Hayti Herald September 7 1916 issue
The Hayti Herald publishes its September 7 1916 issue from Hayti Missouri Volume 5 number 1. Local notices and community news fill this early 20th century page with brief items and announcements.
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Newspaper
Hayti Herald
Location
Hayti, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1916
Page
4
The Hayti Herald publishes its September 7 1916 issue from Hayti Missouri Volume 5 number 1. Local notices and community news fill this early 20th century page with brief items and announcements.
Drs. Crowe and Phipps from Caruthersville made a professional call to the city. Rev. Ralph Patterson of Portageville, a farmer, was in town and announced the New Madrid Baptist Association will hold its next meeting here on the first Tuesday in October. Patterson said he farms about 120 acres and expects a bumper crop this year.
The Hayti cotton market sees a strong year as 15 loads arrived by noon, all bought by Morgan of the Modern Gin. Week prices hold at 35.25 per hundred pounds in seed, with loads ranging over 100 dollars per shipment. A stranger named Win. Dobbs died in the Pentecostal meeting house Tuesday night.
Lefler's Drug Store advertises discounts on guitars violins banjos and mandolins with low sale prices guiding shoppers to the music shop selections and bargains for string instruments.
A Pittsburg Dispatch writer compares 1853 prices from an old day book with modern living costs. Entries show tea at 81 a pound, iron six and a half cents, coffee sixteen cents, sugar ten cents, flour four cents per pound, coal fourteen cents per bushel, cordwood forty five cents per cord, labor fifty cents a day up, with some skilled work at $2 daily.
J. V. Oates of BlythevilleArkansas, holding a responsible post with the Arkansas Grocery Company, is overseeing the Blytheville store during manager B A Tolle’s vacation. Oates is noted as a Haitian and is warmly welcomed by friends during his stay.
The accounts reveal tobacco purchases dominating entries with no alcohol entries. Payments use diverse methods while cash and bank checks are scarce. Examples include credits for two thousand feet of boards, $15, twelve cords of wood, $5.40, and a coffee and shawl charged at $5 with payment via a dressed hog weighing 125 pounds at five cents per pound.
The Dorris family thanks friends for kindnesses shown during the illness and death of daughter and sister Hettie Dorris who passed away Monday September 4, 1016. May you enjoy God's richest blessings. Mrs. M. E. Dorris and family.
M J Conran of New Madrid transacted business in Hayti Wednesday. Miss Dorothea Mize, formerly a public school teacher, now in Springfield, came Tuesday for a two week visit. She has been in St John’s hospital for about two years pursuing nurse training and will return soon to complete the required work for certification. Her Hayti friends are pleased by her progress and hopeful for success.
The Herald lists renewed subscriptions with names and amounts from Hayti Hornbeak and nearby towns. Notables include W H Bolen S P Oates A Fields Chas Morgan J W Gaither W H Johnson J W Dowdy O M Kiest Mrs RK G Sandidge John S Proffer Rev Ralph Patterson Miss Nelle Hayes and others. Also mention of Apple bats cups at Thuckleys and Mrs Annie Olree left with Andrew for Texas visit.
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