NEWS FROM LONG AGO
March 16, 1900
FROM THE ACKERMAN RECORD, VOL. I, NUMBER 52
Our Board of Supervisors at a special session, on the 13th day of March, 1900, having generously appropriated means for free vaccination to all parties in the county, both white and black, this is to give notice that any one desiring vaccination can be accommodated without cost by calling upon any one of the following named physicians: W. C. Linch, Weir, J. D. Drane, French Camp, T. M. Holloway, Bankston, Benj. Strong, Chester, J. M. Kellum, Dido, J. W. Robinson, Bywy, S. S. Smithwick, Mathiston, J. D. Weeks, Ackerman. – J. D. Weeks, M. D. County Health Officer.
MARRIED – At the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. W. A. Kerr, on Wednesday, 2:30 p.m., Rev. Jonathan Sims, officiating, Mr. Sam H. Hunt to Miss Annie Kerr. – Married at the Cochran House in Starkville on Wednesday 3 p.m. by Rev. J. T. Freeman, Mr. Mack Bruce of Ackerman to Miss Alma Webb.
SPECIAL NOTICE: The Grand Organ Orchestra and Concert of Chester, composed of Local Talent of the Highest Quality, will render some of their Choicest Dramas, embracing Comedies, Tragedies, Speeches, Tableaus, etc. interspersed with Rich Music by the Far-Famed Blackwood Band, in the Court House at Chester, Miss., Beginning March 30th promptly at 8 o’clock, p.m. COME ONE and ALL! We Guarantee to patrous ample accommodation and Abundant Remuneration! Admission: Adults 25 cts. Children not over twelve, 15 cents. Proceeds Entirely for Church Purposes. Parents need not hesitate to come and bring their children as the enterprise is under the auspices and for the benefit of the church.
Mr. William J. Clark died at the home of his son-in-law, Mr. W. W. Riley, on Tuesday the 13th inst. Mr. Clark was born in Green county, Georgia on the 20th day of March, 1816, and only lacked seven days of being 84 years old at the time of his death. He was in the Creek Indian war of 1836. In 1840 he moved from Georgia to Alabama and thence to Attala county, Mississippi in 1855, where he resided until 1897 when he moved to Ackerman and made his home with his daughter, Mrs. W. W. Riley. He was for a long-time county surveyor of Attala county, Mr. Clark was a member of the Methodist church and of the Masonic order. He joined the Methodist church in his early youth and lived an upright Christian life until the day of his death. Mr. Clark was a man of the noblest traits of character, true and upright in every relation of life. He was twice married, his last wife surviving him. Mrs. Riley is his only surviving child. All that was mortal of Mr. Clark was laid to rest in Enon graveyard after an appropriate funeral discourse by Rev. G. W. Gordon.
