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JJI OO^.OS	GAINESVILLE	HANCOCK COUNTY, MISS.
AS DESCRIBED^IN WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DURING YEAR OF
April 8, 18W5 - May 9, 18^6
"Gainesville (Miss.) Advocate” - MA $2 per year Weekly
April 8, I8b$ -
Three boats each veek operated between New Orleans and Gainesville, bringing cargoes as well as passengers.
Market Prices were quoted for Flour
Bacon
Molasses
Coffee
Whiskey
Merchants advertised.
Runaway'Slavervas described with description and reward offered for his return.
May 20, I8U5 -
School Lands were leased at the Court House Door in Shieldsbor01 to be auctioned of July 7 (first Monday), lSU^.
Postmaster C. A. Folsom listed names of 8 people who had letters waiting for them at the Post Office. There were no home or business deliveries. Everyone had to inquire at the Post Office for any letters for themselves.
tt,,} began at Gainesvi
June 21*, I8U5 -
A competitive newspaper named the "
A selling article descritbed Gainesville end its prospects for growth, emphasizing how £te§rl„River and land east of it offered opportunities to settlers. There was much regarding use of river to ship products such as cattle by boat or^rsft to Gainesville/rather than by trail drive to Mobile-or overland*to Misslssinpi^River ports
Sept. 13, 1SU5 -
J. P. Sherwood took control of "Advocate.J1 Collections from customers were slow.
Sept. 20, 18*+5 -
There was much about growing problem of ajanexing^Texas >and War.jrfith.-MexicoSimilarly distant news such as from Washington concerned possible war with Great Britaip>f.o-ver Oregon-boundary.
,,	I'i-atc" pi'opu:.;-j0 to Mississippi Governor A. G. Brovn
,-p.“ "l 'e ''cuools L'e established per letter of Judge J.S.B. Thci ’• •.« more ver* no,public schools as this time.	.....