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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1901
Page
3
Oxford Missives recounts myriad social visits and illnesses, overdue sales and commercial notices. Local residents including Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Bramlett, and Misses Neill and Berry appear among frequent travelers and visitors in Oxford and surrounding areas.
Community notes report Miss Pauline Reynolds improving after a month with typhoid at her aunt’s Capleville home. Weather records note extreme heat and prostration deaths in northern cities. A Yates Grove Church protracted meeting is planned with Rev. T Leavell. Local mills, travels, picnics, camp meetings, and social events are noted alongside obituaries and civic pleas for a Humane Society in Oxford. The Oxford base ball team lost to Holly Springs 12 to 2. A drowning tragedy near Abbeville is reported and sewer odor concerns prompt calls for municipal action.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen of Oxford Mise. ordains the mayor and marshal receive two dollars each in all violations of town ordinances. The ordinance takes effect from the date of its passage. Signed June 6 by Mayor Adams and Clerk Tempe.
Auction note offers a young cow with a grade Short-horn heifer calf at foot ten days old Bem Prick. Steps the Cough and Works On the Cold Laxatives cure a cold in one day. No Cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents.
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