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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1901
Page
2
The Leader weekly issue notes subscription price and payment terms with editor and field editor credits. It lists T Howes as editor and proprietor and J A Scarborough as field editor and provides no further content or dates.
The Leader offers a special deal to boost readers during the business season. New subscribers and renewals paying a year in advance receive The Leader for one year plus The Home and Farm as a premium, at a reduced price despite higher paper costs. Publisher T Hobbs promotes The Leader as Lincoln county’s top paper for home and county news and clear opinion.
Our Field Editor in Lawrence recounts a rail journey through Pair River Monticello Arm Silver Creek and Blountville visiting Antioch church meeting at Bra L Posey’s group. He notes cotton woes and a wedding license tale while praising Sheriff Arthur Fox and Clerk Bass. He also covers Catholic temperance views and local praise for Hon Charles Scott amid a fire loss.
An article details the Starkville Agricultural and Mechanical College textile department. It lists equipment from gins to looms, describes the two story textile building, power plant, fire safety, and teaching both practical and theoretical cotton manufacturing. It notes expected pay for graduates and that the department will open in June.
A compact chronicle of Mississippi events: Columbus to build a new Masonic temple, Jackson launches a vagrant crackdown, and a 12,417 population noted for Jackson. Updates include oil prospect plans near Jackson, Confederate veterans convening in Meridian, chair factory expansion in Columbus, bank gifts to a Jefferson Davis monument fund, and revival meetings across Columbus churches.
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