Town and County News Highlights and Local Gossip
Brookhaven notes a busy week with visitors from New Orleans and Liberty. Bananas arrive by wagon, several residents travel to Gulf cities, and crops and lumber are marketed. Community members attend schools, church events, and social gatherings, with local ads for lumber and wagons and notices of sales. The period also records obituaries and funerals for local figures, plus civic updates and a weathered sense of small-town life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evangelist Eddings
The
Presbyterian Church
Josie Becker
New Orleans
Seemann
W. E. Lea
Liberty
Pigot Lea
J. W. Bailess
Claiborne County
L. J. Laird
B. Perkins, Mills & East Co
South Church Street
Julia Chrisman
McDaniel
Meadville
F. A. Cameron
Jim Cassedy
Summit
Brookhaven's Most Popular Young Lady Contest Echoes Civic Buzz
The Brookhaven box contest for most popular young lady, organized by Harris and Watson for Heuck's Opera House, closed Monday night with Miss Edith Love winning the Friday night box for the Glick Stock Company’s "Hust, Lynne." Votes tallied show Love with 10,141. Helen Sherman 9,322. Sara Storm 8,613. Bessie Hobbs 4,509. Eunice Wroten 9,622. Ellen McClendon 1,549, totaling around 40,000 across contenders. The company performs all week, with strong turnout reported and plans to offer another box soon. A Doctor's Crime drew a full house, and Lagoon supplied a large panorama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookhaven
Messrs. Harris & Watson
Heuck
Opera House
Edith Love
Messrs
Harris & Watson
Glick Stock Company
Monty Night
McLaurin denies plan to resign for Supreme Court post
Senator McLaurin of Brandon Mississippi rejects a Commercial Appeal interview claim that he would resign to join the Supreme Court. He notes the court appointment not expected until 1908. The piece also mentions Buck of Jackrop and Wilbolai McUraven of St Louis marrying, with the bride a former Belhaven teacher, to reside in Vicksburg.
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Brandon
Miss
Ayes
McLaurin
Supreme
Will Buck
Jackrop
Wilbolai ‘McUraven
St. Louis
Belhaven
Vicktburg
Slang and its place in language from a Chicago address
In a Chicago talk, Prof. Rufus L. Sheldon contrasts slang and virile English, arguing slang mirrors metaphor and imagery. He credits George Ade with mixed success in slang, warns against forced slang, and notes slang’s power to shape perception. Local items from Edgar report social events, court actions, and community news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times-Democrat
George Ade
Chicago
Ly Sa
Walstaff
Pistol
Brooklyn
Windsor
Rufus L. Sheldon
The
State Normal School
Trenton
N. J
Polytechnic Institute
Sheldon
How Mark Twain Met Horace Greeley
Mark Twain recalls meeting Horace Greeley and hearing him speak after an initial misstep into Greeley’s room. He describes Greeley’s irascibility and the Tribune’s early days, noting the memorable moment when Greeley demanded, What the hell do you want.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
Horace Greeley
Hay
the Tribune
Mr. Greeley
Harper’s Weekly
Meandering Misery in Rural Life and Health Notes
A posted reminiscence mocks the idea of farming life as a arranged idyll. It contrasts a city girl’s romantic view with hard labor, mishaps, and domestic chaos from fence to hogs and goats, ending with garbled health complaints and dubious advice.
