News from Long Ago
March 21, 1919
Lewis Landrum, who has been at Fort Sill, Okla. in camp, has returned home and is looking fine. - The Ackerman High School Ball team went to Louisville last Friday and defeated that team in a splendid game by the score of 6 to 5. - Mrs. Jack Mullen and little daughter, who have been on a visit to relatives and friends in Jackson, have returned.
ICE NOTICE: I take this method of announcing that I will have charge of the Ice Business in Ackerman this season and solicit your patronage. Correct weights and promptness will be my motto. Let me know when I can serve you. R. D. Taylor.
Letter from a soldier to his parents: I wonder how you all are and what you are doing and if you had much bad weather. The snow is about all gone now. Can see some now on the mountains across the Rhine. Though everything is still frozen and slick, guess will have some mud when spring comes. Hope I’ll not be here then, for there is one lone trip I want to take and the quickest way is too slow. Have not heard from home in several weeks. I feel as tho there is something happened and a great change since I last heard…Have had all the traveling I want and do not care to see any more of this world. Have been in five different countries since I landed on this side of the pond. I have seen no place I care to stay. Just give me any place in the U. S. Only wish I could be telling you this and not have to write…Maybe by the time you read this I’ll be on my way home…I am feeling good, get plenty to eat and a good warm room to sleep in. Now I will close. Write often. Lots of love, from Melvin (Catledge)
Dissolution Notice: The partnership heretofore existing between J. J. Miller & Son is this day dissolved by mutual consent, J. J. Miller retiring from the firm and J. W. Miller will continue business and assume all indebtedness and collect all accounts due same. This March 1st, 1919.
The W. E. Adams Hardware Co. has fresh Garden Seed at 5 cents the paper.
An Ordinance prohibiting the riding of bicycles and skating on the sidewalks of the town of Ackerman, and providing a punishment for a violation thereof…any person or persons to ride any bicycle or to skate on any of the side walks in said town and the same is hereby prohibited, and any person or persons violating the provisions hereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Mississippi in the News: Rolling Fork - A very severe and destructive cyclone passed across Issaquena County, two miles south of Grace, entering the county just south of Panther Burn. Capt. J. W. Johnson, the wealthiest planter in the county, was killed in the wreckage of his palatial home.
