Copied from the "History of Lawrence and Jefferson Davis County", all rights reserved. For information on ordering a copy, please e-mail mikell@virginia.edu July 30, 1891 Our popular Chancery Clerk ran ahead of the ticket. He got 1065 votes. We tender thanks to Mr. J. L. Gray for two very fine peaches, one being the largest we have seen. Under all circumstances, under all conditions, under all influences, Bradycrotine will promptly cure all headaches. The American Eagle must be a gay old bird - he is bald. If you don't want to be bald, use Hall's Hair Renewer, and you won't be. Try it. The Presbyterian congregation is requested to meet at the church next Sunday at the regular service hour. All others desiring to attend are at liberty to do so. The primary election passed off quietly, the returns are all in, the monimations are made and everybody should now be satisfied. Let all Democrats now pull together and give the nominees a rousing majority next November STOLEN - Stolen and run off last August, a sorrel filly, with flax mane and tail; a little sway back; a white blaze down her fact to nose; a little curve by the blase; one white hind foot and four years old last Spring. I will give $15 reward for delivery or any information. - A. E. Ward The attention of our readers is called to the advertisement of the University in another column. Established in 1848, it has now been at work for forty-three years. It has educated over 4,000 of our young men. It is our State institution. Let every Mississippian take pride in it. Let all encourage it. Let all patronize it. Educate your boys in the State Colleges. The University offers its graduates as the test of its merits, and is not afraid. From F. J. Sager, Columbus Ohio, July 13, 1891. Hon. Joseph Dale. Editor Lawrence County Press Dear Sir and Friend - Please allow me through the medium of your paper to express on behalf of the Columbus Bridge Company, as well as myself individually, our warmest thanks for the courtesy and kindness with which we have always been treated by the people of Monticello and vicinity, during our long stay among you. I wish also to express my admiration of the honorable and business like principles upon which the public business of your county is tranacted which will ever reflect credit upon its officials. I shall always gratefully remember Monticello and take a deep interest in the prosperity and success of my many friends in Lawrence county. With Kindest regards to all, I am, very respectfully, Fred J. Sager. Monticello Academy, Monticello Miss, C. B. G. Ross, Principal. Second scholoastic year beigns Monday, Sept 7th, 1891. A gaded school for boys and girls. None but those earnestly desire to study and are fully determined to do right as far as possible, need apply for admission into the school. Board ranging from $7 to $10 per month can be obtained in Christian families convenient to the school, and for less in case pupils go home on Friday evening. Tuition will be as follows, payable in advance: Primary grade, 1.50 per mo, Intermediate grade, 2. 00 per mo, Advanced grade 2.50 per mo. For further information apply to the Principal.

Copied from the "History of Lawrence and Jefferson Davis County", all rights reserved. For information on ordering a copy, please e-mail mikell@virginia.edu August 1, 1889 Vote for the nominees. A great deal of rain this week. For the latest style in hats go to C. E. Watts. Standard prints for 6 1/2 cents per yard at L. Cohn's. The well in the court house yard is being cleaned out and otherwise improved. The white and colored teacher's institutes were held in town last Saturday and both were well attended by the "steel schoochers." Mr. V. M. Bass, a former resident of this county, but now a bookkeeper in the Mississippi Mills at Wesson, was among his old friends at this place last Saturday and Sunday. COLORED SCHOOL MEETING A meeting of colored citizens was held in the court house on the 26th, the purpose of which was to consolidate the schools in the neighborhood, the erection of a better school building and the purchase of its furniture and apparatus, as also the employment of some very competent teachers. The follow proceedings were had: John Allen was made chairman and Thomas Dagan secretary. HOMESTEAD NOTICE Joseph W. Daughdrill; wit: D. A. Scarborough, O. G. Jolly, H. B. Batton, J. Q. Stephens, all of Hooker. Franklin Bennett; wit: W. H. Nelson, W. J. Hamilton, or Hooker, Miss A. J.Nelson, of Silver Creek, Miss W. F. McInnis, of Monticello.

