Train No 2 Arrives at Brookhaven and Jackson
Train No 2 is scheduled to arrive at Brookhaven then Jackson at 8 20. The timetable shows departures and arrivals between Brookhaven and Jackson with stop details for the Going North Daily service.
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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1903
Page
3
Train No 2 is scheduled to arrive at Brookhaven then Jackson at 8 20. The timetable shows departures and arrivals between Brookhaven and Jackson with stop details for the Going North Daily service.
The notice lists prices for staple foods and treats as Christmas money saving targets. Items include flour sugar rice coffee lard hams bacon salmon and other essentials with discounted rates displayed, though the text is garbled. The excerpt reflects a wartime or early 20th century grocery sale focusing on value and bulk items.
J M Wood The Crocer promises swift delivery and free service. Prompt delivery offered with contact via phone.
Town and county notes report Christmas trade lively and holly on display while the season brings varied items. Local citizens include Nathan Rothman visiting home for holidays and C W Lynch of Winchester Ind praising Foley's Honey and Tar for membranous croup relief. Promotions include Staffler's Jewelry Store ads, Adams' shingles, and Adams Best shingles. Also mentions Mary Leary ill with pneumonia and Price Drug Co selling tonics and remedies. Christmas sale extends to Jan 1 1904 with L Cohn & Bros, plus local visits by Whitfield and others.
A fragment mentions Abshagen's Shove offering shoes for ladies men and children for Sunday wear and working days with slippers also available and reasonable prices. It also references other local items including a Brookhaven incident with a drunken man Case causing disturbances on Front Street and potential affidavits not yet filed.
A 25 year old man, Harry Duckwell, died at home after coughing fits led to suffocation. His wife and child were present as a physician was not able to arrive in time. The item is from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat dated December 1 1901. An ad for Ballard's Horehound Syrup promotes remedies priced 25c 50c and 1.00 at Price Drag.
A local shingle yard has opened with J Homer Adams in charge to handle orders for all grades. The ad offers prompt attention and lists a contact phone 61. Separate notes promote Ballard's Horehound Syrup by Henry C Stearns, Druggist, and a price list.
Uralite a new fireproof building material from a Russian chemist combines asbestos fiber with silicate and chalk. It is heat and moisture resistant, can be worked like wood, veneered, painted, and colored. The piece also includes assorted anecdotes on postal humor, a painter's anecdote about a South African statesman, a testimonial about Foley’s Kidney Care, reform school endorsements for cough medicine, and local notices about prices and sales.
A long list enumerates conference appointments across Forest Vicksburg Natchez Brookhaven Jackson Meridian and more, naming pastors and their assigned posts in towns such as Carthage Ellisville Laurel Greenville Taylorsville Natchez Jackson and Meridian with multiple churches and districts. The records include supernumeraries and appointments to be supplied in several locations across the state.
A Saturday night break in at R. T. Scherck's store yielded shoes and clothing. Detector Luther Harvey arrested Joe Gatlin alias Joe Banks by Sunday noon. Banks confessed and named two other suspects. Preliminary trial set for today.
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