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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1903
Page
3
Fragmentary item from The Leader notes a Brookhaven focus with initials wm and ALB. The unreadable text suggests local coverage, possibly community events or personalities, but specific names, dates, or places are not discernible in the fragment.
M McCullough visited Jackson Monday. Parsons Oberschmidt Co offers skirts up to 15 dollars and ladies jackets from 2 to 12 dollars. Mrs Susie Pegram is in Castalian Springs for a few weeks. H Cassedy left for several days in Vicksburg. Labor Day observed by locals with time to spare. Mrs J W McGrath returned from New Orleans visits. Miss Annie Nalty also back from New Orleans. Mrs F L H Hartman spent days in McComb City. Miss Eva Bogdwee returned from two weeks in McComb. Miss dosia Hurst returned to Laurel after a visit home. Mrs Full returned from St Paul and Minneapolis. Capt and Mrs H B Bishop of McCaugh visited daughter Mrs John E Heavey. I will buy chickens eggs hides wool and all county produce. Parsons May Oberschmidt Co claims all executives are home raised and self made. call urged. Dances at Mrs John McGrath’s and F F Becker’s social events. W F Parsons General Manager invites old and new friends to visit. Miss Lylah McCullough sister of M McCullangly guest of Myrtle Greer. Eitse McCullough teaches at Linsal’s. Methodist ladies hosted a pleasant entertainment last Friday at Mrs W S Penn’s. funds toward new pews for church.
An old time retail ad promotes Abshagen's Shoes offering shoes for ladies men and children for Sunday wear and working days. Slippers are available to rest feet with affordable prices for good shoes.
Local items note Wm Abshagen store closure on September 22 and October 1 for holidays. Also mentions Miss Jimmie Newman guesting, visits, society events at the Methodist church, pension board sessions, teacher association meeting, and various social notes from Lincoln county with several names and places.
County officials plan sessions September 14 to locate county schools and set terms for the new term. Lincoln county free public schools open October 19 with uniform start dates, and examinations for teachers occur at the Brookhaven courthouse on specified dates for white and colored applicants. Examinations begin at 9 a.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday.
Neat new and comfortable residence in the northwestern part of town on reasonable terms. Apply to 8 Kohlman.
A raid by Magee and officers searched a room over Crawford's Restaurant on Front Street for intoxicants. They found 12 0z bottles of whisky and a barrel of beer misrepresented as malt tonic, with a portion sold. Calvin Wey eluded officers. the goods will be held or destroyed. The council adjourned after reports and sewer vote results showed 71 in favor and 77 against sewer bonds. Chamberlain's remedy praised by a local, sold by Grafton Drug Co.
A man named Sam Coon caused a mild stir by driving to the courthouse at eight with four black passengers and claiming smallpox. Police ordered him to leave town with his allegedly contagious pest-breezing load, noting nearby reports of twelve cases in Bogue Chitto area.
Regular monthly session of the Board of Supervisors largely heard delegations from county public schools urging a tax levy raise of one mill to extend the term to eight months. Most present favored the increase, with Prof Graves and others backing the plan, while routine duties like land assessments and personal rolls continued. A separate note mentions local ads and medical testimonials, including Worm vermifuge and lung treatment pitches, amid general city news.
Protracted meeting concluded last Friday at the Baptist church. Eleven new members joined, some as young as eleven. A mass citizens meeting is planned at the Lincoln county Court House next Saturday the 12th inst. Reports note busy doctors handling ill folk and road work underway with ditches at risk of washout after rain.
A profusely decorated Boone County Recorder copy features a pen sketch and a Lincoln County Mississippi born educator, William Pinkney Dickey. It chronicles his early life, education at Mississippi College Georgetown College and his successful Walton Graded School principalship, noting his modest demeanor and strong character. The piece also includes a humorous excerpt about miscues in subscription addressing at The Leader.
The advertisement touts Paine's Celery Compound as a cure for disease and a life giver restoring vigor, strength, and nervous health. It features testimonials from women like Mrs Mary M from Ohio praising its effects and claims it purifies blood and steadies the nervous system.
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