NEWS FROM YEARS PAST
July 11, 1902
SHIP: Mr. Charley Wood left last Sunday for the Delta, where he expects to make his future home. - Miss Alma Waits visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Woods, last Saturday and Sunday. - A number of our boys passed through here this week on their way to Big Black to enjoy a day or two fishing. - A great many of the boys around Ship attended the picnic at Charley Harrison’s mill and all reported an enjoyable occasion. - Mrs. Ella Wood visited her parents at McCain last week. - Mr. J. O Peebles spent Sunday with Mr. J. W. Strickland’s family near Stewart. - Messrs. Lee Wood and Henry Cannon had the misfortune to lose a fine horse and mule, respectively, last week. The animals were playing in Mr. Wood’s pasture and in some way both were badly snagged. The mule died instantly and the horse lived only two days.
There will be a “horse trading convention” at old Greensboro on Saturday, July 19th. There will be a basket dinner on the ground and everybody is cordially invited to attend.
TOWN AND COUNTY: Mr. T. M. Lamb of Henderson county, Texas, arrived Tuesday and will spend a month or two with relatives in this county. Webster was Mr. Lamb’s boyhood home and he has many friends here to welcome him back on a visit. Mr. Lamb brought with him several specimens of cotton bolls, two-thirds grown, which were plucked from cotton on his father’s farm in Texas that was planted on May 14th. - Messrs. J. H. Elkins, J. W. Buchanan, J. R. DuBerry, John Hardee, and Albert Eudy enjoyed a day’s sport fishing and hunting last Friday. The day was spent at Jack’s slough 15 miles south of here and the party caught about forty pounds of fish and bagged about twenty squirrels. They returned home Friday night, well satisfied with the day’s pleasure. - Photographer W. T. Lindsey of Mathiston has temporarily located here and has pitched his tent just in the rear of Mr. Lee Wilson’s photo tent, and while no partnership has been formed between the two, they will assist each other in their work. - Prof. W. N. Taylor, an instructor of Mississippi College at Clinton, was the guest of Mrs. J. E. Darden a few days this week. He is making a brief tour of this county and Choctaw in the interest of the worthy institution he represents. - Miss Mable Berryhill returned Monday from Collinsville, I. T. where she has been teaching music for several months. - Mrs. Alto Fleming of Chatham, Canada, returned to her home last Saturday, after a visit of a few weeks to the family of her cousin, Mr. T. W. Ford.
