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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1898
Page
4
The notice lists arrivals and departures at TLAINOU Central with times and connections. It mentions lines to Jackson and New Orleans, noting varying station stops and the need to make connections. The garbled text implies schedule details for trains arriving around evening hours and links to nearby routes.
Official directory entries list county officials in Brookhaven and surrounding areas. Names include clerk’s office members F Parsons president, district officials Ham Brister and others, superintendent of education Edgar Ureen, surveyor A J Maxey, and K J Phillips as constable, with meetings monthly and February September sessions.
City directory lists ward officers and city officials including mayor, treasurer, tax collector, and attorneys. Local items mention illnesses, visits, store painting, new attire, cotton prices, ongoing construction, and upcoming board meetings with brief notes on residents and businesses.
Septem ber term of the Chancery Court at Brookhaven adjourned after a sensational divorce trial W T East on Jee and M East. A single negro juror sat on the white woman's chastity case, provoking condemnation. The verdict found no adultery by Jessie M East within charged dates. A long list of divorce and land cases was disposed of, with numerous guardianships and probate actions noted.
The notice lists courses in literature science philosophy elocution pedagogy and law across twenty two schools with an enlarged staff of instructors and a complete water and auitary system, promising unsurpassed health and Oss.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL items describe community updates including a healthy city, upcoming wedding belts, rising public school enrollment, visitors Mrs May Butterfield and Mrs D. Davis, and daily college enrollment. notes cover a Gunners' Association meeting, sick leave of Miss Jyme Daughtry, Bnai Sholom Saccoth observances, parsonage occupancy, lime for disease prevention, postponed Missionary Society meeting, a ministerial move to Baltimore, observance Day of Atonement, arrival of Capt D D Ewing and bride, Athenian Society officer elections, a health booklet offer, and a storm at the Presbyterian manse with generous community gifts and renewed ministry commitment.
A clipped newspaper column condemns loafers in town streets and calls for stronger vagrancy enforcement. It contrasts Lexington Advertiser and Reveille quotes urging work over idle living, notes march of beggars, and praises stricter local order. Also references doctors, new millinery, wagon shop, mail schedule, deaths, and a promotional ad for a medicines bulletin.
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