NEWS FROM LONG AGO
JULY 11, 1919
J. B. Kerr was over from Lepanto, Arkansas this week looking after official duties. - Mr. and Mrs. Tom L. Hathorn, former citizens of Ackerman, but now of Beaumont, California, visited relatives and friends here during the past week. - Mrs. R. E. Stewart and little daughter Genevieve, after spending several weeks with relatives and friends, left here Wednesday for Louisville and Union on their way to their home at Newton. - The many friends in Ackerman of Mrs. W. F. Bruce will be glad to know that she is doing splendidly after an operation she underwent in a Meridan Hospital last Monday.
We are requested to announce that the Cemetery at Chester will be cleaned off and beautified on July 12th. All parties interested will please be on hand and bring tools with which to work.
Sid Moss was carried to Meridian last Sunday and operated on for appendicitis and while his condition was critical for awhile, we are glad to report him some better. - Mrs. E. B. Dobbs and little daughter, Mary Margaret, and Mr. John Adams spent the week end with relatives out from Sallis. - The Community Meeting closed at the Methodist Church last Sunday night and it was considered by all to have been one of the best meetings in the history of the town. Thirteen new members were taken into the Church Sunday night.
FROM THE COUNTY AGENT: The following is an account of my Co-operative shipping up to and including July 1st. Hog Shipments - $25,994.15; Cattle Shipment - $1,495.77; Molasses Shipment: $1,350.82; Peas: $1,453.91; Grand Total including other shipments - $37,742.43. I have not the slightest doubt, but what the next six months will see even more Co-operative shipping done than the past 6 months.
sDOWN AT WEIR: The 4th was a gala day at Weir. Literally, as my late friend Lord Byron says was the case at the dance at Brussels on the night preceding the battle of Waterloo, “joy was unconfined” at Weir on the 4th. Everybody was in good humor and each vied with the other in making the occasion one worthy and symbolic of the day. The word liberty to-day has a deeper signification than in any past age. “Give me liberty or give me death” is ingrained in the hearts of the people. Oratory was poured out in great quantities at Weir. Governor [A. H.] Longino was present and made an address that was well-received by the people. The candidates for District Attorney, for the Legislature, and Superintendent of Education were all present and ably presented their several claims. The dinner was ample and everything was as merry as a marriage bell, or as lovely a belle, one or the other, maybe both, but which the writer just now does not recall. The editor says “time up” so will close. But all who went to the picnic July 4th at Weir will agree with me in all that is said about everybody, even the politicians, having a good time.
