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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1885
Page
3
The Brookhaven Leader shares town notes from Brookhaven including weather, local visits, improvements, and politics. Mentions Judge Chrisman, Sheriff McNair, Captain J. A. Hoskins, Mr. C. C. Chrisman, Miss Lucie Hoskins, and local businesses, with remarks on Prohibition sentiment and a late county tax sale.
The Central Prohibition Committee plans a vigorous move after liquor licenses expire. A proposed general counter petition would allow voters to protest suspending the law for 12 months, aiming to curb the liquor traffic and rally business leaders and residents to the temperance cause.
A collage of 19th century items mentions Dr. Kennerdy and his remedy, Harter’s Iron Tonic, Kohlman’s goods, farm plows, and travel deals. It notes a February 24 wedding by Rev. C B Galloway at Bogue Chitta, with E A McLavny and Apps Cook headed to New Orleans for a brief postnuptial visit before rearmed life.
In Mississippi notices dated February 1885 two obituaries report Mary Louisa Bixler of W J Bixler dying of consumption near Bogue Chitto on February 25 in her 24th year, and Mrs J Cox near Monticello on February 7 at age seven years six months four days. The notices describe them as loving wives and devoted mothers with Christian faith and family sorrow, and include memorial lines expressing grief and consolation.
Fragmentary text describes a shop with a stock of goods and shoes for sale and mentions Dr Jay Towle. It references stock, ladies' shoes, betton, and garb. The wording is garbled and incomplete but implies a sale or advertisement in a town setting. The piece mentions cheap goods and Line' in town with camden lines.
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