100 and 75 Years Ago
March 14, 1930
Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Rhodes of Highpoint left yesterday for Bay Minette, Ala.,
where they go to spend a while with their two sons who reside there.
Grady Clark had the misfortune to get one of his feet badly mashed while
loading logs at the depot last Saturday afternoon. While he is able to be out,
he is on crutches.
Friends of Mrs. E. M. Lewis sympathize with her in the death of her mother,
who died Saturday in Philadelphia.
F. E. Woodward of Gulfport visited in the home of his sister, Mrs. W. J.
Newsom, last week.
Dr. and Mrs. Halbert Oakley of Starkville, visited in the home of their sister,
Mrs. J. O. Bennett, Sunday.
The Bond Boys won the County Basketball Tournament last Saturday at Noxapater.
They shot into the tournament by vanquishing Ellison Ridge and Louisville. In
the final Bond played High Point. The lineup for Bond consisted of : Barney
and J. D. Ward, forwards; Tom McLeod and Buster Alewine, guards; Carlos Hill,
center; Emmett Hill played center part of the time; Henry Lee White as a substitute.
Noxapater: Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Richardson are receiving congratulations upon
the arrival of a son on the 11th inst.
Noxapater: Mr. J. C. McCay left this week to look after business interests
in Kentucky.
Noxapater: Mr. and Mrs. Earl Woodward attended the funeral of little Charlie
Warren, a nephew of Mrs. Woodward, who was a victim of an automobile accident
in Meridian Sunday.
Noxapater: Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Young and children of Mt. Pisgah community
were weekend guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Price.
Mrs. E. L. Sullivan of the Shiloh community died this week. She was stricken
with paralysis while milking one evening two weeks ago, from which she never
recovered. Survivors include her husband and children.
Miss Pearl Byars, who is teaching at Lobutcha Consolidated School, spent
the weekend here in the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Jordan.
Mrs. Alma Wood and little granddaughter, Martha Jane Earhart, visited her
son, Kenneth G. Wood, in Memphis the past weekend.
J. M. McCreary of West is here on a visit to his son, T. A. McCreary.
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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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