Church Notes and Comments on Oxford churches 1920
A church column notes cooperation among Methodists and Presbyterians, union prayer services led by Rev. B C Mitchell, and an upcoming union protracted meeting. It invites Oxford residents to attend and highlights youth activities, a missionary society letter thanking the Oxford Eagle, and Sunday services with children's sermons. Repairs to the church are delayed by a mismeasure in two windows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colummn
Price
Methodist Church
B. C. Mitchell
South Street Church
Oxford
Epworth League
Evening Song Service Draws Town and University Crowd
On Sunday evening the pastor Dr. R L Motley led an Old Favorite Songs program at the Presbyterian church drawing a large crowd of townspeople and University students. The morning vote chose top songs Rock of Ages and Close For Me with Dr White Rowland Mrs David Neilson and Jesus Savior Pilot Me as selections. next month another song service is planned under Dr J N Swan as church members are urged to attend Sunday school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
White Rowland
David Neilson
Jesus Savior
Rey
Christian
J. N. Swan
Keep Home Dollars Working by Advertising at Local Paper
A countywide appeal urges Lafayette County residents to buy locally and advertise in the Eagle. It argues money spent at home stays in the community, supports merchants, and counters catalog shopping by promoting home ads and weekly listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette County
Eagle
Corn Prices Drop as Uptake Slows in Hickman KY
Hickman Kentucky reports farmers gathering a bumper corn crop while local buyers are scarce prices at 80 cents per bushel. Weather is favorable but market demand is weak and labor shortages add to farmer concerns about storage and selling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hickman
Ballard's peminiment advertised for rheumatic pain
An advertisement promotes Ballard's peminiment as relief for rheumatic pain with rubbing. It lists price 60 cents and 1.20 dollars, sold by H. Kendel in Oxford Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ballard
Fayette county club exhibits draw thousands at Bank of Oxford
Last week the La fayette county club boys and girls displayed canned goods home raised products and milk records at the Bank of Oxford Rest Room. Elizabeth Walker led dairy club reports while Marvy Doney praise for county work. Prizes included canning and poultry awards with state fair trips and special prizes funded by local banks and merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Club Boys and Girls
Lafayette County
Bank of Oxford
Marvy E. Doney
Canning Club
Mary Bell McLarty
Paulie Harris
First National Bank
Louise Hale
Eddie Kate Crouch
Thelma Harding
State Fair
Carla Bell Pope
Rorter Hardware Co
B. 8
S. Mize
Elizabeth Walker
May Bell McLarty
Minnie Lee McCoy
Black & Huggins
Dairy Club
Keifer
Jas. Stone
Bernice Arnold
Ethel B. Smith
Variety Store
Edith Harris
J. W. Walker
Sam Friedman
T. W. Yates
W. T. Major
C. J. Lawhorn
Mississippi extension plans for North district poultry round up
Agricultural College at Holly Springs lists plans for a general poultry and dairying round up in the first week of November. Two groups from the northwest and northeast districts will assemble at the North Mississippi branch station Triol Springs under C J L Ames and Miss Kate Patridge. The drive promotes dairy and poultry club activity and farm bureau cooperation, with awards and judging of a county bread contest in Kosciusko showing growing interest in home economics among Attala women and girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
Della B. Alley
Lee Rice
M. Esther Rogers
Wisackeriy
Attala County
Kosciusko
Attala
Bridges
Willie Russell
Canning
Cooperative Extension Plan To Reach Mississippi Farmers
Director R S Wilson and J J Taylor outline a Gulf and Ship Island Railroad backed plan to demonstrate extension work across the state The program will use railroad equipment for demonstrations in crops horticulture animal husbandry beekeeping and more with field staff to lead the displays A November visit and a Gulfport horticultural society meeting are planned The Mississippi State Horticultural Society officers and Richardson extension horticulturist are noted in the release
