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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1905
Page
4
Dr Ira L Parsons left for Chicago. Local merchants advertise candies, lumber, glass and building supplies while calling for estimates. Community figures visit, schools and teachers noted, charity drives for yellow fever relief, and rail line officials and dignitaries seen in town amid social and legal happenings.
A Mississippi bank with capital of 13000 dollars lists its Board of Directors including Dr T Hewitt W L Lewin Dan Bolian J Li McGehen A B Connolly Frank Converse D Davis B E K Brister and W M Campton with Brister and Dan Bolian as officers. The note praises local men and the town of Bogue Chitto for support and confidence. The lead editorial discusses Pike County murder verdicts and editorial responses from the Slade case. Detroit dispatch reports Surgeon General Suzuki of the Japanese navy declaring twenty years as a Christian with his wife and five children converting and praising missionaries in Japan.
Mrs J T Cotten, an accomplished mediator, will manage the dressmaking department for Jno McGrath & Sons though delayed in moving to Brookhaven. She will visit Brookhaven each Wednesday afternoon to take orders, with delivery as promised and guaranteed satisfaction. Her current address is Summit, Mississippi.
Miss Ada Wooley becomes assistant teacher at Ruth school. The Equinoxiat weather harms cotton fields. Principal Higdon sits front. Mr. Reeves back on foot after illness. Residents report northeast drift for smallpox along East Fair River. Miss Nannie Botys builds an office and store near Union Church. Delegates Summers and Richey attend Union church association. A pelican eight feet nine and a half inches wingspan, bill fifteen inches, killed by M. L. Tyson. Pleasant Hill church holds narce service. Pastor Scarborough to continue. Parsons and McCullough attend Ruth school opening.
Hon. 8. D. McNair, railroad commission member, toured the Delta prison farms and reported the Sunflower farm crop could range from 2800 to 8000 bales if not damaged by frost. Total state yield eyed around 3800 bales, versus 4500 last year, a 15.5 percent drop. Sunflower leads in quality while Belmont looks bleak with poorer fiber and heavier seed requirements.
The Lincoln County Baptist Association cancels the October 13 meeting date due to yellow fever outbreaks and quarantine rules. The meeting is rescheduled for October 27 at Arlington Baptist Church, six miles west of Bogue Chitto, with R. J. Boone as Moderator and G. T. Douglass as Clerk. Ex Governor A H Longino returns from a business trip to Monticello and notes warm Chicago weather with no frost. The Mississippi Central By offers cross ties contracts. request details from the Resident Bo neer's Office in the Cassedy Bus ing.
Rev N Hatch of Summit says he has sold his Sum mit home and plans to move to Silver Creek. The infant child of Mr and Mrs G C Bankston died Sunday morning. Mr Irl Armstrong and Miss Ella Herring wed yesterday at the bride’s mother’s home with Judge J M Armstrong officiating.
About two to three hundred attendees welcomed speakers W F Parsons and M McCullough who urged teachers pupils and patrons. Enrollment reached 85 the largest opening in Ruth history, with a recently rebuilt well equipped building and strong faculty led by Bennie Dunn Ada Wooley and Bennsts Purser.
Fragmentary text from The Oxford Eagle discusses public support and patronage. The unreadable lines suggest a call for readers to back the paper and sustain its operations, with emphasis on independence and public assistance.
A fragmented, humorous note traces a philologist’s remark on the phrase not worth his salt. It alludes to ancient Rome and salt payments, referencing sal clam and salarium as early terms for wages and allowances. The text contains garbled OCR language and incomplete phrases.
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