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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1905
Page
3
A July Fourth reunion gathers Mr White’s family near Wesson with neighbors and hundreds present. Children, grandchildren, relatives, and friends share baskets and stories while the crowd laughs, sings, and recalls old times in a lively, nostalgic display.
Long column from Brookhaven lists visits and greetings from numerous residents. Notes Miss Hattie Hoffman sick, travelers from Clinton and Jackson, relatives visiting, and social events at the White and Scutt homes. A lengthy union ball picnic recounts a multigenerational gathering with praising remarks for the White family and neighbors. Also includes ads and a medical note praising Foley's Kidney Cure.
County school board will convene at the undersigned office in Brookhaven on Monday July 24. Teachers Institute meets the same day at the public school building. Farmers Institute will be held with the teachers institute on Saturday July 29. Matters of special interest to be discussed.
An endorsement profile for Edgar Green as Supt of Education with ally support. mentions Ballard's Snow Liniment testimonial from 1901 and local drug shop, Price Drug Co. The notice also names Miss Willie Martin elected principal of Hermanville High School and includes varied local endorsements and medical remedies.
Hazlehurst items report Allen High School reelecting Prof. B. Salter Jr. as principal and reelecting Miss Bessie Thompson as primary teacher. Attendance notes, local cotton prices, and warnings about temperance enforcement appear alongside obituaries and community notices. The piece mentions visitors from Kansas and Mississippi praise, a death in Magee, and local medical remedies.
Fragmentary OCR text references an assault involving individuals named Riera esc, Little Robert Lee Joes, and Brice Deng. The garbled note mentions a drag competition and various dubious terms, with unclear locations or dates and no coherent sequence of events.
Simpson County News reports a suspicious blaze at the home of Mr and Mrs Walker in Hebron on Tuesday as authorities investigate an incendiary origin. The issue also notes the death of Hop G Johnston at his daughter's home in Star with Masonic rites, oil discoveries near Magee, and local court and public school building updates. Also mentioned are deaths in Braxton, calls to halt illegal blind tiger activity, a praise for Sheriff McInnis, a remedy success story, and Judge McDonald’s pistol sentence stance.
Elizabeth Graves widow of J. J. Graves died after long feeble health. Funeral held Tuesday at 4 PM. Also notes on Goodyear syndicate route plans through Mississippi with Jackson as northern terminus, Goodyear management I. G. Enochs, and Monticello to Jackson connection. Local church box for Baptist Orphanage collection to aid 14 rooms and $50 per woman pledged. Indigestion tonic advertised and Goodyear rail line discussion from Gulfport Record excerpt.
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