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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1901
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR outlines a timetable for Brookhaven to Brookhaven service with connections to New Orleans and Jackson via Harrill and other stations. Mentions arrival and departure times, flag stops, and branch roads, with unclear dates and locations.
Town and County reports include visits from Summit and Clinton residents, engagements and moves in Brookhaven, and plans for fall trade. Local business changes, protracted meeting at Union Hall, honey gifts, and medicines advertised. Also notes on roads, bridge, and school staff among community items.
Lincoln county farmers gathered for a farmers institute led by Professors Welborn and Ferris. Ferris urged cutting potash costs in fertilizers, while Welborn promoted crop rotation with cotton, corn and peas. He cited Louisiana station results and Arkansas haying practices. The program featured talks, a Ben Hur lecture, and community sanitation notes focusing on gutters and mosquitos.
Notice to farmers by T. C. Montgomery inviting locals to court house at Lincoln County to receive orders for Caldwell Cotton Cortand and Peachanter. Agency claims to be superior to any planter on the market and requests localities to attend for sale details.
A stray notice reports a red and white spotted cow with a broken horn and a black around the eye, five years old, missing from a residence in March 1901. The owner offers a reward and asks for the animal to be returned to Bulvert? Bult Vearking area, with details partially garbled in the OCR.
W. M. Maxey winner of a Drygoodsman prize outlines a cash only mercantile plan starting in a southern town of about 700 inhabitants on a railroad. He would use a frame store, gasoline lighting, a stock of 8400 with 86500 credit terms, targeting negro and laboring trade with cheap dress goods shoes and groceries. The piece notes his birth in Brandon Mississippi in 1877 and his career with Norwood and Bell and Norwood succeeding firm.
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