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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1905
Page
5
The Bogue Chitto Graded School held an eight graduate commencement after a year of diligent work by teachers. The event featured the primary and high school programs, a sermon by Rev. W B Murrah, and medals awarded for scholarship and spelling.
Educational Day in Brook features a 10 am county declamation contest at the public school, 11:30 am address by State Superintendent H L Whitfield, 1 pm basket dinner at Storm's Park, 2 pm athletic contests, and 8:30 pm inter collegiate oratorical at a local house. Edgar Green, County Supt. Also notes a case: Yellow Pine Lumber Co v railroads of the South ruled for Yellow Pine by the Interstate Commerce Commission, likely to higher courts. Mentions cotton seed oil mill report of two months supply.
Daniel J. Sully directs farmers in New York to withhold selling any cotton for sixty days. He asserts this will stabilize prices for the current and next year, promising planned measures to benefit growers and asserting that the South and its plans hold masterful sway over the market.
A twenty five member delegation of weavers from New Bedford Massachusetts sails for Wesson Mississippi to work in the cotton mills of the Missis ape corporation under a one year contract. The move comes as labor scarcity in Wescon prompts Missis ape agents to recruit skilled weavers. A second delegation will depart a week later for the same assignment. Magee Graded School trustees elect T L Trawick Crystal Springs as principal and name Ada Allen Ball Dora Smith and Mabel Fleming among next term teachers. Five miles of new street railway are planned to extend Jackson’s transit network with exact routes to be announced.
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