25 Aug 1897
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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1897
Page
1
A readout of scattered Mississippi news notes including crop damage, new bales and prices, local deaths, political moves, and business updates. Highlights cover Greenwood cotton sales, Hazlehurst school appointments, Meridian legal cases, and the Hartwell artesian well contract in Scranton with multiple small towns reporting on tax funds, local officials, and community events.
James H. Sutton of Brookhaven Lincoln County, aged 81, is honored for raising home supplies for 62 years and producing corn meat potatoes mols fruit milk butter poultry cattle. He Farm lies on Bogue Chitto River four miles south of Brookhaven and has 10 acres under cultivation. Sutton advocates home supplies, home fertilizer, well-worked soil and pea vine hay for forage.
Rogue Chitto notes cover Rev J A Scarborough trips to Jackson and returning from protracted meetings in Mississippi Louisiana. Mentions include Anutt Betsy Kyzar improving, G H Vernon watermelon successes, and Mrs Jeoms seeking winter turnip seed. Also references roads poor near Franklin line, Smith hotel shines, and several local clergy plans ahead. Judge Morris Marks dies in Crawford Springs Virginia. tribute in New Orleans papers. A claim of Alaska petroleum lake is noted with unknown depth and distance from the coast.
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