NEWS FROM LONG AGO
May 18, 1900
FROM THE ACKERMAN RECORD, VOL. 2, NUMBER 9
LOCALS AND PERSONALS: Dr. R. A. Nicholson made a professional trip to Weir Wednesday. - Miss Jennie Cramer returned Wednesday from the I. I. & C. at Columbus. - J. P. Johnson returned from the Southern Baptist Convention Tuesday evening looking well. - Mr. Finis Woodward, a prosperous Hardware merchant of Macon visited his sister, Mrs. Dr. Weeks, this week. - Miss Cora Webb came down from her home at Sturgis last Friday and has since been visiting her brother, W. T. Webb, and her sister, Mrs. Mack Bruce.
Dr. R. A. Nicholson received a fine cabinet for his office this week and now has his dental office equipped with every modern convenience that good taste could suggest or ingenuity invent. - Mrs. W. L. Anderson and Miss Ella Oakley of Chester spent Tuesday in Ackerman. - In a private letter from Mr. J. D. Scott who left here a few months ago he gives us the information that on the 10th inst., in Marshall, Texas, their home there was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Scott a baby girl. We extent our congratulations and best wishes.
The RECORD acknowledges a call on Friday last from Mr. J. D. Collum, his wife, and little daughter of Bankston. Mr. Collum has been a friend of the editor all these long years and Mrs. Collum (nee Rhodes) knew us when we were a small boy some years ago – well several years ago in Beat Two, Attala county. Come again, friends.
Railroad Commissioner, J. C. Kincannon, was in town last Thursday and we had the pleasure of an interview with him. Personally Mr. Kincannon is a very social man and it is a real pleasure to come in contact with such a genial gentleman as he is. Heretofore some of the Railroad Commissioners have been subjects of pretty harsh criticism because they did not mix and mingle with the people as some though the functions and requirements of the position demanded. He was visiting Ackerman to straighten up a matter between a Louisville patent medicine manufacturer and the railroad company in regard to charges on shipments of medicines from here to New Orleans. While the money was small, it illustrates the fact that Commissioner Kincannon believes in fair play and that the small, struggling manufacturing enterprises and other industries must not be frozen out by big charges, while the big concerns get cut rates. Mr. Kincannon must have studied in his youth the couplet: “Tall oaks from little acorns grow, Large streams from little fountains flow.”
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: Proceedings of the Board at Chester, May 7, 1900. John Ruff, an orphan boy, was apprenticed to S. D. Ballard. - Contract for building new bridge on Stewart creek was awarded to J. F. Watson. - Contract for building two new bridges in Big Black swamp on Bankston and Tomnolen road, was awarded to G. W. McGaugh.
