Christmas Is Coming and Church News in 1903
A fragment from a 1903 newspaper includes holiday prices on staple foods, notes on weather and church remarks, and a lengthy wedding reception report. It closes with a Senate committee list naming ex governors from Illinois New Jersey Ohio South Carolina and Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Collom
Illinniss
Bean
New Jersey
Foraker
Ohio
Mc. Tishnany
Southarolina
Ae Mo Laurin
Mississippi
Gol
Foster al Lauisigna
J M Wood The Grocer Advertises Prompt Free Delivery
A historical newspaper note promotes J M Wood The Grocer offering prompt free delivery. The ad mentions watch cleaning from five shillings and references The Post Office with a brief, clipped line about not halowing delivery and a stray name Thos D Evane.
Rain and fire mark a tense period at Edgar
A heavy rain on the 12th filled stock ponds while a field near Edgar showed untouched cotton. The J P Williams gin and mill two miles south burned on the 11th due to a match, destroying machinery and four bales of cotton without insurance. Topisaw church faces leadership changes as a farewell sermon and a disputed next pastor occur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar
Topisaw Church
J. P. Williams
Topisaw
Paxton
Williams
Ed. Hart
Norfield
J. B. Wooley
Monroe Kirkfield
Fair River Notes Recap Of Community Events And Moves
Last Saturday's heavy rain followed by travel to New Orleans for Penny and Bee son to stock merch. J B Maxwell and Miss Peevy wed Thursday night. Penny family visited Boggy Branch. Sproles moving to Pearl River near Monticello. Barns moved to Wesson. Beeson memorial services well attended. lodge obituary read. Lodge honors Beeson with enlarged portrait. Summers go to Perch. Burns to Ora to marry Ina Rogers. Rawls suffers frozen hand. Allman farewell sermon at Topisaw. Heavy rain last Saturday. truck business at WellmanJepson boom. J P Williams loses mill and gin to fire. hogs and sausage mill noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. W. Penny
H. D. Beeson
New Orleans
J. B. Maxwell
Miss Peevy
Jim Penny
Joe Penny
Boggy Branch
J. T. Richie
J. C. Johnson
J. W. Sproles
Pearl River
Monticello
J.S. Barns
Wesson
B. A. Beeson
P. H. House
Robinson
Fair River Lodge
Fair River Masonic Lodge
Grandpa
Grandma H. Summers
Ann Osteen
E._E.Burns
Ora
Ina Rogers
Dr. Weathersby
Mish
J. H.rawls
J. Allman
Topisaw
Dinnei
Wellman
J.P. Williams
EN Poe Pi
Mayor's Court Proceedings Briefly Incomplete
Mayor's Court heard Walter Smith this week for enroyrage concealed os soil Goed u p our cuets. No other cases were disposed of.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Smith
Churches Tomorrow and Local Services Notice
Dr W L Cooper speaks to men at the YMCA at four, one hour. Eaphiet church holds 11 am and 7:30 pm services. Sunday School at 9 am, YP at 7 pm. Methodist pastor preaches 11 am and 7 pm. Presbyterian morning and evening, Rev G T Chandler. Catholic services 10 am and 4 pm by Rev James Kierman. Marriage licenses issued by Circuit Clerk Oliver this week list many couples in Whites and Colored lists. Lincoln J Carter's The New Fast Mail remains popular at Heuck's Opera House December 26. The Best Play is Her Only Sin by the Carter company. The Fast Mail follows steamboat explosion and Niagara Falls with locomotive scene. The newspaper is likened to a person, subject to calumny by depraved pilferers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LW. Cooper
Men’s Christian Association
Eaphiet
Crisler Will
I. W. Cooper
Presbyterian Church
G. T. Chandler
James Kierman
Lincoln J. Carter
Fast Mail
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L. Cohn & Bros
New York
Sergei Ma Cas
Kari
Louis Cohn & Bros
James Red
Mollie Ratliff
Molly
Fenwick
J. M. Wood
the Grocer
Thos
D. Evane
Him
Bry
Fair River Notes
Oliver
Nelie Posey
Katie Smith
B. B.waldrop
Lotz
Albert Loftin
Lula Tart
Andrew White
Ella Rutland
J. A. McIntyre
Rhoda Ferrell
Newton Durr
Jennie Smith
Billie Case
Rutha Smith
R. F. Allen
Phelia Smith
Ed Britt
Evaline Walker
H. E. Pierce
Amy Varnado
Mose Hudson
Mary Pittman
Sherman Johnson
Katie Jackson
Napoleon Kelly
Lonada Bnie
Frank Tolliver
Lutitia Gatlin
James Johnson
Lula Stovall
Geo. Griffin
Lula Black
Aaron Baxton
Daisy Buie
John Coleman
Mary J. Herring
Ed Scarborough
Bettie Tillman
Commonwealth
Heuck’s
Opera House
Niagara Falls
Fay Grocery
Ike Merchants’ Grocery Co
Brookhaven
Seteye
McGrath
Bangal i
McGrath & Sons
Santa Claus
Iare
Brookhaven, Miss
John McGrath & Sons
Msgall
Parsons
May
Oberschmidt Co
PRN
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