100 and 75 Years Ago
January 31, 1930
Rev. E. P. Craddock, the pastor of the High Point charge, makes his home in
Louisville.
Messrs. E. N. Ray and Amzi Garrigues left Sunday for Clarksdale, where they
were summoned on the jury for Federal Court.
Mr. Sugg Ingram and son Earnest of Plattsburg were business visitors here
Monday.
H. E. Woodruff of Marble Canyon, Ariz., has our thanks for a renewal of his
subscription. He says he enjoys getting the paper from his old home county.
John B. Hull, Hiram Lynch, William Thrailkill and Claude Fair came over from
A. & M. and spent the weekend with home folks.
Our friend, J. H. Campbell, sends in his renewal from Lakeland, Fla., and in
his letter he tells us that his daughter, Mrs. Bowden, is just out of a
hospital where she has been very ill, but thinks now she will get well.
Mrs. George Duck is expected to leave in a few days for Atlanta, where she
will visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Langham, and while there will select her
line of spring and summer millinery.
Mrs. Chas. Breckinridge (nee Miss Leon Shields) died at a Meridian hospital
on January 28. Burial services were held at the home of her sister, Mrs. A. L.
Catledge by Dr. J. N. McMillin and burial followed at the Masonic Cemetery.
Survivors include her husband and several sisters and brothers.
Liberty: Agnes Ray is slowly improving at this writing. We hope she will
soon be able to come back to school.
Claytown: Mr. Chambliss Kemp left to join the Navy last week.
Noxapater: Miss Lindel Gunn who has been attending the Woman’s College
at Hattiesburg is at home to the delight of her many friends.
Noxapater: The stork paid a visit to Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Graeser on the
evening of the 28th and left them in possession of a winsome daughter in the
home of its grandfather, Mr. W. T. Stevens.
Noxapater: Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Young and children of the Mt. Pigsah community
were guests in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Price, Tuesday.
Calhoun: Those who spent the night Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Lovorn were as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lovorn and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Needham Hanna and family, Mr. Henry Moore.
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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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