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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1915
Page
3
Local notices advertise for sale and rent items from piano boxes to cottages near Spring Park. Various smaller ads promote typewriters for sale, wall paper, corn, and auto services. Community news highlights spring fashions, millinery, local visits, road trips, and health notices with brief society items and business updates.
The First National Bank of Iuka in Iuka Mississippi closes its affairs. All note holders and creditors of the association are notified to present notes and other claims for payment. LT Gaines, Cashier. Dated March 29, 1915.
Dorothy Neal entertained forty five of her little friends with an Easter egg hunt on Saturday afternoon. Master William Henry Allen found the most eggs and won first prize, with Little Miss Trenna Waymer taking second. After games, guests enjoyed refreshments in the dining room at the Neal home.
Fifteen members attended the Civic League last Friday afternoon. Treasurer Mrs Hodges reported for the cemetery committee while Mrs R L McKnight and Mrs S J Smith sent circulars to non residents about work on cemetery squares. Dr W A Hodges chaired sanitation efforts with four men and a boy cleaning streams vacant lots and streets. The town cleanup improved noticeably. Children’s contest judges Messrs Little and Hall awarded prizes to E Calloway 1st, Class No 7 Methodist Sunday School 2nd, A J McKnight and Wille Johnson tied for 3rd, each 50 cents. Martha Lee Barnett won 25 cents for trash pile.
A roundup of local movement includes residents attending examinations in Tuka and Aberdeen Court, with visits between Coahoma Corinth and Hat tip towns. Mentions of candidates, school trips, and a depot substitute. An advertising blurb for HERBINE promotes liver and bowel cleansing for a healthy complexion at 50c through Model Drug Store.
Tishomingo county Union No. 14 will meet in Tishomingo on April 16 and 17. Secretaries must file reports on time and all locals are urged to send a full delegation. Ralph Reynolds, Secretary.
10895 bales were ginned in 1914 vs 8461 in 1913, a gain of 2734 bales. Jack R Bickerstaff, Gov. Agt. Patrons of rural routes urged to use parcel post advantages as weighing and counting period begins and routes are tested.
Herbert Milligan hired a horse from J F Robinson of Inka livery last Thursday promising a ten mile ride then vanished. The horse was found stolen when Milligan headed in a different direction. He appeared in Selmer, tried to sell the horse, and was arrested after telegraphs and postal notices. He confessed before Mayor Scruggs, pled guilty, was bound over to Circuit Court, and jailed in McNairy county.
M. S. Bozeman announces a retiring sale due to heavy competition in the mil linery business in Tuka. Easter stock and all hats are offered at less than cost with 40 to 50 percent off ribbons. Every hat in the store must be sold with price no object.
An advertisement warns calomel harms the liver and bones and promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable remedy. It promises a cure for biliousness and constipation with a guarantee that one spoonful will restore energy by morning and keep the family well, appealing to parents for children.
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