Copied from the "History of Lawrence and Jefferson Davis County", all rights reserved. For information on ordering a copy, please e-mail mikell@virginia.edu August 2, 1888 Wanted, Rain. Locals are scarce this week. Railroad is now all the talk. One $1.00 for the Press for one year. Mr. A. E. Weathersby is visiting Wesson. The Board of Supervisor meet next Monday. Suscribe for the Press. You will never regret it. Miss Hattie Cooper paid a flying visit to Brookhaven last week. Mr. J. D. Carlisle made a short business trip to Brookhaven this week. A communication from Capt. Wm. Oliver has been received which will appear in our next week's issue. Mr. C. E. Watts will soon commence the erection of a nice store in this town. Surely Monticello is on a boom. Miss Jennie Simon, the belle of Lawrence, has gone to Brookhaven to spend the summer with the family of Mr. M. Preibatsch. Through the kind invitation of Mr. Louis Cohn we helped wonderfully to devour a fine watermelon on yesterday morning. We never refuse. Mr. Thos Mangum, our young lawyer, has been very sick with chills and fevers for the past eight or ten days. We hope he will soon recover. Mr. A. Sharp, County Treasurer, returned from Bookhaven last Tuesday, where he has been attending to matters pertaining to the duties of his office. A communication has been received by us from Silver Creek which was crowded out this week. It has no name signed to it, and we will be compelled to hold it over. HOMESTEAD NOTICE Benjamin F. Polk, wit: Jeff Bridges, Howell Bridges, W. J. McNease, J. F. Hartzog, all of Blountville Benjamin F. Youngblood, wit: G. H. Fox, of Monticello, Jack Davis, C. N. Jolly, M. A. Griffith, all of Silver Creek. Alfred Washington, wit: Jeff Daniel, R. D. Daniel, Fred Daniel, Wilson Oatis, all of Silver Creek. Dr. Price Lupulin Yeast Gems, for light, Healthy Bread, the Best Dry Hop Yeast in the world. For sale by Grocers, Chicago, St. Louis.

Copied from the "History of Lawrence and Jefferson Davis County", all rights reserved. For information on ordering a copy, please e-mail mikell@virginia.edu August 3, 1893 Circuit court next week. Miss Ella Harris is visiting her home near Hazlehurst this week. Mrs Sones of Columbia is visiting Mrs. W. C. Maxwell near this place. The charming Miss Bessie Butler has returned from Brookhaven, much to the delight of her best of admirers here. Misses Launa and Julia Hoskins of Brookhaven have returned home. Their stay will always be remembered by our people with pleasure. We congratulate our young friend, Mr. Shelby Fairman on being chosen by the school board as a member of the examining board for the ensuing year. Rev. Geo B. Butler request us to say that he will not fill his appointment at the Baptist church here next Saturday and Sunday. He is ill at Hebron. The school board met here last Monday and located the various schools of the county, besides transacting other business. Their proceedings will appear in our next issue. The parties who came in town last Saturday to answer before Justice Andrews to the charge of white capping were bound over to await the action of the grand jury next week. Just as we go to press we learn that Colonel Hobgood has got a change of venue from Marion county to the second district of Perry county, and that the trial of Purvis for the killing of Will Buckley is set for today. Mr. J. C. Boswell, one of the best known and most respected citizens of Brownwood, Texas, suffered with diarrhera for a long time and tried many different remedies without benefit until Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhera Remedy was used; that relieved im at once. For sale by all druggists. It is with sad heart that we announce the death of little Carroll, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Maxwell, jr. which occurred at the residence of Mrs. Jonnie Sones, in Columbia, on Thursday last. The remains were interred in the Maxwell cemetery, near this place, the following day. On account of the extreme ill health of its mother subsequent to its birth, the infant was taken by Mrs. Sones - Mrs. Maxwell's sister - to her house. It progressed finely until a day or two before its death, when it was suddenly taken ill and died before father and mother should reach its bedside. The boy was aged about five months. We tender our sympathies to the bereaved parents, and are assured that they realize consolation from the blessed thought that their babe is at rest. EDUCATIONAL Elsewhere in this paper will be found an advertisement of Hebron High School. This school enters upon its fifth session Tuesday, Sept 5th, with brighter prospects than ever. The foru sessions through which it has passed have proved emphatically that it is no experiment, the people of Hebron community saying from the beginning that it should be a success. When your little boy cuts his foot apply Dr. Tichenor's Antiseptic. You will be delighted with the result. For sale by D. C. Griffith, Silver Creek. HOMESTEAD NOTICE Alexander Newsom, Wit: Levi Dampeer, Baker Sullivan, Calvin Norwood, Thomas Parkman, all of Hebron.

