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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1905
Page
4
The Brookhaven Leader lists club ads at The Club offering angel food and shows Heavenly Twins and Merely Mary Ron upcoming acts. It notes residents traveling, appointments and visits, church meetings, a rainbow sighting, and local business updates including real estate moves and new employees.
Crystal Springs forms a music club and adds a ladies waiting room at J E Flowers' livery. Laurel reports burglary at Moss Mercantile with $150 stolen. Judge Wilkinson cancels Wilkinson County circuit term due to quarantine. Judge Miller plans September term in Jackson amid yellow fever quarantines. Willis Raiborn, 100, dies in Pike County road. In Coffeeville Will Waller fatally shoots Jerry Rosemond over a dog dispute. Waller and dog escape. W W Ramsey dies in Roxie after two weeks illness. burial at Crystal Springs. Copiah County sells $100,000 public land bonds to Macon Lewis and Co of Chicago for $109,500.
The dispatch chronicles daily new cases and deaths in New Orleans with 105 cases on a day, 10 deaths, and 25 new sub foci, noting gains since Saturday. It cites totals, local quarantines, and sanitation efforts by Marine Hospital Service, real estate arrests for unscreened cisterns, and Mississippi remaining free from disease with hopeful outlook.
The Club will host a Ladies Auxiliary fundraiser at the novel Japanese Garden on Friday August 18 from 8 am to 10 30 pm. A portion of all cash received at the soda fountain that day will benefit the Ladies Auxiliary. Members invite friends to visit and enjoy the event and the electric piano demonstration. The full association program resumes mid October with notes published by the secretary during his vacation.
Fresh eggs are costly and not essential. A home ice cream method uses sugar, milk, and cream to yield half a gallon of smooth ice cream. Also mentions Janket Tablets for custards and ice cream, priced at 10 for 10 cents. Ad by M Wood urging frugal living tips for housekeepers.
A discussion contrasts the dodger habit with newspaper ads. It argues that few lines in a family newspaper outperform thousands of handbills. Dodgers fail to draw readers or pay, as shown by Jacksonville events that attracted far fewer attendees than ads in daily papers.
A reader report recalls heavy rain on Friday the 11th and a repeat storm Sunday. The piece notes church services at Antioch led by Elder J R G Reeves, a pleasant stay with J J Osteen, and a business trip encounter with Dr J P Conn of Lawrence County treating local patients. It mentions tiger whisky capture and a picnic day at Union with Marshall McGullough’s speech, then references Topisaw Lodge relocation rumors, and a veteran citizen J T Deoghdrill visiting relatives.
A scrambled column notes mixed political chatter and social asides. Mentions Indiana's Crumpacker, Shaw, Fairbanks, Rockefeller, Taft, Miles, Wood, Castro, Hoch, Jerome, and district gossip. Includes quips on moonshiners, quarantine, oil donations, and Newport society, with a stream of rapid-fire, era-tinged observations.
Two elderly residents Lafayette Barnes and his wife were terrorized by masked gunmen who robbed a buried cash stash after forcing them at gunpoint to reveal its location. The house was threatened with arson and cremation, and son Billy Barnes was coerced to retreat. No clues have been disclosed, leaving the case a complete mystery.
Lincoln county Board of Supervisors invites sealed bids to work west of the Wlineis Central Railroad. Bids due noon the first Monday in September 105. Proposals may be per mile or for the commutation tax. a bond equal to the bid is required. Authorized bidders include McNAIR, Clock, Crystal, Spriggs, Hexlehorst, Summit, Canton and others with required permits.
Community notes report heavy trains this week as residents try to save millet and fodder. Local church activity includes a Montgomery church protracted meeting and attendees at Arlington. News mentions Mrs McFadin’s death and Thelma Martin's fever, plus Blanch Montgomery visiting Mrs Brider in Bogue Chitto. Also notes a society event and upcoming crowd expectations.
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