WINSTON COUNTY JOURNAL
JUNE 10, 1921
VOL. 28 NO. 23 (CONTINUED)
LOCAL HAPPENINGS (Continued): We like a dry May for a good crop, but this one has been “just a little too much of a good thing.” The gardens are a failure on account of the extreme dry weather. - We are glad to add Parker Ellis to our list of new readers. Parker is now with the Bank of Oakland and is one of our Winston boys who deserves much credit for the manner in which he is pushing to the front as a businessman. - Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Newsom, Mrs. J. N. Harris, Miss Annie Hathorn, Mr. and Mrs. Finis Woodward, Garland Harris attended the funeral of Mrs. Callie Snowden at Macon yesterday. - Our friend Virgil Triplett, who has been in Arizona for some time, writes us to send his paper to El Paso, Texas, as he has gone there for a while. We are glad to know Virgil’s health is still good in the far west.
The Eastern Star Lodges of Louisville, Philadelphia, Noxapater, and Union were represented in a big fish fry at Lake Burnside Wednesday and a great day spent. And they say there was a dance. - Miss Helen Blumingburg of Senatobia is guest of Mr. and Mrs. Coyt Hanna. - Prof. A. L. Bennett writes us from Charlotsville, Va. of the Centennial Celebration of the University of Virginia, the great school founded by Jefferson. He says this is the first year degrees have been granted to women by this school, and that he was never prouder than when a Mississippi girl received the first one, Miss Anita Hart of Meridian. There were six Mississippians to receive degrees, and Mr. Bennett also received his M. A. Degree. He says the boys and girls sent up there from Mississippi are making good.
Reuben Jones still holds the blue ribbon as the best Trout fisherman in these parts. He brought from the Creosote pond yesterday the handsomest string of speckled trout yet caught from that resort. And what we are telling you, is that they were just as good as they looked. - M. H. Woodward was down from Memphis and spent a day this week. His friends were glad to see him looking in fine health and entertaining the hope that the treatment he is undergoing for his limb will eventually prove successful. Milt, we are glad to know, has a good business in the Bluff City.
GOOD WOMAN DIES IN MACON – Our community received a shock last Wednesday morning when the news flashed over the wires that Mrs. Callie Snowden of Macon had died suddenly from heart trouble at an early hour that morning. A telephone message later stated that Mrs. Snowden was not feeling very well that morning on rising, and that a physician was sent for, but before he reached the home she had expired. Her remains were interred in Macon cemetery at 10 o’clock Thursday morning in the presence of a host of friends and relatives. Mrs. Snowden was the oldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Woodward of our city, she having been reared in Louisville. She first married Mr. Hodges, and they moved to Macon, where Mr. Hodges died a few years ago, and Mrs. Snowden had retained her residence in Noxubee County where she owned valuable property. Mrs. Snowden was one of the finest women ever reared in our county, modest and accomplished and endowed with a disposition that was attractive and lovable to everyone with whom she came in contact. She was universally popular, and her death was a blow to her entire acquaintance. She leaves five sisters and two brothers: Mrs. E. M. Hight of San Antonio, Texas; Mrs. W. J. Newsom of Louisville; Mrs. Ferd Holberg of Macon; Mrs. J. D. Weeks of Ackerman; Mrs. Maud Boggess of Macon, and Mr. Finis Woodward of Louisville; Mr. M. H. Woodward of Memphis.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR CHILDREN - Mr. O. N. Prewett of Prewett Studio, Newton, is in Louisville making photographs of the children of the community – in fact of anyone who might care to have photographs made, the purpose of which is to make slides of same to be shown at the Liberty Theatre, Thursday night, June 16th. He will also make photographs of any group – graduating class, Sunday School class, ball teams, etc., any person or group persons, whose appearance on the screen would be of interest to the public. In addition to showing these pictures on the screen, those who may care to have photographs made from the negatives may do so at a reasonable cost. There will be no charge however, for the pictures made for the screen. Mr. Prewett will be in town until Tuesday noon. If he should miss you, see him or Walterene Reed. We will have a special feature for this night in addition to the showing of the photographs. A. P. HULL
THE LEGION DANCE - The American Legion pulled off the biggest dance in the history of the old town at their Hall on last Tuesday night. We are informed that there were attendants, both men and women, from not only other parts of the State, but some from out of the State, and the dance went into the early morning. The Johnson Jazz Band from Memphis furnished the music.
