Ocean
Springs The managers of the
Earle farm are shipping car-loads of fine
tomatoes. Mrs. A. A, Maginnis and family
have arrived and will spend the season at their residence on the
beach. Some of our trucj farmers will
have ripe watermelons this week. The rain has given all such quite
an impotus. Dr. E. R. Bragg has
associated with himself a first-class, practical pharmacist who will
prove of decided advantage to the business of the drug
store. The long drouth has last been
broken. We have had several good rains and could well stand
considerable more of such, and it looks as if we are to have
plenty. Ocean Springs is rapidly filling
up with strangers and the usual cottage population. The streets are
alive with fine equipages and handsome women. Very few places are
for rent and altogether we look for a lively summer
season. A branch of the New Orleans
Loan, Building and Savings Association has been organized hore with
the following officers: Dr. E.R. Bragg, president; H.F. Halstead,
vice-president and local agent; D.D. Cowan, secretary and treasurer.
The local board of directors are D.D. Cowan, Dr. E.R. Bragg, H.F.
Halstead, J. O'Keefe, E. M. Westbrook, G.W. Grayson amd J.N.
Clark. The chairman of the democratic
convention of Jackson county, F.M. Weed, has appointed the following
named gentlemen as the various committees: Executive committee -
Col. R. A. Vancleave and Wm. Martin for beat 4, Ocean Springs,
Senatorial and floatorial convention, same beat - Johnson Ware, H.
F. Russell and Geo. E. Arndt. For the state and district attorney's
convention - F. F. Weed, Wm. Martin and Edgar Hull. The convention
instructed for Senator George, Horace Bloomfield and Jas. H.
Neville, all most excellent for the various
positions. Mr. Geo. W. Davis, of Ocean
Springs, has been prevailed upon by his numerous friends to make the
race for member of the legislature. We know of no person better
fitted for the position, and if he receives the nomination at the
convention, the people whom he will serve will be most ably
represented. Mr. Davis is know to everyone in the county and in the
various positions that he has been called upon to fill here before,
has acquitted himself with credit. He is is a democrat, conservative
and honest, and a business man of decided ability and experience;
all of which will be of use in the halls of the legislature. It is
the nomination of such men as Mr. Davis that gives tone and standing
to the body that represents the people of the great state of
Mississippi. The nomination will be equivalent to an election in
this case and we heartily commend Mr. George W. Davis to the
convention. [Daily Herald, June 13, 1891 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
Scranton
is Now Called Pascagoula Change Made by Post Office Department to
Avoid Confusion – A Prettier Name Gulfport, May
12. Evidently
some one has been mistaking Scranton, Miss., for Scranton,
Pennsylvania. Whether there is any marked resemblance in the two
towns except in the name, we do not know, never having been in the
Pennsylvania burg. We were in Scranton, Miss., one time but not for
long. Perhaps people have been coming down to Scranton, Miss., and
living there under the impression that they were in Penssylvania, or
it may be that some of the inhabitants think they are living un
Pennsylvania when they are really in Mississippi and it is desired
to correct the illusion which they are laboring under. In any event
any inhabitant of our little town to the westward who has been under
the impression all these years that he was a Pennamite will now
realize that he is a Mississippian sometimes called in vulgar
parlance a Red Neck, for the post office department has decided to
change the name of Scranton and call it Pascagoula. It is intimated
that there has been onfusion in the mails. Of course they might have
changed the name of the post office at Scranton, Pennsylvania
instead, but they didn’t. It is related that the official name,
whatever, that is, was changed some time ago from Scranton to
Pascagoula. Pascagoula is a prettier name than Scranton and it rolls
more smoothly and melodiously from the tongue. It means something
too, having been the name of a famous tribe of Indians that lived on
the banks of the beautiful river before the present tribe arrived
and started and started in the fish and oyster business. The first
tribe of Indians mentioned, it is related, were driven into the
river and as they went down to their death they sang the most
beautiful Indian music and there is a legend to the effect that
under some conditions when the atmosphere is just right this
“mysterious music” can still be heard on the banks of the
Pascagoula, and there are those who have heard it frequently thought
its origin has never been satisfactorily accounted for. The
change in the name of the town, which it is said is made at the
request of the citizens, is to take effect July 1st. Avaunt,
Scranton! Welcome, Pascagoula! [Scranton is Now Called Pascagoula
Change Made by Post Office Department to Avoid Confusion; Daily
Herald, May 12, 1910 – Transcribed by AFOFG]
Town
Swept By Flames $250,000 Damage In Business Section of
Pascagoula, Miss. Pascagoula, Miss, June 10 – Fire, starting in a bakery,
swept through a large part of the business section of Pascagoula
this afternoon, resulting in damage estimated at not less than a
quarter of a million dollars. At one
time it appeared as if practically the whole town would be wiped
out, and calls for outside assistance were sent to Mobile and other
nearby cities, but at 6 o’clock the flames were under
control. The Alabama & Mississippi Railway station, seven stores,
one theatre, several residencesand a number of small shops
were destroyed. [Town Swept by Flames, The New
York Times Published June 20, 1921 _ Transcribed by AFOFG]
