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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1916
Page
5
Local notices advertise for sale and rental items including coal heaters four room near Spring Park and various seed potato offers from C W McKnight and others. It mentions ready to wear department offerings at The Vidette and Model Drug Store plus ice season preparations by J B Williams and furniture and caskets at Powell's.
Sweet potato seed stock offered on a first come basis. Secure by placing a small payment with Lyman Paden at Jourdans Drug Store to insure your order. Also a Sanders Barnyard Drill ad offering a manure powered machine with mail-in payment option from F E Jameson of Falkner Mississippi.
E H Gravette advertises staple and fancy groceries with low prices for cash. Morning Glory Flour fancy patent is guaranteed at $1 per sack. If not satisfactory, flour may be returned. Come and see him at 2h-41J Gravette.
From this date until April 15 I will take orders for Frost Proof Cabbage Plants at 1.00. Sweet potato slips in T have two and three year old grape vines priced 15 to 25 cents each. The varieties are suited to this locality and dependable for fine fruit every year. W. A. Hodges. February 1, 1916.
A local notice offers ten five cent packages of select garden seed by RE Buchanan of Memphis to every new paid in advance subscriber and to those who pay for a year in advance. The seeds are described as very best and specially packaged for this promotion.
Corinth visitor tales and local commerce fill the Iuka Vidette. Names include Meusher Cord Von Cander and J C Jourdan Jr. as well as W H Fairless Co. groceries, Vidette office calls, church and school events, a May millinery opening, and a March 16 Parad ise Church concert. Rook Club and Wesley S S Camp meet deadlines and a Hazel Elizabeth wedding to Robert Lewis Ford is announced.
Mrs. S J Smith hosted the Embroidery Club last Thursday afternoon. Ladies enjoyed an hour of fancy work and dainty refreshments followed by an auction in a shamrock decorated basket. Each guest received five dollars in play money and bids rose with wrapped packages. Mrs. F C Neal won a candy box prize, while a green roostery hid the booby pipe. Mrs. Smith’s hospitality earned high praise.
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