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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
3
Local society items list visitors and guests from Memphis Cherokee Ala and Texas. Birth announced. ads promote Reid Brothers store low prices, Massey Bros produce and Gaftney auto sales. Reads like a mix of visits purchases and local business promotions in Iuka with weekly notices and promotions.
Mr J G Whitton and Mrs Maggie Harris were married at two o clock in the home of Mr and Mrs W C Jackson in Iuka with a small gathering of family and friends. Rev L A McKeown officiated. Afterward the couple left for an eastern trip. The bride comes from a leading North Mississippi family and is praised for her character. The groom is a traveling salesman for Corinth Grocery Co with many Iuka friends.
Iuka notices report Massey Bros offering top prices for country produce and groceries with reader calls to visit Reid Bros New Gents Furnishing Store. The item lists Turner jailed for a Lima, Ohio capture, Singer sewing machines on easy terms, and local births deaths and events including Mrs. Merrill’s funeral at Mt. Gilead church.
A fragmented notice blends romantic verse with local ads and small items. The romance speaks of two souls finding each other in eternity, while market blurbs promote pants, remedies, a Ford car, livestock, and a butcher shop, all from Massey Bros. and Reid Bros. Furnishings.
Sugar 10 lbs for 1.00 and 24 lb sacks flour for 1.65 outline a sale list from Farmers Warehouse run by T. M. McDonald. The notice invites customers to stock up on alfalfa hay sweet feed oats corn and eggs and chickens at favorable prices.
A brief note from J. J. Moretn thanks friends and relatives for kindness and sympathy on the death of his wife. The rest of the text advertises sewing machines, oil, and poultry buying by Massey Bros and Singer Sewing Machine Co. Corinth Mississippi.
Local merchants Masse Bros invite customers to choose between taking goods such as groceries feed dry goods and shoes or receiving cash in exchange for produce. The offer emphasizes flexibility and value for shoppers seeking immediate payment or product stock.
A local church event schedule for the Fifth Sunday in June at Cross Roads Church in Tishomingo County. The program lists devotions, talks by W T Bennett C C Perry C Moor M M Elledge J P Broughton H E Ray J Finger, and a sermon by Dr Henderson, with Sunday School led by H E Ray and J C Finger and a Young People's session. A later note promotes local businesses and products.
An advertisement offers a 195 acre farm and a prime saw mill site in the county at Hazard four miles west of Iuka Mississippi. Terms and prices available from owner J L Dean Route 4 Tuka. Cash price three dollars and monthly payments three dollars. Also mentions sending the Singer sewing machine to your home through Massey Bros Mississippi.
A dated item offers reduced prices on shoes: Ones 1.10, Twos 120, Threes 1.25, Fours 1.50. The notice names D. T. Bourmant as general blacksmith and Tuka Miss as parties or persons involved.
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