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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1915
Page
5
The article warns farmers to resist expanding cotton acreage next year despite high prices. It argues the 11 million bale crop this year yields far greater gross returns and lower costs than last year’s 16 million bale crop, largely due to the war’s impact on supply and demand. It notes mounting political talk in local press and lists community notices, marriages, and business ads.
The Lyceum Course will open the season in the School Auditorium on December 9. Adult season tickets cost 2.50 for six entertainments, high school tickets 1.25, and all pupils below high school 0.15 at the door. Nonstudents pay 0.50, and children under 12 pay 0.25. All proceeds go to the school via the Lyceum Account for expenses, and any surplus funds will buy curtains for the school building. The course promises high class attractions and value.
A prose poem by the late Bob Taylor of Tennessee extols morning’s beauty and dawn imagery. It praises the sunrise as it dispels night, with vivid nature scenes and a sense of hopeful youth and love, inviting readers to reflect on the day’s promise.
The Fortnightly members and visitors met November 19 with Prof and Mrs Howard leading a discussion on Little Luxemburg. Ida Lee Pyle spoke on John M Hall, Bay View Man, Ruth Carmack read Lissaver and Curzon pieces, and after study hour conundrums and games followed. Mrs Howard with Frances Howard and Robert Moss served salad.
Roll call covers Asiatic Russia. Piano solos by Christine Powell Gladys Elam. Prehistoric Peoples of Oklahoma by Howard. Birthday honors for James Whitcomb Riley. Violin solo by L F Campbell. Study article Seen in the Caucasus. Meeting place and hostesses Mrs J D Powell Mira Powell Christine Powell. Time Friday evening December 10 at 3 30.
A note from Lay R L McKnight presents a copy of The Iuka Weekly Gazette dated Thursday June 18 1867. The fragment indicates preservation of historical newspaper material and attribution to the donor. The text lacks further readable content to summarize specific events or notices.
Thanksgiving services were held in the Methodist church last Thursday with a featured reading of President Wilson's proclamation by Miss Lucile Walker. Addresses were given by W. T. Bennett and J. A. E. Pyle, a paper by Mrs. S. F. Howard, and the choir sang with a standout solo by Miss Ruth Shockley.
Advertises scholarships in Macon Andrews and Memphis Business College and one in Wheeler Business College at Birmingham Alabama. Emphasizes demand for stenographers and bookkeepers and invites readers to enroll for better positions.
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