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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1901
Page
2
The Leader lists B. T. Hobbs as editor and proprietor with A Scarborough serving as field editor. The masthead establishes the paper’s editorial leadership and management roles.
The Leanen invites new and renewing subscribers with a bargain: one year for the regular price plus free 12 month premiums from Tak LEADER Tar Home and FanM. Publisher HOBBS promotes The Leanen as Lincoln county’s best for home and county news and opinion, alongside The Home and Farm as a leading farm paper.
The Mississippi Press Association held its thirty sixth annual session at Pass Christian on May 21 with President William Ward of the Starkville Times presiding. James K. Vardaman of Greenwood delivered the welcome, and L. T. Carlisle spoke as orator. Officers were elected, and resolutions praised railroads, the Gulf and Ship Island road, and local hospitality. Highlights included literary exercises at the Mexican Gulf Hotel and a boat ride, with plans for the Pan American Exposition editorial excursion. The report also notes J. R. Lio named principal of Natchez Institute and a Gloster wedding of John Hines and Mary McLain en route to the exposition.
Jackson Mississippi May 0 101 There will be 200 inmates from A and M College faculty and students at the roads convention at Oxford next Tuesday. Illinois Central will furnish seven coaches and two baggage cars to take students to the State University at Oxford as a compliment to these institutions. The convention aims to showcase improved land building methods and promote highways statewide, with further gatherings planned in Grenada and at the capital on June 11 and 1. The policy has educated Mississippians toward better roads and will benefit the railroad industry too.
Mississippi notes report an $11 8 opera house planned for Hattiesburg state good roads convention in Jackson a railroad pier extension at Gulfport and a double track between Jackson and Crystal Springs. Bishop Galloway sails for Rio de Janeiro a Memphis trip for Confederate veterans and various local incidents and civic plans across the state.
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