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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1910
Page
8
Local residents and visitors are listed with towns and states, noting trips to Memphis Corinth and Russellville. Highlights include Rev H M Jenkins and Dr HS Dill visiting, Miss Clyde Hill's trip to Memphis, and J Y Morrison’s bigamy trial with no verdict.
Special low prices advertised at S Ws McKnight's featuring Raising Kurrus Seeded Kaysins and more. Mentions Master Dean Davis bringing peaches to the editor and Autrey Mangum visiting Webster Adams. Notes both attending university work in Oxford and references Sorghum Making Outfits and Jat Tuka's Greatest Store.
Historic ad fragment promotes a costly remedy. The notice touts Ore Denerive as a cure or cash value for coughs and colds, reflecting a period advertising claim. No clear product details or company names are readable in the fragment.
The obituary of Mrs C E Mills was not received in time for this issue and will appear next week.
J H Faircloth promotes agency representing London and Globe Live Hartford and other major insurers at Tishomingo Banking Co. office. News notes residents moving to Iuka for schooling. Union meeting at Tishomingo begins tonight led by Revs Dodds and Jenkins with Rev Orr of Corinth joining Monday. Ice delivery by J B Williams ensures steady supply. Miss Lucy Duncan returns from West Point after visiting Mrs W W Harris. Seven bales of cotton stored in Farmers Union Warehouse sold to R W Carter for 14 1/278. Local grocers tout latest goods. G T Carmichael & Sop.
Health is good and crops look fine despite heavy rains. Dennis reports strong church attendance, social visits across nearby towns, and a busy schedule with singing events led by Mr Davis and others. Local residents mention health, pasture, water, and ongoing work while noting travel from Dawson to Tupelo and Cherokee visitors.
The message notes the first cotton bloom and lists subsequent receipts by growers including J. G Bray in Burnsville R 1, A Harris in Burnsville R 2, H P Buchanan in Iuka R 1, M R Turner in Iuka R 1.
All kinds of feedstuff offered at How ard's including corn oats cotton seed meal and hulls bran and shorts and Tenn mixed feed available for customers seeking varied livestock nourishment.
Burnsville residents in a mass meeting approved sinking a deep public well on the square and supporting road improvements across the two wire bottoms toward Elish Carpenter’s and Doskie. Citizens anticipate full crop lays, a growing WOW Camp, rural telephone work, and a rising town economy with more business, services, and drainage projects.
The piece notes improving health of Mrs Crumby and Mr Will Shamlin while rains persist for two weeks hindering work but forecast better weather for crops. Corn and cotton conditions vary by land, peaches are good, melons slow, blackberries fading with more rain. SS at Pine Grove progresses. preaching and meetings held at Pine Grove and Jackson's camp. A farmer voices opposition to a two mill school levy and argues for longer school terms funded by towns, with emphasis on roads and church access.
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