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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1904
Page
3
Sunday visits, court week notes, and shop commerce fill the page. Local residents J Brown and Rev Wyatt appear alongside ministers and students. The Oxford Pharmacy and Lex Ramey’s advertise supplies, while the Bazar offers oysters, dolls hats and treats. Dockets, holidays, and church events mix with real estate and brick prices as Oxford items of daily life unfold.
At a meeting of Gathright Lodge No. 33 F and A M officers were elected for the ensuing year with Master A L Bon Durant, Senior Warden H A Moore, Junior Warden J W Leghn, and Senior Deacon H H Thompson. An annual banquet follows the reception with “The Ugliest of Seven” at the Opera House. Also announced are Lyceum Course attractions at the University chapel including Edwin Cyclone Southers with “If I were the Devil,” Capt Richmond Pearson Hobson lectures, Dewitt Miller, The Chicago Glee Club and Edna George, Fred Emerson Brooks, and the William T Houston Co. Proceeds support the U D C. Cotton receipts for Sept October 2407, November 3333, total 5740.
The Lamar Rifles Survivor Association met at the Knight Hotel on November 24 and attended Union services at Cumberland Presbyterian Church led by Rev. W. J. King. The veterans carried their original company flag into worship, were presented with a battle-scarred flag by Oxford ladies, and reassembled at the Knight Hotel for prayers, a formal meeting, memorial resolutions, and plans for future reunions. Comrades Tolbert Shaw and Hedleston led the session, with notes on deaths of J. W. Morrow, H. Price, and W. H. Wilson.
A collage of old medicine advertisements touts Electric Bitters as a cure-all for stomach, kidney, and nerve issues with a 59 cent price and guarantee. Dr King’s New Discovery is praised for consumption and a Beall claim cites miraculous recovery. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm promises rapid wound healing. A separate item notes the death of Dockwell from suffocation after a cold, with Ballard’s Horehound syrup marketed by a local pharmacy.
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