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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1897
Page
3
South Bound No 1 Fast Mail departs 6 00 p m. No 3 Limited at 9 06 a m Ro 91 Local Freight 4 00 pm Local freights do not run on Bun Gay A W Mitchell agent The A W Bramlett office Over Chiltons Drug Store Office Hovars 9 to 12 m to 4 p m Residence on North st Telephone No 87 Oxford
Local items report Browning Club meeting at Mrs F M Stowers on Tuesday the 11th. Abbeville replanting crops after cut worm damage. Oxford delegates greeted at Epworth League Convention in Valley City. County Supervisors held May term. results to appear next issue. Cut worms disrupting Oxford gardens. warm sun may stop them. Oxford growing and improving. call for more houses to attract families. Stock law prompts sale of stock and sheep in several townships. Demand for a handsome public hall noted. two prominent citizens expected to build it. Leavell of our city won first prize in Phil Freshman debate at University. Rev T W Dye of Winona preached two sermons at the Methodist church. Baseball game vs State University nine Saturday score may favor University. strong team with improving batting. Local note mentions Guise and A McCharen.
The page records a veteran’s rate bill dated February 16, 1864, multiple April marriage licenses for local couples, and announces the Forty-ninth anniversary of Phi Sigma Society at the University of Mississippi with Maurice Fulton as orator on Government and the Citizen. It also praises Miss Carline Gates’s concert in Camden, lauds Dowdall’s Opera House pupils, and notes telegrams and sympathy messages for a late public official.
U.S. Marshal A J Cooke visits the city this week. Mr and Mrs E O Davidson return from Florida. Mrs J T Chambers visited Water Valley friends. Mrs Dora Gentry returns from a visit to sisters in Grenada. Mr and Mrs Murray Falkner of New Albany visit Oxford relatives. Hon J W T Falkner spent Sunday at home. Miss Holland Falkner enjoys Jackson visit. W A Gallogly of Abbeville among friends Tuesday. Mrs McKee returns from visit to daughter. Dr A M King and Dr attended Odd Fellows meeting.
The LaFayette County club meets with Mrs. Deupree, discusses Browning volumes, Incas history, and club affairs. The issue notes members moving away, apports from Mrs Bradford and Miss Harrison, and social talks at the April gathering with a focus on local promotions and community notices.
Prof J O Mabry and Mr A Dougherty visited their Senatobia homes. Clarence Townes, an old student, has been visiting on the campus. T C Kimbrough of Jackson appeared on the campus last Saturday. Several students spent Sunday in Water Valley for Epworth League convention. Freshman medals: M B Leavell of Oxford first, W B Hogg of Wesson second. Hermaean Society medals contest Thursday night in University chapel. Phi Sigma anniversary Friday with orator M G Fulton. Exercises start 10 30 in University Chapel. Two University baseball teams to meet Bhma M College next Friday at Columbus. University Orchestra to perform in Assembly Hall. Reported by REPORTER.
The health secret is the power to digest and assimilate proper food, but this cannot happen if the liver does not act as it should.
The 1897 Oxford ordinance declares hog pens under 109 by 100 feet a public nuisance and orders removal within city limits. It also requires privies to be sewered or kept in sanitary condition with dry earth or ashes and emptied twice monthly. Pricey endorsement by Mayor F. Brown and Porter.
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