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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1917
Page
3
A dense mix of classified items and notices from a 1917 issue includes stove pipe and elbows for ten cents, hay and cream meals priced at local grocers, room rentals, medicines, and farm implements. Several sale notices cover wagons, carloads of feed, canned goods, furniture, and a four room cottage for sale, along with a temperance fundraiser at Providence School House and a chancery court notice from Tishomingo County.
A crowded mix of local ads and notices from Iuka and nearby towns. Seeds and farm supplies at Langston’s and Moser’s Soda Fountain offer. various personals include visits, job moves, and store openings. Community items note weather, marriages, church work, and school events with names such as J D Fairless, WD Rackard, Lida Byram, and others.
An advertisement lists price reductions for various goods including cranberries almonds filberts pecans cheese citron grapes juice and coffee. It notes offers on cream meal sacks seed oats potatoes garden seed and a full line of feed and groceries for customers.
Dear editor I write to the Vidette with health good and notes of local life The sawmills run town weather bad crops look bright Miss Lady Smith and Miss Louie Kennady guests and friends travel to Cher okee for work Marry and move to a lonely new home in a distant area Blue Bed Darlings report sparse news at this time Mrs Amanda Beal ill but improving Mrs Dora Pearl Strickien Minnie Wheeler visit Mr Joe Befor and family Mr R P Holder visits Boonville Cousin Lyda Wren teaches and visits home The Sardis Sunday School grows with many enrolled Hunts and robins become pecker woods as noted Red Rose signs off
Salem notes report on illnesses recoveries and visits. Local events include Friday evening meetings of the Salem Literary Society at the school, re-roofing of the school building, a new room addition, and Sunday singing at Rutledge's. Birth announced for a Rast girl on the seventh insta. Various residents ill or traveling, and calls for better roads in Tishomingo county.
A listing advertises a Champion sewing machine dresser solid oak dining table with extension chairs and two rocking chairs plus a writing desk and a refrigerator. The compact notice emphasizes a bargain sale and available items.
The board of supervisors of Tisho ming a county Mississippi invites sealed bids by 9 00 oclock noon March 9 1917 for construction of roads in the district. Plans and specs are on file in the clerk of the board office. Bids to be opened with bond and awarded to the lowest bidder, subject to approval by the board.
Northern hidokets buying Spring and Summer goods and touts latest dress goods and novelties. The store promises up to date stock, complete lines, and big savings on men women and children’s shirts and shoes, inviting patrons to inspect the new stock.
TL Brow & Co report strong shift from calomel to Dodson's Liver Tone with many druggists noting its safety and improved results. The vegetable remedy costs 50 cents for a large bottle and is guaranteed to work or money back.
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