Copied from the "History of Lawrence and Jefferson Davis County", all rights reserved. For information on ordering a copy, please e-mail mikell@virginia.edu August 7, 1890 The protracted meeting at Bethel which commenced last Saturday is in fine trim. The Board of Supervisors is in session this week. Their proceedings will appear in our next. There was preaching in the Baptist church last Tuesday night by Rev. J. W. Boone, of Brookhaven. Messrs. Lyell and Walker, of the firm of Becker, Lyell, McGrath & Co., of Wesson, were in town last Monday. Owen's Pink Mixture is pleasant to take, contains no opium and does not check the bowels too suddenly. For sale by II. S. Scherck. Just as we go to press, J. C. Dion, the well-known photographer, rushes into our sanctum sanctorium and grasps our paw. Look out for his advertisement next week. Mr. Tom Brinson, Supervisor from Beat 4, tells us that his wife killed a moccasion the other day about 18 inches long, and about as large around as a man's finger. After its death, twenty young ones crawled out of its mouth, each one being about 6 inces in length. Location of Schools. The Board of School Commissioners last Monday located the following schools for this county, to-wit: WHITE - Monticello Academy, Bethel, Smith's, Cooper' Creek, Tilton, Bismarck, Cleveland, Hill, Midway, Center, Union, Evans, Spring Hill, Lick Springs, Cedar Grove, Bahala Chapel, Lawrence County High School, Hebron, Spulock, Oakdale, Price's Creek, Gwinville, Benson House, Whitening Rod House, Blountville, Pine Ridge, Oak Ridge, Polk' s Academy, Sun Academhy, Oakvale, Society Hill, Sharp's Academy, Silver Creek, Green's Creek, Whitesand, New Hope, Hemphill, Bournham. COLORED - Mayson, Topisaw, Oak Grove (west), Oak Grove (east) Greenwood (west), Greenwood (east), Pleasant Hill (north), Pleasant Hill (south), Garrett's Spring Hill, Dry Hollow, Mt. Pleasant, Pleasant Grove, Haynes' academy, Loburg. There were nine more colored schools located which we failed to get. University of MISSISIPPI will open its next session at Oxford, Miss., Thursday, September 25th, 1890. The University has been put in a more effective condition than ever before. The plan of study is so arranged as to present three parallel courses of study leading to the degrees of B. A., B. S. and B. P. In each course there is larger scope for election in subject given. Ninetine schools are taught in the department of Science, Letters and Arts, viz: Latin and Greek under Profs. Hogue and Bondurant, German and French under Prof. Fontaine, English and belles Letters under Prof. Eager. Mathematics under Prof. Hume. Physics and Astronomy under Prof. Fulton, theoretical Chemistry, Practical Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Mineralogy and Geology under Prof. Jones. Mental amd Moral Philosophy, Logic, History and Political Economy under Prof. Sims. Five Fellows under Prof. Sims in English, Mathematics, Chemistry, Natural History, and Physics respectively who will assist the Professors. The School of Law is still in charge of Prof. Mayes Tuition free to all, except a fee of $50 to law students. Expenses need not exceed $175 per annum. For catalogue and further information address EDWARD MAYES, University, Miss, Chancellor. HOMESTEAD NOTICE Frank Norwood, wit: Jerry McLaurin, Sandy Griffith, Salem Powell, all of Gwinville

Copied from the "History of Lawrence and Jefferson Davis County", all rights reserved. For information on ordering a copy, please e-mail mikell@virginia.edu August 8, 1889 "Josh" Beal looks exuberant For the latest style in hats go to C. E. Watts The Board of Supervisors are in session this week. Standard prints for 6 cents per yard at L. Cohn's. Three hoop red cedar buckets for 65 cents each at L. Cohn's. A great many items crowded out this week for want of space. We return many thanks to little Miss Tschia Cox for some fine figs which she graciously donated to us last week. We took a trip to Hebron last week, and while sojourning in that country had a most delightful time. We left here last Thursday morning a ridin' a "hoss" and after a pleasant (?) and exhilarating ride of 17 square miles, with a piece throwed in to make it good measure, arrived at the church juast as the morning prayer meeting was being concluded. We took in the preaching services at 11 o'clock, and then mingled with the people and the "grub" until the evening service. We had the pleasure of spending the night with Mr. D. C. Griffith one of the thriftiest farmers in that section and was royally entertained by that gentleman and his agreeable wife. We promised them we would visit them again, and we intend to do it. The second day of our stay witnessed the adjournment sine die of the protracted meeting, and the ordinance of baptism was administered to nine converts. This was our first visit to Hebron, and we were quite favorable impressed with the people and the country. They are a thrifty, go ahead people and deserve special credit for the spirit of enterprise they manifest in trying to build up their country. The hight school they are building is deserving of marked attention, and we believe every man in Lawrence country will concide with us in complimenting and congratulating Hebron upon her prospective liberal educational advantages. The house is of mammoth structure, and when completed will be quite an honor to the entire county. Hebron is a good community and we won't quarrel with them for not wanting a bridge. DIED Mr. Winston Maxwell died this morning at 11 o'clock of congestion and will be buried tomorrow afternoon. We shall probably publish an memorial in a later issue. Rev. George Woodbridge preached fine sermons in the Presbyterian church last Saturday night, Sunday at 11, and at night. The accomplished Misses Josephine and Lucy Reiss of New Orleans, who are on a visit to Mrs. H. M. Cameron, have been spending a while with Miss Sallie Hickman, and in company with her attended preaching in our town Sunday, delighting all by their gracious manners and bright faces.