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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1897
Page
4
Fragmentary timetable text shows daily routes to Pooth and local stops. Mentions rail lines numbered 1 and 3 and arrival directions but lacks complete details. Onto readable bits indicate schedules, stations, and daily departures with uncertain phrasing.
Local items report illnesses including Mrs. A Cook and Mrs. T C Maxwell with others affected by grippe. J F Greer recovers from injuries, Rev W P Price to preach at Baptist church, and John Willoughby visits. Mention of sleet, ice, and improving spring hopes. Looming sermon praised and community letters highlight residents and new moves.
Brookhaven society items note Mrs Ada Proby in Natches and Miss Hunnicutt of Texas visiting relatives, with calls on doctors and lawyers at Circuit Court in Monticello. Reports mention new street lamps, improved drop-curtain in the Opera House, and declines and recoveries from illness. Mrs. Easterling dies after flu, and Rev. Boone lectures at the Presbyterian Church.
Promoted schemes urge readers to invest in self made windmills and dipping devices to earn money. Appeals from Casey and Co Saint Louis urge purchases of windmills, churns, and related tools via mail order.claims include easy profits, social proof, and minimal effort with multiple testimonials.
January licenses tested by district clerk Olwer list many names across categories including Whites and Colored groups. Notable entries include Chas Stewart, Dora Lawrence, Thomas B. Smith, Addie Allen, Emma Sinister, Emma Sinister appears twice in fragments, and Mary A. Cole among numerous others.
An earnest promotional piece argues that many neglect their health for money and claims Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, advertised as a universal tonic from The Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo, can prevent decline and cure consumption and minor ailments. The ad urges every reader to obtain a copy of Dees and mentions a one-cent stamp offer.
A devastating boiler explosion at B E Brister & Co s saw mill in Dogue Chitte yesterday morning killed John Branning and Simpson Scott both workers with dependent families. Four others injured include Mack McCaffery Thos McGehee Commodore Smith and Jane Buchanan. Authorities and physicians treated the wounded as the scene drew a large crowd and investigators ponder the boiler defect and rapid cold water theory.
Special reports note Carroll Maxwell business trip to Monticello. Mrs. Denham Dickerson and Mrs. Dickerson ill with grippe. Grandma Ross suffers rheumatism and needs help. W Y Guess fixes machinery across Pearl River. Homer Guess had facial paralysis. Snow melted by light rain after several days. Miss Mollie Currie escorted to post office by Marcus Guess on the new sleigh. Cornelia Maxwell returns from Houck's Retreat after an extended visit. Dr. Robertson called to see child with membranous croup. prayers for recovery. Wedding bells likely at Fair River as two belles win hearts of Pearl River and Pike County suitors. Archie Cowart, infant son of Mrs. Jobo Cowart, buried at Pheasant Grove after illness. Rev. Benson conducted funeral. family urged to follow Jesus for heaven where sickness ends.
The Lincoln county Board of Supervisors authorizes The Hartman Lumber Company to construct maintain and operate a street railroad along county roads including Meadville and Brookhaven routes. The license lasts up to twenty five years and requires adherence to railroad laws and safe interference limits with public roads and lands. The action covers posts fixtures along public lands and across highways with right angle crossings where necessary.
Public auction scheduled for February 12 1897 at the Brookhaven Court House to sell the North east quarter and other described lands in Lincoln County Mississippi to satisfy a trust deed. Substituted trustee C T Montgomery cites power of sale under the deed and details a large mixed docket of county business and notices unrelated to the land sale.
A fragmented homestead notice appears from a rural county court listing names and location details. It references a register and several personal names in a damaged OCR line, indicating an official property or residency filing subject to county procedures.
An old newspaper ad from Grafton touts Grafton s Specialties Cough Cure and Liver Pills for constipation and biliousness at 25 and 50 cents per bottle or box. It also markets Landreth s fresh garden seed and Grafton s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites at 75 cents. The copy notes a sale and boasts double quantities for some money.
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