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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1903
Page
3
Local column lists dozens visiting Oxford from Memphis Jackson Grenada Holly Springs and McComb City. Names include Scott Vance Gus Ray J EF Holmes Wm Jenkins and many others with trips to Memphis Denver Grenada Jackson and Greenwood.
The Eagle delays publication to publish first primary results next week. Local notices report visits, house parties, and relocations across Oxford Water Valley Mobile Cairo Tupelo and Clarksdale. Obituary notes include a death from heart failure for Tom Malorfé and several residents traveling or moving residences.
Local page records departures and welcomes including the Fultons and Mrs Thomp son heading to New York for weeks away. Gen A P Stewart illness at Epson Springs strains friends. Mr C M Owen takes Arkansas agent post. Mr Robert A Hill dies in Nashville and is buried in Oxford. Social visits, a lawn party for Miss Sharp and Walton, and a Jersey cattle display frame a rural life rich in community ties.
Public warning to stay off the Carnathan place three miles north of College Hill under penalty of law. Owners declare no trespass on the property known as Poston farm and advise observers to refrain from any disturbance or possession.
200 barrels of lime offered at 65 cents per barrel for disinfecting use. Value estimated at $1.25 per barrel by Lewis and McKee. Subscription requested for the Ease.
The first primary produced slow returns due to the lengthy ballot. Vardaman and Longino carried the county. Nominations include Representative Kimbrough Circuit Clerk Slough Assessor Cullen and magistrates Beat 1 Harris and Dooley. A second primary will feature Falkner Hightower Denton McMahon Welch Hartsfield Ramey Hughes McEwen Brown Anderson Smith Stephens Knight Roach McLarty.
For Rent after September 1st the store house formerly occupied by S H Sanders applies to R S A Murray.
Mr David McDowell Jr and Miss Bessie Cole married at Mrs Ellen Jones home with Rev WJ King officiating. Bride from Oxford and noted for charm. groom a Mississippi University alumnus and electrical engineer now in Rocky Fort DC. Couple depart for South Carolina after 9 o'clock train. Also a 160 acre farm near Water Valley advertised for sale by E L Pate.
Turner and Roden announce daily ice delivery with hourly weekday service and 9 am and 9 pm Sunday hours. Orders are welcomed by calling phone 120, with pickup from their location near the depot.
A vintage ad highlights nitrous oxide as the safest anesthetic for tooth extraction, claiming rapid induction and a painless, quick recovery. It notes Dr. W. B. McMahon as the city’s sole dentist using the gas and advertises low pricing for dental work. It also includes a court notice from 1903 and a sale pitch for sewing machines at B. M. Lacey’s with prices ranging from 35 to 37.50 and up to 500.
Huldrie Price died at 8 30 Sunday at his East Street home after weeks of illness from a wound related blood poisoning. Born in Tennessee he moved to Lafayette County in youth and served as a boy soldier in the Confederate Lamar Rifles. He later farmed near Oxford and for 17 years lived in town as a businessman and family man. He leaves a wife, daughter and three sons. The Lafayette County Medical Society was organized in Oxford with Dr. R W Banks as president, Dr. B F Linder as vice president, and Dr. W P Rowland as secretary treasurer. The 16 member group will meet monthly in Oxford.
My house and lot on South Street adjoining Mrs. B C Fee offer for rent or sale if not sold by August 1st. For price and terms apply to or address GOK Sari Oxford Miss.
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