100 Years Ago – June 21, 1918
LOUISVILLE: Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bennett, a fine boy on the 20th. - Soldier Robert Gage is here on a furlough from Camp in Virginia visiting relatives. - Mrs. W. F. Woodward received a letter from her son Shelby stating he was leaving Camp Beauregard for France. - Bob Frazier, who volunteered in the Navy some time ago, received his orders to report at New Orleans, and he left Tuesday. - Clem Kirk is out from Houston, Texas, on a visit to his mother, Mrs. Emily Kirk.
SEVEN FORKS: Mr. H. D. Etheridge and little Ida Eaves are improving since their accident which occurred Thursday by horse running away.
MARRIAGES: Mr. Dee Kelly and Miss Mattie Sullivan were married on the 30th. (Seven Forks)
NOXAPATER: Mrs. Homer Hunt left Tuesday for Memphis where she goes to visit her two brothers, Messrs. Foster and George Whisenant. - Miss Inis Johnson left Tuesday for Washington, D. C., where she has a government position. - Capt. Bridges and Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Johnson left this week for a trip to Hot Springs, Ark. - Garland Steadman, who has been in school at Gulfport, arrived here last week.
75 Years Ago – June 18, 1943
FRONT PAGE: The first cotton blooms for the 1943 season were brought to our office Saturday, June 12. The first one from Bob Scarbrough was pulled June 11th, while Herbert Hemphill pulled his first bloom on the 12th. Herbert says he has more boll weevils this year than ever before. Both farmers are from Beat 2.
SHILOH: Cpl. and Mrs. Halbert Allen are spending his furlough with his mother, Mrs. D. T. Allen. Other family members visiting the D. T. Allen home over the week end included Mr. and Mrs. Chester Allen and family, Mrs. James Massey, Miss Ruth Allen, and Mr. D. T. Allen.
DEATHS: We sympathize with Mr. and Mrs. George Pugh in the death of their days-old daughter Dorothy Jean, who passed on the 10th. - Funeral services were held for William Dennis Dempsey at Center Ridge church last Friday, Rev. J. W. Holliway officiating. He died at his own hands near his home in the Arlington community in Neshoba County. He had moved to Arlington from Winston County. He survived by his wife, mother, one brother, and four step-children. - At the Baptist Church in Pace, Miss. funeral services were held June 6th for Mrs. Elma Price Gresham, 45, with interment in the Cleveland cemetery. The deceased was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed C. Price of Noxapater. - Funeral services were held for Mrs. Helen Curry Wilson, 45, at the First Baptist Church, Rev. W. L. Day officiating, with interment in the Masonic cemetery. She died suddenly in New Orleans. She was the youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Will Curry of Louisville, where she was reared and educated. - Mrs. Susan Rebecca Fulghum Smith died while visiting her daughter Mrs. J. E. Crow in Ruleville, Miss. last Friday. Funeral services were held in Ruleville at the Crow residence.
CALHOUN: Cpl. J. P. Kemp from an Army camp in California is visiting his father, Mr. D. Kemp. - Sgt. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hill of Camp Silbert. Ala. spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Hill.
LOUISVILLE: Pfc. Alvin T. Horne has returned to Camp Bowie, Texas, after visiting his wife and daughter, Margaret, for a few days. - Todd Webster of Atlanta, Ga. spent the week end visiting his mother, Mrs. Ella Webster. - Pvt. Jack Miller has returned to Camp Shelby after visiting his father, A. E. Miller Sunday. - Pvt. Earl G. Kitchens of Pampa Army Air Field, Pampa, Texas, only son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Kitchens is enjoying his first furlough at home after being away eight months.
WEDDINGS: Andrew Jackson Chamblee and Miss Mildred B. Scott surprised their friends by getting married May 22nd. - Mr. and Mrs. W. Neal Wade announce the marriage of their daughter Ruth to Master Sgt. Earnest J. Hudspeth at the Methodist parsonage in Noxapater, June 12th, Rev. E. B. Sharp officiating.
NOXAPATER: John Webb Lampley of the U. S. Army stationed at San Diego is spending his furlough with his parents Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Lampley and other relatives. - Mrs. Venus Robinson of Greenwood and Mrs. Mamie Bryan of Blaine recently visited their father, Mr. F. M. Estes, who has been quite ill for some time, but is improving nicely.
