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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1905
Page
4
The notice lists Pearl River Railroad Eastbound No 101 leaving Brookhaven at 5 16 a m No 103 leaving Brookhaven 1 30 p m Westbound No 104 arriving 9 30 a m No 102 arriving 7 30 p m and states no trains run on Sunday
Brookhaven features a busy notes page with visits from Dr. J. T. Walker and Dr. Leon Priebatsch, a new millinery prospect, and ongoing bargains at McGraths. Town improvements include a new brick sidewalk by the Bank of Brookhaven, and East Union Lumber Yard promotions.
The piece reports the Bank of Brookhaven Brookhaven Mississippi December 1904 financial statement with auditor M. Henry declaring the accounts true reflecting the books’ accuracy. It blends other local notes about cotton prices, illness, and community events in Brookhaven.
Chancellor Mayes dissolves the injunction suit filed by Louis Cohn and others against the Commercial Bank of Brookhaven and awards the bank damages of 500 dollars. The case, brought by Mesaré, sought to block the bank from becoming a national bank without pro rata stock increases for stockholders Louis Cohn and S. G. Wilson. The bank answered, denial of making a national bank, and the decree ends the suit.
The January 24 26 interstate convention of cotton growers and business leaders from Southern states gathers in New Orleans to chart plans. Key questions: curb surplus on the market until cotton prices rise and reduce current year acreage. A large Lincoln county meeting in Brookhaven aims to appoint a strong delegation to the New Orleans convention.
A fragment urges better work from ET THE LEADER printing and pricing, claiming improvements will stop complaints about shoddy output and high costs.
Mississippi posts its best yearly railroad construction in 1904 with 228.89 miles built, ranking fifth among states. Mobile, Jackson and City leads with the largest new build, Gulf and Island road follows, others include Yazoo and Mississippi Valley and Mobile systems. Also notes a Bible and Sunday School Institute in Hattiesburg and a courthouse window injury at Port Gibson.
A fragment from a Clarion Ledger piece condemns presumptive free newspapers and urges readers to respect newsroom costs. It argues papers are not free like common goods and compares withholding payment to stealing from merchants, urging fair exchange for ink and labor.
Aged couple Johno Lowe aged 95 and Mrs Emile Lowe living eight miles northwest of Laurel Mississippi are described as a remarkable pair. They are 95 and six months old, have thirteen children, sixty-two grandchildren, many great grandchildren, and five generations living. Mr Lowe retains keen hearing and sight, claims no spectacles, and the couple were early settlers in Jones County in Laurel.
At the Cotton Ginners Association meeting, plans were adopted to organize cotton ginners across cotton regions. January 23 was set for county meetings to receive reports of cotton ginned, with state conventions called to discuss reforms and price strategies amid shifting market conditions.
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