Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-04-12
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


Horses and mules for sale-easy
payment apply to r. H.. Watson &
Son. Iuka. Miss.
Mrs L. Abernathy left for Jackson,
Tennessee, on the 9Th to visit friends
and relatives.
Ga last Friday morning some ten or
fifteen persons left Iuka on an excur-
sion by river for Shito battle field.
On Monday evening and night there
was about three inches of rain fall
here.
Do you want $25 in gold? read Bar
nett Bros. advertisement and take adj
vantage of their offer.
There wss washout on the Nj. & C.
railroad near Pocahontas.. Tenn.
Monday night which delayed all trains
rev sral hours.
The Postofiice has been moved few
doors west to Barnett Bros. store and
there has been quite an improvement
made in the facilities of delivery of
mail.
There was an election held in Iuka
Monday to see If the people wanted to
aoopt the new code provisions. gov
erning municipalities, which was car
ried by a large majority.
Elder S. S. Beaver of McAllister
vile. Juniatta county. Pa. says his
wife is subject to oramp in the stom-
ach. Last summer she tried Cham
berlains Collie Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy for it, and was much pleased
with the speedy relief it Afforded. She
has since used it whenever necessary
and found that it never fails. For sale
by j. H. Moore.
j. A. Foote has returned to old fish
omingo county after few years alb
sence in tho celebrated fruit country
of Arkansas. Mr. Foote says he is
satisfied to remain here, as there is a
better opening for people here than
out west. Our lands are equally as
good, and can be bought for less mo-
ney and are as susceptible to horticul-
ture as any section # country. Ar
kansas. or California. 1t is the peo-
pie. not the land to blame for the slip
shoa manner o. doing things here. Co.
operation of few men will place o d
Tishomingo county in the front rank
Of any county in the state and on the
high road to prosperity.
j. W. Phifer. lives in the neighbor-
hood OF Burnt Mills on land that is con-
sidered poor and not OF much value. Ten
years ago he commenced on borrowed
monsy and paid twenty five per cent
interest for money to purchase lard
and stock with. and commenced farm
ing and from the farm alone he has
paid the interest and principle. He is
out OF debt and has plenty of stock.
corn and meat. This year he bro, gh !.
ten bales OF cotton to town raised on
what is termed poor land He says,
he clears two hundred dollars every
year on the farm. and that this is a
good country in which TO make money
provided man will work.
Copp's Settlers Guide New Edition.
Henry n. Copp, the well known land
lawyer, of Washington, u. c. has issu-
ed a new edition OF his popular Guide
for homestead and other settlers on the
public domain. The price is 25 cents.
More than 100000 copies of this vau-
able exposition of the public land sys-
tenn have been disposed. of. 1t is the
settlers ''vade mecum." and should
b, in the possession OF every man and
woman who seeks home on Unc'e
Sans farm. Mr.. Copp wants imme-
diately the address OF every settler
who paid $3.50 an acre for government
land inside any forfeited railroad
grant He has valuable information
for such settlers or their heirs. Send
your address at once to Henry N.
CopD. Washington, d. d.