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From: Eddie Mikell <>
Subject: Lawrence County Press, January 15, 1891
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:28:50 -0500


January 15, 1891

We haven't seen a drummer this year. That's strange.



Who said there was any virtue in dream cake? Wouldn't a biscuit do as well?



Items may be plentiful, but they are slow about being about this week, if
they are.



The river rose about 10 feet last Saturday night and Sunday, but is now
slowly dropping down.



The county Farmers Alliance met last Tuesday. Their proceedings will appear
in our next issue.



The Ladies's Aid Society was organized last Sunday evening with 10 members.
Quite a good start.



Several new boarding pupils have entered Monticello Academy, but we have
been unable to learn their names.



The sick ones reported in our last issue as seriously ill are now
convalescent. However, the grippe still remains to a large extent.



Mr. M. O. Jones, an old Lawrence countian, but now the popular butcher of
Wesson, was in our town last Monday and honored us with a call.



Read the proceedings of the Board in this issue. We unintentionally forgot
to insert the petit jurors, in this issue, but they will appear in our
next.



Veni, Vidi, Vici! This is true of Hall's Hair Renewer, for it is the great
conquerer of gray or faded hair, maing it look the same even color of youth.



Quite a siege of bad weather has been upon us lately. The rain has given
way to intense cold, which is far more preferable. The thermometer fell to
20 degrees above zero yesterday morning.



Mr. T. M. Watts, of Beat 5, brother to our esteemed townsman, Mr. C. E.
Watts, will soon remove to our town. Such valuable acquisitions to our
community, as he and his family will prove to be, are always welcome.



The great popularity of Ayer's Pills as a cathartic is due no less to their
promptings and efficacy than to their coating of sugar and freedom from any
injurious effects. Children take them readily. See Ayer's Almanac for this
year, just out.



A Remarkable Case - Mr. Walter Wheeler, of Washington Mills, Lawrence,
Mass., for two years afflicted with varicose veins, accompanied by a
troublesome eruption was completely cured after taking only eight bottles of
Ayer's Sarsaparilla.



The iron bridge is slowly nearing completion. The recent rise has impeded
its progress to some extent, but notwithstanding this, it is confidently
expected that it will be completed inside of six weeks, at the latest. Mr.
Sager has had many difficulties to contend with, and deserves great credit
for his patience.



Rev. R. W. Hall filled his appointments in the Baptist church last Saturday
and Sunday. Right her in this connection, it would be well to say that
money is being made up to buy a new bell for this church, and any
contributions will be thankfully received by the committee which, we
believe, is composed of Mesdames Scarborough and Cannon and Miss Maggie
Carlisle.



It will be seen by a notice in another column that quite an important
business change taken place in our town last Monday, - that of the
co-parternship of the Cohn brothers in the mercantile business. Mr. Louis
Cohn, during the six or eight years that he has been established here, has
built up a flourish business, and up to the time that the co partnership was
effected, had bought 825 bales of cotton this season. He possesses
indomitable courage, and this has been the key to his great success. The
young men composing the new firm are all well and favorable known to our
people and we with them the greatest prosperity.



HOMESTEAD NOTICE

John Butler, wit: Nelson Buckley, Joe Mikell, David Waller, Ben Longino, all
of Silver Creek

Anthony Givens, wit: B. Mixon, John Reed, J. J. Renfroe, Alexander Smith,
all of Monticello

James W. Griffith, wit: A. Blackwell, E. L. Lee, Arthur Davis, J. S.
Blackwell, all of Monticello

Owen G. Griffith, wit: Dennis Crane, J. T. Griffith, O. F. Wilson, John
King, all of Fair River


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