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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1916
Page
3
Businesses advertise seed and feed prices while farms seek hands and livestock. Notes on visitors, real estate events, church services, and a traveling salesman mix with civic notices and school meet plans for Starkville and Iuka. Community life, commerce, and forthcoming events fill this local page.
At a board meeting the following teachers were elected for the next term Prof S F Howard as superintendent Mrs S F Howard for high school grades Miss Annie W ellens of Bolivar Tenn seventh and eighth grades Miss Ida Lee Pyle fifth and sixth grades Miss Lucille Walker third and fourth grades Miss Lucy Watson first and second grades Miss Ruth Carmack music.
Honor roll list from March 1916 for Clio Moser Mary Scruggs and Algus Wood in Eleventh Grade Ruth Carmichael Katherine Cromwell Ygden Gaines Donna Lovell Emilyn Powell Zola Timbes Buell Rutledge in Tenth Grade Mae Cornelius Willie Pennington Grace Timbes John Payne Herbert Reed Willie Webb in Ninth Grade.
Fortnightly Club sets Friday evening April 14 at 7 30 with a program of lectures readings and music talks. Sessions include Women’s Achievements in Music Miss Blanche Patterson Kipling at Fifty Mr Sam Reid Women Composers and their Music Miss Ida Lee Pyle The Call Path Miss Carrie Bostick Carmen Sylva Queen and Poet reading by Mrs D T Moss and hosting by Mr and Mrs S F Howard.
J. H. Turner and Wik express gratitude to the people of Iuka for the many good things sent on Tuesday evening. They note a shift in meaning of pounding since they began preaching and vow to live worthy of the town’s love, hoping to be a blessing to Iuka.
Miss Lucy Watson hosted the Rook Club on Saturday April 1 with five tables of play. Miss Ida Lee Pyle won the highest score and a nut set went to Miss Ruth Shockley for the lowest score. Guests included Christine Powell Fannie Joel McDonald Olive Hudson Marie Jourdan Ruth Carmack Gladys Carmichael Mary Dinsdale Mrs Hal Anderson and Mr Will Graham.
Dear Editor reports health good and farming active amid cool weather. A large crowd attended preaching and singing at Old Union Church yesterday. A memorial service is planned for Morris Hill graveyard Sunday in April with graves decorated and a yard cleaning the Saturday before. Brother Page to preach with dinner on the ground. two sermons or singing in the evening. Everyone invited for a day of Christian enjoyment.
Local notes report a big singing at Golden Mississippi last Sunday with a large crowd. Families and residents such as Virgil Epps and wife, L C White, and many others are mentioned visiting relatives, fishing, and attending church services amid ongoing farm work, weather setbacks, and community events.
Notice offers Vandivers Big Boll Early Fruiter seed as the best option for cotton yield and invites readers to apply for seed. It also mentions corn for sale, with cash or on good note, signed by Tt JAE Pyle.
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