100 and 75 Years Ago
January 3, 1930
A train a mile north of the city killed Arnold Crowson on Sunday morning.
Burial was in Poplar Flat Cemetery. Survivors include his wife and 13 children,
including twins born in November, among them.
Mr. Milton Woodward, the son of the late Calvin and Jane Woodward, died in
Gulfport last week. Funeral and burial was in Gulfport. He was a former County
Treasurer of Winston County and had resided in Gulfport for the past two years
or so. Survivors include his devoted wife and three children and other
relatives, mostly in Winston County.
Mr. M. W. Triplett, 67, whose home was a Loakfoma, fourteen miles northeast
of the city, and where he had lived all is life, died at the home of his son,
Walter Triplett, here Thursday. Funeral and burial was at Betheden Church and
cemetery. He was a member of the Universalist Church and a Mason. Survivors
include his wife and four children, Mrs. Laura Frazier, Walter Triplett, Mrs.
Chas. Wicker and Raymond Triplett, one brother, A. G. Triplett of Brooksville
and one half sister, Mrs. Sallie Ilderton of this county.
Noxapater: Mrs. George Ward and baby of Montrose are guests of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stokes.
Noxapater: Mrs. Lee Crawford and sons of Kosciusko were visitors here during
the holidays as guests in the home of Mrs. Crawford’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Gunn.
Noxapater: Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Shepherd spent the holidays in Tchula, guests
of their daughter, Mrs. Lillie Reed and children.
Frank McGee of Meridian spent the weekend here with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. McGee north of town.
Our long time friend, Mr. W. W. Coleman, celebrated his 88th birthday on
yesterday and in celebrating it he sent the Journal a $5 bill for his supply of
1930 reading matter, which he has been doing for more than thirty years.
W. E. Dempsey visited his son, Dr. Terrill Dempsey, the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Woodward of Montreat, N. C. spent the holidays here and
in the county with relatives.
Ed Gully of Perkinston spent a few days here with his sisters, Mrs. G. B.
Woodward and Mrs. C. W. Townsend.
Among those distant subscribers who have remembered us since the New Year is
our good friend, G. R. Foster, of Prague, Okla., who sends in a two-year
subscription.
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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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