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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1905
Page
1
Louis Cohn and Bros offer discounts on dry goods and prints including blankets sheets and damask. Featured items include bleached sheetings, wool tricou, damask, pepperill sheeting, and women and children union suits with sale prices.
A fragmentary price inventory lists Flour in bbls and sacks, Bacon ribs, Liverpool salt in 200 pound sacks, Cream Meal in 38 pound sacks, Sugar varieties, Swift's hams and breakfast bacon, coffee, leaf lard, and a 60 pound soup box, with uncertain figures and typos. Names of items and units appear perishable and mixed, reflecting an OCR scan of a historical newspaper grocery column.
The presidential train carrying Theodore Roosevelt passed Brookhaven early Thursday after a 6 hour 36 minute run from Memphis. The president slept in his coach as crowds in New Orleans planned a grand reception before he continued by sea to Norfolk. Brookhaven residents traveled to New Orleans to witness the visit and reception.
An early catalog snippet advertises farm wagons with shafts and seat priced at 38.50 and 850.00 for a leather top buggy. It lists a Jewel Steel Range at 29.00, a Deering mower at 47.50, a Deering 10 foot steel rake at 24.50, a rotary sewing machine at 87.50, and a Blue Grass cane mill No 2 at 40.00.
Advertises men's suits from 10 to 30 dollars in all wool cheviots and worsteds plus tailor made options. Youth suits priced from 5 to 10 dollars features cassimeres serges and all wool worsteds. Also promotes handsome trouser patterns.
Edwin Clapp's men's shoes in vici and calf with patent styles featured. Crawford's men's shoes listed with patent vici and box calf options. Utz and Dunn's ladies shoes priced from $1.50 to $4.00 for consumer affordability.
Silk Velvet Hats trimmed in latest styles priced at 3 and 3.50 dollars. Felt and Velvet Hats in new shapes trimmed tastily from 1.50 dollars. Hack Hats offered in popular felts in varied shapes and colors.
In Justice Daughtrys Court several defendants including Karmer Bethea Albert Howard Pearl Wells Frank Wells Fred Wells Luther Gear ing Robert Middleton Jim Cot ter Patch Wells Pete Wells faced fines of 2.50 dollars plus costs. Mayor's Court saw Matt Diggs fined 100 dollars and costs for unlawful retailing. Chas Parzines and Sam Damico fined 5 dollars each for selling goods on Sunday. Lucy Evans and Mary Jane Evans charged with disturbing the peace of family. case not tried.
The past week lists issued marriage licenses for several couples including Whites with Sallie Watts and Hardy Roberts with Mary Stuart, plus Colored couples Louis Jackson with Caroline Simms and Edward R. Blue with Florence Evans. Baptist and Presbyterian church events, pastor appointments, and memorial offerings are noted alongside local deaths and estate sales.
The Leader announces a new weekly magazine section published with regular editions during winter months. It will feature miscellaneous reading matter and handsome half tone pictures, aiming to be instructive and entertaining without extra subscription cost. The paper claims the best subscribers in South Mississippi deserve this advance effort.
Trade is lively as farmers urged to hold cotton amid a wave of local visiting and social notes. S. Kemp of Hazlehorst and Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz of Magnolia appear in weekend visits. Miss Purser and Miss Cain plan moves to Blue Mountain College. Brookhaven leaders report on insurance agency formation and a misreported marriage claim. Local social, education, and business happenings fill the page with names, places, and prices, including cotton trading around 9.75 to 10.25 and academic appointments at A. and M. College.
A Lincoln Chancery Court record lists numerous decrees and guardianships ranging from land title confirmations and guardian settlements to estate administrations and divorces. It notes guardianship actions for Octavia Gage and M. Easter, sales and partition of land, allowances for wards, and demurrer rulings. The report also mentions Archib Simataged and railway construction progress near Tope, Arkansas, with regional impacts noted.
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