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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1905
Page
4
The March issue lists visits from Cameron and others, hardware and furniture ads, and promotions. Local names include C. B. Perkins, Graf ton Drug Co, Huylers candy, Miss Nannie Durfey, Mrs. McLaurin, and Capt. D. Hy McGollum. Community notes cover sales, building plans, choir practice, and upcoming fairs.
Rev J A Scarborough of Bogue Chitto will speak at the men's meeting Sunday at 3 30 PM. His humorous, original style is well known and expected to delight attendees. The report also notes local ball games between Chickasaws, Mohawks, and Choctaws with scores, and lists upcoming Y M C A and music class activities and memberships.
The Leader reports on community happenings from a Kentucky area, noting a request for bank creation, the death and burial of Uncle Jim Woolley in Kent La, surgical recoveries, and local improvements. It mentions a Russia Japan ceasefire suggestion, a pleasant overland trip, and roads and farming growth. Smallpox cases among African Americans are quarantined. arrests in Jackson for Miss Marsh assault. road contracts set for Bike County. rental housing offered. and a nod to a soldierly figure.
In Grange Hall area heavy rain Saturday and Sunday swelled creeks and retarded farm work. W M Higdon made a brief trip to Brookhaven Saturday and to Hazlehurst to visit his ailing mother. McD Ferguson visited his sister Mrs Lofton in Similo. Deck Stanton visited to check his plantation. Mrs A B Middleton is improving and able to sit up some. Will Henry assisted at N F Hudson's jail Thursday. Turner Blackwell went to Visio Rearine to his ill brother. Sunday School attendance remained strong despite rain. Judge Seainus held court Saturday. Enthusiasm grows for a new railroad though not yet decided which candidate supports it.
At Silver Creek a rare literary and elocution event awaits neighbors. Miss Elizabeth Purser will present evenings featuring local talent with a notable program and a lively crowd.
New Orleans and Northeastern, Alabama and Vicksburg, Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific offer a direct route to Texas and all points west. Solid vestibu le trains with dining cars and Pullman sleepers. Twelve hours to North Texas and fifteen to South Texas. Inquiries to John W. Wood, Trav. Pass. Agent, Meridian, Mississippi.
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