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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1920
Page
3
Iuka community items report church attendance and Supervisors meet starting Monday. Visitors include Miss Lucile Walker and Mrs. M. T. Jones of Aberdeen, with several local exchanges noting store headquarters, suppliers, and upcoming events. A finger ring found, poetry sales, purchases at Reid Brothers, and a box supper at Burnsville church are also mentioned along with local obituaries, marriages, and business notes.
The Tishomingo boys basketball squad lost to Kossuth 13 to 11 in Corinth after a hard season game. The second team defeated the soldier boys 31 to 6 the same day. The Music Club offered an interesting program Saturday evening. Local livestock notes report two Poland China pigs born to the A H 8 and another to the first lady. Reporter notes prices on shorts and promotes White Flame Burners at McKnight's.
A medical director in Atlanta advertises a blood cleansing treatment for eczema, stating skin salves fail and the disease stems from an infection in the blood. The ad urges readers to start a course today and promises visible results with free advice.
Change of date for Saturday March 6th features Eyes of the World a 9 reel drama adaptation of Haroup Bru novel. Admission 25 and 50 cents. Also insurance policy pitch offers $5000 to $10000 death benefit and weekly sickness pay. Prickly Ash Bitters marketed for nervousness indigestion and urinary issues.
The fragmentary notice records the death of Mrs. Bertha Neal on February 16, 1920 and includes a sentimental poem about a rose, plus assorted local advertisements and notices about seed oats onions sets seed potatoes farm supplies and a sale listing for a horse mule and four hogs.
Classified ad fragment lists Hog Lard and Compound in 45 lb cans for sale at J. D. McRae’s Saturday. Includes mentions of a 30 HP fire box boiler for sale, a fresh milk cow, Easter hats, a horse and mule for sale, and various local offerings such as rat poison and chicken feed. Multiple names and locations appear in scattered items.
In Memoriam notes the passing of Mrs Sallie Smith Hughes mother of Mrs H W Shockley. It recounts a long unselfish life, devotion to family, gradual memory loss, and steadfast Christian faith with comfort in God home and Heaven. A Baptist church member, she is remembered as a loyal matriarch whose faith sustained her to the end.
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