NEWS FROM LONG AGO
JUNE 20, 1919
FOR SALE: A Fifteen Room Hotel. Partly furnished and doing a good business. Has a good Rail Road Lunch Trade. Everything new, nice, and clean. PRICE: Thirty Six Hundred Dollars; $1100.00 cash; balance $500.00 a year for 5 years. Apply to H. W. Weir, Weir, Miss.
The biggest rain that has visited this section in a long time fell here Wednesday afternoon. It came down in torrents and the overflow water caused considerable damage. It was a whopper and don’t you forget it. - Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Cole left Tuesday for an extended visit in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hester Fox at Sumrall. - Mrs. John Pinnix and children of Brooksville are spending awhile with relatives and friends in Ackerman. - Mesdames C. A. Torbert, J. W. Harmon, and L. L. Davis spent last Friday with relatives and friends in Weir. - The weather this week has been the hottest of the season.
BIG PICNIC AT WEIR JULY 4th: There will be a Basket Dinner at Weir Friday, July 4th, for the benefit of the Candidates, who are cordially invited to be present and present their claims as this day will take the place of the “Grand Round.” Base Ball Game in the afternoon. At night, the play “Standing By,” will be given in the School Auditorium for the benefit of Lights and Domestic Science. Everyone come, bring a well filled basket of dinner, and lets have an enjoyable day together.
IN MEMORIAM: On Wednesday afternoon, May 28, 1919, the death angle visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mullins and called from their midst their darling baby. She had been sick several days. All was done that loving hands could do, but the little spirit went back to the God that gave it. Little Mae Excel lived with them only a short while, but we know her sweet cooing will be missed, her place will be vacant, but a vacant place here means another angel in heaven.
PICNIC JULY 5th: On July 5th, there will be a picnic at Mt. Nebo, seven miles north of Ackerman, in honor of the soldier boys of Choctaw County, also the Confederate Veterans are urged to be present. A program is being arranged for the occasion. Music will be furnished, also Ice Cream and Lemonade will be served. Everybody has a special invitation to come and bring a well filled basket of grub and we urge that ever soldier boy be present. All the candidates are given a special invitation to be on hand. SIGNED: Citizens of Nebo and Hogan Chapel Community.
COURT TURNS WOMEN DOWN – TENNESSEE JUDGE REVERSES STATE LEGISLATURE AND SAYS WOMEN CAN NOT VOTE: Chancellor James B. Newman holds the recent act of the legislature giving women the right to vote in city and presidential elections is unconstitutional, saying that no provision was made in the act for separating ballots of the women possessing limited suffrage and those of the men possessing full suffrage.
