Local Social Roundup and Tragedy in Kingston
Mrs L E Beare and daughter Pauline return from New Orleans and Poplarville while Misses Pearl Webb Lucile Shinn head to Hattiesburg for YW encampment. Ernest L Watts, 16, a Laurel resident and switchman for the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad, died after a June 17 1912 accident in Kingston. J Gales Hospital treated him. Engineer C A McMullins assisted. the community mourns the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest L. Watts
Laurel
Miss
Jesse Gales Hospital
C.A. McMullins
Ernest
Gates Accepts Nominal Presidency of Clarke College
Rev L G Gates pastor of First Baptist Laurel has consented to a nominal presidency at Clarke Memorial College Newton with limits to his involvement his work in Laurel to continue. Trustees will handle daily management while vice president Bud Daniels dies in Sandersville June 24.
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Clarke Memorial Collge
Newton
L. G. Gates
Pator
First Baptist Church of
Laurel
Stimmeler
Hig -Church
Culpepper
Sporting Cotton States League Second Half Results
Results yesterday show Jackson 4 Meridian 3. Yazoo City 2. Vicksburg 8. Columbus 2. Greenwood a. Upcoming games include Jackson at Meridian and Greenwood hosting Yazoo City, with Atlanta tied 7 7 Chattanooga and Mobile 2 at Montgomery 7. Memphis 8 Nashville 3 New Orleans 8 Birmingham 5.
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Sporting Cotton
Jackson
Meridian
Yazoo City
Vicksburg
Columbus
Greenwood
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Mobile
Montgomery
Memphis
Nashville
New Orleans
Birmingham
We L. Pet
E.i
Pet
Sett Eee
Asaee Be
Gindecate
Atlanta Bisie Weeds
Chattanooga St Yeee Ewe
ASD
Ees
Nashiville
National League Scores and Wet Grounds Report
St. Louis defeated Chicago 7 to 6 while Brooklyn toppled Philadelphia 7 to 0 on a day with damp field conditions. Boston beat New York 2 to 0 and Cincinnati tied with Pittsburgh in a weather affected game.
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St. Louis
Chicago
Boston
New York
Eincinnati-Pittsburg
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Baseball scores and a daily league recap
In American League play New York defeated Boston 3 to 0 Philadelphia topped Washington 8 2 Chicago beat St Louis 8 to 1 Detroit 2 Cleveland 6 The Go White Sox beat Grammar School 42 to 6 featuring Hatteriss Claude Bell Earl Lowe Haskel Beard and Alvin Hitchdock.
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New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Chicago
St. Louis
Detroit
Cleveland
E.G. Go. White Socks
Grammar School
Hatteriss
Claude Bell
Earl Lowe
Haskel Beard
Alvin Hitchdock
Officer Pruitt Fends Off Burglar At Foote Patrick Store
Officer Pruitt on night duty, recently switched to the night staff by Chief Duckworth, confronted a burglar in the Foote Patrick Company store. The thief fled after spotting the officer, narrowly escaping capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pruitt
Duckworth
Foote-Patrick Company
Mayor supervises cemetery road project and grading
The street to the cemetery is being rebuilt and re graded under Mayor Bush. He oversees the work with the city convict force and road plows, taking personal interest and much time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bush
Liverpool Cotton Market Report June 22
Moderate trading with prices unchanged. Sales reach 7 000 yards for middling cotton at 6.63, receipts totaling 2 000. Figures indicate steady demand though some delivery terms for August October November are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Chicago Grain and Provisions and New Orleans Cotton Report
Chicago grain market noted Wheat steady to three quarters down in June trading. Provisions showed weakness, slipping five to seven and a half points. In New Orleans Cotton June 22 trading closed steady, with a drop of three to seven points.
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Chicago
New Orleans
Local residents and visitors noted at area hotels
Dan McFarland of Sandersville and Prof John Satcher of Heidelberg joined Laurel friends this morning. T Q Brane and David Moore of Bay Springs registered at the hotel last night, with C W Sowell of Wisner among today's arrivals. First Methodist Church schedules: 9 41 a.m. sermon Death to Sin by the pastor and 8 p.m. sermon God's Command to Love. Epworth Leagues meet at 4 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan McFarland
Sandersville
John Satcher
Heidelberg
Laurel
Messrs
David Moore
Bay Springs
C. W. Sowell
Wisner
First Methodist Church
Epworth
Governor Bilao Grants Pardon To Simpson County Youths
Jackson June 23 Acting Governor Bilbo pardoned two young white convicts, marking the third clemency in his term. J A Howell of Clarke county had been jailed for embezzlement since January 1910 for a three year sentence, and Albert Moore, 16, from Simpson county, who plundered a freight car, had served half his sentence and received a pardon in March 1912.
Marriage Licenses Listed for June Dates
June 15 8 N West to Miss Hat tie Williford and June 17 W E Jones to Miss Mamie B Evans married by Rev. Jack Crawford. Turin 18 Webb Vinson to Miss Mattie Downs. Spray with parts green 4ib to 50 gallons of water for Croquet sets at Wallace Drug Co. Fifty gallons of bug and worm potent 98 conte 4 Lecoupe the Original Dowagiac Minnows at Wallace Drug Co.
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N. West
Hattie Williford
W.E. Jones
Mamie B. Evans
Jack Crawford
Turin
Webb
Vinson
Mattie Downs
Wallace’ Drug Co
Potental
Lecoupe
Establishing Grades for Street Railway Considered By City Leaders
Mayor Bush and the street committee surveyed the city to settle grades for a street railway. They reviewed the line to the Wausau mill via Front street and Hastman Gardiner Co and Windtim Avenue. Work on the line build is being pushed with energy as the interurban survey to Ellisville is completed and blueprints laid before Mr. Walker for inspection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bush
Wausau Mill
Hastman Gardiner & Co
Windtiam Avenue
Ellisville
Walker
Texas Militia Readies Action Across the Border
Adjutant General Hutchins and Colonel Walker of the Texas militia travel to El Paso on governor Colquitt’s orders to defend citizens if battle erupts with federal forces across the river. Reported plan awaits no further Washington action, with 2000 Federal troops led by General Sanjines near Juarez. Militia companies are poised nearby for potential engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Texas
Hutchins
Walker
Colquitt
Washington
Sanjines
Juarez
el Passo
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Hicks Mercantile Company
Mr. L, Eb, Ragsdale
Uhem
Eben Baker
Hattiesburg
Zula Curry
West Point
Alice Curry
Knoxville
Tenn
Allendance
Walter Beare
Pauline
New Oriesns
Poplarville
Lawrence Wilson
Gulfport
Pearl Webb
Lucile Shinn
Hattiexpore
The
Woman's College
Shinn
Philateha
First Baptist Church
Kingston Po Ptist
Chandler
Stratton
Byrd
Scarbrough
Joie de Vie
Mae W. Beers
Fifth Avenue
Miss. Burbridge
Delta
Messdames Love
Kimbrough
Shannon
Patrick
Irene Buckwalter
Gates. Aggepts
Presidemgy
Clarke College
Bud Daniels
Southern League
Officer Pruitt
Tate
Bilao
Simpson County
Wallace Drug Co
Associated Press
Pond
Lily
Buckley-Terry Company
Grocers
Paris
Sehuggs
Tryth
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