NEWS FROM LONG AGO
May 4, 1900
FROM THE ACKERMAN RECORD, VOL. 2, NUMBER 7
LOCALS AND PERSONALS: Mrs. Alice Neal of West Point is visiting relatives in town this week. - John J. Fair of French Camp was a visitor to Ackerman Wednesday. - H. A. Pollard, wife, and children visited ye editor’s home the last of the week. - Percy Boyd of French Camp visited his sister, Mrs. Pearl Daniel, this week. - FOR SALE: A desirable house and lot on the corporate limits of Ackerman. Apply to the RECORD editor.
W. H. Williams of the Mabus Post Office, a good man and true, is now enrolled on the ever-expanding list of RECORD readers. - Rev. W. R. Rainey of Sturgis was in town Monday and went out to Enon where he placed a handsome tombstone to the grave of W. J. Clark. - Hon. L. M. Southworth has been invited and has accepted the invitation to deliver the address at the closing exercises of the Ackerman Graded Normal School June the 8th.
Mr. W. L. Hunt, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Mathiston, and a cousin of our popular fellow townsman, W. T. Hunt, was in town last Friday. - Those two excellent citizens and prosperous farmers, Messrs. W. C. Buck and W. C. Pollard, accompanied by their wives and babies, were in town Monday investing some of their surplus and both have plenty and to spare.
The following are census enumerators for Choctaw as far as we have learned. Beat 1 – Frank Pinson, J. H. Johnson; Beat 2 – John Fondren, J. W. Meece; Beat 3 – Jas. Shaw, H. L. Rhodes; Beat 4 – Don’t know; Beat 5 – J. M. Harris, S. L. Woodward.
Major J. K. Vardaman, the genial, gifted, and polished editor of the Commonwealth Greenwood, was in Ackerman for a short time Saturday enroute home from McCool, where he delivered the closing address to the school on Friday night. Major Vardaman is a man of great learning and a deep thinker, and withal possesses a frankness and courtesy of manner that win him friends wherever he goes.
Mr. W. L. Hunt who was in town a few days ago says that he was informed by attorney J. E. Arnold of Ardmore, I. T. who has been in Mathison for some-time looking up claimants to land in the territory, that Durant, the Indian for whom Durant, Holmes county was named, is now running a hotel in Durant, Indian Territory, and is over 100 years old. Durant was many years ago a resident of this section but went West with the tribe.
We have heard of ships spreading their sails and hens and orators spreading themselves, but the biggest spread is that of Mrs. Childress’ guinea as reported to us by an eye witness. Mrs. Childress, who lives in the suburbs of town, found a guinea nest last week with 58 eggs in it. When we were a boy and sold eggs we wished we owned a guinea as we were told they laid two eggs a day. But Mrs. Childress’ guinea evidently went the olden guinea one better – at least the one we are talking about now is an egg-straordinary one.
