NEWS FROM LONG AGO
July 7, 1899
FROM THE ACKERMAN RECORD, VOL. I, NUMBER 15
LOCAL MATTERS: H. C. Sides, Sr. is quite low with typhoid fever. - J. P. East is critically ill at the residence of R. K. Quinn. - At A. M. Yates you can get with every 30 cts. worth of soda you buy, a set of silver spoons free-gratis for nothing. Try it. - District Conference will convene in Ackerman July 27. Everybody invited to open their doors to company. - J. J. Quinn on West Chester makes the best lemonade in town. If hot and weary call on him and get replenished and refreshed as he is on to the art of making them. - Capt. Ellis Cromwell, who commanded Company “A” of the Second Miss. Regiment, whose home is West Point, was in town a short time today, enroute to Spay, where he goes to spend some time with Capt. Bradley. - Prof. Jackson Reeves, who had charge of the male Academy for four years at French Camp and now of Tchula, is here today prospecting for the school. Our people should secure his services if they can be obtained as he is one of the best educators in the state.
DIED – at the home of her husband, Mr. Will E. Tenhet, July 2nd in Ackerman, Mrs. Alice B. Tenhet with congestion. Mrs. Tenhet was sick about one week and a half and all that the skill of the physician could do was done and loving hands were tireless to alleviate her suffering, but the Alwise Father had decreed that she must no longer be an inhabitant of earth.
LOST: One dark bay pony horse with long mane and tail. Any information in regard to same will be thankfully received by A. L. Rowel, Ackerman, Miss.
IN MEMORIAM: Mary Daisy, the little daughter of Mr. J. F. and Mrs. E. J. Coleman, died June 27th, 1899, aged fifteen months, and twenty-five days, after an illness of three weeks. She was buried in Enon graveyard after appropriate services by Rev. W. A. Dollar. Death comes but once, but comes to all. Sometimes it is the aged, then the youth. In this instance that Alwise Father wanted to transplant a flower from earth to the Heavenly paradise, and so he came to the house of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman and took the darling of their hearts from this world of pain and sorrow to Himself where suffering is never felt or known…
ELECTION MANAGERS: The following have been appointed to hold the Democratic primary election July 21, 1899, the last named at each place being designated as bailiff: [unreadable location] – ?. H. Kirkpatrick, D. A. Franks, D. H. Buck; FENTRESS – W. T. Fulcher, W. A. Moss, J. S. Bradford, J. A. Naugle; DIDO – W. V. Fondren, J. D. Hogan, West Long, Chris Phinix; CROW’s MILL – L. F. Breland, John Atkins, B. L. Middleton, Frank Wilkinson; PIGEON ROOST – Dave Pierce, Jacob Oswalt, A. R. Hester, R. L. Henry; FRENCH CAMP – W. B. Hathorn, C. W. Burks, R. A. Downing, J. G. Harris; BANKSTON – J. H. Tabor, John Franks, J. H. McWhorter, John Colum; - KENAGO – Jim Mills, George Watson, J. W. Simpson, James Rayburn; WEIR: G. A. Eddleman, E. Love, W. C. Linch, Sam Cobb; SPAY – Terrell Kerr, A. J. Caldwell, Jim Hardin, Louis Bradley; ACKERMAN – W. R. Irving, W. T. Weeks, W. F. Cole, John Bagwell; MT. AIRY – W. J. Barron, J. F. Weeks, Pink Williams, Rube Wood; - NEW PROSPECT – A. J. W. Bradberry, John Woodward, W. J. Dunbar, Dutch Moore.
