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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1897
Page
3
North bound trains listed as No. 2 Fast Mail and No. 4 Limited with a 53r Local Freight. No. 1 Fast Mail and No. 3 Limited appear in the schedule. Stations noted include Tev or Waterford with some lines not stopping at these locations. W. Mitchiell, Agent.
In Oxford a flurry of local notes marks new year activity. Prof. Hightower returns after illness as residents discuss water works expansion and labor demand. Marriages, deaths, church events, and a moving story teased for the next issue frame community life.
Miss Bessie Roane visits Memphis and Mrs Neta Dunlap visits New Albany. Mr H Sanders makes a business trip to Sicily Springs. Mrs G K Smith returns from Indianola. Thanks extended to Sir 31 M Knight for favors. Mr Tom Stone moves to New Point Tenn to his brother. Mr M Boone leaves for Memphis for Medical college. Harry Myers returns home to Oxford to work with parents. Mr Jerry Hamerton returns from southern State to La Fayette. Mr Chas Petrie of Seymour Texas visits his parents. Ragas family from Texas visiting John and Mrs Morrow. I plan to sell or trade for Delta land my residence and 36 acres near the University. A H Kendel. Saxpers Swweeny advertise cheap 16x20 portraits from negatives. Big remnant counter at J E NELL Sox.
Corinth student G S Candler enters a special course while Jackson’s Daisy Pock joins the University. Examinations loom as Prof Krane visits Memphis for eye treatment and Rev Croxton conducts chapel. Several students return or recover health. the Borchetti sisters miss exams due to their mother’s death. A Bible class is canceled next Friday due to exams.
The Worthy Master of the Mississippi State Grange will visit Burgess on Friday January 22 to reorganize the old Clear Creek Grange and Oxford on Saturday January 23 to reorganize the Oxford Grange. All interested are urged to attend and hear Brother Wilson speak and join the organization.
The Browning Club met December 21 with fair attendance despite wintry weather. Mrs Croxton hosted on December 22 with the president absent due to illness. Mrs Leavell and Mrs Bartlett presented papers on Rouget De Lisle and Louis XV, sparking lively discussion on French history and literature. Next meeting to be at Mrs D T Carte on January 5.
An essay contrasts courtesy with true Christianity urging empathy without hypocrisy. It argues life’s sorrow requires genuine kindness even if emotional effort feels forged, and ends with ads for medicines and health tonics from Chilton’s and Grove’s.
An advertisement promotes Chilton's Reliable Diar rhoea cure a sure for diarrhoea dysentery and summer complaints. The notice invites inquiries to J H Kimmons and Muss Ipa Howell.
The Sunny South paper offers $20 in gold to the entrant who forms the largest list of words from the letters in Sunny South The Sody 3rd 4th and 5th. Foreign words and proper nouns excluded. Entries require 30 cents for three months subs and may win one of four novel offers.
We offer about le remaining Cassimere garments from the season at actual cost. These 160 styles, latest fashion, were bought at low cash prices and are now ready for sale. Each pair of pantaloons priced like a common item with cash terms. Call early. stock sells fast. WE. KERSHAW agent. Oxford Clothing and Pants Factory.
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