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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1903
Page
2
The Leader lists rates for notices to announce candidacies. District offices cost 10.00 for legislative and county offices 10.00. Real offices 5.00. Payment must accompany each notice with no deviation.
City of Brookhaven Mississippi officials meet February 1903 to adopt tax and water bond changes, approve bonds for tax collector Doc Sartin and water rents, swear in Sartin, discuss electric meter system, approve January salaries, and review the city treasurer’s report with warrants processed. Alderman Larsen absent sick. meeting adjourned to February 5.
A long item sheet announces Wade L Summers as a Democratic party candidate for Lincoln County Treasurer and W. C. Price subject to the Democratic primary. It includes poetical questions about daily deeds, Capitol Corner Stone ceremonies with invited attendees and officials, and remarks on various regional topics. Andrew Carnegie to visit Tuskegee Institute. Audubon Theatre fire in New Orleans. local officials and state figures noted, with comments on Mississippi College at Clinton and Indianola free matter and Senator A. John praised.
Monthly financials from Brookhaven Mississippi detail a February 1 1903 city treasurer report by CHAS HEUCK and finance committee. Supt J D Cull presents January 1903 oil fuel and wiring work including lamps, power house tasks, and street light repairs. Tax collector Aaron Hurst submits January 1903 water and light rents totaling 1200 with 2 percent commission. Board approves tax and labor expenditures and warrants for power house and fuel costs.
The Brookhaven council approves fuel and power funds, sets city treasurer commission at 2 percent, pays Water Works Interest Note totaling 585.90, considers wood yard lease changes, adopts a meter system, fixes the city marshal salary at 60 per month, and elects Christ Alberts as cemetery sexton for two years.
The readable text hints at a court or official notice involving names, a sale or action, and a price. The fragments mention a remedy and a food item, with references to a location and a court, but details are unclear.
Mississippi brief notes report a new bank in Bolton, electric lights and water works in Collins, and the Democrat-Star turning 58. Other items note peach tree planting near Jackson, Yazoo mill expansion, Typhoid death in Laurel, burglaries at Winona, and a fatal shooting by Officer Ryan. Memorial windows planned for Jackson church, and several appointments and deaths across the state.
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