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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1903
Page
3
Chancellor Fulton returns from Washington. Oxford social and business notices fill the week with visits from Water Valley to Memphis. The Eagle urges subscriptions and promotes sales, entertainment at the College, and local marriages including Miss Alma McCarthy and Mr. George L. Bonds with rector note.
The Eagle offers bundles of vintage newspapers at 25 cents per hundred copies. This sale targets collectors and researchers seeking archival issues.
The couple were married Thursday night at 8 in the Presbyterian Church with Rev. W. D. Heddleston officiating. Attendants included Miss Virginia Miller, Mr. David Hutton, Miss Maggie Bailey, Mr. Marlin Collier, and four ushers. The bride wore a light brown suit and bouquet, and the couple left for Harrison to make their future home. The EAGLE offers congratulations. In a separate note, Dr. J. G. Deupree declined to endorse a Students Reference work citing unfair treatment of the South and depiction of Southern leaders in a negative, biased tone.
80 acres of land eight miles northwest of town offered for the year 1904 at a bargain. For particulars apply at this office.
A 5 year old Jack offers for sale or trade, and a 4 year old Jersey male thoroughbred priced at 15 dollars. Also offered are several hundred gallons of sorghum at 25 cents per gallon by Darrel.
A scanned page shows a church school attendance form with fields for denomination, beat, superintendent, and contact info, plus questions on months open, officers, teachers, attendance, additions to church since 1902, and department structure. It includes requests to mail the completed report to J R Counttiss in Oxford Mississippi and a separate notice from Chancery Clerk B P Gray about settling recording fees before the January 1904 expiration.
R A Johnson a contractor and painter offers painting staining graining and furniture finishing including bronzing and gold leaf. He overhauls furniture and guarantees satisfaction. Public demand drives ready service.
Advertises low home and land prices in Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Texas for homeseekers and colonists. Notes buyable farms with 85 10 15 per acre, soil crops and climate details. Describes descriptive literature with maps and real estate dealer contacts. Reduced rates apply first and third Tuesdays via St Louis Cairo Memphis and the Cotton Route.
Residence on Depot street offered for immediate possession. For terms and details contact W. D. Porter at Merchants & Farmers Bank Theo. Sweeney.
Wanted. Men to learn the barber trade. Tools diplomas positions and board. Lapis Years saved by our method of free work and expert instructions. Write today. Moler Barber College New Orleans La.
The Atlanta Constitution hailed Bishop Warren A. Chandler's June 1903 address at the Grand Opera House as the era’s greatest platform utterance. Advertisements offer pamphlets postpaid for 15 cents by W. F. Crussole, publisher, 449 Spring Street Atlanta. Also promotes Dr. Crane stomach and liver tablets, Grove’s Chill Tonic, and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with guarantees and prices.
The Thrice-a-Week World promotes its wide circulation and fair reporting ahead of the campaign with a $1 yearly subscription for 1656 issues. A combined offer with The Oxford is available at $1.75 for one year, or $2 for both papers.
The advertisement touts nitrous oxide and oxygen as a superior antiseptic anesthesia for tooth extractions. Dr. W. B. McMahon is billed as the city’s sole dentist using this gas, claiming fast induction and rapid recovery with low prices for quality work.
The Oxford Baptist Sunday School officers and teachers enjoyed a banquet Friday night hosted by Superintendent Dr. F. L. Riley and wife. About thirty guests dined on a seven course menu and heard toasts by L. P. Leavell, G. W. Leavell Jr., Dr. R. M. Leavell, Rev N. W. P. Bacon, and D. M. Kimbrough. The event ended with hymn singing and warm remarks praising hosts and the school community.
Advertising copy touts painless tooth extraction with no pain felt. Estimates are cheerfully given and no action is required from the customer. Samples of work shown at Dr W B McMahon’s Dentiel Parlors, phone 196.
The State of Mississippi to Roxey Pegues whose office is unknown you are commanded to appear before the Chancery Court of LaFayette County on the fourth Monday in November 1903 to answer the suit of Charles Pegues in which you are defendant Dated October 25 1903
Letters testamentary for Benn Price granted by the Chancery Court of LaFayette County Mississippi on October 23 1903. Heirs and creditors must probate and register claims within one year or be forever barred. MEMPHIS Trust Co Executor.
Non Resident Notice directs Josephine Singleton of Texas to appear before Fayette County Mississippi Chancery Court on the fourth Monday in November 1903 to defend the suit brought by Thomas Mize et al. dated November 27, 1903 and signed by Clerk BLP. GRAY.
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