NEWS FROM LONG AGO
April 26, 1901
FROM THE ACKERMAN RECORD, VOL. 3, NUMBER 5 (CONTINUED)
LOCAL AND PERSONALS (Continued): Misses Virgie Carter, Cora Allen and Maggie Lucas of French Camp and Bertha Irving of Weir, Mr. Walter A. Wilson of French Camp, Misses Cora and Pearl Webb, Clora Hunt and Miss Carroll of Sturges were examined Friday and Saturday for license to teach.
Married at the residence of Dick Leverett the 21st day of April, Hon. J. T. Pierce, M. B. performing the ceremony, Mr. John Leverett was married to Miss Emma Kimbrel, both of Beat Two, Choctaw county.
The trial of Ed Wells, which was in progress as we went to press last week, was concluded Friday and after hearing the evidence adduced the Justices sitting in the case refused him bail. Wells has applied for a writ of habeas corpus and the same has been granted and the trial will come upon habeas corpus in Ackerman next week before Judge Byrd, who granted the writ.
THE POISONING CASE: A few weeks ago J. H. Dockery and Pony Breland died from what a post mortem examination showed to be poisoning, supposed to have been administered in the victuals of the deceased at the home of Dockery, Breland being there also. This week Daniel and Ben Booth and Miss Crete Dockery, the latter the daughter of the deceased were arrested, charged with the poisoning. The Booths are in jail and Miss Dockery under guard. Their trial comes up Friday.
CHOCTAW KLONDIKE : Recently there has been more or less talk in references to the mineral substances found on certain land in Choctaw and Oktibbeha counties. It appears now that there is in fact embedded in the bowels of certain Choctaw, Attala, and Oktibbeha lands rich veins of iron, coal, and gold ore and that at no very distant day the prospector and speculator will be rushing into this section as did the people to California in ’49. Messrs. J. H. Blackwood, John Oswalt, J. H. Woodson, and M. M. McIlwain, who own lands that contain in rich quantities the minerals and metal substances mentioned above have been blazing out and posting the main line of the silver mine according to the U. S. mineral laws, starting in Attala county and ending in Oktibbeha county two miles south of Maben. The width of the vein they followed up is thirty feet, this vein numerous veins of gold and iron ore. These gentlemen propose to establish beyond doubt all that they claim for these finds.
CHURCH NOTICE: Please publish in this week’s issue that Providence favoring, I will protract the meeting at my next appointment, May 19. The possibility of being without a house during the summer months seems to make it necessary to hold the meeting before the old house is torn down. I ask the “right of way” for ten or twelve days and cordially invite all Christians to join with us in the meeting. Fraternally, M. V. Noffsinger.
