100 and 75 Years Ago
December 16, 1904
Miss Byrdie Haggard has our thanks for remittance on subscription.
Rev. D. McLeod, one of Brooksville’s best citizens, has our thanks for
a renewal.
Mrs. Hariette Haygood, who recently left for Kennedy, Ala., orders the
Journal sent to her.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Dempsey, who live east of town, are the proud
possessors of a bouncing boy born on the 15th.
Mrs. Jno. K. Armstrong is in French Camp, where she was called on account of
the illness of her mother.
Master Terry Hight, son of Dr. E. M. Hight of San Antonio, Tex., spent a few
days this week on a visit to his grandmother and other relatives here.
Rev. W. T. Carroll was up from Perkinsville community a few days ago and
informed us that he would move to Moscow in Kemper County about the first of
January.
Rev. J. R. Nutt, the newly elected Pastor of the Baptist Church, preached
here last night. Rev. Nutt is a young man and an able Minister. He is also
Pastor of the Ackerman Church.
Mr. McNair, a prominent citizen of Fayette, and Chancery Clerk of Jefferson
County, spent a few days here this week, visiting his daughter, Mrs. J. L.
Woodward.
Marriage license have recently been issued for the marriage of W. W.
Campbell and Miss Lillie McDaniel, popular young people in the western portion
of the County and J. E. Hill and Miss Jenetta Whitehead east of here.
Among our substantial callers this week were: J. M. Yarbrough, H. B.
Caperton, N. G. Ray, Erin Craig, J. L. Thomas, W. P. Fulton, E. P. Edwards, W.
M. Dickerson, W. O. Turner, B. L. Vanlandingham, A. G. Triplett, E. L. Johnson,
W. H. Thomas, M. W. Triplett, R. R. Richardson.
The carpenters completed the depot here last week and a freight train off of
the I. C. Railroad came down Sunday and moved the crew up to Hathorn, where the
depot there is being built.
Mr. Sam O. Webb, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Triplett of Perkinsville, and
Miss Magarette Webb, were married at the home of the bride’s father, Mr.
J. P. Webb at Plattsburg, on Dec 15th.
Henry White of near Handle and Miss Annie Watkins of Noxubee County were
married on November 23rd.
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Louis Taunton
For more newspaper excerpts, please see the book by Louis Taunton of Taunton Publishers,
Winston County, Mississippi Newspaper Excerpts from 1880 through
1893.
This book has material from the Winston Index, 1880 (list of over 500 Civil
War Soldiers of Winston County who died from wounds, on the battlefield, or
disease, or as POWs in Northern Prisons), and excerpts from The Winston Signal
(newspaper before the present day Winston County Journal) for the years of
1883, 1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893. It is indexed by surname.
This publication follows his first volume that included excerpts from The
Winston Signal for the years 1882,1885, 1886, 1889 and some issues of 1890 and
which is still available from the author.
Louis Taunton has published
several other books. He has also
published similar columns about Choctaw and
Webster
Counties.
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