100 and 75 Years Ago
November 25, 1904
H. L. Adcock has our thanks for a renewal.
Indications are that Winston’s cotton crop this year is one of the
largest for years.
Sheriff J. W. Gully is having substantial improvements made on his
residence.
Dr. W. W. Parkes will soon have his residence enlarged and another story
added.
Miss Mary Burnside of Stone has our thanks for a nice remittance on
subscription.
Mr. J. A. Dempsey informs us that his son, Walter, is ill in Baltimore,
where he his attending medical college.
Lester Jarvis and Tom Barnes were up from Handle Monday having come for a
casket for Mr. Edwards, who died on Sunday.
B. C. Langley last week sold 160 acres of his farm 1-1/2 miles southeast of
town for $2,100.00 cash. Johnson Bros., (colored) from Kemper County were the
buyers.
Mrs. L. Nesmith, after spending several months with her daughter, Mrs. A. C.
Hemphill, left this morning for Yazoo City, where she will visit relatives
before returning to her home near Belzoni.
J. F. Savage was down from Gum Branch Monday and gave us a call. Mr. Savage
recently lost one of his gins, together with a good deal of cotton by fire,
which was quite unfortunate, as he had no insurance.
Preston Triplett, one of Kemper County’s hustling citizens has
purchased a resident lot on the T. L. Hathorn property and will move his family
here soon.
Mr. R. F. Haynes of Greenville and Dr. G. F. Haynes of Newton, who were
called here by the sad death of their mother, left Saturday for their
respective homes.
Mrs. W. J. Newsom and children, Mrs. Goodnight and Messrs. Goodnight and M.
H. Woodward left Tuesday for Macon where they went to be present at the
Woodward Family Reunion, which took place at Mrs. Holberg’s residence on
Thanksgiving, where all of Mrs. Jane Woodward’s children met.
Mr. Edwards, one of our county’s aged citizens, died at the home of
his son-in-law, H. J. Hancock, at Handle on the 20th inst. He had been an
invalid for many years.
Married at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Coleman, east of town Mr. J. K. Bouchillon and Miss Osola Coleman and Mr. W. C.
McCool and Miss
Mary B. Coleman on Nov. 24th by Dr. Q. H. Shinn of Boston, Mass.
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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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