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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1883
Page
3
Local Brookhaven items note agents for subscriptions and weather, shop moves, and amusement events. A convicts’ guard survives an accident, a Jackson man fined for chicken theft, and a Natchez raffle results list. Wedding at M. E. Church, arrivals, visits, and brief town notices close the column.
A garbled court docket fragment lists numerous civil cases and defendants such as John W Rom and various others including Halloway Kisii and Spence. It references suit numbers and unspecified claims, with scattered mentions of Warden and State of Minnesota related terms.
The local Ledger lists candidate rates for notices including district and county offices with per line charges and printed word limits. It also covers taxes lists pickup by Lincoln County assessor and various ads for clothing, stationery, and promotional boxes with subscription and agent terms.
The document outlines train times for routes between New Orleans Brookhaven and Jackson with arrivals, departures, and freight service notes. It lists express and way freight schedules, stopping patterns, and flags stations, signed by J.C. Clarke and J. W. Coleman.
The prospective Leader promises daily news summaries with emphasis on local matters. It commits to propriety suitable for fireside reading and appeals for subscriptions, stating it will be worth the price of 82 a year in advance.
Eastbound and westbound mail trains listed with arrival and departure times between Vicksburg Meridiana Jackson Natchez and related stops. Key personnel include Jon Scots as General Manager and E F Raworty as Superintendent.
The Leader promotes its wide subscriber base and its own list as a good advertising medium. It invites business men to patronize, promising reasonable rates and value for reaching the public.
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