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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1916
Page
4
An old time advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a vegetable remedy for biliousness and constipation. It claims calomel is dangerous, promises a guaranteed full morning recovery after one spoonful, and asserts the product cleanses the bowels and benefits the whole family without causing sickness.
The Barnesville News notes delayed spring planting due to bad weather and reports improving community health with malaria largely preventable by sanitation. It urges screening doors and windows and mentions strong Sunday School attendance. Local births are announced and events include a play by Burnsville old maids and a speech by Hon John E Rankin. The Yellow Creek Telephone line repair improves service after a cut in Burnsville.
Health is good at present and pleasant weather brings busy farming activity. Various locals and visitors are named including Vaden family, Jim Maxwell, Dewey Helton, W E Broadway, Lawrence Curtis, James Lomenick, Pete Jackson, D F Miller, Irene Mars, John Jackson, Riverton, Frank Thompson, Roby Doithit, Freeda Reeves, Mrs John Maxwell, W Broadaway, Jessie and Gertrude Yarbrough, and S G Yarbrough. A crowded fishing night yielded nice catches. Best wishes to Vidette readers.
Many life troubles such as headache indigestion and lack of energy stem from inactive livers. Grigsby Liver-Lax is a natural vegetable remedy that purports to correct these issues without calomel side effects. Get a 50?2 or $1 bottle from your druggist today. L K Grigsby guarantees it.
The Vidette and Commercial subscription offer lists a price of $1.25 per year. This brief notice promotes subscribing to the local newspaper bundle.
A Spring Hill crowd attended the Decoration at New Salem on Sunday with the writer reporting a nice time. Local visits included Miss Carrie Turner to Mrs Fannie Turner and Mr Brandon Chenault at Spring Hill preaching. Several other social calls appear, including Miss Plume Oaks to Cleo Stephens and Lillian and Alma Hill’s trip to Iuka.
Fragmented legal notices from Mississippi warn residents of Tishomingo County to appear in Chancery Court on the second Monday of June 1916 to defend suits in multiple cases including S L Summers cross complaint and Willie Padental versus Douglas Padell et al. Officials A Payne and EA Bayne are cited as clerks in these notices while attorneys W J Lamb and T A Crap are listed for cross complainants and defendants.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI summons directs T. M. Lou Laff and a list of Robinsons to appear before the Chancery Court of Tishomingo County on the second Monday in June 1916 to defend the suit of Anderson Holder et al.Filed April 27, 1916. BA Payne, Chancery Clerk.
A classified style notice advertises scholarships for sale to boost learning capacity. It mentions two Memphis colleges and Wheeler Business College in Birmingham Alabama offering scholarships to fit buyers for stenography and bookkeeping roles.
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