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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1886
Page
3
The Brookhaven Leader reports town and county items including upcoming events, church notices, market ads, and personal news. Highlights cover Dr. Galloway’s trip, Schnorrenberg and Powell businesses, a tragedy involving Miss Melissa Powell, local crime bonds, school fund distributions, and community sympathies for the Penn and Alous families, plus brief notes on meetings and new appointments.
The Meridian temperance effort reports rapid growth with fifteen clubs formed, six more planned after Sunday meetings. White and Black workers collaborate through churches to reach colored communities, pursuing countywide votes and countering saloon-backed aims. A naval academy cadet exam selects W. H. Buck. Robert Cassedy places second.
An OCR laden page fragment shows mixed advertisements for medicines and household goods. It includes claims for King’s New Discovery for consumptions and coughs, along with assorted shop notices, bargain yell, flour and groceries, seeds, and local vendors. Names and places are garbled, but references to Shiloh’s and Strong’s pills and multiple merchants appear amid uneven typography and stray phrases.
An old resident’s tribute recalls a life of family kindness and community ties. The notice honors a late neighbor and mentions mourning family, with references to personal health anecdotes and local remedies once popular, highlighting trusted figures and shops of the era.
Land transaction notice issued in Jackson Mississippi on 7 April by Pest 8 Tee. Followed by legal language naming heirs and property described in sections and ranges. Mentions residency and discontinuous interests, with witnesses listed including Hla Sarto, Selene dees, Cherred Forest, Hart Harhern and Lawrence. James J. Stewart signs as witness.
Notice announces a publication in Lawrence County Mississippi. It lists party Laxn Orrick at JACKS, missp , and cites a claim of continuous tradileesion and cultivation, with witnesses Lander Be and W. Lo Marbury among others from Sartinsville Pace county, Mississippi, all to prove title by continuous possession by a certain date May 14.
Notice is hereby given that the following has notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim. The print will be inscribed before the Chancery Clerk of Lawrence County at Monticello on April 30, 1856. Chlork Sutton Tomestead No WF for the west half of section 21 township 9 north range 19 west. Witnesses to prove continuance residence and cultivation: Amos Walker Phindy Powell Thea Park Hell Norweal albaf Hebi P.O. Lawrence County Mrs JAS. DO STE.
By virtue of writs of execution to levy on the property of Mrs. B. B. Increase the Lincoln County Sheriff will sell at the courthouse in Brookhaven on Monday the property described including all of the northeast quarter of northeast quarter north of Beauregard and Monticello road and the mill lots in section 1 township 6 range east together with 10 acres more or less described by lines beginning at the foot of the bridge on the east side of the Little Bahala creek and running to the pine corner marked A. The sale to satisfy judgments and costs in the cases noted this April 1880.
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