100 and 75 Years Ago
January 10, 1930
Ellison Ridge: Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sam McKay, a fine boy on the 3rd.
Noxapater: Mrs. Pearl Young died at the Baptist Hospital in Jackson after an
illness of four months. She had been Postmistress of the Noxapater Post Office
for nine years. Survivors include one son, Palmer Young of A. & M. College;
two daughters, Miss Margaret of the Linden, Ala., high school faculty and Miss
Elizabeth of Canton; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Palmer of Brookhaven; two
brothers, Willard Palmer of Brookhaven and Emmett Palmer of Yazoo City; two
sisters, Mrs. Jess Thompson of Jackson and Mrs. Kendrick of Edwards. Burial was
in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, after funeral services at the Baptist Church in
Noxapater.
Noxapater: Miss Fannie Mae Stevens, R. N., of Canton visited relatives here
the past week.
Betheden: Mr. Jake Peaster spent Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. Jep
Smith.
Betheden: Mr. Floyd Whites is moving to Loakfoma Community this week.
Noxapater: Dr. H. B. Watkins returned home first of the week from an
extended trip through Mexico and States of the West.
Noxapater: Mrs. Herbert Slawson returned home this week from a two weeks
visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Youngblood at Ethel.
Noxapater: Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Woods are receiving congratulations upon the
arrival of a little daughter, Martha Elizabeth on the 6th inst.
For the winter term of Circuit Court, the Grand Jury was: Hughes Lovorn, W.
H. Fulcher, M. F. Tollison, E. N Roberson, John Carroll, P. D. McCully, V. O.
Triplett, F. R. Ingram, F. E. Sharp, E. T. Hurt, J. B. Johnson, J. L. Wilkes,
Louis Ball, T. J. Haggard, W. D. Lindsey, L. R. Snow, R. E. Jernigan, Henry
McCully, Spurgeon Cockrell.
Petit Jury No. 1: Bob Davis, B. B. Lawrence, A. J. Turner, R. C. McCool,
Whit Talley, Ben Smyth, Hubbard McBrayer, Hamlett Ferguson, Carl Bethea, H. D.
Caperton, Chas. King and Jimmie Rogers.
Petit Jury No. 2: Grady Green, C. N. Eaves, G. T. Tucker, H. J. Horton, Hugh
Todd, J. W. Puckett, J. K. Bouchillon, H. E. Whitmire, Alford Hopkins, W. J.
Brown, M. L. Clark, D. O. Bray.
Advertisers were: S. D. Tyson & Co., which had been in Louisville for
five years; McKay Chevrolet Co., of Louisville and K. & M. Chevrolet Co.,
of Noxapater; City Pharmacy; C. C. McNeel, Sheriff and Tax Collector, J.
Gordon; J. B. Ezell; Hull’s Groceries; H. H. Hull; Blon Harris Hardware;
L. B. Graham Hardware; S. T. Carr Drug Co.; The Holmes Store and Ellis and
McCully, phone 102.
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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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