18 Aug 1910
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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1910
Page
1
The corner stone of a new three story Tishomingo flour mill was laid with speeches by leading citizens. The mill will be 40 by 50 feet, stone and concrete, and contract awarded to P Anger of Corinth. It aims to aid local farmers and boost next year’s wheat patronage.
An advertisement touts a wide selection of fall and winter goods. It promises the biggest stock of shoes hats millinery and notions and invites shoppers to come for the goods.
Local column records Tom Brannon declared a lunatic and sent to an asylum after neighbors intervened. Mentions residents attending circuit court at Iuka, a Phil Ballard conviction for retailing, protracted meetings, medical notices, and crop reports. Includes quotes on Judge Green and a note about corn from Eastport by B L Bishop.
The Southern Christian College West Point Mississippi announces the September 7 1910 opening for a new session. Eight scholarships have been issued for Gulf States young ladies. New furniture and pianos added.
The undersigned open a regular Feed Store at Belmont Mississippi with oats corn bran shorts cotton seed meal and hulls and invite public patronage. Jackson Patterson and Be 4 Broom Factory. Reopened broom factory in North Tuk a plans 60 acres of broom corn planted by parties bring corn for pay. Straw fine and brooms good. Moore Bostick Co.
Belmont residents and visitors are noted on various business trips and social posts. G W Davis, D R Shelton, B F Wright, Finis Botts, Monroe Pharr, R E Craddock, Luther Jackson, J Tipton, MD Thorne, Filram Blanton, Uncle Billy Gurley and son Henry, N J Sartain, Thos Hallmark, O Lindsey, Jas Montgomery, and Jas A Miller appear in town for commerce, meetings, or family matters. A new storage house by L P Allen Hdwe & Furni ture is used for wagons and furniture. Elder PG Wright holds a meeting at Liberty church and Kosuth trips are mentioned.
Crops needing rain and notes on local visiting friends mark a Sunday scene. Cassie Moore hosted Ada Tidwell, and Jim Moore from Texas visited. Miss Callie Howell is not well. Annie Oaks and Amara Howell appear among names in a brief community notice.
A reader explains how a letter from LF Gable stirred memories of family ties and old friends. The note mentions Pinkney Hanks as a cousin and recalls the writer’s childhood, with reflections on inherited kin and a cousin who once lived at the family home in Mississippi. The piece notes recent heavy rains followed by hot dry weather and rising sickness.
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