The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-10-03

has iooI uOuc VI lIo NlSOI' heN. n. L
Watkins, d. d., is president of Whit
worth, Rev. NJ. l.. Burton, vice presi-
dent. This will be the first year un-
der their management and the pros
poets are very bright for successful
term. The school of the Sisters of
Notre Dame is in prosperous condi-
tion and has an attendance of about
fifty, and is much good in their, doing
kindly, unobtrusive way.
The Brookhaven graded public
school is one of the features of the
town. Prof. T. p. Scott is the princi-
pal, and is ably assisted by eleven
teachers, including music and elocu-
ton. This school runs nine months
in the year and is free as its name in
dicates. A few figures will suffice to
show how the town has grown. Ten
years ago the enrolment was 10S, av-
erage attendance, 80; in 1856 the en-
rollment was 2S5, average attendance
about 200; in 1899, 1900, 3S2, average at
tendance 243. OF course this is chill
dren who live inside the corporate linn
its, which limits, by the way, only ex-
tend half a mile each way from the de-
pot. The number of inhabitants who
live in these limits is about 2760,
while Immediately outside of these
limits live between 1000 and 1850 peo-
pie, who properly and to all intents are
citizens of Brookhaven. This will
bring the population up to about
1000
There are three large saw mills in
and near town. The East Union Mills,
j. B. Nalty, president, and John Ma
son, manager, do large business, and
are now working day and night in or
der to catch up with their orders.
The Brookaven Lumber and Manu-
featuring Company, E. Pfeifer, presi-
dent, and NJ. Dreyfus, manager, is an
other large concern doing a good bus
mess. The very largest saw mill in
the south is located here and is known
as the Pearl River Lumber Company,
+. F. Becker, president, and A. E.
Moreton, manager. This is modern
mill in every particular and is
equipped with the very best machin-
cry, and is doing very large business.
The following are official figures, ia
ken from the records, and will show
the growth of Brookhaven more forci
bly, than any words can set forth:
In 1880 the taxable property amount
ed to 1896, 800; 1890, s5S9,69S; 1895, S6SS,
S65; 1899, sl,OO2, ,137; 1900, 81, ,103'965; an
increase of S777 sos in twenty years, or
an increase of S415, 100 in five years.
This is on property within the city
limits alone, and these figures tell an
eloquent tale of push, energy and en-
terprise.
| The cotton receipts here have been
very large and show marked increase,
except years when the crops were
short. The following figures are re-
ceipts by wagons from the country:
/ Crop of 1850, SOIL bales, 1856, A.
O52 bales; lS97-S, 25,25i bales; 1888 90
744 bales; 1899 1900, 18,907 bales; 1900
(estimated), 10000 bales.
A great deal of cotton is shipped
here via the railroad for the compress,
which will bring the receipts up to
about 25,000 bales annually.
There is good negro public school
here with an enrolment of over 150'
1t is almost certain that within a
year this town will have a cotton fac
tory and oil mill, as these enterprises
are now in process of formation.
The mayor of the town is DR.. j. B.
Daughtry, and the aldermen are: w.
II. Seavey, Charles Schnorrenberg, A.
E. Moreton, /. Abrams, j. Ell. Willough-
by. The county officials are: circuit
Judge, Robert Powell; district attorney,
j. B. Graves; sheriff, DR.. r. r. Apple
white; chancery clerk, r. w. McNair;
circuit clerk, S. P. Oliver; superinten-
dent of education, Edgar Green.