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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
3
A compact Iuka community update lists residents visiting, traveling, and social calls. Mentions include W. 8. Brown in Memphis, Will Clark inka route 5, Rigganes at Amory, J. R. Muirs newborn daughter, Ernest Hampton at Camp Pike, and Adelene Akers heading to Dallas. Also notes Lost items, sales ads, and civic notices with Clean Up Day announced by Mayor Ft Carmack.
The notice lists individuals who purchased Third Liberty Loan bonds but were omitted from the prior publication. Names include Wilford Harwell 50 dollars and Dr T P Haney 1,000 dollars among others. The item ends with a stray customer line requesting shipments of chickens and eggs and cash.
The Federal Land Bank offers loans to farmers at 5 percent with local attorneys handling applications. Also reported are successful Red Cross benefit entertainments titled Claim Allowed and a program featuring Housekeeping in 1950. Reverend McIntosh tours Bowie Texas after a widely praised revival in Iuka Mississippi.
For sale two thousand pressed brick suitable for mantel or porch. Contact 881f) G. T. Reid for details.
Mr. Howell T. Barbee of Ripley Tennessee arrived Tuesday and will spend two weeks or more in Tukab to benefit from the mineral springs waters. He has visited before, staying last summer and the prior year. He is lodging with Mr. W. F. Bonds, and the community hopes his stay will be agreeable and advantageous.
Two elevated Sheffield lots offered for $650 each with $250 down, balance at 8 and 6 months. Each could host a three room rear house rented at $20 monthly. Seller Gro L McMasters invites inquiries in Sheffield and the Tri-Cities. Lost dog: black and white hound spotted, reward $5, last seen Luka, Mississippi.
The Woman's Division of the Third Liberty Loan, led by Mrs. M. B. Bozeman, is credited with a successful campaign. The executive committee and community extend thanks to her and all assisting ladies. The note also advertises three business lots in Tuka for sale by W. S. Brown.
L E Ropinson of Iuka Mississippi writes that after enlisting in the U S Navy he listed his brick storefront with Geo L McMaesters. The sale to a party in Alabama was completed quickly and he received cash in full as title passed, he recommends McMaesters for others selling property.
News scarce but health is good. Children’s day at Snowdown drew a large crowd Sunday. Mr. Buddy McKinney died the 25th and was buried the 26th at Snowdown. Mr. Dick Provence visited Sunday. Emmett Curtin and family returned to Quinton, Alabama, after visiting relatives. Rose Bup extends best wishes.
A wartime poem calls friends to support the South’s soldiers crossing the sea. It praises courage, faith, and sacrifice, notes prayers from loved ones, and tells how a preacher’s message leads soldiers to repent and pledge righteousness before going to battle.
The Vidette notes favorable growing conditions with above average corn and generally late but decent looking cotton. Peach crop expected to be very short and apples blighted with possible 50 percent of an average yield. Red Cross meetings boost donations amid community efforts to aid the cause. Local men head to training camps while others attend church services and discuss labor shortages and farming focus.
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