheriff Proby dispute a January settlement, with a discrepancy of 2,205.84 dollars in the poll tax fund. The case hinges on a blotter account by T M Pickett and receipts countering the count.
Washington report notes Representative Lever aged 27, the youngest in the lower House, meeting President Roosevelt at the White House who calls him the baby of the house. Lever replies that the baby of the House is honored by the baby President. The President repeats the remark. Meridian street railway system to be extended with doubling of capital stock of the operating company.
An old promotional notice touts Scott's Emulsion as a health aid for children. It asserts oil cod liver oil improves appetite, color, energy, and growth, claiming visible results in pale or frail kids. The ad offers a free sample and includes odd contact details.
Reports from Fayette to Jackson detail a man dying after heavy gin use, a flood era brick plan for new streets, a planned oil mill near Jackson, and arrests in Oxford. Other items note a large wood preserving plant near Grenada, bank charters in Yazoo City and Ellisville, prison property valuations, railroad eminent domain near West Jackson, and a Mississippi Experiment Station bulletin on malaria and yellow fever spread by mosquitoes.
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