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural Colege
Miss
R. S. Wilson
J. J. Taylor
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
Commonwealth
Gulf & Ship Island Road
Euture
Dr Hargis on Existing Evils and Civic Decay
Dr Hargis denounces the creed of “get all you can give the least you can” as eroding civilization. He argues wage inequities, reduced effort, and unchristian conduct threaten employers, workers, and industries, urging more work and less extravagance to restore prosperity. He cites cotton factories and housing costs, critiques political blame, and warns disaster without humane spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wwhuenho
Mualu
Seale
Ulblau
Wwe
Congress
W. I. Hargis
Widow of Col Gordon Weds Hazelhurst Man in Intimate Ceremony
The widow Mrs Ella Neilson Gordon married Brig. Gen. A. B. Carter in a small Tuesday morning ceremony at the bride’s sister Lou Neilson’s home. Attendants wore Confederate uniforms. post-ceremony plans place the couple in Hazelhurst for their future home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Neilson Gordon
A. B. Carter
Hazelhurst
Lou Neilson
J. A. Christian
Emma Grace Johnson
A. A. Young
Charlie Gates Sr
Aoin
Gates
J. L. Shinault
G. W. Buffaloe
Gordon
Carter
Washington, D. C
Mississippi
James Gordon
U. S
Miss
Capitol City
E. Neilson
Oil well at Cicily Island shows oil in ditch near Natchez
Report from Natchez Mississippi notes confirmation of oil bearing sand in Causey No 1 at Cicily Island Louisiana. Rowe and O'Dell operators say oil shows in ditch and expect paying quantities deeper, drilling planned to 3500 feet with new pipe arriving. Investors from New York Kansas City St Louis and Texas engaged. J W Jolly directs operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natchez
Miss
Cicily Island
Rowe
O’dell Operateurs
Catahoula Parish
Fred S. Rowe
Sicily Island
New York
Kansas City
St. Louis
Texas
J. W. Jolly
Southern cotton planters seek funds to pay debts
Birmingham October 8. W P G Harding and D C Wills met Atlanta branch directors to discuss supporting cotton at forty cents a pound. L B Jackson said 80 percent of Georgia banks back broader credit to planters to pay debts, wages, fertilizer and supply bills, noting loans would be brief and not strain the system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
W. P. G. Harding
The
Federal Reserve Bank
D. C. Wills
Atlanta
American Cotton Association
L. B. Jackson
Georgia Bureau of Markets
Jackson
Federal Reserve System
Losses in Oil Stocks Warn Investors in Texas Banks
A Texas bank official warns that about ninety five of every one hundred dollars invested in oil stocks are lost. The Treasury Department notes not all losses stem from promoters or mismanagement, yet many investors chase the sector despite poor outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Treasury Department
United States
Christian Science Monitor
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Mt. Alan
Mrs. Calloway
Missionary Society of the Oxford Auxiliary
Mary Lee Duncan
Cor. Lee
F Cailaway
Baptist Church
R. L. Motley
Lafayette
W. Price
Rowland Drug Co
G. G. Wilson
R. L. Chilton
Wiley Bros
Farl Baige
R. L. Tomlinson
W. C
F. B. Patton
Hale & Russell
Bramlett & Sons
E. D. Beanland
Ramey & Co
J. C. Culley
Daily Report
KKSP
L Keys
Wondy Wuta Goolsby
Wther P. Omits
Pouitry
Ui2- Uvein Juuuson
Btiel Shutu
Is. Bem Price
Mary Lucy Ulmer
L. #. Katton
P. C. Laalmer
Thel Smith
fTotal Credit Ee
General Poultry Show
State Horticultural Society
Gulfport
Co-operative Extension Division
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College
United States Department of Agriculture
Mississippi State Horticultural Society
Mississippi Horticultural Society
T. L. O’donnell
Sanford
Covington County
T. E. Laurel
C. E. Peatt
Wiggins
P. D. Carley
Yazoo
City
F. B. Agricultural Colege
Richardson
Extension Horticulturist
DR. Hargis
Col
Jame Gordon
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