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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1902
Page
6
The Brookhaven paper posts petitions and candidate announcements for mayor and marshal races. It discusses Theodore T. Ratcliffe and D. Lanier as hopefuls, endorses clemency for Geo Wood’s pardon petition, notes Buffalo Bill’s retirement from show business and Col Butler Ames’ congressional bid, and touches on local crime, weather, and social issues referencing the era’s political climate.
This eminent divine and high official in the ranks of the church died last Tuesday the 18th inst and was buried the following Thursday at St Calumb's Chapel near Battle by the Eanes home the Bishop aged 72. He was born in Avia and was respected as a leading ecclesiastical figure with a large contingent of mourners.
H W Sears, popular humorist, appears at the Public School Auditorium next Monday night under the Athenian and Olympian Literary Societies. He drew crowds at Crystal Springs Chautauqua and promises hearty laughter and solid thoughts with a money back guarantee. Admission is 35 cents for this special occasion.
The Fair River Baptist Association calls on the Legislature to enact strict penalties banning the manufacture sale and use of intoxicating liquors within the state. Members pledge to persuade voters and candidates to support these measures and promote constitutional compliant enforcement.
R W Nunnery and L D Hughes visited Centerville last week. Rev M L Burton stockholder in Auburn Mercantile Co visited. Mr and Mrs Preston Watts of North Lincoln visited son J M Watts in Auburn. C H Carruth of Tylertown with Lampton Bros visited Auburn. Hughes sold 70 acre farm to J P Carruth for 1600 dollars. Auburn Mercantile Co with S E Carruth as manager and J M Watts as salesman is thriving. A killing of Walter Morrison in Summit by a negro stirred local excitement. Pleasant weather expected to continue. may enable cotton picking soon. Thanksgiving service at Adams Tabernacle next Thursday with W J Ferguson at 11, John Paul at 3 at Auburn M E Church. Dinner on the ground. all invited.
Auditor Cole demands licenses from hundreds of drummers and salesmen swarming into the state to boost taxes. County sheriffs are told to hunt for unlicensed vendors and collect county and state taxes. Local merchants claim these out of town traders rob them by contributing nothing to state maintenance.
An advertisement extolls Scott's Emulsion as a powerful fattener and strength giver. It claims the product builds bone, flesh, blood and nerve for invalids, convalescents, consumptives, weak children, and anyone needing nourishment, especially when diet is limited.
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