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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1904
Page
3
Local pages report sick blanks and recoveries, shop ads for Tar Ease and spring goods, and multiple millinery openings. Visitors from Paris, Hobler, and Dallas appear. university and church events and a real estate note for Gulfport are noted amid court term updates and juror lists.
Fee sale of work mules and several horses announced by Falkner Transfer Company. Stock guaranteed to be suitable for work. Prospective buyers invited to call at the barn to inspect the animals and make arrangements.
Mr Claude Mitchell and Miss Daisy Dean Russell wed Monday night with Rev W J King presiding. Groom raised in Oxford works for Illinois Central. bride daughter of Mr and Mrs C W Russell and noted Gants mae Recut ing lady.
Frieda Siemens offered a dozen piano classics from Bach to Choyshyoth at St James Hall. Critics in Atlanta New York and Boston praised her superb technique and refined temperament. The performance drew high audience enthusiasm and universal acclaim.
In the early hours of the morning Mrs Rosie Perkins wife of W R Perkins died at her home in Tula Mississippi after a three week illness. She endured measles during recovery from grippe and leaves husband four children two sons and two daughters. A devoted church member for fifteen years she was laid to rest in Tul Cemetery beside an infant, with a Bible verse cited.
List of unclaimed mail matter left at the Oxford Mississippi Post Office for the week ending March 11 1911. Includes names such as Earl Brigance and P M Sadecribe with the numbers of letters and advertised dates.
Classified notice seeking subscribers or participants for a high class article service. Mail responses to P. O. Box 615 in New Orleans Louisiana.
A garbled notice notes the neighborhood generally good with some cases. It mentions sorrow over the death or illness of Sr. Robert Myde and his family, with bees and other matters referenced in poor OCR.
The piece urges recruitment for Deaconess work in the Southern Church and outlines past year figures, including 650 F. Mac E. Brigade boxes, 5502 sent, and enrollment fees yielding $1299. It notes meetings, Bible study plans, and the need for volunteers, plus local notices on illnesses, births, deaths, and community events in Delay and nearby areas.
For sale a woodswork and blacksmith shop with a full set of blacksmith tools. Apply to Mrs M J Sroare. March 1. North Oxfort.
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