Early ad offers everything in town for sale

The Weekly Gazette has advertised many products and services through the years, but an advertisement that ran in the newspaper on September 15, 1928, had something very unusual to sell: the entire town of Meridian that had apparently lost it’s only employer. “Due to the mill burning down, we are selling all the houses in the town,” the advertisement explained. Two-room houses were going for $30 to $37, three-room houses for $40 to $50, four-room houses for $50 to $65, five-room houses for $100 to $175 and six-room houses for $200 to $375. Also for sale, according to the advertisement, were schools, churches, a commissary, a post office and office buildings.