Picnic Talk and Rail Case Highlight Brookhaven News
In Lawrence Mrs Bessie Butler Newsom and her young daughter visited near the city. A Brookhaven and Monticello Sunday Schools joint picnic is planned at Monticello with details to follow. An eminent domain case before Justice J M Armstrong over a Mississippi Central Railroad right of way near Smiths Ferry ended in a compromise verdict of 1750 dollars for Mrs Eva King Bloom. The Brookhaven Pearl River Railroad summer excursion season opened with about 200 visitors arriving at the depot, with crowds from nearby and distant points, well behaved and enjoying tours of the city.
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Bessie Butler Newsom
Terry
Brookhaven
Monticello
J. M. Armstrong
Silver Creek
Mississippi Central Railroad
Eva King Bloom
Magnolia
Smith's Ferry
Brookhaven & Pearl River
Ible
Gulfport Hosts Visitors Amid Growth and Reflections
The Clarion-Ledger party from Gulfport enjoyed dinner at Watts Hotel with 52 guests and a brass band. Visitors marveled at Gulfport’s rapid growth, noting new buildings and public improvements, while locals shared stories of the town’s early naming and development.
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Watts Hotel
Clarion-Ledger
Gulfport
R. H. Henry
Great Southern Hotel
Col. Henry
Gulf
Sindarooine
Gallport
Zion Notes On Farming and Community Life
In Zion, farmers struggle with lingering rains and reduced cotton acreage while the rural mail, phone network, two churches, two Sunday Schools, and a strong local school provide stability. The May 12 school term closure, Miss Gussie Paxton and Miss Lottie Ma 800 as teachers, and a funeral for Mrs. Stillwell are noted, with hints of a future cotton growers club forming amid local concerns about misconduct and law.
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Providence
Gussie Paxton
Lottie Ma
W T. Covington
Zion
Justice Douglass
Grange Hall Items Report Weather and Local News
The item lists rainy delays for farmers, social visits by Miss Pearl and Walter Higdon, a fishing party near Home Chittton River, illness of N F Hudson, Pat Case acquiring a fine horse from unknown owners, exams with Prof Braeck and Miss McRee, Brookhaven visitors, wire repair expenses by Mr Turner Blackwell, road crews damaging a wire, upcoming communion services at the Preabegerian church, and school commencement May 21 23 with a concert May 29. Also notes a tinner G W Brady falling from a roof injuring his neck at State A and M College and a fatal or serious incident involving William Johnson’s team at Morton.
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W. M. Higdon
Brookhaven
Miss Pearl
Walter Higdon
May
Homechitton
N. F. Hudson
Pat Case
Braeck
Fan
Sunday visitors from Hysle hurst stop at college
Mires Katie. Louise Birdsong and Blagele Kearney of Hysle hurst were Sunday visitors at the college.
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Mires Katie
Louise Birdsong
Blagele Kearney
Hyslehurst
Theeollege
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New York
Lawrence
Lawrence County Press
Mt, Zion
Grange Hall
Observer
G. W. Brady
State A. and M.,college
Gadsden
Ala
Wm. Johnson
Morton
Johnson
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