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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1897
Page
4
Central arrival and departure times posted for trains to and from Brookhaven and Hammond. Indicates local stations and branch connections with near-term schedules and close contact between routes to Mompain and Tenn. Ends with remarks on two-way service and near-term maintenance.
Local notes report widespread grippe impacts on schools and churches, a suspended public school, and illnesses among teachers. Other items note a Brooklyn shoe sale sign, religious services, a moving public figure, and community snippets from Crystal Springs to Jackson and Wesson.
Mrs. BB Weiss claims she is owed over 11000 by Koch, Dreyfus & Co, with a mortgage on three jewel trunks. The trunks, turned over to Brookhaven broker M Dreyfus, were moved to New Orleans and back, prompting a replevin bid. Sheriff McNair will retain safekeeping pending court adjudication. case set for February with Hon. B N Miller and Hon. A C McNair leading respective interests.
Letters describe a woman selling self heating irons and a one minute churn, praising earnings and quick results. A reader recounts clearing $12 the first day from irons and selling many daily thereafter, while another notes churns that complete in under sixty seconds boosting butter makers’ output. The correspondence urges others to try these items and highlights customer enthusiasm.
A jumble of notes and ads recounts a plan to free design diagrams, a fiber mill claim, and a misdated plea for cheap pump plans. It includes notices about a Christian standards treatise by A M Fritz, a postal subscription push, and weather reports from a Dakota blizzard, plus local education meeting notice and Tillman on liquor laws.
Brookhaven Truck Growers' Association backs a plan to diversify crops and aid a local canning factory by offering fertilizers and seed at cost and paying from produce revenue. Members approve a resolution urging cooperative effort and adjourn to February 1897.
A mixed local sheet notes reading public opinions on newspapers and ads, praises Demorest’s Magazine, and reports on Brookhaven officials and a Jackson correspondent. It recalls Gov McLaurin appointing Hiram Cassedy Jr., and mentions a monument dedication for Elias Trowsky with rites led by Rabbi Henry Lewenthal and a marble border by Capital City Marble Yard of Jackson.
Public auction set for February 12 1897 at the Lincoln County Courthouse Brookhaven to sell the north half of the southwest quarter and one acre in the southeast corner of the northwest quadrant section 13 township 113 range 16 east for debt secured by a trust deed to British and American Morthy Limited. Substituted trustee I B Whaang announces sale of the described property to the highest cash bidder to satisfy the debt while passing title as is.
Citation notice published by X May, Clerk directs all claimants of equitable interest in lands in Lincoln County Mississippi to appear in chancery court on the second Monday of April 1507 to defend the suit, listing described parcels including sections and townships.
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