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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1904
Page
2
A local notice announces candidates for Brookhaven offices. For Mayor Rt. D. Lanier. City Marshal Stanley T. Byrd. City Treasurer Charles Seuck. The proclamation is signed by Hon. F. A. Molain and lists other announced officers.
Brookhaven Mississippi bank officials and the Board of Supervisors schedule a meeting this week. The notice references Brookhaven and upcoming banking actions in the local government docket.
Governor Vardaman advocates clearing 5 000 acres of wild land at the convict farm and using all available labor to rejuvenate timber, drainage, and cultivation. He envisions net benefits to support Mississippi universities, with a focus on draining lands, marketing timber, and expanding cultivation despite recent heavy rains affecting cotton and corn yields. The Board of Control will decide on concentrating prisoners on the farm to build out the timber and land development program.
A long list of property conveyances appears, detailing transfers in Brookhaven and surrounding areas. Names include Curran, Jno Curran, Miss Alice Anding, Peter Lucich, S.A. Perkins, Thos Henderson, F. Swalm, J. W. Smith, J. E. Case, and many others. Lots, blocks, and subdivisions such as Curran's subdivision, Seavey Addition, Brookhaven, Pearlhaven, and Brookhaven’s F Brookhaven are cited with values, lot numbers, and sections. The docket closes with an adjournment order.
Gov Vardaman and State Commissioner Henry arrange Mississippi Day for September fifteenth at the World’s Fair. A 10 am parade and ceremonies include a military escort, drum bands, and a formal handover of the Mississippi Building. Speakers include Commissioner Henry, President Francis, Gov Vardaman, and Capt Frank Burkitt with responses by Mississippi Society president. Reception follows 9 to 11 pm with Mississippians in attendance.
Col Ewing, Assistant Inspector General, tours Mississippi National Guard units and vows strict enforcement of army rules at the upcoming encampment. Furloughs are limited, with only one third of a small company allowed off at a time. Local company D has about forty members, ten to twelve absent, and Lt Bedwell will enforce regulations. Soldiers depart Monday morning August 15 for Biloxi.
Dr C. Edwards of the First Baptist Church in New Orleans dedicated a Gospel Wagon on a rainy last Sabbath afternoon. The vehicle is to be used to convert the next souls of the Crescent City, with focus on outreach and revival efforts.
Resolved that Lincoln county teachers and attendees thank Prof. J. J. Dawsey for his interesting and beneficial management and for the aid and instruction he has cheerfully given during the institute. Committee: Miss Mattie Farr and A. A. McAlpin. The Liberty White railroad opens connecting Amite county interior with the D. C. Captain J. J. White of Meatis president of this road.
Gatlin twenty one and Grabert sixteen employed at the same plant. Both severely injured after the accident and transported to Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Gatlin died Friday noon, Grabert died last night.
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