The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-12-16
SOME PEOPLE AND THINGS HERE
WHEN THE TOCSIN OF WAR
SOUNDED.
Interesting Historical Paper Read by
Miss Josie Heuck at the Climbers
Mississippi Day" Celebration
December 10th.
Read and Compare With the Brook
haven Of Today.

We take pleasure in placing be-
fore our readers a paper so full of
local interest as that which follows,
by Miss Josie Heuck, one of Brook
haven's own daughters.
"A bird's-eye view of Brook
haven in 1861" was presented by
Miss Heuck at the open meeting Of
The Climbers last Thursday night,
Dec. 1Oth-'M Mississippi Day"
Every story must have name,
time, a place. My theme, "a
Bird's-eye view of Brookhaven in
'61", has been assigned me and /
will have to antedate the time to the
earlier fifties and tell how our city
came to bear the name of Brook
haven. Mr.. VIM. Jayne, who
owned considerable land, now
known as "Old Brook" was made
postmaster, and as a name was nee
essary, gave it that of Brookhaven.
This was the name of his old vii
lage home, he being a native of
Brookhaven, Mass. In these inter
vening years / find that the rail
road had reached this far and
Brookhaven had become a thriving
town.
Houses have sprung up where
heretofore were virgin forests, and
where the birds had been singing
their love songs from the hedge
rows. The fields were clothed in
gorgeous robes of wild flowers be-
meath which forget me-nots spread
their contrasting hues of blue,
while life was busy in bud and
starting leaf.
The following firms comprise
the more prominent business men
Of the town:
Warren, Quin & Larkin, Cen
Eeral Merchants. ss1
J. A. Hoskins e Co, druggists.
F. and C. Heuck, merchants and
confectioners.
Hudnall & Jelks commission
merchants.
T. 6. Decell, commission mer-
chant dealer in dry goods and
groceries.
Mrs. F. Frendenberg, milliner.
j. N. Schwall, boot and shoe
maker.
A. Tye, butcher.
T. M. Springer, undertaken.
And last, but not least, The
Daily Advertiser, with Frank Hell
derhoff as editor. It was published
May 9Th, 1861.
The paper was printed in the
old Prince Building now owned by
Mrs. Mcmillan, at the corner of.
First and Monticello streets. 1t
was recently destroyed by fire.
In this respect | find Brookhaven
of 81 a little in advance of today,
in that she had a daily paper, even
tho it lived but one short week as
such.
The heads of the above mentioned
firms have all answered the last call
of the Great Beyond, but they have
left foot prints on the sands of
time.
Some of the business of greater
Brookhaven is being conducted by
the descendants of these men,
sturdy sons Of noble sires.
We find all the avenues of COM
-merce represented, with the ex-
ception of banking, this particular
line of business being done through
commission merchants in New Or
leans; and if the merchants here
wanted to buy in other fields, it |
was necessary to obtain a letter of |
credit from the commission mer-
chants of New Orleans. Of course
this method was tedious and involv-
ed no end of delay, and as we are
all familiar with the modern bank. |
ing business Of today, we can easily |
contrast the two methods and find
the balance weighing heavily in
favor of 1908.
1t may be said no municipality
ever outgrows its villagehood with
out proper attention being paid to
the moral and mental development,
and in this Brookhaven Of 81 was
not lacking.
/ find there were three Protest |
ant denominations, Baptist, Metho-
dist and Presbyterian, only two
owning houses of worship. Mr..
Neil was the Presbyterian pastor
Mr.. Peter Green, Methodist pastor.
The Methodist church Of today oc-
cupies the site Of the old one and
during the actual fighting Of the
war the old structure was used for
a hospital. And dear old Whit
worth, with Rev. j. r. Lee as Pres
ident was as familiar sight and
sound to the children Of 81 as she
has been through all these succeed
ing years. We may well point
with pardonable pride to Whit
worth S record and stop to ponder
what would Brookhaven have been
without the college. Although I
comparisons are odious things,
Brookhaven Of Isl boasted male
academy. with T. A. Rogan as prin-
cipaI and the Iamented Dir. j. nj.
Grafton, assistant. In this we are
sadly lacking and are not keeping
pace with the times; our boys