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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1903
Page
2
The item lists subscription pricing and publication terms with editor and proprietor B T Hobbs noted. It specifies a one year rate of 2 dollars payable in advance and identifies the editor and proprietor.
A Mississippi newspaper note reflects on politics after illness, praising restraint in campaigning and condemning vote buying and whiskey influence. It argues for higher citizen standards, anticipates election bolting and independents, and endorses focusing on public good while awaiting reforms. An abrupt transition hints at legal questions on Sunday marriages.
Jackson Nov 25 The Mississippi Business Men's League held its second day with resolutions creating a seven member committee to draft remedial legislation to alter back tax and anticompact provisions. A motion memorialized the legislature to establish a Department of Agriculture Immigration and Statistics and backed a $50 000 Mississippi exhibit plan for St Louis 1904. Committees were named on education public building laws and roads with President McKee to appoint a seven person group to pursue legislative action and a second panel to organize a boll weevil convention in New Orleans. Delegates adjourned at 1 pm to return home, awaiting further appointments.
Special chancellor Hon. A F Fox is assigned to Harvey vs Blomfield & Fried in Oktibbeha chancery court. W L Easterling replaces R B Mayes to hear J R Matthews vs Board of Supervisors of Copiah County. Jonge Joeeyele named special supreme judge in JacobE dusties Cal vin with C H Alexander replacing Jnatioes Whitheld in State vs Amos Woodruff. Coghoma levies taxes for Ewo yeRTE.
Trustees Dr T R Henderson Mr T M Henry and Mr R K Jayne depart to Beauvoir for the opening of the soldiers home on December 1. Improvements are finished furniture arrived and final details are nearly complete for serving Mississippi’s disabled veterans.
A tonic claim claims Paine's Celery Compound can restore health for sleeplessness rheumatism dyspepsia and general malaise. The ad cites testimonials of individuals once near death who regained strength and energy after using the product and urges readers to try it for better digestion sleep and vitality.
An advertisement targets thin and chronically weak people calling them "ruts" of society. It praises Scott's Emulsion as a tonic that builds new flesh, rich blood, and stronger nerves, restoring appetite and vitality during illness and beyond.
A collage of items includes land sale offer near Brookhaven and Pearlhaven with easy terms, a testimonial praising Foley’s Kidney Cure for kidney and bladder trouble, and notices about a reform school and Beauvoir opening for Mississippi veterans with arrivals expected this week.
The Brookhaven Steam Laundry will be shut down for a few weeks. In the meantime, the agency for Memphis Steam Laundry will handle work and repairs are planned to resume promptly, with improved equipment for better service. G.W. Ard, Manager.
An ad offers a gentle mare and buggy for sale at $100 or best offer, with $65.00 mentioned, and instructs to apply at the Cotton Oil Mill in Bookhaven Mississippi. The passage also contains unrelated fragmented text about Foley’s Honey and Tar and a long, garbled anecdote involving Mr. Choate in London.
State news briefs report Greenwood seeks paved streets Edwards aims for four water works projects along the G and S I railroad hosts 214 saw mills Marie Wainwright staged Twelfth Night in Jackson Mrs J T Barbour of Yazoo City dies Madison county grand jury returns seven indictments Cotton stores statewide in hope of price rise Woodmen unveil memorial for Dr RG Gatlin Scranton fishermen bring in large catches Hattiesburg forms wagon manufacturing company Capitol maintenance cost pegged at 25000 annually Forest fires devastate Utica area Holmes county holds party lead for speaker Carlisle depot and store burned fifteen bales cotton destroyed North Seems conference meets at Holy Springs Bishop Smith presiding Durant editor lively two Calhoun farmers sell timber on 2000 acres for 16000 State penitentiary reports three foreign-born convicts Treasurer notes 9469 32 from cotton sales Campbell cotton picker fails at Shreveport Stafford Spring water to New Orleans 160 miles 800000 project Dec 8 floater representative election Yazoo and Hinds counties due to death of Neal Crystal Springs woman dies after coal oil lamp explosion Statewide drought and fires threaten conditions Aberdeen button factory to produce pearl buttons Yazoo County residents feed Herald editors pumpkins 70 pounds sample
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