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Newspaper

Laurel Daily Argus

Location

Laurel, Mississippi, United States of America

Date

Feb 07, 1912

Page

4

Jones County Property Deals Reported in Land Transfers

A fragmentary list details numerous land and deed transactions in Jones County. Items mention townships, sections, and various parcels with payments and considerations, including grants to individuals and entities, and references to trustees and estates.

Gas Pipe Explosion Takes Street in Sudden Blast

A gas pipe explosion destroyed part of a street causing shop closures and emergency responses. No injuries reported as responders cordon off the area and investigate the cause of the blast.

Local and Personal Guests at the Nelson and Southern

The Nelson and Southern hosts welcomed a lengthy list of guests from St Louis Nashville Mobile Detroit Birmingham and Chicago. Notables include J H Quigley from Mobile. W P Martin from Chattanooga. C M Keene and W B Lamkin from Memphis. J Dobbs and L Wilmes from Tilissalle. and many others from Louisville Chicago New Orleans and Nashville visiting on business or pleasure.

Tsb Hodges C M Keene W B Lamkin Memphis

Spelling Committee Report on County and District Contests

The committee proposes that the spelling district align with athletic and teaching districts, each school receive three representatives, and the county contest allow three prizes of 1000, 600 and 408 dollars. It recommends selecting 100 words from Hawats Progressive Speller Part 2 and excluding previous first prize winners from future county and district contests. The district contest would be held countywide on the first Saturday of March and include one member from each supervisor district appointed by the county superintendent.

Roberts W Powell Melemorl

Gratitude Expressed by Mobility Contest Winner

A missive from Mrs S to Ellis in Filisville Mississippi February 6 thanks friends and opposing contestants for support in an automobile contest. She notes a diamond ring compensation but values good wishes and kindness from opponents and newspaper staff above the prize.

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Masterpiece Gone to Waste in New York Hotel Corridor

A seedy young man, with disheveled clothes, lurches to a ninth floor hotel door in New York explaining to a sleepy friend that a tragedy has struck. He cannot recall his excuse from last night as he says he called his wife on an instant phone to explain his absence.

New Yorks

Spelling Contest Committee Names Prize Seekers

The following teachers have been appointed to solicit prizes for the spelling contest winners. Beat 4 3S A Roberts Beal 2-D M Me ernoye Beat 2-0 W Jenkan Beat 4-Miss Mary Davis Beat 5 S b Williamson Remember the date of district contests the final Saturday 1 March. Time for county contest will be announced later.

Ieachers Roberts Beal Meernoye Jenkan Mary Davis B Williamson

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