NEWS FROM LONG AGO
March 9, 1900
FROM THE ACKERMAN RECORD, VOL. I, NUMBER 51
H. W. Weir, the popular Post master of Weir, spent Wednesday night in town. - There is a good deal of sickness in town, mostly of la grippe. - Chancery Court meets at Chester March the 19th and at Ackerman the 22nd. - Messrs. E. R. Seward, W. J. Daniel, S. R. Hughston and Gaston Therrell spent several days of the past week in Jackson. - Mr. S. A. Gayarre of Kosciusko has moved with his family to Ackerman and now occupies the residence recently occupied by M. W. Conner.
J. W. Johnson of the Chester Postoffice handed in his name during the past week accompanied by the cash and said he wanted to keep up with Choctaw affairs. Mr. Johnson is one of Choctaw’s best citizens and this latter act shows that he is also of the number of its intelligent ones.
The legislature will adjourn next Monday evening at about a quarter to six. - The Board of Supervisors is in session at Chester this week, but we have not received their proceedings.
The largest crowd Ackerman has seen in many a day at a second-class show was here Monday. We trust we are rid of shows now henceforth and forever.
My mule escaped from me in Ackerman on Monday the 26th of Feb., 1900. Mule is a dark mouse colored horse mule, about ten or twelve years old, about 11 hands high. My Post office address is Double Springs, Oktibbeha county, Miss. Any one returning said mule to me or informing me of his whereabouts will be satisfactorily rewarded. J. W. FORD
DEMPSEY and DEMPSEY Livery, Feed & Sale Stable – Buggies, Horses, and all kind of Rigs. When you come to think it over, you can easily understand why so many travelers patronize us – they get GOOD TURNOUTS and proper treatment, consequently stick to us. We also trade horses, wagons, and buggies and can do your blacksmith and wood work.
FOR SALE: I have for sale one fifteen H. P. Engine; one sixteen H. P. return tubelo boiler; shafting and pulleys to connect gin and grist mill. Mill, gin and cotton press added, if desired. All in good repair. Parties wanting to buy are invited to come and look and we can trade. J. A. PIERCE & SON, Mathiston, Miss.
The latest news from Jackson in reference to the Court House bill is that it unanimously passed the Senate and has been favorably reported by the House committee having the bill in charge, the purport of which bill is that upon a majority petition to the Supervisors of the county they shall order an election submitting the question to the people of the county as to whether we shall have but one court house and that to be at Ackerman.
J. E. Hardin, a young man of the Spay Postoffice, was in town last Friday and had us enroll his name as a subscriber to the RECORD. This young gentleman is about sixteen years old, we presume, and his mother is a widow woman. He is the first one so youthful to come forward and subscribe for the RECORD. He says he wants to read his county papers and keep up with the times. He impressed us that he wanted to be somebody and that it is our duty to give passion to the young mind.
