From the Iuka Reporter of February 5, 1891

(Transcribed by Cindy Whirley Nelson)
 

State of Mississippi

Tishomingo County
 

To Honorable Board of Supervisors
 

I respectfully make application to your honorable body for license to sell, at retail, vinous, spirituous and malt liquors in a frame house, sixteen feet square, situated a little over half a mile east of the M and C RR Depot in the town of Burnsville near the line of right of way of said railroad, on NW1/4 of S12, T3, R9 outside the corporation limits of Burnsville.....I am a male over 21 years and reside in 2nd Supervisor's District. I have no partner in said business.

J.W. Biggs.
 

Your petitioners respectfully state that we know J.W. Biggs. He is of good moral character, and a sober and suitable person, and pray that he be granted a license: H.Y. Grimes, A. Harris, A.G. Depoyster, W.R. Anderson, W.F. Peterson, I.T. Whitfield, J.H. Strickland, R. Robinson, J.O. Holder, Thomas Blakney, W.C. Higginbottom, T.J. Odon, Dan Lambert, T.P. Johnson, G.P. Phillips, D.D. Woodley, J.B. McCoy, J.C. Seago, P.N. Harris, Henry Roach, L.P. Walker, H.C. Holder, W.G. Gray, I.N. Ford, M.L. Harris, L.N. Whitfield, David Blakney, J.P. Woodley, J.R. Streetman, J.M. Gray, James Parsons, H. Stanley, John Amerson, J.R. Marlar, W.T. Coker, W.R. Carpenter, W.E. Holder, W. Carpenter, J.L. Strickland, Lewis Johnson, G.W. Marlar, R.L. Marlar, J. Marlar, J.W. Marlar.