100 and 75 Years Ago
December 20, 1929
Dr. and Mrs. J. N. McMillin will have as their guests for the holidays their
daughter, Mrs. Linfield Scott and two interesting children of Ft. Sam Houston,
Texas.
Whitley Suber, who is attending school in Washington, D. C., will spend the
holidays here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Suber.
Miss Mary Kate Gully, who is teaching in Birmingham, is expected home
Saturday for the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gully.
Messrs. H. M. Ellis, J. E. Calloway, E. E. Reynolds and Grover Lynch
attended the funeral of Senator Dent in Macon Saturday.
Noxapater: Forest Woods, Mrs. C. C. McLeod and Miss Bonnie Kate Woodall
attended the funeral of Mrs. Emma Leeke, which was held in Meridian last Sunday
afternoon.
Noxapater: Mrs. T. M. Yarbrough has been called to the bedside of her
mother, Mrs. Hancock, who is reported to be very ill at her home near
Handle.
Noxapater: Mr. J. D. Stewart of Poplarville was shaking hands with friends
here Saturday afternoon.
Santa Claus letters were received by the Journal from the following
children: Irene Richardson, Dorothy Adcock, Ellen Adcock, Dorothy Lindsey,
Arnita Lindsey, Geraldine Whitten, Mary Louise Carter, Rebecca Rives, Agnes
Ivy, Marcus Wirt Peterson, Eva Jewell Peterson, James Henry Johnson, Joe
Wheeler Cagle, Gerald Shelton, Maggie Irene McAdory, Lavern Vowell, Ruby Cecil
Hill, Spiva Junior Upchurch, James Edward Upchurch, James E. Townsend, Letha
Mae Townsend, Rosemary Greer, Bobbie Culwell, Rosamond Spence, James Spence,
Evelyn Eaves, Randolph Eaves, Sherrell Fox, Edna Earl Ford, Dollie Ruth Ford,
Kathleen White, Howard Leon White, Weir Greene, Mary Elsie McLeod, Mary Ruth
and Mildred Lovorn, Robert Vernon Kelley, Alice Adcock, Guy McAdory, Jim D.
McAdory, George Ethridge, Jr., Dollar Clay, Money Clay, S. O. Clay, Bessie
Watkins, Alford Vernon Clay, Joe C. Clay, J. D. Clay, Ozell Price, Lamar
McBrayer, Stanley Hull, Royce and Boyce McBrayer, Billy Strait, Ida Lee Strait,
Marguerite Jernigan, Raymond Ward, Laura Sue Peterson, Tom and Johnnie
Hindman,
Tilton Hemphill, Jr., Catherine McGahey, Aubrey Hill, Wallace Ray, Garland
Ray, Jewelene Ray, Cleo Ray, Ora Mae Richardson, Ruth Albritton, James Harold
Conn, Mary Margaret McCully, Nannie Ruth McQuirter, Inez McCool, Bernice Pace,
Sarah Ethel Ming, Theda Cockrell, Louise White, Marjorie Woodruff, Carrie Mae
Kirk, Charles Kirk, Roger Dee Eaves, Chambliss Eaves, Nancy Louise Upchurch,
Horace Kirk, Vida Eaves, Curtis McGahey, Thelma Richardson, Billie McCool,
Chambliss Eaves, Connor Richardson, Lena Mae Dempsey, William Kirk, Earline
Dempsey, Pauline Norris, Carrie Mae Kirk, Daisy D. Moore, Curtis Childs, Lorine
Childs, Dixie Sanders, Pauline Roach, Mollie Roberson, Bessie Louise
Bouchillon, Ellen Wells, Hilda Roberson and Willie Carl Bouchillon.
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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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