Brookhaven Board of Supervisors Finances and Adjournment
County records show accounts allowed for December 1904 including payments to Ivy Pennington and Guess for road work and culverts, plus wages for county farm staff and prison expenses. The board adjourned to 9 o'clock the next morning with Z. P. Jones presiding.
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Tara
Iekens
F. H. Hoffman
J. P
Kid Richardson
J.D. Blue
Same
Ivy
Pennington
Guess
J. C. Miller
Nies
Lofton
Ivy, Pennington and
Hoggatt’s Mill
Las Peh
B. Boyt
Boone’s Creek
H. E. Womack
Little Bahala
Beauregard
Monticello
RD. Lanier
Ernest Herring
W. N. Mercer
E. A. Boyd
Brookhaven
Z. P. Jones
Board of Supervisors First Day Actions 1905 Mississippi
Mississippi Lincoln County Board of Supervisors opens January 1905 session at Brookhaven with members present. Bid advertisement authorized for bridge on Dickerson creek. Bridge awarded to W Allen for Topisaw creek at Barney Lewis pits for 130 dollars with bonds. Several accounts approved including county farm supplies and court expenses.
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Mississippi
Lincoln County
Board of Supervisors
Chancery
Brookhaven
Z. P. Jones
J. ©. Bryant
C. M. Brister
John Walker
R. C. Applewhite
R. W. McNair
Towit
Dickerson Creek
Holmesville Road
Topisaw Creek
Barney Lewis
W Allen
J. F. Smith
Geo. Smith
Cameron
County Farm
Lee Maxwell
Dairy Proverb and Emulsion Appeal
An old dairy proverb suggests a penny in the churn when butter stalls. Mothers worried about child growth are urged to try Scott's Emulsion, described as a milk of cod liver oil with hypophosphites. A penny sample offer is promised with unclear details and garbled contact text.
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Scott
Public Road Granted in Muscum Area with Appointed Commissioners
On Wednesday the Board granted a public road petition by John W White and fourteen others from Muscum post office north one and a half miles to connect with Brookhaven and Smith ferry road. White and Thomas Rutledge named to lay out the road and supervise maintenance as second class roads for the current contractor term. The board also reviewed W T Buie’s loan request of 506.65 from the 16th section school fund for five years at ten percent per annum beginning January 10, 1905.
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John W. White
Muscum Post Office
Brookhaven
Smith Ferry Road
J. W. White
Thomas Rutledge
W. T. Buie
16Th Section
W. T Buie
Records of inmate terms and fines from county farm
A 1905 county farm superintendent report details inmate names with class, commitment dates, and expiry terms, plus fines collected and workdays credited. It lists Jack Northern Kit Richardson Hillery Dickey Coot Jones Susan Holloway Noah Johnson and others, with totals of fines $105.65 and work credits $37.60, and notes on deaths and allowances.
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Teren
John Davis
Kit Richardson
Bill Jacobs
Noah Johnson
Jack Nothern
Hillery Dickey
Coot Jones
Susan Holloway
Sam Phillips
Jack Northern
Luther Saulsbury
Ernest Herring
Henry Haynes
Smith Costello
Chas. Robertson
Geo. Haywood
Jim Matthews
Will Wall
Joe Larkin
Joe Sutton
Andrew Dixon
Pamates Mollio
Daniele Ee
Adjourning Board Meeting Notes January 1905
Fourth day proceedings record a board meeting held Thursday morning in January 1905 after an adjournment. The minutes mention Susan Holloway as conductor, with actions or orders issued, and refer to crime noted yesterday in connection with the adjourned session.
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Yesterdy
Suean Holloway
Cuneiet
County convict and poor farm praised as financial success
The article argues the county convict and poor farm saves money by housing prisoners locally rather than in the county jail. It cites yearly costs and prisoner counts, noting cotton price declines but overall cost reductions from $1,000 to $1,700 in avoided jail expenses. Figures show initial purchase cost of $3,900 with ongoing farming costs and projected savings, continued on old page.
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Eithess
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