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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1901
Page
2
The Leader announces weekly publication with one year in advance subscription price of 3B and lists editors Hobbs and Scarborough with J A Scarborough as field editor.
The Leader and The Home and Farm offered one year subscriptions for 81.50 with Home and Farm as a free premium. The offer targets new subscribers or renewing ones paying in advance, praising The Leader for county news and its forthright opinions, and highlighting Home and Farm as a top farm paper.
The Good Roads Convention session opened with W B Eldridge of the U S Department of Agriculture delivering illustrated lectures on U S and European road systems. He urged drainage wide wagon tires and state aid financed by county cooperation. Committees named on resolutions and permanent organization are listed with district representatives.
Judge Campbell asserts that only the governor can pardon and that a state board may set uniform commutation rules, not grant discharge. He criticizes a code section as unconstitutional for enabling selective, nonuniform releases, urging fixed, universally applicable rules and warning against favoritism. Also notes civic writing duties and a local travel anecdote from Captain Montgomery.
A digest of Mississippi items notes Sardis to get an electric light system and Magnolia enjoying electric lights. Hattiesburg and Jackson rail and street themes appear. Col lins bank role, local school principals, a fire pumping station, and a range of local events and incidents are touched on, from marriages and deaths to crimes and public works.
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