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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1895
Page
3
The Leader reports announcements from the Justice of the Peace and district officials. Names and details are obscure due to OCR issues but indicate formal notices and appointments dated September 24, 1905. The fragment references legal and administrative declarations.
A town and county roundup lists Shabbos observances and Day of Atonement services at Heuck's Opera House plus Congregation B'nai Sholom plans. It notes civic events, visits by local residents to Monticello, Silver Creek, and Clinton, and upcoming marriage announcements for Richard Alous and Cecila Scherck in New Orleans.
The Prohibition party Executive Committee of Lincoln County calls a meeting at the Brookhaven Court House on Friday September 27 1895 at 10 o’clock a m The committee membership includes Beat 1 Vernon Smith Beat 2 John D Bailey Beat 3 H A Kinchens Beat 4 H T Reed Beat 5 B P Anding County at Large L H White W H Allen E P Douglass Obed Rollins All members and party nominees urged to attend for campaign business E P DOUGLASS Chairman John D Bauer Secretary
The City Graded Public School opened for a nine month term with Principal Miss Lou Lovell and a full faculty. Enrollment reached 227 to date, the highest opening yet. The Board of Control approved five year text book assignments and a detailed grade by grade curriculum including Readers, Spellings, Geographies, Grammars, and drawing tablets.
A dynamite blast at the Lyn Phillips negro gambling den on Monticello Street near Heucks Opera House wrecked a rear room used for boarders. No one was inside. Phillips and others were present in the rear room. The blast, first suspected as a safe robbery, is condemned by Leaver reporters and local citizens as a dangerous act in a crime-ridden area.
Robt Cassedy, a Brookhaven stenographer known across the state for talent and promise, died at home of typhoid malarial fever after ten weeks of illness at 6:30 p m. He was mourned by a wide circle of friends. Funeral services were led by Rev Stewart Jones and Yarborough, and his burial followed with many attending in sorrow. The same issue notes the Woman's Missionary Society of the Baptist church observing its ninth anniversary with a small but appreciative gathering including music, readings, and an address by Pastor Yarborough.
Go ing Nowti No 26 EXPASS leaves New Orleans at 7 arrives at Brookhaven then Jackson Train No 2 leaves New Orleans and arrives at Jackson Some trains stop at all stations while others skip flag stations Nos 1 2 5 20 It mentions limited stops at Ham mond McComb ity Brookhaven Hazlehurst Canton and Water Valley and notes a connection via a northern branch roads.
Notice states a missing woman case with partial address Colley, Atlanta, Ga Box 862. One will be sent you from the address given.
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