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Newspaper
Laurel Daily Argus
Location
Laurel, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1912
Page
2
The Argus Chronicle lists subscription options with yearly, six month, and three month terms by carrier, plus a rural route special price of 3.00 a year payable in advance. City weekly charges and Laurel city surcharge are noted among the terms.
The Consolidated Printing Company owns The Laurel Daily Argus the Argus Chronicle and The Jones County News. The Laurel Daily Argus is the only daily in Jones County and The Argus Chronicle is the largest circulating weekly in South Mississippi. The Jones County News serves Ellisville as the oldest weekly. For advertising rates contact Consolidated Printing Co Laurel Miss.
The notice lists Frank H. Bush Frank M. Meek and J. C. Clark as mayoral candidates to succeed Albert W. Noble, and J. H. Crawford D. A. Scarborough as city clerk candidates to succeed Andrew Flanagan. The rest includes miscellaneous local notes about rail work, weather, and legislature opinions.
The article argues no public funds were diverted for personal use though teachers may have been paid more than the dedicated fund. It pleads the error was technical, born of zeal for rural schools, and hopes for an amicable, prompt adjustment by the new Board of Supervisors.
A. C. Anderson, editor of the Ripley Sentinel, is elected President Pro Tempore of the Senate and praised as a leading Mississippi journalist. H. M. Quinn, former editor of the Centreville Jeffersonian and current editor of the Pythian Journal, is chosen as Speaker of the House and highly regarded among newspaper circles.
The Mississippi Senate and House clash over Governor Noel's biennial message with readers cut off and the message unread in both chambers. Senator Norwood offers to print 250 copies to desks, while the House adjourns without hearing it. The split reflects strong Vardaman majority support and poor Governor Noel standing.
The article notes ruby mines in the Mogok Valley dating from 1600 with rubies from antiquity to modern times. It blends miscellaneous quotes and local notes including upcoming events in Laurel Mississippi such as farmers institutes, a county fair association meeting, a mayoral election, and Edith Crawford’s departure.
Walter Savage Lander presents a dramatic echo of Pericles and Aspasia with a boast of long rule and absence of public mourning. The passage frames power, glory, and restraint as enduring legacies.
A Syracuse Herald lecture contends that the traditional homemaker by the fireside is increasingly judged immoral by theorists. It notes some top theorists do not even attempt to satisfy broad expectations of motherhood amid changing views.
A satirical remark contrasts a rooster and an owl over sleep habits, urging people to follow natural hours of sunset and dawn as life’s tone shifts toward old-fashioned common sense.
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