Christmas Side Notes From Crystal Springs News
Wednesday evening in December 2002 brings holiday weather and homecomings. Lewis Wood and Frank Collins are visiting, Miss Bennie Doun returns, and George Tierney visits from New Orleans. Prices at local Price Drug Co. and a $7 overcoat for $4.50 at Parsons Moreton Wentworth Co. highlight Christmas shopping. A Christmas tree at Union Hall and church events, plus local welfare notices, parade a festive mood and small town concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parsons-Moreton-Wentworth Co
Union Hall
George Tierney
New Orleans
N. R. Jordan
Lou Mason
Charles Heuck
I C to Sell Rand to Tickets on Main Line and Ranches
The I. C. will sell rand to tickets today and tomorrow to all pene on its main line and ranches for one and one third regular fare, good to return until January 3rd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. C
Industrial Edition plans countywide circulation and ads
The paper undertakes a special Industrial Edition to reach regular subscribers and extend through county and trade territory. Arrangements are under way to secure lists of Northern capitalists investors and farmers for broad circulation via North East and West routes.
Death of Miss Jeannie Lee Allen in Jackson Cemetery
The Brookhaven community mourns the death of Miss Jeannie Lee Allen, a young woman felled by consumption in the Capital City of our State just before Christmas. Her loss follows the passing of a beloved brother, leaving a widowed mother, husband, one son, and one daughter in grief. Her daughter Mrs. W. G. Penn remains among the family, and Brookhaven friends extend deep sympathy while hoping for consoling, eternal joys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnnie Lee Allen
Reaper
Death
Jeannie Lee Allen
Jackson Cemetery
Wallen
Aden
W. G. Penn
Brookhaven
Chitto
Mary Price
Ben Bullock
Gulfport
Dan Bolian
Baptist Church
I. V. Brister
Carroll
D. A. Scarborough
Wiggins
Miss
Rev
J. A
Addie Smith
Pres. B. L. Martin
Georgia- Alabama Business College
W. C. Maxwell
Lawrence
Memorial Page Missing From Fair River Minutes
A printing oversight left the Memorial Page out of the Fair River Association minutes printed in Tuz Leap. The page, prepared by Clerk Geo. T. Douglass, lists twenty eight member deaths and their names by church, followed by a Bible verse. The article also includes local notices, a cough remedy advertisement, and Rogue Chitto notes with community updates and comments on local figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fair River Association
Geo. T. Douglass
Brookhaven
A. C. Cook
Alice Moore
Daisy Martin
Damascus
Rachel Chatman
Nancy Ruding
Mary Arnold
Little Bahala
Sarah Jane Smith
Arabella Breeden
I. M. Parr
A. W White
Ploud P. Davis
Fair River
Florence Minton
Jesse
W. Maxwell
Friendship
Annie Vaughan
Agnes Chrisman
Faunia Garkin
Whitworth College
Miss Fannie
Miss Chrisman
Grafton
Santa Claus Prices Beat The Band At Racket Store
Fragmented ad text describes Santa Claus goods at low prices and mentions The Leader's Magazine Edition illustrations. It includes a 1901 death notice for Harry Duckwell and a school open house at Johnson school with talks on citizenship, Christian education, and Lincoln County education. A sale at McGrath's highlights mattings and rugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Duckwell
Duckwell
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Ballard
Price Drug Co
Johnson School
Johnson School House
McNair
Cooper
Whitworth College
Nervous Prostration Healed by Dr Miles Remedies
A Prescott Arkansas woman recounts relief from nervous prostration after morphine addiction and using Dr Miles Restorative Nervine. She credits five bottles with restoring health, urges others to seek the remedy, and asserts the product’s efficacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Miles
Humanity
Eno
Wiley
Counties Ready to Stamp Out Lawless Night Riders
A Mississippi reader urges action against night riders terrorizing farmers along the Homochitto river. He condemns the Farmers League and its secret measures, calls for a mass meeting January third, and resigns as president effective January eighth 1903, citing lawlessness and threat to public peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homochitto
Killer
Amite County
McNeily
Farmers’ Alliance
Sar
Farmers’ League
Court House
League
A.M. Newman
G. W. Delaney
W. M. Ezell
McGrath’s and nearby shops advertise specials and gifts
Local notices list McGrath’s Corsets and dress goods sales, toys and Christmas novelties from A C Seavey and Sons, Foley remedies sold by Price Drag Co, and various visits. The page notes visitors, illness updates, and holiday promotions with emphasis on clothing, groceries, underwear, and furniture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McPherson
Newton
McGrath’s
McGrath
Leslie M
Foley
Price Drag Co
A. C. Seavey & Sons
Tommie Crawford
Thomas Crawford
Lily Frien
Virginis
Ladies
Smollen
J. W. Anderson
Pickens
Nixon
Lexington
W. H. Smith
Humor and banter on gender value and travel costs
A stitched humor piece contrasts a man's claim that Sweden assigns value by gender with a woman’s retort about travel charges. The man jokes about women counting as half a person, while the woman notes pricing based on companionship and matrimonial market value, ending with a shrugged resignation. A Mrs Oldcastle exchange about sex segregation and vaccination reflects playful skepticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Chicago Post
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lewis Wood
Frank Collins
Susie Pegram
Price Drug Co.'s
Bennie Doun
W. S. Parsons
Miss Peepsie Terry
Chautauqua City
Vaiden
Alma Biggs
Miss Gordon
Fayette
Crystal Springs
A. C. Seavey
Frank M. Martin
Thos. W. Chisham
J. M. Dunn
Ft. Worth
Tex
Willard Seavey
Presbyterian
T. H. Perkins
Forsythe
Hell
Abshagen
W. Abshacen
Brookhaven, Miss
Kiev
Grafton Drug CO
Santa Claus
Adouarters
The
Fair River Baptist Association
E.H Wise
Madison, Ga
C. B. Grafton Drug Co
I. N. Cooper
Walter Weathersby
New York City
Ellisville
Amite
Franklin
DeWitt's
Grafton Drag Co
Millaert
Our Illustrated Edition
McGrath's
HEA & Sony
Etewchkh’s
Nervine
Helena Yaris
the Novelty Store
F. B. Moodie
Peorsigtor
Ifront Street
Newman
Edgar. Eustus
Frank
Mississippi College
Wellman
Mr. Cooper
Bro
Jeems
Billy
Bahala
Sipa
Charley
Pally
Ratcliff
Gov. G. W. Atkinson
West Via
C. Grafton
Drog Co
Wroten & Erwin
J. E. Lowe
Vivian Byrd
E. G. Williamson
Gallman
John Eitel
Ora
Dorris Daniel
Tap ‘Ist
Henry Baggett
Mt. Olive
Seavey & Y
W. F. Parsons
Gonis Montville
Bern
Chamberlain
C. B. Grafton Drug Company
J. H. Seitz
Detroit
Mich
C. B. Gratton Drug Co
Boley
Price Drag Go
Humor OF the Hour
Mrs. Oldcastle
Josiah
Chicago
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