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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1901
Page
2
The Leaver and Home and Farm announce a limited time subscription deal. For 1.50, new subscribers and renewals get one year of The Leaver plus a second year of Home and Farm as a premium. Published by B. T. Hobbs, urging readers to act before the offer ends.
A Northern editor, founder of a Mississippi News predecessor now with Barlville, replies to a Illinois editor. He defends civil rights and asserts the Negro should have a place and adequate care and management by both races, urging humane treatment and proper residence guidance.
The Mississippi pine region near the A and W and extending to the gulf is explored with estimates of standing pine, annual mill outputs across Mobile and Ohio, New Orleans and Northeastern, Illinois Central, Gulf and Ship Island, and others. It forecasts 25 years to harvest merchantable pine at current rates, notes booming rosin and turpentine trade, and highlights regional growth and prosperity amid a looming Jackson capitol project and a death of Nat Kurtank after a notable career.
Lincoln county Board of Supervisors report and orders covering Stonewall Guard payment, road inspections, contract payouts, teacher indebtedness, county convict farm election of S P Cagle, health officer duties, jail and poor farm sanitation notes, bond adjustments, and clerical adjournment. Includes details on road contracts, warrants, and officer appointments.
McComb lists a dancing school and Myron Hicks dies in Shreveport. Jackson hosts a street fair. Silver Creek wedding. Biloxi burns rebuilt. Columbus lodges build temple. Capitol grounds artesian well. Dr J T Watts dies age 74. Cols chair factory operating. Dispatch prints first work. Bank merger at Crystal Springs. Mayor police justice offices consolidated in Jackson. Major obituaries include John Rohrbacher and Sue Nall Murray. Tax, road, and district politics noted with Jackson fight over Cumberland rates. Masons convene in Oxford. 9,500 lodge members in state. Road overseer axed. railroad line to Quitman County planned. Tax recovery efforts target back dues on solvent credits.
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