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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1915
Page
2
A compilation of political notices lists candidates for state senate district attorney county treasurer circuit clerk chancery clerk sheriff and supervisors. It includes candidate names such as C Kendrick J N Walker and L C Bellamy, plus reports on fatal and injurious election day incidents in Kentucky Mississippi and Iowa, and a local appeal for water works in Iuka.
The writer thanks the Goon People of Tishomingo County for support in the treasurer race and notes no hard feelings about candidates. He reports on community health, drought, and recent church meetings, plus local births and deaths, and lists neighbors and incidents with a steady, conciliatory tone.
A county record lists commissions and payments for election expenses and road work from various districts including taxes, bridge and culvert maintenance, and public road surveys. It notes changes in assessment rolls, a Rock Creek bridge bid readvertisement, and local social notices and editorials about hard times and justice.
Notice of sale under a deed of trust in Tishomingo County Mississippi. Burnsville Mercantile Company seeks to satisfy indebtedness by auctioning ten acres forming a V in the NW corner of SE ¼ of section 10 township 3 range 9 and a ten year old horse named Bob. Sale to be held at Burnsville for cash to the highest bidder. Trustee Willie Faust posted July 10 1915.
Dear friends I am very thankful for the strong support you gave me in the first primary and ask for greater help in the second. Give me these four years and let my friend Bebe rest while I serve you. When four years are out I will not seek a second term. Is this not fair Yours truly Geo W Stricklin.
Editor of the Vidette receives a heartfelt thanks from a long-time county citizen who, after forty years in the Confederacy service, expresses gratitude to voters in the run-off for treasurer. He emphasizes his sixty-five years of county life and notes this will be his last election. He appeals to the entire county for support by word and vote.
An election message from E. A. Payne to the voters of Tishomingo County thanking supporters for the first primary and soliciting influence for the second primary. He notes loyal precinct backing, acknowledges two opponents, and asks for continued service as Chancery Clerk for four years.
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