Local and Personal News From Iuka and Nearby
Local notices list visits and arrivals from Pasca doula to ClarRsdale and Arkansas, with town residents traveling to Dawson Texas and Booneville for duties. Reckoning figures include a birth and several farm and merchant announcements, plus upcoming events at Matthews & Cotten and a violin recital by Mrs. Arthur Falls in Iuka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Falls
Katie Seay
Memphis
Inka College
J. B. McKinney
Reedbrake Aug 5 144 Ep Vine
A rustic update from Reedbrake describes crops, cotton bolls, watermelons, and grapes. It notes a big last month picnic, honey bees swarming, a good fair, schools in session, and local industry including a four mill, new stave mill, timber work, and tie making opportunities. Local residents Geo Miller and Mr Roberson gifted music instruments after a gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naylor
New Goods Parade At Rutledge Store For Ladies
Local ad invites Inka and unity ladies to inspect a new line of dress and furnishings from Rutledge and partners. The notice touts value, urging customers to try and see and promises big value for money amid promotional claims and shop recommendations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inka
v#inity
R. T. Rutledge
Matthews
Cotton
Lines from this part of Texas offer mixed weather tales
From Stamford Texas August 5 1904 Ep Vinerre writes of health good and hard work with light farming here. Reports cotton sorghum and maize prospects. Describes drought then heavy rains from mid June to month end. notes crops harmed by storms and flooding. Mentions labor wages and lack of Black workers in the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stamford
Ep. Vinerre
Jones County
Jonas County
Leonkl
Reunion at Bay Springs Confederate gathering announced
The Confederate Reunion of Jas. F. Gresham Camp No. 883 U C A will be on Bay a on August 26 1904. The Tu Band and Hon J J Akers W B Ellis and DL Ross invited for music and speeches. Judge Sykes and others promised to attend. editor may have a special stool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. F. Gresham
U. Ca
J. J. Akers
W. B. Ellis
DL. Ross
Judge Sykes
C. C. Snook
To My Friends and Customers at McKinney Grocery Co
I have purchased D. L. Ross’s interest in the McKinney Grocery Co and thank my friends and customers for past favors. I will continue the trade at the McKinney store and will offer money’s worth of the trends that can be bought. T. Goyer
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minerarings
Arthur
Memphis
Misa Katie Seay
South
Rudisill Concert Co
Litoll
Moskowski
Nicole
Kimball
J. E. McKinney
D. L. Ross
McKinney Grocery Co
T. Goyer
Notice to Build Bridge in Tishomin go County
Notice by a county supervisor in Mississippi to let a bridge project at Yellow ant Creek on Ja fico, Tika, Afiax to the lowest responsible bidder on the first Monday in September 1904 during legal hours at the courthouse door in Inka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Tishomingo County
Inka
Miss
Yellow Ant Creek
Jafico
Tika
Afiax
Ma Bos
The Death Penalty And Local Advertisements
A fragmentary notice discusses Bucklen s Arnica Salve as a preventive for injuries and warns of fatal outcomes from minor wounds. It lists examinations for white teachers on specific September dates and dates for Negro teachers, mentions a flour sifter product from Link Milling Co and Matthews & Cotten, and notes Mrs J D Powell and children returning from Cassville, Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Long, Co
Sifter
Frisco
Link Milling Go
Matthews & Cotten
Latest Books For Rent and Local Notices
Local ad list notes books for rent including The Red Men of the Dusk and Castle Grainy Crow among titles. Also cited is Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy praised by John J Patton of Patton Alabama as lifesaving after a violent diarrhoea attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Men
Castle Grainy
Lepronari
Lady Roses
Barnett Drag Co
Chamberliin
John J Patton
Patton
Chamberlain
Calico
Chelsea
Crops and community notes from Tishomingo county visit planning
Local letters discuss hiring measures and wages for seasonal help through Christmas, prospects of rain on river bottom crops, and plans to visit Stamford with conveyance. Mentions McCormick's Sowers and Rakes, Hamuerly Hardware Co, and local clergy and school news including Miss Vingie McDougal. Several mentions of residents from Cairo, Tenn., Haddock Ala, Elm area, and Salem church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EA Hubbard
Haddock
Ala
Harris Ratsie
Salem Church
Vingie McDougal
Hubbard-Salem
Lee
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. N.mulford Jeweler
Luka
IUKA
G.wiper
Prop
In Miss
Guy D. Dean
Pascadoula
Fuka
Alex Ross
ClarRsdale
James Castleberry
Little Rock
Chas Bostic
Hillsboro, Ter
G. M. Broughton
Dineon
Texas
Thomas Adams
Alexandria
W. Dean
W. J. Walker
Candler, Miss
Dawson, Texas
Master Burns
W. Kt. Underwood
Olin B. Davis
Darlington
S. C
Hay
T. Je Redmond
CW McKnight
L. Q. Jourdan
Deckersville
Arkansas
Shell Davenport
Lucaday
Booneville
Biloxi
Robert McKeown
Maud, Miss
Turin
Juka
H. Hearne
W. P. Browne
Episcopal Church
Lyle
B. Nagle Hay
Winchester
Jos. B. Dean
W. W. Shook
North
Barnett Drug Co
Ang
McKnight
Dennis
Fulton
Bay Springs
Orrick
John Marshall Stone
U. D.C
Whiff
J. W. Jourdan
Opera House
Ida B. Whitworth
J. M. Stone
A.D. G
Tishomingo
Joseph B. Dean
Hall
FJ Cheney & Co
Toledo
FJ Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvio
J. A. Bowen
Tupelo
P. E. Duncan
J. B
Culpepper
L. A. McKeown
Bowen
Monteagle
Tenn
W. ©. Myers
Jula
Brown Shoe Co
Alabama
High Mound
A.d. Whitte
Missouri News
Ko. Vinerre
Lingth
Naylor Four Mill
Elie
Geo Miller
Roberson
J F Hughes
DuPont
Alet
Dr. i
J.C Jourdan
Odome
J.D. Powell
Casvilla
Missy
Ayer
McCormick
Hamuerly Hardware Co
Indian Creek
Yellow Creek
Ur Ues
President White
MP Church
Louis and
Riley Lg
Cairo
Brown
Elm
CC Johnson
DeWitt
B.C. DeWitt & Co
Cotenge
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