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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1888
Page
3
A local column lists community happenings from Prookhaven and surrounding county. It covers visitors and returns, illnesses, minor incidents, social events, religious services, crop news, and brief notices about residents, college prospects, scholarships, and a fire loss near Union Hall.
The Prohibition Anniversary will be celebrated with a basket dinner at Old Brook Haven on Friday August 10. Speakers include Gus I Fite Nagh J J Pariah and A A Lows with many local volunteers arranging tables seating and catering. A separate note mentions a new lumber plant near Brookliven aimed to employ 40 to 50 workers, under J Myers supervision with Charles Goitein handling books, and praise for Brookliven’s progress. The item ends with a civic appeal and a Creole Female Tonic advertisement and a note on a cistern contract in town.
A Hard Times Alliance meeting adopts resolutions against Capt Oliver of the Mississippi Mill for discharging workers. The group vows not to buy goods from the Mill or from merchants who stock its products until the affected workers are rehired within thirty days. The notice calls for similar actions by other alliances and distribution of copies to Lincoln County.
In Lawrence County a local reader reports talk of a tailround project linking to Hasnilton and Hos kins with a $50,000 bond to be repaid in three years. The piece references river and railroad competition, cotton shipments, and the potential growth of a thriving interior town. It also notes Joe Loftin’s stormy history and a visit by Newt Robbins, with broader comments on the penitentiary, railroads, and courts. The column closes with notices of examinations for Columbus Industrial Institute and Starkville A&M College, plus an endorsement of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and a dog and chicken cure from Powell’s.
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