NEWS FROM LONG AGO
April 13, 1900
FROM THE ACKERMAN RECORD, VOL. 2, NUMBER 4 (CONTINUED)
In this issue of the RECORD, Hon. L. M. Southworth is announced as a candidate for Congress from this district. Mr. Southworth needs no introduction to our Choctaw readers. He is recognized as one of the brainiest and most brilliant men in the states. He is a forceful, fluent speaker and if elected to represent our people in the National Legislature he will sustain the reputation. Mississippi has always had – that of having representatives equal to any – second to none.
ADVERTISEMENTS: A. F. M’KEIGNEY, Attorney-at-Law, Chester, Mississippi - R. A. NICHOLSON, D. D. S., Ackerman, Mississippi, Having permanently located in Ackerman, offers his professional services to the public. Satisfaction guaranteed both as to terms and style of work. Office up-stairs over Harmon. - CAMPBELL & TOWNSEND Attorneys-At-Law and Solicitors in Chancery, Ackerman, Mississippi. C. H. Campbell, Kosciusko and F. Townsend, Ackerman. Prompt attention given to all matters entrusted to them.
April 20, 1900
FROM THE ACKERMAN RECORD, VOL. 2, NUMBER 5
LOCALS AND PERSONALS: Mrs. B. H. Paslay visited her father’s family at Okalona this week. - Mrs. G. W. Gordon has been quite sick with measles during the past week, but is improving now. - Miss Mary Carter, a charming and accomplished young lady of Plattsburg, is visiting friends in town this week. - Sheriff Crow had the misfortune to lose a valuable horse last Saturday, the same being sick only a few hours. - Mr. Wilber Woodward and estimable wife and two little boys of New Prospect vicinity spent Tuesday night in town.
MARRIED, on Thursday evening the 12th instant at the residence of the bride in Ackerman, Hon. G. F. Black officiating, Mr. Jesse Fulcher to Mrs. Ann Ayers.
That good man and prosperous citizen of the Bywy P. O., Mr. J. R. Patterson, was in town last Friday. - The Populists of Choctaw county will hold a mass meeting at Chester tomorrow, 21st, to select delegates to the State Convention soon to assemble in Jackson. - Miss Julia Harmon having resigned her position in the school on account of continuing illness, her sister Miss Mary McAlister was elected by the trustees in her stead.
Rev. McShan of Verona Cumberland Presbyterian Synodical Missionary will preach in Ackerman the 5th Sunday of this month, at the morning and evening hours and at Enon at 3 o’clock.
We regret to chronicle the death of Mrs. Nannie Irving, wife of Mack R. Irving, who died at the home of her husband near French Camp last Saturday night after a protracted sickness with typhoid fever. Mrs. Irving was a lady of most amiable disposition and we regret the fact of her death exceedingly and to the bereft and grief-stricken family we extend our deepest sympathy.