Veteran Col W A Montgomery Bags Noted Deer Hunt
In Dees Bester Edwards Mississippi on November 4 Col W A Montgomery a veteran statesman lawyer and soldier hunted with his pack of hounds on his Madison parish Louisiana plantation. After the deer escaped at first a ten mile chase ended when the animal swam a lake and the colonel killed it with a final shot. Hunters called it the largest in the area and the mounted horns will adorn the Edwards Bank in Chicago after being sent there for mounting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Edwards
An Historic Cow Horn Story Passed Down
Mr. R G Porter of Lulu Mississippi recently gave his son R A Porter a cow horn treasured as a family heirloom. The horn traces to 1836 when W B Porter, his grandfather, crafted a magnificent horn from a steer horn that rang across the hills. It symbolizesMississippians’ love of the chase and will be handed down to future generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Porter
Lulu
Miss
R. A. Porter
W. B. Porter
Frenzied Finance Promoter Eyes Pass Christian Hotel
A Gulf Coast observer reports Thomas W. Lawson of Boston, linked to the “Frenzied Finance” fame, leads a syndicate backing a $200,000 Pass Christian hotel project. Lawson, who visited the Mississippi coast once, is cited as convinced by the investment potential and heads the effort to finance and build the hostelry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Coast
Pass Christian
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Lawson
Mississippi
Law 809
Jackson News
Lincoln County Teachers License Exam Notice
Only one written examination will be held in Lincoln county for the present term due to few applicants. The examination dates are November 10 and 11. OGAK GREEN, Supt. of Education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln County
Ogak Green
Unclear Contest Report Delays Award for Corn Competition
Fragmented notes indicate a corn contest award delayed to Saturday due to contestants not gathering corn. Readable parts mention prize money of twenty dollars and scheduling uncertainty. The garbled text prevents clear names or locations.
Ruth Notes Warm and Rainy Social Roundup
Ruth Notes reports a rainy spell with visits from Hons. P. Z. Jones and M. McCullough, Miss Benneta Purser staying with Miss May Highton, and local happenings around Brookhaven. Chauncey Price injured by a bale at the gin. Ada Wooley returned for school. a singing gathering at Mrs. Mary Felder's home. Osie Rawls directing Beavers Creek school. 58 high school boys, none addicted to tobacco or profanity.
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A. C. McNair
Willing
New Orleans
George Hubener
I. Cope
John Smith
Medical Department
Tulane
Geo. A. Love
Miss Mattie
Dandy Dennett
J. 8
Laney
Silver Creek
Brookhaven
Gov. Vardaman
Riley Mercantile Company
New Hebron
Lawrence County
Willie
Henry McGrath
St.Stanislaus College
W. E. Price
Mabel Rotter Bailey
B. T. Hobbs
Mary
M. McCullough
Wm. Davis
Pauline Underwood
Rosebud
Terry
F. A
Pauline
Blue Mountain College
Brabston
Whitworth College
Annie May Seach
Hamburg
Miss Seab
Natchez
Benneta Purser
May Higdon
A. M. Summers
P. Z. Jones
Chauncey Price
J. H. Rawls
Martha Greer
Zeb Greer
Summit
F. L. Clark
Pastor Jenkins
Shady Grove
Ada Wooley
Lee Busby
Quinn
Osie Rawls
Beavers Creek
Death of Claud Maxwell 14 Died From Acute Rheumatism
Claud Maxwell son of Mr and Mrs Carroll W Maxwell of Fair River neighborhood died Monday at 4 pm from acute rheumatism. Funeral at Fair River cemetery Tuesday conducted by Rev R Purser. Large crowd attended as bereaved parents receive heartfelt sympathy amid sorrow and loss. Also a brief classified notice announces two cows with calves and two good males for sale at Pearlhaven, Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claud
Carroll W. Maxwell
Fair River
Brown
Pearlhaven
Mise
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ORTH
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Crescent City
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W. R. Williams
Cold Springs
F. S. Swalm
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Hammond
Maj
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Hon. H. Cassedy
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Grandma Daughtry
J. B. Daughtry
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Mamie
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San Antonio
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Greenwood
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Parsons
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Scherck
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George Haynes
Kentwood
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Wesson
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T. E. Summers
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Joseph W. Wooley
Joe Wooley
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J. P
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Ik Ege
Siew Weites
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As Mart Poi Kaur
Winchester
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Gillet
Ruth
Leasant
Mary Feler
Claud Maxwell
J.M. Wood
F. W. Becker
New England
Ehurch
A. Price
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